The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-03-12
FOREIGN ITEMS.

Mile. Nilsson has presented her parents with
a handsome house in her native city in Sweden.
The Prince Imperial of Madagascar has
been sent by his mother to be educated IN
France.
in the present Hotse of Lords there arc
no descendants of the twenty-five barons who
enforced the Magma Charta.
Tho French mint is striking gold coins
of the value of twenty five francs, or an equiv
alent to the pound sterling, to be called eul-
perors.
MANY members of the demt-nsoade in. Paris
appear upon the stage for no salary merely
for the sake ct attracting attention. When
they can do this, they find no trouble IN COM
mandiug largo income.
The oldsrenadler from whose flask Napo-
leon the first drank at Ratisbon aacing this
memorable campaign Of 1905. and who, ''cn
that occasion, uttered the naioe words, "After
you. sire" which caused Napoleon to burst
into ct or laughter, died on the 9th Of Janu-
ary at the Hotel des Invahdes, in ihis eighty
fifth year.
Count Bismarck once presented a faithful
but poor secretary with portfolio bound like
a. book. in which were deposited 800 thSlers.
On meeting the secretary the next day, the
Count esked him if be had 9e.used the vol
ume. t'Yes, your Highness," said the -secre-
tary. sand was so eaptivated 10y its contents
TINT ] am awaiting the appearance ''ct the
second volume with feelings .cf the greatest
interest," The Count smiled, but said nothing.
la few GAYS afterward, the secretary received q
second portfolio, bsund and 6lEed hkethe first,
on the title page OF which was the sentence,
aIhhs work is complete in two volumes.
The female prisoners in Warsaw who ar,
sentenced to be fogged, receive their stripes
ut the hands of tall, herculsan woman, who
belabo-s her poor sisters more meseilessly
than the Cossacks do Tie male prisoners. The
Russi, n Code exempts women from :oorporeal
punishment, but the courts always haze it in
lictei upon female prisoners as a,means to
wrest- confessions from them. Nearly oil the
ladies,cf the aristocracy, who were arrested in
the hast four or five years on charges 81 COM
plicity in the insurrectienGry' movem ents
against the Russian Government, were fog
! eed, end they pretend to be gather pruad than
otherwise of the treatment they had tc under
go while in prison.
The invitation tickets to ihe French Court
balls are of various colors, according to the
rank of the guests. The commoners receive
white tickets, the noblcmen green ones, and
the foreign diplomatists red ones. The red
tickets artitle their holders to admistance to
the small private staircase leading to TIE In
perial apartments at the Tuileries, while the
holders of the white and green tickets have to
ascend the largo staircase. The names arc
entered Oh a book, and few days before the
invitations are issued the Emperor and En-
press revise tho list. Elgenie frequently
scratches Of the names of ladies' and Napo-
leon sometiGes wickedy replaces the fair ones
names on the list.
The Marquis of Buto has been the "lien"
at Rome Or Ash Wednesday hc received
ashes from the hands of tho Pope, and neAt
day his Holiness administered tho Sacrament
of Confirmation in his oratory. The famouR
ncophyto prescribed himself at the Vati,an i'll
his costume as colonel OF volunteer cavalry.
Mgrs. Manning and CLpel, who baptised him
at Nice, were present at the ceremony of con-
firmation. The Holy Father embraced the
marquis with warmth, and made him present,
which was restored, says the letter, "a hum
dred-fod." The younG uoblcman's contribu-
tions, in the shape of Peters pence, are set
down at $4,000. 1t is not yet decided whether
he will enter the priesthood, but ru nor per-
sst, in attributing to him the intention OF
doing so. On dit that the Pope is greatly dis
tressed at tho idea of statue lo To.tairc being
erected at Paris.
Alexander Dumas says that he is q gour-
mand because he is convinced that eating
good food makes people long-lived. ''In my
YOUTH" he writes, II was singularly indif-
rerent to the quality of food which ate; the
consequence was that I often was sick, and
frequently when nothing allied me, I felt yet i'll
at ease. When found that out BECAME
gourmand, and to the present day have
never rued it. am firmly convinced that but
for my care in always procuring the best and
most palatab!e of food, could not have at
tanned the position which now occupy in
French literature. Rossini could not have
composed the Barber OF Seville if he had been
obliged to live on the coarse food OF proleta-
rian. Auber and Mcyerbeer, also valued
good table very highly, and I am sure that
few men who achieved famo and distinction in
the realm of art and letters we're satisfied with
having bread and salt on their plates and wa
ter in their tumblers."
Five political dailies are now issued IN
Paris at one sou copy, that is to say, less
than tho stamp-tax amounts to. Their adyer-
tising patronage is not large enough to cover
the losses which they sustain on thef circu-
lation; but the calculation of the wealthy capi-
talists who have started these papers is as
follows: They will lose @ large amount OF
money in the first year when their paper costs
a sou, but it will reach circulation OF o hum
dred thousand copies. At the beginning of
the second year they will raise the price OF tho
paper to two sous copy; they will no longer
lose any money, but their subscription list will
dwindle down to fifty thousand copies. At the
beginning of the third year the subscription
price will be raised to three sous copy, at
which rate the old Partisan dailies are now
sold; the paper will again lose at least one
half of its subscribers. but it will retain fifteen
or twenty thousand OF thom, and that number
suffices 10 make the paper prosperous and sue
cesstul.