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THE BROOKLYN" DAILY EAGLE BUKBAY, JULY 7. 1889. SIXTEEN1. PAGES. blame for this condition of affairs? However trimmed with tho real point de gono and paid OF INTEREST TO WOMEN.

THEATEES AND MUSIC. QUESTIONS ANSWERED. Correspondents should not reel disappointed tcien theirquestionsarenol anstoerea immediately, as the information solicited rrcjuently requires considerable research, for which ample time should be allowed. The name ana address or tlie writer should accompany every question. aro really surprising.

The compass is of eight ootaves, and tho upper notos are said to resemble tlioso of the fluto stop in an organ. A rude form of this harp is in occasional uso in variety thea tors and was shown last season at Hyde Beb man'a by a company of foreigners attired aB cooks, who represented tho white, smooth twigs to be sticks of macaroni aud who rubbod, not struok.them with resinod gloves. Tho murky flame that Mrs. Leslie Carter, of Chicago, proposes light at the altar of the drama will not be fed or fanned by David Belasco. Ho has nobler duties to perform.

Ho is "coaching" that distinguished tragedienne, young Mrs. James G. Blaine, Jr. Joseph Martin, of Liege, has increased tho Forkor, F. H.

Kalbfloisch, Chester Billings, Martin N. Davy, A. Oatman, C. H. Williams, N.

Boynton, Dr. Henderson, John McGuiro, Jacob Ziramcr, Joseph Carnoy, Daniol Mauler, Charles Naoher, S. M. Meoker, Jamos Hall, Augustus A. Loverieh, Isaao C.

Dcbevoiso, Joseph Liebmann, Albert Kalbfleisoh, Potor Wyckoff.J. L. Nostrand, Rufus L. Scott, E. N.

Colt M. Robert Macoy, William B. Hurd, A. B. Richardson, Jool Fithian, Benjamin H.

Baylis, Amos F. Larnod, Charles S. Ensign, J. P. Duffy, Henry L.

Brevoort, F. W. Tabor, F. D. Olarlc, Nolsou J.

Gates, E. J. Spink J. T. Burdick, M.

IX To the Editor or the llrooklun Eaale: You would oblige one of your constant readers greatly by stating who is the author of a oetical extract which I have spent two weeks looking for. It is as follows: "No soul though in sin's lowest, blackest depth linplunged. Lost to the world, to angels, to itsolf, Is lost to God." L. J. F.

Instoer Tho lines quoted aro from Scone XXIV. of the poem entitled "Festus," by Thilip James Bailoy, descriptive of heaven. The extract givon is in ono of tho stanzas spoken Dy the "Angel Mother," which is hero given entire: Nothing is lost in Nature, least of all The immortal spirit to deity; proof and pledgo Triumphant, of His kindliest attributes: His will to uplift, advance, expand, perfect Each individual soul, and all unito In one aupreme perfection, of Himself The essential imago; every stato and sphere Of universal nature, a holy stago Of purified amoudmont for the noxt Creative birth, and graduated ascent, Towards this celestial, summing, centering all, Tho oxoellouco of being. Nay, no soul Though in sin's lowest, blackest depth implunged. Lost to the irorJd.

to unrein, to Hhp.IF. that may bo, tho power of changing it for the better is Bhared equally by both. The manager can refuse to prostitute his calling; if ho does not, the public is free to administer to him the oflectivo rebuke of avoidance." CIIICAOO. is becoming the first "show town" in this country, New York hardly excepted. With a population half as large as that of tho Metropolis it has almost as many theaters, produces fully as many new plays and produces them more intelligently and liberally than the average New York manager.

The theaters averago bettor than those of New York in ventilation, lighting and cleanliness, the orchestras are larger aud better, the attendants more gentlemanly, tho scenery handsomer and effects more elaborate New York's indorsement givos tho dramatist a certain prestige, but noxt to that a favorable verdict from Chicago is to bo prized and is quite as hard to securo. The "windy city" is black with smoke, business is the end all and bo all of most of its inhabitants, thero is an ugly foreign element that has to be kept down by fear and an ugly rich element that ought to bo kopt down by law, but with all its drawbacks Chicago is a splendid and vigorous and American city whose wild, woolly, Western" characteristics aro mellowing, and whose peoplo are beginning to give attention to the graces and refinements of life. It is tho sonso of artistic fitness, as well as his ontorpriso and energy, that makes tho Chicago manaeor the superior of tho averago manager olsowhoro. Ho is willing to do a thing right, instead of studying to know for how littlo ho can do it, or if ho can escape doing it at all. If money eaij accomplish results those rosuits aro assured, in advance.

This Western capital is taking tho lead in the furnishing of Hunimor amusements, although a few managers in Now York aro discovering that some peoplo can endure plays aud music in warm weather. Theodore Thomas' concerts this Summer are to bo for the sole enjoyment of Chicagoaus, and it is rumored that an attempt will bo mado to securo Mr. Gericko as leader of a permanent orchestra in their city. Patti is to begin hor concerts in Chicago, and the best things in plays and music seem to reach thero during the season. JIUSrCAIj ANECDOTES.

An English book of musical anecdotes relates of Beethoven that when he was a boy and played the organ at Bonn a coxcomb who was one of tho choir singers was continually boasting of his powers and proclaimed tho inability of any accompanist to disconcert him. Beethoven mado a wager with him that ho would bring him to a standstill while he was singing. Accordingly, at ono of the services iu Passion week, wliilo the singer was warbling in approved fashion, Beethoven by a gradual and adroit modulation landed the singer on a note from which he could not rise higher or do anything but leave off. The failuro of the singer and his confusion, ton, were complete. Choking with rage, ho complained to he elector of such conduct from a mere organist; but the elector hoard both sides of the tale, when he warmly reprimanded each party to the suit.

adding that if one was more to blame than tho other that ono was the singer, for his meanness in complaining of his antagonist after having himself boon a party to tho wager. Neil Gow, the fiddler, was fond of his whisky and seldom went traveling without frequent re vivers." One morning he had an appointment with a noble patron at Dunkeld, but at the stated hour had not arrived at tho castle. The duke waited till he was obliged to drive off io keep another appointment. On tho road he met the fiddler, staggering. "Ah, Neil," said tho patron, "it's a long road to Dunkeld this Ah, ma laird," feaid the fiddler, "it's no tho length, but the breadth." When Fischer, tho oboe player, who was re markable for oddity, played concertos at tho grand concerts given fifty years ago at the liotunda in Berlin, a noble lord who had been en raptured with the talent ho displayed came to him and, after having complimented him, gave him a pressing invitation to sup with him the following evening, adding: "You'll bring your oboe with you Fischer, who was a littlo nettled at that sort of invitation, hastily replied: "My lord, my oboe never sups." Michael Kelly was a pupil of Mozart, but tho master's tuition only made a moderate vocalist and a third rate composer of Kelly.

