The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-12-07
FOREIGN NOTES.

The celebrated DIR. Gregory, in the courst
OF ono OF his medical lectures ut Edinburgh
stated: zone cannot stand perfectly motion
less for half an hour; that he had once tried tc
do 30, and had tainted at tho end of twcnt,
minutes, the blood requiring the aid OF mo
ton from the body in order to retain It's ful
calculating power"
-Geoogsts may learn something of tho
rapid accumulation Of sediment from the worl
OF Colonel Gowcn, in raising tho sunken ships
at Scbastopol. He found tho ships buried In
mud from nineteen to twcnty-three feet deem
and was obliged to provide apparatus, moi
merely for lifting them from deep water, bu
also for digging them ont the mud.
The great conhagration in Bordeaux has
suggested the following pleasant idea to 6
French journal: 'In CASE hostile fleet shoulc
lombard port, all that would be necessary
would bo to ponr several hundred barrels OF
petroleum on the water Mt cbb tide and light It
Wooden vessels would be burnt, while on iron
ships the crow would ell be roasted"
.-Fhcy hire out dress GOATS now III London,
to the advantage Of the class vino i've OIL the
interest of their debts, and yet want OCCASION
ally TO dine out. Here Is un advertisement
from nn English paper: "Dress Coats Lent
B. lends the finest of clothes for opera,
balls or weddings. New, fashionable and pro-
mler quality, from the most eminent Wcst-end
tailOrs," DO.
What Irish tenants demand under the
name of I" nyity of Tenure" Rev. DR.. Tnylor, q
dignltary Of tho Romanist Church, who lately
presided ut u tenant-right meeting, defines as
follows /" BY fixity OF tenure 1t Is now clearly
nm nrI "A, Irn nj hat ,txI.t
tenant TO his land Is to continue ns long MS the
rent is paid, and That the rent ls 10 bo adjusted
at certain fixed periods, according to tho
average price or farm prOducc.n
Two Parislan ladies, who lately received
an Invitation to visit Compeignc, supplied
themselves before starting with forty dresses.
AS the boxes necessary " convey this amount
Of female atlornment would occupy too much
space In their apartments, fresh ones are to bc
sont down every morning, and those which
have been worn on the preceding day will be
removed. IL is tho etiquette nt Coinpclgne
that dress shall not be WORN second time.
Tho Prnssiun journals, In commenting
upon tho number Of killed, wounded and miss
Ing al thc battle Of KOniegratz, gives The pro-
portion of losses ut tho principle battles that
have b:en fought In Europe during the last one
hundred and fifty years. At Koniggratz tho
Prussians lost, in killed, wounded and missing,
800 officers and 870l men, nnl the A,strians
HAT officers and 3o.Sat men. The proportion
Of losses 10 the total force engaged on each
slGo was one In twenty-tlree for tho prnssIans.
and ono In seven for the Austrians, and for
both armies, one In eleven. In the battle of
Halplnquet, fought in l7Oo, Tho proportion Of
losses to tho forces engaged was ono in i've;
at IsossbacI, fought In 1857, one in twenty ty-Nve;
ut I.c,ithen, fought In 1853, ono In cl.'vcn; at
Horndorfl, in l7js, three In eight. During Tho
wars Of Napoleon ], the losses at Austerlitx
and ut Eyan were ono in four; mt Wasram,
ore In eight; at Borol1no and at Waterloo. ono
In three, and Mt Lcipsic, ono In i've. At Sol
farino, during ITO iaiI,n wa OF 1859, the
losses wer' one In eight. Tho total number
Of troops en- ragged nt L"ips'o was 400,0 900, ut
Konlggrrs i3o, 900, an ut Wayram $4,000. At
Lipsic tho number of men lost was 90, 900, at
Borodino n, 1000, and at Waterloo 81, 900.