The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-12-03
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.


Detroit has "Zip Coon" in its lookup.
Professor Hohsgen is to teach Tad Lincoln.
Helen Western is very i'll in Washington.
The Can Can is danced on the ice in
Berlin.
Young Paris shortens velooipede into
velox.
--Artemus Wards estate is now estimated
at $4,000.
New Zealand has yielded $11, ,000, 900 in
gold since 1865.
Sir Jobu Young has been heartily well
coined in the Dominion.
The new Government Of Spain proposes
to abolish bull fights.
Boston is to be no longer Boston-its
streets are to be Strengthened.
The R. G. Bishop of Quebec is about to
make another visit to Rome.
Mrs. Grant will hold weekly receptions if
there is not too great crowd.
Paris gets twenty times as much game
from Germany as from France.
Mr.. Cowardin has taken his "Humors Of
Reconstruction" to SUMMER cimes.
"A barber at Knoxville, Tenn, has been
fined 50 for shaving man on Sunday.
The number of drinking places in Russia
has increased from 460 to 25O0 in six years.
twenty-five large schooners have recently
arrived at Boston with 10000 tons of coal.
1t is less than six years since the first six
miles of railway were opened in Minnesota.
On four successive nights Nilsson sang in
Paris, Baden, Wiesbaden, and Palls again.
The crop OF Egyptian cotton this year
will aggregate 100000 cantars, 1881 pounds
each.
-Ex King George, of Hanover, denies that
ba IN fol in nf
Lords.
-Reverdy Johnson has forty and more
grandchildren, on whom he practisss hand
shaking.
Louis Ulbach, at $4,000 a year, is the
best paid editor in Paris Jules Janin gets
$4,000.
The late King of Siam was a Buddhist
monk before his accession, and knew many
languages.
England recently had festival in honor
of a village pump that did not get dry during
drought.
The armies of Europe are composed of
1851 426 soldiers in active service and GIL, 1893
drilled reserves.
"A number of oolored people were i'm
| mersed in the cold Potomac at Washington,
on Sunday.
The census of 1870 1t is said, will show
the population of the United States to be
42,000,000.
About six thousand barrels of Irish moss
are collected annually along the Massachu-
| setts coast.
Lee, Mass, proposes to have the streets
| lighted by lamp in the front window OF
every house.
| "A missionary voted as college citizen in
New Haven the other day after an absence in
India for twelve years.
| AT the Cannon street station, London,
| 527 trains pass each other daily, and at the
| Clapham Junction 7G0.
| The Illinois State University at Blooming
ton, including the law department, has two
hundred and fifty Students.
| Lord Justice Epglis has been chosen
| Chancellor of the University of Edinburgh
! over the Hon. William L. Gladstone.
1.-THE college diploma, like good coat,
! may be an advantage, but it will not make a
man" So said the Worcester address.
"A portrait of Governor Chamberlain is
| being painted for the Memorial Hall of Bow
don College, by the artist Willard, of Wor-
cester.
Kentucky University is said to have an
endowment of 100000; 40 professors and
| 700 students, $50 of whom are receiving edu-
cation free.
The University of London has recently
established a new degree, the highest OF the
faculty of ats, with the title D. Lit, or Doctor
of Literature. 1t is open to all graduates in
arts of the English universities.
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