The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-06-10
HnCidentaIS.

Hartford Graves some English sparrows
The Richmond Debtors Relief Convention
in Richmond was an absolute failure.
"A Boston paper explains that it intended to
speak of the prettiest theatre" in that city, and
not ''the bulliest" as the types got it.
Chicago has new Democratic paper which
starts off with elaborate protest against negro
suffrage. 1t is to be hoped thatit will grow wiser
as it grows older.
A Portland paper reports that Wayne Nc
Neoge has been appointed Minister to Turkey,
which will probably make Mr. McVeigh inveigh
against the perversity of the types.
And now an Atlanta paper advertises as
found ''an elegant white ladys panier.' Really,
this thing has gone quite far enough it ought to
be stopped
The drummer and fifer of the Ancient and
Honorable Artillery Company, OF Boston,, are
each eighty-two years old. There is more uni
formity in their ages than in any other two
things connected with the company.
One of the fire-engine horses in Atlanta,
Georgia, was sick the other day, and the boys
employed another, leaving him in his place in
the engine house when they were called out.
After they had gone, Joe, the horse, became
restless and IN short time broke his halter
and galloped off to the fire. where he took his
place beside his mate and remained quite con-
tented.
The Utica Herald relates that large tree
which had fallen and lodged against another
hung over the crowd near the platform at the
Steuben celebration on Wednesday, and that
during the exercises some young men climbed
short distance up the slanting trunk. A gentle
man who knew that the tree had been in that
position for years requested them to come
down, which request they at once complied
with. On Thursday the tree fell to the earth
with a crash.
The Quebec Mercury says:-"We are re-
quested by the officers of the Goth Regiment to
state that their ball and presentation of colors
will take place on Tuesday, the 2lst of June,
when they hope to see all their friends origi-
nally invited. 1t is particularly requested that
all papers both in Canada and the United States
will copy this notice." THE TELEGRAPH is not
one of the papers both in Canada and the United
States, but we copy the notice.
"A Swedish farmer who was breaking land
near Pacific City, Kansas, barred with plough
huge log of antediluvian timber. Further
research shows that an immense forest has at
some former time been submerged, and now lies
about fourteen inches below the surface. The
| trees are all lying in one direction, their tops
toward the west. They are black as jet, and
| capable of receiving high polish. There seems
an ipexhaustible supply, as experiments for
! miles round reveal them to the search.
| Short horn cattle are valuable for their
! remarkable aptitude to fatten the perfection of
! their form and the smallness of their bony
! as beef cattle. No animal of any other breed
can so rapidly transform the stock of any sec
! ton around him as these bulls of the improved
| short-horned species. One of the character
istics of this breed is also their remarkable doci
lity, and their indisposition to break through
| confinement.
| Colonel Henry y. Kent OF Lancaster, y. H.,
! President of the association of alumni of Nor
wich University, has sent out circular saying
that the reunion of the graduates OF the Univer-
| sity will he held in Mortified, VT, on the 18th
| of July. These reunions are held once in five
| years, and all graduates and past cadets of the
American Literary and Scientific Institute, the
American Military Academy, and Norwich Uni
| Versity which last-named institution supplanted
and absorbed the preceding ones, are members
! of the Association of the Alumni and Past
| T. odatS " and inVitad n attend il
-In the last six years, according to the official
records, 42lS persons have been killed in Bengal
by tigers, 1907 by leopards, los by bears, ia by
| hyenas, and 32lO by other animals-bOars,
jackals, elephants, etc. Man has taken revenge
| by slaughteriDg 1918 tigers, 1868 leopards, 16I
bears 1888 wolves and 100 other wild beasts
In all IS 200 murderous animals for 13, 400 human
lives. Tigers are much dreaded, since one taste
| of human flesh makes them hungry for it ever
after one tiger has been known to devour Fl fly
people in three years at Gharaghat, and one tiger
in nine months of 1867 killed sixty-four person;
at Kuraul.
"A San Francisco paper reports that on the
night of the 27th ult. the driver OF stage frou
70 Semitic TO Stockton succeeded in overturnine
the stage. when going down a hill at RAPID
pace although the passengers had previously
been assured that he could drive just as wei
when drunk when sober. Fortunately thu
ring-bolt broke at once and the front wheel
parted from the stage. The horses kept OF
their course for some distance, while the stag
came to dead halt, and the passengers man
aged TO untangle and crowd out of the coach
Several of them were badly bruised, but no live
were lost or limbs broken