, 1870-03-25
MISCELLANEOUS

Ast Petersburg danseuse has been 1ued eighty
tnuhlca for gestures ont Of ali boun.ls."
Justice 1t Weatchester. P1, has sentenced a
man to months imprisonment for stealing N
umbrella
At Richmond, Va, recently, q legislator reyenscd
himself upon fellow-membcs BY cowhtding bis
little hoy,
AJe.seyman lost an axe over twenty years ago,
which he has Just found under hts hid. His life
hasn't l'een made unhappy hy housec'eantng.
In an account o! ball In Hartford the 7Tmea, Of
that city, meutonet, \ young lady who wore "a
double shirt neatly trimmed with nat7uw satin rib
b,r.''
L,ndon Is to hare nszu,aIh Show, each Young
lady to appear ID character and with all the acces
sozes Ut her calling. The prizes to 50 to the
most beautiful.
General Butlcr'a report OF the Soldiers Homes
soys no disabled soldier Of the Union army WAS
every refused admission to the asstams; that there
are acc ,r,modassons for all, anl that those who
lay o:rans In the streets, heg, or engage in tkc
pursuits, arc alone to blame for 80 DUNG.
The great ports Of the Mediterranean, Genoa,
Venice, Aarsesllt+, ani Trieste, with Odessa In
the Black 9eR-and no doubt, all the nt.le ports
along With those-haye been touched with new
lilc ty the Suez Canal and the prospects OF large
cotton trade between Bombay and the old Euro
rean West Genoa has already ordered a mag.
.. -.~c.-. -..,r, ~ ~ hunt at Ja7ow. In England,
for that 11Ade.
Arespectahle-looking man presented q ss.stol Mt
| ticket agent at Elizabeth, New jersey, and lie,
mAnded ticket to New York 1t wss gtren him
| and he jumped on train, leaving tho revolver
In the evening he returned and a,,olo9tzed aayinp
that Important business called him To New York,
ard, harsng lett II. rcckethook At home, he was
hound to grs ticket he paid for i'll; ticket, got
buck his revolver, md, thanking shc agent dc.
parted
Allegheny, the Bnhurb Of Pittsburgh, wa1 the
scenf Of extraordinary excitement one night re-
Gently. From every station Of the Fire Telegraph
an alarm was sounded, and the engines thus sum
moned were sent IN all directions. Finally, al
though the signals still sounded, the entire c!t5
having hecu sc0utetl hF the nrc,ncn, and no nse
discovered, an Investigation Into the cause nf the
alarm developed their connection with different
form Of accident 4 derrick, employed In swing
ting gr1ndstone weighing some $500 pounds, g.ye
way, and falftnR, broke telegraph pole. One O.
the wlFrs only Nas broken, and It, hanging over
the other wires, struck them from time to time.
with zach suute conveying signal
A laay writer In the G.lars Stbulr defends
American lssltea against the English charge that
shsy,azr scE1Sgy and thst handsome leg Is i
rarity THIS tho GdAazy writer says is as hascless
as 1t is unbearab{e- And she goes on to SAY that
though she is ignorant Of the ballet and profes-
snnA dancers, she has passionate scnsc OF beauty
nj form, and has taken advantage Of abundant op-
portunites Afforded BY g3mnastc classes and slng-
Ing schools to study the Development Of the lower
timtH Of her Eer. She has aeen At least thousand
ladies' In the pretty dress woEn for no ws' rhyS-
ical exercises which leaves the lower hE more
than half nndrared Now Of these Thousand pairs
Of nntura1 legs she soemniy declares that not more
than nifty were 80 meag1c that it wonld hare been
Kinder to hide them, and not more than twenty
were 70 destitute Of good points that iashetcally}
the ought TO have been anniht1ated.
The last number Of the Rerue dts Dur Eoud<s
contains an article headed "LA ylerfe dc Pc
rousc,~ In which detailed aecount Is given Of the
Madonna Of Perugta-tn@ early work Of Raphael-
now on view IN the.eanesJ Of tho Louvre II Park
The Rer'x strongly urges the claim Of the picture
tn place Ia the national cullecttoo Of Fr1uce and
as strongly dcprccatcs any reluctance on the p11t
Of TIC government to give high price for II; luxe
warmness III bidding for II would, the writer con-
cs!ves, lntalIibly have the effect OF throwing the
picture into the hanaa Of the English Government
The pedigree Of the picture Ia complete ata Senu-
inc. It was painted for the convent Of s. Anto-
nlu OF raaina, 81 PcruSi2- Thence, In the year
1e:t passed into the hands Of the Coonna family,
where 1t remained until 1sess, vheu it became the
properly Of the Royal family Of Naples: since 1850
Ii has belonged to N. Bermudc1 de cAstro.