The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1871-05-27
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SATURDAY, MAY 27, 1871.
NEWS OF TIE DAY.

The New York cotton market closed steaus
up!ands 1910; sales $3.50 bales.
AT. Liverpool cotton closed quiet; upland
7sd; sales $4,000 bales.
The Queen of Prussia Ess given one thou
sand thalers to the society started in Berlin
for the purpose OF devising original German
fashions.
"A letter from Berlin states that three
the leading Freemason lodges Of Berlin nav
issued manifesto to the other lodges in Ger
many urging them to break off all intercourse
with the French lodges, on the ground tnat tn'
latter have violated the fundamental principle
OF Freemasonry, viz : non-intervention IN &c
clcs:asticai and political affairs.
in opening the summer course OF lectures
at Surgeons Hall, Edinburgh, DR.. Keller
stated that, had Miss Elizabeth Garrett entered
. into competition at the written examination
the previous year. she would have carried OF
the arst prize. Dr.. Keller said that, OF
handing the diploma of doctor OF medicine u
Miss Garrett, now Mrs. Garrett Anderson, ne
Ea6 the satisfaction OF telling her that she wa;
entitled to the first medal, and that II there
were to be many graduates like her, The male
students might have no snail difficulty IN
keeping their ground.
The German Parliament has voted two
hundred and fifty thousand tha!ers for casting
commemorative bronze medals, Of which eacn
man having served in the war, officers and
men alike, ia to have specimens. Moreover,
as in 1866, there will be thalsr pieces coined IN
comnemoratien OF the glorious victory. AT
Hanover column Is to be erected with ten
thousand thulers; the ;'Castled Crag OF Drach-
enfe.s" will be adorned with huge "Germa-
nia," personifying the "Watch on the Rhine.
1t is to be of bronze, and to remain perma-
nent monument of German victory and Ger
MAJ union.
There has been lively competition for
the possession OF RMloff 3 head. Three differ
en-: parties opened the grave at Bnghampton on
OH Friday night, with view to dlsinter the
part of the body which had never been buried.
The prize was In the hands of committee OF
doctors, who found it almost as difficult to
reach his brain as "ther people had to get at
his moral consciousness. The skull was from
three-eighths to halt an inch thick-the aver
age thickness of ordinary skulls being less
than quarter OF an inch. The scalp was of
toughness 10 match. and the cords Of his neck
are said, with slight tendency to exagSera-
tiop. to have been as heavy and strong as
those of an OK. Altogether, Rullof seems to
have had exceptional natural advantages to ft
him for the dangers incident to the life OF
criminal; and as his unusually large brain was
chiefly developed around the base, the strong
animal vigor aGd general absence OF moral
perception in the man are, doubtless, satisiac-
tori,y explained to all students of the phlloso-
ply OF the cranium.
Late European correspondence gives IN
teresting views Of life IN and around Paris.
At Marseilles Tor The past few days all amuSe-
ments and pleasures OF the Prussians have
given place to the interest OF watching the
combat OF artillery, and one sees hundreds OF
them perched upon walls and fences, their
eyes or lorsnrttes carefully following the firing
of the batteries, and in perfect silence noting
the effect of the shells on either side. Now
and then their c0uriers are seen riding rapidly
across the fields, showing that every phase Of
the combat going on is quickly carried to head
quarters, where The officers are always ready
to call their men tc arms. The scenes about
the gates of Paris, where hundreds of women,
as general thing the honest wives, sisters or
mothers of the men beyond the wells, gather
abont the post for the purpose of getting news
from The 'front.' are extremely sad. From
morning until night they linger there, weep
ing bitterly at times, insensible TO palmer ia
tigue, gazing eagerly into the face of every
wounded mau carried by, and pressing with
questions all who Will pause 10 hear Them.
New uses for paper are continually dis
covered. One OF the lat. st ls to employ 1t for
the manufacture Of railroad Car wheels. The
paper is cut into discs the diameter Of the
wheel, less the thickness Of the tire. and SUBJ
iected 10 pressure of one anu half tons to
the square inch, and then secured by iron
fanges held by bolts passing through them
and the paper. The wheel then receives
steel or iron hanged tire. The advantages
claimed for the use OF paper for this purpose
are, that it is noiseless, does not swell or
shrink with the weather affords a stay to the
tire and lateral support in turning curves,
adapts itself to any trifling inequality OF the in
ner surface OF the surrounding tire, and is
stronger than any other material OF the same
weight OF which wheel can possibly be
made.
"A French professor has made a discovery
which may be Of great utility, a"d is certainly
most curious This Is no less then what he
himself calls oottiing the sun, that is TO say,
fixing it's HEAT in closed vessel in such way
as to be used at will. The process Is as simple
as its results are remarkable. a vase con-
structed FOR the purpose, OF some material not
mentioned, Is exposed during quarter OF an
hour to the action OF the Suu's rays. Then it
is hermeticalIy sealed with a.. cork,
through which small hole hus been drilled.
Before this hole q powerful lens is
held, and the Imprisoned rays made
to converge on the wick ofa candle placed at
q distance Of abruL a yard from tile vase. AL
most instantly the candle is lighted The eX-
pertinent, care told, WAS many lines repeat
ed, and always with the like success. As the
French Journal wherein we find this account
enthusiast ically remarks, tits prodigio,is, aud
may pave The way for very import tant results
Presently some one will bs inspired 10 hnd a
means of outLillg the suns light as well, so
that We mag dispense with gas and all other