The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-05-10
MISCELLANEOUS JOTTINGS.

1t is reported that Count Montalembert is
about TO visit the United States.
The Emperor Napoleon has just celebrated
his 58th birthday.
why is mending stockings like blasphe-
ming? Because 1t is darning what is holy.
Gas costs only $1'9O per 1000 feet in the city
of Pittsburg.
-ExPresident Buchanan has just entered his
76th year.
There are 46,9Ol farms in Massachusetts,
valued at S23, 1876 l22.
Five thousand families have left Austria for
Mexico.
-Beecher's congregation had eighty-nine
regulars" added to 1t last Sunday.
Thirty thousand London tailors were in the
recent Strike
Fifteen thousand Holsters pass through
Portland every day.
Noses Ward, father of Governor Ward, of
New Jersey, died in Newark on Saturday, aged
seventynne years.
"A fashionable young lady may be said to re.
semble a prudent houseekeeper, because her
"waist" is as little as she can make it.
The difference between the fair ladies and
ladies, fair is-the one steals mems hearts, and
the other the contents of their pockets.
-Parson Brownlow remarks that che would
not start tor heaven with the Democratic
party"
The city government of Louisville pays one
cent each for every dead rat brought to it, killed
within the city confines.
1T is quite the fashion now in New Orleans
for every spectator at theatre to be presented
with bouquet on entering the door,
--Bodbd0 el Chico; or, the Moor the MerTier
is the title OF popular burlcsque at one of the
London theatres.
In his readings" Mr.. Dickens never refers
TO his book but leans over the desk and talks at
the audience.
Which are the lightest men-scotchmen
Tr;aI E,,f,1 To-
are men of Cork; IN Scotland, men ofAyr (air);
but on the Thames they are lighter men.
The largest amount of revenue paid by the
British people in any one year was $4,000 600.
The amount which the people OF yhe United
States will pay this year will be S540 0Ge moo.
"A young lady of Cincinnati, on the verge of
marriage, the other day discovered that her be-
trothed was already married, and poisoned her
self Immediately.
Near Norfolk, Virginia, large sycamore
of hair was found-probably one of ''love's con-
cealments" half a century ago.
"A Western critic, in speaking of new play
says:-''The unities are admirably observed; the
dulness, which commences in the first act,
never flags for a moment until the curtain
falls"
The Paris physicians are making expert
ments in grating the tails of rats upon other
rats. They say the new tails live and flourish.
The Boston Post thinks it is question what
effects this discovery will have on the progress
of civilization.
AS Howe's circus troupe passed into New
Haven the other day horse belonging to Mr..
Baldwin, of Woodbridge, saw the elephant,
rolled up his eyes in fright, gave one leap into
the air, and died instantly. This makes another
version Of 'seeing the elephant"
Mr.. Gabriel Harrison, of Brooklyn, has writ.
ten play for Matilda Heron, called MeldiLbe, in
a sort OF female "Brutus." The work, it is said,
is TO be produced IN New York, philadelphia,
and Brooklyn next season.
Dickens gets fee equal to about five dol.
lars minute during each performance, for
reading. His resumption of the readings has
caused "great expectations" He is the best of
English amateur actors, but near him, in this
respect, is George Henry Lewes, the distin-
guished editor of the Fortnighay Reuieao.
"A criminal confined IN the Jail at Ravenna,
Ohio, recently becoming obstreperous and un-
manageable, was etfectually quoted by the in
lection into his cell OF two pounds of choroform.
He was then pinioned, and within eighteen
minutes OF the time the experiment began, fully
restored to consciousness.
In letter addressed to Prince Dolgorouki
GoverDor-G General OF Moscow, the Grand Duchess
Helena recommends the construction in the city
of superior school of music on the model Of
the Conservatoire of ST. Peterburg. This idea
has received the sanction of the Emperor of the
Russias.
An English pager states that well-dressed
woman was recently arrested when entering
Belgium for conceaIing l8O yards OF Valen-
ciennes lace IN the ChignOn or waterfall" ;" and
since then any unusual dimension of that un-
slightly protuberance is strictly examined by the
Custom House oGcials
"A young girl seventeen years of age at
tempted to commit suicide, by drowning, re-
Gently, in Paris; her sweetheart had forsaken
her; the first words she uttered when she re-
covered her senses Were:-"Mon Dieu how COLI
the Seine is ", The boatman who rescued her
stood near, and exclaImed:-"Ah! my little
darling, 1t has nobody to warm its bed"
Bancroft will be sixty-four years of age the
third daV OF next October; Motley fifty the 10Th
OF April Emerson, siXty-one the 25th of May;
Bryant, seventy the Sd OF November; Longfel.
low, fltyseven the 9th of February: Whittier
29th of August; Lowell, forty-hve in February;
Mitchell (lk Marvel), foity-two in April; Cur
tis, forty the 24th OF February; StoddaTd thirty
nine in Joly, and Bayard Taylor was thirty,nine
the llth OF January,
! "A Russian ar'lst is preparing for the Paris
EXhlollon OF next year an allegorlcal represen-
tatlon OF the events in the reign OF the present
Gar. A group OF agricultural implements de-
notes the progress OF the country in that branch
OF industry. broken chain typifes the aboli-
tion of serfdom. Figures OF Hope, Faith, and
Charhy commemorate the publicity of iudicial
proceedings, religious liberation, and the aboli.
| tion OF corporal punishment. There seems in
this design 10 be no reference to Poland or Cir
cas sia.
"A new paper (the Colsrnebine) started in
Paris, and devoted to the interest of the den1i-
monde Is said 10 be sought after and as eaoerlv
lead by the ladies OF the other half OF the world
Boarding-school misses out for their walks make
sly purchases of copies when their goveIness in
not lOoknP, and take them home to read in
| their bedrooms by the light of surrcphtiously
| obtained candle-eads. The Journal is to be found
lying openly on spectacle tables and its Jokes
Il nd dcTioU relations allied and had nv