Ho was a useful singer moro than a great one, and as a composer prolific in quantity but slight and sketchy in quality. For somo yoars ho mado a good living out of his professional duties, but tilings began to fluctuate, so Kelly turned his eyes in another direction, and finally embarked in business as a wine merchant. His friends joked about this step, but none more so than Sheridan, who suggested that the inscription over his door should read thus: "Michael Kelly, composer of wine and importer of music." Handel's most faithful friend and admirer of his music was George II, who more than once advanced him sums of 1,000 to carry on his unfortunate undertakings. Lord Chesterfield presents tho above state of things iu few words. An habitue met his lordship coming out of Cov ent Garden Theater ono ovoning in tho middle of a performance.

"What, my lord," said tho dilettante, "is thero not an oratorio "Yes," replied Lord C. "They are now performing, but I thought it best to retiro, lest I should disturb tho king in his privacy." N'OTES. W. II. Crompton succeeds Charles Barron as leading man in Julia Marlowe's company.

Tho Johnstown flood has become the subject of a stereopticon show iu New England. Dell Thompson, tho Brooklyn reader, follows Mayor Chapiu's sister as a dramatic debutant in London. Teresa Carreno, the Venezuelan pianist, sailed for Europe last Wednesday to make a concert tour in Europe. Richard Mansfield has gono to tho Adiron dacks. He says he may go back to England next Spring.

Charles S. Dickson, formerly Dobson and Dob lin, is going to have "Bob" Hilliard'd old part in "A Possible Case," next season. The Brooklyn Grand Opera House is having a new front made for it that will remove the likeness it formerly bore to a church. The widow of Ben Do Bar, an excellent actor and manager, has conio to light in New Orleans as helper in a bakery. Sho is well on in yoars aud is almost destitute.

'Die play named "Loyalty," by n. Wayne Ellis, that was given at the Park Theater, New York, near the close of last season, will be put "on tour in September. It has been strengthened in tho first act. A Western man wants to writo "Big Lord Fauntleroy," to show what a sad prig the little lord grow to be. Another has Son of Monte Cristo," which begins whero tho action of the play of "Monte Cristo" leaves off.

In regard to tho recont discussion as to whether it is the correct thing for an actor, killed in the play, to respond to a curtain call, we would humbly suggest the now and nniquo plan of having the body carried slowly across tho stage, to an accompaniment of malarial music. Mirror. Jacques Meyer, the stock broker who robbod Jane Hading of $1:2,000 and Christine Nilsson of has gono to prison for a year. Tho moral seems to be that you might as well take enough while you aro about it. Bal Broma, tho small man who eats live coals and breathes out fiamo for $40 a week in the dime museums, and is a "fire king" on the lulls, is a son of Signor Blitz, the magician, and was once his lather assistant.

Mr. Broma 's wife is a dime museum Persian princess and makes her living by dancing on broken glass, barefooted. Ellen Terry's son, who bears her brother's name, Edward, and who had a one line part in Boston when "Eugene Aram" was played there four years ago, is now 17 yoars old, and will make his Loudon debut, presontly. This confirms the report that Ellon Terry is :10 years old. Tho Stane is authority for a report that Brandon Thomas found a crowd of mud larks bawling on Thames embankment over their little dog, which was drowning.

He flung on" his coat, jumped into the river, rescued the pup, gave it to the urchins, called a cab, drove to the theater, played his part through the matinee and was none the worse for his ducking. Two Frenchmen, tho brothers Forro, havo invented a novel harp, constructed entirely of wood. The base is of oak. in which are fixed strong twigs of American fur standing iu the place of strings. These strings are struck in the ordinary manner with the fingers, only tho harpist has to wear gloves of white loather.

which must previously be rubbed with resin. The extent of tho register aud purity of tone of this instrument from $3 to ia per yard for it. Somo of the pat terns in tho imitation laces are very like tho real. There is now a most excellent opportunity to supply one with all the fans she may need for an entire year. Ail the finest fans of tho season have been largely reduced in price; handsome coque feather fans, in blue, white, pink, yellow, black or red, mounted on sticks of the same col or, tho foatherB hand paintod, and tho sides of the fan trimmed with a bow of ribbon, aro as low as 89 cents.

They aro groat bargains. Gauze fans are lovely and particularly liked by most young ladies, as they form excellent masks for a piazza flirtation. One in blue gauze mounted on fine blue sticks reaching to tho top of tho fan, tho sticks with prettily gilded designs, tho gauzo hand painted in floral or bird design, the top finished by two bands of narrow ribbon. Theso come in cream, pink, blue and garnet, and reduced to cents each. Thoro is another stylo of fan in silk muslin painted in flowers personified that aro very lovely.

Tulips in shaded reds, on a red or gray ground, is pretty, and blue bolls on pink was also noted. A variety of colors and flowors is soon in this style, tho price reduced to 75 cents. Handsome fans are thrown upon tho bargain tables, aud from 25 to 40 cents ono is very apt to pick up something worth four or five times tho amount. Such a one mounted on ebony sticks, with silver ornamentation, has tho white top bor dored entiroly around with fine black lace effect, tho contor of tho fan painted in a rustic Bcone. Ono lady is fleeing from a pond whero some geese with thoir goslings aro swimming, tho action showing them to bo iu foar that she may harm their little ones.

Two other ladies aro walking near, ono with an open parasol. Another is romping with a littlo dog aud anothor sits on a rustic chair with flowers in her lap. The scene is prettily colored and tho imitation laco effect makes the fan handsome. It is a largo fan, measuring at least fifteen inches, and can bo found on a bargain tablo for 25 cents. Silver and gold Japanese fans, with wido folds, cord laced sides, that sold last season at 50 couts each, can now bo had at 7 cents.

The most fashionablo Summer gloves aro the Jersey taffeta and all Bilk gloves. These come in tans and grays, but black is tho prevailing stylo just at present. Tlain backH aro the most stylish, although some of them have a narrow ombroidory. They come about six button lengths. Silk mitts aro also selling well and are twelve inches long.

Sucdo gloves aro not behind in favor; light button mousquitaires aro liked best. Chamois gloves are very nico for soashoro and mountain traveling. Theso come in the natural color of tho skin aud sell at 85 cents, eight button length. A delightful change in fashion is tho making of tho dress waists without bands. We have returned to the old fashioned way of cording or binding the neck of the waist, which, with turned down collar, is cool, pretty and generally becoming.

It has been a long timo since we havo worn these low collars and it is pleasant to know that Dame Fashion has allowed us to have them during warm weather and not wait until Fall boforo she declares thorn. I havo known her to insist upon our tying our bonnets with broad ribbons undor tho chin in Summer and during the Winter to announce that we must do without them. A pretty dress Been upon a young lady last Sunday was cut rather low in tho neck, with a plaiting of lace, caught together in front with two little jeweled laco pins. A dark haired lady wore a garnet India silk dress with odd designs in black, tho skirt draped without other trimming, the waist fulled from tho shoulder to the point on ono sido, tho other sido trimmed with inch wide black velvet ribbon. About the neck was a plaited frill of point gaze laco which draped the shoulders.

