Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1865-11-27
FOREIGN ITEMS.


The Pail Nall Gazette remarks that
Lord Brougham is now eighty-seven
years Old, and as yet has shown no symp-
toms of decay, except an increasing fond
ness for Social Science gatherings
The death ofthe fattest man in the world,
NJ Helm, is recorded by the Paris papers.
He was German by origin, and employed
as translator of foreign correspondence.
His age was fOrty-two; he weighed five
hundred pounds, and latterly was unable
to pass through doors of ordinary dimen-
sions
A steel vessel, which has Just arrived
in the Mersey, is the object of much GU
riosity and scientific calculation. The
ship weathered the frightful cyclone at
| Calcutta, last year. and although she re-
| ceived twenty conclusions, each one of
which would have sunk a wooden vessel,
came out of the war of the elements with
only honorable wounds. Her plates were
twisted and indented, but not one of them
cracked
A stratum of graphite Cblacklead for
pencils), has just been discovered near the
Sea ef Azoff equal in quality to that of
Siberia. A petroleum spring has also
angel, near a stream falling into the river
Betchora. The oil obtained can easily be
conveyed into the interior of the empire
by the ordinary roads as far as the Kama,
and thence to all the governments through
which the Yolga passes.
A violent scene took place some days
since in the cabinet of the director of the
theatre of TholOuse NJ. Millet, the first
tenor, had fierce dispute with N. Laeet,
the director, and in his rage struck the lat
ter repeatedly with his clenched hand and
knseked him down. The persons present
being unable to protect NJ. Laget from his
assailsnt, the police were at last called in,
and NJ. Millet was taken into custody.
He has since been condemned BY the Cor
rectional Tribune to pay 16f fine and all
costs.
The Paris Patris says that when the
Emperor Napoleon visited the cholera
bed oeddpi6a % the Hotel H9 5fnlh Rfnh he sgt Rept @ @ e
bodzinski, and inquired as to his State.
g L want nothing, Sire, for have one foot
in the grave; but have petition to ad-
dress to you in favor of Poland" The
Emperor gave him to understand by the
motion of his hand that he had nothing
to fear on that subject. He then visited
other patients and returned to that very
bed and three times make the same sign
to him. The same evening the Empe-
rors private physician called At the hos
pital to attend on NJ. SlobodzinsH.
A recent meeting in Paris in aid of the
enfranehised slaves of America was
crowded to such excess that above 1000
persons went away, not having been able
to find seats NJ Laboulaye presided.
Mr. Leigh and DIR. Sunderland gave the
meeting several interesting facts as to the
present condition of liberated negroes.
NJ. de Pressense, NJ. n. de Saint Hilaire,
and the well-known member of the Pro-
visional Government, the veteran barrister
NJ. Cremieux, made eloquent appeals to
the audience, reproaching their country
men with having done little as vet in the
cause for which the meeting had been
called.
La diDa Patti has sent an album to her
Majesty the Empress Eugenie containing
twenty-four portraits of herself in the
twenty-four characters she has personated
since the commencement of her brilliant
career. The Empress accepted this offer
ing, and Immediately sent Mdlle. Patti a
magnificent PGrsre in diamonds. It is
impossible not to contrast this gracious
act with the conduct of another crowned
head Queen Vietoria), to whom a poor
lady sent from Boston an album contain
ing a collection of the brilliant tinted
leaves of the American forest trees. which
was certainly acknowledged by the words.
" Her Majesty graeiously accepts the
album sent by Mrs. -, but wishes If to
be distinctly understood that no similar
offering viii in future be received
A curious statement is made with re-
gard to the Italian elections. It is said
that ont of the 443 representatives to be
elected only III have been legally elected.
The remainder will have to undergo a
second election, inasmuch as they did not
receive the proportion of votes required BY
law, viz; A majority equal to more than
of the total number of quail
fed electors. In Florence OILY 3,5Ol
electors polled out of 10, ,53l, and of them
by far the larger number voted for the
clerical candidates, the Ministerialists (of
whom the well-known Coneompagni was
one receiving but ], ALB votes.