The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-07-14
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

1T is announced that on and after the LIST
Of July the price of a telegram between Paris
and London will be reduced to four francs per
twenty words.
The Brussels journals announce that the
Omnibus Company of that city is bankrupt.
An association of foreign capitalists is to carry
on the service.
The English Court of Exchequer affirmed
a judgment to the effect that Hampton Court
is not now royal residence, and that a Sheriff
has right to execute writ therein.
"A singular application was made to the
conservatOrs of the Lune, England, the other
day-namely, license to fish with cormo-
rants trained for that purpose. The license
was granted for the month of August.
Some damage has been done along the
lines of the English railway during the recent
intensely hot and dry weather. Sparks and
cinders from the railway engines have set the
grass and hay on fire.
The "girdle" railways around the city of
Paris are adopting new seoond-class carriages,
in which those who desire to travel on the
roof will have themselves protected from the
wind and dust by glass slides placed on the
sides of the inperidte.
Woman is asserting her rights in France
as well as in other countries. The ladies have
appeared on the French BOurse in great num-
bers, and buy and sell stock with vigOr and
earnestness completely unknown to the less
favored sex.
The Emperor of Morocco has left his CAPT
tai with 5000 men on another expedition to
punish some insurgent tribes in the North
Before leaving he accorded to NJ. Thevenin
the French medical attendant of the Imperial
family, site for an Arab hospital.
Recently experiments have been made at
the camp of Chalons with the little cannon
made at the percussion-cap mandatory of
MeudOn, a mltrdiHeuSe of new model; while
at st. Maur the men have been practising
some new maDnuvres in shooting invented by
the Colonel of the I'd Regiment of Grenadisrs
of the Guard. Success is said to have been
complete in both cases.
Large quantities of albumen or the white
of eggs, and also of yolk, are imported
into England from Normandy. The albumen
is used by calico-dressers, and the yolk is
used in the manufacture of gloves. The price
of prepared white Of egg was two guineas
per pound not long since. This arose from
the waste it suffered during the process of
preparation. This waste amounted to as
much as S5 per cent.
The War Office easement at Shoeburyness
have endured a severe battering, on the last
occasion with Palliser shot instead of she'll.
The target came out of the ordeal with a re-
markable degree of impunity, considering the
enormous power of the guns brought against
it. Although more or less penetrated by
showed any symptoms of radiating fissures, a
testimony beyond all question OF the unrivaled
quality of the iron.
One of the first effects of the new press
law in France has been the establishment of
several new journals in the provinces. Others
are announced and some which already ex-
listed, but which had official connections, in
tend to separate from them and become indie
pendent. The DebdtS calls attention to the
fact that all-or nearly all-these papers will
be opposition organs, aud it considers this Cir
cumstance of some importance.
"A Parliamentary return just issued shows
that during the year ending March 81, 1867,
So 033 Enfield rifles, l0,0l2 short rifles, and
499S naval rifles were converted into breech-
leaders on the Snider system at the Royal
Small Arms Factory, at a total cost of
G108,51l, being an average of nearly 22S.
each During the same period 1896
Richards patent breech-loading cavalry car
bines were made, at a cost of E3 It's. 4d. each
The Moscow Gazette expresses great alarm
at the large proportion of Polish officers still
to be found in the Russian army. 1t shows
from official reports that at the end of the
year 1867 the total number of officers was
2l, 90S, of whom 16, 6S5 professed the Russian
orthodox religion, 32l7 were Roman Catholics
and 1881 Protestants. As in this case the
terms Roman Catholic and Pole are synony-
NOUS, one seventh of the officers in the Rus
sian army are Poles.
Lord Stanley has formally inaugurated
the new Foreign office. There was an as
sembly (preceded by dinner party), which
was attended by the elite of the aristocracy
and the fashionable world in London. The
magnificent suite of reception rooms intended
for the use of the Foreign Office Department
were thrown open for the first time, and their
grandeur of proportions, beauty, harmony,
and completeness of decoration, were the
theme OF general conversation and admiration.
Returns have been published relative to
the strength and efficiency of the Royal Naval
Reserve. Rear Admiral Tarleton, the controller
of the coast guard, reports that the eight
commanders of the il-ships are officers of
experience, on whom reliance may he placed,
According to their estimate, of the 5000 men
of the reserve who We're drilled on board
their ships last year, 1850 were fit for petty
officers ratings, 1900 for leading seamen,
$500 we're good able seamen, and 1850 were
fair able seamen.
What is called 'a civil funeral, ," that is,
funeral unattended with religious rites, took
place at Brussels recently. The deceased was
Madame Van Meenen, lady in her eighty
eighth year, and the widow of Judge. The
ceremonies were conducted by an Association
called the 'Free Thought Society,"" and we
| are told that a procession of more than two
hundred persons, "amost all belonging To
what may be called the elite of intelligent So
ciety at Brussels" followed the remains tt
their last resting place. NJ Coffin, the Presi-
dent of the Free Thought Society, delivered 8
funeral Grafton, which was "pktm de ceur e