Sleeves puffed at the shoulder and close fitting over the arm. Sho carried a red gauzo fan painted in daisies, aud wore upon her head a hat of black laco trimmed with jacqueminot roses. Embroidered turn down collars are made on a chemisette and of very good material, tho embroidery being fine, and sell at 20 cents oach. Lovely sets are made of linen lawn, tho collar in tho Byron shape, tho cuffs to match and theso are beautifully embroidered. Eighty cents will buy a very choice sot.

Another pretty and becoming collar is mado of figured or plain silk muslin or a soft silk such as is used for boys' neck ties. These are in fino plaits made to fall about tho shoulders and the ends finished with a narrow scarf to tie with bow in front. This style has been worn somo time, but is still popular and drossy and are offered at reasonable prices. For those ladies who prefer tho standing baud about tho throat thore are a number made in fine plaits running around of a soft silk mull with plaited jabot that may either reach to the point of the waist or just below the bust, as tho tasto of the wearer may decide. Plaited jabots are also worn made of white mull, not secured to any collar.

These accessories aro all offered at tho very lowest prices and go a groat ways toward making tho plainest toilet pretty and dressy. A very nice table lmcu can bo had for 75 conts the yard. A good linen is also noted at 50 cents, but it is rather narrow for most tables. Napkins to match them, five eighth size, are $1.50 per dozen. A lovely tablo cloth, three yards long, with border around, a fine quality of linen, with one dozen napkins to match.

This price will buy a quality and beauty of cloth that one need not be ashamed to use upon any occasion, no matter how important it may be. In tho basement of a largo dry goods establishment is found a bon voyage trunk, .12 inch size, with hardonod slats and strap hinges, at $5. Tho inside of theso trunks is done off just exactly as most women would liko, giving amplo room for dresses in tho bottom, trays suited for underwear, bonnets or shoes. As this letter is written expressly for careful, economical women, who wish to do much with little money, that is, to buy a good article as cheap as possible, I will tell you of the desirablo traveling extension bags, from 12 to 24 inch sizo that range in pricos from 75 conts up. Each sizo larger adds 25 conts to the prico.

Tho leather bound extension bags begin each size increasing 35 cents. They are much moro convenient than a satchel, will hold very much more, and since they are so well made, aro very desirable. The small ones are just the thing for shawls and wraps to bo used while on a journey. C. A.

G. THE WEDDIXG PRESKXT DIFFICULTY. The wedding present difficulty may be regarded as one of a perculiarly exasperating nature to all concerned, except, perhaps, the manufacturers and venders of such expensivo trilles, says a writer in Chamber's Journal for June. The singular monotony which usually marks the choice of such gifts has, it is true, of late years been somo what relieved by tho American innovation of handsome checks in lieu of some costly trinket; but the custom, for reasons too obvious to mention, has never found any very general favor. In thin connection, a point in which a vast amount of ingenuity will bo displayed by somo is the skill with which a purchase will be made, tho actual value of which it would be difficult for any but the initiated to suspect.

To obtain something which, will look liko what it has cost, or, if possible, a littlo moro, is a desideratum with not a few. Again, to those who possess a large circlo of friends and acquaintances, there enters the question of duly considering the natural susceptibilities and tho tastes of each and all; in the present day, indeed, the latter point ia ono which needs most careful consideration. With those who aro known to possess a knowledge of art and tho many fascinating ins and outs of brie a brae, greater care in selection is necessary than with thoso who are regarded by their friends as being iudifforent to such matters. Altogether the question is one fraught with innumerable difficulties. Tho Queen, as is well known, has long since reduced tho anxieties of her task in the matter of wedding presents by confining her gift to tho same unvarying article a handsome Indian shawl; and not a few knowing ones have followed tho excellent example set by her gracious Majesty.

WHAT IS THE 31005? But whon we look at tho moon with our telescopes, do we seo any traces of water? There are, no doubt, many largo districts which at a first glance seem liko oceans, and were indeed termed "seas" by the old astronomers, a name which they still absurdly retain. Closer inspection shows that the so called lunar seas aro deserts, often marked over with small cratorB and with rocks. The telescope reveals no seas and no oceans, no lakes aud no rivers. Nor is the grand eur of the moon's scenery over impaired by clouds over her surface. Whenever the moon is above the horizon and terrestrial clouds aro out of tho way, wo can seo the features of hor surface with distinctness.

There aro no clouds in tho moon; there aro not even tho mists or tho vapors which invariably arise wherever water is present, and therefore astronomers have been led to tho conclusion that our satellite is a storile and a waterless deBert. Story of the Heavens. Some Points for the Young Housekeeper. Economical Dressing by Ladies of Moderate Means Imitation Point de Gene Laces Fans. Table Linen Gloves Turned Down Collars.

Jabots. Tho Toadies' Home Journal says in regard to woman: "Marry her, cherish her and make her happy by not demanding everything and conceding nothing. Then Bhe will bo cheerful and contonted, and thiB world will become the abode of bliss." What can the journal mean I do not believe that marriago is a failure, but do beliovo it is a lottery, few prizes and many blanks. By that I moan that people do not considor the matter well enough before taking tho vows, aud soon aftor find themselves entirely unsuited to eaoh other. It is not so hard for those who havo wealth, but for the man with modorato means, who is on a small salary, to marry a girl who knows nothing of economy and only wishes to make an appearance, instead of trying to bo a helpmeet, it is a mistake.

I do not think there has been a time in fifty yoars when so much can be bought for so littlo money a's the present. So many beautiful things' at prices really surprisingly low, to make home attractive in tho way of table linen, silverware, crockery, lamps and furniture, to say nothing of tho conveniences of the young wife to do hor houBowork and cooking with as much pleasure as if she were a littlo girl playing keep house. Just visit our leading stores and see tho beautiful thingB you can find in silverwaro, and how many pretty littlo pieces'for tho table may bo bought for $5 salts, poppers, spoons, forks, pickle casters, sugar stands in every varioty. I recently saw a very handsome silver plated teapot, of novel shape, beautifully engraved, qnito largo enough to make tea for four persons, bought at less than $2. A sugar dish and cream pitcher matched, and tho young wife who exhibited her pretty china tlosot filled with charming belongings with which to Bet tho tablo for herself and husband proudly Btated that everything there, including all tho plated ware, cost less thon $30.

