The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-11-14
FOREIGN JoTTNGs.

FHb mU oCRoP OF PARIs,--Among the many
economies OF municipal administration in Paris
Is the sale OF the yearly mud CROP" In 1923
this yielded only S15, 900. II now brings
$lZOOO0, and when left for some time in rot
ting tanks is sold for manure at the increased
valuation of $780, 900. If we could but make
able
A New PRUssIAN BULwARK. town of
Thorn, in Western Prussia on the frontier of
Poland, is about to be made fortified place of
the first rank by means of detached forts.
This measure has been adopted with strate-
glcal view, in consequence of the concession
OF railway line from that town to Posen'
The line will be of great commercial impor-
tance.
RECRUITING IN ENGLAND.-Oflcial statistics
published by the British War Office show a
considerable increase in the proportion of
English and decrease in that of Scotch and
Irish recruits, but particularly of the latter
OF every 1000 recruits, 2l8 were unable to
read or write, 106 were able to read only, and
676 were able to read and write. Among
$4,000 recruits inspected 236 were persons of
professional occupations and students, of
whom 1O8 were rejected for physical dis
ability.
DECENNIAI CoINcIDENcEs-some ingenious
student of figures in this country discovered
some months since, that every ten years there
was a recurrence of financial panic as, for
draws to close and trade is fearfully dull
though there are no signs of panic, the Eng
lsh papers note, as a remarkable fact that an
autumnal session of Parliament, which is
sometimes calamity, occurs every ten years.
There was one in 1887, lS47, and 1857, and
will be one this year.
Music VS.. PREAcHlNG.-A London newspaper
says a critical visitor at the Church of st.
Catharine Cree was astonished, a few Sundays
ago, to hear the Litany prefaeed by a long
tenor solo rendered by professional gentle
man." and followed by the performance of
another solo by young lady, standing upon
stool or hassocl1, for the better elevation of
her person. AS the music took up much time,
the clergyman announced that he had not
time left to preach his sermon in full, but he
would have il printed
RUSSIAN DIALEcTs.-A curious book has lust
appeared at Moscow. 1t is the Lords Prayer
reproduced in all the Scave idioms, but with
the Russian characters and spelling. The ver-
slons are thirteen in number, and are arranged
in the following order:-Sclavonc Russian
idiom of Little Russia, idioms Bulgarian, Ser
vian, Khorvato- Dalmatan, Slavonic, Tcheque,
Slovak, Polish, Kassoubian and the idioms of
Upper and Lower Lusatia. The author is Mr..
Jezber, Professor of the Sclavonic Languages
and formerly editor of the SloUenine.
DEATH IN DANISH COURT CRcLEs.-The
Countess Danner, morganatic wife of the late
King of Denmark, has just died. She was
born in 1914, and was at first teacher in
Norway, and afterwards an actress in Paris.
1t was at later period, in Copenhagen, in a
mdgasin deS modes, that Frederic, at that time
Crown Prince, saw her for the first time. On
his accession to the throne, in 1S4S, he con-
ferred on her the title of baroness, afterwards
created her Countess DanHer and married her
publicly in the church of Fredericksburg on
April II, 1850
ENLIGHTENMENT IN New ZEALAND.-New Zea-
land has resolved to found a university.
Meetings have been held in Dunedin, the
capital, and the legislature has been petit
toned on the subject. In the meantime, as a
temporary eXpedient, scholarships are to be
founded, which will be open to all young men
resident within the colony, and obtained by
public competition, to enable the successful
candidates to complete their education at one
of the universities of the United Kingdom, or
at any university of established reputation,
the selection to be made by the parents or
guardians of the scholars.
EDUCATION IN ENGLAND.-A prominent Eng
lsh politician, in a recent speech at Bolton,
asserted 'that from twenty-seven to thirty
four per cent. of those married in the parishes
around London are unable to write their
Names and that there are forty thousand chill
dren in the city of Manchester attending no
school," The passage of the Reform bill has
had its natural effect in stimulating the cause
of education. Those who have just acquired
taught, and the more intelligent classes see
the necessity of teaching those who are to
help rule the country.
STARVATION IN IRISH PRIsoNs.-A correspon-
dent writes to the Pail Mall Gdzette:-'I have
frequently been on duty in the county Jail at
Cork, and have been struck with the singu-
larly wan and emaciated appearance of the
prisoners. Once happening to detect pecu-
liarly hungry-looking convict, employed in
cleaning the guard-rOom, in the act of swiftly
concealing piece of meat from the Piled-up
heap about to be cooked for the mems dinner
Ga theft, by-the-by, did not think Of report
ing), inquired Of the gatekeeper, 'How often
do the prisoners have meat issued to them p
'Onst year, every Christmas day = was the
response.
ONE OF BIsMARK's DRFCULTIEs.-A Berlin
letter-writer says;-"The Prussian House of
Lords consists of hereditary members, life
members appointed by the King, representa-
tives of the towns and universities, and finally
of representatives of the counties and old
landed estates. The members of the two
latter classes in the annexed States are, for
the most part, fanatical adherents of the old
state of things. If the Upper House is in
creased in the same proportion as the Lower,
several of the bitterest enemies of the Prussian
Government would be admitted to the legsla-
ture; and it was only by the tact of Count Bis
mark that the Upper House was prevailed
,oo,, 10 ineisf on their admission last