The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-01-19
FOREIGN JoTrINGs.

The quarantine which was established ON
the Roman frontiers on account of tue cholera
has been abolished.
The French Government resolves to with
draw from the ExtTadition treaty with England.
The treaty expires in June next
The passage of the Bosphorus and Darda
nelles Ly night is about to be opened to steamers
of all flags and classes.
1t is stated that Gustave Dore's illustrations of
Munchausen we're the artistic hit of the Christmas
sc ason in London.
"A project has been started for running a
pneumatic railway between Liverpool and Bir-
kenhead, under the bed of the Mersey.
IA painting by Rubens, representing the APP
pearance of the Virgin TO St. Francis of Assist
has been discovered in a church in Casseb Ger
many
The little books published in France by the
Society st. Vincent of Paul represent the cholera
as judgment of God on those who do not
believe in the devil.
Queen Victoria always sends gift of G3 TO
any poor mother in her domiDions who NAV give
birth to triplets. The latest successful cand1-
date for the money is the wife of james Gibson,
weaver of Kilbarchan, Scotland.
The Emperor Napoleon lately gave an audi
ence TO Captain MIME, of rife celebrity, and 1t
him, which will probably be adopted for the
whole army.
"A Fenian has been captured in London.
He was charged with manufacturing pixies for
the Fenian Brotherhood, and was sent off to
Ireland in care of two members OF the Irish con-
stabulary.
The future wife of the heir-apparent of the
crown of Italy, the Princess of Leuchtenberg,
is the niece OF the Emperor of Russia. The
Young Princess has been brought up as men,
Der OF the Greek Church.
"A cate singer, Karilz, singing in Madenburg
recently donned waistc0at OF red and white IN
one song, and put on q false beard in another
The police authorities fined him two thalers for
wearing costume"
"A beautiful bouquet was presented to the
Princess OF Wales on her birthday, consisting Of
scarlet and white flowers, the Danish colors, with
letters in flowers in the centre, representing the
month, day, and year. the whole being sur
mounted with choice lace.
A simple invention was exhibited at the late
Birmingham cattle show for making butter by
atmospheric action, the air being forced by a
plunger into the midst of the milk or cream,
which is contained in cylinder, the result being
that in few minutes butter is made, leaving the
milk perfectly sweet for family use.
"A druggist of Bolton, Yorkshire, who had
sold poison which had been put to a fatal use,
was convicted by the magistrates recently and
fined, under the statute regulating the sale of
poisOns. The statute requires that the sale
should be completed in presence OF q witness,
and the particulars OF it entered in book. AS
a86Tst otlenne, IN this instance the magistrates
only inflicted a nominal fine.
"A statue'of the Mexican hero Morelos has
just been finished by Peatu, an Italian sculptor
now in Mexico. The only likeness used by the
artist was small medallion in wax, taken OF the
subject while he was in prison, and but short
time before his execution. 1t is above the ordi.
nary size, being six feet six inches in height AS
Morelos was a soldier, he is represented with a
drawn sword in his right hand.
The hlCdlide RuSse and the Moscow Gazette
have received interesting intelligence from the
Dobrudja. According to their account some
eighty thousand Old Believers who in former
t1Dops gOuuhf rnfuun in rurkav from no
sion of their orthodox countrymen, have ex-
pressed wish to return to Russia. They are
prompted not only by the lenity recently mani
tested towards Dissenters by the Gear, but also,
and probably more forcibly, by the colonization
OF CIcassian emgrants in their midst
Some time ago, atone of the Dumfries' fairs,
a Young woman, too obviously ''from the coun-
try" was seen standing with very perplexed
air at one OF the street letterboXes in front OF
the Mechanics Institute. She was observed To
knock several times the top of the iron pillar,
| but obtaining no response, she passed round to
| the opposite side, and raising the cover of the
slit In which letters are placed, she applied heI
| mouth to the aperture, and called loud enough
| for the amazed bystanders to hear, "Can We LEI
me hae postage stamp"
The city of Mexico is better supplied with
water than any city in the world. 1t has two
| immense aqueducts-one sseven miles long and
| the other three-which bring the water from the
| mountains to the very heart OF the city; thence
| by arteries it is distributed in every direction
| There are also numerous Artesian wells in the
| city and its suburbs. By boring an average
| depth of eighty feet the water rises several tee
above the surface of the earth, and flows in
| very bold stream. In many instances this watel
| is not at all brackish but is as fresh and al
sweet as that brought from the mountains.
The Capital Punishment Commission in Eng
land has submitted to the Queen the following
| recommendatlons:-
''l. That the punishment of death be retained
| for all murders deliberately committed with eX
| press malice aforethought, such malice to b.
found as tuct by the jury.
go. That the punishment of death be also re
tanned for all murders committed in, or with tn
view to- the perpetration, or escape after the pei
petration, or attempt at perpetrauon of any O
| the following felonies Murder arson, rape
burglary, robbery, or piracy.
3. That III all other cases of murder the pun
| 1shments be penal servllude tor life. or for an
period not less than seven years, at the discre
tion of the court"
The Omnibus Of Naples relates the following
story OF man who found means to turn L
account the popular apprehension OF poison
ers, which has prevailed there since the appear
apce of the cholera. The individual In question
being exceedingly hungry and having only
single coin OF the value of q sou laid it out il
the purchase of powdered sugar, and as he passe
by the stand of one OF those open-air cooks VIII
made a kind of pancake called fa'iHdTe, he droL
ped, apparently by accident, some of the suga
INTO the irylng.pan. He was instantly seized by
the Dystanders as posoner caught IN the aci
He denied vigorously the truth Of the allegation
and at last, to prove his innocence, offered tC
eat the contents OF the pan. This propos itiol
was accepted. and he accordingly despatched
the pancake with great relish, and then walked
off well satisfied with the success of his trick.
Anew 'crime," which is creating some terro
in the feminine breast, has Just come to light il
! Paris A hair-dresser in the QUARTER MontmaI
tire has been charged before the police cour