The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-03-18
Miscellaneous Items,

The court dress in Great Britain is to be
altered.
There are nearly two hundred anti.
slavery societies in Spain.
The police have ordered all the betting
offices in Paris to be closed.
The salary Of the Chief Commissioner of
the London Police is G150O year.
The workingmen of Paris are agitating
for reduction in the hours OF labor.
The ladies OF Lima are astonished to find
that Planchette writes in Spanish.
Jury trial has fallen iuto great disrepute
in Scotland as an instrument of civil process.
English newspapers tell of girl in Wales
who has not eaten anything since October,
1867.
"A Cincinnati genius called on the papers
the other night and left notices of his own
suicide.
"A church society in Hartford has sued
one OF its congregation for an unpaid sub
scription
The Government is to establish savings
banks for sailors at all the ports Of the United
Kingdom.
AN old man in hospital, at Bicetre, France,
has slept comfortably for seven weeks, with
out waking.
The employers of Manchester propose to
reduce the wages twenty per cent, whereat
trouble threatens.
Ten monster petitions in behalf of Fenian
prisoners were presented to Queen Victoria
in one day lately.
The French Government is about to adopt
the system of Post Office Savings Banks, after
the English style.
The German gambling hells are taking
steps to prevent publication of the suicides
committed by losers.
The Paris Chamber of Notaries has or
dered nat none of its members shall ride on
! the roof of an omnibus.
"A telegraphic message was recently sent
from London, and reply received from Cal
cutta in less than Z l-l2 hours.
"A few strawberries have made their ap-
pearance at Covent Garden Market. They are
selling at 3s. per ounce.
| king Louis, of Bavaria, is to spend two
and half million fOrins on palace near Ho-
henschwangep, for his bride.
The Greek Patriarch has addressed pas
toral to the Christians in Crete, urging them
to return to peaceful pursuits.
Only one of the five maids of the Empress
Eugenie is Frenohwoman, and the two Eng
lish girls are the only pretty ones.
Lisbon, N. H., manufacturers annually,
among other things, oyer $4,000 mackerel
kits, 500, 900 bobbins, and 25, 900 pegs.
An old Indian silver mine has been
|
was found a tree of fifteen inches diameter.
"A Connecticut youth attempted to drown
kitten in paper bag with large stone,
but the animal arrived home before he did.
AT q recent fire in London, wooden
house in Cloth fair, Snaithfeld, which had
escaped the great fire in 1866, was destroyed.
-Waldeclz, German town, has given pub
lie notice that no license to marry will here
after be granted TO any habitual drunkard.
Florence is to have great medical con-
gress in September, to last fortnight. Medi-
cal men of all nations are expected to attend.
--''Emperors," of the exact weight of the
English s'sovereign," and of the value OF
twenty-five francs, are to be coined in France.
The sum of 1000 only is this year TO
be expended in experiments by the British
Admiralty, instead of 100000, as in former
years.
AT a recent funeral at Weldon, N. c., a
cOlored woman claimed the rope with which
the coffin was being lowered as a stolen
clothes line.
AT a recent family reunion in Salem, ten
heads of families, brothers and sisters, met,
all OF whom had lost but five teeth, or half q
tooth apiece.
"A coil of magnesium wire is recommended
as toilet necessity. BY igniting one end 9
brilliant light, by which eolOrs can be tested
, is produced.
The Baltimore Board of Trade, at its las
I monthly meeting, ratified the action of tn,
3 National Board in reference to cash sales o
a merchandise.
Q "A Kentuckian has invented perpetua
q motion wagon. II winds itself mp by running
q down hill. II there are NO hills, 1t run
down anyway.
q "A patient genius has found the wor
u ueonstitution'' no less than thirty-one time
: in Mr.. Johnson's last contribution to humol
!, ous literature.
. "A Chicago doctor has been fined fftee
3 dollars for trying TO kiss married womal
: and her husband was mulcted nve doiiars ic
q thrashing the doctor.
q ba administered previous to executions WI