The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-06-23

cidedly on the wane, and If things continue as
they do at present, we shall have to congratulate
ourselves, it will disappear entirely and will be
item less in our wife's monthly milliners bill.
Crinoline Is at deaths door, and will soon be |
thing of the past. Skirts are worn long, drag.
ging the ground, which will also be a great
economy. As we shall soon need no scavengers
to sweep our streets, we may consider ourselves
fortunate it, after walk of an hour or so on the
Boulevard, we have not torn several ladies'
dresses. Our ladies will soon look like Greek
statues as the present robes give innumerable
folds, and the chdusst1e very much resembles
the sandals of the antique. Beads and orna-
ments are very much worn everywhere, on the
bonnet and on the shawl. Blue is the favorite
color, and we often see sky-blue from head to
loot-Loots, gown, and bonnet to match.
Our men are decidedly returning to the
fashions of the Directoire-pantaloons with Hes
sian boots; wastcoats very open in front; figured
shirts with large turn-down collar.
LORD BRoUGHAM, THE EVERGREEN.
Several French papers, in announcing Lord
Brougham's arrival in Paris, observe that
despite his lightweight years, his lordship's
memory is prodigious, his conversation charm
ing, and that he has inscribed over the door of
his villa at Cannes, in the south of France, the
wellknown lines:-"Juveni porsum: specs ct
fortune, valete! Sat me cusistls: ludete nunc
alios ~ or have reached safe harbor. Hope
and fortune-I bid you farewell You have often
disappointed me : now go and disappoint
others.")
The same journal adds that his lordship is far
from being indifferent to passing events, but on
the contrary, takes the greatest interest in the
great questions which are agitating Europe.
All that is quite true, except the fact of the
inscription. We can affirm that it has never
| found place over the door of the Villa at
Cannes, and that so sarcastic distich does not
express either his ideas or his feelings. For
that reason it ought to be prevented by pub.
| licity from taking its place among those errors
of which Chateaubriand has said that they be
come historic truths by force of constant repe-
tition.
FRENCH ACADEMY OF SCIENCES.
Monsieur PreterTe has sent in paper to the
| French Academy of Science announcing that
protoxlde of nitrogen commonly called laugh.
ing gas )produces very quickly short an@esthetic
| sumber, and that it may be employed in surgi-
| cal operations without the slightest danger. 1t
| must however, be mentioned that this discovery
| of Monsieur Preterre IS of rather ancient date,
| for as early as 1893 Sir Humphrey Davy tried
the effects of that gas upon himself andIdescrbed
| them afterwards with the greatest mnuteness,
| and he distinctly stated that il possessed the
| property Of suspending physical pain, and might
| consequently be employed advantageously in
| cases where pain was to be inflicted.
NOBLE SPORTS OF THE PRESENT TINE.
| q Notwithstanding the want of money every
| where, our gentlemen of Paris, who are for
hidden by the police to play at several games of
chance in the clubs OF the capital are daily rack
! irG their brains to find out some new games by
which they may indulge their propensities for
| gambling without the interference of the police.
The latest piece of ingenuity at our clubs on the
| continent is the
GAME OF CABS,
| which is played in the following Inanner:-
Two players place themselves at the window of
| the club, one taking the even numbers painted
| on the cabs that pass, and the other the odd.
| We are informed that the sum of 800, 00Of. was,
few days ago, lost in two hours by the Due de
| H, who was unfortunate enough TO stake on
| even numbers.
PARIS THEATRES.
| There is now perfect stagnation in the mu-
sical world. Music, save open air music, is at a
| (The DiUer) is in active rehearsal, and will in
| few days be given to the public. 1t is said to
contain passages equal to those Of Faust.
Flotows Zidd is a decided blt, and the music
will one day become as popular as that OF
| Martha.