fti n:;: ' -:'!,'.:; ; :r vn:f-:': m .ijiau Hire TP IP: ; JLLl LEGrKA Hill VOL. X-No. US PHILADELPHIA, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1868. TRIPLE SHEET THREE CENTS. CHRISTMAS COLUMN SANTA OLAUS. From the Htarth and Home, On Christmas Kve, when tbe moon shone bright, Nell and KU saw a wonderful Bight Where the fire had faded away: A fanny old man, with a pipe as fanny. A flowing white beard, and a faoe bo sunny That it gave the pale moonlight a golden glow, And seemed to warm the glittering snow. The funny old man was laden with toys, And he tossed them down without any noise, Till In beautiful htaipB they lay. Not a whit frightened were Nelly and Kate, For they thought it a dream (it was so very . late), And they slept again, unaware. The first crimson ray, when it came to tell That Christmas had risen, and all was well, Saw Nelly and Kitty among the rest, Happy, and loving, and merry, and blest, Taking their treasures from stockings and - ' floor, , And thanking the giver a hundred times o'er Butjhe ashes were grey and bare. MAN PROPOSES. A CM RIST3IAVS STORY. ago, ana it's no use it. I am the not to say of very well, Mrs, CHATTER I. NT FKAMK OP MIND. What, Mrs. Slooombe I you "looked at that fire a quarter of an hour ago, and it was all right'then f " I am sorry to contradiot a woman under any circumstances; but really, Mrs. Slooombe, yon are old enough to know better; Yea, Mrs. Slocombe, old oneugh. I say it advisedly, and you must be aware your Belf that you are no ohioken, Mrs. Slooombe. No, I did not say that you were old, abso lutely old; I simply said that yon were old enough to know better, and that position I still maintain. It is a physioal impossibility that this fire could nave been all right a quar ter of an hour say in k any mere about beet tempered of men, lAiAva a a vati Vnrtv 1 Slooombe; buv l do not use to be tai&ed to as if I were a child or a simpleton. Never mind. We'll not say any more about it now; only recolleot unless I meet with more attention in such matters as this, you and I part. It's too bad, I declare 1 A lonely Christmas Eve, and not a spark of fire nor a drop of hot water to brew a glass of punch with; while you, I suppose, are going out to spend the evening in jovial company. Don't be too Jovial, Mrs. Slooombe, that's all. Beoolleot, I shall want my breakfast at the usual time in the morning. - Not a minute later, mind Christmas or no Christmas. I knew yonr amiable weakness in the matter of other people's gin, Mrs. Slooombe; but have some discretion, I pray. 1 Oh now we're in a passion, are we? Hope it won't spoil your supper. Stop, Mrs. Slocombe. Don't go yet. Where Is the cat? Not know? You don't know where the cat is? Uave I never told yon that I like to have the cat in my room of an evening ? No, of course I don't expect yon to go running over the roofs after the oat; and I must say that I don't consider it respeotful in you to make such a remark; but I do think that when I go to such an enormous expense to maintain your cat, I might surely have the " pleasure of its society now and then the only society I am able to get now, poor wretch that I am I What is that yon say ? Ran away after stealing the ehioken ? What ohioken ? which chicken? whose ohioken? Heavens above! was there ever such audaolty ? Do you mean to tell me can yon tell me without blushing that yonr oat has eaten my cold chicken whioh I was to have had for my supper ? Nay, I will be calm but this is too much I I shall not condescend to bandy words with you, Mrs. Slocombe. To morrow is Christmas Day: on the day following we will discuss the matter more fully. I wish yon a very good night, Mrs. Slooombe. What is that yon say f Not going to light my pipe ? Yes, of course I am going to light my pipe. How do you think I am going to spend Christmas Eve all alone, without as mnuh as having a pipe ? Oh, indeed 1 The new lady lodger on the first floor complains that she smells the smoke ! It goes up the chimney, does it t Then pray give my compliments to your lady lodger, Mrs. Slocombe, and inform her with all due