The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-03-26
MIsCELLANEous JorrINGs.

The death rate of women is greater than that
OF men in Scotland.
The Astronomical Society of England has
Just issued eight views of the planet Mars.
General PRINTS expected in Paris So there
= .SiO to OeRonswreyelt in Spain under his leader
AT recent sale in Berlin an autograph letter
OF Marie Antoinette was sold for the extraordi.
nary sum of f295.
Mr.. William Thomas Brande, chemist OF the
Royal Mint, died at Tunbridge Wells, England,
recently, aged eighty years.
-Chtrdoori has picture of the cholera. as n
horrible spectre, rousng the slumberng Inter
national Commission by fierce attack.
-General Warren Is out in q pamphlet justi-
lying his conduct in the Five Forks battle for
which, 1t Will be remembered, he was removed
Hom command by General Sheridan.
"A brigade of Juvenile crossing-sweepers has
peen formed in London, under the presidency of
Lord Broughsm. AT present there are eighteen
poys, who wear green blouse as their uniform.
They are not to beg but TO trust to the lberality
OF the public.
"A triple marriage in one family took place
recentlyat Lyons, france. The three couples
representing three generations, were united by
the same priest; and at a ball in the evening,
they figured IN the same quadrille-father, son,
and granddaughter, With their respective spouses.
-Bee-keepers will be glad to learn that NJ.
Duchemin, French chemist, after two years
patient observation, has discovered the source
has found the parasite on the flowers of the
Hettdntii0S dn71ts (lhe sun-hower) and on the
bees, and he has proved conclusively that 1t gets
upon the bee from the plant, and not upon the
plant from the bee.
The Protestant cemetery of Florence, Italy,
Is in danger of destruction by the proposed ex-
tension of the city The present burial ground
was not granted originally to the English, but
to the Swiss, although 1T has long been used as
a place of mterment for Protestants of all couu-
tries. When il shall cease to be so used arrange
ments will have to be made with the munich
pality for another Protestant cemetery.
There is in the parish of Helmingham Suffolk
England, an ancient grave-ield of human skele-
tons. the todies are several hundred in number,
lying in thin layerof flint gravel on the boulder
clay of the district, within two feet of the pre-.
sent surface. They are placed very closely SIDE
by side upon their backs, with their feet to the
east and heads to the west, and in a remarkable
state of preservation. They are all supposed to
date before the year 300.
The "Societe des Gems de Lettres" of Paris,
recently had q very stormy sitting. After the
report on the situation Of the society had been
read, some OF the members found ault with the
''Tresor L1tterare," a work edited by the So
ciety, on account of the Ultramontane tone of
Its articles. member of the committee, NJ
Michies, went SO far as to say that the committee
purposely admitted the articles IN question ''n
order to prepare the country for the return of
the elder branch of the Bourbons." This state
ment produced an indescribable tumult among
the members.
= "A Frenchman went one day last summer to
bathe in one of the floating establishments on
the Seine. He deposited his watch and chain
and $3.50, declaring the value, and receiving a
ticket in return. The ticket he put in his pocket,
and then took his BATH when he came out,
however, be found no card. He then applied at
the office and found that his ticket had been
presented and duly honored. He lost all his
property and sued for damages against the pro-
prietor of the bath. The court, however, held
that the proprietor was justified in giving up the
watch and money to any one who produced the
ticket, and therefore found for the defendant.
james Greenwood, the famous Casual" of
the Pal Mall Gazette has been engaged to sup
ply series of descriptive sketches of 1emarka-
BILE scenes, people, and places of the metropolis,
from his personal observation and experiences,
in the EUeniRg Star, and is so advertised eXten-
sively on the dead walls Of London. His initial
article was entitled "a Visit TO Tiger Bay" one
OF the vlest of localities. Indeed Mr.. Green
wood has decidedly succeeded in complying
with the requisition of popular cockney song,
which advises you to "wire in and get your
name up" and prosperity seems to have de-
scended equally on him and the journal thai
contained his "Night in Workhouse."