Thero was a completo dinner and tea servico in fino china, which was mado up by buying pieces hero and thoro that matched, and so did not cost half so much as to buy a sot. Thero were pretty glasses, tumblers of crystal with largo initial engraved thereon; fruit and preserve dishes, a lovely glass cheese plate, with cover, that cost but 37 cents, and a variety of little pitchers that she paid from to 30 cents each for. Mind, all pretty and novol; not a plain, homely ono among them Said she: "I havo but three tablo cloths and ono dozen napkins. Don't you think that is enough for us two? Of course, when I can afford it I will buy moro, but theso will do for somo timo yet." There was much to attract ono in tho kitchen of this little Hat, for there wore so many things to use that made work very easy. I accepted an invitation to dinner; as I told her to test what she could do iu ono hour, as sho had but that time to prepare it, and nothing was ready, savo that peas woro shelled aud tho tomatoes peeled and placod on tho ice, so that they may slieo just beforo dinner was served.

After putting into tho oven a few ribs of lamb to roast and some new potatoes to bake, said she: "Wo will have some ice cream for dessert, and I will show you what my freezer will do." I replied: "What, mako ioo cream in loss than an hour! let's see you do it." Sho took down tho little two quart freezer and a nook of re ceipts for frozen dainties, which sho said came with tho freozer, and glancing over them said: "Hero is one I will try. I think I can get somo cream just around to tho milk store.and if you will excuse me I will run and see." In a few momonts she returned with the cream, and this was the re coipt she used: Ono quart of oream, four oggs, one and one half cup sugar and flavoring to the taste. Tho cream was placed in the oatmeal boiler and scalded until hot. A egg beater was brought forward and tho yolks ot tho eggs beaten two minutes, which made them thick and creamy; then the sugar was added, and the eggs beaten again about a minute. The whitcB were beaten stiff, which took but a minute, aud thon stirred into tho yolks.

Tho hot cream was poured into this, being stirred all the time, the wholo poured into tho boiler and cooked liko a custard. It was stirred constantly until tho foam disappeared and the custard thickenod enough to coat tho spoon. It was thon strained and mado cool, when tho flavoring was added. Wliilo this was cooling the ice was cracked and packed in the tub around the freezer with somo salt, and in less than five minutes from the time it was put into tho freezer it was ready io Borvo. One half hour had not passed sinco tho cream was bought, and I think sho said tho ice cream when made did not cost over 20 cents a quart.

You know cream Almost doubles itself when whipped. The dinner was served when tho hour was up, everytning well cooked, the ico cream delicious. When I look back to my girlhood days and think that mother wanted about four hours to mako a few quarts of ico cream, and see hor sitting down with a great fork boating eggs in a large dish, and think of other inconveniences tho housekeeper of those days had to endure, and sec tho many wonderful inventions tho young house keeper of to day has to help her in her work I cannot but say she iB highly favored, and hor work is comparatively play. There aro plenty of very nice girls who have been brought up and taught economy who will make good wives for young men of moderate means, but if that is a matter he must considor ho should be careful in miking his selection. I onco knew a j'oung fellow about 20 who visited a lady some what oldor than himself and often took tea at hor falhor's house on Sunday.

There woro generally very nico cako and other dainties lor sup per, which the young lady said Bho her self had made. She also wore pretty dresses, many of which, she declared, had been fashioned by hor own fingers. "My bonnets I always trim." "Well, "thought he, "she is just the girl for a poor man's wife;" popped, and was accepted. As soon as they were married she knew nothing, and he, to day, struggles along with a miserable homo nothing in order and tho wife has proved to be one of the most destructive housekeepers I ever knew. Said he, ono day.

"I am always buying cups and saucers and tumblers; yet we never have any in the house. Thore is a general smash up every day." Another wife goes with hor husband to Bpend his vacation this Summer the first in yoars. His cIoro attention to business requires that ho Bhould tako some rest during the Summer, as he is not a strong man, but tho wifo has staid at homo to look after the children, until now thoy are old enough to do for thomsolves. She has practised leconomy so many years sho doesn't know anything else, and it is really a marvelous thing for a woman to dress as well upon so little money. Sho has taste and tact about her clothes, can mako her every day dresses, but "when I buy a good dress, which is not very often, I take it to a dressmaker, and this costs me about $8." She has bought two hats this Summer, one a kind of turban shape of lino black straw, for which she paid 10 cents.

The brim of this hat she bound with black moire ribbon. In the front there were two loops of the ribbon, two orthreo loops of black velvet aud a bird with black head and dark wings. Theso were odds aud ends she had in tho house. The other was a little bonnet of white straw, for which she paid 5 cents, and for this she bought ono yard of white lawn, at 15 cents, and two whito wings, at 5 cents each. She trimmed them herself, and tho cost of the two hats was 40 cents.

To match a brown and ecru dress she has taken an old bonnet frame in use last Summer and covered it with pieces of silk and ribbon in the two colors, making a most becoming bounet. This gives her threo pretty pieces of headgear and the total spent this season is 40 cents. Those who see hor can hardly realize it and sho has tho namo of being a handsome dresser. Tho bonnets are not an exception, her dresses, in fact her entire wardrobo is preparod in the samo economical manner. A boon to women who practice economy in dress is the beautiful point do gene lace that havo recently been imported to sell at very low prices.

These laces, nearly three inches wide, can be had at 2 S) cents tho yard and come deep cream and puro whito. The patterns aro excellent, very pretty indeed, and theso laces trim sateens, surah, and ginghams more effectively and stylishly than any other kind. Ladies of largo means who aro already at fashionable watering places have had their handsome Summer dresses Gossip of Stage, Green Room and Concert Hall. American Play Writers and Dramatic Students. Bar Out the Notorieties Stories About Com losers Chicago The Pretty Actors Notes.

Tho watering places offer, as usual, the ohiof attractions, theatrical and mimical an well as aqueous. In western Conoy Inland aro variety Bhows and opera, on middle Coney Inland are Boidl and Gilmoro and the Pompeiian firoworks, and on eastern Coney Island are sand and cx clusivonoss. Across the river you can hoar "The Oolah" at the Broadway Theater, "The Brigands" at tho Casino, "Pinafore" at the Twenty third street house, "Clover" at Palmer's, light opera and ballot at Terraoo Garden, Doekstader's Minstrels at Dookstader's Theater, the gypsy orchestra at Eden Museo and loud singing at Roster Bial's, while the ono play to ho seen in tho city is "Tho Burglar" at Madison Square Theater. The Battle of Gettysburg still goes on at tho cyolo rama building and one or two of tho museuiDB are open. T1IE PIVETTY ACTOnS.

An alleged actress reveals an excess of sensibility in this confession to tho Theater: As I jaehed Fifth avenuo Hotel I met Courtonay Thorpe. The boautiful pink and white complexion was kissed by Spring zophyrs, tho dreamy eyes had a far away look iu them, and the naughty sunlight wan playing hide and seek in those dear little curls that classic head is so generously strewn with. A clanging sound attracted my attention for a minuto and I beheld such a fascinating watch fob as one only sees on those rare creatures; a fob sparkling with gems and rattling with charms. Scarcely hail my bowil derod brain recovered when I saw advancing a creature whoHe face I had only seen in dreams: a large faco with well clipped miidtache, big expressionless dark eye, broad low forehead and dark, curly hair. That face rose out of the whitest collar I ever saw.

