The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-07-30
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a Paris. paper relates that the Emperor,
,Mbsn near St. Cloud the other day. came upon
. groupof little boys playing tpoh The grass.
With the kindness natural TO- him. his Majesty
took notice OF g,nsesbread stall that WIS
near at hand, bought up the whole stock and
threw It to the boys. 'whereupon the London
News profanely obssrves:s The giorions scram-
BILE that followed may Ne accepted o. some
e,mpensation for the conscription which will
soon draft them intoithe army" ~ I
"A London firm has just obtained patent
fosAa method, startling to old salts in its origi-
nslity for catching whales by means Of electric
ity. BY their plan every whaleboat is provided
with q galvsnie battery. Wires from opposite
poles run down to The points OF each set OF
.harpoons. When the whale is sufficiently near,
two haIpoons are thrown as nearly simultane-
ously as possible, and when embedded the flesh
Of rbk monster completes the circuit. The
charge is expected 70 be sufficiently powerful
to paralyze the animal 50 that the small boat
NAV advance and dispatch him at leisure. ,
Bowed legs and knockmg knees are among
the commonest detormites Of humanity; and
wise mothers assert that the crookedness in
either case arises from the afflicted one having
been put upon his or her ettoo early in baby
hood. But q Manchester physiciaH DR..
Cromptop, who has watched for the true
Cause; thinks differently. He attributes the
first mentioned distortion to habit some
Youngsters delight in Of rubbing the sole Of
one foot against that Of the other; some will
20 to sleep with the soles pressed together.
They appear TO enjoy the contact only when
the feet are naked; they don't attempt to make
it when they are socked or shppered. 80 the
remedy is ioov,ous-keep the baby's soles COW
cred. Knocking knees the doctor ascrbes to
q different childlsh habit, that OF sleeping on
.be side with one leg tucked into the hollow
bsbind the other. He has found that where
one lee has beeo bowed inwaras more than
the other, the patient has always slept on one
site3and the uppsrmost member has been the
most deformed. Here the preventive is to pad
the ipside Of the knees 30 as to keep them apart
and let the limbs grow freely their own way.
The Paris correspondent Of the New York
T;mes. in aludipg to the enthusiasm manifest
ed at the recent reception given the Frencn
Emperor on the Boulevards, says: II must
again repeat what stated IN one of my tor
rner letters, that o great deal OF tie enthu'
s;asm manifested on that ocoaslon was manu-
factured. Along the lire OF the boulevards
we're stationed at intervals groups OF police In
n,ain clothes, who did nearly all the cheering,
and otherwise tired to impair stimulus to
the crowd. I do not know whether you ars
aware Of the fact that the government has IN
it's nav . body OF twelve hundred men, who
preoede or ACCOMPANY the imperial family on
all its expeditions. They receive about Two
dollars per day besides their travelling e1'
nenses. and they continually change their dig
enises 90 as to avoid observation. Their busi'
ness ia to prepare for the reception OF their
N,iesties, to get up an enthusiasm when the
nmulstion is discontented or Indifferent, TO
vstch for the first evidence OF plots against
The life of the Emperor, and to surround his
n.,,son when they have reasons to apprehend
nat an attempt is about to be made sga'ne II;
iThis force is quite distinct from what is caleo
he secret police, and has separate orgsnl2a-
t;nn md chiefs Of its OWE. -