The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-08-09
GENERALITIES.
StrniRht nrinks.

A friend OF ours afflicted with a mathematical
turn Of mind computes that the amount of whisky
destroyed in Philadelphia last night would have made
6i,OOO,000 straight drinks; and at 10 cents glass
the whole would amount to 5000. .OOO, 600 or sum
sufficient to eNtinguish more than OnC-third the
national debt But it must be remembered that the
t4NNOOO drinks are susceptible of being extended
the destruction of so much whisky by the fire nend
was successful 'tcmperance movement n-Boyton
TTdUtiCr s..,- s.-..s E51yJt I ...s ERxa
TO have such .'mathematicaT mini" is an ailic
ton sore indeed. The "iriend" needs Davis simple
rules of multiplication badly.
CIairvOy ants at Fault.
From the ECSt0n 1raueller, Aug.2.
On the 2Uth of last March, and frequently after
wards, several clarvoyants and trance mediums in
East Boston persOnatGd the death of a Young man
whose spirit Informed them he had fallen from aoft
on board the barque Nehemiah Gibson then on her
passage iIom Melbourne, via New South Wales, for
In its fall the spirit stated that ms body had
struck the rail of the vessel and after few hours
had expired in great agony. The young mans
family and all the leading SpiTituasts OF East Bos-
ton implicitly believed these wonderful revelations
but it affords us pleasure to state that the young
man arrived at San Francisco still IN the body, and
with tair prospect OF living his three score years
ana ten.' We mention the case because 1t has been
common topic of conversation with the people of
East Boston for several months.
Reunion of Il Family.
From the NeW Bedford (llas8.) Mercury, Aug. 2.
Some excitement was created in the CITY on
saturday by the arrival here OF a citizen of
Norfolk, Va, in search of his children. Four
teen years ago, by the chances Of slavery a
woman and her family were sold at auction The
buyer was the son OF her master, and the father
OF her children, who gained possession of them
by the payment of $14O0, ana sent them to enjoy
their freedom in Boston Since Virginia became n
State as free as Massachusetts, the woman has re-
turned to her native place. One son has learned n
machnist's trade in Boston, where he is now at
work. On Saturday the father came to New Bed
ford in search Of the sister and brother The former
is happily situated in family OF Friends, and the
boy found at work in the shop of George H.
Mitchell, the hair-dreSser, was taken to ioin his
mother in Virginia, where he will be educated and
cared for.
The Home of the Grecian Bend.
correspondent Of the Boston TraccQer in japan
Writes:-
"And now letme communicate a fact which will,
trust interest the lady readers of the Trdpelsy and
secure me their gratitude and esteem. That new
style OF graceful elegance so much in vogue in our
cities last fall ana winter, and which gradually
transformed woman from noble, erect figure first
to q Kangaroo and then to a drOmedary, and called
the Grecan Bend is not the GTecidH bend at all.
1t never originated in the land of Homer but it did
nave It's origin, centuries ago, for aught | know to
the contrary in Japan. 1t is to be seen in every vii
lage in that empire. You meet the Grecian-no,
JdpdHGC-benders on every street, and they evil
IDENTIFY have full claim TO the origin of that Aeaui-
full figure And now let me, describe to you a
Japanese lady, one of those whose form our
American bellies have recently been Copyinp She
has long, black hair, straight and coarse dressed
with an enormous waterfall upon the crown of her
head They shave the eyebrows, and then pencil
them, because they can make very much more
elegant curve with bit OF charcoal than nature can.
WIN halr. Ihey pant ana powder the face they
dye the teeth Jet black and then, in order to have
them fully seen, insert some bits of wood or ivory
between the Jaws and the lips in order to keep the
latter separate. They wear the Japanese bend
their shoes are made like mittens-hat is they have
separate apartment for the great toe and put the
others into the quarters; and they wear French
hees-that is, they have two wooden supports to the
shoe, close together about the middle OF the foot
which correspond to the heel as worn in these days
10y American ladies'. And they quite resemble their
American cousins in the grace and ease with which
they manage the bend and the heel"