The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-12-30
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

The London MUSICAL review says lhal Ho
living actor can make love with Mr.. Fechter."
Let him try an actress.
The popularity Of erenbach's new opera, the
"Prncesse de Trebizonde,' rivals that OF the
"Grancc Duchesse" in Paris.
During her career rs a painter OF animals,
Rosa Bonheur has received for her paintings up
ward Of two hundred thousand dollars.
One hundred thousand dollars gold Is the
price asked for a genuine painting by Raphael,
now on sale bya Neapolitan gentleman, and ID
considered a fair price by European connois-
seurs.
Letters from ST. Petersburg say that the sue
cess OF Patti is greater than it has ever been be-
fore in that city, which goes mad periodically
about singers and dancers. She has sung "Som-
nambuan once, LA Traviata'-a great favorite
-four times and the Emperor has selected the
'Figlia del Reggimento' for the state representa-
tiOn.
AT the Sultans new opera.house the chief 81
traction was not the opera, but boxes assigned TO
the occupancy OF the ladies Of the harcm. These
were fashioned so that the ladies could see out,
but the outsiders could not see in. Yet, as
crowd will stand for hours and gaze upon the
walls OF house in which some real tragedy has
occurred, so the auditors gazed earnestly and
devotedy upon the barriers placed to prevent
them from ocular proof OF the attractions said to
concentrate among the Grand Turks wives.
The manufacturers OF England have not
ceased in their endeavors, whether voluntary or
enforced, to secure q complete combustion OF the
smoke and accompanying gases from their FUR
uaces. In one case the gas Is conducted by
pipe to the bottom OF the furnace, and then sent
into the boilers and heating stoves, and there
consumed instead OF coal; the blast OF the fur
mace being heated to Temperature OF from 600
to 1000 degrees, without the use OF any coal
whatever. The combustion is so complete that
1t is impossible to say, by looking at the top OF
the chimney, whether the furnaces arc in blast or
not.
In Paris there resides an elderly lady who
passes for a countess. She makes very hand
some living by giving characters TO servants re-
quring employment. When ladies visit her to
inquire into the antecedents OF q domestic, they
find an elegantly dressed lady, who has happy
faculty OF remembering the person inquired
abont and she never knows aught but good OF
them. This novel mode Of making living by
supplying regulations to girls who have none has
been discovered, and the occupation OF the
countess will be seriously injured. The girls en-
ploycd on account OF her testimony as to their Ca
pacity gave her n percentage OF their wages.
M. de Lesseps, the constructor OF the Suez
Canal. at party one evening, presented to each
lady asrose OF Jericho, which possesses the peou-
liar property, when dry and shrivelled with age,
of expanding its leaves and petals, If placed in
water. The ladies began experimenting with the
flowers, all OF which unfolded except one in the
possession OF pretty creole. She complained to
NJ dc Lesseps. "Mademolselc,r he replied, at
Is not in my power 20 make your flower expand,
but ask for anything else can give you, and 1t Is
yours" every well. Then / want" here the
lady hesitatcd and bushed, and then added, IN
scarcely audible voice, "whatevcr you want"
"Then want you to be my wife, was the reply
And they were married few days ago.
A Partisan correspondent writes OF the opera:
The Italian opera has never slHcri have lived in
Paris, been rs good as it IS this year. The Tro-
yatorc for instance-sung by Krauss, Wachtel
and MonbellI-was really grand the orchestra
and chorus very correct, and-the essential to NJ
Bapier-the house crammed. 1t was not French
audience: but then II never Is or has been. The
success Of 'Frou-FrOu' Is encouraging-s6 in
thirty representations NM. Meihac and llalevy
are said 10 have in one month been credited with
EI2O Marie Sass is having a great success at
Florence She sung-and she can sing-at the
Pergola last week. Faust and the 'Huguenots-
thirty eight bouquets, q medal surrounded With
diamonds, and, lastly, bracelet from the King"
What some OF the London papers dignity by
the name OF q social revolution has begun In Eng
land by the introduction OF fresh meat from the
mutton and beef producing farms OF Australia
method has been found by which the compare
lively yaueless carcasses OF sheep and cattle can
be sent 10 England and made to do good service
in feeding her Majesty's subjects. The meat Is
boned, salted and spiced, and rolled in close
packages, which are again packed in casks, with
tallow run about them. There is already estab-
lished in London an eating house, where over
thousand diners can be accommodated, In which
the Australian meat alone Is used, and the estab-
lishment is meeting with such Success that the
manager proposes to lease the City OF London
Theatre for his saloon. Half ton or the meat Is
used each day, sold both cooked and in its raw
state The chief recommendation Is the cheap
ness OF the meat and the meals furnished.
good dinner soup, nugget" or sausage and
Irish stew, costing three pence, while the
msat is sold at four pence pound. Laborers,
bank clerks and artisans already patronlzc the
establishment, and the poorer classes seem TO
have guaranteed ii q success; while the only de-
precatlng comments come from those English
men who can know no meat except as q Joint or
roast OF huge dimensions.