The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1870-02-04
NOTES FROM ABROID.

| pOle0n at Tue IullcrleS.
The famous ';Star and Carter" at Rich
mond, England, is burned down.
Russians arc said to have invented moth
ing but peculiar tca-urn and ready-made
cigarettes.
Americans by the hundred clamor to be
presented at the Tuileries. Louis will soon
know every Yankee on the face OF the earth.
The storckeepers of Rome are disgusted
because the meeting of the Gcumenical Coun-
Gil has only caused an influx of fifteen thou
sand strangers.
M Maxine du Camp, who has made a
study of such subjects says that French prlso-
ners under sentence Of death show a great
Iondness for Fcnimorc Cooper's novels.
The walls of Constantlnople, completed fif-
teen centuries ago by the Emperor Theodosius,
are to be pulled down, and their stones en-
ployed in various municipal Improvements.
The law fixing the age of majority in Prus-
sia at twcnty-one years, received the Royal
sanction on the 9th instant, and will come into
force for the entire kingdom on the lst July,
1870
An English soldier in q guarlhousc, who
could not read, was lately melted to shoot his
corporal by seeing picture of similar Incl
dent in police gazette. The soldier was
hanged The publisher was not.
"A Paris Journalist has been practicing the
guillotining business, except the final stroke,
and finds that the terror lasts only eighteen
seconds from the time the criminal sets foot
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The Paris execdtioneris is over six feet high,
with the proportions Off Hercules. white hair
and strong hands, we'll formed and kept care
fully clean. He is ahvays i'll for several days
after performing his duty at the guillotine.
Mr. Gladstone treats his Greenwich con-
stitucnts rather cavalerly. He has never been
near them to express his thanks since his cleo
ton. and recently, on being invited to address
them before the next meeting of Parliament
replied curty in two lines, that he had not the
time and that they must wait his convenience.
The Bengal fever las been making fear
full ravages in Hooshly and Budwal. These
districts grow rice, and are full of sluggish
streams. deep. foul tanks and water-covered
rice fields rccking with malaria. 1t Is stated
that quarter of the people have perished
since 1865. In one village fifth Of the popu-
lation is dead, and the report for single day
in August is :'lOO attacked, 10 dead, GO linger-
ing Bad drainage is said to be the cause.
A Roman wit has discovered the habits OF
all the Western bishops at the Gcnmencal.
The English are always taking ont something
to cat: the American bishops are retiring to
smoke; the French bishops are passing about
anu talking; the Spanish bishops are in little
aroups, talking their own politics; the Ger
mans arc silent and doing nothing. The ltal-
ians. if We may conclude from the example
of the wit himself, are making their obscrva-
'suo!l
On late cold day in Paris, the Emperor,
while walking IN the garden OF the Tulleries,
noticed the trembling appearance OF one oil
the scntincls "Esi-ce moi Qui te .fdis peor p
asked Napoleon. The soldier rcpelcd the ac-
cusation of fear, but pleaded the coldncss OF
his fingers The Emperor gave him his own
gloves, which the soldier put OH at once, the
kid cracking all over his black fingers. The
Emperor laughed heartily, and the same day
had box of gloves sent to the palace bar
racks-two pairs for each Of his six hundred
guards.
"A sentry blew ont his brains, few days
ago almost in sight Of Napoleon and his Cabi-
net Council. Conversation ensucd among the
sentrics on duty about ,le Tulleries, and 1t was
found that one of the Cent Gardes was called
uDon TO guard the passage communication
with the Kitchen and the dining-room. AS all
the savory dishes had to pass under his nose,
but being forbidden fruit, he was familiarity
known us the "Tantallls-Sentry.' The Empc-
ror ordered such soldier to share for the fl
turc in tho high life below stairs, succeeding
the Imperial dinner.
In constructing new street in Paris, a
cemetery used in the days of the first revolll-
tion has been uncovered. Among other hui
man remains was found remarkably bcauli-
ful head of woman, in wonderful state OF
preservation. The fair hair still adhcrins to
the skull bears the coifure in fashion in 1913
'94. with twisted AMI powdered trcsses. There
is no doubt that the head belonged TO one OF
the victims of the revolutionary tribunal; but
il is singular circumstance that the eyes are
covered with black frontlet. AS no mention
is made in the chronicles OF the times OF any
one of among those executed being blndfol1ed
before mounting the scall0ld, this discovery
has given rise to much speculation and con-
lecture.
The Parisians having ''lnaugurated" rev.
olution against further compliance with the
system of feeling walters, q customer at one OF
the fashionable cafes lately paid his reckoning
without adding thereto the ordinary compile
mcnt. The waiter said nothing, but regarded
the customer, who was an old habitue of the
establishment. with look Of blank rcmon-
strancc, tacltly enforcing explanation. SAL
phonse," said the customer, kindly but firmly,
II am very sorry, but belong to the society
for giving nothing towaiters. "Oh, Monsieur,
don't say so," cried Alphonse. "You are an
old pratique; and in that case may hint to
you, that l. and Eugcnc, and Louis yonder,
all belong 10 the society for spilling hot coffee
over the trousers of stingy customers"
In the diary orthc Hon. Mrs. William Grey,
who travelled in Turkey and Egypt in the
suite of the Princess Of Wales, she has placed
some facts and figures in more apprecablc
shape than other travellers had done. In one