Morning journal and courier., 1889-02-26
Entertainments.

GRAND OPERA HOUSE.
 There was large audience at the Grand last night, notwithstanding it was Miss Hen- rietta Berleurs second appearance here this season. She is as great 8 favorite as ever. She appears in the leading role in "The Ro- nance of an Actress" :" and acts it well. There will be 8 matinee to day.
 DoCKsTADER's MINsTRELs.
 These famous minstrels will be at the New Haven Opera House to -nig ght. MT. Dock stader's troupe includes the best vocal and instrumental talent that could be found in this country and Europe. Dockstader is comedian of marked ability and is deservedly popular. No more fashionable audience can be found in any theater in New York than that which nightly filled Dockstader's thea ter while his troupe plays there. The per- formance is refined in the extreme.
 EsTELLE CLAYTON.
 Estelle Clayton, very clever and pretty actress, will play dramatization of Amelia Rivees' novel, "The Quick or the Dead, at the Hyperion tomorrow evening. A Memphis paper says: "The house was charmed with her Barbara, and showed it. She was the lovliest of alternately sorrowing and light widows, and her costumes, though simple in design and adornment, were marvels in taste and fit.
 s'EvANeELINE" AND 1.-THE coRsA1R"
 Rics's BurIesque company will appear at the New Haven Opera House for four days, commencing to morrow, "Evangeline' and "The Corsair." The costumes are magnif- cent and the chorus large. The company is an excellent one. The songs are new and catchey and are perfectly rendered.
 All That Discolors is nol Brass.
 From The Jewellers Weekly.
 well-known manufacturer: "Every jeweler has doubtless met with many curious incidents in his business career, but think that recent experience of mine is worth re- Iating. Shortly after the holidays there came into my place a pleasant-manneIed young man who expressed desire to look at some gold necklaces. It is needless to say that I sold him one. It was IA carats and very pretty. Two days later the door was flung open and in rushed the same young man, boiling with rage. He threw the necklace on the counter, demanded the return of his money, and threatened to e1 pose me as swindler. It took half an hour to learn his story.
 tsIt seems that after presenting the neck l lace to his lady love he had taken her to { 1 reception, ornamented with his present | ! in one corner of the room, And the rivals o | our customers best girl were titterine ! among themselves and whispering abou \ her.
 | esThe young lady looked in the glass and 1 almost tainted at the sight. Her beautiful , neck was almost black from the friction of the necklace She changed her mint about fainting, returned home with he l brother and sent the necklace back to he l young man with note that she did no like his brass.
 "I tested the necklace in his presence ana proved to him that it was full IA carats that lms Hs saa Vss part of the story and asked to hear the bal ance, as he believed he could throw som light on the subject. Pretty soon he laughed outright, and said: ''Why, sir, the troubl ia with your girl and not the necklace She has to much sulphur, iron, mercury these substances has an affinity for gold tn ! explanation is clear. l have patients 10 ! whom mercurial medicines have been pre-
 scribed. and the result is that their finger
 upon which rings are worn discoloreo
 once.' My customer cooled oil and carries
 his purchase away.
 story is told at the expense of Maldel
 Lane dealer He gave his sister an Is cara ring as a present. He is practical joker 1 and she asked him if the ring was gold. h replied that it was. That evening, tn young lady had occasion to remove tn , ring from her finger, and she noticed tha , the skin was greatly discolored. Jim ha carried his jokes to far, she exclaimed, an | opening the window threw the trinket int the street; some gamin picked it up. Whe
 my friend learned of the incident, ne cam
 to me for consolation, and explained m
 own experience. His sister is sorry for he : haste.
 "sAu is not gold that glitters,' nor is e, ! erything brass that discolors. A perso . wearing IA carat ring on one finger and
 10 carat ring on another may have notice
 that the finger with the higher carat will l
 discolored and the other one not. The rel
 son is that the ring of the lower carat fl
 snugly and the other is rather loose, tn causing friction"