The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-09-03
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

-"Tho Queen of the Air: Being Study OF
the Greek MYTHS Of Cloud and Storm, is the
title of Mr.. Ruskin's last work.
"A Pans journalist says tha false hair worn
BY the ladies of tho gay capitsl would make a
pils as high as the Napoleon column.
-Ofe 1bach has gone out offashlon go COM
pletely in Paris that the mauagers who pay
HIM large sums for his operas are rapidly los
ing money.
"A Young German has lost his eyesight by
an attempt to win bet to swim q certain
length OF timo on his back in the Scheldt with
his spectacles on. A hot sun acted on the
spectacles as on maguifying glass.
Mile Marcowtz was packing her trunks
f,r the watering places when news was brought
her that Messrs. Russell and Poerzo were fight
ing on her account. Telegraph me who is
killed" SAID she to the messenger; at Baden
one will have more leisure for emotion"
Tho new Partisan travelling costume is
made of waterproof cloth IN siot colors, such
as brown and gold. The skirt is short. with
a simple hem round the bottom. Paletots are
loose 10 these, revers Of taffata plated sash Of
taff.ta 10 match, straw hat, gauze veil, water
proof boots. Macfarlanc mantles, with coach
mans capes of red and white paids, are the
best evening dress wrappers.
/ Ono day in the first week in August, the
boldest player ut Baden-Baden. q Russian lady
of high rank, after a hard-fought battle OF
three hours duration, retired loser CT nearly
| n hundred thousand francs. The interest OK
cited by this encounter was intense; almost
all other play was suspended, and triple row
OF spectators surrounded the table, bleathless-
ly watching the result OF each coup.
Accident revealed this week the existence,
| in an obscure quarter OF Bordeaux, OF wo
man, now a hundred years old, who during the
French revolution played brilliant, but ephe-
neral part. Shc still merrily tells she was the
heroine Of Robespierre's Fste de PEte Supreme,
danced with Taller, and was selected the 14th
july 1898, lat an anniversary OF tho capture Of
the Bastile), to present the ribboned nosegay
] to the Commissioners Of the Republic.
This is tho toilette of Eugene tho Sunday
before she left France: An unbleached muslin
skirt With taffeta Of s.reaked mauve for trim
mings, a straw hat and mauve veil. Two hours
| later, in the palace grounds. she wore short
muslin costume trimmed with Valenclennes
frills over groseiHe tfed Guaranty slip; sash OF
black velvet, straw hat, with clusters of black
cherries and black currants. In the evening
she wore q white tulle robe, with Malmaison
roses to loop her Mechlin lace pouff. The same
in her hair.
Letters from Naples describe picnics by
moonlight at Pompeii, with supper in the Fo.
rum. and tabeaux in the Temple Of Jupiter.
One OF the latter was scene emblematical Of
the last days of Pompeli, from the picture by
Lord Lytton; those who took part in it being
dressed in the costumes "of the psriod." At
Naples new building 10 be called the Pcmpei-
Drama, giving panoramic views Of the city, il
being erected, but some OF the residents think
this unnecessary, seeing that any one can run
down in less than an hour and see the original.
"A curious scene was lately witnessed in
Paris. Girl was observed on the street with
| q wooden leg under her arm, while gentleman
was calling to her from window on the other
side of the street, gest!culating 6ercely and
demanding her return. TO the large crowd
which the scene attracted, the girl made ex
panation that she was washerwoman to the
gentleman, that he would not pay her, that
she visited his lodgings to demand her money,
and that on his refusal she had tak-n possess
sion of his wooden leg, purposlnS not 10 return
it until she received her money.
Lord Pamerston's diary, nov in course OF
preparation for publication, under the charge
| of Sir Henry Bulwer as EDITOR, is described as
being full OF :.:terest, and as being marked
with the distinguished Premier's characteris-
tics. This diary commences wheu Palmerston
was sixteen years of age. and ends at the c.oso
of 1880. whom lie assumed Office as foreign sec
rotary At present no continuation OF the
diary has been found among Palmerstons
papers The diary is said to have none of the
attributes of q Bosweian record, butts modest,
unaffected aud simple, without particle OF
gall or il.naturo, and short and condensed, as
if the style had been formed after the model OF
the sententious brevity OF Tacitus.
This is what nice young man writes from
'ombure: Il took place at the roulette table.
and had not staked more than once or twice,
when two handsomely dressed ladies' placed
tbemsolyes one on either side Of me, and conf
menced playing with the smallest coins allow
ed, 8edging me in rather unpleasantly close
between them. AT my third or fourth stake
won ON both the color and number, and my
neighbor on the right quietly swept up my
coins from the color the instant they we're
paid. I demonstrated, and she very politely
argued the point, ending by restoring my
money. But during our discussion my far
larger slake, paid III the meanwhile, on the
winning number, had disappeared into the
pocket OF my neighbor on the lett, who was not
so polite, and was very indignant at my sug-
pestion that the stake was mine. An appeal
to the croupicr only produced shrug Of the
shoulders and regret that he had not seen who
staked the money, and offer to stop the play,
and suggestion that should find 1t very dill
ficult to prove it was my stak ke."
"A horrible mystery is agitatlns soclety'ln
Naples. Tho parties connected with 1t are
lieutenant named Negri and the Countess da
Nayara. Negri had some papers belonging to
the countess, and she went to San Paolo to OBJ
tain them. After she had been there two or
tn, ee DAYS her landlord heard cries for help, and
rushed up to her roum. Negrl ran out OF the
door as the landlord entered. The countess
appeared greatly moved. and told the landlord
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