The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-05-11
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

FOREIGN GOSSIP.
DANGER OF HAsTY BURML.-A French Arch
bishop recently gave an account of his own mar
row escape from death by premature burial, and
similar story is now told by NJ. Lalu, cure Of
Gizay France. He says:-"I have Just wit
messed a fact which has greatly excited the peo.
pie of the neighborhood. A woman named
Radogonde Degnessedu, who was supposed to
be dead, was to have been inferred in the morn
ing, and the relatives were all in attendance,
when the person who had laid out the corpse
as she was completing her work, fancied she
discovered slight movement in the right arm.
Upon examination the woman was found to be
still alive. l Immediately went to see the
woman, and found no pulse-nO movement; the
members were perfectly stiff, but by close OBJ
servatlon at intervals an almost imperCepdble
swelling of one of the arteries of the neck
could be disCeIned. let a few drops of brandy
fall upon her teeth, which were ClenChed in
such manner that il was impossible to sepa-
rate them, ana shortly after a slight kissing
noise was heard. She continues still (twenty-
four hours after) in the same comatose state"
EMPLOYMENT CT GIRLS IN CoILIERIEs.-Among
recent papers presented to the British Parlia-
ment Is the death of a girl twelve years old, at
the Moss House COlliery, in Lancashire. On
going to work last month, on the first morning
OF her engagement, she arrived at Z, instead of 6
O'Clock, and found no one in attendance at the
surface, where she was to be employed to in
struct her. Setting herself to work as best she
could, she made a mistake which released an
empty truck on a descending railway and, not
knowing what to do, she was crushed in her
efforts to stop it. Mr. Higson reports that in his
district great number OF girls and women are
employed above ground to separate dirt and
shale from the coal, load the railway trucks, and
move them to and from the screens, buI it is an
exception for girl of such tender age to be so
employed, and he has not met with q parallel
case.
FAMILY NoMENCLATURE.-The "strangc namer
which recently appeared in an advertisement in
the Canterbury papers, in England respecting
claims on the estate of 'Acts Apostles Peguen,n
nos brought m gNnlanafinn Mr. Dorr1a
had four elder brothers, who were named
Matthew, Mark Luke, and John, in succession.
When the happy parents were presented with
their fifth son, they deemed it matter Of re
gon to adhere 10 the order of the calendar; and
so, when the infant Pegden was presented at
the lont, and the minister demanded Name
this child," the good paTsOn was startled with
the response, "Acts.Apostles." All remon-
STRANGE was vain. Ana so Mr.. "Acts-Apostles
Pegden' has handed down name memorable
to posterity
OIL WELLS IN RUSSIA very rich oil well
has been discovered in the district OF Natuchatz
on the shore of the Caspian sea- After boring
depth Of one hundred and twenty feet in the
solid rock q stream of oil made its appearanCe
and flowed tor twenty minutes. A deafening
noise followed accompanied by a slight earth
quake which so frightened the wOrkmen that
they all fled When the noise had subsidized a
jet of clear water tasting very salt sprang up
with great violence. After this let had eX-
hausted itself (Which i, took twenty-siX minutes
in dong) quantity of troth, smoke and stones
to contain nothing but pure oil. Since then
from fifteen hundred to two thousand pailfuls OF
the oil have been drawn out, the only instTu-
ment used being a common wooden sphOn two
Il inches IN diameter.
THE GAINS OF DRAMATIC AUTHORS IN FRANCE.
i The most successful comedy OF the season in
Paris continues to be the FdnliHe BenOitOR,
! played at the Vaudeville, IN the Rue Viyienne
without interruption, except once during Holy
Week. Its hundreilh night was the 14th of
4 February. The receipts Of the house up to that
night were 463,76l francs, or an average of 4G37
francs per night The gains of the author tor the
same period were-hrst, l0,0 900 francs by way Of
premium; second, authors tickets to the
amount OF lO8 francs for each performance; and
third, twelve per cent. on the money taken at
the doors, so that he has received in three
months sum OF 1920 francs, or Sl5,45O
Color BLRDNEss.-A curious essay on the
u subject OF cOlOr-bhndness has recently been pub
. lished in POggendOrF's AnRdteR. The writer,
3 DR.. Rose, concludes, the result of several eX-
periments:-l. That with the COIOr-blind it is
Il always the LIGHT of the greatest or of the least
8 refranglbility that first becomes imperfect. 2.
That invariably, as the disease increases, the
patient ceases to perceive only that light which
had previously tie greatest or least rerangbi
~ ity OF the rays visible to him. 3. That color
blindness is always characterized by a shorten.
8 ing OF the spectrum, and never by an interrup.
ton. Herr Rose has invented an instrument tor
the detection OF cOlOr-bndness, and for nea.
~ surfing the extent OF this condition.
AN EXTRAORDINARY STORY. The following
anecdOte is told in Berlin:-At ball given last
week, on the seventeenth birthday of the daugh
+ ter OF one OF the nOblest families, mysterious
- 6gure-a monk mask-entered the saloon pre-
s. cisely at midnight, and disappeared, after hav
ing presented the Young lady with a basket o
"A flowers. On examining the contents an ebony
N coffin was found inlaid with silver, containing
bridal wreath, an arrow piercing a lily, and
,'# paper on which written, "A greeting from
the world OF shadows IT should be added that
though the mother became tEsensible tn,
~ young Countess did not lose her presence @
mind, but continued dancing, and betrayed n,
emotion whatever.
SEVERE WINTER IN ICELAND.-Icelandi IS alway
Ri a cold place in winter, as It's name signifies, blu
III last winter was worse than usual Dir. Hialtalin
the principal physician on the island, writes
1--WE have had a trighttul winter, the mean ten
Derature having been degrees below the meal
of our winters The thermometer duung tn
4 last few days has ranged between II deerees an
IA degrees of Celsius. This state Of things vii
no doubt occasion most tremendous nOrther
icedritt, the consequence Of which you will fee
|n in England ana other northern countries. Tn
enormous iceblocks will be drifted into tn
Atlantic, and melting there, will be the cause
. much rain, hail. and snow, with Consderabl
lowering of your mean summer temperature.n
HIGHER WAGES IN lRRLND.-The rapid il
crease OF emigration from the southern cOuntie
of Ireland is producing result OF which th
r. labOrng population cannot complain. tn
wages for farm laborers have lately reached th
highest figure ever known in Kerry-twelv