The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-10-26
MISCELLANEOUS JorrINGs.


Some amusement was caused at the Liver
pool Police Court one day last month by the
case OF tailor named Needham, who was
charged with cutting Off the tails of a number
OF coats. Needbsm, dndl1g himself in want of
4 cloth, and averse to buying in a legitimate way,
4 ayalled himself of the collection of crowd of
people opposite the Adelpha Theatre, to cut Off
the coat-taIs of a number of spec .ators with his
\ tailor's shears. He was speedily arrested, but
not before he had secreted large bundle of
I cloth.
) -The Davenport Brothers are in Amsterdam,
but they make nothing out OF the shrewd Hol-
landers. CORES pOndent writes:-'A clever
st1eet juggler has already declared that he
knows their secret, and intends to reveal 1t.
Catch weasel asleep, and then you may catch,
aDutchman sold again by the Brothers Da-
| yenport."
| "A Louisville genius bas invented a new and
exciting game of chance which he calls ''fy
loo" 1t is played by any number OF persons.
The players names are written near toge her on
d sheet OF paper, and a small lump OF sugar Is
- laid on each. The owner OF the lump on which
the fly 6Ist lights loses or wins, as has been first
agreed on.
4 Miles OReilly says:-s'The degeneracy of
the New England ladies is probably owing to
4 their unnatural intellectual developments, and
y the wearing effect OF their unremitting attempts
10 speak the English language correctly"
A vagrant Who was brought before the
Leeos (England) magistrates on the 24th
lltimO, was said to have never been in bed for
a least ten years.
When flowers are fun of ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
oews, they ALWAYS hang their heads; but men
hold theirs the higher the more they receive,
getting proud as they get full.
--Jane-"Cbarles, dear, now that we are mar
.ned, you know, we must have no secrets. So
DO, like dove, hand me that bottle OF hair-dye;
You will hlId it in nay dressing case"
The Lowell mill girls" have, to the num-
er of several hundreds, adopted the Bloomer
pstume, more comfortable while at their
Ork than the old style.
..
the State, and the charge one cent per word
II any distance. That is, each word is one
IAN energetic effort viii be made next season
k--< leaders of fashion In Paris TO revive the
lctice of powderlne the hair.
The Russian ladies are wearing the AmeTi-
ID coiors pretty arranged about their bon
aad dress trimmings.
~ IA girl baby has been born at La Crosse
b two tongues. Won't her husband catch it,
z&be lives TO have one.
Nathan Parks, of Oxford, Me-, was killed by
,ae accidentally thrown against hoe-handle,
IPich penetrated his abdomen.
The young Iturbide, at school in Europe,
hs soundy Rogged by his playmates, for boast
z of his imperial grandfather.
-''There is no place like homep says the
ct. Right unless it's the home OF the young
pman you're after.
II has been discovered that ''Othello" had a
sal as well as a military office in Venice. He
~ d-laWuy y-NSuSidl'
A few drops of lavender will prevent mould
the books of library, If simply placed in
case.
i 100, 600, 600 cigars are made in Hamburg
p arlY.
Conversation among betrothed ones is
zach of japanese etiquette.
v Dumas, papa, writes the libretto OF the
ira for Carlotta Patti.
In the London work houses they lock uI
FACTORY paupers with corpses.
A microscope has been constructed which
eni6es /, 575, 100000 times.
Sweden has another nightingale, Mad'll'
+ kan, only eighteen
Z. NJ Many child criminals of London are regis
as 'a very degraded and irTeclamabl'
& J.rhey are boring for petroleum in Italy
don't they try the Isles Of GreeceY
IA Mr.. Still padded his own canoe from
~ Leayenworth TO New 0rleans-lsOO miles
II is said that Artemas Ward gets $75 lette
Punch.
Baltimore bon oiodnt can only describe
epa's voice by likening the effect oft TO tina
claret.
James Murdoch. is writing a book on elocu
Weaker vessels need much hopping, is tn
l st excuse for erlnollne.