The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-02-29
FOREIGN MISCELLANY.

Switzerland still adheres to the old way Of
executing capital criminals by beheading with
the sword.
Two tipsy British soldiers cursed the
Queen, and are now serving fve-year sem
tence with branded backs.
An English jury has awarded f1100 dam
ages to a gentleman whose nerves were
shocked, but who received no bodily wound,
by railway accident.
The peasants in Brittany, France, believe
that the great Napoleon is still alive, just as
some Democrats persist in voting f.. Andrew
Jackson in This country.
The performance of the Can-can has been
stopped at a London theatre by order OF the
Lord Chamberlain. Of course Lord Willoughby
can't allow anything 30 immoral.
Judy represents q gentleman at dinner
ladling up horse shoe from the soup tureen,
and saying, "'Pon my soul, it's too bad! This
is the second time cooks forgotten to take the
shoes of"
DIR. Cumming writes to q London paper
that he still believes his Interpretation of pro-
phecv to be correct, and ''that it is time for
every man, while doing, his duty to his coun-
try his family, and society at large, to have his
loins girt and his lamp burning, for the COM
ing of the Lord draweth nigh.''
"A Londoner adyertises that he "has the
qualification to announce that the Emperor
Macmillan was in the constant habit, previous
10 his melancholy death, Of using Lily Water
OF Circassia," and quotes from the official re-
port that ''the beard which the Emperor wore
long and full. is in perfect preservation"
In Sheffield, England, curious mass
meeting has been held, being composed Of the
opponents of vaccination, and designed to pro-
test against compulsory vaccination. The
meeting declared that they prefer the risk Of
smallpox to the risk Of the more loathsome
lnaladies that, in their opinion, vaccination
frequently superinduces.
Lawyers and judges are always differing
on the subject OF the propriety Of the judges
interrupting lawyers speeches. 1t is said that
in England an eminent counsel recently spoke
tor two hours before one of the Vice-Chancel
lors and the proceedings were reported Der.
bdiim by shorthand writer. 1t appears from
his notes that the judge interrupted the bar
rister precisely one hundred and thirteen times
nearly once minute.
Lord Stanley the possible Premier of Eng
land, after his father, Earl Derby, is about for
ty years of age, and is at the head OF Foreign
Affairs in the present cabinet. In manner, he
is very grave and austere. On the occasion of
the cable banquet, where mirth and hilarity
were the order of the evening, Stanley was
strict as beadle. at an early hour he re-
ouested to be excused. "Now," said his father,
the Earl, I'VE can have some fun-the old man
has gone!"
-Sandown, q village in the Isle of Wight, is
IN instance of the results which sanitary pre-
cautions can effect in sickly neighborhood.
BY the enterprise Of an intelligent land pro-
prietor, in bringing about system of thorough
drainage and pure water supply, it has been
transformed from condition Of occasionally
notorious unhealthfulness to one IL which
ordinary epidemlc5 are unknown, and to
death rate in the last five years OF only eleven
in the thousand.
Tho British navy is being supplied with
lifeboats propelled by steam. At an expert
ment recently made in lowering one from the
1nyits OF the wooden screw three-decker Duke
of Wellington-the highest above the water
line of any English war-shlp-the boat was
steaming away in two MINUTES and three sec
ondg after signal was given 70 launch her.
This boat is twenty-eight feet long, has three
horsepower engine, aud on a previous trial
trip had made seven mile an hour, on extraor-
dinary speed for so short essel. When filed
with water, and with double crew, it was
found impossible to capsize or sink her.
The French Prince Imperial, who enters
his thirteenth year on the 10Th Of March, will
take his first communion in the month Of
Nav. His small Highness has now q house.
hold commensurate with his 'great expecta-
tlors," composed as follows: General of Di-
vision Fossard, Governor; Captain Duperre, OF
the navy; Colonel de Viel d'Espenilles, of the
gineers, and de Liguivile, Of infantry, aides
de-,amp; NJ. Bachon, equerry; DR.. Barthez,
medical attendant; NJ. Filon, preceptor, and
Nine. Bruat, gouvernante. The apartments
Of The Prince are in the Pavilion de Flore, op-
posite the Seine.