The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-01-19
FORBICN JOTr1NGs.


The French Government resolves to with
draw from the Extradition treaty with England.
The treaty expires in June next.
The passage of the Bosphorus and Darda-
nclles by night is about to DO opened to steamers
Of all flags and Classts.
II is stated that Gustave Dore's illustrations of
Munchausen we're the artistic hit of the Christmas
Sc ason in London.
"A project has been started for running a
pneumatic railway between Liverpool and Bir
kenhead, under the bed of the Mersey.
"A painting by Rubens, representing the ap-
pearance Of the Virgin TO st. Francis Of Assist,
has been discovered in church In Cassel, Ger
many
The little books published in France by the
Society st. Vincent of Paul represent the cholera
as judgment of God on those who do not
believe in the devil.
Queen Victoria always sends gift OF f3 to
any Door mother in her dominions who may give
birth TO triplets. The latest successful candl-
date for the money is the wife of James Gibson,
weaver of Kilbarchan, Scotland.
The Emperor Napoleon lately gave an audi
ence to Captain Mimic, of rife celebrity, and 1t
IS said approved OF new arm submitted by
him, which will probably be adopted for the
whole army
"A Fenian has been captured in London
He was charged with manufacturing pixies for
the Fenian brotherhood, and was sent off to
Ireland in care of two members OF the Irish con-
stabulay. .............
The future wife of the heir-apparent of the
crown of Italy, the Princess of Leuchtenberg,
is the niece OF the Emperor of Russia. The
Young Princess has been brought up as q men,
Der OF the Greek Church. .......
"A cafe singer, Karutz, singing in Madenburg,
recently donned u wastcoat of red and white in
one song, and put on false beard in another.
The police authorities fined him two thalers for
wearing costume
"A beautiful bouquet was presented to the
Princess OF Wales on her birthday. consisting of
scarlet and white flowers, the Danish colors with
letters in flowers in the centre representing the
month, day, and year, the whole being sur
mounted with choice lace.
"A simple invention was exhibited at the late
Birmingham cattle show for making butter by
atmospheric action, the air being forced by
plunger into the midst of the milk or cream,
which is contained in cylinder, the result being
that in few minutes butter is made, leaving the
milk perfectly sweet for family use.
"A druggist Of Bolton, Yorkshire who had
sold poison which had been put to a fatal use,
was convicted by the magistrates recently and
fined, under the statute regulating the sale of
poisons. The statute requires that the sale
should be completed in presence OF witness,
and the particulars OF it entered in book. As
aliTst ofen9e, III this instance the magistrates
only inflicted nominal fine
"A statue of the Mexican hero Morelos has
Just been finished by Peatt, an Italian sculptor
now in Mexico The only likeness used by the
artist was a small medallion in wax, taken OF the
subject while he was in prison, and but a short
time before his execution. 1t is above the ordi-
nary size, Dellg SlH IeeJ SIN lnC0eS IN nelgnJ AS
Morelos was a soldier, he is represented with a
| drawn sword in his right hand.
The ElUGlide RasSe and the Moscow Gazette
have received interesting intelligence from the
Dobrudja. According to their account, some
eighty thousand Old Believers, Who in former
times sought refuge in Turkey from the oppres
sion of their orthodox Countrymen, have ex-
! pressed wish to return to Russia. They are
| prompted not only by the lenity recently mani
tested towards Dissenters by the Gear, but also,
and probably more forcIby by the colonization
| OF Circassian emigrants in their midst.
Some time ago, atone of the Dumfries fairs,
young woman too obviously from the coun-
try" was seen standing with a very perpleXed
air at one OF the street letterboxes in front of
the Mechanics Institute. She was observed to
knock several times the top of the iron pillar,
but obtaining response, she passed round to
the opposite side, and raising the cover OF the
slit in which letters are placed, she applied her
mouth to the aperture, and called loud enough
| for the amazed bystanders to hear, "Can ys let
me hae postage stamp"
The city of Mexico is better supplied with
| water than any city in the world. 1t has two
| immense aqueducts-one tseven miles long and
| the other three-which bring the water IRON the
| mountains to the very heart OF the city; thence
by arteries it is distributed in every direction.
There are also numerous Artesian wells IN the
city and its suburbs. By boring an average
depth of eighty feet the water rises several feet
above the surface of the earth, and flows in a
very bold stream In many Instances this water
is not at all brackish, but is as fresh and as
sweet as that brought IRON the mountains.
The Capital Punishment Commission in Eng
land has submitted to the Queen the following
recommendatlons:-
81. That the punishment of death be retained
for all murders deliberately committed with eX-
press malice atorethought, such malice TO be
found as fact by the jury.
''2. That the punishment of death be also re-
tanned for all murders committed In, or with the
view to- the perpetration, or escape alter the per-
petration, or attempt at perpetrauon OF any OF
the following felonies Murder arson, rape,
burglary, robbery, or piracy.
''3. That IN all other cases OF murder the pun
ishments be penal servllude tor life, or for any
period not less than seven years, at the dlscre'
ton of the court"
The Omnibus of Naples relates the following
story of man who found means to turn to
account the popular apprehension oil poison
ers, which has prevailed there since the appear
apce of the cholera. The individual in question
being exceedingly hungry, and having only a
single coin OF the value OF a sou, laid ii out in
the purchase of powdered sugar, and as he passed
by the stand of one OF those open-aT cooks who
made kind of pancake called Tritdre, he drop
ped, apparently by accident some OF the sugar
INTO the irylngpan. He was instantly seized by
the bystanders as posoner caught in the act
He denied vigorously the truth OF the allegation
and at last, TO prove his innocence, offered to
eat the contents of the pan. This proposition
| was ecceDJed and he accordingly despatched
the pancake with great relish, and then walked
off well satisfied with the success of his trick.
Anew "crime, which is creating some terror
in the feminine breast has Just come to light IN
I Paris. A hair-dresser in the Quarter Montmar
tire has been charged before the police court
| with series of singular assaults. With the
. assistance of an accomplice, who appears 10 be
known by his associates "the assassin u he has
been in the habit of eDticing into his shop pool
, ignorant girls with fine heads of hair, and then
) depriying them, by violence. OF their locks, no.
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