The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1864-12-27
INTEnEsrINa FOREIGN NOTES.

Comyf,ed from Foretgn Papers ror The Philadelphia
E,sqing Telegraph.
Fotis, the great musical professor and critic,
was especially designated by Meyerbeer to super
intend tho rchearsals Of the great legacy left 10
the world by the great composer OF les Huguenots,
Rojeyt, and L'Afrtcaine. In order TO fulfil the
request, Fctis, who was director Of the ConserYa-
toiro at Brussels has left that city and taken up
his abode in Paris at the expense of the Imperial
Government. EdtticdtRe took MCyerbeer ten
years to write, and II is said that II will take
years rehearsal TO put il on the stage. IL is most
gigantic affair, and requires ut least three hun
dred people for its rendition.
when the new piece, Afaitre Guc,in, was played
before the Court at Compiegue, the Emperor
especially congratulated Monsieur Lafontane on
the talent with which he had played the part Of q
gay young colonel
"You wear the uniform admirably" said the
Emperor, "and the epauettes become you"
''I have but one regret in wearing them," ro-
Piled Tnfuntaue, "and that is that / did not gain
them in your Mjestys scryCe"-a reply which
brought a diamond ring to the lucky actor.
Red hair is so much the fashion now that hair
dressers pay for red boards their weight in gold
But in order to display this somewhat conspicu-
Gus hair, It is the fashion to have but one pccu-
liar color in dress cloak, and bonnet. But one
excess into which fashion has fallen has attracted
the attention Of the comic papers in Paris, that Is
the fashion of dressing the pet pOOdles to match
the dress, SO that Partisan belle says TO her
maid, "Givo me my pink dress and my PINK
poodle" so that the little animal, conveniently
white by nature, is every day made to change his
colCr Suppose fashion should go a step further,
and take to dyeing husbands
This is an advertising age, but an original way
OF advertising appeared in a recent monument
erected in Pere la Chaise -
ain memory of Nathalie Nordero, wife Of
Jerome, locksmith and manufacturer Of Orua.
mental iron. The railing round her monument
il from his factory, Rue Godot, No. T."
At the last representation, at Marseilles, Of
Alexandra Dumas Mohicans Of Paris, the fellow
ing notice appeared in the morning papers,
ain order to crafty public curiosity, Alexandra
Dumas will be present during the performance
this evening, occupying theproscenium box TO tho
left"
Notorety is Dumas ruling passion.
A young medical student in search of lodg-
ing was shown into a very shabby room, the fur
niture of which was in a most dilapidated state,
81 should like something little more MODERN"
said the student.
"More mOdernp said the man "speak with
more reverence. You are in the very room In
which Rousseau lived, and in which he wrote,
and nothing has been changed now for even o
century"
"This is the table on which he wrote ?"
eyes"
"This the bureau :"
"Yes."
"This the bed !"
ayes"
"And nothing has been changed for a whole
century 2"
"NOthing."
"Not even the sheets? ?"
"Not even the sheets"
"Ihen l won't take the rooms"
The young king of Bavaria has appointed
Richard Wagner, the author of T'anahaISer, direc-
tor of the Court music, at salary of four thou
sand FORMS