A well fitting cuttaway black coat and trousers that were perfect. It had tho expression that is so successfully worn by a paper doll. The perfect character and intellect was all there. Tho name that goes with that face is Frank Carlyle. I knew then what it was to yearn, and I felt that my time had come.

As I was standing half stunned, trying to pull myself together, I Baw advancing such patent leather boots and such divine legs as I had never vet beheld. I slowly look upward and my head swims with the vision. A carefully trimmed mustache, a ruddy skin, a self satisfied expression, and Herbert Keleey swiftly passes me, and I am left with a faint feeling, the air around mo seems dead, tho golden sun is turned to green, and I would have fallen had I not with an effort checked myself with the ono idea of hurrying home; but in my mad rush 1 tumble into tho arms of the most exquisite of all. "My ideal!" I cry, and as I get my breath I feast my eyes on a drooping blonde mustache, a faco that tries, oh, so hard, to wear that blase, bored look that is worked by some men. Morton Selten, for it is he, has a lovely Hat crowned derby hat pulled over his blue eyes, and is trying not to look pleased at the glances tho girls bestow on him.

I hastily gather my bundles and vow eternal devotion to that man with his thick, tired voice. I walk half a block when 1 see tho greatest strut that a pair of bowed legs can command; a handsome pair of eyes that aro glued on Home object, and though I try hard to find out what it is I cannot; thoy never swerve; the head is thrown slightly back, the shoulders Bquarod and with that intense look that must have taken years of rehearsing to complete, Kyrle Bollew goes on his way and I love once more. But thoy are coming fast now and I retreat to a doorway and watch them go by. Maurice Barrymore, with his dear littlo mustache that looks as if ho had cut his lip and had put a tiny bit of court plaster on it; Digby Bell, with the figuro of a pouter pigeon in its pomposity; Francis Wilson, with bin "I'm starring now'' expression on; Ilandsomo Henry Dixey, witli a diamond ring on his thumb; Herbert Wilke, with his two lovely dimples and his coquettish smile. Great heavens I can no longer bear it.

I call a cab, tumble into it, jerk down the curtains and drivo home, where I am lying down, applying can de eologuo to my aching head, while the beautiful boautieB go swirling past uio when I close my aching eyes. LET THE STUDENTS TRY TURJI. There aro in this country dramatists by the hundred, some of whom writo good plays, but can novor, except on rare occasions get them acted. There aro also in New York and in some other cities, too, schools and colleges of acting whoso pupils are drilled in one necessary but unvarying rut, and seldom have a ehanco to test their skill or prove their progress beforo their friendH. This and that are easily put together: there are the dramatists; here the actors.

Why not give a trial to a worthy play occasionally? It is true that Mr. Palmer has given a few "authors' matinees" at the Madison Square Theater, but though professional players were engaged for the purpose, they too frequently spiritless, because the participants knew that no matter how well thoy played they would get little credit for their work, and no matter how good the piece might bo Mr. Palmer would never put it on for a run. With students and aspirants who would bo put on their mettle the ease would be difforont, for they might create a part, as the saying is (a dramatist creates a part, not an actor), and be cast in it for the Reason if they showed ability. Moreover, it would be an excellent thing for the author and would encourage the writing of plays.

He could study his drama from the view point of tho audience, whenco all plays must be considered, and would see whero it was necessary to cut, extend, strengthen, subdue, lighten, complicate or otherwise change, for ot all forms of composition play writing is most subtle and its effect on an audience most problematic. Few plays take their place on the boards for a season until they have been extensively rewritten and sometimes radically changed. The author who is obliged to trust for tho success of his play to tho customary first night's performance somotimes finds it damned by unready acting, "faked" effects and scenery, wrongly chosen music, and other results of haste and lack of understanding, beside incongruities or reaches of dull dialogue, or delayed action or undramatic treatment that might be avoided had tho author a prior chance to study his play and his public at a semi private view. Tho amateurs, too, might undertake these special performances. Hero iu Brooklyn aro finely equipped ami talented companies who could doubtless obtain tho loan of manuscript plays for a night, and whoso appearances in them would certainly be more interesting than in tho class of plays they most constantly produce, comedies and melodramas that have been acted by some of the ablest troupes in tho land and that provoke invidious comparison when played by amateurs.

The Amaranth and the Gilbert would do better with an untried play written by an American, about Americans, for Americans, than they can ever do with "'The Two Orphans," or A Celebrated Case." Perhaps some managers may be brought to a similar way of thinking, if they have time enough and if proof's are as often shown to them of tho success of purely native plays as they were shown in New York last Wintor. OUT THE XOTOIUETI0.S. Tho Mirror takes exception to the projocted tour of Mrs, Carter iu this way: "If it is true and wo sincerely hope it is not that a woman who recently figured in a Chicago divorce suit is going on the stage and has secured the services of a well known manager to introduce her as a 'star' to the American public, every decent man and woman in tho profession, and every member of the theater going public that possesses a vestige of respect for the theater, has cause for is the only reason given for the prospective appearance of this person on tho boards. Her sole qualification is that she appeared as the unsuccessful figure in a sensational divorce case. Is it from such unwholesome material the stage is to be recruited Is it the kind that managers seek Is it the sort that the public selects for the bestowal of its patronage and applause When a woman without talent, without character, without any recommendations except reputed beauty of person and undoubted notoriety, obtained through the widespread publication of her sins when such a woman finds tho stage door Hying open at hor approach and a welcome awaiting her from men intrusted wiih the responsibility of furnishing reputable entertainment to tho people, something is rotten, something is wrong, end that something should be exposed and remedied, la the manager or the public the more to Notes "John A correspondent, J.

C. kindly sonds tho following anent tho answer to "John last Sunday: To the Editor or the. Brooklyn Entile: From "Tho Twins," a "poem entire," which yon printed on Sunday under "Questions Answered," you omitted tho eighth verso, whioh runs something liko this: "So as I went about I asked Of everyone I knew, What would yon do if you wcro mo lo provo that you were you." Halsoy Street "Complaint should bo mado at tho City Works Department, or, if you prefor it, to the Mayor, who will refer tho matter to tho proper source. The name of the owner of the lot can bo got from the assessors. "Reader" We cannot comply with your request.

You should have cut out tho list when it was published. "Edith E. Franco Yon must writo to the ad dross wo gavo in last Sunday's Eagle. To the Editor of the Brooklyn Eaale: Will you ploaso inform mo if the degree of 4. Vvf a man to practice pharmacy in New York State? B.

L. L. Answer According to Chapter 478 of tho Law of 180!) an M. graduated from a medical col lege, is qualified to practice pharmacy. To the Editor of Hie Brooklyn Eanle: B.

gives a two weeks' written notieo oF mo tion to amend a bylaw; on tiio night tho motion IS called A. IS. IS I i.i, mini uio proposer proceed to movo that the iy jaws uu anicuucd, T. J. Answer Only the person who has givon notie of a motion can movo for its adoption when tho time is reached.

