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1 of the principal singers and their consequent In same elevated train. If ono meets the other RELIGIOUS OPINION. THEATERS AND MUSIC. THE TALK OF NEW YORK "of course you know a good deal mora about the United States than I pretend to, but what do you call this?" and Just at that moment a band of Buflalo Bill's Indians, wrapped in blankets and gaudy with paint and feathers, came gravely sauntering down Broadway. Tho young girl caught her breath and clutched Jack's arm, turning first white and then red.

Here were the real bona Ode North American Indiana. Just as she had seen them In the Illustrated Geographies, and here they were in broad daylight wandering along the main thoroughfare of the biggest city In the land. Well, one couldn't put much faith in book6 of travel or what American people In England said. Bhe walked on in silence and has refused with much dignity to discuss tho subject with her brother, who goes off by himself now aud then, and shouts with laughter, for no apparent cause. There is considerable criticism in society on what are called "Tho Confessions of Edwards Plerre who was at one time Minister to England.

Ills Interviews since his return on tho Etrurla havo dotallod his long and successful labors to effect a divorce for Mrs. Frederick Stevens on non Scriptural grounds, followod by her marriage to the Marquis Tallyrand Porlgord under olroumstancss way Hall in conjunction with the Thomas orobestra and a well known vocalist. The lady ia well known In Brooklyn society, and Is said to xhlblt musical talent of a high order. Tefese Carre no Balled for Venezuela last week to manage an Italian opera season at Caracas, for which work she Will receive her share of a government subsidy. Zelle Do Lussan will remain with the Boston Ideal Opera Company for another season then go to Europe to study and prepare for an appearanco in grand opera.

Denman Thompson will continue to play The Old Homestead'1 at the Fourteenth Street Theater until June. He has bought off Nell Burgess, who was to have succeeded him. Though this Is Mmo. Rhea's farewell tour In America sho will bo back again next Pall, as usual. Twenty weeks of her time havo already been booked for American theaters next season.

Frank McNish, who has a little minstrel act that ocouples him five or ten minutes a night, has made money enough this season to buy a farm aud couutry house near Blnghamton, N. Y. Mme. Cavalazzl (Mrs. Charles Mapleson) has received so many offers from managers in Europe, who wish her to dance over there, that she will probably bo lost to America next season.

Linda Dietz, the tall, handsome English girl who was once a member of the Union Square Theater company, but who has not been seen on the stage in years, Is in New York awaiting an engagement The tenor Ravelli has put the management of La Scala to rout by suing for 18,000 Indebtedness. The management has declared bankruptcy, but Verdi's Otollo will be continued for the benefit of ored tors. Patti will sing In Carmen," Travlata and II Barblere when sho appears In opera at the Metropolitan Opera House In April. Arditl will lead the orohostra and Scalchi, Galassl and Novara will be in her company. Georgo Werronrath, tho tenor, will give a series of song rocitals at Historical Hall In April that prdmiso to be Interesting, far Mr.

Werronrath has a largo reportory nnd he sings In a sympathetic and Intelligent manner. The performance of American works at concerts is not at all unusual now a days. At the lost of tho Agramonte recital? In Chickering Hall thirteou conn posors wore represented, of which only two wore in tho cars of a morning he steps off the next station and waits for another train they never enter a carriage, ferry or go on a Jour ney together; will not even put up at tho same hotel. They are, however, perfectly friendly, and may often be seen walking up town side by side, and havo thoroughly amicable, almost affectionate, relations in all business and domestic affairs. It is only done as a precaution; they have no confiden tial olerk and no other partner, bo that it Is Impera tive that they ohould run no risks of being Simul taneously destroyed by a unique catastrophe.

It is poslttveiy necessary that ono of them should sur vive, aud they leave it to chauce to decide which Is the fittest, having taken all possible precautions against a mistake. Tho general verdict of the art critics seems to be that the Stewart collection, as a whole. Is hardly So valuable as that of Mrs. Morgan, though thore aro Individual pictures far superior to anything that reckless and insatiable purchaser was able to secure. The Stewart colleotlon contains works much more widely known than any others in this couutry, perhaps, and there is intense interest felt In art circles hero as to the probable bidding, and the prices to be obtained for such works as Rosa Bonheur's Horse Fair and Meissonier's 1807, Tbe prices at tho Morgan sale wore so unexpected and so very far above what the art critics predicted.

thnt they are a little shy of expressing themselves upon the subject this time. Yet those pictures that caused such surprising bidding at the Morgan auc tion were far less famous than those that the Stew art heirs depend upon for their best sales. At the opening half a dozeh or the rich picture buyers were presentmon who are slowly and carefully getting together fine galleries, and sparing no ex ponso in doing so among them Mr. Waters, of Bal timore, whose gallery Is easily first in this coun try. Their general verdiot was that the colleo tlon was strictly that of an amatour and vory uuequal, containing the very best, and much also that was simply puerile.

Thore has been consld erable newspaper discussion as to whether "1807 was or was not badly cracked. Theodore Chllds wrote from Paris recalling what he had said years ago as to Its bad conUlttou, aud his suggestion that it should be sent back to the artist to receive tho proper repairs which it so imminently stood in need of. It is cracked, quite badly so, and has been var nished over It. which has been no help to its condition. Whoever purchases It should have lc at onco sent back to Meissonler for tho proper attention, be cause he Is an old man now and no other hand than his should attempt repairs on his great work, one of the greatest of the century, and if the matter Is deferred too long he will havo passed away and the picture must either be left In its present condition or fall Into the hands of some restorer unworthy to tie Meissonier's shoe latcbets.

In other respects Mrs. Stewart's collection Is far inferior to Mrs. Mor gan's. The brio a brae and porcelains really amount to very little; thoy are gorgeous and expensive, but merely tho sumptuous furnishings of a millionaire's house, without any intrinsic artistic morlt. The usual trouble in settling a great estate seems to promise even more entanglements than usual in tho Stewart case.

Tho heirs are in most unpleas ant and anomalous condition; they are heirs to great fortunes and they have not money enough to pay their butchors. Mrs. Stewart allowed most of them some 10,000 a year to live upon, and now that ceases suddenly, while they can realize nothing from tho estate for the next three years at least Mrs. Butler, whose husband has undertaken to bring tho suit, is endeavoring to soli the house that Mrs. Stewart gavo her to raise monoy to to live upon until she can receive her inheritance.

