The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-02-05

induce Count Bismarck to abandon his policy of
prudence and abstcntion, IL is prob tble that tho
new hopes of the nationalist party are without
any sufficient foundation.
The IdH Mall Gazeite says the eccentric
vanity Of large class of charitable people is
sufficiently familiar, but has seldom been
parBded in more grOtCsque shape than in tue
list Of contributions to the Jubilee Fund of n
religious society which has just come under our
notice. Here are u few examples Of the entries:
Two widows Mites, TO sound the Jub Ice
MIR y X r. for word snoscn in season 70
me by Mr. W. b. for Christian sympathy
and fOrbearance; for the Methodist Rule
concerning spirituOus liquors; in memory
Of two beloved Cla4s-eaders, Mr. NJ. and
MIR. II. G. c.; for Titus III 3; for the Gospel
preached TO my mother; for light in the
way Of salvation given to my sister Meri-
anne; Tor Christian sympathy to my bro
ther Arthur; for, my sister Julias conyer-
gwen to my sister Louisa Mary. 10
Mr., j. X. B.s numerous reasons for giving
subscription contrast rather oddly with the sum.
Mr.. w. H., in remembrance Of two beloved
wives IA Heaven, and in memory OF having
heard the Rev. J, Wesley preach in Wal
lhRfnrd; ;,n..,.t.,...,I .,I',,,,',,,,,,',','.
One who saw and was glad. .........,....
Another who saw and was glad .............. ! U
Mr.. Henry H., for q ManN wife and nine
fjySS By1.s = 2 y S5sSy ss5yant Sy.:::, rs
Mr. John w. as an expression OF Gratitude
TO God for bringing me-, me to iI Himself, by by tho
celent wife ia Heaven and an excellent a.
Ditto. 3" a Thank Thank oifcrins to my heavenly
Father, who has been and still is all lie
promised to be-"a Father to the father
less, a Husband to the widow, aud Judge
Of the widow, in His holy habitation;" for
five precious children yet lent unto me to
for each Observation-Disclosures. 25 90
For Anna my precious partner for 81 years,
now beholdng the King in His glory -. 8 0 0
In memory OF my sainted daughter Jane,
and Of Eliza Anna, the holy Canadian. 3 0 0
1t really seems a pity that religious zeal
should find expression in such grotesque forms;
and that otherwise sensible people cannot give
five pounds to good cause without putting
| their entire families, dead aud alive, into the
| contribution list Is it wrong to suggest that
| these long records of subscriptions cheap
and easy way TO that notoricty which SO many
weak minds desire
Those who live in constant dread Of the
"Reds" acquiring supreme power in Paris will
| be consoled by reading an account given by the
| correspondent of one of the German papers of
| the present fashions in that city, from which it
| appears that the regning color worn by fashion
| able people is brown. This color goes by the
| name of universal suffrage" Not only dresses,
| hats and mantles are brown, but carriages are
| painted with this fashionable color. The Tyro.
| lese hats, which some gentlemen have taken to,
are now ornamented with pheasants' feathers,
| parrots wings, and hummng-birds heads For
mourning blackbirds or ravens, for half-mourn-
| ing swallows or magpies, are worn. One enter
| prising halter has contrived to fit these adorn-
ments with an apparatus for initiating the cry Of
| the bird selected as the appendage. slight
movement Of the forehead is sufficient to set the
| little machine in motion. 1t is therefore unne-
| cessary TO take off the hat on meeting friend
| you frown or elevate the brow-the bird screams,
and this constitutes a greeting. Certainly u
brown republic would be less trying to the nerves
| than a red one, and old France with its cap of
liberty and its thirst for blood was far more try
| ing to the nerves than modern France clad In
russet with bird in its hat and horse in its
| stomach.