oour tesy that 1 shall smoke when I please, and as ranch as I please, and whether she or you like it or not. And you may add, Mrs. Slooombe, that she will not be annoyed by it much longer, for that I am going to leave the house this day week: yes, this day week, Mrs. Slocombe, and let us see whether you will get as good and as easily pleased a lodger again. There, I have done. I meant to have let Christmas pass before giving notice, but that last outrage finished me. This day week I leave you. There, that's enough good-night, Mrs. Slocombe, good-night. .. So, that is over and I am glad of it. Things were really getting quite unendurable. Here's a pretty s'ate of things for a Christmas Jive! No fire, no hot water, no supper, no body to talk to not even a oat; ana if my landlady and that blessed lady lodger of hers iome old maid, I suppose .oould have had their way, not even as mnoh as a quiet smoke I I did look forward to some little oomfort when I came home, for never did I want it more. It is not that I care so muoh for the things them selves, as that it is an affair of sentiment, of feeling. I came home with the full intention of thoroughly enjoying the fact that I am a bachelor: of saying to myself 'See how happy 1 am I No wlf to scold ma; no baby to squall; no servants to trouble me; in short, no harass, worry, no vexation, no oare. There is my fragrant glass of punch, here my cosy fire, here my purring cat, here my prized, my disreputable-looking short -pipe, abomination of wives. Long for me, ladles; long in vain I am proof to your attractions. Envy me, husbands, sigh for the independence yon have lost. Attain it again you never can: lor even a widower Is sot a bachelor; he baa passed under the yoke, the freshness of bachelor life can never again be his." Thus did I hope to congratulate myself, and thus miserably am I disappointed; and indeed I feel that I require a little self-congratulation: can it be self-consolation ? Away, horrible thought 1 Let me light my pipe and meditate. Confound the old maid np-stairs I It shan't be my fault if I don't smoke her out this blessed night that is, if she really can smell the smoke, which I don't believe at all. Well, I certainly never was so taken aback by any piece of news in all my life I I oould have believed anything of Ned Stokes exoept this; but the idea that my dear, queer, de lightful old obum has aotually gone and got married has flattened me down altogether! Not Ned's greatest enemy oould have averred not Ned's most cherished friend could have feared that he had one grain of respectability in his composition: yet see the horrid reality ! Only fancy Ned married and well married too that's the worst of it I The lady hand some, amiable, well-eduoated, and rioh; with out one single flaw of any kind to aooount for the oonduot of my most unintelligible friend. Had she been a widowed washerwoman now with ten children, or a giantess in a show, or an Indian squaw, or anything of that sort, there would have been a sort of extravagant consistency about Ned's conduct. It would have been like Ned. But this is really too bad. Faithless Ned Stokes 1 To think that thou shonldst be a traitor and desert to the ranks of domestio martyrs 1 Is there then no trust to be put in man ? So, the fire is getting up a bit now under my judicious poking, and the kettle is posi tively boiling. Now for a glass of punch. Prime tobacco this, really. Foer Ned I no more tobacco for you, old fellow 1 It will never be allowed in the house, that's certain; and I Bhonld hope that, with suoh a wife, you would nevei taint yonr breath and your clothes with the fumes of smoke. If you do, Ned,' you will be a regular thoroughbred respeotable man after all. Yon will be neither one thing nor the other, but only a miserable, contemptible half-and-half. No, no, Ned I ThatJwon't do. Be something ! be something I You have deserted from your own ranks to those of the enemy. Stick to them now, and do your devoir. There is no readmlssion here. Ah 1 here's my cat at last, looking as inno cent as a lamb. No one who looked in your face, my