The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-05-24
OLD WORLD ITEMS

Austria and Russia have abrogated the ex-
tradition treaty hitherto existing between them
for the surrender of military deserters.
A treaty Of commerce has been concluded
empire and the Guatemalian republic
The Austrian Court Is in great consterna-
ton. The daughter of the Emperor, the Arch
duchess Giselle, is dangerously i'll with scsrls-
tina.
The number of persons who emigrated from
Liverpool during April was "a, 152, or 1886 less
than in the corresponding month of last year.
The British and Colonial Emigration Society
is to send cut 1850 additional emigrants on
board ships which willleav England for Canada
in June.
Emigration from France and Italy to
Algeria is greatly on the increase, and the
French colonies are pressing daily farther into
the interior.
There is journal in Paris published in the
Japanese language. 1t is in the shape of
memorandum book without backs, and is edited
by M. Rosmay, q professor of Oriental tongues.
In Cheltenham, England, samples of sugar
have been found so fesrfully aduiterated with
chromate of lead that 1t is a wonder how any of
the unfortunate partakers of 1t survived to
tell the tale.
The independent thinkers of Gratz (styria)
have collected the necessary funds for the crea-
tion of o superior school free from all religious
instruction. 1t is the first attempt of the kind
that has been made in Austria
Two smart shocks of an earthquake were
felt at Comrie, Scotland, on Friday night. They
were accompanied with q rumblng noise. The
vibration was from west to east The wind was
westerly and the night fine.
No strawberries this year at Madrid The
Spanish capital has hitherto beeu supplied with
that delicious fruit from Valencia; but this year
the prices offered for the Spanish strawberries
at Paris have carried every crop to that market.
"A submarine yelocipede is the next new
thing in Paris 1t is so arranged that the rider,
or rather the inmate, can see all around him,
and either rise or descend In the water at will.
He occupies horizontal position and is sup
piled with plenty of condensed air.
The quantity of British proof spirits con-
sumed in the United Kingdom during 1869 was
no less than 81, ,621, 500 gallons, of which Eng
land drank II, 100000, Scotland $3.50, 900, and
Ireland nearly 100000 gallons. The amount
of duty paid on the whole quantity was
E10, ,S60,795.
The Opinion Ndtiondle gives a curious ac-
count of the manner in which the writing of
Flourens, in the letter seized on the person of
Beaurie, the French conspirator, was discovered.
When the former left for England he amused
himself by sending his card to M. Pietri, Pre-
feet of Police, and he added the P. P. G. of de-
parture usual among friends and acquaintances.
On piece of note paper in which the card was
wrapped he wrote ''Parlant pour rAngleterre."
The Prefect compared the papers, and at once
ascertained the indentity of the handwriting in
each.
The British Post Office savings banks continue
to prosper, and the business done increases
rapidly. There was not a post-office bank in
the United Kingdom until the 10th September,
1861, and at the end of 1869 there was G13,-
524, ,209 due to depositors. The interest paid to
depositors, or added to the credit side of their
accounts, now exceeds E300, 900 a year. The
amount paid in and the amount drawn out in
the course of year are very large; in 1869
G5, ,218 was received from depositors, and
"a, 227, ,656 was paid to depositors. The charges
of management and expenses incurred in 1869
amounted to f62, ,060.
Political excitement is producing at Madrid a
plentiful crop of caricatures. One of the best
represents Prim dancing on a slack rope upon
the points of swords, which he wears as stills,
while the republicans and partisans of the vari-
GUS candidates for the throne look on in expec-
tation of a fall. 1t is called "Equilibrios del
Interinidad." Another consists merely of
sheet divided into thirty squares, each square
containing comic portrait of some one OF the
claimants of the throne. In the host of others
the auction" and the "Duel" are worthy of
notice. The former represents Prim knocking
down the crown to the highest bidder; the lat
ter depicts him engaged in n mortal combat
with friar, while bishop acts as a second for
each of the opponents.