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

| toward the open POlarsSca next year.
| --Laura Guignette is The champion cam
canistc in the ,Mabie. She is the daugh or of
q hack-driver, four feet In height, auG gets q
salnry of 900 francs.
| --Carlottn Patti wears mourning outside tbe
concert room,. but has brought over with her
n dozen new and gorgeous evening dresses in
coral, maize and crimson.
| Tile only spectator Mt the autopsy OF the
victims Of tile horrible Pantinu murder, near
Paris, was Madame RatazzI, and she Is said to
have witnessed the horrible spectacle with ad-
rnirable sang .Jroid.
1t Is rumored in England that q statement
In Lord Byron's handwriting will shortly be
published, which Will settle forever the unhap.
py question lately raised concerning his sonar.
alton from his WIFE,
"A London correspondent says that Spur-
geon never stops to study out any very dlil-
cult questions himself, but he has few men of
education In his.church to whom llo commits
such matters, and he uses the results of thssf,
labors. @
| ,-of Edmund kean's performance of Luke,
in Massinger's City Madam" 1t is recorded
| that an old lady, who had Intended leaving him
large sum of money, was so appalled, at the
cold-blooded villany he displayed that she
transferred the legacy to distant relation.
An elderly unmarriedlady, a near relation
OF Humboldts, and bearing the same name,
had become 30 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 ''a Photographic likeness of our
Saviour" He says 1t is copied from the por-
trait carved ONT 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 a point Of litigation,
concerning the settlement of the estate of her
first husband, Marquis dc Iialespina She re-
covered the amount of her professional earn
lngs ns prlma donna during their married
life, whioh''was claimed exclusively for their
son, young man residing In Italy.
Humboldt commenced writing his "Cos-
mos" ut the age of seventy-hve. 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, md 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 IL to o'clock.
In the: steamer Lafayette, which sailed
from New York I'll Saturday for Hayre. a
large number of prcates sailed for Rome to
attend the Gcumenical Council. Among them
were Bishop Eugene Gingues, of Ottown;
Bishop Rappe, of Cleveland; Bishop Farrell, of
Hamilton; Bishop D. ST. PailaIs, of France:
Bishop Taiche, s,of Canada; Bishop Hunnl, of
Wisconsin; Bishop Hciss of Wisconsin; Arch
bishop OHaru, of Pennsylvania; Bishop Pnr-
cell, of Cincinnati; Bishop ]. Qulneau, 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 q 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 Tuileries, called ..Pandora's
box" is never empty, and always the hand is
| their wants. Napoleon Is not rich, mover was
and never will be. He does not save. When
General Rollin, the Keeper of the Privy Purse,
announced to him that he saved the house
hold 80, ,00of. in one month, and asked what to
do with the fruits OF his economy, he was told
to put it in his pocket.
The ''paleontologic archivist who kept n.
Chasles supplied with letters of any great phi
losopher or poet that might be named, proves
to be one Denis Yrain Lucas. He is fifty-thrce
years OF age, and Is described as little
olive-complexioned man." as dry as ono of his
own parchments. He began life as d servant,
became copying clerk In a mortage office at
Chateaudun, subsequently came to Paris,
where he almost starved until he was made
acquainted with II. Chasles. Since that fortu-
nate event he has breakfhsted, says the Pail
Nall Gazette, at the Cafe Richie, and manufac-
tured MSS Of Shakespeare and CALLED in the
house of petite dame When he was arrested
lie was writing, in the character of an Inventor
Of the age Of Louis XIV, paper on the vc-
locipede.
"A young Philadelphlan, who has been in
Paris dining with Rosa Bonheur, thus gossips
about her: 'tShe has the Frenchmans way of
placing her index finger along the full length
of her nose, which never before saw o woman
do; and she parts her hair on one side, like a
man, letting It fall on her forehead It Is en-.
tireiy gray except where it is snow-white. In,
deed, the lady looks older thnn her mother.
She talks energetically, clearly, and rather d.
dactcally, but is extremely pleasant. Harry
showed her his pistol, and she said; tOh yes, I,
know, I carry one just like IT, and she pulled
IL out of her pOcket In ahoyy II IN ,,o loN
was loaded, 1t frightened the family consider
ably to see her vancouver It In her of.hari
way. After dinner she smoked her cigar Ike
the other gentlemen OF the party.nr '.s Si.
Americans who have visited the Cattle
dral OF Notre dame, at Paris, during the Sun.
day morning services, will recall the rather
peculiar appeasance or the .sman IN the serge
gown" who, With q voice as remarkable as