cat, oould believe lor a moment that the guilt of chicken-stealing was lying on your soul. That's right, my oat stretch yourself out upon my knee, blink at the lire, and purr. Come, really, this is something like comfort at last. Well, Mr. Stokes, there la no use in mourning over your untimely fate; and pray do not think on any aooount that 1 envy you. Oh dear, no 1 Your defection has given me for the time a feeling of loneliness and deso lation. That is all. Like the mariner who sees his shipmate swept overboard by the sea, I mourn your fate, but have not the slightest desire to follow you. Well, old fellow, here's a merry Chrintmas and a happy New Year to you, at any rate, if suoh a wish under the cir cumstances is not altogether vain. How came it now that I have escaped get ting married myself? I fell in love often enough a few years ago; and onoe, I remem ber, most particularly so. Pubs, you shall be my confidant. I will tell you all about it. Christmas Eve is the very time for Btory tell ing. Listen, my cat, to a true story of blighted affection; give sympathy for my sor rows, and rejoice that I have got over them so well. , . . CHAPTER II. MY REMINISCENCES. I am a young man still, but I was several years younger when I made my first and only offer. I first loved my love at a small tea party at Uighgate. She was an angel of the name of Simmons, and floated about on white muslin which was pervaded by a soft faint radiance of pink. At that period of my life love was a daily necessity of my existence. I was forever meeting with peerless maidens, each one of whom always eclipsed every one who had been seen before her; and I was gene rally true to the last-found divinity as long as I was in her company, or until I met with an other still more divine. . My last love, Clara, was not at the party in question; and as my affection had somewhat cooled towards her of late, on aooount of a cold in her head whioh and had made her nose red and unromantio, I of course looked around the room to decide as to who should be the object of my undying affection for the evening. Miss Simmons was there, and Miss Simmons was selected without hesitation or delay. But for her, indeed I be lieve I must have fallen in love with Miss Corker of the spiral ringlets, who, as a racing man would say, ran a bad seoond; but Miss Simmons being peerless among the company, I fell bo desperately in love with her that Clara was at onoe utterly and entirely ban ished from her throne as queen of my soul, and Miss Simmons reigned in her stead. At this tea-party there were but two nice young men present, reckoning myself as one. I do not mean to say of the other that he was at all nice in my estimation, but that he was the only person present beBide myself from whom oould be expected the various polite attentions whioh form the duties of young men at small tea-parties. Indeed, there were but four men present altogether on this occasion, two of them being old fogies who dropped in after Ua in precisely the same oostume whioh they had worn at business throughout the day a free-and-easy style of going into sooiety whioh made me think almost with shame of the hour of misery I bad endured in donning my cold clean shirt, adjusting my white neck tie, and squeezing my thinly-stockinged feet, corns and all, into those too liuely-titting patent-leather boots. One of the fogies, a fat solemn man of a meditative disposition, soon withdrew to smoke a pips with our host, who never appeared in society; and the other, who at first seemed to be of a joking, jovial turn, wb shortly afterwards quenched in a ruboer of whist with three old iad'es. Mr. Tinkler and myself alone remained; and little did I think, when we were left the only representa tives of mankind among so many girls, and I clung to him as my sole rook of support amidst waves of muslin little did I imagine then how intensely I Bhonld hate him before that even ing drew to a close. Let it not be supposed that beoanse I was ready to fall in love on the slightest provoca tion, I was equally prompt in deolaring the passion whioh