The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-01-27
FOREIGN MISCELLANY.

Charles Dickens, Jr., is stroke oar Of th
Thames Rowing Club. @
Napoleon recently got up serenade 70
himself with band consisting Of four hun
dred drummers and sixteen hundred mu
sicisns.
Work on the Cologne Cathedral, suspend
ed three centuries ego, will be resumed mex
spring.
;, "A lamplighter in Liverpool recently be
came heir to s100, 600, and the excitement Off
threw him into brain fever.
Russia educates it's ballet dancers and
then forbids' theh, departure from the countr,
without the permission Of the Gar.
1t is 80 general custom in. France to et
change photographs at New Years, that more
| than three millions Of them went through the
Paris postofice during the first week Of 1858.
| "A Partisan actress recently appeared at the
Porte st. Martin Theatre robed in halo o.
electric light and 40 little else that even the
Frenchmen Kissed her.
The Duke de Chevreuse has given twelve
pieces Of cannon to the Pope. Rome will, by
and-by, be merely military station, as it loses
citizens and gains soldiers and material OF war
every day. T.. ''' ..'' zs.,i -
ii.- In the Russian town of Kasan, new the
atre has been erected. In giving license the
| Governor provides 'tthat on one night each
acter that mothers may carry their daughters. .
M. Indennerech, the executioner Of Paris,
has improved the guillotine and JitB manage
ment to such an extent that he can cut of 3
mans head in six seconds from the time he
reaches the scaffold, if the victim is only &C
commodating. He is rich, but follows his pro-
fession from philanthropic motives.
The British ytceroy Of India has lately
held grand celebration at Lucknow: The
princes Of Victoria's great Oriental Empire
Of 200, ,00o, 600 people passed in gorgeous Pro;
richly caparisoned elephants also formed part
of the grand array. The show is known as
the etDurbar. No - - i''n - -
The French Emperor has now at his dis
posal in time OF peace q fighting army OF about
60O,I 600 trained soldiers, supported by reserve
of 600, 900 men who have gone through at least
the first rudiments OF drill; and. with such o
subservient Legislative chamber as the present
the En- peror will have little difficulty in calling
up q contingent OF 10000 or 100, instead OF
the usual number Of 10O, 900, SHOULD war break
out. s,,'1 ...,.--lf.., ..,. ...or.,., 57
The King Of Prussia has congratulated the
Pope on his happy deliyerance nom the Carl
baldian invasion, and, has declared, in an AUTO
graph letter, that IeawiH never lend himself to
any international arrangement that should
sanction the destruction or even weakening OF
the temporal power Of the Holy See; and for
the reason that its maintenance appears tonim
Indispensable to the free e1eI else OF the
spiritual sovereignty Of the head Of the church,
and to the religious liberty of. Prussian
Catholics. y Z p. 2hi-s %
.:-France is to have in the spring, . maritime
exhibition at Havre, and it is proposed at
Washington to appoint commission Of naval
officers to attend It. II is to be hoped that the
shipbuilders, engine works, rope walks, sail
lofts anchor shops, and other departments OF
our nautical industry will be represented.
Professor Secchi, an eminent astronomer
Ia Rome, and formerly Director OF the Obser-
vatory Of Georgetown, d. o., announces, LAS
the result Of recent careful experiments In an
Alpine glacier, that the true color Of fresh
water is q blue mixed with violet, which grows
darker as the thickness traversed by the Light
increases. :, 81. .--,.,..---- - ...5 =
Napoleon always endeavors to comhin elm.
rial. On New Years day he eavo the boy a
miniature railway, with engine and cars, the
track, five hundred yards long, being laid on
the terrace, running along the reserved. gar
dens OF the Tuileries. An engineer is in etten..
dance to explain the engine and run special
trains for the Princes accommodation. -. g. |
Mics Burdett Coutts charities are always
we'll directed. Her latest effort for the relief
Of the tenants OF her model lodging-housesin in
London enables them to obtain the franchise
to which they are entitled by the reform bill.
She undertakes to pay their rates for them
without increasing their rents, and. "a mark
Of gratitude, the householders thus trans
formed into voters illuminated their dwellings
on the night of the 4th instant. The London
Star regrets that there is but one Miss Coutts, 4
and adds this sharp touch: Destitute crea-
lures in the east OF London, who can hardly
keep body and soul together, are summoned
for poor rates, and they appear before the
court gnawiug the crusts with which the chari-
ty Of tho pr.b1ic has provided them" y 1