She says it is useless for her to keep a costly dwelling like that when she has no Income, nothing even to pay the taxes upon it The VanderbiltB, whatever may be said against them, are a model to other heirs in this respect There are absolutely no squabbles among them, and, whatever may havo been their disap pointments, the public never knew them, and they simply hid them In their own bosoms. D. Nkw York, February 28, 1887. RAILROADING UNDER TUB SEA. The first 'i'Tai 'A'lirongtt Tunnel.

tbe Severn The first passenger train passed through the gigantic tube Unking the shores of Monmouth shire and Gloucestershire. Before those on board quite knew where they were a shrill whistle, a sudden darkening for It was now nearly broad daylight and We were In 1" told them they were "in" and rushing down a clearly perceptible do cline toward a point 100 feet below tbe bed of the broad estuary. In a trice watches were out and windows down, the first to koep time, tho other to test ventlatlon. Tho inrush of the Icy cold air, as clear and at pure as If the trip across was being made in the old way over instead of under the channel showed the latfer was all right The submarine Journey if such it may be called proved to be more like a run through a pretty deep cutting than through a tunnel four aud a quarter miles lonfr For about three minutes and a half after onterlng there was no mistaking the fact that a sharp gradient was bolng descended, then a momentary rumble as the train passed over the ourves of the arc for the tube dips in the center and thou tho locomotive, at an ever decreasing speed, climbed the opposite gradient, to emerge once more into daylight in eight minutes and forty nlno seconds. As before remarked, the ventilation of the tunnel is little short of perfect During tho construction of the work a fan eighteen feet in diameter, dis charging 60,000 cubic feet of air per minute, was used.

This has now been replaced by a fan forty feet in diameter and twelve feet wide, made on tho same principle as those used at the Mersey and a portion of the Metropolitan tunuels. The tunnel is twenty six feet wide and twenty feet high from the double Hue of rails to the crown of tho arch inside the brickwork. The rails are laid on longitudinal sleepers. The tunnel has been lined throughout with vitrified bricks set in cement and no less than 75,000,000 bricks have been used In this work. This vitrified brtuk wall has a thickness of three foot In tho crown of tho arch bonoath tho shoots, but as the tunnel rises from this lowest point on a gradient one in ninety one way aud one iu 100 toward the Gloucestershire side, this thickness Is gradually reduced to two feet and three inches.

The total length of the Severn Tunnel is 4 miles, 624 yards. The St Gothard Tunnel isfjitf miles. Mont Cents Tunnel 7)i miles, Arlberg Tunnel (Austria) miles; there is a tunnel tn Massacu setts 45 miles; tho Staudogo Tunnel, on the London and Northwestern, Is 3 miles long and the Box Tunnel rather less. But the special feature of the Severn Tunnel lies tn the fact that miles of it have been oonBtruoted from 45 to 100 feet below tho bed of a rapid flowing tidal estuary, offering engi neering difficulties which make It the most remarkable tunnel in the world. Cardiff Weekly Mail.

LITERARY FERTILITY. Tbe Small 'Amount of Intellectual Toll Used in Later Days. It may sound paradoxionl to reproach a generation, at whose astounding fertility of production we have been wondering, with indolence, yet so it is. If wo consider their work we shall see that, beyond the mere physical exertion of driving the pen over the paper, the proportion of labor Involved In it is very small. Considor, for example, the sort of novel which one of their most industrious fabricators has assured us Is the only sort tolerable now.

What intellootual toll can have gone to their mak ing? They tell no story, they solve no plot, action they have none, their characters aro not new, nor their incidents, If they have any. So far as they are anything at all beyond so many pounds avoirdupois of printed matter, they are literal trans cripts of the commonplace transactions and chatter of every day life around us. Now, though tho dlsctples and admirers of the famous school of realism may stare at our audacity, we make bold to affirm that there is nothing In tho world easier than this sort of writing. There Is no man, nor woman either, who resolves to set down precisely all that he or she may see or hoar in tour and twenty hours, say of waking life, but shall turn yon out your realistic novel, as the Grand Lama of Thibet will turn you out your prayers by the yard, such work needs not Invention, nor imagination, nor fancy. The only quality of the artist tt calls for is tbe sense of proportion, the faculty of selection; and that, anybody who has once experimented on this school of fiction will know well it rarely, if ever, gets.

A writer, content to produce this sort of stuff, may write, as Theseus sits, forever; and, according as his taste leads blm to Mayfalr or to Seven Dials for his copying ground, so will his literature bo a polite Industry or tho reverse. What matter that he drawetb out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument," if ouly tho verbosity be of the right texture But then, it may be asked, some labor surely is needed to master this sew tongue; it can not come, like reading and writing, by nature I It is the easiest trick In the world, that the veriest tyro shall master In "the posteriors of a day, whloh the rude multitude call the afternoon." ifacJKlfan's Magazine. ability or unwillingness to do their work. For some reason the effort to found a large and competent opera company that shall employ the best vocal aud Instrumental talent available tn the country has met with ridloulo and vehement opposition in many quarters, tho New York press bavlng done much to blight the prospects of the company, to injure Its business and to air the petty quarrels and Infelicities that are Incident to the conduot of opera in all languages, but the scheme to restrict publlo entertainments to "Ruddygore," and "The Mikado" has failed of effect thus far and much uncallod for malignity has been wastod. "Martha" will be sung on Thursday night by Pauliuo L'Allomand, Jessie Bartlett Davis, Charles Bassett, Alonzo Stoddard and William Hamilton.

"Nero," that Is to be sung in Now York next wee, is said to bo a splendid spectacle, and 400 persons are employed in the representation. The Brooklyn repertory, which, has Just been determined. Is as follows: Thursday, Miroh 8, Flotow Thursday. March 10, "Faust" Gounod Thursday, Maroh 17, "Filing Dutchman" Wauoor Thursday, Maroh 24, "Nero" Rubinstein Thursday, March 81, Delibos CHEAP PRICES IN CHICAGO. There was trouble at the Columbia Theater, in Chicauo, betweon Mr.

McOonnell, manager of thBt bouse, and tho agent of the "Gypsy Baron," the latter threatening to leave town with the show if tho local manager did not incroase his price to $1.50. Mr. McDonnell refused and made this statement about tho trouble, leaving it to be inferred that a reduction of prices means an Increase of business, as lu tho case of the Brooklyn Theater: "I don't think the contract could bo broken at tho end of one week when it was for two. If it was tho house would be temporarily closed, In which case he might havo something to say about the $7,000 worth of material the company had stored away In the theater. Cutting of prices offered no exouso for breaking a contract which contained a clause binding the company to observe tho rules and regulations of tho house.

Prices out no figure In our contract," argued Mr. McConnell, "and we have the right to make rates to suit ourselves. When in Kansas City Mr. Herrmann declared his determination, by wire, not to play at our house for less than the old rate. Subsequently he agreed to make good his contract at the cut rates." Said Mr.

McConnell "When Herrmann saw how the opera caught on he threw up both hands and began to ory over tho 50 cents he lmaglnod he was losing on every man, woman and child that came Into tho theater. The Gypsy Baron is a good opera, but if Wilson Barret and Fanny Davenport can afford to play at our new schedule of prices 1 guess Mr. Herrmann can do so, and at his own profit, too. The story he tells about leaving tho city without a cent of profit in his pocket Is all bosb. Wilson Barrett's share of tho receipts of tho first performance of his second engagement at this house was over 150 more than tho gross receipts of the first night's performance of his initial engagement, when the $1.50 schedule was in vogue.

It is dollars in Mr. Herrmann's pocket to play at this house at the present rates of admission, and he ought to know It." Tho eocond week's buslnoss of the "Gypsy Baron" has proven Mr. Hormann's wisdom iu deciding to remain. He has saved himsolf a great deal of trouble and expense and put many dollars in his pocket. AN ASPIMINO "TENNER." This letter, said to havo been written to the man ager of the American Opera Company, has a flavor of antiquity and use about It.

