The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-10-05
Foreign HENS.


M. Eugene GODDARD, the eronaut recently
made an ascension at Rheims but in alighting
his balloon, the Cite ede-Florence, was caught in
gust of wind and torn into strips. Fortunately
the persons i'll the car three in number were
unhurt.
The Emperor has sent to NJ. Theophilc Gau-
tier, in acknowledgment of the verses which
that writer eXtemporiZed last season at the resi-
dence of the Princess Mathilde, llattering auto
graph letter, accompanied by two magnificent
Seyres vases.
The Wheehblad Uoor Israelieten, Dutch
Jewish paper, reports that a Jewish lady in her
hundredth year recently visited the Amsterdam
Exhibition, accompanied by her grandson who
was himself a grandfather. She Inspected
sewing-machine and threaded needle without
the aid of spectacles.
AT short distance from Rivadellesa, an i'm
mense natural grotto. entirely filled with stalac-
tite columns OF great beauty, has just been dis
covered by some English miners. Passages ex-
tend in different directions for more than
league. Tourists declare this cavern to be one
of the most beautiful in the world
The remains OF the unfortunate Adah Menken
were some time ago removed from Pere la
Chaise to Mont Parnasse, where the obe,isk was
raised to her memory. 1t is now stated that the
wrong coffin was disinterred, n second having
been placed surrepttiously above hers. An
unknown corpse lies therefore under the obelisk
with its ornamental cross and wreath at Mont
Parnasse, while poor Menken sleeps unnoticed
in her humble grave. Her dying wishes were
bearing the words "Thou knowest.n
"A new poet has turned up in England-a
realistic poet We should say, judging by the
specimens of his verse given in the Attenenm
In q ballad on the battle of Trafalgar occurs this
vigorous and racy stanZa, the first line of which
might have been written by the late Artemus
Ward:-
"At 115 Lord Nelson fell
And forty men around him.
A ball from the Reboubtable
Most grieVousy did wound him;
At half past four O'Clock he died,
And Glory came and crowned him.
The Indian papers state that the Maharaiah
of TrayancOre is about to perform the ceremony
of Thooloparum. The process consists of his
Highness being placed in one scale with an
equal weight of gold in the other The gold
thus obtained is afterwards distributed among
the Brahmins according to each ones privilege
and Ii is only after the ceremony that his High
ness is supposed TO be sanctined. There is
another ceremony which consists in his High
ness passing through the belly of a COW of gold;
this is termed Erniagherpum. This it is pro-
posed to celebrate next year. IL Is feared that
these costly ceremonies, combined with the
coming Moorajebum, will absorb good portion
of the surplus revenue of the State.
The Duke of Cambridge, the commander-in-
chief of the English army, lately did brilliant
thing He signiied his pleasure that all officers
should wear steel seabbards for their swords, and
at considerable trouble and expense the whm of
his Royal Highness was obeyed. group of ofi-
GERS, equipped with these new steel scabbards
was formed inside the Chatham redoubt at night
when a supposed enemy threw an electric light
upon the work. In an instant each officer stood
revealed by CLEAN of white light down his side,
an easy prey to the enemys sharpshoOters, had
the campaign been real instead of mimic. The
steel scabbards 'ordered by his Royal IIighness
are now to be blaekened also at considerable
trouble and expense. So much for meddling
with edged tools.
For some months past the Saturday Reoielo
has been set up in type the separate letters of
which are Joined together with a sort of gum or
cement so that short words and parts OF words
are lifted from the case by the eOmpositor in one
operation, instead of picking up each separate
and distinct letter 1t is understood that this
modern adaptation of the elder Mr.. Walters
system of logotypography is not a complete sue