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HIGH PRICES FOR SONGS
1 ■EARNING of famous singers in
THE PAST AND PRESENT.
Small Prices First—Fifteen Thousand
Dollars Received by a Singer for
Ono Performance.
A common complaint among musical
managers on the Continent is that the
compensation of the great singers of the
day is beyond all reasonable proportion
to their service. That for tho single
performance of a role in an opera, or for
a song or two in a concert even, a Patti
should command thousands of dollars, is
regarded as an abuse which is becoming
ruinous to the reputation of the musical
art. The wide gap between the rewards
of the best three or four and the ten or
eleven next best is described as the re¬
sult of musical caprice or popular in¬
ability to correctly estimate relative
merits. “The favorites,” said a Con
tinental critic recently, “are the cancers
of the modern opera.”
When Catherina Gabriclli went to St.
Petersberg in the latter part of the last
century she demanded 20,000 roubles
salary. “Twenty thousand roubles!”
cried Katharine II. “For that I could
support two Field Marshals. ”
“Very well,” answered the singer,
“your Majesty may then have them to
sing for you.”
Complaints of the extravagance of the
demands of musical,artists have au an¬
cient history. Early in the sixteenth
century the citizens of Wurtemberg pro¬
tested that the expenditures of their so¬
vereign for musicians were ruining the
land. In 1516 Duke Ulrich gave his
lords the assurance that their complaints
had been heeded, and that in the future
, he would cut down as low as possible his
budget for singers and trumpeters. His
Duke
was guilty of the wild extravagance of
engaging several new singers at salaries
of from $15 to $25 each for the season.
Generally in those old times the salaries
of singers were in figures which seem
ridiculously small. The Italian Pergamin
received at the end of the sixteenth cen¬
tury from Landgrave Moritz, in Cassell,
about $150 annually and his board and
lodgings. His salary was, however,
equal to that of a high Minister of State.
Under Duke Ebcrhard Ludwig (1677-
1733), three singers in Stutgart were
paid by the court. Magdalena Sybilla
Beck got $450 annually, and was re¬
garded as unreasonably high-priced. In
Dresden, under Johann George III., who
died in 1691, the most famous song¬
stresses in central Europe, Marguerite
Salicola and Rosana Santinelli, had an¬
nual salaries of $1100 each. Charles YL,
in Vienna, early in the eighteenth $2400 cen¬
tury, paid each of several soloists
a year.
The more the Italian opera, with its
Virtuosos, spread to the Northern courts
and thence to the Northern audiences the
larger became the rewards of the great
artists. England is supposed to have
been responsible for the enormous and
sudden increase of salaries which grad
ually raised prices on the Continent, as
America is supposed to have caused the
corresponding phenomenon in the 1725, oper¬
atic world of to-day. Cuzzcni, in
refused the offer of $48,000 for a Con¬
tinental tour from an Italian impressario
because she could do better in England.
She died, however, in the most abject
misery after having squandered a dozen
or more fortunes. Gertrude Elizabeth
Mara, whose maiden name was Schmeling,
was for some time content with $2200
annually as court singer of Frederick the
Great-in Berlin. In 1780 she received
an offer of $8000 and $12,500 travelling
expenses for half a dozen concerts in
England. The great Hohenzollern, an¬
gered by this foreign competition, re¬
fused to grant her a leave of absence, so
she simply broke her contract and hur¬
ried off to London, where for many
years she gotten times the income which
the German stage could give her.
After Catalani had sung twice before
Napoleon I, she wa3 rewarded with
$1000 cash, a life pension of $2400
annually, and two benefits which brought
her $10,000 more. Nevertheless, she
was not satisfied. After hearing her in
St. Cloud, the Emperor went to her
dressing room and inquired -
“Where do you go from here, madam?”
“To London, sire.”
“Remain in Paris and I will give you
$20,000 and two months’ leave of ab¬
sence annually.
Catalina bowed and went to London,
where she got $50,000 from an engage¬
ment and $50,000 from concerts during
her leave of absence. She sang “God
Save the King” at receptions for $1000
a time, and she was worshiped there as
no singer before her and few since. Her
parsimony was abnormal, and rendered
her the subject of innumerable curious
anecdotes. -Among the “divine An¬
gelica’s” most fervent admirers was the
Marquis of Buckingham. He enter¬
tained the singer and her husband, M.
do Yalabregue, at his country place for
several weeks. Numerous receptions
were given therein her honor, and at each
she responded to the urgent requests of
the guests by singing one song. At the
end of the visit Mi. de Valabregue, in bid¬
ding the Marquis good-bye, pressed in
his host’s hand a paper bearing the bill
of Catalina —“for singing seventeen
songs, 1700 sovereigns.” The Marquis
looked at it, wrote out his oheck for
1700 sovereigns for seventeen “working
days” of Mme. Catalina, and remarked
dryly. “I regret exceedingly that I did
not before know that M. de Yalabreque
•was the cashier of the Catalina firm. ”
Thi« incident injured Catalina greatly In
England, as it had injured Mara in Ber¬
lin. that she refused to sing at a benefit
for widows and orphans, in 1803, unless
one-half of tho proceeds were assured
her. Although all great singers of to¬
day are not quite free from such eccen¬
tricities, few persons acquainted with
their histories will deny that, as a class,
they are open-handed and soft-hearted
to a degree altogether unknown to their
predecessors in the seventeenth and
eighteenth centuries.