ooneumed me to its object for the time being. No: to the Clara before men tioned I had made no nearer approach to an avows! of my love than by sending her a very tender pottkal effusion (not original), cun ningly posted at a distant town, lest the Lon-1 don pest-mark should afford any olue to the sender; and the odds were great that I should make no better progress in deolaring my pas sion to Miss Simmons. The fact is that 1 was absurdly bashful, and I had a habit of blush ing, which, as I well remember, was one of the greatest tortures of my life. Tinkler was a very different being. I was silent, he was voluble. My arms were in my way, my legs were disobedient, and I could find no refuge for my hands. Tinkler's arms were always getting around the young ladies' waists, his legs were wonders of agility, and he could have found constant employment for half a dozen pairs of hands, had he possessed as many. We had quad rilles, the young ladies dancing with each other for want of other partners, while one of their number played very muoh out of time on the piano. Tinkler kept the whole set laugh ing, while I could ojly remark to my partner that the weather was cold, and ask whether she was fond of danolng. Tinkler skipped about like a Pierrot, in a manner exoessively ill-bred, and supremely grotesque and absurd. I could not for the life of me lose my self consciousness sufficiently to do more than walk throogh the figures as if we had been at a grand ball instead of at a small evening party. The contrast between eur relative con ceptions of the charaoter of cavalier seul was most striking; and I am bound to confess that if mine excelled his in dignity, his appeared to be by far the more amusing and popular. I do not suppose that I should have hated Mr. Tinkler if he had confined himself to eclipsing me in a general sort of way. But what made me hate him was that, amidst all his fun, he paid the most partioular attention to Miss Simmons. He waltzed with her again and again to the admiration of the whole oom pany (I cannot wallz at all), steering clear of all obstacles in that compact but small apart ment, in a manner most wonderful to behold; and he took her down to supper, and sat down beside her, and fed her with chiskens, and tongue, and flummery, and custards and all the rest of it; and altogether appeared to me to find even greater favor in her eyes than in those of the other ladles present, 'and that is saying a very great deal, I am sure. And so it came to pass that before the even ing was over I hated Tinkler, I hated myself, and 1 felt half inolined to hate Miss Simmons also, and give my affections to Miss Corker. How came it, then, that before I retired to rest that night I became indulgent and kindly towards Tinkler, in eostaoies with myself, and more desperately in love with Miss Simmons than I had ever been with anybody in the world before ? It was in this wise: When the party broke up it was found that the servant whom Miss Simmons had expeoted to attend her had by some acoident not ar rived; bo when she came down stairs warmly wrapped np in shawl and furs, and looking even more bewitching than she had appeared in her gossamer muslin, Tinkler and I came forward at the same moment, offering to esoort her to her home. Tinkler's manner of course expressed not the slightest diffidenoe of him self, or donbt that he was the proper and only person to pay her this attention; while I was very timid and awkward about it, and fully expected a Bnnb. What was my surprise and delight when, very ooldly deolining Tinkler's offer, she, with the sweetest of smiles, plaoed her gloved fingers on my arm in a way which set me tingling from top to toe t Tinkler said something very witty and very impudent, I suppose, as it set everybody laughing except Miss Simmons and myself, who did not hear it; but though I felt myself blushing to the tips of my ears, I did not oare, for in another moment we had left the house, and Miss Sim mons and I were alone together in the clear moonlight. The very first thing she asked me was, what I thought of Mr. Tinkler