The daily clarion. [volume] (Meridian, Miss.) 1863-1866, 1866-04-01
THE DAILY CLARION
Foreign Items.

Among Alexandra Dumas many talents,
il appears cooking may be included, in proof
of which he recently gave a dinner at MS
new apartment Boulevard MalesherDes, &c
a party of twelve among whom Mrs Mllne1
Gibson was inclnded. which dinner the Drill
liant novelist cooked wholly himself; 1t Is
reported to have been worthy OF Soyer, OF
even Brillat SayaTin himself III his very
best days
The daughter of the keeper of an old Gu
riosity shop in Paris has just lost her let
from a singular accident. She was display
ing Malay dagger to an amateur of arm
when the weapon fell the scabbard al q
slightly grazed her foot, which began I,
swell immediately The doctor at once testeo
the weapon, and found that the point hao
been dipped ia one of those dire poisons
against which there is no antidote.
REtJcs.-Rare fragments Of rich old Rome
are daily turning up from out OF the grave
of the Eternal City. The Mount Palatine
is being pierced, by Papal authority, and
thence have recently come to light new ira
ces of the gorgeous imperial palace-frescoed
chambers, superbly adorned bnssi '1dert
marble columns, one or two statutes, hne,
though mutilated, and bust OF Brittanicus,
of the best period of art. At Ostla, d1scoy-
cries equally interesting have been made;
and among the vines, near the baths OF Car
acalla. MonsignOre Guidi has come upon
magnificent mosaic, representing skeleton,
life size. with the inscription, in Greek let
ters signifying, Know Ihyself" This last
is supposed to be of the time of the An
TONNES
An Australian paper records the death, at
the age Of forty-One, OF James Morlll, an
English sailor who was wrecked on the
northeastern coast of Australia, and lived
seventeen years among the Mount Elliot
aboriginies. lie had forgotten his mother
tongue when he was restored to civilized
life, about two years since.
Alexandra Dumas has recently returned to
Paris after his peregTinatious in Austria, IN
which one Of the last episodes was ms visit
to the tomb Of the second Napoleon, whose
career began as King Of Rome and ended as
an Austrian colonel. The last resting place
of the family of Hapsburg is the Capuchln
Convent NJ Clnstcr Case where the collins
of that imperial family are laid in a vault
Alexandra Dumas remarked on the strange
fact that although in presence the remains
OF soyereigus whose flats shook the world,
such as Maximiliau, Francis, Maria Theresa,
etc. the only object within tins Inausolellm
which exctes the slightest interest Is the
ulatu bronze coffin which contains the dust
of one who. although born king, lived and
died ID captive. NJ Dumas remarked on his
immense height He grew during his last
illness to six feet; his coffin measured above
seven feet in length. Strange coincidence
ON If alone falls the solitary CLEAN OF light
which penetsates the scpulchraI chambers OF
his mighty ancestors
THE QUEEN AND THE SCUIPTOR.-From
Scotch paper we learn that Mr. ;. Milbank
sas pubs some "reminiscences OF Gibson
the famous sculptor. lie says:
Gibson told me that at the first sitting her
Majesty gave him for the great statue IN
Westminster Hail. she hardly spoke ut all,
evidently DESTROYS to know what sort OF a
man ne was Upon all future occasions he
said the Queen was extremely aftable, and
deigncd to laugh heartily at some OF his
stories. One day he SAID to her. with ms
peculiar naiycnCss, Madam, was born a
thief" "A thief, Mr.. Gibson p Yes ma
dam; for when a child, | stole an apple
from the stall Of an old woman with a wood
an leg Nv mother found me out, took me
back 10 the old woman, and begged her to
beat me with her crutch, which she dld lus,
tily. / never stole more "Ah - replied
her Majesty, "a great deal OF sorrow was
brought into the world by the apple.
The Dublin correspondent Of the London
Times says:
4 number of bonds have arrived in the
CITY Of Waterford from New York beautl-
fui executed i'm the form of bank notes,
signed hy ONlahony and two others. They
are for sums varying go to $50, bearing
eight per cent. interest, to be paid when the
Irish Republic is established, with this re-
markabIe pecuiarIty, they are bonds on the
CurragfmOre estate. 1t IS calculated no
doubt. that some of Lord Watertord's tenants
viii cash these bonds, believing that they
will thereby secure their farms and the
farms of their ucighbors rent free in perpe
tuitv There is reason to believe that slml
lar bonds upon Irish estates have arrived III
other parts of the country.