The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-08-18
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
ladies snuff.

-IarlS lauleS Snuu.
-Boucicault's last is called CATER Dark"
1T cost $4,000 to kill the Public Spirit
NGgaSino
The grape crop along Lake Erie never
looked better.
--Bayard Taylor is coming home to his pa
rents golden wedding.
The brunettes receive the palm of beauty
at Saratoga this season.
-"Diptizement' is the Connecticut name
for baptismal ceremony.
The Madison, Wisconsin, ladies indg-
nantly deny that they drink lager.
The Paris Conservatory has let forty five
new pianists loose upon the world.
"A man of weight died recently in Ken
tncky-he was five hundred FOUNDER.
Kirby Smith is to teach the young idea to
shoot at military academy in Kentucky.
-Croquet matches between the different
hotels are feature of Cape May dissipation.
"A Texas paper accuses the members of
the Convention CT wearing concealed weapons
openly.
An old gentleman at Saratoga who has
been regular in his attendance there for sixty
years, claims to have imbbed in that time 500
barrels of Congress water.
The Prose- announces that sabre for the
Prince Imperial (sged twelve years and four
months) is being manufactured at Sollingen,
in Prussia. On one side his name is engraved;
the other bears the well-known line of Ber-
apger:-"On pareira de sa gloire."
An electric organ is now being built in
London for Christ Church, Camberwell. The
organ is TO be placed in a chamber on the south
side of the chancel, above the vestry, but the
organist will sit on the opposite side, among
the choir, some fifty feet distant from the organ.
of,
| volunteered into the Papal service last year.
has commenced picture of the battle of Men
tana, ordered by the Pope, and received the
| visit Of His Holiness in his dteiier, who eX-
pressed his appreciation OF his work.
A race has Just taken place in the south
! of France, in the neighborhood of Toulouse
between two young men, the one riding a
horse and the other propelling velocipede
The distance traversed seVenty-twO kilo-
metres (foIty-tive miles), was accomplished
! by the animal in six hours, and by the machine
in six hours and twenty-five minutes. The
! latter travelled under very unfavorable condi-
/ tiops, having to contend against strong head
wind.
ON the 10th of June Plus TX. commenced
the twenty.third year of his Pontifcal reign.
Since ST. Peter, to whom history assigns
twenty-five years, there have been but three
Popes out OF 253 who have lived to commence
or to finish their twenty third year of govern
ment. They are-Adrian |, the Pope of
Charlemagne Plus VI, the Pope Of the Direc-
! tory; and Plus VII, the Pope of Napoleon I.
/ Plus TX will be- the fourth. Ii he lives until
June l6, 1869, he will stand alone with Plus
VI; if lie lives until June l6, 1870, he will be
matched only 10y ST. Peter. But II he survives
June is, lS7l, he will have Outdone not only
all preceding Popes, but st. Peter himself.
The herring and cod fishery on the coasts
! NORWAY Iava va
year as usual in consequence of storms. The
take promised well during the early part OF
the year, but on the 3lst March terrible
storm came on and destroyed two hundred
boats and a considerable quantity of material,
beside causing the death of sixty men. Bad
weather has since prevailed, and the hauls
have not been satisfactory. The experiments
begun in 1865 with larger nets have been sue.
cessully continued, as 10000 Goldfish have been
frequently taken at one dTaught; and now there
is question of employing the electric light
as an attraction.