The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-05-11

DANCER DEAD.-Madlle Rigolboche, the
toast OF the Paris cafes two or three years ago
is dead. The print shops OF Paris were for.
merly crowded by boys and men in search OF
her photograph, taken in every conceivable
attitude. The bookshops exhibited Memories
de Rgolboche,' with portraits of the danseuse
N various positions; there were cravats Ia
Rigolboche, Rigolboche boots, RigOlbOche
gloves, ana score OF other things. As the
dancer ceased to attract the books about her
became waste paper, and the poor creature diet
IN the ward of a public hospital and was
buried IN the Fosse Commune.
HELPING REDUCED SAvANs.-Some years ago
the celebrated french chemist Thenard founded
a society for helping scientific men or their
families III reduced circumstances. The Societe
de SecOuTS deS AniS des Sciences numbers two
thousand seven hundred members, and during
the last nine years 1t has distributed a sum Of
10000 francs. IL IS now proposed TO give an
nually a series of lectures, and several eminent
professors have volunteered theic services. The
Empress has given her patronage TO the affair,
and the lectures are TO be DELIVERED by Delauny.
NJ. Frenzy, Bertrand and Jamin.
BALLooNING.-A curious apparatus for propel.
ling balloons through the ar has been devised
by Mr.. Butler, one of the mem bers OF the council
OF the new A1ronautical Society in London. II
consists of pair OF wings operated from the
car Of the balloon, whose down ward blow is cal
culated 10 strike with a force exceeding forty
pounds, power equivalent TO an ascensiye
force OF one thousand cubic feet OF carburetted
similar 10 that Of rowing.
SPECUI ATIoNs IN INDIA.-A recent return of
the number Of joint-Stock companies registered
IL Calcutta during the year 1865, shows that the
nominal capital invested during that period
amounted 10 .6l,696, 600 rupees, divided among
twenty-tour associations. Eleven companies
nave been wound up. The shortest-lived specu
latiOn was the Northwest of India Cotton
Screwing Company" which, from its name
could scarcely expect any other tate than th al
o. being "wound up"
CULTIVATION OF THE OYSTER IN ENGLAND
The subject of encouraging the cultivation OF
the oyster in English waters is before the House
OF Commons. A commission appointed for the
EsyeX chiefly the estuaries OF the Thames CleW
Bay, In Ireland, and portions OF the Scottish
coast as eligible places for oysIer-beds.
A "HAPPY FAMIY."-A curious family has
lust established in the Jardin des PlaHtes in
Paris. IN an iron cage have been placed a
young 6oness, an Algerian wild boar, and a little
dog I Gae last is quite the master, the lioness
general amusing herself with teasing the boar
When, however, che lioness goes too TAR the
cog interl,eHes and re-establshes order.
IMPROVEMENTS IN BERLN.-Prussian archi-
tects appointed by the Government are TO visit
Paris and LtNOdon, for the purpose of studying
the Chamber of Deputies and the Houses OF
Parliament, NNth view to the new houses
10 be built in Berlin on the site of the Royal
Porcelain MaNaiactory. The estimates are
Sl,l25,000
THE TEST OA1T--Hon. John Hogan, one of
the Missouri Con gressmen, asserted IN q speech
at ST. Louis, on Tuesday night that he had
been informed by one of the Judges of the
United States supreme Court that the Missouri
preachers and lawyers test oath law was uncon-
stitutional. The decision will not be officially
made public until next winter,
FIRES IN PETERSBURG. AT Petersburg Va. on
Monday night last two churches belonging to
the cOlored people were set on fire and con.
sumed, and during the conhagration another
was discovered on FIRE, but in time to save the
building. The event has caused much excite.
ment in the community.
A New GAS BURNER. "A new gas burner has
been introduced in Edinburgh. Pie NIB is
composed of "patent adamas," siliCeOus sub
stance not liable 10 corrosion or oxidation; anC
the result is that the flame is always steady, anC
the gas thoroughly consumed,