The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1869-02-11

facing each other. One advertises Neck
ties Tsabcllc,'' the other. ties "Don
Carlos" The latter lives over his own
barber's shop.
RENT DAY.
The 18th wns quarter day for the mid
die classes" in Paris. Rents were never
known to be more difficult to collect.
THE MAN WITH THE IRON MASK.
A NJ. Topin, who has profoundly studied
the times of Louis XIV, has written to the
President of the Academy that he has dis
covered who was that famous priaoner-the
man with the iron mask-which for two
hundred years has baffled every one but
the r0mdncierS.
THE MARKETS.
Green peas are promised for next week
asparagus can be had for twelve francs the
bundle.
THE OFFICIAL FArER.
The national school teachers throughout
the Empire are TO be daily supplied with
the Journal 0ficiel which costs one sous.
They will thus be kept al COornnt in the
way they should go.
RUSSIAN TAILORING.
The Court Of Russia has no faith in home
tailors, as it has sent consignment of
valuable furs, to he made up in all haste
by tailor in the Palais Royal, whose staff
is consequently undergoing the "sweating
system"
THE GOOD SHEPHERDS.
With the view of increasing the good
shepherds the Emperor has opened in the
north of France a school for their instruc-
ton. Lectures will he given on all that
appertains to pastoral life and the Ovine
race generally. Diplomas will be granted
after the students graduate for two years,
with m honorariuu of three hundred
francs. The Emperor is determined to
mind his fiocks.
EXPERIMENTS WITH OXYGEN.
Revenons nos moutons. A celebrated
physician now displays in Paris salons
some of the "marvels of science" can
die, cigar, q piece of paper, jet of gas,
Just extinguished, become Immediately re-
lighted by his breathing on them. This
new system of "lighting up" is due to his
inhalation of oIygen-which, as a vivifying
agent, is becoming employed by the ia
culty-and preserving thus in free state
the active principle of combustion for ff-
teen minutes. The gas is said to be infal-
lible against the "blue devils"
MR.. DAVIS.
The report was current during the week
that Jefferson Davis was dying. He had a
severe syncope, and lies still in q weak
state, attended by DR.. Smith.
PASSPORTS IN FRANCE.
A circular has Just been published which
at last allows American citizens to travel or
to reside in France without n passport, the
same MS British subjects. 1t was a conces-
sion to common sense long demanded.
VARIOUS ITEMS.
General Dix must he provided with q
White House" here if he intends to re-
ceiye his friends. His first reception du-
ring the week was very brilliant, all that il
distinguished in Paris being present.
Mr.. J. q. \. Warren, of San Francisco
is displaying in Norton x Co.'s bank his
magnificent private collection of California
pine cones, and the Flora of the State. The
specimens of silk and cocoons have rather
astonishei the Mounseers," who flock tC
the three days show in crowds.
Minnie Hauck's dtJW in B0rbicrc was
better than her Amina. In the higher
notes her voice is UNEQUAL, in the medium
rich, full, and mellow. She would be spoiled
if over praised, nor must her real talent be
discouraged. She can afford "to learn tC
labor and to wait"
Few arrivals during the week.