The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-11-26
Foreign Items.

Dickens is engaged on q new story which will
come out in the old serial form.
The new Minister of Finance in Prussia
Camphausen, is forty-nine years of age, aud
has always belonged to the moderate liberal
party.
M. Guizots concluding series of "Medta-
tions," entitled christianity IN its Relation TO
the Present State of Society and of Opinion, will
be soop published at London, by Mr.. Murray.
-Signor Verdi, the composer, now in his
ffty-ffth year, has announced his intention of
assigning, annually, in equal portions, the 600
francs accruing to him every year as Cavalier of
the Civil Order of Savoy, to two poor scholars,
one boy and the other girl who may have
distinguished themselves by their good conduct
at the school of Busseto.
The King of Italy has resolved not to con-
sent to the election of his nephew, the Duke of
Genoa, as King of Spain, unless it is agreed to
by at least two-thrds of the Cortes 1t is per-
haps hardly possible that 227 will vote for the
Italian candidate, who was introduced by
General Prim IAN educated sympathetic
youth, who had begun to have whiskers and to
ride on horseback"
"A meeting of Roman Catholic gentlemen has
just taken place at Friburg, Baden, to reorga-
nize the Order of the Knights of Malta. Eight
gave their adhesion to the rules, which do not
comprise the VOWS of celibacy or poverty, but
only those of obedience. The new chevaliers,
who have Cardinal for their Grand Master,
will wear crimson uniform, with gold epau-
iettes, and Maltese cross on their breast.
Sir Watkin w. Wynne, talking to friend
about the antiquity of his family, which he car
ried up to Noah, was told that he was a mere
mushroom of yesterday. "How so, pray?" said
the Baronet why" continued the other
when was in Wales, pedigree of particu-
lar family was shown to me; it filled five large
skins of parchment and near the middle of it
was note in the margin-'About this time the
world was created
"A few months ago the prophets of a new
religion made their appearance in Russia,
preaching sef-destruction by fire as the only
sure road to salvation. SO readily did the igno-
rant and superstitous peasantry receive their
doctrine, that in one large village no less than
100 persons assembled in some wooden houses,
and having barricaded the doors and windows,
set the building on fire and perished in the
flames.
"A French chemist has invented method of
rendering the numbers of houses and the names
of shops easily visible by night as by day.
1t consists in rubbing the figures and letters
with certain phosphoric paste, which, though
not discernible in the daylight, will in
the dark shine with perfect distinctness. The
application would only have to be renewed once
month, and requires very trihing outlay.
AN English writer, Colonel f. Fitzwygram,
has been making some extended researches as
to the minimum quantity of fresh air required
by horses in stables He arrives at the conclu-
sion rather novel for livery stable keepers, that
s'good ventilation, good drainage and paving,
light and cleanliness, 1900 cubic feet, with a
good ground area of 81 feet per horse, are sufi-
cient though probably the minimum required
for the maintenance of health"
The Pail Mall Gazette gives a new receipt
for cooking Holsters, which it thinks would give
more satisfaction tc the epicure than to the lob
ster. "ln the first place, it is indispensable that
the lobster should be alive; then the lobster is
to be cut across in presentable pieces; and then
break the claws without dishgurng them; the
animal is then to be fixed on the spit and put
before quick fire, basted with butter, and sea-
soned with salt and pepper. When the shell
drops OFF in small pieces the unhappy lobster is
said to be cooked
"A German paper gives interesting ac-
count of the Roman Catholic missions in China.
these
French. The Lazarists are at Pekin, in Southern
Petchely, in Honan, in Kiang-si, and in Tche.
Kiang the Jesuits in Eastern Petchely and
Kiang-nsn, and the congregation of Foreign
Yunan, Ise-Thuen, Kong-tcheou, and
Mandtchouria. Each mission forms vicariate,
which is divided into districts, and in each dis
trict there is a residence for a missionary. The
Italians have five vicariates-Chang-tong
Chang-si, Cheng-si, Hou-pe, and Hounan
All their missionaries are franciscan monks
The vicariate of Mongolia is oc
cuped by Dutch missionaries. Besides the
missionaries, there are fifty French seurs de-
north-Pekin and Tien-tsin-and four IN the
south-Shanghai, Ningpo, Chusan, and another
in course of construction. The other nuns be
long to the orders of st. Paul de Chartres ant
st. Joseph de Cluny, chiefly resident at Hong
Kong and Canton. There are converts of Car
melite nuns at Shanghai, and some Italian sis
ters at Hong Kong. The French and Belgian
missions are supported by the Societe pour Ii
Propagation de la Fol. The italian missions
also obtain subsidies from that society, but arr
chiefly maintained by the Society of the Propa
ganda at Rome. The Spanish missions Obtain
their funds from Spain and Manila.
The question of premature burial continue
TO excite much interest in France SO man.
cases of persons being buried alive or only mar
rowly escaping that fate have occurred withil
the few last months, that several writers hav
begun an earnest crusade against the existing
laws. NJ. Ramboson has just published YER
elaborate treatise on the subject, and If the dat
be furnishes are correct, there can be no doub
that the present obligatory interment twenty
four hours after officially pronounced deceas
involves very serious risk of being burie
alive. According to medical men who hay
made the subject their special study, there is II
infallible sign of death but incipent decompos
ton, which does not necessarily man
fest itself before the third day
The case of the dead-room at Frankfor
which Is often quoted to show that when pei
sons are declared to be dead they always are
de fdcto. because no one ever returned to life
that antechamber of the grave, really prove
next TO nothing, for the reason that only Il
eorpses on an average are deposited theI
annually giving total since the institution hi
existed Of 2500 instead of 10000, as was errt
neouslystat some months ago at the Acadcm
des Sciences. The author adds n fearful cat
logue OF well-autbentlcated instances of the'
fatal mistakes. Some are extremely curiou
for instance, the case of the German who;
epitaph records that he was thrice pronounce
dead before his final interment, and was burie
alive at last; and that of the Abbe Provost, IL
author OF "ManOn Lescaut,' who was revive
and killed by the knife of the surgeon who wa
dssecting him.