The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-10-27


in different ways, for many years. The EN-
peror of Austria has the same dread Hun
gary and Bohemia are far more powerful when
Austria and Prussia are at variance than when
they are in alliance. The Crown Prince, hith-
erto more advanced than his father, is report
ed to be as nervous as the King on the point
referred to, and In the presence of common
danger the two governments join hands. If
this be 80, Count Bismarck will have to yield
to Manteuffel, and internal strife will recon-
mence. Germany will be one, with Prussian
monarch or without him.
An enterprising individual at Berlin has
submitted the following plan to the authorities:
He proposes to board over all the cutters on
each side of the streets, and this roadway,
three or four feet wide, is to be the future
velocipede high-road of the city. A thousand
tricycles are to be placed on 1t, each with a
practiced driver dressed in neat uniform,
who will undertake to conduct one person
with letters, parcels, &C., along this road. AS
yelocipedestrians always drive straight, room
to turn is not requireds and when the road is
free 1t will serve as footpath. A small charge
for passengers, parcels and letters, will, it is es
timated, give fair return for the cost Of con-
struction He argues that. besides the general
convenience of this plan, 1t will be great ad-
vantage to Berlin to bridge over the cutters, as
they are at present very unsightly, and are
liable to be frozen over in winter. Moreover,
the establishment of footpaths will facilitate
the better regulation of the street traffic, and
effect great saving in the expense now incur
ed by cleaning tile streets The tricycles are
to have little canopy in winter, an umbrella
being sufficient protection in summer. The
protector calculates that speed may be OBJ
tanned equal to that Of an ordinary carriage at
least. and guarantees all possible convenience
and safety in the transit.
The new journalistic enterprise of Henry
de villemessant, the proprietor and managing
editor of the Paris Figaro, has been o great
success, upward of one hundred thousand
copies of the so-called Figaro Album having
been sold. villemessants original idea, as
Blavet. the editor of this !'surprise NUMBER"
informs us, was to apply to all political, artls-
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for articles to be published in the Figaro
Album, without regard to their religious and
political views. Blavet thinks that such q
surprise number could not but surpass
anything that had hitherto appeared in this
line. The illness of the Emperor Napoleon
prevented the editor from opening his series
of articles with bon-,not from the pen of his
Majesty, as Bavet had originally intended to
do. Napoleon the Third would no doubt have
consented to furnish few lines for that pur-
pose. But even as it is, the album Is very
Interesting journalistic production. Besides
the Duke do Persigny, there figures in 1t Bre-
bant, the celebrated restaurantkeeper; Pre-
vost Paradol and jacques Offenbach, the
aquiline-nosed composer Of the voluptuous
Helene; victorien Sardou and Louis Philippe
dOrleans; Ferdinand Barrot and the unfor-
tunate husband ofex-Queen, Isabella-all have
contributed their share to the album. sec
ond number will be issued at an early day.