The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-04-01
FOREIGN MISCELLANY.

successor in that title OF the poet, and a re.
tired admiral Of the British navy, at the age OF
seventy-nine.
The viceroy of Egypt marries new wife
every year, without getting divorced from the
old ones. His admirers think hlm modern
Solomon.
There is an immense knife in one OF the
cutlery establishments at Sheffield, England,
which has eighteen hundred and sixty.seven
blades. One is added every year; but the in
cautious reader is not to suppose that the
knife was commenced with the Christian era
The King of Sweden, having recovered his
health, is said to be initiating his more power
full neighbors by devoting all his time to the
organization of his army and the trial of fire
arms. Sweden, too, we suppose, is preparing
for 'speace" the same as France, Prussia,
Russia, and some others Of the restless Euro
pean nations.
AT the last meeting Of the conference Of
the Paris bar this question was discussed:
"Can a person who directly aids another to
commit suicide be indicted as an accompllce in
an act of murder?' The point was decided IN
the negative. The moral guilt, however, of the
assistant, need not be doubted.
The French papers announce that the Mar
uuis de Gallitet, who had been dismissed the
army on account of his duel with Prince Achille
Murat, has been restored to the service with
higher rank than be before held; and it IS
anticipated that his antagonist who had vol
unfairly Withdrawn from the army before the
duel took place, will also be permitted to re-
sumo his former position.
M. Rouher and other leading Ministers
are besieged with requests for political inforIna-
lion by tie gamblers Of The Bourse Lorettes
send confidential notes asking The Ministers to
spend the evening with them, in the hope of
obtaining some crumb of news which will ena-
BILE them to anticipate the ordinary spectators
on the Bourse.
"A correspondent describes the famous
Pere Hyacinthe =" His splendidly formed
head is closely shaven, with only ring of
man, and his dress Of brown cloaking, with
coral CIRCLE beads and clasped breviary, and
bare sandalled feet make hlm look as if he had
stepped out from and old picture.
The 'Saracens head" one OF the famous
inns of London, is In process OF destruction,
and is beng torn down to make way for great
pubic improvement. This inn has been fire.
made far. GUS by Mr.. Dickens. 1t will be re-
membered that it was at the 'Saracen's Head"
that MIR. Squeers lodged when in town, and
astonished the waiter by the freedom with
which he diluted the milk provided for his
pupils, and here he also made his bargain with
Nicholas N;ckleby.
The Po.,tifcial almanac for 1865 states
Lu6b luo DdClCI SOuSSO, WiACh SOA1tPAOSOS 40
composed of SIX Cardinal Bishops, fifty Cardi-
nal Priests, and sixteen Cardinal Deacons. At
this moment there are twenty-three hats va
cant, and two have already been conferred an
petto by Plus X. The reignlng Pontif has |
seen eighty-four members Of the Sacred College |
depart from this world since his secession. |
Mgr. Bonaparte will be the youngest Cardinal.
The eldest is the Archbishop of Toledo, born in |
1781. The senior (as to crration) has worn the |
hat thirty-sx years. In the Catholic Church |
there are eight hundred and sixty-fve Patri. |
archal, Archiepiscopal, OF Episcopal actual
sees, and two hundred and twenty-nine an |
pdrtsbus.
in France no housekeeper counts either |
washing, ironing or bread-making as part OF |
her domestic cares. Mrs. Stowe insists that |
We are tar behind the French in domestic |
economy, and says that if all the families OF q |
neighborhood should put together the sums
they separately spend IN buying or fitting up
and keeping III repair tubs, boilers, and other
accommodations for Washing, all that is con-
sumed or wasted in soap, starch, bluing, fuel,
together with the wages and board of an extra
servant, the aggregate would suffice to tit up q |
neighborfng laundry, where one ortwo capable
women could do easily and well what ten or
fifteen women now do painfully and i'll, and to
the confusion and arrangement OF all other |
family processes. Thus the author Of Uncle |
Toms Cabin. What do other strong-minded |
women suy on this point?
The perils of fashionable shams were re-
Gently illustrated at ball in Paris, when an
elegantly dressed lady found herself wearing |
only the string CT her necklace, the wax pearls |
having melted entirely away in the heat. The |
India-rubber beautifiers, "palpitat 'rs," etc., |
are vet m1 dangerous. At O dinner party |
given by high parsonage OF the official world |
one of the laIics WAS equally remarked for the |
exquisite proportions Of her bust and the ami |
nation of her conversation. Those who sat
near the lad suddenly heard, in the middle OF
the dinner, and of some witty sally on her
part a sharp, small dctonation, such as might
be produced BY the cracking open OF beam
pod No one took any notice OF the ineXplca-
bic sound; but 1t was observed that the lady |
became mucn less animated, that she kept enc |
arm raised across her bosom, and tanned her
self necessarily during t e rest OF the dinner,
though the temperature of the dining-room |
was by no III ;aus too nigh: AS soon as the |
company lose f. ON the table. the lady, still |
tanning herself suddenly disappeared; but as
certain sharp eye, among her rivals had caught !
sight of dinnshed outline as she retreated !
from the spncre Of vision, good deal OF mer- |
ri1nent followed Irr disappearance The lady's |
absence was, however, very short; for she re-
turned to the d'aw ng-room, IN the course OF
q few minutes, triumphant i'll the same plastic |
perfection thot had excited so much adm.ra- |
ton during The eaill>r part OF the evening, anu
displayed II tne dponab and vivacity which
had made her so charming. The screwlng OF
the stopper, through which the air is blown
into tho cl ,ss o. fixtures" IN que tion h wing
been made TINS time sufficiently secure, the
charms of Madame D. underwent no further
Dx,fN NI.k..