To the. Editor or the Brooklyn Eanle: Please inform eniiuhi pn tuo installment plan, should I get it searche oetore investing on it? Can 1 record it. hp or uoing iuuy paid T. Schmidt. Answer The record should bo soarched beforo you purchase, whether by installment or other wiso.

You are not likely to havo possession of tl ueeu until the price is lnffy paid, heuco you would havo nothing to record. To the Editor of the Brooklyn Eaale. In what issue did you publish "The Orphan Child," and where can I obtain a copy of 'Tho ueierreu Kiss, by Vandergnft? M. F. Answer The "Orphan Child" or "Orphan Boy, was published in tho ICaui.e, June 188:1.

Tho "Deferred Kiss," by Vandergrif may be found in somo of tho recitation books, but we cannot point to tho exact publication. To the Editor of the Brooklyn Eagle: Will you kindly decide tho following Question A bets that the officers in. the Brooklyn Navy Amu arc enutioti to vote in Brooklyn. say that they are not. A Constant Keadeh.

Answer I ho Brooklyn Navy Yard is within the boundaries of tlie City of Brooklyn, and the old tion districts in which inhabitants in tho Navy lard register and vote are the Fifth and Elov onth wards. To the Editor of the Brooklyn Eaale: ill you kindly inform constant reader the uesi way to taue nulla ink out ot the skin? Tattoo, Answer Wo do not know what may be tlie best way of removing India ink from the skin, but wo offer what is at hand. Wash tho parts thoroughly with common dilute acetic acid. Half an hour later use: Caustic potash, 4 grains; water ounco. Aftor tho lapso of another half hour Dilute hydrochloric acid, 1 drachm; water ounce.

This should be repeated daily. Stronger BOlntionB may bo applied if they can bo borne. To the Editor or the Brooklyn Eaale: 1 rom what does Scotland Yard, the headquarters of the London detective police, derive its name Ci uious. Answer Tho world famed headquarters of tho London police, Scotland Yard, is understood to have obtained that name from the fact that a palace formerly occupied the site, which was built for the reception of tho Scottish kinps when thoy visited the English capital. Accord ing to Pennant tho palace was originally given by King Edgar to Kenneth of Scotland when he went to London to pay homage.

To the Editor or the Brooklyn Eagle: Will you kindly furnish statistics of the rela tive proportion oi the Irish and American born enlisted in both armies during tho late Civil ISQUIUElt, Answer Wo would not undertake to furnish the statistics indicated as regards tho Confede rato Army, and as to the Union Army tho figures we present are only to be regarded as appro: mate, not absolute. They are as follows: Jsntive Aiucirican 1,523,300 Hritish Amuricau 500 JCnidish l.V.OO 144,200 ITd.SUO Other loreiEiiors Nativity uuknowu, moatly foreign Total 2iimT200 To tlie Editor or the Brooklyn Eaale I understand thero is a full length portrait of Mrs. and President Hayes in the blue room of tlie White House Can you mtorm me under what circumstances it was i placod there and if it could be removed at tlie pleasure of any succeeding mistress of the White House B. H. C.

Answer Tho first dinner givon by tho Presi dent (Hayes) was distinguished by tho absence of wine on the table. Mrs. Hayes was determined to bo consistent with her tcmperanco principles. Tho affair caused a great deal of talk, and it was follow ed by the temperance women presenting a testimonial in tho form indicated by our respondent. No mistresB of tho Whito Ilouso would undertake to dispose of any property be longing to the country, and everything left there by a retiring president, in the form of ornament, and which has been a public presentation, is tho property of the people.

Wo do not know that any law excepting that of custom controls in such a case. 1 he ladies who were conspicuous in tho presentation of the portraits wcro Miss Frances Willard, Mrs. Mary C. Burt and Miss Susan B. Anthony.

To the Editor of tlie Brooklyn Eaale: Can you give us tho names of tho citizens who constituted what was called the Committee of One Hundred which was organizer some vears ago in this city for the purpose of securing various municipal reforms? Perhaps this may bo asking moro than a usual favor, but I believe you will be pleased to grant the request, as it involves a matter of local history. Skxex. Answer Tho Committee of Ono Hundred, which mot in the directors' room at tho Academy of Music, had on its list from first to last the following nameB: Franklin Woodruff, chairman; A. B. Baj'liss, A.

A. Low, Charles R. Marvin, George L. Nichols, S. B.

Chittenden, William Marshall, A. J. Perry, Samuel McLean, John W. Flaherty, George L. Fox, Androw Cunningham, II.

D. Pol hemus, S. Kaufmaun, F. A. Schroeder, Ludovic Bennett, A.

C. Davis, II. B. Claflin, R. W7.

Ropes, H. R. Jones, Hugh Allen, George H. Fisher, Edmund Driggs, H. F.

Pierrepont, R. W. Adams, W. N. Adams, A.

Van Sinderen, E. J. Whitiock, L. Newman, E. S.

Sanford, Honry Sanger, Walter T. Hatch, Edwin Buckley, B. Stevens, William S. Tisdalo, Henry W. Sage, J.

S. Turner, Albert T. Rand, George G. Spencer, William Coit, H. 0.

Armour, Abijah Whitney, William P. Clyde, Peter C. Cornell, J. C. Hutchinson, M.

James S. Leeds, Luther B. Wynian, James P. Wallace John C. Cook, A.

S. Barnes, William H. Hazzard, William Adams, Henry M. Needham, J. S.

Ward, Henry Elliott, Darwin R. James, F. Rapelyc Boerum, Charles H. Vandorveer, James Eschwege, J. R.

Kennady, R. W. Potter, H. G. Reeves, F.

C. Vrooman, J. II. Ward, M. Isaac L.

Hewitt, John Carhart, Benjamin Cromwell, btepheu JacobH, Julius R. Pomeroy, William H. Waring, H. B. Spelmau, Lydo A.

Catlin, David M. Stone, Francis McGrath, Nathan Stevens, C. S. Dixon, William H. Swan, James Howe, Alexander M.

White, J. It. Taylor, R. R. Graves, J.

P. Robin son, li al. Whiting, i. it. bowler, James II.

Frothingham, Charles E. Hill, E. II. A. Lyman, N.

D. Morgan, John J. Van Nostrand, Milan Hurl burt, 'Thomas Sullivan, Charles S. Baylis, William B. Leonard, L.

D. Hardenburgh, S. N. Davis, D. C.

Bobbins, George B. Farrington, H. C. Hurl bnrt, H. C.

Boswell, Thomas W. Adams, Charles Lowery, John French, F. Pettit, E. D. Plimpton, A.

D. Whcelock, Andrew Fitzgerald, William W. Vail, Robort Johnstone, James S. Stearns, James Hasolhurst, F. E.

Taylor, R. S. Bussing, E. Bccib, C. C.

