The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-03-22
MISCELLANEOUS JoTTINGS.

H-Omnibuses have been introduced in Rome.
Nine Catholcmissionaries recently left Paris
for Japan.
.-0fenbach is at work in Paris on a burlesque
"Robinson Crusoe."
-G1assfed bed is two cents per pound in
Uruguay. o, blessed Uraguayans!
--MaXimilian keeps 1000 men at work on the
railroad from Mexico to Vera Cruz.
"A Connecticut paper asks if the Ides of
March are the skins of March ares?
The masked balls at the Paris Opera, this
season, have produced l67,654f
"A posthumous tragedy by Sheridan Knowles
is shortly to be produced in London. Poor
London
The English people are said to be like the
act OF reasoning, because they are racy-ossy-
nation
During the past year the courts of Chicago
granted 275 divorces of which III were applied
Tor by wives and 80 by husbands.
"A little boy recently died at West Bethel
Me-, from playfully piling stones on his sto-
mach, while lying down.
Raw mutton or beef given in conjunction
with diluted alcohol, in small doses, is now used
in the treatment of consumption in France.
The cattle plague having shortened the sup
ply OF meat in the English markets, poultry be-
comes a staple article of food
All the ice-houses along the Hudson river
are filed, with splendid clear water ice and that
luxury will, or ought to be, cheap the coming
season.
An English court has decided that the lease
of house is not vitiated by the habltation being
infected with bed-bugs. lord was the sufferer
by the insects.
"A cottage in Newport has been let for the
snug little sum OF $4,000 for the ensuing season.
There ought to be great deal OF love in that
cottage to make it pay.
For Steinway's new Music Hall an organ is
10 be built at cost of over $40 900. The cost of
the whole building, when completed, will reach,
it Is said, 100000
AT a $oiree intime given lately by the EN-
press Eugenie, the Emperor sang Beranger's
OhGnSOn on Napoleon l. beginning, "Parlez nous
de lui, grandmere."
The National InteUigencer learns that the
eXpediency is seriously discussed in official CIR
Cles OF allowing the payment of ten per cent. of
the duties on imports in 'greenbacksn and
ninety per cent. in gold.
Charles D. Drake, known as the chief author
of the new Constitution of Missouri, and leader
of the radical Republicans IN that State, is very
i'll at St. Louis. His recovery is considered i'm
pos ible,
The Notifications on the Battery, Charles
ton, are gradually disappearing. Laborers are
employed removing the earth which constituted
the fort on the southeast side OF the Battery, and
in the course of few months the traces Of grim
war will be effaCed.
The Boston papers, in reply to the paragraph
which is going the rounds OF rhe press, so the
effect that Mr.. James H. Hackett intends TO open
another theatre in that city, say that Boston
needs another theatre about as much as the
world needs another sun.
The Republican members, SAYS the Wash
ington correspondent OF a Boston Republican
paper, can't agree on policy. Some want
negro suffrage at the South; others do not.
Some believe the rebellious States are out OF the
Union, others that they are in, and so Congress
floats towards ruin.
The severity of the ecclesastical theatrical
supervision has somewhat relaxed towards the
Romans this year, as during the present Lent
season some representations have been author
lied at the Vale and Metastaso Theatres,
which will be supported by Indian jugglers,
Italian prestigidt0rs, American poses ptasliques,
and the celebrated American spiritualist, Miss
Hume.
AT a fancy ball at the Tuilerics lately there
was a quadrllle Of all nations. The prettiest
girl in Paris was chosen to represent France. IL
was the charming Miss Beckwith, an American
She wore q white satin dress, with tri-color
sash. Brunettes, rejoice Miss Beckwith is de-
scribed as having beautiful black hair. Blythe
by, yellow fever is still raging there-we mean
in hair. Ladies are still striving to be walking
vegetables.
The examination of B. II. Green, Presiden,
OF the. Connecticut Fire Insurance Company
who killed his wife in November last by cutting
her throat with razor, and then attempted to
take his own lite with the same instrument
commenced in the Police Court Hartford Con
necticut, on Friday and will continue for seve
raj days. The defense is insanity, and will un.
questionably be sustained, the testimony all
leading that way.
1t must have struck every observer. the nm
derwTiters particularly how much greater the
danger of and damage by tire is sure to become
on a tall ng market. Stocks of all kinds are al
decline, and fires are numerous in all parts o
the country. So much does the eagerness o
men desirous OF selling out to their insurer
imperil the interests of neighbors not quite 5,
anxious in the same direction, that, in severa
places IN the West Vigilance Committees hav
been organized by the citizens
-"Stores Told to a Cmld7 is the title Of a.
exceedingly pretty little volume OF children
stories, by Hean lneelow to be published b
Roberts Brothers, Boston While Miss lngelO
keeps hungeriug and thiIsting for more
her sweet songs, she seems to have devoted he
selfto the little ones, and in this channel W
find the same bright, pure, sparkling thought
running through every page that have mad
Jean ngeloW the heiress Of Mrs. Browning
crown