The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-08-10

the purpose of facilitating and encouraging the
study OF that portion of their national literature
winch was lately introduced to the notice OF the
public in this country with so much success and
deserves to be better known
King Victor Emanuel has made Professor
Frederick Mccoy Director Of the Natural His
tory Museum of Melbourne, South Australia, a
Knight OF his Royal Order of the Grown of
Italy
A Creole, Mr.. j. j. Thomas of Trinidad
whose parents were both Africans and who had
passed most of his life among poor Creoles of
ms island, has published q very curious little
DOOk. 'lne Theory and Practice of Creole
Grammar 1t took him more than three wears
to write, he says, when he was a Ward school
teacher at a distant Out-station, and could only
work at night. The changes that French has
undergone III Its passage into Creole are CX-
trcncly odd. The verbs, for instance, are divided
into two classes, all of them excepting some
twenty being corrugated in the present and im-
perfect indicative with ca, while the twenty of
the second class do without that particle. MOeH
ca manger is | eat, zOteS mGHger you eat:
but WOen dtD,eu is | love, yedur diHeH, they
love. Many verbs are much abbreviated: thus
cout0W becomes vie, SdCOr save, while SG re-
presents SdUOir when it means pOUCOir, to be
able. Some of the Creole proverbs are good,
witness Behind dogs back, it is dog but
| before 1t is mister dog
Defer chcin, cc chem;
&c "missler chem"
| The indefinite article you looks like our Eng
llsh word, but we suppose that is the Creole way
! of prOnOuucing IN.
On the 4th of July the first stone of the
| mausOleum to be built by the Sultan in StambOul
| over the grave of Fuad Pasha was laid with
! great ceremony. The tomb is to cost $4,000.
! From the same place we learn that well-knOwn
lingering place to sght--eers the bridge of boats
| across the Golden Horn, is likely to be replaced
| by an iron one The thrOng of all nations pass
| Ing over the bridge is a scene which has been
! often recorded.
| Among many strange scenes taking place in
| that cycr-changng city, StambOul. we have to
| record the laying Of the cornerstone of the
| Robert College at Roumili IIissari, on the Bos-
| phOrus where Darius crossed to light with the
| Scythians and Mohammcd to attack the Greeks
| This college is chiefly under American auspices
| but on this occasion, besides American diploma
| lists, scholars, and missionaries the English
| were represented. Following her Britannia Ma
| lcstys Chaplain, came a representative of the
| Greeks, speaking in ROmaic Ilagop Effcndi, an
| Armenian, chief of the Protest Civil Community
| or nation, a Bulgarian Protestant and the Rev.
| Mr. AyCdis, Protestant Pastor of Marash who
! spoke in Turkish in favor of the new order of
| things. So far all was harmony: but another col
| lege, the Lycce, opened by the Ottoman Govern
! ment under the auspices of the French Ambas-
| sadOr is in difficulties, rs the Pope has threat
| ened 20 eXcommunicate all its Roman Catholic
| students. In such event it is graycly suggested
| that the Sultan, as Caliph of the Mussulmans,
| shall eNcommuuicatc the Pope.
| An extraordinary account is given by the
| LeCdH Herald of the new English summer
| palace now in progress for the ambassador at
Therapia, on the Bosphorus, in place of the late
| tumble-down barrack. Our contemporary says
| it is a mixture of the Norman castle, the Turk
| ish mosque, and the rocOco, and that the eX-
pense is very great. 1t is to be hoped he does
! an injustice to this sample of English taste on
| those shores, though the remembrance of Baron
| Marochettis monument ut Scutari makes us
| tremble.
The Russian National Museum at Sebastopol
is to be opened on the 18th of next month by
General Todleben, President of the institution.
| The collection of Russian and foreign objects is
| going on.