The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1852-10-19

A Jew has been sentenced by the court of cor
rectional police to three months imprisonment for
selling to old gentleman a pair Of spectacles
without any glasses in them. His defence rather
staggered the court. 1t seems that the purchaser
had himself chosen them from quantity as being
the most ,ued to bis eyes of the whole assortment
The Jew bad never asserted that there were any
glasses in them. But the swinging price he had
received, eighteen francs for what was not worth
two. determined his condemnation.
The crop Of sweet acorns 10 to be extremely
abundant this year; and this fact is considered as
important by agriculturists, as experience has
shown that when the acorns are good and plentiful
the wine yield 10 excellent in quality if not remark
able in quantity. In the year 1911, the year OF the
comet, great anxiety was felt for the vines; the
acorn crop turned out above the average, and all
fear was at once dissipated. When the acorns arc
good, the beechnuts bad-a sort Of compensa-
ton which IL often observed 10 obtain between the
apple and pear. The acorn 10 produced only once
'in four years; the beechnu only once in seven or
eight; and the two yields never fall together.
The elections for municipal officers, which are
still continuing in various parts OF the country, re-
suit very nearly equally for the government and
the opposition. The Patrie gives the returns in
language such as this: "Men Of Order, s; Dema
gogues; 6; Civilization, 9; Anarchy, g." The
selectmen of country village are of much more
general interest, it would seem, than the world
had generally supposed, if a return to barbarian
or the maintenance of society thus involved in
their election. Often, however, abstention defeats
q choice; and in the commune of Herbignac, in
the department Of lie ct Vilaine, not single in
dividual presented himself at the polls during the
ten hours they were open. The overseers and
ticket counters were 30 impressed by this circum-
stance that they did not dare themselves to de-
post their vote in the urn. ! presume the gov
eminent will cite this grand triumph of family
and religion over the detesable practices Of tur
bulent democracy.
we are to have, after all, Italian opera here
this winter. Mr.. Lumley has definitively retired
from the undertaking, and the concession of the
privilege to Messieurs Corti and Charles Laffitte
was signed yesterday by the Minister of the Int.
rior. Nothing has yet been made public in rela-
ton to the composition of the troup; but the for
midable company that has been announced to spend
the winter at st Petersburg shows US clearly
enough whom we shall not have; and we certainly
have chance of recovering either Alboni or Son.
tag for the season just commencing.
La Dame aur Cameias, after a repose Of three
| months, is to be revived to- night at the Vaude-
Vile. You remember that it performed one
hundred nights, and that its triumphant course
was interrupted by the leave of absence of Nine
Doche. It will run doubtless some thirty nights
| more. A letter from Adolphe Dumas, in the the
| atrical journal Of yesterday, declares, emphati-
cally, that the play was written by him from the
first word to the last This assertion was called
forth by an inuendo in Belgian paper that he had
| written it 10 collaboration with M. Anthony Be.
| raud.
The theatres are generally waking up from the
lethargy into which, reversing the practice of DOR
mice, they fall during the summer months. The
receipts Of the twenty -subventioned theatres
were in July 2l2. 00Of; in August they were just
double; and in September, 500 ,000f nearly. The
| balls and gardens are naturally on the decline,
and in a fortnight more the last colored lantern
| will be extinguished, and the graves of Mobile
and the Casino will have ceased to echo with the
delirious quadrlles and polkas that have kept the
| birds awake the lve.long summer.
Some weeks ago q Belgian schoolmaster named
Nogent was dismissed from his employment by
the government for having, on the day before
cation, read to his pupils several passages from
Victor Hugo's Napoleon the Small. The last act
of the ministry, before it's late resignation to
restore the schoolmaster to Office; and this the
Patrie considers as ga Parthian arrow let fly at
France, represented by the man elected by seven
and q half millions of votes; )" and views It as a
| regretable circumstance for the outgoing min
listers.
The late decree authorizing the establishment Of
pawnbrokers shop at Algiers has, it ia said, been
received with great delight in Northern Africa.
presume the Sheiks will be constant customers OF
| the institution.
| new law upon patents has appeared at Vienna,
| and may be Of interest to a portion of your read
| crs. The conditions are few, but rigorous No
patent will be granted except to the inventor him
self; and the inventor, if a foreigner, must pre-
viously have taken out patent in his own coun-
try. Otherwise, all foreign inventions may be
freely initiated in Austria. From this it would
seem that who inherits the right to inven-
ton, or an individual who acquires it by purchase,
cannot obtain protection from infringement in the
| Austrian empire. FRANCO.