Dyke, Garrett Bergen, Philip D. Harris, Joseph Goldmark, M. Thomas A. Painter, William E. Doubleday, P.

Haggerty, S. M. Griswold, George Crary, H. G. I power of upper notes iu a violin by putting in an extra string so close to the other that the two aro covered by tho same finger.

The addition.of the string does not compol any alteration of the instrument, and the results aro so good that ho wants to add a doublo A string likewise, for use in tho orchestra. A Parisian journal tells of Mmo. Hastreiter that she had somo words with Sonzogno, hor manager at tho Gaieto, and declared that she "drew" better than any of his other artists. To convince her of her mistake Signor Sonzogno omitted the usual deadhead tickets for tho subsequent performance, of Result: An empty house. The lesson was severe but juBi American Musician.

I. W. Norcross keeps a musical boarding house on West Thirty eighth street. When his board ers aro in arrears with their pay he signs a con tract with them to sing under his management. In this way ho lias secured enough peoplo to organize a company which goes on the road in a week, with Laura Bellini, another boarder, as tho prima donna.

Miss Bellini pays her board and will draw a salary. Dramatic Times. Robert F. McClannin, of Brooklyn, was tho original Father Burbeaud when Maggio Mitchell produced "Fanchon" in Boston, and ho is going witli hor next season to play the same part. When Miss Maggie brought out a new comedy two or three years ago Mr.

McClannin said: "For the first time in my life I studied a new part with genuine pleasure" Herrmann, tho magician, carries an insurauco of $800,000 on his life, and "Joo" Emmet will be worth $210,000 as soon as he is dead. Six. teenth cousins, great uncles, nephews of brothers in law and other relatives who are accidentally omittod from tho wills of these two gentlemen will be glad to know about this, although the foregoing statements may havo been put in eir eulation for advertising purposes only. Doshler Welch says to barroom scoffers at the old school that John Gilbert's acting compared with modern New York performances was as dif ferent as the stately minuet differs from tho can can. He was an honor to the stage in overy re spect.

His private life was beyond tho finger of scandal or twaddle, and every young man who is in tho profession to day would do well to emulate him aud study his example." J. Hague, who used to play tho villain in "My Partner" in such a creepy, crawly manner, is to do a part in "A Midnight Bell." Well, well! Mr. Hague, though a most consumed vilyun on the boards, is a singularly mild and innocent person when he has his every day clothes on. He was educated for tho priesthood, aud tho first time that he was cast in a piece that employed a ballet he was shocked. It is often tho way of stage villains to bo of a free and generous na ture, and somo of them havo tho reputation of being tho best fellows to bo met with.

You remember the old story, don't yon, of tho lawyer's tombstone and the English actor John Strange was a lawyer and when he died his widow simply put on the marble slab, "Here lies an hon est lawyer," without a record of tho name. Of courso it followod that everyone who looked upon it remarked, "That's strange 1" When this was told to an English actor he laughed very seriously and attempted to repeat it. Said he: "A barrister, dontcherknow aw I've forgotten his name died and the widow aw aw didirt put any name on tho tombstone, dontcherknow. It lust said here lies an honest man, and of courso everybody said aw how extraordinary, dontcherknow!" Of courso tho other actors had to laugh Theater. Zelter describes the first appearance of his pupil, Mendelssohn, at a party given for the pleasures of criticism and tea by Goethe.

Mendelssohn was 11 years old and had what Sir Julius Benedict says was a "supernaturally beautiful face fair and refined in outline, yet with tho flush of good health and gay spirits on it. Germany was full of Goethe's greatness, and tho little boy stood in somo wondering shyness beforo tho groat man. Goethe, however, tenderly stroked his hair and bade him play. "What shall it be said Gootho, indulgently. "Shall I play you tho loveliest thing in all the world?" cried tho boy, with childish enthusiasm.

And the elder genius assonting Felix Mendelssohn is seated before the piano, wax lights are placed on either sido of him, the beautiful boyish brow, the clustering brown curls, the eyes, even then full of thoughtful luster, aro touched by the glow of light and tho minuet from "Don Giovanni" fills tho air. The performance of Harvard students who went to the theater with plug hats that they woro through the play in a vain hopo that women would seo tho point, or the hats, and cease to obstruct the view of the audience, has boon outdone by the Yale students, who formed a theater party, went to New London, took the first three rows iu the orchestra at the play, and as soon as the curtain went up covered their heads with bonnets that woro decorated with feathers and frills, and that in height suggostcd tho Eiffel tower. Of course the women behind them could not see, and some of them sputtered indignantly, while others took tho affair aB a joke. Tho boys refused to take their bonnets off until an usher came to them and said that the women had given in: that if the boys would uncover their heads they, too, would give tho audienco a chance to see the play. Tho Limited Mail," a new sensational comody drama, has the most marvelous and original realistic railroad scene ever produced on the stage.

The act whero the scene is used represents an at tempt to wreck tho United States mail on tho Union Pacific Railroad. A girl discovers tho plot to wreck the train. The train is 100 feet long and eight, feet high, and consists of a locomotive md tender, a mail car and two coaches. Tho train is folded compactly on one side of the stage and tho cable is set in motion. At the proper time it speeds across the stago with such rapidity that it is refolded on tho other sido.

About soven seconds is occupied in running the train across the stago. Tho heroine saves the train by placing a torpedo on tho track. Tho explosion of tho torpedo stops tho train, and the model of a full sized car is backed partly on tho stage, and the passengers alight from tho coach. The device for propelling the train, which runs at a rai equaling a speed of twenty miles an hour, is drum and endless cable. Tho entiro mechanism is easily handled and works perfectly on stages of any width.

It occupies but littlo stage room, and no special car iB required for the scenery aud effects. Clement Tetedoux, musician, says that singers and actors must havo a basis of strength in their work, healthy bodies and strong lungs, but that art must modify and soften. Mozart had tho hoad of a gladiator, but his faco was brightened by an air ot refinement and elegance. To sing through an opera takes more than a strong organ, moro than a knowledge of voice management. It re quires an enduranoe which the healthiest bodies may not possess and that can only bo met in robust organizations.

Now, if health is condu cive to well being ot the mind there never was established any essential correlation between brains and muscles. It has, on tho con trary, been observed that persons distinguished for vivacity of thought, delicacy of conception and poetical temperament, while possibly presenting tho pure complexion, clear eyes and elastic motions of health, aro generally slight and sparely formed; ami that your square shouldered, large necked, big fisted athlete masterpiece of material creation as ho may be oftentimes has also the stolid characteristics of matter and is heavy, if solid, in intellect; gross, if moderate, in his appetites; slow, if sure, to think, and prosy, if sensible. In this last category is to bo found the voice indispensable to an opera singer. Iu the first ono tho higher qualities, without which there can bo no real artist. The privileged individuals aro few in whom are united this strength of body and intellectual Is lost to God; but there it works His will Patient, and burns conform with justice.

