The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-11-26
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-- Six oxen drew the Cardiff giant to Syracuse
and he in return draws two thousand spectators
daily.
AT a meeting Of soldiers of the war of 1872
held in Newport, r. l., last week, % veterans
were present whose united ages amounted to
1915 years, an average of about n ears each.
"A Kansas journal says that the identical
Star-Spangled Banner which foated over Fort
McHenry when Key wrote our national song, is
owned by the heirs OF Colonel Armistead who
commanded the fort and kept the historic
bunting.
Bishop Clarksou has ordained three Santee
Indians, in the northwest corner of Nebraska, to
the ministry OF the Episcopal Church. They
will be employed missionaries among their
own people, of whom more than 300 are commu-
nicants in the church.
"A sailor at the Brooklyn Navy Yard ex-
plained to curious landsman the other day
how prize money is divided. 1T is sifted
through ladder" he said. What falls through
goes to the officers, what sticks, the sailors get"
Two Japanese boys, Hougma and Enoye,
are studying our language and military tactics
in the Highland Military Academy at Worcester,
Mass, and another is soon to enter the school.
They are placed there by order of one of the
Japanese governors.
The Board of Improvements of Cincinnati
have reported against laying the Fisk concrete
pavement in that city, especially when no
guarantee is given that it will last more than
two years, and no provision is made for the re-
funding of any portion of the cost in case of
failure"
A materialst surgeon of Paris lately showed
to one of his friends one of his instruments, the
handle of which was carved in bone. do you
know" he asked ''of what this handle is made?
"Of ivory, suppose" ''No,' said the Doctor"
while tears almost checked his voice, lit is the
thigh-b0ne OF my poor aunt"
Upon hearing a class OF girls read III one OF
the public schools of Columbus, Ga, Rev. DR..
Sears said that it surpassed anything he had
heard in the North. Enunciation might be
sharper, keener, and clearer in the North, but
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more distinctly expressed and fully given.
"A Montana paper calls for the organization
of a company of volunteers who shall have
bounty for all Indians they kill, and also have
all horses and valuables captured; but it ex-
presses doubt if Governor Ashley will listen
to its wise demands, Through fear of the phi
lanthropists in the Eastern States"
The Statistical Committee of the National
Association of Cotton Manufacturers and Plant
ers state the total production of cotton for 1868
9 to have been 1896, 467 bales. The Charleston
Is. C) Couier's estimate published on the l4th
of September, made the production 2,35S, 369-
only S09S bales less than the actual result.
One of those blarsted Henglishmen" who
occasionally write for the New York press says
to eat is Ito insert nutritious pabulum into the
dentriflcated orifce below the nasal protube-
rance, which (the pabulum) being masticated
peregrinates the cartilaginous cavities of the
larynx, and is finally domieitated in the recep-
tacle for digested particles"
AT one of the latest breach of promise cases.
woman of fifty-fve, and the defendant gouty
old man of seventy-seven. The promise was
alleged to have been given nineteen years ago
The woman, who was introduced to the Court as
the atianced bride of the defendant, recovered
ESQ.
A japanese history of the British Paria-
ment has been published at Jeddo. The object
appears to be to help the first Japanese Parla-
ment to an understanding of its functions. The
work is compiled from the best English autho-
rites on the British Constitution, is published
in two volumes, and contains several good Illus
trations.
Chicago needs, more than anything else
| 10000 Cinnamon to act as domestics. Such q
| thing as good, well-trained servant is no more
| to be found here than a living specimen of the
mound builders The few female servants that
may be found are mainly interested in area and
| back-door hirtations, with view to early matri-
| mony.
Three interesting fossils have recently been
| found in the township of Seymour, Canada
| The first is apparently petrifed human head,
| which shows the tongue, ,eyeballs and muscles of
the face, the head having the reddish-brown ap-
| poarance of an ore of iron. The other relics
are the foot and leg of yonng girl, about ten
! years old and section of meat from the side
| of an OK, showing three ribs.
| wendell Phillips sets himself up as a model
| OF literary accuracy, and as an authority in
facts. ct he told in his lecture the other night
| how he felt concerning Greeley's Tribune in
| 1S34-seven years, as II happens, before that
secession Journal was started And again he
talked about the old custom of ''the people of
| Naples" in their marriage ceremony when they
married the Adriatic. He probably meant the
| Doges OF Venice. Venice, he should know, is
situated on the Adriatic. Naples is ON the Medi-
terranean Sea. These errors would be of no ac-
count in any lecturer who did not, as Phillips