Still it may be gen uine, and it Is, unhappily, not unique In character or spelling. It reads thus. Sir. kind Friend I would like to not a nob with some striekly first class operry company as leading tenner, have a teuuer voice or nue kompass auu range and could also slug baso in an Emergency. I oan act out pieces splendidly having had wide experience in school exbibishlons.

1 send a drawing, my own handywork, showing me as I appeared at a Sunday school concert in the act of singing the Star Bangled Spannor goke Bometimes for fun) with the flag wrapped round mo. I tell you tho ordlencs nearly wont into fits over it. 1 am a member of our church quire and havo the best of reference as to karackter, would oxpect the same from the com pany i hired with. Lot me know you ueea any tenners. Simon Bass.

THE BENEFIT BU8INESS. I'm beginning to look on the benefit business with about the sumo onthuBlnsm that 1 feel for anew case of smallpox. I seek, the first thing, to see where it is raging, that I may avoid the dangerous locality. 1 never would believe thore wore so many cheeky incompetents in the world if I hadn't taken in a lot of benefits lately and counted 'em. People who have no earthly Idea of acting, singing or play ing rush on and orate and howl and play the piano whenever a benefit opens tho door of a stage to them.

Tho custom of tho beneficiary is to put this cloud of obscuring friends on the froat end of his programme, because the important cards linger late In tho pack; but the unnecessary batch will boat the stage entrance quickly after luncheon. It's the usual thing to sit and hear recitations of school ex amination excellence and piano pounding such as reaches the public from the back windows of Miss Diatonic Scales' Academy, till, weary and bored, the people worth hearing at last come on. The Giddy Gmher in The Mirror. PATTI'S TOILET. The eager curiosity with which every trifling act of stage celebrities Is regarded by largo numbers of the public has induced tbe printing of this Item In ihe Keynote: "A peculiarity in connection with Mme.

Pattl's toilet has been revealed. Jt appears that when the diva goes to hor bath, whioh she takos about 5 o'clock on evenings she Is to sing, she never allows tho water to touch her nock and tho rest of her body is religiously immersed. She has a singular theory that hot or cold water produces wrinkles, and It is certainly some Bort of proof that her theory is correct that, in spito of being considerably ovor 40 yoars of ago, thoro Is not a wrinkle visible upon her neck, throat or face. Of course sho insists that she teeps equally clean by means of cold cream, which she uses In copious quantities, generally spreading it on her face and neck and leave it there while her maid goes through the halrdresslng process, often a period of an hour or so. Then the cold cream Is taken off very carefully with a towel and Mme.

Pattl considers herself washed." GILBERT A8 A CRANK. The eccentricities, the bitter sarcasms and tho bursts of ill nature that got W. 8. Gilbert Into print and troublo now and then, to say nothiug of tho mad ideas and speeches in his plays, have givon rlso to a suspicion that tho gentleman is a trlllo out of mental balance. An Journal makes tho following statement, whioh, if true, would soom to confirm this suspicion: "Mr.

Gilbert has never seen one of his own plays acted for fourteen yoars, owing to oxcossive nervousness, which ho admits grows upon him every day. It is easy to understand that a playwright is too nervous to bo present at the first night of his play, but however pro nouucod the success, Mr. Gilbert adheres to his determination. Only on one occasion has ho boon persuaded to make the experiment, and then ho broke down. The Duke of Edinburgh once sent for him to his box to talk to him on this peculiarity.

Being pressed to stay, Mr. Gllbort had no option but to tako a seat in the box. But presently he began to teel hotter and hotter, fainter and fainter and had to beg the Duke to release him." NOTES. Sarah Bernhardt is due in Washington thl3 week. Judlo has rheumatism aud Joe Murphy has sore throat.

Miss May Fortesaue will sail for on tho 16th of March. Manager Hill will refit and redecorate the Union, Square Theater this Summer. Billy Birch, who Is In New York, talks of reviving the San Frauolsoo Minstrels next season. Eben Plympton is talked of as the successor of Charles Maubury in Tho Wages of Sin." Anton Seldl was made the recipient of a big silver loving cup worth $1,000, on Friday night. Wilson Barrottt is coming back next season and Is already engaged far appearance at the Fifth Avenue Theater.

The Pope has made Charles Stanloy, tho barl tone a Knight of the Holy Annunciation. Mr. Stanley Is a dev out Catholic Eben Plympton's Jaok" company has gone to pieces and the mombers of it have had no wages for their later weeks of service. Lestor Wallack has sold his house in Thirtieth Street, New York, for $30,000, and has gone to Florida. Harry Miner has gone there, too.

Dixey talks of imitating Irving as Mephistophelos when that gentlemen Irving, not Mephlstophles appears In "Faust" tn America next season. Little "Benzine" has been heard from again. Ho Is suing a London paper for publishing interviews with his wife, Violet Cameron, and Lord Lonsdale. At Master W. C.

Macfarlane's third organ recital in Ohickerlug Hall, on Tuesday afternoon, 8th proximo, Miss Maggie Mitchell, of Brooklyn, will sing. Mrs, Millie Bralsted Beardsley, wife of Dr. E. Beardsley, of Brooklyn, will mako her debut as professional pianist early In April under auspioles of exceptional encouragement. She will appear at Steln Is it Not Time for Another Earl of Shaftesbury Liberality and Consistency Race and Religious Communion Hlfrh License and Prohibition Worse Hypocrites Than Puritans.

Hissing Socialists Buddhist Brethren Speculative Theology Negro Views Spirit and Practice of Brotherhood. The Observer, by way of premium on such productive piety as that of the benevolent author of the Ton Hour bill in Parliament forty years ago, has an Interesting sketch of the late Earl of Shaftesbury, In wllch occurs tho following: But ho was by no means disposed to rest upon his laurels. God spared him for nioro than thirty years of active service, which he gave to every good word and work, lledovoted time and thought to ameliorating tho condition of the Insane, to tho emancipation of chimney sweopors from a bitter and cruol bondage, to education for the mtddlo classes, to temperance, charity organization and muiucuues or objects or social, political and moral importance. His activity and usefulness ended only with his life, which was prolonged to moro than four score aud four years. The Examiner, in a very sound article on liberty of discussion, which It Intimates ought not to make free with the peace and good order of organized religious bodies, says: Only one courso is open to those who would honorably exercise tho right of free discussion In such cases aud that Is to take a position Independent of their present relations and then discuss.

