The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-08-11
EOR11BTGN NOTES.

"A common sense view Of things is taken in
Sweden, where railroad brakemen are taught
| the rddiments Of surgery. cat
The young Prince Imperial OF France is an
amateur stoker. he has an engine and railway
train in miniature, and smuses his august papa
by scientifically running it. atE NJ &.
| Mile. Schneider sent note in Freucl to
tho London Times thanking.,th people for
their good will as shown after her narrow
escape from burning to death. She said that
| she was deeply touched by the expressions Of
sympathy lavished upon her.
A sharp shock Of earthquake was felt at
Guayaquu on the 21st ult. Two hears later il
was also experienced at Paila, and reached
Callao at midnight. No damage was done.
Oa the 18th, Iquiqce was subjected to sim
| liar visitation. Two of the VOLCANOES, Pichi-
cuchi and Cotopaxi, are again in active ope-
ration. &
--"NoOlesse Oblige" is sometimes very in
| convenient motto. The. son Of French Count.
very fast youth, WHO has been cut off by his
father on account OF his habits, is trying to
| torso the old man to reconsider by setting ND
little store opposite the paternal mansion
with the family coat or arms on his sign, and
paying assiduous court to young and pretty
fruit seller who is his neighbor 10 business.
Lord Derby is said to have written o very
handsome letter to Mr.. Gladstone regarding
his new book on Homer, Just published. Be.
SIDES the acknowledgment of the intrinsic merits
OF the "Juventus Mundi," the ex.premier er-
presses frankly his admiration and wonder how
IN che course OF the last two years his indefati-
gable successor should have found time for its
composition. 1t ia rather, sing nlar that Mr..
Gladstone's '.Juventus Mundi," and Mr.. Rus
kn's "Queen Of the Air" should have appeared
simultaneously.
London letter says: "Elizabethan pufss
have made their appearance oil Of a sudden.
Fat or thin, long-necked or short, everybody
seems to have adopted th m, though nobody
as yet seems TO have learned how to wear
them; they interfere with the tulle or blonde.
which replace the old-fashioned strings. and
the bodies OF the dresses ere either too high
or too low for them. Trains are now made
quite separate from the dresses and caught
up at the side. Most Of the evening dresses
are now made IN the seashlaHSs Of d train.
wkich forms an exceedingly pretty trimming.
Another great seheme OF Improvement is
projected by the engineer OF the Huex ship
canal. m. Ferdinand de Lesseps. !. saws tho
ltalie OF Florence. ''after having connected
two seas, is now proposing to create new one.
II appears that some enterprising explorers Of
Central Africa have put forward the opinion
that Sahara 10 the bed Of An old ses displaced
by aTopyalsion Of nature. On the faith Of that
assertion ~. dc Lesseps. little tinne ago.sens
some engineers 70 examine She oonfaguratien
Of the SOIL ana from the result d their labors.
Mas beccnle convinced that the desert In ques-'
tion was ~ Ito nearest limit twenty.seven me.
tres below the level VI the Rcd Eea, and that
the depression went ON increasing towards the
interior. HI In. therefore, OF opinion that q
canal seventy -Ase miles in ssassh would suiIies
to pus the Bed Sea and the Sahara Va commu.t
nication restore TO the iastes its original dest-
nation. and crsate an easy method 81 inter-
course WITH Central Africa BY neAns of thess'
artia0laI oeeans.s