The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-10-31
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which there are some more or less curious and
original speculattons. ut would be easy" he
says TO multiply instances of every social
virtue and cleverness illustrated by BIRDS beasts
and fishes from shrewd elephants to industrious
1eas; from Colonel Berkley's cormorant, who
died of grief, to Lesbia's sparrow, whose love
Tor her is classica from the affectionate, If un-
Wleldy, whale to the gregarious carps of st.
Cloud" 1t is Mr.. Tupper's kindly faith that all
these talents and virtues, the grief of the cor
morant, and, we must presume the industry
disappear in the ordinary course of
nature Our planet is to be regenerated
for 'earths spiritualized children" and
will be so arranged that there will be room and
to spare for the friendly brutes; a provision will
be made even for unborn chickens for Mr. Tup-
per tells us that every egg will find room to
hatch" As a lion with his old leaven in him for
carnal food might be an inconvenient guest in
Mr.. Tuppcrs 1lysium, we are informed that the
chances are that spirit-lion will be satisfied
with plain straw, like an OK and considering
what chemistry has done down below in the
way OF extracting perfumes from unpromising
substances, Mr.. Upper believes that a polecat
can be ethercaliZed into a fragrant creature of
good odor and conduct. A brother poet has
spoken of the hope of the Indian touching his
recognition OF his faithful dog in the happy
hunting grounds, and Mr.. Upper is convinced
that the rcdsllin had scripturnl sanction for his
idea.
"A curious book, entitled ''Notes of Spy
was lately published at st. Petersburg. These
u
named Boulantzoff, who, according to his own
showing, acted as a spy for the Russian Govern
ment during the last Polish insurrection. Hav-
ing lived for ten years in Poland, he had COM
pletely mastered the language, and by this means
and his patriotic professions he managed to OBJ
tain the confidence of several of the insurgent
leaders, whom he afterwards betrayed to the
Government. He gives the initials of these
chiefs, all of whom have been either hanged or
banished and seems to have taken quite a pride
in his shameful work, describing with much
JUNCTION how he got at the secrets of political
prisoners by pretending to be one of themselves,
and how he used 10 90 to the houses of rich
landowners in the disguise of an insurgent, in
order to induce them to break the law by giving
him refuge, and thus furnish him and the
P(ice with Il pretext for plunder and violence
ocneTery kind. As might be supposed, these
nrouss are full of adventure, and their author
c, aSlnve had some very narrow escapes.
- ss1sNwas walking in the disguise of an
Eactedde ddent nelr the village of Zyski, he was at
10 cloeo,oy Cossacks, and was pressed by them
prn. otty, that he had to run and hide in some
me on1 as the peasants were threshing at the
bnen4 M" got seen him. he expected every
70 DeTcut down with their fails. On
another occasion he was pursuing an insurgent
ut the head of his Cossaclls, when the Pole sud-
denly turning around, struck at him with such
force with his unloaded gun that he fell to the
ground with his horse and broke his arm. His
assailant then raised his weapon for a second
blow, which would probably have killed him,
but luckily eight Cossacks rushed forward and
protected him from further injury.
"A Catholic paper relates how Protestant
zealot recently got his face scratched in Madrid
A military captain who had served under Don
Carlos during the seven years war, and who at
its conclusion, set up as q cabinet maker rather
than enter into the Queens army, died a few
months ago in Madrid, leaving a widow and
eleven children in the depths OF poverty. Two
ladies. complete strangers to the family, on hear
ing of the mournful event, lost no time in run
ming to their relief and paying for their board
and lodging. After time the good visitors be-
gan to leave books and tracts with the poor
widow and her children, and subsequently made
the most tempting offers to them on condition
that they abandon the Catholic faith. These
offers being refused some foreign gentleman and
a Spaniard came forward and offered 10, 900 reals
year to the widow, and guaranteed lucrative
situations to the children, on the sole condition of
theirbecoming Protestants. But they allreplied
they preferred hunger and nakedness to the loss
of their faith The missionaries, upon this, we
are told, determined to try cruelty. One day
when the widow was tending one of her daugh-
tiers who had fallen sick, Protestant catechist
entered the room. 81 am sent, said he, "to
know your last and final decision on the subject
of your conversion to the Protestant Church. y
''Our decisiOn,' they replied, lis to die a thou
sand times rather than forsake our religion.
"Begone hence retorted the catechist, 'and
let your sick daughter betake herself to the hos
pital." And here commenced most painful
scene: the catechist pulled the bedcothes off the
bed. This 'roused all the valor of the mother
assailant, she forced him to withdraw, but not
till she had first imprinted on his shameless
cheeks the traces of her just indignation" Two
Catholic ladies, hearing OF the case, are now
charitaby minisering to the helple5sness of this
heroic family, who, between Protestants and
Catholics, seem TO be well looked after.
The Cologne Gazette gives the world some
particulars of painful quarrel which is said to
have happened at the Augustinian Convent OF
the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary, at Rome,
q few days ago. 1t seems that the brother who
had charge of the kitchen-or in other words,
the cook--had been ordered by the Superior to
go to another convent The reason for this
order is not known, but it probably was given
in consequence of the brothers skill in the Gull
nary art not being approved by the other
brethren. On receiving this order the brother,
who was in the kitchen at the time, seized a
: knife and scratched the superior severely He
had not calculated on his antagonist. No sooner
did the superior feel the abrasurc OF his skin than
he rushed on his assailant and deadly strug
gle~ ensued. The superior and the cook, locked
in each others arms, rolled on the floor; the
- other brethren, attracted by the noise, appeared
on the field of strife, and by their excited eX
clamations added to the terror Of the scene
Some sided with the superior, Others with tho
cook, until at last they all mingled in the fray
so fiercely did the battle rage that a body o
eendarmes, whose quarters were near the con
vent rushed in to separate the combatants. Tht
erring cook was led to a monastic prison in
sadly battered condition, for the superior
though scratched himself and very old, haC
knocked out no less than three OF his autago
nst's teeeh with one blow of his aged fist; and i
was admitted on all sides that he had far the bes
of the fight at the moment when the gendarme
nterieTed
~Plaeards have been posted at Capham
England, containing the following piquant invi
tation to worshippers at Bethesda Chapel"-
.lNed Wright who before his conversion wa