The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-08-01
INTERESTING BREVTTIES,

libel suit.
them.
fighters.
: Michigan is going to disfrancbise prize
fighters.
In Indiana a man was recently divorced
Tor the third time from his fifth wife.
The Alabama claims elude payment as
Semmes used to elude fight
Grant must have great deal to say, he
has said so little in the course OF his life.
Washington has a temperance newspaper
There is enough for it to do there.
Daily 'huckleberry trains' are run from
New Jersey into New York and Philadelphia.
"A cooperative knife factory has been
started by some sharp Connecticuters.
New Jersey peach-growers have begun
their annual cry Of "short crops"
"A Savannah paper announces one of its
contributors as engaged on a jeu de spree.
"A rural genius has made maple sugar
from the sap of the black walnut tree.
The new ffteen-cent note has a singular
adaptation to the price Of ''straight drinks"
When you are angry, don't write. Words
when spoken are air, but when written are
things.
The Good Tempars of Connecticut have
found it expedient to repudiate the spy
system.
The division among the California Re-
publcans affords much diversion to the
Democrats.
"A heavy sarcasm upon the present weather
is the fact that the skate factories are busily
at work.
The hardware stores are doing a good
business in Tennessee just now, and lead is at
premium.
The Californians have opened a school for
the Chinese, where they can learn to talky if
they wishy.
"A monument of white marble is to be
erected at Harrisburg to Pennsylvanians who
fell in Mexico.
The Geological Garden in Frankfort-on-
the-Main contains 999 animals, representing
29S different kinds.
The friends of Archbishop Purcell, of Gin
cinnati, are looking to see him come home
with a cardinals hat.
The master tailors in London refuse to
hire the strikers, on the principle that the
men shall reap as they have sewn.
Debts are troublesome, but as general
rule in these days, they don't give half as
much trouble to debtors as to creditors.
The ladies of the White House, the family
of Secretary Welles and Mr.. Faxon arrived in
Boston on Tuesday on the gunboat Ascutney.
The American Watch Company, Water
town, Ct, turns out watch every two and
half minutes during the working hours of the
day.
AN exchange says that Ben Wade ''struck
chord that is vibrating through the world"
R11ff fbaf GEohnrd33 ufronn1inn
Ben.
-'Mrs. Jones was insured" is the some
what equivocal commencement appended to
an account of the burning of barn and live
stock.
M. Theirs in debate accused the French
Government as "guilty of inveracity." The
phrase is not patented; our congressman may
use it.
The jail in Miami county, Ohio, is without
tenant, from which the conclusion follows
that the people must be very good or the jail
very bad.
Mary Brown, who claimed 100000, has
recovered $2500 from DR.. Winston in Nash
vile, for killing her husband by an overdose
of morphine.
"A colored man in Illinois has obtained
divorce from his wife on the ground of crue
treatment. Dinah thought she had "rights'
as well as Sambo.
1T was proposed to put General Grant
picture on the new fifteen-cent currency, bu
there is a law against honoring anybody il
that way hereafter.
The State Fair held recently in New Or
leans, notwithstanding the poverty of th
South, was larger and better attended than OF
any previous year.
The President does not know what styl
of watch guard to send the Tycoon with hi
present of chrOnometer. A guard Of homo
would be very appropriate.
queen Victoria gave the Duchess of ST
Albans for her wedding gift, a gold chain an,
n two shawls. Her husbands gift was a dia
sInond tiara and his love. Ali
The Connecticut Legislature, if we ma,
ieve the report published in a New Havel
per, lately resolved ''to pay $S5 for dea'
5rse." That animal probably had MOrgue-a
hood.
According to statistics Turkey, in 1865
had 10, 900 schools, attended by 100000 boy
and girls, out of 25000,0 900. In Russia ther
are 20, 900 schools, and 900, 900 boys and girl
attending them
"A sharp talking lady was reproved by he
husband, who requested her to keep he
tongue in her mouth. "My dear" responds
the wife, sit is against the law to carry con
cealed weapons"
Chicago diptheria is an old disease wit
a new name. 1t is considered as affecting
person when the truth settles down in him s
low that none can be got out. The catni
doctors call it lying.
Mr.. Albert Pike, native of Newburypor
nj nIf 6 I,a ,naYNIofg o1I