The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-08-09
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

brave Old Ben Wade is to stump Ohio for
the Republicans.
-Paducah has twenty-five or thirty candi-
dates for city marshal.
General Swayne has left Mobile for Wash
ingtOn and New York.
-"Idlewild" has been let for a school
Schools are often idle wilds.
The air in Europe is very strongly i'm
pregnated with sulphur and saltpetre.
The Buffalo police are confscating bread
OF light weight for the benefit of the poor.
Jack Hamilton wants to go to Congress
rather than to Texas. Not much choice
One man boasts in Indiana that he gets
new wife and new divorce every quarter.
1t is certain now that the hay crop will
be unprecedentedly large, weather or no.''
The New York Observer is making some
very uncivil observations concerning ritualism.
-Eighty-fve per cent of the mortality at
st. Louis is among children under five years of
age.
--Mad'lle Finette who can kick your hat off
six times running, is writing her memoirs for
Paris.
Tin has been discovered in Missouri, and
parties are getting ready to fill their pockets
with it.
"A London newspaper spent thirty thou
sand dollars in the vain effort to live beyond
few weeks.
--''Marrying for life'' is phrase which is
coming into use in the West. 1t does not need
explanation.
The viceroy of Egypt gave the Dramatic
Society in London three thousand dollars as
little souvenir.
Miss Smith is at Long Branch. Her name
appears in the papers as Miss S-h; so Miss
cuts dash incog.
Governor Burnside is one of the Directors
of the newly formed Peru and Plymouth (Ind.) }
Railroad Company.
The hero and heroine of runaway match
in Indiana were a middle-aged man and a
widow with five children.
Secretary Seward and Postmaster General
Randall will accompany the President in his
contemplated trip to Tennessee.
-Ex- Governor Dutton, of Connecticut, is on
visit to Newtown, in that State, where he
commenced business as lawyer fifty years
ago.
1t is stated that Mad'lle Tietjens will pro-
ceed to st. Petersburg, where she is engaged
to sing during the ensuing winter at salary
of 10000 francs per month.
A man who tried the Chicago matrimonial
bureau found his welded happiness cut short
in two days, by the disappearance of his
spouse with considerable greenbacks.
The latest story is that Wilkes Booth is
now the captain of a pirate vessel and the
terror of the China seas. How about tha
backbone in the Washington Museums
Punch reports the speech of an Irish M. P
who thought Ireland was overtaxed. "Tak
a tenth of our income, sir Ay, that they do
and they'd take twentieth, if they dared"
At a club dinner with a party of Nan
tucket people, not long ago, one of the guest
remarked that Nantucket horses were cele
brated for their general worthlessness, imbe
cility, and marvellous slowness. He said tina
citizen sold one to cavalry officer durln
the war, and warranted him to be good waT
horse. The soldier came back afterwards il
a towering passion, and said he had beel
swindled.
Gas how % said the Nantucketer.
''Why there's not bit of 'go' in him; an
yet you warranted him as good war-horse.
"Yes, did; and by George, he is goo
war-horse; he'd sooner die than run"
BAD.-A feeble punster writes us that
Abd-ul-Mediid was unable to effect reforms l
Turkey, Abd-ul-Aziz Khan.
MALICIOUS SUGGESTION. Pail Ma
GaSette advises all who wish to send chignor
after crinolnes to persistently call them b
their true name-chOur, or oabbages. IN
earliest definition of the chignon, in our Lar
guage, by Cograve, in 1911, runs thus:-
'Chlgnon, the ehyne, or chyne-pieoe of Il
wood or tymber."
The earliest description is found in IL
''Mundus Muliebris," 169O:-
"Behind the noddle everv bagsaga
Wears bundle ch0l1, In English cabbage"
Fairholt defines the "choux', as sttha era
round boss or bundle of hair, worn at the baf
of the head, and resembling a eabbaga fro
whence the French gave il that nams.V-