f I was about hypocritically to reply that he appeared a very nice and amusing young man, when she interrupted me with "Oh, I can't bear him ! The rude, ill-bred fellow I I wonder that he gets into any society at alll" I confess that I did not scruple after this to express a similar opinion, though I won dered somewhat why she had waltzed with him so often, and had allowed him to pay her bo much attention during supper; and then we dropped the subjeot, and began to talk about moonlight, and poetry, and all sorts of sentiment to suoh a degree that before long I aotually, for the first time in my life, found myself making love vivd voce. I must not dwell on that walk to Miss Sim mons' house. Suffice it to say that before I parted from her at the door I bad aotually be come bold enough to squeeze her hand 1 Won derful to relate the squeeze was returned ! That squeeze clenched and riveted my love to suoh a degree that under favorable circum stances I think it would never hav got loose again; and from that time forth, for I am afraid to say how long, I could think of nothing else, I could dream of nothing else. My whole soul was, so to speak, saturated with the love of Miss Simmons. Yet notwithstanding all this, months passed away before I was bold enough absolutely to ask her to be mine. I never found her in so tender a mood again, and though I obtained permission to call at her house, when I was there some third person was sure to be pre sent. Also MIbs Simmons had some money, and therefore her father of oourse wished her to marry a rich man. I cherished the hope that she herself was not insensible to my love; but (I was painfully consoious, whenever 1 ailed to see her, that nobody else in the house wanted me; and accordingly 1 soon began to draw my happiness or my misery I scarcely know which it was from nocturnal rambles in the neighborhood of my charmer's dwell ing, with the hope, too seldom realized, of catching a glimpse of her oandle when she re tired to bed. I believe I should never have proposed but for the following oiroumstanoe: One day I met by ohanoe in the Strand my old schoolfellow Jack Brown. We dined together, and I drank rather more wine than I was accustomed to; bo that, without being tipsy, I was decidedly a little elevated. As we afterwards walked through the streets arm-in-arm, Jack, who was always the most open hearted fellow in the world, told me the whole history of bia loves and hopes; and I, who am generally as reserved. as he is communicative, must nevertheless return his confidence by unveiling the feelings of my inmost heart with rrgard to Miss Simmons. Jack then laughed at me for my slowness to suoh a degree that I felt thoroughly ashamed of myself, and vowed that 1 would delay no longer, but would make Ler an offer in writing that very day. In pursuance of this desperate resolve, as soon as Jack Brown had left me. I entered the coffee-room of a hotel and called, for pen, ink, and paper. On pulling out my purse to pay for it, I found that I had only one solitary sovereign left, and recolleoted with horror that it would be quite three weeks before I oould expect the next remittance from my father, who was so good as to eke out my own nar row income. A nice position I was la for making an offer of marriage I Never mind. Let the world collapse, Emily Simmons must be mine 1 I began to write, but oould not please myself, and several sheets of note paper were spoiled before I had written the first page. At length I got thus far, but the pen was a broad one, there was no blotting paper and no fire, and the ink took a long time to dry. I had no time to spare if I wished to save the post, and while I was waiting, it struck me that I might aa well write a note to my father, begging him to anticipate my quar terly allowance. So I put the half-written letter to Miss Simmons on one Bide for the time, and commenced the other. This I thought I was going to dash off in a moment, but I did not get on with the facility I had expected. Words require to be well chosen in making suoh applications, especially to ench a man as