The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-03-13
M1SCELLANEOUs JOTTINGs.

1hlS ls esblaated at SZOO,OUO,
charlotte Cushman is giving gay parties and
balls in Rome.
-Brignoli has reappeared in Paris with Patti,
and has been we'll received.
-"Oain's Daughters" is the name of novel
now publishing IN Paris Eugene Sue furnished
the idea
"A large number OF sharks have recently
French coast.
Upwards of seven thousand military con.
Russia.
One of Batty's lionesses, in Paris, has lust
mao three hns cubs. which have been conhded
to the care OF dog.
: The exopers dancer, Clotlda, spends in
Paris million of francs yearly on her house
keeping and tcllette.'
"A blushing bride OF GO, married but six days
70 gaY. young fellow OF 81, committed suicide
rom jealousy IN Stamford, England
Albert L. Stark weather, the Manchester
81 murderer, was sentenced at Hartford CT, on
Thursday, to be hanged on Friday, August II.
Six thousand public libraries have been
founded and annexed TO comAon schools, in
France within the last four years.
Rum has been exported from Boston within
the last six weeks to Africa, valued at a quarter
of million OF dollars.
Edward S. Erving Cashier in the Boston
Post Office for nearly thirty-siN years, died on
Tuesday.
The death of Lord Auckland, Bishop of Bath
and Wells, is announced, as well as that of DR..
Bogarth, Roman Catholic Bishop of Hexham and
Newcastle.
"A new periodical, written exclusively in
verse, will shortly be issued IN Paris. The ratio
fits merit to its success will probably also be
inverse.
-"Herrings, picked and smoked, dull and
quiet" says the Price Current. We should sup.
pose so. Who wouldn't be dull and quiet after
being picked and smoked2
Efforts are made by De Balzac's admirers to
induce his widow to publish the three or
four volumes he left in manuscript in his port
folio.
1t appears by Official returns, that In the
State OF New York there are over seventy thou
sand children between the ages Of five and
twenty-one years who do not attend any school.
-Gustave Dore is about to illustrate an edi-
ton of ''Lafontame's Fables,' and accordingly
spends much Of his time in the Garden OF Plants
studying animals
"A school of architecture has been opened at
Moscow, as branch Of the school for painting
and sculpture in that city. 1t is endowed By the
Government for sixty pupils.
General Spinner states that there are, to his
knowledge, only about $23, ,O0O,000 lying in the
National banks belonging to Government in
stead of $700OO,0OO as believed by Controller
Clarke.
The Emperor Mayimlian has requested the
Empress Eugenie to accept the medal Of civil
merit, in recognition OF her courage and Chris
Paris hospitals.
Mr.. Thomas Gills, well-krown wood en-
grayer in England, mas written and illustrated q
'Practical Handbook TO the Beautiful Art of
Wood Engraving" which is now in press in
London.
The Oil Springs Chronicle, of Canada Wese,
says that an extraordinary oil well has Just been
discovered in Canada. 1t yielded on the 2lst OF
February 2259 gallons OF oil in one hour, which
was at the rate of 1852 barrels of thirty-tWo
gallons each day.
The Cincinnati Times describes the stupen-
dous bridge, now nearly completed, between
that city and the Kentucky shore of the Ohio.
1t is two thousand feet long, and has a soan OF
nearly eleven hundred feet which is said to be
the longest in the world.
The Bastrop (Louisana) Dispatch says that
trade and industry are reyiylng in that 5ectl9n.
The Planters Banner makes the same statement,
and says that the negroes are doing better than
they have for years past, 1t also has cheering
accounts from the Teche district.
The Sugar Planter, published at West Baton
Rouge, thanks the Ereedmen'5 Bureau for the
absence of idle negroes. The Planter learns
that number OF the planters still indulge IN
the hope OF making sugar crops, although it may
not be for two OF three years.
M. D. F. Jamison, OF South Carolina whose
Life OF Bertrand du Gueschlin" successfully
ran the blockade, and was published in England,
has had the honor of having that work trans
lated into French, by order of the French Gov
ernment, and augmented with original notes,
plans OF Datues, pOfJralt, etc.
A contemporary mentioning Mrs. Secretary
Harlans clarat colored satin dress, says the
sight of itmust have panied her husband If he
remembered his denun, ,iatiOns or bright ribbons
and the yanities O this world, when he was 8
poor preacher in the interior of Iowa, not many
years ago.
The Lynchburg (Virginia) Ne,gs says that
valuable discoveries of iron have been made in
Amherst county, three miles north OF the James
River canal, and that company have leasedtht
mines and are about to erect furnaces. 1t also
says that there are abundant indications o
petroleum in the same vicinity.
The Milwaukee Bar recommend the passage
of a bill now before Congress, to establish inter
and circuit courts and the Supreme Court. Al
appeals from judgments and interlocutory orders
would be taken to these new courts, and thence
to the Supreme Court.
The London Orchestra gives the following
"6IaTzo, the manager of the Papliano and Ma
tionale Theauesn Florence, 1865, OF the mana
ger who, in Rome, 1897 enPaged the following
troupe, inc uding the father and mother Of Adein
Path:-SopTanl. Ronzi, Madame Patti, Madam
Barili tenoTi Patti, salvatore; baritone, COlletti
bassO Monsieur BarOIlhet The issue or this uni0
oisoprano and tenore now llVng, were all born y
different places viz Madame Strakosch at Pesaro
Mad'lle Carlotta at Florence; SignOr Carlo violin
IsI) AT Lisbon; and Mad'lle Adelna at Madrid"
While we are all making great complaints i
this country about the enormous rents, We al
not the only people who are suffering Rent
Rre increasing rapidly in England Also A builC
ng is now IN course of erection in Lombar
Itreet, London, which is to cost seventy thou
and pounds, the gross rental of which is est
nated at twenty-five thousand pounds annually
he London and Countg Bank have rented Tn
round floor and basement OF the building, to