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Miss Fanny Hessler seized and held a burglar in her house in New York, Sunday night, till the police arrived. It is stated that the hotel keepers of Long Branch have offered a cottage to President Hayes for the season. Samuel Cary Ball, late cashier of the Hatboro National Bank, in Pennsylvania, has been sentenced to ten years in prison for embezzlement. The Bank of Lansingburg, New York, has gone into the hands of a receiver. It is supposed that the managers have been speculating in New Jersey Central. The New York Sun prints the affidavit of Engineer Colein, of the treasury department, accusing Assisiant Secretary Conant of infamous immoralities. The recent inventory of the Erie railway fills twenty large volumes, and cost $100,000 in its completion. It is so minute in all particulars as to give the number of spikes in the 1800 miles of track, which is 21,600,000. There are 250 locomotives on the road and 70 different kinds of iron in the t ack. It is related of Secretary Thompson, of the Navy Department, that, finding that his study of the Catholic question, upon which he has recently published a book, was impeded by his ignorance of Greek, Latin, French and German he acquired a sufficient mastery of these four languages, after he had reached the age of 60, to enable him to make his own translations. The success of Prof. Belt's experiments with the telephone leads the Spectator to express the hope that the curious Yankee instrument can not easily be set at work without the consent of the victim. Its uneasiness is betrayed by the remark: "Fancy suddenly having your ears opened to the silly babble of this muddle-headed and very chattering world!" While the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher was lecturing in Minneapolis the other evening, a very large and self-possessed gray cat was seen walking deliberately down one of the aisles of the church toward the rostrum. She ascended the steps of the platform, walked up to the lecturer, and very familiarly rubbed herself against his legs, to the great amusement of the audience. Mr. Beecher simply stopped, looked down, and laughingly remarked, "Well, now I am beginning to feel at home." A curious incident happened at the last meeting of the Kbedival Geographical Society of Egypt. M. De Lesseps was explaining the scheme for inundating the Algerian Sahara, and desired to point out something on the map, when the President, Gen. Stone, gallantly drew his sword and presented it to him. But the creator of the Suez Canal [and the projector of other peaceful enterprises gracefully declined the offer saying: "I am not a man of the sword; I am a man of peace, and I prefer Mr. Bourbon's cane," which be accordingly took and with which he pointed out the desired locality.