This de mauds courage, It makes necessary a sacrifice for truth's sako. But tho man who hesitates to make such a sacrifice, who has so little oonfidonce in the power of the truth to conquer Its way that he is unwilling to surrender au honorable position or a fat snlary, is a man who proclaims himself wanting in manhood and therefore not to be trusted either as thiukor or as ader. The Christian Advocate is diBcussinjj the yet unsettled question of race toleration as related to religious communion and stales it thus: But this does not mean that all members of the Christian Church, regardless of differences of education, family connections, tastes, habits, shall have all social privileges with its members In private life, tbey are entitled to be treated with courtosy oy mery unnsiian Drotnor; nor aoes it necessarily settle tho vexed question of pows and froe seats, but It mean's that thoy are entitled to all the privileges of tho church on ono general principle to bo seated iu tho seats that are vacant, to receive the holy communion with others, to participate, according to the principles upon which thoy are allowed to participate, hi the devotional meetings of said church. Accordingly, we receive persons of all colors, creeds, education, habits and family connections into tho Methodist Episcopal Church, and tho schools and collpgt's ttiat are supported by our Freodmon's Aid Society are schools and a. I leges of the church.

The (Jhri.ttian Union thus decides as between tho Crosby party and the Fuuk party in the treatment of the liquor quostlon. Certainly, the policy of doing something is a safe one to try: We must add thit oxporience thus far Indicates that practical siKess lies lu tho direction of restriction, not or State or national prohibition, certainly not in the direction of third party action. Thus far no legislation has been put on tho statute books of anj State by the third party; all that has been accomplished, Including all prohibitory legislation, Is due to tho action of one of tho two great parties or to purely non partlsau action. We advise, therefore, all those of our renders who put immediate practical tcmperanco result above and bofore party organization, to use their lnfluouee to promote the passage of the pending Or," by law in the Now York Leglslatnro. There Is cu talnly no chance that prohibition can be carried this Stato, or, if carried, could bo enforced in any of the groat cities.

The practical thoico is botween resent restriction and roo liquor. The lively Catholic News thus pleasantly Lilxos up people of different religious convictions and times. All contemporaries should esteem each other in this ago of common effort after what Is good for mankind without respect of porsons. Let the comparing of notes all round go on among Christians of evory namo: In the columns of our esteemed contemporary, the Christum Advocate, which Is a Methodist organ, we notice that the Rev. Mark Trafton says of the Puritans: "Judged by and iu tho light of this day they wore harsh, cruol, bisoted and without the real heart gpodlinesa which constitutes true Gospel piety.

Tliey denied to oth hat theysternly claimed for themselves froo thou, hi and free speech." Of course, thore Is nothing new about this. We only quote It to show that the Rev. Trafton Is an intenao hatr of hypocrites, apparently, aud at the samo time to draw his attention to the faot that thore are worse hypocrites than tho Puritans among certuin of the sects and that he would havo a livelier time were ho to direct his batteries against them. The Churchman marshnls the honest laborers against tLe Socialists thus: An incidont whioh occurred a Sunday or two ago in the parl church, Marylobono, in London, has a sort of typical significance larger than any immediate consequence of tbe event itself. A party of Socialists lnvadod the church during tho service, and not only vigorously hissed the Queen's name whenever it was uttorod, but also hissed the eighth commandment when read In tho communion office.

It surely will not do for Socialism to sot itself up as champion in protecting men's rights. "Humanity's rights" Is Its motto; but In struggling for an abstraction called humanity, like many another system which has masqueraded as the people's friend, Socialism practically loses sight of the lino Justice which guards tho rights nf the individuals. It Is tho Socialists who pre potentially thieves, not tho mou who hold possessions bought by the honest expenditure of hard labor. The Congregalionalist gives an extraordinary Instanco of ttndoncy to not merely churoh union, but religious union In tho broadost sonse, for even an attempt to convert a Buddhist from his own pulpit would lie iu some sort a union: Canon Wllberrorco lately preached the Gospel In the Albion Congregational Chapel, Southampton. Ills bishop publicly reproved liim, on the ground that certain oininent lawyers are of opinion that such a courso is not logal and that to take It Is a concession by a Church of England minister that his is not the church of the New Testament come down in a continuous stream from tho fountain head." Tho canon replied that, In his Judgment, bonds of lipiritunl union far overr.ach and transcend tlio boundaries of tho Church of England, and that, if tho i.ord wero vo come England to call His own, nobody believes that it would only bo mom bora of tlio Establishment whom Ho would calL To which tho bishop answered that, whilo that is so.

still tho course of the canon's reasoning would equally compol him to preach In a mosque or a Buddhist temple. Wbeu again answers the canon that ho would bo vory glad to preach the Gospel In such places if thoy would only ask him. AU of which Is instructive. The Watchman quotes the Chicago Standard on speculative theology. Revelation would certainly romove the difficulty mentioned If It did not so ofton fall Into the hauds of speculative theology for interpretation: Tho Vhkngo Standard is plainly not In sympathy with what It calls "Speculative Theology." Our esteemod contemporary opons a leader with these remarks: "Whether there is a placo anywhere for speculative theology is a mattor into which wo need not now enter.

Ono thing is clear that speculative theology is a region of inquiry where only fools are bold and confident, and which a wiso man will outer with hositatiou aud roveronce. Tho matters involved in it are those with which human wisdom, unonlicbtened by revelnrlon, has nlways failed to deal In a way to even satisfy itself. In truth, tho oxporience of mankind In tbe thousands of years ot human history is conclusive to tho point that a theology which iu oven command the assent of reason Is impossible, apart from revelation. With rovelntion, how vory limited must bo the province pf speculative thoology, oveu at its best" Tho Independent closes its enterprise of getting the opinions of prominent eolorod people in the South, men and women, with tho following: It remains to bo said that tho letters which have been received In answer to those inquiries show not a little mature thought. They Bhow, too, a profound interest In all phases of tho subject.

The negro Is at least seriously thinking over the problems that his presence presents. Many of thoso correspondents havo expressed great lnterost in this investigation and have put themselves to no little troublo to mako it full and fair. The sincerity and frankness of thoso letters havo spoken for themselves. A deop moral purposo pervades most of thom that is Impressive. They ompnaslze tho conviction that tho race is making an heroic struggle, according to its opportunities, for advancement.

That tho negro is truo to hl3 race, moreover, isa fact of some importance The educated are working to educato tho rest. The Christian Leader very sensibly' divides the labor of furnishing to mankind the benefits of true socialism and true Christianity, leaving to tho church the Inculcation of the spirit and to political economy tho arrangement of tho praotico of sooial amelioration. Such matters as co operation, arbitration, labor unions, the union of capitalists, tbe value of hand labor as compared with that of brain labor, individual aud communistic labor all of great Importance need not only the gift but the training of tho specialist for their elucidation. Thoy are not direotly churoh questions. The communism of tho New Testament is an oxcoptlon In tho appearanco only; for it has been cleurly shown by those who have made the matter a study that the having "all thltxg3 In common" was incidental and local was the expedient of a crisis; It was not meant to be a law for Christian society tn all agos and iu every laud.

Christ would have nothing to do with tho things of Ccesar. Ho took an occasion to affirm that He did not come to apportion inheritances. Ho taught principles aud He embodied a spirit; ways and methods were left to tho Judgments of men. He left 1'. to them to shapo the rules He gave simply the spirit and Intent that should dominate in toe shaping of rules.

