The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-07-12

w peICe bne nearJs line elect OF the
Skoptzi then advance in turn and suck the
chids blood This is what is called "the
communion Of the blood of the Lamb" As
soon as the ceremony is over the body is put
In another dish full Of sugar, whore il is left
until 1t dries up; it is then crushed into
powder, and administered in small clke5 TO
the ordinary members of the sect as ''the
communion of the flesh of the Lamb"
In the Second Chamber of the States
General of Holland bill to abolish patents
for industrial inventions has Just been carried
by an overwhelming majority of forty-nine
against eight votes. The Premier of the ex-
Conservative Cabinet, Mr.. Heemskerk, pro-
tested most energetically against this measure,
and proposed to delay the discussion upon it
till September, when the new Chamber will
meet. He undertook that he would then Law
before the members bill to improve the ex-
isting patent law. This proposal, however,
was rejected The bill will, when approved
by the First Chamber, come into operation
on the day of publication
The present state of the Catholic Church
in Poland is clearly shown by the fact that.
since the recent exile of the Awgustowo
Bishop, Count Lubensky, in the whole of
Poland there remain only two representa-
tives of the Roman Catholic hierarchy-the
Bishops of Sedlo and of Sandomir. All the
Others are either exiled or have absconded in
consequence of the prosecutions of the Rus
sian Government. Count Lubenskv is ex
lied to Perm; the Bishop of Warsaw, Felin-
sky, to Yaroslav; Count Rgewouslzy to Astra-
kan; Domogalsky, Schigelsky, and Popel to
the other remote towns Moreover, two
bishops, Kalinsky and Schimansky, have died
in exile, and the Bishop of Lublin, Sosnov-
sky, has taken refuge within the Austrian
frontiers.
"A Partisan contemporary points out with
some grimness how it may be safer under GER
tain circumstances to slay ones neighbor than
to thrash him. An unfortunate man nam ed
Patry, having acquired proofs of his wifi e's
infdelity, recently killed her and fred at her
seducer, a learned but gallant attorney. For
this double crime, murder, and intent to
murder, he was tried at the assizes of Tours,
and acquitted with honors. ''Now, remarks
our contemporary, ''if instead of killing his
wife, this man had merely given her beat
ing; and if, instead of shooting three slugs
at the attorney, he had caught hold of that
worthy by the neck and belabored him in the
market place, the law would certainly have
punished him with a fine of one hundred
francs on the first count, and two months
imprisonment on the second Whence it
ensues-such at least is the obviously
French conclusion-that a double-barelled
gun is a more useful adjunct to marital
trousseau than horsewhip."
- SlOSe upon tu6 uedJllS OI IOOSSlIl DerllOL,
| and Molique has come that of Albert Grisar
a composer whose works long will have a
| place upon the French operatic stage. Grisar,
born at Anvers il 1908, and apprenticed to a
commercial house at Liverpool, did not devote
himself entirely to music till 1880. His sue
cess, however, was rapid. In 1888 his first
opera, LIE Ma1Sdge Impossible, was produced
at the Theatre de la Monnaie, Brussels, and
proved so far successful that it encouraged
| - l., De-,
afterwards he wrote ,Sdrdh for the Opera
] Comique, following it up by other works
which successfully added to his reputation.
GILES Rd0iSSeur (1S4S) was the beginning of a
series of triumphs Les P0rcheTOnS (1S50),
Bon SOir, N. PdntdlOn (1S51), lie CdrjIOnneu1
de BrugeS (1S52), and lie Ohien dU Jardiniel
| (1S55), were all received with acclama.
ton. In the last-named year Grisars for
tune eliminated. Afflicted with a long and
serious illness, he did nothing till 1862, while
his subsequent productions added little to his
fame and attained but a moderate success
During the last few years his life seems tC
have been sadly embittered. He grew taci
turn and morose. GA great beer-drinker,
says NJ Arthur. Pougin in La France MttSi
caIe, che went every evening to cafe, covered
down in a corner, apart wrapped in his large
brown cloak and there swallowed innumer
able glasses without speaking q word" Will
More and more tormented by sun moi
chagrin, apoplexy it is said, brought hin
relief. He was found dead in his bed. AS
composer, Grisar was remarkable for the de
gree ia which he illustrated the best of trait
of the French school. Lively and graceful
melody united to piquant and effective orches
tration distinguish all his works.
"A French doctor has discovered that tur
pentine is sure antidote to phosphorus, AM
he commends this discovery most especial,
to parents whose children have been sucking
lucifer matches. 1t appears that, in NOR
than twenty cases of this kind he has EN-
ployed turpentine Gone teaspnonful neat) sue
cessfully; and his report the subject o
these cures has been {. orably received b,
the Academy of Medicine. We hasten to ado
that we do not ourselves vouch for thi
remedy, 80 that if any of our readers wish tC
try the experiment of eating few matches
and then drinking a little turpentine, the,
must not sue us for damages if they are in
commoded by the results. We are not pre-
scribing, we ar lnly reporting.
An intere hg paper appeared in tn
C0ug7fer de u erie the other day on tn
subject of the Algerian steppes, a region oc
cupying some millions of acres between tn
! Sahara and the Tell-that cultivable belt o
land already appropriated by French cole
nists. This vast tract, carpeted by will
! thyme and alfa grass, seems well adapted fo
: sheep grazing on a large scale. The explore
4 goes so far as to declare it equally suited t
. agriculture as the Tell itself; whilst the ali
grass, Stipa tenacissima can be proftabl
! used in the manufacture of paper
1 is suggested that rights of pasture
4 hitherto monopolized by the natiy
i nomad population-be granted by IL
Government to European colonists, WI
j. would only require a few camels for the tran