The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-07-19
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The people of Boston consume 20, 94S gal
Ions of milk day at a cost of $7l22'32 They
have 752 wholesale dealers in that commodity.
The Touring mills of some of the Western
cities are running day and night. The wheat
crop is reported to be Immense in that section.
Three thousand six hundred watermelons
arrived in Savannah, Ga, from Florida few
days ago, and were disposed of for about $50
per hundred
They have a stray boy at police station in
Chicago whom they can hardly expect any one
cross eyed and idiotic."
There is a boat club of young ladies in
Detroit Mich. They go out rowing twice a
week. and are put through q regular course of
training by lucky oarsman of that city.
They have well in Memphis, Mich, whose
waters are magnetic and will charge knife.
blades, tenpenny nails, ETC., with magnetism in
a very short time. 1t was struck in boring
for oil.
The oldest member of the Pioneers Associ-
alton of Sacramento Cal, a hale old man of
eighty-four, tramped for miles in procession
few days ago from choice. He preferred the
exercise to riding.
Cincinnati is gradually getting back that
beer which the musical Germans carried away
at the late Fest" The Chicago singers have
sent ten barrels of Milwaukee lager to one of
the saloon keepers.
"A feminine typo in GAINESVILLE, Wis, re-
Gently set 70 600 ems solid nonpareil in ten
hours. Here is a point for the advocates for
extending woman's sphere of labor. How we'll
her work was done, however is not stated.
"A pair of milk-white rats, with pink eyes,
were caught in Wheatland Cal, lately, at least
so one of their papers asks us to believe.
Beauty is fatal gift, however, and one of them
is already dead and the other on exhibition in
Sacramento
They have musical prodigy at Albany, in
boy ten years of age, who is said to perform the
most difficult pieces on the violin in style equal
TO that of the best professors of the art. His
name is Albert Van Radte, and he is soon to be
inflicted upon the public.
Fires are very frequent in the departments
of the Landes and the Gironde, France. space
of $50 acres of fir trees has been burned at
Marcheprime, with loss of $4,000 francs a
confagration has devastated the forest of the
Flamand, at Vendays.
"A Registrum Parliamentarium will soon ap-
pear. II will show the composition of both
Houses of the British Parliament from 1920 to
the present date. The list of polls will include
several that are not given in Mr.. Smiths PAR
liaments of England"
The Norwegian fisheries are decreasing.
They now employ 22, 492 men. The number of
cod taken in 1868 was ~, GOO, of which
100000 were salted and prepared as clip
fish or baccelan, and about 100000
hung up to dry as round-fish. The remaining
100000 were cured for home consumption.
"A man and his wife, with four children, ar
rived at the depot in Detroit the other day, and
while waiting for train got into domestic
quarrel, which resulted in the wife taking three
of the children and an equitable share of the
baggage and money, and setting out for the
westward the first train that came along
while the husband, apparently resigned to his
fate. took room at first-rate hotel.
The new Peruvian loan just announced in
Europe amounts to Ell ,92O, ,OO0 in bonds of
various denominations frem el000 down
to $40, bearing interest at six per cent: and re-
deemable at par by half-yearly drawings, to
commence in 1880, the price of issue being S2]5
per cent The loan is stated to be for the con-
struction of railroads, and it is secured on the
customs dues of the republic, producing annually
about $500, 600; the railways the surplus pro-
providing for the service of the 1865 loan, and
after that loan has been redeemed on the entire
sales of guano. The subscription is payable by
instalments extending to the Goth of April,
1871, with the usual allowance for prompt pay
ments, couhting which the loan should yield as
an investment about eight per cent