News and Notes Concerning Aot ors, Plays and Singers. The Brooklyn Playhouses An Aspiring Ten ner "The Drama In New York Gilbert as a Crank Pattl's Toilet The Return of Amerl can Opera The Benefit Business Squibs, The business of the Brooklyn theaters has not been materially injured by the arrival of Lent, and even had It beeh, the enormous rocelpts on Washington's birthday would suffice to offset half a week of light houses. PARK THEATBR. M. B.

Curtis, whose performance of the part of a dashing and cheeky young Hebrew in "Sam'l of Posen" was such a novelty, yet so full of truth, that it made him a star and famous a few years ago, will appear to morrow night in his new play, "Caugh in a Corner." He officiates in this piece as a differ ent sort of person from tho over enterprising drum mer, being a middle aged and prosperous gentle man, who is closely squeezed In a wheat transaction, Mr. Curtis is pretty well supported. Wilson Barrett and his company will come next week. BROOKLYN THBATER. The Wages of Sin" are pretty hard wages, the characters in the play of that name being those of traditional EngliBh melodrama, not members of tho Now York Board of Aldermen.

Tho drama has been played In Brooklyn before, and Its puntBhinents and Its heroics are Invariably stamped with the mark of popular approval. Wrongly and persistently Buffering virtue trlutnpha of course, in the ond, and vlco Is terribly cut up. CRITEBION THEATER. This will be the last week of minstrelsy, and the last week also of Frank L. Blxby's management.

the house having been leased for a term of years to George O. Starr, formerly prose agent for P. Barnum. A varied and amusing bill 13 to be offer ed, and on Thursday night Mr. Bixby will be the recipient of a benefit The benefit is an offering On tho part of tho friends of this popular manager, aud in addition to tho minstrel show on that night there will bo performances by a number of volunteers.

Mr. Starr will inaugurate a season of comic opera when ho assumes cliargo of tho theater. GRAND Ol'BHA HOU3B. Princess Ida" is one of the Gilbert and Sullivan operas that met with a more immediate tuccest d'entime than either "Patience'' or "Pinafore," though for some reason its reoptlon by the publlo was less cordial thnu that accorded to the last mentioned works. It has been revised with a view to brighten ing tne text aud will be sung this week by tho Stetson Opera Company, which Includes Slgnor Brocollni, Roy Stalntou, N.

S. Burnham, J. W. Her bert, nelon Lamont, Alice Carle, Edith Jounosso and a largo chorus and orchestra. On Washington's Birthday 4,014 persons paid to bo admitted to the Brooklyn Grand Opera House to witness "Siberia;" 3,117 at the afternoon and 2,527 at tho evening performance.

Tho total receipts were $2,387.15. Hundreds were turned away at each performance. LEE AVEnUJS TUBATEB. The Templeton Opera Company will warble the Mikado" and Glrofio Glrofla" behind the foot lights this week. The popularity, at least of the first named of these operas, is unquestioned, and there is some good material in tho Templeton company, Alice Vano, Lucille Meredith, J.

C. Armand, and Ed. Chapman Doing among the singers. HYDE BEHMAN'a THEATER. The company of Night Owls," whose manager advertises "No Chestnuts," will perch on this stage to morrow night, and will also sing, dance and otherwise disporc themselves.

Among the Owls are Louise Dompsey, Jutau, Pauline Batcholor, Mulvey and Clifton, Manchester and Jonnings, Larry Tooley and Johnny Dunu. NOVELTY TnEATEB. The Howard Ath'eueura variety company is the next attraction at this house. It includes the Amer ican Four, Ira Paine and his wife, tho shooters; Henshaw and Ten Broock, William Carroll, James F. Hoey, Leroux and Wilton, Annie Boyd, the Po luskas, C'onroy and Dempsey, Ralph Mazziotta and Keklaw, the ophidian.

STANDARD MVJSEV3M. Minnie Oscar Gray and W. T. Stephens arrive to morrow with rifles, pistols, dogs, scenery and other accessories Including actors necessary to play Without a Homo" aud "Saved from tho Storm, whloh will occupy the stsgo during the week. BROOKLYN JtUSECTM.

A Wall Street Bandit," a play that Illustrates ho wickedness of the rich and Influential and the high morality of those who aro loss lucky than they In a worldly sense, will be played to morrow by Atkins Lawrence and and his company, with the original spenery and mechanical equipment The dog show of the Argosy Kennel Club will begin at this place on the 7th of March. MR. BISHOP'8 MATINEE. Washington Irving Bishop, tho mind reador, will give a matinee at the Park Theater on Wednesday next, the usual dramatic performance being set aside on that day. Mr.

Bishop has made something of a furor on both sides of tho Atlantic, and is ono of the very few performers who announce that they havo appeared beforo the crowned heads of Europe who have really done so, no less than forty five Royal and Imperial Majesties aud Highnesses, to say nothing of a regiment of Graces, Excellencies Right Honorables, having seen his exhibition of mind roadlng. Among things that be has done have been the flndlug of a secreted pin, the telling of a name thought of and not spoken, the drawing of a portrait that had been thought of, the decipher ing of foreign manuscripts, the transmission of melody from the mind of another person to a piano through his own fingers, the discovery of concealed documents, the pointing out of seats of pain and disorder, and the recital of past events carried in the, memory of a vis a vis. CARL TENTH'S POPULAR CONCERT. Mr, Carl Ventb will give a popular concert at tbe Academy of Music on the night of Monday, March 7, RBSttsted by Frauleln Marianne Brandt, the con tralto of tho German opera, her only appearance tn this city before her departure for Europe. An or chestra of fifty musicians from the Philharmonic and Symphony societies will play, and one of Mr.

Venth'a pupils, Miss Daisy Bowerman, of Brooklyn, will make hor debut. Mr. Venth has reputation as a teacher and composer. IN NEW YORK. The following attractions are announced for next weok In Now York: The National Opera Company at the Metropolitan Opera House, In "Flying Dutch man," "Huguenots," Faust" "Aida" "Ermlnie" at Casino; "MoNooney's Visit" at Harrigan'i Park The ater; J.

K. Emmett in "Fritz, Our Cousin German," at the Standard; N. C. Goodwin in "The Skating Rink" at the BIJou Opora House; "Harbor Lights" at Wallaok's; "Taming of the Shrew" at Daly's; Dockstader's Minstrels; Gilbert and Sullivan's new opera, "Ruddlgore," at the Fifth Avenue; "Jim, the Penman," at tho Madison Square; Helen Dauvray In "Masks and Faoes" at the Lyceum; Denman Thompson In "Tho Old Homestead" at tho Four teenth Street Theater; RIohard Mansfield in Prince Karl" at the Union Square; the McCaulI Opera Company in "Lorraine" at the Star; vaude ville at Tony Pastor's; "The Ring of Iron" at the Third Avenue; Robert L. Downing in "The Gladiator" at the People's; the Dalys iu "Vacation" at the Windsor; "Alone in London" at Niblo's; "A Tin Soldier" at the Grand Opera House, and Rose Cogn lon at Hart's Theater Comlque.