my father; so it was some time before the first page of this letter was ready for the drying process. Then I took np the other again, but here the choloe of words was still more difficult, and I soon spoiled it, and had to commence it afresh. Then I got ner vous and spoiled the other also; and in fact had oonsumed a large quantity of paper, and several glasses of brandy-and-water, before I had completed the two letters at all to my satisfaction. At length they were finished, and I hurried off and posted them exaotly in time, just two or three seoonds before the stroke of the clock. By the next day's post I got replies to both my letters at once the addreBS of one being in my mother's writing, the other in an elegant. lady-like hand, which was, no doubt, the autograph of Miss Simmons. How my heart beat as I opened the letter I But fancy my consternation when I saw my own letter was returned, accompanied by the following short note: "Miss Simmons returns the inolosed letter with the contempt it merits, and regrets that she Bhonld ever have made the acquaintance of a person at onoe so mercenary and so stupid." Here was a settler to my hopes I What could it mean ? "So mercenary 1" I merce nary I I, who had positively regretted that Miss Simmons had any money at all ? Good gracious f Was it possible that I had put the letters into the wrong envelopes? Such things had been heard of. I broke open the inclosnre. No, it was all right. It was my my letter to herself, commencing with "Adorable Miss SimmonB." In a state of be wilderment I opened my mother's letter. It inclosed a ten-pound note, and ran as follows: "Mr dbar Alfbed: "What could be the meaning of that dread ful incoherent letter you wrote to your father? We could make out from the oommenoement of it that you are in want of money, but I never read anything so strange and incompre hensible as the latter part. Oh, my dear Alfred, how could you call your father a charmer ? He is naturally most deeply mortified at suoh a term being applied to him. He says you must have been tipsy when you wrote it; but I know that my dearest Alfred could never be guilty of that dreadful vice. Your father protested that he would not send yon a farth ing, but left a ten-pound note on his desk, and I enclose it to you, fully believing that he in tended me to do so. Take oare of yourself, my dearest Alfred, and never call your father a charmer again. - "Your loving Mother, "Jemima Pippisoton." What could my mother mean? I had never called my father a charmer or anything of the kind. He was a little, short, quiet, high-dried, matter-of-fact snuff-taking country attorney; an excellent father, in his undemon strative way, but the last man in the world one would think of calling a charmer. Quite nnable to understand the affair I took np my re jected offer, and mechanically read it through. Yes, it was all right. I reoollected every word as I went on. What was there in this to make Miss Simmons think me meroenary or stupid ? Nothing. Stay, though what was this ? There was some mistake. This was not what I intended to write to the young lady. I recollect every work of that letter at the prseent moment. I shall never forget it. It ran thus: "Adorable Miss Simmons: "I can no longer delay the request whioh I have to make to you. Again and again you must havs seen it trembling on my lips when either some awkward interruption or some fluttering of my own heart has prevented its being spoken. Ob, Miss Simmons I Oh, Emily 1 Do not refuse me ! Oh, mistress of my soul, give me by return of post, if possi ble, five-and-twenty pounds, for I have had some heavy expenses of late, and, in a word, as I know that you like people to come at once to the point, I am regularly hard up. , "Youis, very obediently, "Alfred Pippinoton." Now I saw through it I In the haste and confusion of writing the letters, and especially through having changed from one to the other while waiting for the ink to dry, I had made the amazing blunder of commencing one let ter to the lady and continuing it to my father; and of beginning another to that re spected parent, and finishing it with what was Intended for the eye of Miss Simmons. Was ever anything so absurd I 1 rushed at onoe to the lady's house, but was denied admit tance. 