In 1827 Virginia Blasis, who, in “Don
Juan” took with equal ability the roles of
Donna Anna and Zerlina, was engaged
for the Paris opera with a lifelong salary
of $7200 annually. Eleven years later
she died of inflammation of the lungs.
Gloslop, a singer, whose name and fame
seem to have died with her, had a similar
contiact for $5000 annually in the Paris
opera. In three years she appeared but
once, thus by oue evening’s perforiuauce
earning $15,000, about the highest price
ever paid to a singer for a single appear¬
ance. Henriette Sontag’s highest com¬
pensation for an evening was $10,000,
received by her from a benefit in Lon¬
don. Her earnings for the London season
of 1849, were $100,000.
Mtvlibran received in Paris $15,000
salary, a benefit, and a leave ot absence
which brought her in fully as much as
her salary. In 1833 she was engaged for
the Drury Lane Theatre in London for
$10,000 and two benefits with a guaran
$28,000 teed profit of $12,000, or, altogether,
for ten weeks’ work. In 1834
she made a tour of Italy. 3he appeared
during it 185 times and received $144,
000 . Shortly before her death she
signed which an engagement for another tour,
for her compensation was to be
$ 120 , 000 .
Russia is the country in which great
artists get pecuniary rewards nearest to
the English and American standard. This
fact is due not only to the immense
wealth of the nobility and royalty in
that country, but also to the profligate
generosity of high bred Russians and
their cosmopolitan enthusiasm for tho
fine arts. Toward the end of the forties
Viardot earned there $38,000 for an en¬
gagement of a few months. She got,
moreover, an $8000 benefit, and was
overwhelmed with diamonds, tiaras, won
derlul bracelets, and many other similar
presents. Rubini took in from a single
concert in th« Russian capital $37,500.
—New York'Sun.
WISE WORDS.
A lie never stops to put on its hat.
Many good sawlogs have knots on
them.
People like to travel in cheerful com¬
pany.
The only real giver is the cheerful
giver.
No wealth is real that can be taken
from us.
There is no virtue in doing what you
have to do.
No man can go straight ahead who
looks backward.
It takes a good many trials to make
some folks faithful.
The only heavy burdens are those we
try to carry ourselves.
No one can suffer in any good cause
without being a gainer.
Faith fears nothing. Faith and trial
are the best of friends.
The poorest man on earth is the one
who has the fewest trials.
The flax has to be broken before its
real strength can be known.
There is a brick in every clod, but it
takes a hot fire to tell it so.
It is better to kill a snake in a clumsy
way than not to kill it at all.
Great victories can be enjoyed by
those who fight great battles.
The man who is true to the best h«
knows will do to trust anywhere.
The roots of a tree are of more conse¬
quence than its highest branches.
The only people who are discontented
are those who are not doing their whole
duty.
The hardest thing to do is to get peo¬
ple to think of the things that concern
them most.
The poorest man is not the one who
has the least, but the one who has the
most wants.
There is nothing for which a man has
to pay so dear as he does for the privi¬
lege of being stingy.
The only reason why sliding down hill
is so nice is because it is such hard work
to pull the sled up .—Indianapolis ( Ind .)
Ram's Horn.
Progress in Dentistry.
One of the great discomforts of artifi¬
cial dentures where all the teeth have
been lost and much absorption of the
gums has taken place is the constant
tendency for them to slip forward. To
overcome this difficulty a Scotch dentist
has developed a method of fixing den¬
tures by means of two or more gold pins
attached to the under surface, which
eater holes either made by drilling tha
jawbone or left after the extraction of a
tooth. In other words, when necessary,
an artifical tooth can be riveted to tha
jawbone. This method of treatment has
been adopted with great success.— New
York Commercial Advertiser.
The influenza has broken out in Cairo,
EgJPtj is especially fatal to the na¬
tives.
NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN.
Sleeves are very long.
Loose-fitting gloves are the latest.
Many chamois gauntlet gloves are sold
to travelers.
Copper bronze is to be the fashionable
shade of hair this season.
Artificial birds for trimming hats and
dresses are made to cater to people who
are so very humane.
For ladies in mourning, the black
enameled bracelet with a pansy having a
diamond centre in front, has found favor.
Women are now allowed to become
notaries public in New Jersey in accor¬
dance with the privilege granted by the
Senate.
Children’s hats have no wire, no fac¬
ing, no binding, nothing but a half
wreath of flowers, a crown lining and a
rubber.
