The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-06-01

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And deemed 1t we'll such perfect day
Should have such perfect ending.
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FOREIGN ITEMS.
"A recent unsuccessful attempt TO kidnap
General Prm has caused great excitement in
Madrid.
-Tamberllk, the once famous tenor, has es-
tablshed himself as gunsmith at Madrid,
where he has undertaken ON important gov
ernment contract for the manufacture and al
teration Of firearms.
Napoleon was asked the other day If he
believed the elections would be as favorable to
the government as they ought. 81 think so,"
he replied, ''iP the Opposition is not perfdious
enough to be moderate"
The German Salon says that Mr.. Burlin-
game is an American only by birth. He speaks
French, dresses like European, and gives
dinner parties and balls like the most accom-
plished courtiers, while Madame Burlingame
receives the guests with all the grace Of q per-
feet Parisienne.
The Emperor Alexander, Of Russia, it is
reported, is seriously indisposed, his illness
having originated in the shock arising from
an accident while he was driving in an open
carriage over q bridge across the Neva. His
symptoms, fearing an internal injury.
Mr.. and Mrs. Gladstone. while out riding,
narrowly escaped o bad accident. A Paris
paper represents the Lady as speaking thus of
the occurrence ST never thought OF William;
never thought of myself; never thought Of
my children. only thought, what on earth
will become Of the bill relating to the Irish
Churchl"
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English medical journals. The Lancet says
t hat the exercise, like all gymnastic feats. re-
quires for safety that it should be carefully
regulated, that . high rate OF speed should
only be gradually acquired, and that great
efforts should be studiously avoided. Under
these circumstances, the use OF the velooipede
becomes 9 toll aud not an amusement.
1t created great deal Of talk on the Long
champs promenade the other day, that the
Princess de Metternich and Adele Turmolin. a
notorious woman Of the Partisan den,i-,nonde,
wore precisely the same toilettes. It was evil
dent that the Princess ana the dennt- -nsoradaine
had the same dressmaker. Malicious tongues
made flrst, and that the Princess, after hear
ing of it, or Tered hers to be copied from it..
( Mr.. Chaplin. the winner of the Derby, and
Is one of the richest men in ENGLAND and an in
innate friend of Tennyson, having been born
in the same county and -kaoWc the Tennyson
family from his childhood. The brilliant wo-
man who Tilted him in order to become the
wife Of the Marquis Of Hastings is at present q
widow in somewhat reduoed circumstances:
and il Chaplin Is still willing she may be per
haps won more easily than the Derby in 1867.
noay rnHN, lsod <t,a
ers who thought they t'ouerankel" him in
Paris, in the following style: eve Americans
do not raise the question Of rank. We receive
all gentlemen as occupying common level.
But il you raise the question of position, we
outrank you. You are nothing but dukes,
marquises and counts. We belong to the royal
family. We are the equal Of our President
We are all heir apparents to the throne. We
stand up for our order, and if need be, we fight
for our order"
Punch has cartoon by Tenniel, represent
ing the conventional Yankee. presenting a
large pie, partly covered with CLOTH marked,
"Claim, f800. .000, ,O0O." to the United States
repre- at st. James,; JOHN Bulls
broad back seen in the distance. Says Jona-
than (as interpreted by Mr.. Sumner.) ''Well,
Reverdy! Guess this lot III about du for your
friend John Bull thar To which Mr.. Rever-
dy Johnson replies-"Ha I've dined with him
good deal lately, and he won't eat that, T
promise you" ,,N %.,
The young Marquis Of Buto is edifying
the dwellers in Jerusalem by his piety and his
hberality. He passes long hours in tears aud
prayer ut the various spots where Tie last
scenes OF the Passion are supposed to have
been enacted. His almoner, Monsignor Capel,
has been preaching in English to large bodies
OF pilgrims belonging to numerous English
and American creeds, and his remarkable elo-
quence invariably brings together large and
heterogeneous audience. t.5ls.st
-Bellac, the famous French painter, who
lives at Orleans, was recently engaged at his
studio, and had an entirely naked male model
before him. Suddenly one Of the candidates
for the Corps Legislatif entered the room, and.
after explaining to him his views on the prn-
cipal political questions, requested the painter
to vote for him.; II should like to do So" re-
phed Bellac. ''unfortunately cannot vote for
you here. because my name is registered in
Paris. But" he continued; with q twinkle in
MS eye, "ihat gentleman, (po.nting to the
naked modeD is o voter I'M shis district. and"
'sAh, my dear sir" said the candidate, holding
out his hand to the naked fellow, II am happy
to make Jour acquaintance. You have heard
my programme-may Ic1unt ON your .v0te?"
a clock has just been completed for the
Cathedral OF Beanvais, France, which far sur
passes all the existing specimens of the clock
makers art. " contains no less than 90, 600
wheels, and indicates, among many other
things too numerous to recite, the days OF the
week, the month. the year, the signs Of the
zodiac. the equation Of time, the course OF the
planets, the phases of the moon. the time at
every capital in the world, the movable feasta