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

The celebrated DR.. Gregory, In the course
Of one Of his medical lectures at Edinburgh,
stated "One cannot stand perfectly motion
less for half an hour; that he had once tried to
do so, and had tainted at the end Of twenty
minutes, the blood requiring the did of mo-
ton from the body In order to retain its full
circulating power.'
-Geologists may learn something of the
rapid accumulation of sediment from the work
OF Colonel Gowen, in raising the sunken ships
at Sebastopol He found the ships buried in
mud from nineteen to twenty-three feet deep.
and was obliged to provide apparatus, not
merely for lifting them from deep water, but
aiso for digging them out the mud.
The great conaagratlon in Bordeaux has
suggested the following pleasant idea to q
French Journal: SIN case hostile fleet should
lombard port, all that would be necessary
would be to pour several hundred barrels of
petroleum on the water at ebb tide and light it..
Wooden vessels would be burnt, while on iron
ships the crew would all be roasted"
---Ffey hire out dress coats now in London,
to the advantage Of the class who live on the
interest Of their debts, and yet want OCCASION
ally to dine out. Here Is an advertisement
nom an English paper: "Dress Goats Lent
B., lends the finest Of clothes for opera,
balls or weddings. New, fashionable and pro
micr quality, from the most eminent West-end
tailors," &c.
what Irish tenants demand under the
name of Z" flxity Of tenure" Rev. Dr.. Taylor, q
dirnItary of the Romanist Church, who lately
presided at a tsnant-rlght meeting, defines as
follows: "By ixity OF tenure 1t is now clearly
understood in Ireland that the right OF the
tenant to his land is to continue as long rs the
rent is paid, and that the rent is to be adjusted
at certain fixed periods, according to the
average price of farm produce
Two Parisian ladies, who lately received
an invitation to visit Compelgne, supplied
themselves before starting with forty dresses
As the boxes necessary to convey this amount
of female adornment would occupy too much
space In their apartments, fresh ones are to be
sent down every morning, and those which
have been worn on the preceding day will be
removed. It ia the etiquette ut Compeigne
that C. dress shall not be worn asccond time.
The Prussian journals, In commenting
upon the number Of killed, wounded and miss
ing at the battle of Koniggratz, gives tho pro-
portion of losses at the principle battles that
have been fought in Europe during the last one
hundred and fifty years. At Koniggratz the
Prussians lost, in killed, wounded and missing,
$50 officers and 1874 men, AMI tho Austrlans
1l47 officers and 30,22l men. The proportion
OF losses to the total force engaged on each
side was one in twenty-threc for the Prussians,
and one In seven for the Austrians, and for
both armies, one in eleven. In the battle 0f
Malplaquet, fought in l7OJ, the proportion OF
losses TO the forces engaged was one in five;
at Rossbach, fought in 1857, one in twenty-five;
as heuthen, fought in 1853, one In Given; at
Zorndorf, in l75s, three in eight. During the
wars of Naroleon i, tie losses at Austerlitz
AID ut Evlau were one in four; 1T wagran,
ore in elgh,; at Borodino and at Waterloo. one
in three. and at Leipsic, one in five. At Sol
fs.ino, drrng tie Ialiin war OF 1859, the
losses were one in eight Tho total number
of troops en- gagged at L"ipsc was 4to'ooo' a'
KoniggrAz $50, ,O0c, an at Way 32O,o ,ooo' Al
IAiDs;c the number of men lot was 9o,oo', Ct
Borodino $4,000, and at Waterloo $1,000.