The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-10-20
Personal GOSSIP.


caniste in the Mabille. She is the daughter Of
q hack-driver, four feet in height, and gets
salary of 1000 francs.
-Carlotta Patti wears mourning outside the
concert room, but has brought over with her
q dozen new and gorgeous evening dresses in
coral, maize and crimson.
The only spectator at the autopsy of the
victims of the horrible Pantin murder, near
Paris. was Madame Ratazzi, and she Is said to
have witnessed the horrible spectacle with ad-
nrable sang troid.
1t is rumored in England that statement
in Lord Byrons handwriting will shortly be
published, which will settle forever the unhap-
DIV question lately raised concerning his separ-
alton from his wife.
A London correspondent says that Spur
geon never stops to study out any very diff
cult questions himself, but he has few men of
education in his church to whom he commits
such matters, and he uses the results Of their
labors.
of Edmund Kean's performance of Luke,
in Massingers "City Madam it is recorded
that an old lady, who had intended leaving him
a large sum of money, was so appalled, at the
cold-blooded vilany he displayed that she
transferred the legacy to distant relation.
An elderly unmarried lady, a neaE relation
of Humboldt's, and bearing the same name,
had become so reduced as to be obliged to sup
port herself by needlework. The corporation
of Berlin has just granted her life annuity
sufficient to relieve her Of all anxiety for her
declining days.
"A photographer in the Strand, London,
has issued IA Photographic likeness Of our
Saviour" He says it is copied from the por-
trait carved on an emerald by order of Tiberi-
us Cesar, which the Emperor of the Turks
afterward gave, out Of the treasury of Con-
stantnople, to Pope Innocent VIII, for the
redemption of his brother, taken prisoner by
the Christians.
Madame Gazzaniga has lately returned
successful from the trip to Europe, which she
took in order TO adjust point of litigation,
concerning the settlement of the estate Of her
first husband, Marquis de Malespina. She re-
covered the amount of her professional earn
ings as prima donna during their married
life, which was claimed exclusively for their
son, young man residing in Italy.
Humboldt commenced writing his "Cos-
mos" at the age of seventy-fve. He could de-
vote only the night to writing, for during the
day he was reading, studying and collecting
materials for the great work he had underta-
ken, and his evenings he had to spend with
King Frederick William the Fourth, who
would accept of no excuse for his absence from
the royal evening parties. The great natural
ist wrote every night from II to 8 o'clock.
In the steamer Lafayette, which sailed
from New York on Saturday for Havre, q
large number of prelates sailed for Rome to
attend the Ecumcnical Council. Among them
were Bishop Eugene Gngues, of Ottowa;
Bishop Rappe, of Cleveland; Bishop Farrell, of
Hamilton; Bishop d. ST. pailais- of France:
Bishop Talche, of Canada; Bishop Hllnni, OF
Wisconsin; Bishop Hciss of Wisconsin; Arch
bishop O'Hara, Of Pennsylvania; Bishop Pur-
cell, of Cincinnati; Bishop j. Quineau, of New
York. with numerous reverend fathers of the
Catholic Church, and priests from different
parts of this country and Canada.
The Emperor Napoleon, declares the Lon
don Court Journal, refuses nothing to those
who surround him, and is a true friend in need.
Several times he has relieved many young
officers with pecuniary help, who have mo-
mentarily got into tight place." and GER
tain drawer in the Tuileres, called "Pandoras
=, T.,
put in to relieve the necessitous according to
their wants Napoleon is not rich, never was
and never will be. He does not save. When
General Rolin, the Keeper of the Privy Purse,
announced to him that he saved the house
hold 30. .O00f. in one month, and asked what to
do with the fruits ofhi economy, he was told
to put it in his pocket.
The '.paleontologic archivist who kept NJ.
Chasles supplied with letters of any great phi
losopher or poet that might be named proves
to be one Denis Vrain Lucas. He Is fifty-three
years OF age, and is described as "little
olive-complexioned man." as dry as one OF his
own parchments He began life as servant,
became copying clerk in mortage office at
CHaleduull, subsequently S''i"N w 'N'
where he almost starved until he was made
acquainted with NJ. Chasles Since that fortu-
nate event he has breakfasted, says the Pail
Mall Gazette, at the Cafe Richie, and manufac-
tured MSS of Shakespeare and Calico In the
house of q petite dame. When he was arrested
he was writing in the character of an inventor
of the age of Louis XIV, paper on the We
locipede.
"A young Philadelphian, who has been in
Paris dining with Rosa Bonheur, thus gossips
about her: .'She has the Frenchman's way of
placing her index finger along the full length
of her nose, which never before saw woman
do; and she parts her hair on one side, like
man. letting it fall on her forehead. 1t is en-
tirely gray, except where it is snow-whlte. In
deed, the lady looks older than her mother.
She talks energetically, clearly, and rather d.
dactically, but is extremely pleasant. Harry
showed her his pistol, and she said: oh yes, l
know, 1 carry one just like it., and she pulled
it out of her pocket to show it to US. AS 1t
was loaded, 1t frightened the family consider
ably to see her vancouver it in her of-hand
way. After dinner she smoked her cigar like
the other gentlemen of the party"
Americans who have visited the Cathe-
dral of Notre Dame, at Paris, during the Sum-
day morning services, will recall the rather