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

A common sense view Of things is taken in
Sweden, where railroad brakemen are taught
the rudinents Of surgery.
The young Prince Imperial OF France is an
amateur stoker. He has an engine and ralwsy
train in miniature, and amuses his august papa
| by scientifically running it.
Mile. Schneider sent o note in French TO
the London Times thanking the people for
their good will as shown after her narrow
escape from burning to death. She said that
she wac deeply touched by the expressions Of
sym 1athy lavished upon her.
A sharp shock Of earthquake was felt at
Guayaquu on the 21st ult. Two h1ars later it
was also experienced at Paila, and reached
Callao at midnight. No damage was done.
On the 18th, Iquiq-e was subjected to SIM
liar VISITATION. Two of the VOLCANOES, Plcbi-
cuchi and Cotopaxi, are again in active ope-
| ration.
-"NoJlesse Obiige" is sometimes very in
convenient motto. The son OF 4 French Count.
very fast youth, wao has been cut of by his
father on account of his habits, is trying to
for;e the old man to reconsider by setting up
little store opposite the paternal mausion
with the family coat OF arms on his sign, and
paying assiduous court to young and pretty
fruit seller who is bis neighbor in business.
Lord Derby is said to have written very
handsome letter to Mr.. Gladstone regarding
his new book on Homer, just published. Be-
sides the aeknowledg of the intrinsic merits
of the "Juventus Mundi," the ex.premier e1.
presses frankly his admiration aud wonder how
in the course Of the last two years his indetati-
gable successor should have found time for its
composition. 1t is rather singular that Mr..
| Gladstone's "Juventus Mundi," and MIR. Rus
kin's "Queen Of the Air. should have appeared
| simultaneously.
A London letter says: "Elizabcthan puffs
have made their appearance all Of stdden.
Fat or thin, lcng-necked or short, everybody
seems to have adopted tn M, though nobody
as yet seems 10 have learned how to wear
them; they Interfere with the tulle or blonde,
which replace the old fashioned strings. aud
the bodies OF the dresses are either too high
or too low for them. rains are now made
quite separate from the dresses and caught
up at the side. Most OF the evening dresses
are now made in the semblancs Of o train,
which forms an exceedingly pretty trimming p
Another great scheme of improvement is
projected by the engineer of the Suez ship
canal. m. Ferdinand de Lesseps,' says the
1tahe of Florence, "after having connected
two seas, is now proposing to create new one.
1t APPEARS that some enterprlsing explorers Of
Central Africa have put forward the opinion
| that Sahara is the bed of an old sea displaced
by eonyu!sion Of nature. On the faith Of that
assertion, NJ. de Lesseps, little time ago, sent
some engineers TO ex,mino the confguration
Of the soil, and from the result Of their labors,
has become convinced that the desert in ques-
tion was at it's nearest limit twenty-seyen me-
tres below the level Of the Red Sea, and that
the depression weLt on Increasing towards the
interior. He is, therefore, OF opinion that q
canal seventy-fve miles in length would suffice
to put the Red Sea and the Sahara N eommu.
nication restore TO the latter its original desti
nation, and create an easy msthod of inier-
course with Central Africa by mems Of these
artificial oceans"