The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-06-01
Scraps Of Continental News.
THE FAIR 81 FREE !! =!

THE FAIR SEX FREE
Great agitation is gong on now in Stockholm
in favor of the fair seq, on whom it is
wished to confer all the rights and privileges
hitherto accorded only to men.
The Afonbiddet newspaper, in speaking of the
above, calls attention to the fact that, in 1740,
a lecture was delivered at the University of
Upsala, on the following propositions
the female sex ought to be excluded from the
culture of bellies lettres? In this discourse,
which was printed in 1S49, NJ. Edberg is OF
opinion that, although women of very gifted
nature might be admitted to the study of the
bellies ettreS, women in general ought TO con6ne
themselves to household duties, spinning and
needleWork.
AUsTRIANs RIDICULING BIsMARK.
Letters from Vienna inform us that it is
the fashion Just now tor all the actors in the
theatres of that city to make all sorts of sarcastic
remarks concerning NJ. Bismark, the Prussian
Premier, and his line of policy, which are
nightly received with thunders of applause.
On the other hand, the press, great and small
teens with articles, anecdotes, ETC., turning
into ridicule the aforesaid minister and his
royal master. The shop windows, also, are filed
with caricatures. In one M. de Bismark is
represented as an ogre, busiiy engaged in de-
vouring the different States of Austria, and
even the Emperor Franz Joseph himself. In
another he is seen in company with Victor
Emanuel, who, after q moments talk, turns
his back on him, and leaves him to grapple with
Mons. de Men sdorff.
THE POLITICAL FAIR SEX.
An association of women for the progress of
political economy has lust been formed at
Vienna. A committee of ladies has been charged
to draw up the statutes, with Nine Laube, the
wife of a well.known dramatic author, as its
President.
journal of the South of France announces
the death of Captain Magnan, known for his
numerous attempts to establish line of French
steamers on the Danube. He expired, after
long illness, at Marseilles, in the midst OF his
family.
WRECKED VESSELS.
It results, from the list published by the ad-
ministration OF the Bureau Ve7'itas, in Paris,
that the total number of vessels wrecked during
the month of March amounted to 269, of which
l45 are English 80 American, 2S French,
Danish, Dutch 5 Italian, b from Hamburg, 4
Norwegian, and Al of different other countries.
Seventeen ships are supposed to have been
totally lost, not having been heard of.
The number of wrecks during the month of
January and February amounted to 67S. BY
adding the number of those lost during the
month of March, we have a total of 947 wrecks
from the lst of January to the 3lst of March,
1866.
THE CONSUMPTION OF COTTON.
In 1764 an American merchant in Liverpool
received consignment from Charleston of eight
bales of cotton. They were seized at the Gus
tom House, under an allegation that cotton
could not be grown in the American colonies
In $780, the cotton OF the United States amounted
to 207s, ~, 800 pounds. In the East Indies, the
annual product is 2,44O, ,0O0,0 900 pounds. OF the
1887, ,OOO 900 people now in the world 7OO OOO 600
wear cotton exclusively, and all but 7O,0OO,0OO
wear it more or less!
INTRODUCTION OF sILKwORMs,
At the last public meeting of the Socjete
dACci,mdtiSGtiOn two gold medals we're awarded,
one to NJ Berlandie, who introduced into
Europe a new and healthy larva OF silkworms
from Japan, and the other to Mr.. GARNER, who
has made the Society present of a magnificent
collection of animals from London.
TRICHINA AGAIN.
The disease of pigs (trichina) continues to
cause good deal OF alarm. The Monleur has
lately published a report of MessIs. Delput and
Raynal, two scientific gentlemen appointed
10 study tine malady. 1t resulted from their
Investigations that this disease is much less
common and far less dangerous than was
asserted. They however state that the French
pigs are quite as liable to catch trchina as
those of Germany, if allowed to eat the dead
bodies of rats cats, and other animals, all which
arc naturally impregrated with trichina. Great
attention should also be paid to the cleanliness
of the pig-stye.
MISCELLANEOUS.
There is exhibited Just now in curiosity shop
on the Boulevard Malesherbes an Indian statue
of black granite. The figure is laid on his back
after the manner of figures which ornament the
lids of sarcophagi. This statue represents the
grand Klischna, divinity held in great venera
tion by the Hindoos and to whom the magnid
cent pagoda situated at Gengis, thirty leagues
from Pondsicherry was dedicated.
The pagoda Is constructed on a small rocky
mOnnia ain, which can only be assembled on foot