The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-08-08
MIsCELLANEOus Items

such an entire state of mental prostration nc
be altogether past work
Another new opera by NJ. Offenbach. La
Pem'Sston de Dir Heres, has been Or roduced
at Ems, with entire success.
-Reverses in business and four feet of rome
We're the causes of death in the case of a Mil
waukee merchant
Letters from Constantinople state that
the Sultan has directed commission for the
purpose of establishing code in his domi
mons based on the Code Napoleon.
"A Swedish tenor, Herr Labatt. singer of
great popularity at the Royal Theatre at Stock
holm, has entered into an engagement to
appear at Her Majesty's Theatre next summer.
- While the King of Sweden Is on his
travels, Sweden and Norway are, in accord
nee with their political constitution governed
by council of Regency, of which Prince
Oscar is President.
The Rev. f. E. Baker, Vicar Of Aliens
more, Herefordshire, England, who died re-
Gently, was a worthy man, but somewhat
eccentric. He would pull off his coat and 90
and break stones on the road, allowing the
workman to rest in the meantime.
-Fuad Pasha, the celebrated Minister of
Abdul-Aziz, made a speech in England, in
which he described the Eastern question as
one of economics rather than politics. Grail
roads, commercial activity, and progress" ;" he
said, ''would soon give a different aspect to the
tangled skein of Eastern affairs"
Sir Moses Montefore having received most
heartrending accounts of the sufTerings of his
co-religionists in Modavia, has determined,
Notwithstanding his great age, to proceed from
England on a charitable mission to Jassy
to exercise his influence on behalf of the suf-
ferers.
The common nightly receipts at Niblo's
Garden are $500. In view Of this it is anus
ing to read in the French papers that the re-
ceipts at a recent performance of the Biche au
BoiS at the Porte st. Martin, reached the un-
precedented sum of 7l42 francs or less than
$1400.
- General Heintzelman, heretofore con-
nected with the Fifth Military District, and
stationed in Texas, has been ordered by the
War Department, at the expiration of his pre-
sent leave of absence, to report in New York,
and await further orders.
Considerable interest has been excited in
Bengal by the death of the Hon. Sumlonath
Pundit, the only native yet found worthy of
seat on the bench of an Indian High Court.
The deceased judge was of Cashmere origin;
his family never intermarried with Bengalees,
and he kept aloof from all Bengalee usages.
He began life on 9A year as a clerk, and
then went to the native bar.
During the centenary, Francis, the ex-
King of Naples, held quite a Royal Court in
four thousand visitors attached to the old
regime. 1t is said that large number of
brigands took part in the celebration, and it
was remarked that for few days brigandage
almost entirely ceased.
"A noble inventor has just appeared in the
person Of the Earl of Caithness. His lordship
has made and patented compass, which is
said to be a great improvement on those now
in use. The inventor claims for it a supe-
riority to most of the influences by which COM
passes are liable to be vitiated. 1t has been
tested on the Clyde, and seems to have given
great satisfaction.
The Sultan's visit to Lady Palmerston was
paid by his Majesty at his own special desire,
and was the only private visit he paid in
England. The Sultan said that Lord Palmer
ston was the Englishman he had most desired
to see and that, as he had been removed by
inexorable fate, it was his (the Sultan's) wish
to pay homage to his name by visiting her
ladyship.
When Victor Hugo's comedy, the Bur
qrdUeS, was produced with very qualified sue
cess, a reaction in favor of the classic, as op-
posed to the romantic school of dramas having
set in, he had in his portfolio new drama
almost finished, entitled Les Deur Jrmeaur
This work, already received at the Comedie
Victor Hugo threw aside in disgust, and it has
remained to this day incomplete. 1t is hoped
it will now be given to the world. 1t turns
upon the adventures OF Jn6 MAN III Ille lrOl
Mask. M. Hugo has adopted the view, which
M. Alexandra Dumas subsequently worked
out very ingeniously in his VicOmte de Bragg
Tonne, that the man in question was brothe
of Louis XIV.
The female Australian black swan in tn
Geological Gardens, of Lyons, France, shor
time since laid two eggs, and as she did no
seem anxious to sit upon them, they wer
placed among six others produced by whit
swan. All eight birds were Matched, and a
were of the same greyish hue. But the NAL
and female old birds instinctively dis
covered the intruders, and maltreate
them so much that one died, the otht
being rescued with some difficulty. 1t is
present thriving, and the black plumes whic
distinguish its race are beginning to appear.
The Tribunal of Police of the Canton
Vaud in Switzerland, has lately been engage
in trying a young man named Piquillou'
charged with having for some time past pra
tised medicine and surgery in female attir
II appeared that he had succeeded in con
pletely Disgusting himself as a woman, al
had obtained under the name of Miss Abbot
and in the quality of an American, admissic
into several families, Offering his servlc
chiefly to ladies. The fraud was detected
hair-dresser, to whose shop he went to pu
chase a chignon. 1t was found that he cou
only be convicted of the illegal exercise of b
profession and ON that count the Court co
demned him to one months imprisonment.
in his novel of Norwood" Henry Wa
Beecher discourses as follows concerning u
uture life of horses-