The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-05-08
MISCELLANEOUS JOTTINGS.

In Paris there is ahospital for superannuated
cats.
-Hcssian boots are to be fashionable for gen
tlemen this summer for promenade costume.
What kind of medicine ought to be given to
child ailing with a cruel father? mild ape.
rient! "A milder pa-rient.l
-Gustave Dore has finished thirty drawings
tor Tennysons 'Idyls OF the King" They will be
engraved in England.
"A new daily paper lprice centimes, or one
cent? has been started III Paris. 1t is called La
-PreSSe UluStree.
john Moran, charged with shooting Miss
Kearney, IN RoXbury Mass, has been arraigned
at Dedham, before the Supreme Judicial Court.
Bishop Andrew, of the Methodist Episcopal
Church South has retired from the Episcopacy.
He is over seventy years of age.
Archery is to be the fashionable pastime
among ladies this year abroad. The day of
croquet Is passed.
An old Indian, on seeing a lady on Chestnut
street with dress ARRANGED over an enormous
Empress trail:-"Ugh! her need much wig.
wan !"
Seal collecting is the new rage with ladies'
in Paris. Impressions OF seals and crests of
royal and noble personages are in as great
demand as old postage stamps used to be.
The young prince of Zock, who Is to marry
the pretty Princess Mary of Cambridge is said
to he quite handsome, and only aged 29-four
years Younger than his intended wife.
Charles Dickens recently declined an invi.
tation to read before the Queen, on the ground
that he would Dot go as a performer where ne
was not received as gentleman.
AT a dance" given by La Marquse de la
Nalettc, in Paris, recently, the Duchess de
MouChy wore a headdress composed of nine gold
ears of wheat, the points being pearls as large
as acorns.
Alta recent meeting of factory hands in Eng
land, it was resolved that workMen ought never
to be content till they get Eight hours work,
leight hours play, eight hours sleep, eight shil-
lings day"
"A rough estimate was lately made of the
property and estates OF the Marquis OF Westmn-
ster whCn it was estimated that, if realized
they would amount TO the enormous sum of
forty-siX millions 1920, ,O00,000).
The following singular marriage notice
occurs IN a North Carolina paper:-"By Dr. j.
A. Sheriff., at twilight on Wednesday evening
February 2S, 1866, in CataWba county, N c., at
the house OF the brides widowed mother Mr.
A. A. Gabrile to Miss Lizzie Milligan, after
a short bm most delicious cOurtship."
"A new passion among the ladies of Partisan
society is During the Easter hoidays) to or.
ganize and personally attend bazaars for chari.
table purposes. One OF these this season
boasted OF the patronage of tie Princess Meter.
mich, the Countess Walewski, and the young
Imperial BRIDE the Duchess de MOuchy, Rose.
buds and smiles were distributed in exchange
for hundred franc nOJes.
Such is the cupidty of the male nurses in
the Par hospitals, stimulated by dealers in
hair, that the moment female patient dies her
whole head OF hair is cut Ot. One male nurse
at the Hotel Deu is said to have made 800 francs
by selling the hair and teeth of dead patients
in his ward for dentists are as eager purchasers
of corpses teeth as hair-dressers are of corpses'
hair.