The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-08-03
EnREIHN ITEATS

Some people prefer suffering TO being
bored. This must have been eminently the
case with an Englishman who, says a French
paper, was sauntering recently about the
platform of Henry rvs statue in Paris, yawn-
ing tremendously. He suddenly perceived
an Italian organ boy carrying a large monkey,
and instantly offered to buy it. The child
was unwilling to part with the beast, but
being tempted, first by one and then by two
gold pieces, he at last consented to sell it,
and the Englishman walked off with his pur-
chase. He had not gone many yards when
the monkey, annoyed at the change of masters,
began to behave in q most diabolical man
ner, pulling out the Englishman's whiskers,
scratching his nose and cheeks, and uttering
piercing shrieks of rage. His new owner in
vain tried to calm him. At last, losing patti
ence, and streaming with blood, he seized
the furious animal and threw it into the
Seine. Several people on the bank we're
setting dogs to swim. A Newfoundland
jumped into the river, and brought the
drowning monkey to shore. The monkey
soon recovered its senses, and bounded to-
wards the trees, which it ~joyfully climbed.
The little Italian succeeded in inducing it to
return to him, and then wanted to give back
the purchase-money, but the Englishman
fatty refused to take it, gave up the monkey
to the boy, and went away rubbing his hands
and declaring that he had been extremely we'll
amused.
The smallest dwarf in the world has, &C
cording to the London Morning Ad0ert6Ser
been Just admitted into the Bethnal-green
Workhouse in q dying state. He is thirty
two years of age, and his name is William
Salletto. He has been measured by the
medical officers and found to be only 81 inches
in height. 1t seems that in 1862 his father
met q Frenchman named Philip Tenure, who
prevailed on hin to give up his business and
exhibit his son as the smallest dwarf existing.
he being one inch less in height than
General Tom Thumb. The father con-
scented for a salary of 60 a week to allow the
Frenchman to take all the profits from any
exhibition. The dwarf first made his appear
ance at Rosherville Gardens. After that he
was taken on q tour through England. He
was also received by several noblemen and
county families. One gentleman presented
him with a watch and chain, which, to his
great sorrow, he no longer possesses. He
then went to Paris, where, among other illus
trious personages, he was introduced to the
Emperor of the French at the Tuileries. He
was afterwards shown to the present King of
the Belgians. He then returned to England,
where he was exhibited at several exhibitions.
Recently he became ill, and his father and
mother becoming destitute, they we're all adj
mitted into Bethnal- green Workhouse.
One of the Indian papers refers to the
success which has attended Sir Robert Mont
gomery's measures for the suppression of
l6LudlC luld1llCluO lhIlOuuCtu UlOI0 buuu
thirty years ago into the Allahabad district.
In 1910 there were only three female infants
among the suspected clans, next year there
were as many as fourteen, and in 1912 there
were twenty-eight female children. In the
same villages the percentage of Rajpoot
girls now bears a fair proportion to the male
population, and in the three clans which
were formerly most addicted to infanticide
the percentages of girls are sixty-nine, sixty
three, and ~fifty-six. Among the Allahabad
Rajpoots the possession of an unmarried
daughter is no longer counted a disgrace, but,
as a rule, the marriage expenditure is re-
duced, and marriage follows. The Pail Mall
well for us if Sir Robert Mont
gomery, or Sir Robert any one else, had
thirty years ago introduced some measures
which would have checked the system of in
fanticide that has taken root among us, and
prevented the wholesale murder that we have
allowed to go on until we really have become
ashamed of the number of little bodies strewed
about the streets. 1t is a melancholy reflec-
ton that if there were a competitive examina-
ton in crime and vice few, if any, cities in
the world would care to compete with London,
which, judging from the murders and other
horrors that have lately come to light, would
leave no other candidate a chance of success.
The German newspapers announce that
the celebrated German dramatist, Herr Bene-
dix, author of upwards of one hundred origi-
nal plays, is now, at the age of seventy-one,
in great distress. cit is only just, !" says the
Gdqtenlau6e, 'that the public should take
measures for ensuring the comfort, during
the last few years of his life, of this poet, who
has given it so much diversion by his bril-.
liant and joyous productions Herr Benedix
is the author of AschenbT0dh, of which
School is a very clever imitation, but an imi-
tation all the same. He is also the author of
the quaint little piece from which Leon
Gozlan's Dieu merct, Le c0uceTt est misi is
derived. Leon Gozlan knew so little of the
dramatist to whom he was indebted for the
characters and plot of the trife inst named
that he announced "Dieu merci," ETC., as
Etire du theatre Russe;" and it was from o
Russian version of Benedix's dramatic sketch
that the French version was prepared. If,
after being played in Russia, France, an6
England, Benedix is little known out of his
own country, that is not precisely the fault Of
Benedix himself. All the German actors who
have had parts furnished to them by thii
prolific dramatist are joining in the subscrip
ton that has been opened for his benefit, anG
there would be no improperly in the various
foreign authors and managers who have pro
fitted by his talent doing the same.
Mr.. WEBSTER AS A LITERARY MAN.-Of al
the public men of America, Mr.. Webster was
perhaps the most striking illustration of @
purely literary power displayed on the theatre
of politics. 1t has been said of him, by SO
judicious and knowing q critic as HoratiC