The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-10-28
FOREIGN ITEMS.

| The Paris dry-goods dealers complain that
their trade, for many years past, has not been
as dull as it is at the present time.
The Berlin papers have recently seen hard
times. None of these have as large circula-
tion as they had previous to the war Of 1866.
The Hamburg merchants complain that
their importing business has greatly suffered
since the establishment of the North German
| Confederation.
The French Cable Company are to.hold a
general meeting in London on the 18th of No
vember. reduction in the tariff for sending
messages may be looked for about that time.
DIR. steinberg's plan of having an interna-
tional flag for hospitals, ambulances, &C., in
order to protect them In time of war, has been
agreed to by France and the Netherlands, {lion
and lamb,) which two nations have accepted
the yellow flag and red cross as the standard.
Professor Fabers speaking machine Is to
be exhibited at Hamburg during the Interna-
tional Horticultural Exhibition. It Is said to
articulate various words and even to ans
wer questions by simple sentences with won
derful distinctness. This machine Is more
perfect than any previous invention Of the
kind.
"A French Academician takes issue with
Lord Rosse as to the moons capability of radi-
ating heat n. Narie-Davy announces as the
result Of careful experiments that lunar radia-
tion is incapable of raising the temperature Of
an air-thermometer, coated with lampblack,
even the millionth Of degree. This is equiv.
alent to saying that there is no heat radiated
| from the moon.
1t is rather serious matter for wife to
attempt an'escape from her. husband in Bos-
mia. The Pashs in . drunken ft took to beat
| ing his wives so numerically that their
screams aroused the whole neighborhood, and
the police had to interfere. One of his wives
escaped to the Russian Consulate, but was
given up the next day, and it is supposed that
she was Immediately murdered, as nothing
has been heard of her since.
The water in Calcutta must be pleasant
beverage. By the Pail Mall Gazette it is des-
cribed as "being very dirty, with large
amount Of sediment. This being examined
with microscope proved to be made up Of
low vegetable growths, human hair, fbres Of
cotton, wool, linen, fragments of woody tissue,
starch, grains, &C., and among these innumer-
able animalcule Of many shapes and kinds
dlsported themselves, while many minute
white worms wriggled about through the
| mass"
-Napoleon's postponement of the meeting
of the Corps Legislatif to the 10th Of Novem-
ber is variously commented upon. One jour-
nal calls. the act ia riddle propounded to the
rest OF Europe by that willy monarch" and
considers that his ministers, being new and
unknown men, will be the immediate suffer
erss. as depriving them of a chance to gain
public confidence in themselves and their pol
icy. The Spectator, speaking on the same
subject, terms 1t 'snub to the Radicals and q
reassertion Of the courage Of the CROWN"
"A manufacturer of Alsace has received an
oi9el !lon d rerls o t.'..udkerchiefs, on which
are to be stamped the various episodes of the
Pantin tragedy. Portraits of the murdered
victims will adorn some Of these handkerchiefs
as they appeared lying in the zinc collins at
| the MOrgue, while on others will be depicted
Traupmann in the act of leading Madame
Kinck and the two youngest children from the
cab to the place of their murder. He is repre-
sented as obligingly carrying the little girl.
Traupmann as he appeared in the presence of
the corpses will decorate others. These lively
sketches on cotton will no sold for sjxnence