The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-07-15
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

-"fnrtatl0n cnalrS" are susAA'NA NVsoA
furniture.
Forty bar-keepers to one hotel in Sara
toga.
"A New York belle refu5es to go to New
port because she can't have forty dresses.
AN English paper credSs America with the
largest capitalist in the World.
The Prince d'Aremyurg has married the
great heiress Mile de Grefulhe.
The story that Tteodorus is alive in Abys-
sinia is again rife.
The Chateau Ladtte vineyard sold recently
for $780, 900.
Mrs. Lester Wallack is among the Cats
kills.
-Bergh has left the cruel city for Lake
Mahopac.
Liverpool has a new paper, the DaWH.
The New B,dfOrd Mercury hopes it won't break.
"A Ststen Island mob boasts of giving his
horses apailful of champagne every day.
Bishop Kimball used to be potter. He
is now clay.
"A Sunday school boy defines conscience
as an inward iron clad.
London paid 81, OOO 900 to make South
wark bridge free.
-Mad'lle Nilsson is engaged for Paris next
season, and will not come hither.
Senator Grimes has almost entirely re-
covered his health.
The watering place dailies have COM
menced publication.
Smith, the newspaper agent, intends to
contest John Stuart Mills seat in Parliament
The Emperor of Brazil pays % per cent
of his income to help on the war.
"A fine old English gentleman was eaten
by a donkey the other day.
Fishing with tame cormorants is a new
sport in England.
"A Vienna letter writer tells Of seeing lady
in the first circles there drink four quarts Of
beer at one sitting.
--Twenty-four square miles of the Yorkshire
mOors, in England, are on fire, and sheep,
game and grass are destroyed.
-Boucicault will retire from the stage in
Dublin in the fall, and bring out book on
theatrical subjects.
--Berdan has got up new breeoh-loading
rifle at Hartford that is something particularly
fine.
"A miner at Helena Montana, is expecting
the arrival of the two dear girls to whom heis
engaged.
The Chinese ambassadors venture the
opinion that we cook ice-cream very well in
this country.
"A sensational preacher in London adver-
tises the subject of his sermon, a la Madame
Rachel, Beautiful forever"
AN ugly old bachelor suggests that births
should be published under the head of "new
music.'
During one of tue late storms jockey and
his horse were killed by lightning in York
shire, England.
The English papers mention the death of
young man in London from inhaling carbolic
acid gas to cure toothache.
"A friend of recently married couple, be-
i IL, .l-= r
"lhe Gad-ites, | should think, as she is always
in the street."
-Gustavus Adolphus Whalebone is the
name of Londoner who never would have
been mentioned beyond the seas but for his
cegnOmen.
The Tomaha,Ok is moved to say that if
delayed much longer, the railings at Hyde
Park will be supplied by the public instead OF
the Government.
The laboratory of the arsenal at Ludwigs-
burg, near Stuttgart, was recently totally de-
stroyed by fire, the work of an incendiary.
The loss is estimated to exceed $3.50 600.
The proverbial "Jersey lightning" appears
to have its equivalent abroad from the fact that
a Scotchman was lately killed in Stafford, Eug-
land, by imbibing quart and half of whisky.
The population of France is 3S 0G7 074 OF
which 1904 100 are males and l9 052 965 are
females. Out of 1851 criminals convicted in
1866, 1858 were men and only 698 women.
The moors on the Cleveland hills, York
shire, England, were recently set fire to by
sparks from an engine to the extent of twenty
four miles.
Charles Matthews, the elder, being asked
what he was going to do with his son (the
young mans profession was that of an archi-
tect)-"Why," answered the comedian, che
is going to draw houses, like his father"
An ugly lady is always anxious TO marry,
and young gentlemen are seldom anxious to
marry her. This is the result of two mecha-
nical powers-the inclined plane and leave
her.
-Pendleton's house was in direct tele-
graphic communication with Tammany Hall
during the Convention, wire having been
extended from the main line near Cummns-
vile, Ohio.
The bad are never completely happy and
at ease, though possessed OF everything that
this world can bestow; and the good are never
completely miserable, although deprived OF
everything that this world can take away.
On the 31st of March, 1867, the quantity of
iron ballast in the British dock yards was
5S302 tons, adding to which the ballast on
board of ships in commission, coast guard
cruisers, etc.. gave total of Y, $40 tons.
The cab and omnibus drivers and con-
ductors of Manchester, England, lately held a
meeting for the purpose of forming society
Tor the protection of their interests. 1t was
proposed that said society should De conducted
on the principle of benefit or friendly society.
The King of the Belgians has subscribed