The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-07-07
BRIEF NOTES.


We have received, in pamphlet form, the
defense made by u. N. Chapman, ESQ, in the
case of Paymaster S. E. Pauldng II is most
learned and able argument, and well worthy of
perusal because of its literary as well as legal
merits
Mrs. Ann s. Stephens, the accomplished
authoress, has been spending the winter at the
National Hotel, Washington. She has been
dong good service in the cause of literature by
her able and persistent advocacy of the removal
OF the heavy tax on the publication of her
works. She is a pleasant politician, of the
Madame Roland school.
The Nation which is continually sneerng at
Jenkins" seems TO have adopted him as its
p1oteoe and placed him upon its literary staff,
The last number of that paper contains, in a
Paris letter. an account of the Emperor's daily
dinner. 1t says:-
DEJEUNER OF THEIR MAJEsTIEs.
Roast fowl; fried calves bTams veal outlets Ia
hollandaise; steWed beet la paysanne, with jelly;
ONE ette with minced herDs; potatoes Ia Maltre
d'Holel; DampidOnilles Paemande.
DINNER OF THEIR MAJEsTIEs.
Splng soup with queles of fowl; meat soup,
with ltalan paste; rissoies ia rus1e; turbot with
Dutch sauce; ham sewed with vegetab, es lamb
outlets, spigram OF ehIccorl lat tows q la Per,-
gueux; crepincttes OF game la Montaigrence;
Ia ParsieLne; duckllngs from Rouen; young
chickens asparaggns; green peas Ia ErancaIse;
jelly strawberry profltcroles.
Al, Paris is busy study ing these two lists, but no
miles" "orepinnettes" and prod eroles" winch
are considered TO be either old friends with new
names, or new inventions of the culinary genius OF
the Imlerial khchen.
We do not object to our friends abuse of
Jenkins" but ther consistency is jewel.
nv, NH
tion on subject which we have long heard
mooted. 1t says:-
"a great want in Philadelphia for long time
has been good concert room, well built, well
located, and obtainable on easy terms. In Con-
cert Hall and Musical Fund Hall the ventilation,
! II is sad is imperfect, and the other halls are
either too remote from the heart of the city or
too small. The Horticultural Society, having
! long telt the want of good exhibition room,
have determined to build one, at a cost OF
100000, OF which $6O,000 has been raised and
! the rest Will come in. The locality Is fine lot
! on Broad street, next to the Academy OF Music,
between Locust and Spruce. The space is
ample, and double hall will be erected, as at
Boston, to consist of very large and lofty
room, in which concerts on an extensive scale
may be given, public meetings held, public
! dinners partaken OF, and fancy and other balls
! given. The other hall much smaller, to accom-
! modate six hundred or seven hundred of an
! audience and to be used for concerts, lectures
! college commencements, etc. 1t is proposed go
TO arrange the very large hall that it can be
leadiy cut into two, If required; but it is feared
that this may interfere with the facility of near
| ing therein. The design is vast and will almost
| certainly be carried into effect this year. The
revenue from balls alone, the best OF which
| now are given in the Academy of Music, would
yield handsome revenue"
! When an American enumerates the chief
| sources of public instruction, he names the
! church. the school, the newspaper, and the
I lyceum. The Engllshman knows nothing of the
last. Such a thing as lecture is not unknown,
but a lecture system aud profession of lecturer
have yet to exist in Great Britain. Now and
then mechanics institute gets an address from
some distinguished parsonage, and as in corn
law times, a special occasion will give rise to a
lecture organization dd hoe. Now and then,
too, member of Parliament returns to his
constituents under an awful obligation to enter
tain them with his views on the state of the
| country or a record of his behavior But men
OF character and learning the lights OF the pull
| pit and the bar, the Speaker OF the House. the
| Attorney General, the Chief Justice along with
ex-ofice.holders and celebrities of every descrp-
| tion-could never be induced, like their peers in
this country, to traverse the kingdom in the
winter season, satchel in hand, and perhaps a
single Welcomed discourse in the satchel,
hurrying from point TO point to meet their con-
secutive engagements, now at some great city,
and the next night in an obscure village, for
ten, twenty, or thIrty pounds night.
Mr.. John Camden Hoten, the English
antiquarian bookseller, is about to publish a
work upon which he has been engaged for q
time, and which will doubtless contain good
deal OF curious matter. 1t is "History of Sign
boards" and is to be illustrated with one
hundred pictures of old signs, and about SIX
hundred pages of gossip thereon. The subject
Is a fertile one in every populous locality, as :
little observation will show. Our own city
abounds in singularities of the sort, as ''Oyster
and Fish by the Quartz" washing, Ironing, ant
Going out to Days Work Done in the Back
Room" "New and Second Hand Boots Made II
ORDER" withdrawing taken In at the shortes
Notices" and "scrubbing Done Here.n
There are said to be 2lO public libraries il
Italy, containing in the aggregate 4,l49,2S
volumes. There are lilo provincial libraries, an,
the collections belonging to II scientific socie