The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-03-30
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| There are five thousand wel-to-do Anerl
cans residing in Paris.
Frederick the Greats memorandum-bool
has recently been sold for s240.
The Poles threaten to give up smoking
rather than use Russian tobacco.
"A Frenchman wants to hire the banks o
the Suez Canal for advertising purposes.
1t requires a feet of five steamers to carry
the Prince of Wales up the Nile on his present
tour.
One Vienna music dealer has a stock of old
Cremopa violins worth over one hundred thou
sand dollars.
A French college has lately been establish
ed at Constantinople, and now has five hun
dred students.
st. Petersburg has $500 piano teachers,
and is said 10 have more pianos than any other
city in the world.
London is discussing the best way to gel
across the English channel; whether by bridge,
tunnel, balloon or ferry.
The Pope has invited the sovereigns to
send e:clesiastics to represent them in the
General Council Of the Church at Rome.
for last year, twenty thousand dollars worth
of velocipedes were exported from that coun-
try.
The burning of dead bodies is being
strongly advocated in Paris. 1t is thought
that the French Assembly may make cremation
legal.
London covers 122 square miles, contains
400, 900 dwellings,, with an average OF eight
persons to each, and has population of nearly
5000. 600.
Melbourne, Australia, has newspaper
that is printed IN Chinese characters; edited
by an Algerine, and corrected by native OF
Buenos Ayres.
Prussia and French capitalists are prepar-
ing to build the largest hotel in Europe on the
banks Of the Lago Maggiore. And it is to be
as cheap and good as it is large.
The Princess of Wales has been married
but six years, yet she is said to appear at least
twenty years older than at the wedding. Her
husband leads her sorry life.
An English court has decided that public
'gateways must be three feet two inches in
width, in order that "the stoutest of her Ma
iesty's subjects" may get through.
-Four Europeans at Madras recently turn
ed Mohammedans, and were "dined" by their
new friends. They converted themselves in
order to marry Mohammedan wives.
The British Government is tired of her
colonies. The mother country has 10 spend
about sIS 600 900 annually in their support,
and gets scarcely anything in return.
The British Parliament, now in session, 1t
is stated, contains fifty lineal descendants of
the Long Parliament of 1860. After two hun
dred years the game old names roappear as
representatives of towns in the same districts,
and, in some cases, OF precisely the same
places.
Several London theatres are about to re-
verse the time-honored custom of charging
extra to those who purchase reserved seats in
advance nd-takiue the ground that It is
really an advantage to the theatre to sell its
seats, Will make o deduction to those who
shook" their seats.
-Hippophagy has extended to England, and
recent English papers state that some of tho
members Of Trinity College, Cambridge, have
been making experiments on the subject of
eating new kinds of animal food. The learned
scholars of Trinity have been experimenting
uoon the taste Of the flesh Of different parts
of The donkey.
--Debrett's Peerage, called by 7 lackeray
the "Englishman's Bibe," contains many
Gu ious stories in reference to the noble fami-
lies Of Great Britain. When the last lineal
heir of title dies, there is always long
search for the collateral relatives, and fire.
ausntly the latter are found in position far
removed, both in wenlth and station, from that
occupied by the head Of the house. Debrett,
however, managed to keep these collaterals
well advised OF the probabilities OF the future'
and in this way his book is swelled out into
undue proportions. The last edition. among
many other romantic episodes, contains On ac-
count of the tenth Lord Fairfax, in the peerage
of Scotland, who now holds the Office OF Re-
porter OF the Supreme Court Of California, one
OF high position and responsibility in the
United States, as the Peerage declares. a
long story is also given Of street fight in 1853,
in San Francisco, between Lord Fairfax and an
ordinary reporter. Charles Snowden Fairfax
tenth Baron Fairfax, is collaterally related to
Thomas, the sixth Baron, who, having relin-
quishod his English estates to his brother
Robert, camo over to America and settled at
Greenway Court, plantatio of moro than
halt a million acres OF land in Virginia, which
he inherited from his mother, Oatharine Cole
pepper. Thomas Fairfa1, out Of Virginia, is
better known as the person who employed
George Washington as a surveyor. On the
death of Robect Fairfax, in 1898, the estate de-
scended To Rev. Bryan Fairfax, a second cousin
who became eighth Baron. The present Lord
Fairfax. great grandson of Bryan, was born OF
vaucluse. Fairfax County, Va, in 1929, and
succeeded to the title in 1915.
Here is thoroughly characteristic story
of Parlsian life from the carnival just ended,
showing how near together lie the springs +
laughter AMI Of tears in the mobile, generous,
noble, but dramatic nature OF the Gau. Late
in the night of Shrove Tuesday Tor early in the
morning of Ash Wednesday, band OF mas
quers students and grisettes, were going to their
homes in the Latin Quarter. They had spent
the night at the masked ball OF the Chatelet,
and thoy were improving Chatele dances along
the streets as they went. Suddenly, in the
Car:etour Bucl. they camo upon poor, half
carved creature wandering heplessly about
with sick child in her arps. OIe OF their
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