The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-08-12
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
Milwaukee wishes Lake tunnel.


There are fifteen hundred orphans bv tho
iamine in Orissa.
Why does a man with a wooden leo linn
Because he's hobbly-gaited.
PUBLIC SPRTTED--Y Young ladies who allow
house. 0i " O0Oi
Cincinnati, Chicago, and st. Louis are
ealnng each other very hard names through
their newspapers-but then they are all
"hard'' cities.
= The citizens of Annapolis are trying to
obtain the removal of Commodore Porter,
superintendent of the Naval Academy. The
commodore, 1t appears, is too radical to suit
them.
-On Tuesday evening an array occurred in
Norfolk, Va, between Robert Dudley, of Bal
timore, and John Fullerton, resulting in the
latter being shot and dangerously wounded.
Dudley was arrested, and claimed to have
acted in self-defense. Mr.. Fullerton is an old
resident of Norfolk.
Mr.. J. Heneage Jessee, the gossippy his
torian, is engaged in writing a book, the sub
ject of which is Hannah Lightfoot the reputed
wife of George Ill, concerning whose ex
lstence himself and Mr.. Thomas, the anti
quarry, differ. They are writing notes at
each other through the columns of the Ahe-
nGUm.
Mr.. Charles Wells, member of the Lon
don press, was the only man in England out
side of the Asiatc Society who could or at
any rate who did, address the Sultan in his
own language translat'ng to him in Turkish
an address from a deputation of the Foreign
Affairs Committees and Friends of Turkey.
"A new journal has appeared in London
devoted to the interests of Scotland and Scoth-
men. 1t is entitled The London Scotsman, a
Weekly Journal Of Anglo-Scott,Sh Ne,oS, and
is published for four pence. Among its fea-
lures is a PORTRAIT Gallery of Eminent Scotch
men, the first two papers of which are de-
voted to Thomas Carlyle.
-4sMr. Olphad Hamet has lately published,
under the title of ga Martyr to photography"
sketch of the life and works of Joseph Marie
Querard, the greatest OF French photographers,
and one of the least fortunate of his class.
Outside of the limited number of readers of
photography for its own sake only one of
Querard's works succeeded in attracting much
attention-his "Supercheries Litteraires De-
vOilees'-and that was chiefly on account of a
terrific attack on Alexandra Dumas.
Mr.. Dunlap Gay, of Boone county, Mo-,
has mare on whose side was a lump about
the size of a mans head. A short time since
he concluded to have it opened, with view to
its removal, and asked DR.. f. G. Brown to
perform the operation which he did. The
prOtuberance being opened, was found to con-
tain four black snakes, about foot long, all
alive, and with white heads. This is a very
singular "snake story" but as it is indorsed
by the legally elected Representative in Con-
gress from the Ninth District, it ought to go to
the country-for what it is worth.
"A new analysis of Church parties has Just
been made by DR.. Hurst, in his "History of
Rationalism.' DR.. Hurst classfes some is, 900
of the clergy, as fOllows:-
High Church Exaggerated Type, Traetar'n d. lOO0
lStagnant Type High and Dry25O0
Normal Type, Evangelical, $500
Low Church Exag' 'ated Type, Recordite ..26OO
(Stagnaut :" Low and Slow. 700
Normal Type, Theoretical
1,rood c,trrob and Anti-TheoreJical.. ......3600
Dio"N Olui0n Exaggerated Type, Extreme
Rattonaltsts. .................... 30O
lStagnant Type.....".............., 700
If William Alexander, Dean of Gleny,
missed the poetical chair at Oxford, he has
gained honors of another kind, having just
been made Bishop of Derry. A scholar, a
poet, and theological author, he has been
selected to annotate portions of the New Tes-
lament for an edition of the Bible soon to be
published under the sanction of the Arch
bishops and Bishops of the Church of England.
With all Difference to the new Bishops theo-
logical attainments, it is a pity, we think,
that he was not elected to the poetical posi-
tion he coveted instead of Sir Francis Hast
ings Doyle.
Professor Frankland has determined the
Illuminating quality Of gas consumed in va
rious towns in Britain, and the result shows
what has been long too we'll known to every
resident in London, that the gas of the me-
tropolis is the worst in the kingdom. The illu-
minating power is tested by comparing the
light given by a certain burner with that
given by recognized standard sperm candle
The following is the result
LONDON. candles