On Wednesday af ternoon and Thursday night Liszt's "Christus" will be sung by the Oratorio Society at the Metropolitan Opera House; one of tho Thomas "Populars" will be given at the same place on Tuesday night and another on Thursday afternoon; Herr Seidl's farewell conoort will take place at Stelnway Hall on Tuesday night. NATIONAL OPERA. The New York season of National Opera will" be gin at the Metropolitan Opera House to morrow night with Wagner's "Flying Dutchman" to be fol lowed shortly by the first performanco in America of Rubinstein's Nero." During the New York season tbe company will make weekly visits to Brooklyn on Thursday nights, the first of tbose visits being set down for the evening of Maroh 8, when a bright, now apeotaoular opera, known as Martha," will be sung. The sale ot single tickets for this performance will begin at Chandler Brothers' tomorrow. Brooklyn has given good patronage to the National Opera Company, and the company has reciprocated by giving good performances, the publlo of tho olty being troated for almost the first time on record with respeot The miserable makeshifts of Mapleson, who never gave an opera in Brooklyn as it was given in New York, have never been resorted to by the National Company: on the contrary, the scenery and equipment are proper to the drama, the orchestra, ohorus and ballet are not diminished by a single person, and posters are not exhibited around the lobbies announcing bypotnetlo Illnesses On All Sorts of Timely and Pertinent Topics.

A Promised Mrs Potter No. 2 Women Managers and Thrifty Actresses Uoodvfin and the BijoH The Latest Aneliolsm Indians on Broadway An Unexpected Divorce Lawyer. Siss Mary Booth The New South Corbln a Coming Man The Stewart Collection and Will Case. Miss Elsie do Wolfe, who played last week In the amateur theatricals at the Lyceum for the benefit of the West Side Day Nursery, Is a potential Mr. James Brown Potter.

Whenever she is asked to Join any sort of juvenile frivolity she answers not at all until she has groped about In that mysterious receptacle that doos duty as a feminine pooket, extracted her little red morooco rehearsal book, studied her theatrical engagements and either accepts or rofuses according to their exigencies. Every morning at 10 Belasco arrives and lor two hours she studies hard under his tuition; she walks up and down before him, In auger, in grief, in Joy, in tear; all the passions must find expression In her atep, In the every movement of her body. Then he teaches her facial expression that will bo oxpres Give and not distorting; graco in sitting, rising, turning, kneeling and falling in a dead faint, crying wildly, Me chellud!" These are some of the tow preliminaries to reaping the applause of ama teurdom, not to mention her elocution teaoher, who gives her lessons in voice building, In flexibility and expressiveness; all the many mysteries that surround the power that Garrlck, copying Whitfield, claimed, of being ablo to produce oifhor tears or laughter by merely the difference of Inflection in pronouncing the word "Mesopotamia." Miss Wolfe is rather a pretty girl, marred only by a slight defect In one of her front teeth that interferes little with her enunciation, but she soars superior to that and to her lack of any very marked talent for the stage, and sees before her dazzled Imagination the glories of a Potter awaiting her in the future, no day to pass without mention of her name In the papers, no social circus a success unless she roareth there like unto the sucking dove. It is a lofty ambition, but if a Potter has scaled the heights, why may not she The Helen Lenoir doubtful if such a pretty name was given in baptism who la the business agent in America of D'Oyloy Carte, is a person of much executive skill and knows to the letter the alphabet of management. She It was who required the Ruddygore company to rehearse repeatedly on tho Etruria; not only familiarity with ihe pleco was thus guaranteed, but an advertisement of its qualities which the large number of cabin passengers are sure to distribute over the whole United States.

Think of having three bishops for auditors among many others. It was Miss Lenoir, too, who insisted on the full dress rehearsal on Sunday night, limiting those present to Colonel McCauI's company, who are to take the piece on the road this week. John Stetson is of the opinion that Miss Lenoir knows as much about business as any man he ever encountered. Dramatic matters seem to be peculiarly attractive to women with executive tallents. Miss Oberly made a fortune managing tho Boston Ideals; Maria Stone is said to bo making another as her successor, taking the soprano roles herself as a diversion.

Jennie Kimball coined dollars with "Little Corlnne." Rosa Lelaud not only manages well the Theater named for her in tho State capital, but conducts the business at her New York office for ah entire circuit of provincial playhouses, booking their engagements for the whole season and keeping combinations of her own on tho road at tho same time. There are some excellent business women on the stage. Modjoska Baves and makes money; Davenport has Price, her husband, count the house every night, Clara Morris demands figures per night higher than iieecher and gets them. On the contrary Rohan, Jlarie Prescott and Agnes Booth are very careless about money matters. This is not out of keeping 'with the traditions of the stage.

I saw a statement in au English book the other day that Suakspeare played tho ghost la Hamlet because it made such a brief appearance that he had time to go to the front and count the tickets if they had tickets in those days. The frequent changes of bill at the Bijou Theater are struggles of Nat Goodwin not to have again to take to the road. He satisfied himself last Autumn that he could make a run In New York, where Dlxoy played, as long as Dlxey'a was. He planned a season of two years and a half, a trip to England, a return anil then acres of golden shekels to bo gathered from applauding countrymen. His experience has been He has made no clientele.

Transient visitors drop Into the BIJou, but none return, as a rule. Hence, the constant change of the play, till now that vulgar "The Skating Riuk," Is underlined for this week when skating is out of season and rinks are an almost forgotten failure. I never could understand Dlxey's success, but it is easy to understand the difference between him and Goodwin. Dixey Is a comedian and acrobatic dancer, who was saddled with the most inane play ever shoveled together; but Goodwin Is not a comedian in reality, he is only a comedian by profession. His supposed fun is that which you could get from an automaton.

His face has no mobility. It Is as hard as a stone and a3 inexpressive, and leers, loud language and a wiggling of the logs are his effects." They mako underbred people laugh, and cultivated people disgusted with the idea that they are assisting at a bodge podge of Idiocy, Impudence and vulgarity. Awkwardness and vulgarity no one over accused Dixey of. Ho was graceful and, in a sense, refined even in his most buffo work though the exactions of Ihe stupid store scene and the repulsive barber shop scene ran him hard. Beside Dixey has Hice, and Goodwin has not.

Rico Is the bejeweled exquisite who is willing to bo cardod as the composer of Adonis." There Is always curiosity to see a man who will confess to authorship of an imbecility, and who has made money out of it. Goodwin has no Rice, but the vacancies which pugilism Is making in Journalism throw plenty of men In his way with bounce and Inanity enough In them to do for him what Rice does for Dlxey or to try to do so. Goodwin's want ol success in establishing hlmselt in Now York will require him to take to the road again, and those countrymen aro ontitlod to very little sympathy anyway. The latest English thing to do is to stand and walk with your hands in your pockets. Women anticipated this practice In men by sotting tho custom of crossing their feet while sitting down, being careful have them extended well out Wtien I young tho decision of refined American home3 was that both customs were vulgar.

