The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-08-07
INTERESTING BREVITIES.

N
uon 10 the Presidency of Mexico, he will proba-
bly, be sent to Washington as Minister by the
new administration, as mark of regard for
the United States
The son of the late Colonel Cass of the
gth Massachusetts, Regiment, who fell on the
Ieninsula, has been appointed as cadet at
West Point, to I'll one Of the places which are
at the disposal Of the President.
--orson Pratt, the Mormon apostle, recently
denounced by Brigham Young, arrived in Den
yer on Wednesday, on his way to salt Lake
City to beard the Mormon chiettain. lie has
Just returned from a missionary tour in Eng
land.
The Misses Maoomb, who are about to
marry the Hon. Messieurs Wellesley and Fame,
Of the English aristocracy, are nieces OF the
late General Phil. Kearney. Each of the
young ladies is reported in private circles to
be worth 100000 year in her own right.
They are the owners of immense estates at
Newark, across the river from the well l-known
Kearney chateau.
1t has been calculated that it would take
person over fifteen months and a half to visit
the whole of the Exposition in detail. There
are 45, 600 exhibitors, and allowing only five
minutes for the examination of each ones pro-
duce, we arrive at a total of 225, 900 minutes,
or 1850 hours, or 1856 days and I of "A hours.
But as the building of the Exposition is only
open to the public from 10 to 6, this reduces
Sl6 OdJ W uOuIb luSb6dl VI II, duu IL would
consequently take a person Is months, 20
days, and hours to examine the whole of the
objects exposed
GROSS INJUsT1oE.-In an article giving statis-
tics of spirit drinking by English sailors the
writer is excited to the exclamation: "What a
beast ~ We submit that an undeserved
stigma is cast upon dumb animals by the re-
mark.
A COMMON WANT.-It is said of the inventor
and of a Oayu uob nf ~;
CATION, that all he now wants is money. We
know of several persons whose talent is not
inventive, whose wants are summed up in the
same sentence.
MERRY MRNTIoN-The theatrical critic of the
World is very graceful and happy in his cha
racteri2ation OF young actress, whose doom,
it seems, is to be smothered in COMPLIMENTS
"Miss Lotta and Mischief are twins. Half the
time the tickled public can't tell t'other from
which," The same writer fancies the contin-
genoy of the young lady being least" for 'Lady
Macbeth" and at once the picture rises of ''a
kitten at funeral.'
MovNG IN A CIRCLE.-The latest and grand
est of scientific triumphs is the discovery of
the correlation of physical forces-a theory
which asserts the practical immortality of
power and its solar origin. communication
to the Paris Academy states that a plant
called Colocasia exhibits trembling motion
on being exposed to the sun strong enough to
affect the neighboring plants. This appears to
be remarkable instance of the transmutation
of solar light and heat into motion.
GRAND SPoRT.--Tastes differ. We never
should have reached by any stretch of fancy
the following picture of ''grand SPORT pre-
sented by a correspondent of the CtiSen:--
I'VE say 1T is grand sport to NAL Ike our way
. our knees at every step and which, penetrating
Through open shoe and thin drilling paHts-the
Il only covering of our lower extremities-cools
the blood better than gallons of fourth DrOOfp
An English physician, DIR. Culverwell, once
4 wrote book entitled ''What to Eat Drink,
and Avoid.'' Under the latter term he might
have placed "Grand Sport"
E QUESTION OF TITLE.-Despite Shakespeare,
we are of the opinion that the stealing of some
good names is the stealing of trash. And if
Mr.. Beecher did appropriate" the title Of
"Norwood" from book by Ned Buntline, we
apprehend that as soon as he found out what
he had nnocently done, his punishment was
more than he could bear. When Bulwer was
charged with plagiarizing for "The Caxtons"
from ''Tristram Shandy," there was an i'm
piled compliment in attributing appreciation
of Sterne to the peccant novelist. But no
such sugar coats the pill when Beecher is ac-
cused of plagiarizing from Buntline The
( reverend gentleman has our sincere sympathy.
3 THE RATIONALE OF REvoLUTIoN.-A single
propensity may be sufficient to explain the
most puzzlng and contradictory conduct on
the part OF great masses or men. Inc ten
dency of human nature to a particular line of
action in certain circumstances may be pre-
/ dicted as certainly and accurately as any of
the regularly recurring phenomena of the
universe. Macaulay says:-
T "It is the nature of man TO overrate present
evil and to underrate present good; TO long Tor
what he has not, and TO be dissatisfied with
what he has. This propensity as 1t appears IN
laughing and by weeping philosophers. II was
a favorite theme of Horace and OF Pascal, OF
Voltaire and of Johnson. To It's influence on
the fate of great communities may be ascrlbed
most of the revolutions and counter reVOlu-
\ tions recorded in history. hundred genera
emancipation, OF which an account has come
down to us. The slaves were wonder
fully set free, but in a few hours they
began to murmur against their leader. " y
Since that time the history OF every deliVerer
has been the history OF Moses retold. ="
produce much suffering. The most Just and
shlutary revolution cannot produce all Jhe goou
that had been anticipated from IL Oy men OF
uninstructed minds and sangutne tempers.
Even the WisesJ cannot, while 10 is sun recenJ u
weigh quite fairly the evils which it has caused
the evils which 10 has caused are felt, ana tne
evils which il has removed are felt no longer
ORIGIN OF THE WORD observation-disclosures
to say, the name of Plantagenet, which subse-
quently became so celebrated, was originally
used as a term of reproach. Fulke the Black
having contrived the death of his nephew, the
Earl of Brittany his confessor sent him as a
penance to Jerusalem, attended by two ser
wants; one was to lead him TO the Holy Sepul-
chre, and the other was to strip and whip him