Arizona republican., 1898-02-15
GOSSIP OF NEW YORK.

New York, Feb. 14.-Ca1nllle d'Ar- vile is the most dashing of operatic l highwaymen. She has replaced H1lda Clark in "The Highwayman," which is packing the Broadway, and all who have seen the opera want to see 1t again. Miss d'Arville has brought wonderful amount of spirited acting into the piece. Her part fits her like a princess costume, and once more she's the talk of the town in play go- Ing circles.
 The introduction of vaudeville into the Waldorf Astoria is making the theatrical managers do a whole lot of thinking The music hall people claim that one effect of educating so- cfety up to this class of amusement is decreased box office receipts. The trade of all the other houses is also affected, notwithstanding the fact that Astoria theater seats cost from $2 to S5. It is said the receipts from As toria's side line run from S2O,OOO to s25, ,000 a week, not counting the small change dropped for liquids and solids. Alexander Hamilton post, G. A. R., wants permission to plant thirteen trees in one of the city's parks. The trees are to be planted with the dual purpose of perpetuating the name of the post and that of the illustrious l statesman after whom it was named, and whose grandson is now one of the members. It is desired to plant the l trees in the form of star in Bronx par. The trees are to be secured from | the thirteen original states. "For Sale" signs have been posted upon the wooden fence which surrounds the Ia | Ior at Convent enue and One Hundred and Forty
 third street. These thirteen trees
 were planted by Alexander Hamilton
 to commemorate the thirteen original i states of the Union, and the shoots
 were carried by him from Washing tons home on the Potomac river. Nine
 of the unlucky thirteen are practically dead, but the interesting plot in which
 the four originals now stand ca -kad not be permitted to fall into the hands of an iconoclast.
 Competition among the big depart
 ment stores is sharp here these days,
 and ideas calculated to catch new cus-
 toners command a premium. Tn some Of the huge marts one can spend a day
 in sight seeing and secure only passing glance at the mercantile
 spread at that. While touring the acres of floor space one can dine la
 carte or table d'hote, carry on cor
 respondence by mail or wire. flirt. gos-
 sip, in fact enjoy all the comforts of an overcrowded hotel during daylight. Some of the recent innovations are
 worth pushing along. One of the great
 Broadway shops has guides. They
 are six women of engaging personali-
 ties. Their occupation is to tell per
 sons what those persons want and where to find it. These guides are
 women of tact as we'll as business acu-
 men. Another big store that bewild- CTS shoppers has introduced a brigade of gray coated errand boys. In the dressmaking department Is flock of little girls, each gowned in black al paca with white cuffs and collars.
 Do you drink today? If you do, this paragraph ought to interest you. Two men in the Hungarian quarter, long friends, fell out and went to law. One is an importer of Hungarian
 wines and the other was in the habit of furnishing the wine man with a special brand of tokay. The latter is l now suing the former, and he alleges that for five years past he has manu- factured a particular brand of tokay . which the importer sold for medicinal purposes. ACCOTuluS IO IuC 0FlUeuCe l the profits of the seller were large, fo1 tokay, which actually costs but cents a bottle, was sold for $2. Here's ! the sworn formula and cost for manu- f featuring the so-called wine: Sixteen , gallons of alcohol, s3S.4O; $40 gallons e of water; 560 pounds of farina sugar 3 $22; forty pounds of honey, s4; two q pounds of tokay essence, ST; two pounds lemon acid, 80 cents: twenty :: ounces of salicylic acid, 40 cents; two [ pounds of gelatine, 80 cents; total }, S73.4O. There you are! At cost O.
 less than sS0 you can have 600 gallon! l of "tokay" wine.
 Dr. Lyman Abbott drew a pictur, ]. Sunday of the condition of the countr, l. if religion were abolished. He sait | that we were undoubtedly growth. more temporal and earthly, and con tinued: ''This is seen in the philoso
 pby of agnosticism, which has com
 into existence in this country; in tn
 tendency among religious people t,
 eliminate the supernatural, or,
 should prefer to call it the superhu
 man. element from religion: in tn
 tendency to question the value o
 prayer, or religious service and tn
 Sabbath day. Imagine the whol
 American people left without belief i
 God or the future, with nothing in Tiff
 beyond the present and all relics O
 faith gone. What would happen? Il the first place, the institutions of re !' ligiOn would be swept away; the Sab
 bath would be merely a holiday, no # even invested with the sacredness o
 the Fourth of July; the Bible gon
 with Sunday; the pulpit platform
 the sermon a lecture; music a concer
 and prayer an aspiration. With tn
 Bible and the church, the great fun
 damental principles of right an, ,. wrong would go too. In their plac
 we would have empirical rules, ant
 conscience would degenerate into
 skillful guess as to rules of conduct