The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-05-17


coming very conspicuous among our upper ten.
An example OF this was afforded very cOnspicu.
tres, where the curtain actually dropped because
very aristocratic party in private box near the
stage could not be induced to moderate the conver.
sation they were carving on. The curtain was not
drawn up again until the said party had left.
GOVERNOR SEWARD ON HIS WAY HoME-Hon
William II. Seward, Secretary OF State passed
through the city upon the noon train, on his
way to Auburn, whittier he goes to celebrate the
sXty-hith anniversary OF his birthday which
occurs TO morrow. The fact of his presence in
town was known to but few. But some of hIs
friends who became aware of 1t, availed them
selves OF the opportunity to express their regard
Tor the honored statesman and patriot. Mr.
Seward is looking exceedingly well. But few
traces are visible of the terrible injuries he
suffered at the hands OF The assassin Payne. He
is in the best possible spirits, and speaks with
undoubtmg confidence of the ultimate and
speedy emergency OF the country from all en-
barrassments that now surround the question of
Reconstruction. Mr.. Seward will spend about a
week of respite from the duties and cares of
office, in reunion with his old friends and neigh
bors.-Atbdny journal, tuesday.
MANUFACTURE OF PLAYING CARDs.-The play
inR.card manufacturers in PARIS occupy the
Quarters Boune Houvelle, St. Merry and st.
Victor. There are seventeen OF these head men,
of whom nine employ above eleven wOrkmen.
Employing 260 persons in all. card mapufac-
turers make on an average 1900, 900 in the year.
OF these 260 persons l67 are men, rs women,
years OF age. The men are Overseers, painters,
pasteboard Makers gummers. cutters, moulders
polishers, bellows-blowers, and porters. The
women are sorters, scrapers, pressers. The men
work either by contract or by the day, and earn
from francs to francs. The women earn from
l franc 80 centmes to francs. Apprentices
from rs centimes (that is, 7Bd.) to franc 80 CEN
times. They have two hours for meals in their
twelve hours work. or 81 who can read and
write, Is are noted for bad conduct, and Is
seldom come to work on Mondays.
A HUMAN CURIosITY.-The Berlin newspapers
have the following curious paragraph:-"A
Hungarian girl, born at 0edenburg, without
hands, now twenty years Of age, has been Civ
ing some curious representations in the Prus-
sian capital. She performs with her mouth the
tunctlons of hands. She sews, embroiders, exc
cutes the most delicate work with pearls, even
threads her needles and makes knots, all with
the tongue, apparently without difficulty and
certainly without the assistance of any one
Part OF the works thus executed are destined
for public exhibition" Most people will hesi-
tate to believe such marvels until they witness
them.
CATTLE Down, GOATS UP.-An Irish paper
notices the fact that one unex pected and curious
effect Of the cattle disease in England has been
to raise the value OF goats to an extraordinary
degree. These hitherto despised animals are
now exported in considerable numbers from
Ireland, and have been sold in several English
counties at from "a to f5 each, the ordinary price
having been about los.
BRITISH CoINAGE.-The coinage at the Mint in
London, for this year, will cost f49 1872 OF which
100000 is tor gold, 100000 for silver, and f7500
for copper. A sum equal to the last will be re-
covered by the sale OF old copper not required
for the recoinage. The seignorage 10 be paid
into the Exchequer in respect of the years coin
age OF silver is estimated at 100000.
A VALUABLE SPINEET.-The late French COM
poser Clapisson left among his treasures a spin.
net of the sixteenth century, which lie said to be
worth aG least sixty thousand francs. The keys
are of agate and lapis lazul, and the ivory frame
work is covered with two thousand five hundred
precious stones set in silver.
RELICS OF THE WEsLBYs.--Rev. Samuel Dunn
an English Methodist, is exhibiting to admiring
congregations various Telcs-amOng others, q
piece OF John Wesleys preaching gown, two
neckties of the Rev. Charles Wesev, and the
spectacles, comb, aud pocket-book of DR.. Adam
Clarke.
CURIOUS ACCIDENT.--In Birmingham Eng
land, the other day, a woman accidentally killed
her infant by pressing its head against the front
of her dress, in which a needle was sticking
The needle entered the child's head, and caused
fatal injuries
PIscAToRY.-The value of the fresh fish sold
annually at the various French seaports is esti
mated at FL, 400 900; but by the time it has paiC
the Octroi and other duties, its cost to the con
sumer is more than quadrupled
TRADE REVIVED. An Antwerp letter states
that the ship Due de Brnbdnt had lust arrived
there from India with $500 bales of cotton. Fol
the last eight or nine years not single bale ha
reached that port direct.
DEsTITUTIoN.-A subscription has been opened
in Madrid to succor the Spanish emigrants nov
in Portugal who took part in the rising headet
by General Prlm.