Queeu Victoria of England delights in
water color sketching and playing ducts
with her favorite daughter, Princess
Beatrice.
A wide field for selection is afforded in
table cutlery, which is now furnished
with handles of china, ivory, pearl,
silver, stag, etc.
Ribbons to hold fans are fastened to
the shoulders with a bow, and are long
enough to fall nearly to the grouud, the
fan being carried in the hand.
The first woman honored with equal
position and pay with men professors is
Harriet Cook, of Cornell, who holds the
chair of history in that university.
For dress lining there is no better ma¬
terial than linen. It is cheap and durable,
does not cling or split and makes a bet¬
ter foundation for a skirt than silk.
The gentle wife of the Crown Prince
of England is fond of tine needlework,
dressmaking, playing the zithern, pho¬
tography, and has a pretty talent for oil
painting.
A woman was recently summoned as a
juror in St. Louis. She took the matter
philosophically and attended court, only
to receive the apologies of all concerned
in the blunder.
Last October nine women were ap¬
pointed station agents on the elevated
railways of Brooklyn, N. Y. v BO
been so successful® that t B
will appoint more.
Mrs. Pemberton-Hincks, of New Or¬
leans, is at present the prima donna most
the “rage” in London society. She is a
creole of remarkable beauty, as well as
the fortunate possessor of a magnificent
voice.
The most fashionable garment of the
season is the long cape or “camail,” per¬
fectly square at the bottom, reaching
considerably below the waist, high on
the shoulders, and studded with jet
cabuchons.
Flounces placed at the foot of a skirt
ihould be narrowed in front and wide at
the back, in order to not detract from
the height of the wearer. Ruffled pip¬
ings area new form of decoration, effec¬
tive in silk.
The widowed Countess Lovsenhaupt,
ex-Secretary Bayard’s daughter, is re¬
siding in the Wilmington (Del.) home
provided for her prior to her marriage.
She inherits $75,000 presented to her
husband by his father.
A Honesdale (Penn.) lady has a full
set of carpenter’s tools, which she uses
with remarkable skill in making useful
and ornamental articles for her home, a
full set of chairs being among the pro¬
ductions of her mechanical genius.
Mrs. Marianne Stokes, the clever Eng¬
lish artist, is said to have begun paint¬
ing when hardly more than an infant,
and if she was ever without a pencil or a
box of paints she would squeeze flowers
on a .sheet of paper until they gave up
their colors.
Some of the well-connected nursegirls
who frequent Central Park, New York
City, wear smart little kangaroo bag3
slung over she left shoulder, a la tourist,
containing a flask of sweet milk and a
supply of Graham crackers for the tod¬
dler’s lunch.
The London “lady florists,” Mrs. Ar¬
thur Wellesley and Mrs. Herbert Smith,
were employed to decorate Lord Bea
consfield’s statue for the celebration of
the founding of the Primrose League.
The decorations were said to be particu¬
larly successful.
A daughter of Congressman Breckin¬
ridge, of Kentucky, having graduated
with honors at Wellesley several years
ago, has now taken up the study of law
in her father’s office, having in the
meantime taught geometry and algebra
in a Washington school.
Annie Louise Carey, at one time con¬
sidered among the greatest of contraltos,
is a large blonde woman in whose hand¬
some countenance beams the benevolence
of her heart. Domestic affairs and char¬
ity work now engage the greater share of
her daily time and attention.
It is but a few years since sewing was
introduced into the Philadelphia public
schools, but in that time great progress
has been made, and already hundreds of
girls, besides the usual accomplishments,
are qualified to cut and make garments
for themselves, so that they are practical
dressmakers.
The hangings of Mrs. Andrew Car¬
negie drawing-room, in New York City,
are old rose with gold. The hardwood
floor is nearly covered with Persian rugs.
The mantle is of onyx and gold with an
onvx-tiled hearth. A beautiful Dresden
vase has a niche all to itself between the
front windows.
The United States Navy.
Only about twenty-five United States
ships, exclusive of the revenue cutters
and the training squadron, are now in
commission, but it is estimated that five
years hence there will lie forty-uiuo ships
available for active service, and tirni of
these only three or four will be of the
antiquated types that now make up the
bulk of tlie navy. Before that time ar¬
rives, however, there will be squad¬ a vast
change iu the Asiaticsquadion makeup of various particular
rons. The iu
will have got itself a new ou fit. Sev¬
eral of the vessels ou that station have
been kept there for years past chiefly
because they were unfit for the voyage
home across the Pacific.
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A Simple Form of Government.
School Boy—“The teacher wants us
to explain how this couutry is governed
by Father—“That the people.” is simple enough. Mc
Groggin, a private citizen who keeps the
big saloon down town, governs the boss
of that ward; that ward boss governs the
city boss; the city boss governs the
legislature, and so on up. Any child
can understand it.”—Street & Smith’s
Good News.
The first snow flake of winter how
significant—and the first white hair!
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A man’s opinion of people is as much a test
of his character as peoples’ opinion of him.
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