Sin Convinced bears penitence; and from ignorant vice Converted, springs wiso virtue; from mean greed, Active beneficence never satiate, save With welfare of some rational soul, seeurod, Or compassed, charitably: all virtues, means To get diviner ends, attainable still By man, majestic in progression. Graco. Knowledge aud love, the sense of harmony, And beauty of form, used rightly by the spirit Studious of truth, are purifying powers; So, all things that to ordor and perfeetuoBS Of naturo tend; tlie culture of puro thought, and art. Idolatrous not: tho sacred liberty of other's will Oh mayst thou never plot to infringe such right I The politic freedom of earth's thousand states, And all life's social blessings, crowned with peace, And as earth's elements, not disunitivo pass Each into other, wavelike, and possess; Aud as mind's powers, by thoughts perfective rules, More eminently capacious show; sorango Symmetric, our omotions with God's law. Of highest good: and such is naturo's crown.

But limiting not the Deity thus. Him know In such wiso operative, that wliilo iu all Proportion He delights, with mind creato, In rhythmic undulations of the light. Commensurable with space, even weakest things Are yet to be made examples of His might; The most defective of His perfect graco, Whene'er He thinketh well: so rounding all Extremes iu one comploto aimplioity Of motive, mean intent. Perhaps it will be interesting to the readers to have the response of "Festus" as given in tho following stanza: Oh, everything To me seems good and lovely and immortal. The whole is beautiful; nor can I see Aught wrong in man nor nature, aught not meant, As from His hands it comes who fashions all: Holy as His formative word, the world itself His mightier revelation: to whose sense All writ must be attuned; all miracles made Liku broadly jnst.

He breathes Himself upon us, Before our birth, as o'er tlie formless void Ho moved at first, and we with His spirit are all Livingly inspired. All things are God, or of God. For the whole is God's mind what is a thought In ours. All that is good belongs to God: And good and God are all things: or shall bo. The whole poem may bo found and consulted in the Brooklyn Library.

To the Editor of the Brooklyn Eayle Has any calculation ever been mado of tho number of transpositions of which our alphabet itjcapablo 1 It so, can you state tho result i Jajies. Ansrcer Tho letters of the alphabet, it appears, can be tram posed 020, 448, 401, 733, times. All the inhabitants of tho globe, on a rough calculation, could not, in a thousand millions of years, writo out all the transpositions of the letters, even supposing that each wrote 40 pacts daily, each of which pages containod 40 different transpositions of tho letters. To the Editor or the Jlrooklyn Eaale: What did the Doomsday Book of English history contain and, does it still exist J. T.

A nswer The original Domesday Book (not Doomsday) is still in existence and uninjured in the Record Office, Fetter lano, London. It was compiled by order of William the Conqueror, having been commenced in 1080 (soinosay 1085) and finished in 1080. It contains a survey of all the lands in England, except Northumberland, Durham, Westmoreland and Cumberland, and ia iu two volumes, a largo folio and a quarto. Tho folio contains 82 double pages of vellum, writ ten in small bnt plain characters. Tho quarto contains 450 double pages of vellum, written in large, fair characters.

Only threo or four pages ire devoted to London. The covers of both vol. nines are cut trom tho Bame parchment skin. Bound in massive board covers and kept with religious care under a glass case tho precious volumes seem likely to continue their existence throughout the ages. To the Editor or the Brooklyn Eagle: What aro regarded as tho fifteen decisive bat.

ties of the world Ju.sion. Answer Tho fifteen decisive battles of the world are recorded as follows: Marathon (Greeks defeat Persians), September 28 or 20, 400 B. Syracuse (Athenians defeated), 418 B. Ar bclla (Aloxandor defeats Darius), October 1, 331 B.C.; Metauras (Nero defoatod Hasdrubal, who was killed), 207 B. Tentoburc (Varus dofeated by Herman).

0 A. Chalons sur Marue (Attila defeated by Aetius), 451 A. Tours (Charles Martel defeats the Saracens), October 10, 733 A. Hastings (William I. defeats narold), October 14, 1000 A.

Orleans (English defeat French), 1420 A. Spanish Armada defeated (naval), July, August, 1588 A. Blenheim, or Hochstadt (Marlborough victor), August 2 (0. 1 704 A. Pultowa (Peter defeats Charles July 8, 170!) A.

Saratoga (Burgoyne surrendered), October 7, 1777 A. Valmy (French defeat Prussians), September 20, 1702; Waterloo (Napoleon defeated), Juno 18, 1815 A. D. Tho war for tho Union, 1801 1805 A. furnishes history witli a numbor of decisivo battles which must inevitably bo added to the old stylo fiftoon.

To the Editor or the Brooklyn Eaale: A curious allusion was made recently in tha course of a license discussion to an old inn some vliere Lngtaud which had been ficensed regularly for over 500 vears. Can vou give anv light upon that ancient institution or temple of Bacchus iNouutEit. ylnstoer Tho story is related of an old inn or tavern located at tho foot of a street called Shudehill, in the oity of Manchester, England, known as "The Soven Stars," which is said to havo been a licensed houso since 1350 00, tho proof of which lies in Lancaster Castlo, where arc deposited the records of the various licenses. Thero is also a tradition that the workmen on tho old church (now the cathedral, formerly a collegiate church from its foundation opening of the Fifteenth Century), had a penny a day and got thoir dinners and other meals at "Tho Sevon Stars." Hero is an unvarnished story about it: After much debato it was docidod that their safest plan would bo to proceed to Manchester, where Humphrey Chetham undertook to procure them safe lodgings at tho Seven Stars, an excellent hotel kept by a worthy widow, who, he affirmed, would do anything to serve him. Ac cordingly, they set out at nightfall, Yiviana taking her place beforo Guy Fawkes, and reliuquish ng Zayda to the young merchant and tho priest.

Shaping thoir courso through Worslay, by Mon ton Green and Pendleton, they arrived iu about an hour within sight of the town, which then not a tithe of its present size, and unpolluted by the smoky atmosphoro in which its now con tantly enveloped, was not without some pre tensions to a picturesque appearance. Crossing Salford Bridge, they mounted Smithy Bank, as it was then termed, and, proceeding along Catea ton street and Hanging Ditch, struck into Withing (now Withy) Grove, at the right of which, just where a few houses woro beginning to straggle up Shudohill, stood and still stands the com fortable hostel of 'The Seven Stars." Here thoy topped and were warmly welcomed by its buxom mistress, Dame Siitcliffe. Muffled in Guy Fawkes' cloak, tlie priest gained the chamber, to which ho was ushorcd unobserved. Aud Dame Sutcliffe, though her Protestant notions were a little scandalized at her dwelling being mado tho sanctuary of a Popish priest, promised at the instance Master Chetham, whom sho knew to bo no favorer of idolatry in a general way, to be an swerable for his safety." "Tho Sevon Stars" has been a continuously licensed houso for 52 years..