Tho "ohapples" at Delmontco's, who strut around with their hands In their pockets, are a sight to see. They have caught the trick from the English actors, who often conspire In different theators simultaneously to Introduce unmanly practices and win bets on the Issue that tho practice will be at once Imitated by tbe "ohappies." Sunday night at Delmonlco's, I witnessed the play of a wish on the face of General Butterfleld to break one of these saplings across bis knee, but a restraining look from his handsome Wife checked the rising purpose of the soldier. It is a standing Joke among Americans that Englishmen always expect to see Indians and buffaloes roaming about tho streets of New York, and even the English themselves are beginning to see tho point of thejoto. They have slowly begun to emerge from their contented Ignorance on all matters American aud to rather pride themselves on their familiarity with things Transatlantic. This pride recently received a rude shock.

A young English girl, a bright, pretty creature of 20, lauded In this country from the Etruria's deck and was met on the dock by her brother, who has been a resident hero ten or twelve years and Soon evorythin worth seeing and knowing in America. She was lull of enthusiasm and Interest and had been rending a number of books about the United States and already felt herself learnedSupon the subject. She went to the hotel in a closo carriage, but saw enough to enlighten her considerably as to the size and civilization of her new home. After she was rested her brother came to take her for a walk and asked her what she most wanted to see. "Indians and buffaloes I supposo.

Most English people expect to find thom immediately upon landing," lie said, chafilngly. "Thai's very silly of you. Jack!" answered his Bister. "You know quite well that I know better than to expect to see anything of the sort In the Btreets ol New York. That's a stupid American Joke." "Ob, Is it, indeed 1" replied the young man calmly, which no branch of evangelical Protestantism or of Catholicism would regard as valid.

The interviews amounted to an advertisement of Edwards Pierre pont as a divorce lawyer, and certainly that is new light in which to regard tho statesman, moral 1st and publicist. I can assure you that society is Bhocked and a good deal of pressure has been brought to bear on him to seal up bis revelations. There is reason for saying that Hamilton Fish and Bishop Potter have been extremely horrified at the disclosures of Mr. Plerrepont. The latler's friends now lay blame on the "Interviewers, That is the was noonlo crawl out of the consequences of hasty expressions and rev olatlons.

It Is always safe to say that the Interviewer misrepresented him. At the time of trouble between Lowell and Hawthorne on this sub ject, an old newspaper man told me that he onco wont to a politician for an interview, and after 1 was over the public servant warned him that if ho printed the interview he must run the risk of hav ing it denied, for he was using it to feol the temper of the DUbllc. and if ho had made a mistake he would cover It by accusing the reporter. Tho inter view was published, the sentiments expressed proved unpopular, the politician assumed a lofty air of misrepresented innocence and denied all thoso things that the public objected to. Miss Mary Booth' is said to be going abroad for rest, and one of the papers in commenting upon it calls her "tho septuagenarian editor of the Harper's Fashion Weekly." Miss Booth Is no longer she is far away yet Irom hor sevent leth mile stone I doubt if she is 60, and she is well preservod of her age, retains her thick, gray hair, strong, sound teeth and her erect figure.

Every morning early, that Is early for a Journalist say 10 o'clock thereabouts she arrives at the little den where her work is done In the Franklin square building, and is steadily at hor desk until 4. She seems to have no assistants, no clerical ones at least, for she reigns there utterly alouo with the exception of an office boy yet there is not a bettor edited or managed paper in the country than hors; one that more exactly fills the purpose for which It Is Intended. For twenty five years ahe has been the translator in ordinary for the Harpers, and for twelve years the editor of the Bazar. Her translations of Laboulaye's fairy tales are perfect in their way, and only equaled by Mary Howitt's translation of Hans Anderson's stories. She has had salon in some ways quits remarkable.

She only Issues cards to her friends once a season, saying that she will be at home Saturday nights, yet every week her large parlors are as full as they can hold, and people from all over the country are found there. Even from Brooklyn and Jersey City come some of the habitues, finding it not too much trouble to corao from a distance nearly every Saturday. Yet she doos not run after Hons for her drawing room, nor does she have much In the way of recitations, music aud the usual drawingroom bid for popular ity. She leaves people to amuse each other pretty much, while Bhe and her huge, handsome cat, Gou eral Muff, preside at the teatable, and her compan ion and friend, Miss Wright, circulates about and Introduces promiscuously. There is a certain charm about it of repose and old fashioned hospitality that makes it a pleasing contrast to the ordinary draw.

ing room, where you aro called upon to be amused by some entertainment provided for you, and are allowed no time for idle, desultory chat. People aro so glad to be allowed to talk undisturbed and to bo sure of meeting people outside of their own set. that they come again and again, and will miss Miss Booth's Saturdays now that they have to oome to an end. The Harpers have made a great success of their expedition to the South which Mr. Seaman arranged last Autumn and which included several of the literary and artistic mombers of their large staff.

Charles Dudley Warner has done the literary work of tho affair, and It Is said that the Harpers are de lighted with the proof of their own acumen In the heavily incressed sales of their publications lu the South. This expedition was undertaken somewhat as an effort to "cut under," in commercial parlanco, the Century, whose war articles were making It a very formidable rival In the South, where every human being, very nearly, has a keen and personal interest In the story of the great struggle So the Harpors felt something must be done, and did this very successfully. There was a very strong feeling in the South against the firm immediately after the war the tone of their publications had been so bitter during that time but they have been steadily removing It by their ready and generous encouragement of Southern writers, many of whom they have discovered and helped on toward assured success. Richard Malcolm Johnston, an old Georgian, they have largely patronized, and made his delightful rural studies popular with their readers, and alongside of his name on tho table of contents this month, is that of an octogenarian author, whose name Is one to conjure with In Louisiana. Charles Gayarre was tho historian of the State, his history taking rank far abore most local chronicles from Its lltorary ability and the vast research displayed.

He held many offices of trust and honor in his youth, but probably Is best known as the grandBon ol the man (Etienne Bore) who introduced the culture of sugar Into tho United States. He writes for the Harper't a very interesting, picturesque and faithful account of life on a sugar plantation in the old rogimo, tbe plantation being that of this same Etienne Bore and' makes his first appearanco before a New York au dleuce at tho age of more than 80 years, by reason of this new policy of the Harpers. Ex Mayor Grace has been negotiating for tho purchase of tho Star, but has ceased doing so. Some one told him that was not the way of getting to be Governor. Another capitalist finds tho same bait dangling before him.

The Star has begun the old and hopeless experiment of the feuilMon. No American paper has ever tried that experiment and lived; in fact it can generally be looked upou as tbe process of decomposition after death. Truth tried it and Truth Is so dead that folk have forgotten that It over was. Tho Daily Telegraph then began, springing up full grown aud armed without any premonition of its coming, the result of the labors of some Herald men on furlough, and It deceased before the feuitlelan ran to its close. The only other paper that has tried it was the evonlng campaign paper that Murat Hal stead came here to edit in the interest of Blaine, and it, too, Is among the things that were, In company with Its feuillttan.

and Blaine's boom. It is rather a prospective obituary, is a feuitlcton, that never would, could, or will succeed In America, The coming man in Wall street is Austin Corbln. Men begin to speak of him with that flattering confidence In his Judgment that Indicates he Is making money and is succeeding, and as tho old darky wisely said: "notnln' successes like succeed." Tea years ago he probably possessed muoh the same faculties he owns now, but mon who look upon him with reverential awe now then brushed him out of their path with careless scorn. His first success was with Indiana, Burlington and Western, and since then he has been going steadily up, and none are so rich as not to do him reverence. Hn it Is who Is connected with the Brooklyn Elevnted railway scheme which looks toward making an elevated road down Atlantic avenue and connecting there with Jersey City by ferries.