1 wrote to her a letter of explanation, but it was returned unopened. 1 never saw her again. Soon after this her father took her away; and before very long I heard that she was Miss Simmons no longer, but had married a rich man oalled Potts, old enough to be her grandfather. What has beoome of ber now I don't know. For a long time I felt my disappointment very much, but lately I have become reconciled to it, for if I ha I married Miss Simmons, what would have be oome of my glorious bachelor independence ? Oh dear, yes, it was a very fortunate esoape a very fortunate escape indeed. There, my cat, that is the history of my only attempt to get married 1 hope you have been edi tied. What 1 Bleeping all the time? Well, never mind. At all events you have not interrupted me. What woman would have let me talk bo long without some contradic tion t Now for another pipe, and one more glass of punch before going to bed. CHAPTER III. . ' '. , MY FATS." ' . Who is there ? Ob, it's you, Mrs. Slooombe. Have you come to Bay that yon have found the chicken, Mrs. Slooombe ? What f The new lady lodger wishes to speak to me ? Not to complain of the tobaoco smoke, I hope, for I don't feel disposed to put np with any imper tinence. Heard you mention my name, asked for some particulars, and thought she recog nized an old acquaintance ? Where is she ? Oh, this is the lady, I suppose. Pray walk in, madam; take a chair. What can I have the honor of doing for you, madam? Whatl Can it be ? Miss Simmons I I beg your par don, Mrs. Potts ! Heavens, what a remark able coincidence I Shut the door after you, Mrs. Slooombe. No, Miss Simmons Mrs. Potts, I mean it was not a ohanoe; it Is a case of animal magnetism or something of that kind. W hy you have been filling my thoughts for the whole of this evening. Oh, you did find out at last that yon had condemned me unjustly I It is bo kind of you to say that! And you have really been wishing to see me, and tell me this f Oh, Miss Simmons I beg your pardon, Mrs. Potts t A widow are you. with out children, living alone and desolate in fur nished apartments ? Ah, I know bo well what it is to lead a lonely life in lodgings 1 Left well off, are yon. and looking out for a nice house ? If I can be of any assistance to you, pray command me. Come, take this ohair by the fire, and let ns have a chat about old times. No, it is not late not at all, and there is nothing improper, I am sure, in your speaking to an old friend for a few minutes. Do take a chair. Stop a moment while I drive down the cat. Confound that cat I It is always in the way. Good-night, theb, dearest, if you must go. Ob, Emily, you have made the me happiest of men I Good-night I Good-night ! Mrs. Slooombe I Mrs; Slocombe 1 Be so good as to step this way for a moment. 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Tnrlarette (Qnadrllle), M. srarx. 2 Pialxe ot Tears (eong). F. Hobuuert, H. Captain Jlfek (Hong), T. Ataclag tn, 4. Valllance (Polka MUlia'rf . J. Ascher. 6. Boblunon Crusoe (Uu.dnlie), Ollaubach, . Not for Joseph (Song), Arthur Lloyd. 7. The Lover and Ike lliid (Hong), P, i). Ouglielmo I. Orpbee auz Knlers (yuadrllle), Offenbach; 9 Jerusalem tbe Uolden illy mn), A. klvfiuic. -1C. The Merriest Girl That Out ((Jong). II, Cousin et Cousins (Ucbottlsobv Kleicante). IX How Fair Art Thou (Bong), H. Weldt. la. In the Btarllgbt (Luet) Vocal, H. Glover. 14. On the Beach at Clate May (Hong). 15. Bchnlzeu-Mamch, Carl Faust, It). Voll Humor (Polka1, Carl Faust. ' ' ' ' ' 17. Obne Zugel Dnd Bugel (ualup), Carl Fauat. 18. Good Bye, Sweetheart, Good Bye, (Hong). 19. La Chatelaine (Poika Mseonrka), Uarl faust. 20. The Vouug Recruit (March) B. Richards. 2. Five o'clock In the Morning, (Ballad), by Clarlbel. zx Tbe Moon Behind the Trees. (Hong),Q. T. Wilson. 23. TJp and Down (Galop). Carl Fanst. . 24. The Black Key, (Polka Mazourka). A. Hercog-. 25. Romance from Don Pasquale (Opera ttooi). 