The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-09-16
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
The London Repie,O tiokles Emerson.

The London ReUie,O tickles Emerson.
The T,0O Republics is the title of an
American newspaper in the City of Mexico.
Two hundred vessels will be employed in
the oyster trade of Norfolk, Va, this season.
Mrs. Lander played in New York in iuve-
nile parts when she was eight years old.
Since the Rebellion, grey is known as a
subdued color.-Nea0 Bedford Mercuvy
-Governor Powell, of Mississippi with one
of his daughters, is at New Haven, Ct.
Senator Yates, of Illinois, denies the story
that he is going to New York to live.
"A Louisiana Dogberry has decided that
stealing watermelons is not theft.
"A Worcester lady who lost her thimble
twenty years ago, has just found it.
Why is fire paradoxicalf Because the
more it's coaled the hotter it gets.
About twelve and half millions was spent
upon the Suez Canal last year.
Forty thousand butterflies have futtered
about Long Branch this season.
Queen Isabella and Queen Pia had little
'tmifF' in Madrid recently.
"A base-ballist in Canisteo, N. Y. has made
throw of 3l4 feet.
The Appletons are riding into popularity
on a Muhlback.
The Texans ask Greeley to go bail for
Santa Anna.
lightning railroad trains should have
"good conductor
Mount Desert is nearly deserted by
visitors.
AN eighth book of Mendelssohn's "Songs
without Words'' has been published in Ger
many.
There is one thing among many in this
life to try men more than any other. 1t is "a
jury.
-Jerome's race horse tKentucky'' is to be
immortalzed in bronze by Macdonald, the
sculptor.
There is an engraved topaz in the Paris
Exposition, upon which twenty years OF labor
were expended.
The valuation of the taxable property of
the State of New York the present year is
$l,664, l07, 1875.
Rev. DIR. Hams, of Hartford, left the neat
little property of $4,000; considerably more
than was expected.
John ]. Leavitt, of Hampton, N. H., has
been appointed Deputy United States Marshal
for New Hampshire.
-Brigadier- General Ingraham, of New Bed
ford has been appointed Governor of the Mill
tary Asylum at Augusta, Me.
Rev. D. c. Babcock of Claremont, N. H..
succeeds Rev. A. j. Church, of Concord, re-
signed, as State Temperance Agent.
-Eugenie and Achille Fould quarrelled
about the burial of the formers sister, thu
Duchess d'Abbe, and have never "made up"
"A chronic grumbler is convinced that dol
days do not end on tn 9Th of September Th
almanac makers, he declares, have made
Sirius mistake.
Will any of our Maine exchanges tell u
the name of the Solon who first suggested
that the sale Of cider be made a crimina
oaensel
Mr.. Charles Kingsley is soon to come t
this country. Pity that he mixed himself up i
the Jamaica business. Otherwise he would
frst-class lion.
DIR, James H.. Thompson, of Dover, Me
formerly Surgeon of the 18th Maine Regimen
has been appointed Surgeon of the Nations
Military Asylum, at Milwaukee, Wis.
-Ex-Governor Smith, of st. Albans, Vt
gave public reception, on Monday night,
ex-Secretary Stanton, who has been visitir
him for several days past.
Mr. Charles A. Barry the artist, leaves t
day, from Boston, for Edinburgh, on bushes
connected with his profession, and will rema
abroad until the lst of January.
Major Hayden Mcclellan, of Portland, Me
has been appointed Special Postal Agent,
take charge Of the mails on the new line
steamers from San Francisco for Honolulu, al
leaves Immediately for active service.
Partridge shooting can Low be indulg
in with impunity as the legal restraints pa
away with August but it is said we have
partridges, the birds called by that name beil
grouse.
Ralph Waldo Emerson and Rev. DR.. E.
Chaplin, of New York. are leeturing in Mass
chusetts Both gentlemen speak under t
auspices of the Berkshire Medical Cole
. Association.
w. W. Chenery, of Belmont, Mass, r
ceived $25 gratuity at the New England Fl
at Providence, last week, for his efforts a.
success in importing and breeding the Assyri
or Cashmere goat.
Maine elects several editors to the Leg
lature. Among them are Dingley, of I
Lewiston Journal; Foster, of the Portla
Press; Rush, of the Belfast Age and SteVel
of the Kennebec journal.