The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-06-07
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

M. Tane, rapturous French writer, says
ol the young ladies of Misunderstanding more
simple than the young girls; among lovely things
there are few SO lovely in the world;" and so on
Tor column, winding up with the folio wing re-
mark upon the tendencies OF eXerc1se:-"ln thlS
country lie of action fortihes the phlegmatic
temperament, and the heart becomes more sim
pie while the body is becoming more sound"
The little State of Rhode Island has model
Legislature. That body adjourned on Friday
last, after session of four days, during which
no less than eighty-three acts and resolutions
were passed. Rhode Island lawmakers must be
paid by the job, and not by the day, or else they
All chosen from that class OF useful citizens VINO
do not go to the Legislature to make living out
oil the busln ess.
"A picture in Punch, called "Rather Cute
represents man at ticket Office. LOOK
here ~ he says, "you didn't give me the right
change Just now" Clerk-''Too late, Sir!
You shoul have spoken when You on took your
no consequence to me; but you gave me haiti
sovereign too mu CHI" Exit
AT the recent Tobacco Fair at Louisville all
the tobacco-gro wing States were represented.
and over three hundred hogsheads were entered
Tor competition tor the prizes, which amounted
to over $500. The hogshead OF manufactured
leaf receiving the highest premium was grown
in Hart county, Kentucky, and was sold Tor
$3.50 pound.
"A plan has been suggested by which the
Hudson river can be tunnelled from New York
to Hoboken, by laying an iron tube nve ieeS &C. IN
tunnel, intended to be worked by the pneumatic
method, is designed to transport the freight oil
the Erie Railroad between Hoboken and the
&C mpany's depots in New York.
-Mad1le Camilla Urso, the wonderful violinist,
is achieving great trumphs in Paris. She has
performed at the Louvre, the Conservatory, and
at a great concert, accompanied by Pasteloup's
immense orchestra, and her success has been
pronounced by the leading musical celebrities
Of that city.
The Legislature of the State Of Rhode Island
hes elected Charles S. Bradley Chief Justice OF
the Supreme Court, and Thomas Durfee Asso-
ciate Justice. They have also elected James @.
Collins State Auditor, and William w. Blodgett
Fank Commissioner.
The celebrated Cavour irrigation canal,
from the river Po to the Ticino, in Italy, has
been completed. This is the most important
iTIigating canal in Europe, and has three hun
cred and sixty important works along its banks.
Chilled cast-iron projectiles are now being
made in great numbers in England for use, in
cad of steel shot, in penetrating armor plates.
The chilling, it IS said, is carried to the very
core OF the proiectile.
General william N. r. Beall, formerly gal
liant officer of the lst United States Cavalry, and
more recently brIPadiergeneral IN the Con
lederate army, has arrived at Mobile as COM
mercial traveller for st. Louis mercantile hrm
Franz Joseph Christ, gymnast was kllied
by iniuring his spine while attempting 70 TURN a
summersaultl in Pitt6burg, Pa, las1 Mohnay'
The feat II performed, harmlessiy, III the pontI-
cal world, almost every day.
John Ross, the Cherokee chief for thirty
years, is dead. He was quite old, and, II we
remember, was graduate OF Dartmouth. Two
or three of his sons and daughters were edu-
Gated in New England, and were likely people.
Chill, in consequence of the heavy expense
of the war she Is waging against Spain, is about
to treat her inhabitants TO the luxury Of an in
come tax.
MASTER OWEN. .-"Oh, Aunty, make Freddy
behave himself. Every time / happen to hit
him on the head with the mallet, he bursts right
out crying.n
Paris uses fifty tons Office per day.