26. Crlsplno e la Coin are (Opera BourJ),Fantalie. 27. Home, Sweet Home (Variation), J. H. Slack. 28. Marchedes Tambours, (Mllilalre), Sidney fctmlth. 29. Lea Varletea Parlslenoes,(New Quadrille). . So. La Belle Helene (Galop), arranged by D, uod-frey II. (Xme Back to Krln (song). Clarlbel 8X Ariadne (Polka Mazourka), A. Tslexy. w 84. Maude's secret (51 y Heart i over UieSea), (Song). , 84 1m Utrudel (Galop), Carl Fanst. -8ft. Blue Bird (Polka Redowa). Welngarten. 3. Harbe Bleue (Galop), arranged by T. A'Becket, Jr. ; 87. Tbe Naiads (Barcarolle), K. Mack. 88. Fire and Flame (Galop). Carl Faust. ' 89. Victoria Lancers (wuaurilleo), Welngarten. 40. Lucretla Borgia (il Brlndlsi), (ong). Donisntt, 41. Scenes that are Hriirhtnut (Mirltan.i ihdiijiV j i. . . . . 1 1 i n . . . . . . . . . . . u. aiy riiai vri'e aess (narDe isieue), (oougj. 48, Les Adieux (Nocturne), P. Horro. 1 44. Fra Dlavolo ( Fan talsle ). arrao ged by Sidney Smith. AR V&laa do. iliimam I W: aU m IT. U.ttAMr. 4. Cojus Anlmam (Opera Siabat Maier), W. Kube, 47. La Favorite (Morceau de Concert), J. Ascher. 48. Immortellen ( Walts. 4 bands) J. UnngL 49. Kunstler Leben (Waltz), Buraoss. 6. Sanger's (Mjtrcb). (1123mwfw PRICE, 82.50. 808 PITCHER'S, NOW 803 TUKSElt BROS. A, CO., NO. SOS IIKSNUT STREET. PRESENTS FOR THE HOLIDAYS. An InmieiiHC Variety for Tonne Folk and Uroun 1'olkx. Toy Books, Juvenile Books, Annuals, Histo ries, Llarles, Poetical Works, Bibles, Prayers, Standard Authors, New Books, Plain, Colored and Illustrated, sold singly and In sets. In cloth, calf, Tuikey, and velvet bindings. Also, Stereoscopes, from 60 oents to 1120. Stereosooplo Views, 10,000 kinds, many en tirely new. Flanobette, the Great Mysteryt from 75 cents to (8. Rogers Groups, 21 kinds, five sizes. The new set of Seasons, S3. Photo graph Albums, many new styles; also a splen did Block of FOREIGN AND AMERICAN CHROM03, Many entirely new In this country, all sizes, framed and un framed, all selling 1 ' - AT OUB WELL-KNOWN LOW PRICES. TURNER BROTHERS & CO., (Formerly PITCHER'S), 808 C IIKSNUT Street. 80S. ALL THE NEW BOOKS AT LESS THAN PUBLISHERS' PRICE3. WJ9 6t BOOK ROOM, NO. 1018 ARCH Street. 'We have on hand a large variety of articles suit able tor C11KIST.HAS PRESENTS, inch as FAMILY BIBLK8, HYMN BOOKS, AL BUMS, DESKS, SATCHELS, PUBTJCM0NNAIK3 DIARIES, Elo, Come and see onr extensive stock before purchas ing elsewhere. H. W. THOMAS, Methodist Eitixcopal Book ltooiu, 12 19 etrp No. lug aRCH street. Bioru Oi-EN EVER Y EVEMLNU till January 1. HAZARD'S ENGLISH BOOK9TORE. Hazard's Bookstore Is Otoomlng syuonjmous wlih good boons, hue books, eltgan.iy Uluilrated books, choice editions ol standard books, books Id rich aud tasty bladings, children's books, toy books on llnun auu paper, ouoks for all trades and people. Tlie slock being almost eutlrely of Loudon xdlMoua, here will be I und at all times English .Bucks which, cannot be bad elsewhere In ibis city. l'artlcular attention Is Invited at tbe present time lion) tbose lu starch of a really tasty Present for the Holidays, to tbe Elegantly Bound or Illus trated Books lu the collection, and the Children's Books, wlih gay bindings and attractive pictures. l'rlces as cheap as American editions, and ranging from the lowest sum to two hundred dollars lb a volume. 10 No. 722 8 A xN BOM STRE ET. TO RENT. p O ft R B PI T. F REMISES, No. 809 CHESSUT St VOH STORE OB OFFICE, ALSO, OFFICES AND LARGE ROONS suitable for a I outnerclal Uollrge. Apply at bank 6jt tub republic - .1 1 I - - A. DYEfNQ, SCOURING, ETC. NEW YOHK DYRINQ ANO PRINTING WbTABLIsHMEJST. WORliB ON STATKN ISLAND. Offices, No.0N. E10IHTU Htrtet,weat slds,Ph!la,i No. S DUANi) Street No. 762 BROADWAY. New York, and New. 14 and M PIERUEPONT Street, Brooklyn. This old and extensive establlsbmeut having been In exlslence a half century ate piepared to I) Y i and I'LJiANSJC Ladies' and Ueutieuiea's flarmDU aud Piece ods 01 every description aud labrui im lUoif usually unsurpassed manner. feAMVKL MARJ&n. President, J. T. Youwe. Secretary. lUUui Cou
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