The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-05-07
MSCELLANkOUg JOTT1NGS.


The Hebre,O National, q new weekly Jour
nal, published in London gives some interest
ing statistics of the Jewish race. 1t says that
there are now living about 5000, 900 lsraelites
about half Of whom live in Europe. There
are / 300 900 in Russia; in Austria 900 600; in
Prussia, 254000 and in all other parts of
Germany, 100000 in France, about 80, 600;
in Switzerland, 5000 in Great Britain, about
$4,000; in Syria and Asiatic Turkey, $4,000
in Morocco and North Africa, 100000 in East
Asia, 500, 500 in America $50, 900; in Bel
GUM, 1900; in Denmark, $500; in Italy,
$500.
We have the pleasure of announcing to
our readers the accession of new European
sovereign. Prince Henry XXI of Reuss-Greiz,
having attained his majority, had ascended
the throne of that country, which since 1859
has been governed by his mother, the Princess
Caroline, as regent. The extent of the terri
tory over which Prince Henry XXI is now
ruler is seven square miles.
The young ladies of Alabama have adopted
a new style of waterfall. 1t consists of a cocoa
nut fastened en- the back part of the head by
means of ribbons. The cocoanut being hol-
low, the ladies carry their rouge, hair oil, and
painting materials in it. The new style
gives universal satisfaction, and it is expected
will be introduced hereabouts before great
while.
Mr.. J. Ham Friswell, author OF "The Gen
tie Life, and a writer of heavily brilliant
essays in the Saturday BeUie,O, is about to
publish an edition of Sydney's Arcadia"
which he has edited and annotated.
Professor Madvig, of Copenhagen, is a.
work upon an edition of Cicero's ode Finibus
Bonorum ct Malorum," which may be looked
for some time during the present year.
The current number of MacmiLlan'S Maga-
zine adds to the large stock of Eliana by gos-
sippy article entitled "Charles Lamb-Glean-
ings after his Biographers."
An illustrated edition of the novels of
George Eliot is in course of publication. 1t is
issued in sixpenny numbers, the series COM
mencing with "Adam Bede."
"A new edition is announced of NJ Taine's
"Hlstoire de la Literature Anglaise," " which
is by all odds the best foreign history of Eng
lish literature ever written.
M. G. Nicholaides, a Cretan, has lately
published stragetical commentary on the
Iliad, which has been translated into French,
and is very highly spoken Of
Two new Italian journals are talked of,
La Verta, daily, to be published at Bologna,
and u Verit@ Cattolico, a Venetian periodical
of a religious character.
The last number of the Gendeman's Maga-
zine contains the first four chapters of Mr..
Henry Kingsleys new serial story, 'Mademoi-
selle Mathilde.''
The students of Milton will find some
thing to their taste in the April number of
Good Words, in the shape of a fresh transla-
tion of some of his Italian sonnets.
Mr.. William i. Gage has nearly ready a
translation from the German of Francxe on
"The Rise and Progress of the Orphan Houses
of Halle"
The Prussian Government has allowed
sum of thirty thousand thalers a year for the
completion of the cathedral at Frank fort-on-
the-Maine.
like the one across Broadway. Two hundred
persons are killed in the streets of that city
annually by vehicles.
The Oriental ReUie,o, a new magazine, is
to appear once fortnight at Florence, from
the lst of April. Its editor is Professor de
Gubernatis.
The Queen of the Belgians has opened
fancy fair, established by the Philharmonic
Society, to assist in the establishment of cheap
kitchens for the working classes.
"A naughty girl has been arrested in Paris
for pouring boiling water on her papa, beating
him with a club, and otherwise improperly
conducting herself.
Lady Emily Peel has presented Sir Robert
with a frst-born son, after eleven years of
marriage.-LondOn Paper.
The wheat crop of Wisconsin is said to
promise a larger yield this season than was
ever before known.
There are every year, in Hussia, $50 horse
fairs, in 1913 localities.
"A cross-grained old bachelor says that
''tin" is the tavorite belle metal nowadays.
-Rumor says that the Chicago lake tunnel
profted the contractors about $4,000.
Spell the Grecan Archipelago in three
letters Why L, &, and c, of course.
Louis Napoleon, or Napoleon III, is fifty
nine years old.
The needle-gun sows many tears