The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-02-10
GOSSIP FROM ABROAD.

the pretext or the very stringent money mar
ket.
hair five thousand francs. 1t used to be light
yellow, and is now of that color which the Par
isians call ''ox-tail" very red, but with singu-
lar golden lustre. The dyeing process lasted
week.
Upward of seventy newspaper correspon-
dents, from all parts Of Europe, have assem-
bled i'll Madrid, and the telegraph lines be-
tween Madrid and the other European capitals
are doing about twenty times as much busi-
ness as formerly.
dignity of Grand Rabbi at the Synagogue Rue
NOtre Dame de Nazareth, Paris, is but thirty
years old, and is said to be the youngest Grand
Rabbi elected since the days Of jeremiah the
Prophet.
The Empress Eugenie is said to have n
very cordial hatred f)r Prince Napoleon. She
looks upon him as her rival in the regency
in case of the Emperor's DEATH and is said
to have been in ill humor all the day she heard
, that the Prince, who mad been very i'll, was out
Of danger.
The servants Of favorite actresses and
oantatrices in Paris do quite lucrative business
in selling the bouquets which their mistresses
receive at the hands Of their enthusiastic
again, in the streets and at the public ball
rooms.
Tie English War Depar tment have thrown
aside the Armstrong gun altogether, after ex-
pending untold millions and knightng the in
yentor. The thing is q failure. The British
War Office has issued an order intimatlng it's
purpose to withdraw all the breech-loading
rided guns and substituting muzzle-loaders
The Montpensiers, Duke, Duchess and six
OF their children, are enjoying themselves en-
JdnaiAe at Lisbon quite as much as il there had
been nc revolution. They rise at seven and
,!sti retire by midnight, sometimes giving quiet
daughters sing, and all play games and dance.
An English paper processes to have kept
record of those who have abandoned the
Church of England for the Church of Rome
during the past year. It makes the number
thousand two hundred, including nineteen
clergymen, seven or eight university gradu-
ates and two peers.
The Turkish ladies at Constantinople are
becoming more and more civilized in their
dress. Although they still wear the uncouth,
shapeless outer cloak and close white veil
when In the street, they have the European
dress often under the cloak, and make the veil
OF such thin and Transparent gauze as to show
to the utmost advantage the features they pre-
tend to conceal.
The French Academy has determined to
pnDsn new dlSsionary Which hi will bear the
is to bs completed in four years. The proofs
of the letter A are now in process Of correc.
tion, and letter B is in the hands of the COM
posltors. This stupendous work, which is to
tifc men for the exigencies of modern dis
covery, is to be published by Firmin-Didot.
The Emperor Napoleon used to receive
every day from the publisher OF the old Moni-
teur three copies of the paper splendidly prn ted
also three copies to the Emperor, only they
are like anybody else's, ON common paper. The
first day it came in that vulgar shape Napo-
leon the Third said nothing. but twisted his
moustache-this being the greatest sign Of as
tonishment in the ruler Of France.
The tea duty, it is reported, will be entire
ly removed in England by the Chancellor of
the Exchequer, Mr.. Lowe. It is stated that
when the first reduction OF the customs dnty
on tea was made, the result was considerable
increase Of the cotton trade with China. Trade
is slack in the manufacturing districts. and it
is thought by MIR. Lowe that the removal Of
the tn whole Of the tea duty will relieve them.
The more tea consumed in England the more
cotton goods the Chinese will require.
"A curious lawsuit is on the tapis in Eng
land. A Liverpool merchant, suddenly called
to New York on urgent business, took q cab to
the steamer, and in his haste forgot to pay the
driver. On his return. three months after
ward, he found the cabman and cab just where
he had left them, sheltered by q little wooden
shed, and was met by q bill for coach fare for
one thousand and eighty hours by day and one
thousand and eighty hours by night. The
case is still going on.
The dust from the macadamized streets Of
Paris, it is stated, yield an income Of $4,000
Per annum to an ingenious individual of that
city. He collects the mud from the streets
which near the houses in course OF cOnstruc-
tion contain 80 much stone-dust, he then
places 1t in large tubs, passes the deposit
through selves, allows it to form concrete,
which he then forms into the long yellow
bricks for Understanding. The material costs
nothing, the labor is insignificant, but the
Drlcks sell for twenty cents EACH.
General Baron d'Azemar, OF the French
army says that sin all the wars Of the first
Empire only two actions were fought in which
the troops actually met at the bayonet's point;
grenadiers attacked the grenadiers Of the Rus
sian rear guard, and the bayonet engagement
lasted several minutes: The second instance
.yts Tas given at Lutzen in 1873, by the twenty.
the Emperor seemed to doubt it's prowess,
fought the whole day with the bayonet with
y out burning o cartridge. -
M. Provost paradol, who is bitter anti
Bonapartist, had funny adventure the other
% having very no o. n as he pabs
Quatre malioiously remarks. he is obliged to
hire his horses at stable. On the occasion
referred TO he met in the Champs Elysees Ma
poleon iii. who was airing himself, Escorted
horse" The horse OF the young academiclan
had served in the company following the EN-
peror, recognized his comrades, wheeled about
IN spite Of the efforts Of M. Provost Paradol to
prevent him, and joined the escort to the cha
grin OF the horseTnan and the great amuse-
ment OF the imperial officers.
-.-Jef: Davis appearance at the restaurant
in the Freres Provencanx in Paris, on the 9Th
OF January, ;l created great sensation; The
attentlon which he attracted seemed to be dis
agreeable to him, for he did not finish his cup
Of coffee, but left the room yery abrnptly.
Very few Of the Southern residents Of Paris, Il
tv sao rho any aSsY Of his arrival in that
assiduOusly. The Patrie called him t.f4is Er,