Tbe road to bo substantial enough to carry freight trains. He Is a man somewhat over 50, of medium height and stout in build, with bold features and keen eyes, and a readiness and promptitude of manner that Is a reflection of the tone of bis mind. His trusted lieutenant and the men to whose advice and faithful work ho owes a large share of his sucoess, Is Sully, his olerk, a big man with a Mephlstophellan face, whose Judgment is rarely at fault, and his dovoclon and dlsurotlou unfailing. Corbiu's Brooklyn plan looks toward connection with tho Reading road, which gives him connection with the whole United States. The Wormsers are the controlling power there.

These two brothers, Tsaac and Simon Wormser, have a outiout habit superstition, caution call it what yon will. They never come downtown on the German while four were Americans. The successor of Herr Seidl as director of tho German opera In Now York has not boon officially announced, but Joseph Sucher, of tho Hamburg Stadt Theator, la said to be the coming man. Ho Is an excellent conductor and his wife, Rosa Sucher, is a great dramatic soprano. Buffalo BUI expects to romaln abroad with his fiery, unturned show for four or five years.

Ho will exhibit in England, Germany, Franco and possibly Italy if tho suspicious governments of thoso countries will allow the importation of gunpowder enough to run the exhibition. Mrs. Emma Novada Wixon Palmer is making a professional aud successful tour of Europe. Her singing in the Municipal Theater, at Nice, was an occasion of enthusiasm. Mme.

Albanl, anothor Amorlcau prima dounn, will make a throe months' tour through Austria, Germany, Sweden and Nor way. John A. Stevens' new Russian play, "Passing Shadows," will bo acted on the night of March 14 at the People'B Theater, Now York. Ills company Is the best that he over had, and includes Louisa Balfo, Emily Lytton, Mrs. W.

G. Jones, Frederic Do Belleville, Henry Eytlnge, Myron Callce and Charles B. Hawkins. Joe Emmet Is now called the wealthiest American actor. John Owens once onjoyed the title and so did Edwin Booth, but thoy lost monoy through bad speculations.

"Joe" Jefferson is in quite comfortable clrcumstancos and Henry Dlxoy will bo a millionaire if he doesn't spend his money as fast as he makes It. At Historical Hall to morrow (Monday) evening, tho Groechel Conservatory of Music will give their twenty second concert of choice chamber music with the following artists: Mr. Hoist Hansen, baritone; Mrs. S. (Jroschel C'hailck, piano; Mr.

Edward Hermann, violin; Mr. Manuel Knauth, viola, and Mr. Adolf Hartdegen, violoncello. Herman O. C.

Korthour, who will give a piano recital at Historical Hall on tho night of Wednesday, March 9, ia contemplating a professional tour arouud the world. At his forthcoming concert he will play works by Beethoven, Webor, Chopin, Liszt and Rubinstein that aro but slightly known, the first Hungariun rhapsody In the series of eighteen being given for the first time In America. Next season T. H. Winnett will introduco a novelty In the way of scenery In the presentation of "Pas ilon'o Slave." It will consist of a single ecene which, by an Ingenious arrangement, becomes a triplo scene.

In other words, the one scene is transformed three times, instantaneously, in full view of the audienco, aud without moving the scenory. Mr. Wiunett claims that it is a novelty that has not boon hitherto utilized on tho stage. This is an old story of John Brougham's in a new dreSB. The coraodian Crano has a small son, and when Edwin Booth was visiting tile Crane family at tho Cnhnssot cottage last Summer ho said to Master Smart Robsou Crauo: "Well, my little man, I suppose you, too, will want to bo au actor when you aro big enough replied the lad; "1 don't want to bo an actor.

I want to be llko my uuelo Lawrence Barrett." H. Hoyt, tho Boston newspaper reportor who bogan his caroor as dramatio author and manager a fow yoars ago on a capital of i3 and who has furnished the stage with such light and amusing trifles as Baby," "Tin Soldier," "Parlor Match" and "Bunch of Kays," lives at the Hoffman House and has Just bought au eatato in Charleston, N. his native place, ft is a fine old mansion facing a Him bordered street and surrounded with ample grounds. It Is stated on tho dubious authority of a Paris newspaper thatS.irah Boruhardt's receipts in South America have aggregated of which $180,000 was drawn in tho Argentine Republic, $90,000 lu Brazil, $72,000 iu Chill and J33.000 In Uruguay. The avonvgo nightly receipts were in tho vicinity of $5,000.

Despite all our claims to groat liborally and generous patronage, says mi exchange, it would appear that, tho South Americans spond about $10 in theatricals to our ono. There is a groat deal of Indignation oppressed in dramatic circles concorning the logal action in London about Miss Fay Temploton's costume. She woro tho costumo that tho management furnished her, anil It is said to bo no more immodost than that of other members of the Galty company. Miss Tomplaton's frlouds in this city say that bo causo sho held aloof from tlio groonroom carousals and rotusod to bo mashed" by lords and dukes the Injunction was brought to annoy. Everyone who knows Miss Tomploton says She's a good follow and as straight as they make 'em." Sddy'a Squib.

The English society paper that recently offered prizes to the favorite actor and actress of the British stage, the matter to be decided by popular vote, has made its award. It is pretty sovore on popular tasto. Charles MUlward says: "Arthur Roberts, ex Music Hatl singer, who has only been several years on tho stage, tops all tho actors with a totaj score of 2,203 and wins a dozen of champagne; Toole, Irving and Charles Wyndham come noxt In turn and Kyrle Bollew finished tho list with a total of two votes I Nellie Farren Is declared first favorite among tho actresses, with Angela Fenton (a novice) second in the running and Ellen Terry a bad third. Everybody Is laughing over the silly affair, as It Is shrewdly expected that the winners got to the top through purchasing copies of tho paper and voting for thomsolves! Let them deny it If they can." "Nym Crluklo" thinks this about tho new Gllbort and Sullivan opera: Ruddygore" isn't near so much of a pot boiler as is "The Mlka lo." Whenever it is uninteresting to a mass of shallow amusemont seekors it is good. Whenever It Is good it is dull, The Mikado" Is one of tho worst pleoes of patch work 1 ever saw.

Sullivan had a lot of songs In his portfolio and he nskod Gilbert to writo a line here and there that would bring them Into the libretto. So Gllbort, with acccommodatlug facility, wrote a line making somebody say It would be as sweet as the dowers that bloom In tho Spring aud then a quartet proceeds to sing about tho flowers that bloom in tho Spring. And so on with madrigals and ballads. "Ruddygore" is integral and has better music In It than has "The Mikado." But It doesn't ticklo the populaoe with bold conceits and shallow surprises and musical eooentrloltles. So tho vordiot.la that It is dull..