The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-06-23
FOREIGN MISCELLANY.


An innovation in Paris is dancing parties
ct three o'clock in the afternoon.
France has appointed Consul to Mexico.
which is the first step towards recognition of
the Juare1 governments.
The application Of electricity to organ key
boards enables q clel gyman in England to
draw the salary OF the organist in addition to
his own. He has the key board in the pulpit.
1t was rumored in Par /, that Rochefert, of
La Lanterne, was engaged to g. rich widow at
Brussels. He writes to contradict it, saying:
II will wed no widow but Liberty, and she,
you know, has no fortune"
"A novelty in silks is new color recently
imported for dinner dresses called coral. It
is very brilliant in gaslight, resembling deli
cate shade Of fame color with light and dark
flashes. One popularity of this coral-tinted
silbs commencing it to s!:, is tbst it becomes
both the blonde and brunette, which can be
said Of very few colors. Only eight dollars o
yard.
The following I'D advertIk.nent, which appear
ed in London paper, is such strange hash
Of good and evil things that it is difficult TO
understand whether grief or JOY predominated
in the bosom of tho gentleman to whom it is
addressed: 'If Samuel Bibo sill call or write
to MIR. Samuel Stern, Parad So street, Liver
pool. he will hear of something TO his advan.
tage. His wife is no more"
The eccentric Princess de Beauvan- Craon
pleaded her own cause before the Paris tribu-
nal. Dressed in mourning q mass Of black
Lee falling round her pretty figure, her fair
hair curling on her shoulders, the Princess
with her large expressiveoSe naturally filed
ell present with admirina interest. She had a
painful charge to refute her family had at
tempted to prove her insanity and ipcapabllity
Of managing her affairs, But her 81 irit, wit
and bosuty won her casej
"A royal marriage isl announced to take
place at stockholm or Copenhagen on the 9Th
Of July, which will be OF bausual interest, be-
cause it may lead to o Union Of the Kingdoms
Of Sweden AID Denmark Prince Frederick,
the heir apparent to the crown OF Denmark, is
to marry the Princess louisa, the only child OF
the KING Of Sweden. andhei1ess presumptive
to his crown. The Prince is twenty-six years
ofage and the Princess nearly eighteen. Upon
the death OF the reigning monarchs OF the two
Kingdoms the crowns will probably be united.
But as the King Of Denmark is only fifty one,
and the King OF Sweden only forty three, it
may be good many years before this consum-
nation can be reached.
"A Mr.. Malketh. says French paper. who
recently died In Roglands followed for thirty
five years the profession of fourteenth at
table. "by which he amassed fortune Of f2O,-
GOO. 1t seems that, irreproachably dressed,
it was his wont to present himself in due time
at the houses where there was good table,
and to inquire whether, thirteen persons being
assembled, his presence Vas desired. If the
response was in toe afirmative, he entered
the dining room, and, after eating his dinner,
received one or two pounds ste Ring. according
10 the length and poz IHmco- Of ths feast Lon
don, it is added, still possesses two or three
gentlemen who exercise this trying occupation,
and 1--we with much comfort"
The Viceroy of Egypt and his son are
doing" the European courts in brilliant
style. Egyptian commerce is much in the
hands of Italians, and st Florence Victor
Emanuel showed the Pacha all the att ttantlon
in his power. At Vienna, too, tho Mahometan
PrInce vas as warmly received as tho best
Catholic or them all. The new grand opera,
opened at the close Of last month, no doubt
afforded him pleasure in o moderate way, es-
pecalIy as the stage contains ample scope for
the most complicated bailets. desire to Sc
cure the naturalization of the Isthmus of Suez
Canal, Is given as the chief object of the Vice
roy's journeyings. II half the invitations to
the opening are accepted, Egypt will contain
more snvereigns at time than any other
country has done in the present century.
A culious exhibition in London is COM
pany Of train ed acrobatic feas. They draw lit
tie vehicles and turn wheels, but they seem to
do it under uniform feeling of disturbance
and apprehension, which is sufficient to occa-
sion the motions which produce the desired
efoct. The noeded irritation is produced by
certain motion of the hand OF the proprietor of
the haas. They are accustomed to feed OF his
hands s-that is, to suck his blood evory morn
ing, but they do not seem to be greatly im-
bued with confidence in him, and when he puts
his hand near them they go into &c staces Of
fright, which suffice to produce the effects
which the public admire. The fleas take
very short time 10 train, and they live nine
months. Every night they are put to sleep in
wool, unless one OF them requires punishment,
in which case he is tied to post, and has to
walk round it like mill horse. This tying is
one of the greatest wonders OF the exhibition.
The feas are oil tied for the purposes OF their
are tied with fine hairs or lengths of spun
glass. They do not jump except when trouble
some. Probably, like many humans, they have
had all the jump taken out Of them by the
tardels OF life.
There will be an opposition party in the
new French Chambers which win number 100,
which will completely change the character OF
the Chamber. The official candidates received
in Paris 66,117 votes; the opposition candi-
dates, 229, ,75S votes. In 1852 the official can
d'dates received in Paris 1872 006 votes; in 1857,
111,018 votes; In 1868 $500 votes. The can
d,dates of the opposition received in Paris in
1852. 9S,1O1 votes; in 1857, 101 .207 votes; in
1858 149 406 votes. In 1858, no less than
5000 votes we're cast for official candidates
throughout France, and only 10000 votes
were given for opposition candidates; in 1869,
900 900 votes were given for official candi.
dates and 8. 200 900 we're given opposition can