The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-06-30

! be condescends to reply at all; bullies and
| abuses tL e man whose ticket is mislaid; becomes
| very rufhan, threatening personal violence TO
| the plucky few who demand seat as prere-
| quisiie to producing their tickets. The con-
| ductor is succeeded by shrlllvolced boys who
| walk down the aisle, thro wing right ana lett,
| IN your face or Lap, or on top of your book, as
| the case NAV be, flash newspapers and indies
| OF bad candy. Nothing that can add to your
misery is spared; any remonstrance only pre-
| cpitates fresh insults which you are po WereSS
| to resent Your threatened recourse to the
| officers Of the road is received with derision,
and, If made, IS followed by no a.onement or
! ameliOrat'on. Hotel and restaurant present
the same phenomena, with but slight variations.
| From Office clerk to waiter and chambermaid,
| neglect, severe houte1r, and fatuous condesoen-
| sion are the consequence of claiming their
| attention. To the hotel unhappnesse5 there
are occas onal and meritorious exceptions; to
| those of the railroads none.n
| The United States Se9Uice Magazine
| which has run for two years and half, ceased
with the issue of the July number. At the close
OF his valedlctory the publisher addresses our
6ghtlng men in the following terms:-
"Gal ant officers and brave men of the army and
navy of the United St.tes, whose kind appreciation
has always been 80 grateful, beca Use so heartily
gwen, In bringing to close in ercourse tnat has
been so plea ant, congratulate you on peace so
Dobly wOn-a peace that has no longer need OF
dlsunctvey mltary hterature-lnd beg TO add my
welcome home to that already proudly gwen
| you by an again united peop praying that the
time may be far distant when another call to arms
shall require the temperance Of the SerUice
Magazine"
To the closing lines OF which valedictory we
beg leave to add our emphatic amen.
Mary Of our readers are already informed
of the literary work which the Sanitary Com.
mission has undertaken since the close of its
active labors in the fed and hospital The
commission having a surplus of funds, thought
that the people would be best pleased with an
authentic record of its work, showing in detail
the amount of supplies received, and the manner
in which they have been expended. The ar
chves were collected from the various offices
and branches OF the Commission, and systemat-
cally arranged for historical use; and historical
| bureau was organized in October, 1865. Charles
| j. Stllle, Esq, Of this city, member Of the
| Commission, whom many viii remember as the
| author of "How a Free People Conduct a Long
| War, ;" published during the first months of the
| war, was selected AS historian.
| Miss Augusta j. Evans, the author of "Beu-
| lah," "Macaria," and other novels, is said to be
collecting money to repair the graves OF the sol
diers OF her State (Georgia), who lost their lives
in defense of the Confederate cause, According
| TO another account she has already erected over
their remains stately marble mausoleum.
| Two French men of letters, NJ. Paul Feval,
| the novelist and NJ. Victor Sardou, the drama
tist, have been expressing their opinion of each
other in Figaro. NJ Sardou was, in his literary
homage, proteqe OF NJ. Feval, aud the latter in
his article gives witty portrait of the ncipient
playwright at that period, as noticeable for its
| wit as its apparent truth. M. Sardou, in his
response, which is a manly statement OF the
difficulties that he encountered in trying to get
! his pieces played, and which narrates his
wanderings by night in winter across the
Seine, without umbrella or patelot, and his
remembrance of the arcades which on wet
nights gave him dry run of some hundreds
OF yards-M. Sardou, we say, relates hIs
acquaintance with NJ. Feval, aud how they
worked together on play, lie Bossu, for nearly
two years. which play was afterwards produced
with great success, without his name even ap.
pearing on the bill and without his obtaining any
other re ward than Belgian copy of M. Feval's
novel on the same theme, the original concep-
tion of whose plot came from him. "The copy
! goI,n he says, was a copy | could not even
SELL" NJ Sardou describes their working toge-
ther, and says that in murder scene which was
to have been the pivot OF the drama, NJ. Feval
stopped, and remarked, Suppose, in the middle
of this scene, we were to make Turk appear
suddenly at the back door," "a Turk !" Eyes
| Turk, dressed in magnificent oriental Co.'S
tune, who would utter these words in Arabic"
"What would be the use of the TurkW ~
don't know, but it seems to me that he would
produce a good effect" NJ Sardou negatived
the Turk, but his fellow-worker thought so
much OF that exalted parsonage that he used
him afterwards in one of his many novels. Alto.
gether the victory in this encounter OF French
wits rests with NJ. Sardou.
"A very interesting discovery in the history
Of art has just been made by M. Armand Baschet,
a French writer and antiquarian of considerable
merit. In searching through the archives OF
Mantua in order to find, If he could, some details
of the Me of Rubens at that court, about which
little had beenAitherto known, he hit on a com
plete series of letters of Rubens, as well as
number of official documents and papers eff thC
Duke, concerning him and his mission to Spain
HIS name first appears in July, 1901, in lette
of recommendation to the Cardinal Montalto
on his going to Rome to copy some pictures
The most interesting documents are the letter
of Rubens himself, descriptive of his journe
to Spain, where he had been sent to take som
Q paintings to the all-powerful minister, the Duk
OF Lerma. He speaks with freedom and
!. | liberty of speech and idea that must great
e | have surprised the functionaries of an Italia
n court. The details that he gives OF the damage
= state in which the paintings arrived and tn
a trouble he had to restore them, are very curious
e He succeeded so we'll that the copies executed .