The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-08-29
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

,-Theophile Gauter hopes to fill Ponsard's
chair in the French Academy.
Girls wrestle for prizes at the Rapp
Theatre in Stockholm.
DIR. Hollands new poem is called "Cathri-
MIA; Her Life and Mine.h
,-Alonzo Chappen has painted "Three
Nymphs Bathing.''
The Americans in Honduras have started
newspaper.
The desertiOns from the Pontifcal Army
continue.
The King of the Belgans is going to visit
queen Victoria at Osborne. His Majesty is
expected to stay five days.
The death of Nine. Victorien Sardou,
wife of the celebrated French dramatic author,
is announced.
General Won Moltke has purchased with
the gratuity he received from the Prussian
Government for his services in the late war, q
considerable estate in the district of Schweid-
nitz.
"A wild man who had for some time been
living in the woods around Draguignan,
France, was few days back found burned to
death by the late fire in the forest of that vi
oinity.
IN. Theodore Rousseau, the eminent French
landscape painter and gold medallist of the
Exhibition, has been struck with paralysis of
eA4O AOAb oANOs AAopOo dl0 0hboildlI6u VI ulS re-
oovery.
"A washerwoman in Milwaukee, known as
Old Kate, died recently with singular symp-
toms. The doctors found a number of large
live crabs in her stomach. She had probably
drank the eggs in water.
The late Duke de Mornys estates at
Deauvile are about to be sold. He erected
this pleasant watering place under imperial
patronage, but it has not attracted visitors,
and nrOnartV fhAra ia varv fnuoh
--Ofenbach's four last favorite operas have
hitherto produced 2,b55, ,3S0fr. "La Belle
Helene" has had 273 representations "Barbe
Bleue," 130; {" La Vie Parisienne," 265; and
"La Grande Duchesse de Gerolstein, ," 100.
Scene. A crowded horse car.
First Passenger. (To a sturdy laborer stand
ing in front of him. 81 say, there! I've got
toes ~
Second Passenger. 'Y-e-s." "a CLEAN of
intelligence Hghtens his face.) 81 felt 'em.'
The banks of the Lake of Constance are
at the present moment covered with vast
numbers of dead fish, the result of a malady
prevailing among them. A similar epidemic
recently prevailed in the waters of the Lake
of Geneva.
I'm France scheme has been proposed for
gigantic tunnel under the Atlantic Ocean to
unite the Old and New Worlds by submarine
railway. ALI that is necessary is money and
time. An approximate estimate places the
amount required at 81, 500, 900, 900.
Another manifestation in favor of the
union of the States of Southern Germany to
the Northern Confederation took place at
Stuttgard on the 9Th. The Assembly con-
sisted of the leading public men of Bavaria,
Wurtemberg, Baden, and Hesse.
"A large reduction has been made in the
import duty on cereals at all Portuguese ports.
The operation of this free-trade decree is
limited to the end of the present year. Per-
haps it will be found to work so well that the
Government may be persuaded to continue it.
The Suez Canal people only want hun
dred millions (of francs) more, and with that
sum they pledge themselves to complete their
work. This, it will be remembered is the
fourth hundred of millions they have asked
for; they have already had three.
There is every prospect of an excellent
harvest in Southern Russia. The wheat crop
especially is magnificent all along the coasts of
the Sea of Azof. From the state of the
markets in Western Europe, higher prices and
and increased expectation from the Black Sea
ports are anticipated.
n --Garibaldi's attack of acute rheumatism in
the shoulder has prevented him from taking
the field. His son Menotti who was at Orvieto
few DAYS back with several Garibaldian officers,
has been recalled to Vinci by telegraph, which
would seem to indicate that the projects have
been suspended for the present.
Victor Hugos lies Mlserables" has been
dramatized for the English stage by Mr. Cla-
renee Holt. 1t will shortly be produced in
London after it has been represented at the
Sunderland Lyceum and other provincial thea
tres. 1t is said to be most powerful and inte-
resting drama.
Lady Nilton's wedding ring was alto
gether the work of the noble bridegroom,
being fashioned by his own hands from a
nugget dug by him in British Columbia,
during his visit to the gold fields, after his
Northwest Passage by Land, I" the marvellous
incidents of which he and DR.. Chodle have so
well narrated.
The Military Tribunal of Berlin has just
given Judgment in the affair of Lieutenant
Seheve, who had killed shoemaker in whose
house he lodged. The accused has been con-
demned to three years. detention in fortress.
AS this punishment is considered equivalent
to about two years imprisonment, the mini
mum sentence only has been inflicted.
"A meeting of garGOnS de caJ6 was held al
Paris few days ago to discuss the great
''pourboire" question. It was convened by q
waiter with soul above his business, who
thought the acceptance of pourboires "dero-
gatory to the dignity of the profession, " but g
majority decided on continuing to pocket the
afront.
Sir Henry Bulwer is engaged in preparing
for publication diplomatic reoollections of his
time The work will contain much relating