The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1871-04-29

pieces, and the treasury. Is masking aifahSe
ments to distribute them there.
Louis Napoleon is spasiag at chiselhufs
all the bills he incurred whilst Emperor foi
personal expenses, aad which were unpaid
when the war began They are said to amount
to SIZE, 900, chiefly due to Paris lradespeople'
AT the recent funeral of the infant Primo
Alexander, son Of the, Prince of Wales, white
violets, primroses, and anemones We're scat:
tered. on the coffin, instead Of earth, at the
sentence "Ashes TO ashes, = DC.
DIR. Bush said the reason why German'
die so seldom Of consumption, is the fact o
their singing from the earliest childhood
Another medical authority says the reason
why so many Gerlpaas die OF consumption, IL
because they smoke too much. The reader;e
these can take hisctf6fce. -
-GenerarCapron commissioner Of agricul.
ture. reports that tea culture is fast becoming
a feature OF Importance faathe Southern and
Southwestern States, and that i'll a few years
enoughtea will be grown in those sections to
meet the home CONSUMPTION. Over forty
thousand tea plants have been distributed by
the department, nearly all OF which fOurished,
and now the seed.ffoa paauts raised in South
Carolina are being sent out.
THE Cork Herald. expresses establishment
at the continued drain or ssedrish population,
which It says is going on as steadily now as In
the most disturbed years. Queenstown is al
ready rowdedswiA>emlgz although the
season has only commenced, and it is expect
cd that before summer the weekly departures
from that port Will axeraga two thousand.
The people come principally from Clare, Tippe-
nary, Meath, Westnfearh, and the Kings
County. So
in the new German Parliament there is one
member who is deaf US a post, and yet not only
delivers frequent and excsllenr speeches, but
mfpgles as freely in the debates, aud answers
his adyersaries' attacks rs readily and unhesi-
tatingly as any of. his. colleagues. This is the
amous historian, Heinrich Won Treitschke. He
is enabled to take part in discussions, not by
the use of finger language. nor by guessing an
orators words from the af0tion ofhis lips, but
by the services Of yts Of. his tellow-members,
Herr Wehrenpfepnig. who acts as his
friends amenuensts, writing down word by
word every speech delivered in the House.
The Piccoli Giornale of Naples states that
another human skeleton has Just been discov-
ared OF mpeiLstan ss-bcer-aode to the
five others In the museum. The ingenious sys-
tenn by which Senator Fiorelll is able to repro.
ducAtseakAAAa&SsRalfs 4a4eAPph3y
the i16id 81 ihcFdsted ashes f5f1aed Of tic
body is well known. In the present Instance
the impression Is perfect, and has produced
results superior to any vet obtdiaed. The body
is apparently t6at { d peoafaA; In the prime
of life, who had fallen backwards while en-
eavoriDg to escape. The az n OF his diath
throesiss Shown by'the contorlions of the coun-
enance and tue let hand convulslvely clench-
"A New York street railway IS trying to
:sspot" its conductors by machinery. The step
sinks when the fDoL OF q passenger Is placed
upon A, aaSSs stsarof4eves N6rk5a regis
tering apparatus inside. The reason the old
thing don't work worth+a cent is told BY an
honest conductor: "You sea that fellow that
est got on , When he ielt the step bob under
him, he put his foot back and tried it over
again Iktasur tunes. Eyers atius he pus his
lOOL Ou IL, LlC udl uCu OiiluS uOblOu Ouo "
passenger-tve dots for one fare, you see:
Amt there aug way of beating 1t? sFou Jest
bet there is, only I wouldn't do it. When a
crowd Of women folks get on, ! cau stand one
foot bowman he stea and help them into the
car, so Icould rush onsa,crowdo OF a dozen, and
only one dot for the lott"
-Ope ofthe. most, remarhaols men Of the
present century-a parsonage whose life reads
like a romauce-dlcd recently. We refer to
schanyl, The great Caucasian leader, who for
80 many years-from 1924 TO 1859 led his peo-
nile 10 their wars for freedom against the Rns
sian rule. SchaInyrs exploits hags filled alarse
page In the worlds history f5r nearly half a
century past. After waglng a long warfare in
the passes ofehe Caucasus against the Russian
troops, he was at last eapefrat in 1859 and
taken to st. Petersburg, where he has since
lived. amply supplied with all the necessaries'
and luxuries OF M, 1lthongf nefd as a prison
er-as was doneby The. French Government in
tha case Of the celebrated Arab chleitain, Add
el.Kadss. tSchanrYt was q sAaifomeaaa, aud
having been permitted recently to make a pill
grimage to Mecca, tbs illustrious Chief was
taken sick en- reat6 and died at Msdha, In
his seveuty:lhffd year.
= The feat of enclosing 5000 ordinary aad
500 Svo pages. OF official dispatches in a sraail
quill, and attaching the latter 10 the tall iea-
Their OF: aSpigeon in such q manner as not TO
impede the N4s4,s 4aighs: or 70 inooum node it,
and not to cause IL to diseinbarrass itself Of its
precious burden, was accomplished in Paris
during the late siege The result was not at
tanned by one effort; at first the dispatches
were written by baud on The thiunast paper
knowni next, the manassrlak messages were
photographed .m~Eroscupically on paper; third
ly, the dispatches We're SGT up In type first. and
then reduced by photography. which allowed
Of greater .diminution III size and afforded
more iegibiHty when enlarged. Lastly, amin
portant Improvement Was effected BY sending.
the almost fmperceptible messages on thin
films of collodion. These films were ten times
thinner and lighter than The paper already
mentioned; s6 tfat a pigeon Vas enabled. to
carry an immensely Increased budget without
ANY additional weight or volMne-in fact, with
q dlmfhnrouA or both. Pie Asssm@Sas con-
ceived aud worked out ~ NJ. Steinachers,
director general. OF telesrapts, with The aid OF
cru Ia r.sSSS.;t ,pa5+s. :, IA I !, GJt&o AE6on r.,ru