The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-07-31
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.


The coffee crop in Hawaii promises well
this year, being estimated at 100000 pounds.
1t is said that eighty thousand dozen bot
ties of Congress water were sold last year.
The taxable property of Illinois, as per
assessment returns Of 1866, is s44l ,OOOOOo'
The Atlantic Gable batteries are said to be
well charged. So are cable prices
--Complexions are rendered fashionable in
Paris by tinting with chicory.
Among the daily arrivals in Paris, Sala
says, is Mr.. Bore from Bore.
100000 600 bushels of coal are now shipped
yearly down the Ohio.
The San Francisco opera house cleared
$15, 675 last month.
90. .OO0. 900 bushels of corn we're raised in
Indiana last year.
Lopez should now be given medal for
dis-HonOr.
Prospects for Sea Island cotton are all at
sea.
The Prussian Government is devoting
earnest attention to the construction of a canal
to unite the Rhine, the Weser, and the Elbe.
The French official paper denies that there
is to be an official inquiry into the conduct of
Marshal Bazaine in France.
"A duel with pocket-knives gtook place in
Mississippi not long since. Both parties were
fatally injured.
Half the wheat of Western New York is
now safely housed, and has been got in in
good order.
The total valuation of Buffalo for the last
year is $34 957 700, against S32 595, $40 for the
year 1866.
Queen Victoria is just now the object of
almost as much newspaper insult as President
Johnson.
California is going to cultivate the banana
in the Los Angeles, Santa Clara, and Solano
regions.
DIR. Carroll the Roman Catholic candidate,
has been elected Lord Mayor of Dublin for
1868.
The Mexican Consuls at Havre and Cette,
M. M Mora, of Ozta, and Brunet as well as
several vice-consuls of that State, in France,
have resigned their Offices
"A Civic Cross is going to be founded in
Belgium for acts of devotedness. It will be in
enamel, mounted in gold for the first class, and
in silver for the second.
Admiral Tegethof, with the officers who
are to accompany him on his mission to Mexico
to claim the body of the Emperor Macmillan,
has arrived in Paris.
The Swiss Federal Council has reduced
the charge Of kilograms in the interior of the
country from l fr. to SOC. 90 cents American
money! for twenty words. The new rate is to
come in force on the first of January, 1868.
The Swiss Federal Council has Just recon-
mended the Executive to present a report on
the measures to be taken for introducing, as
speedily as possible, into the country the metri-
cal SYSTEM Of weights and measures.
The celebrated mill of Sans-Souci, con-
nected with an interesting episode in the life of
Frederick the Great, which had been much
damaged last year by hurricane, has been
completely repaired.
. 4I,o of h. TUo.
ment has announced that from January l.,
1868, the Swiss army will possess eighty thou
sand breech-loading rifles on the Prelaz- Bur
maud system.
The French Prince Imperial's Bhealth is
excellent. His Imperial Highness takes ex.
cursions in the mountains nearly every day,
and has grown considerably since his late i'll
ness.
-Signor Ratazzi, the Italian Prime Minister
was expected to visit Paris at the end of July
to arrange for the loan of G24, ,000,000 on the
church properties, which, it is believed, is Il
be raised by redeemable bonds and not, as a
first contemplated, in the form of rentes.
Contagious cattle disease has latterly beeI
prevalent in the communes Of Montfort, Castel
maud Arbiou and Saint Oreus- -Bouypetit
France. The authorities have prescribed the
measures necessary to prevent an extension o
the malady.
1t is stated that the seventeen question
which are to be the basis of debate in tn
Gcumenical Council at Rome and which hav
been communicated to the bishops on return
ing to their dioceses, relate exclusively t.
ecclesiastical subjects, and have no politica
bearing whatever.
AT the Theatre Francais, when there wa
political demonstration against the Govern
ment in the course of Victor Hugo
"Hernani," " the Viceroy of Egypt got up an,
left the house, although he had hardly go
seated. This was out of consideration for hi
host the Emperor.
"A Copenhagen letter mentions that a mar
riage between the Princess Louisa, of Sweden
only daughter of Charles XIV, and the Crow
Prince of Denmark is arranged on the part @
the two royal families, but that the final deci
sion is to be left to the Prince and Princes
themselves.
The inhabitants Of Paris must appear il
the eyes of the sovereigns and princes VIII
visit the French capital to have among them
very considerable number of mendicants, sine
those illustrious personages are besieged wit
applications for pecuniary assistance, unde
all sorts of pretenses, and for sums of money
from 20 francs to l00,0 900 francs.
An expedition is about to be sent by tn
French to the North Pole, to make scientif
observations. IL is got up under the auspice
of the Geographical Society, and by som
savans of the Institute, and the expenses ar
to be betrayed by private contributions. 1t
to be under the direction of M. Lambert,
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