The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1872-07-26
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FRIDAY, JULY 26, 1872.

FRIDAY, JULY 26, 1872.
NEWS OF THE DAP.
The monument of Sir Walter Scott, In
Central Park, New York, is to be unveiled
during next month.
"A Richmond man has worn the same pail
of linen trousers forty-nlne summers. They
have been In style seven times.
Fifty millions of paper collars and cuffs are
made annually In Troy, N. Y, and seventeen
thousand people are employed in doing 1t.
Miss Nellie Grant is reported by Paris
paper to have bought forty thousand francs
worth of silks and laces at siHgle snop 10
the French capital. If this be 80 1t will be
Collector Arthur's unpleasant business to re-
mind the young lady's papa of the duty ne
owes his country.
The consumption of animal ivory is some,
thing enormous. Sheffield alone would de-
msnd the killing of twenty thousand elephants
annually, were there no other sources OF sup
ply. One great source of late years Is found
in the tusks of mammoths, an extinct species
of elephant which lived In northern Siberia
some two hundred thousand or more years
ago, when that country enjoyed tempera-
ture like that of the tropics at the present day
AT Marseilles, Dejazet, who has entered
upon her seventy-ffth year, Is drawing crowds
niehtly:to see her In the plays Of "Monsleur
Garatn and "Gentil Bernard" Old men 60 to
the theatre to recall the Impressions Of their
youth, and tho young see how 1t is possible
for one mover to get old. In Monsieur Carat"
say the French critlcs-Dejazet dances with
the most elegant dexteiity. After this the
faI1eof NInc2 de lEasios sinks into iosignif1-
canoe, and all that has been said about the
lount of perpetual youth ceases to be faSu-
lous.
Somebody recently wrote to the eminent
Professor Tyndau to make novel PROPOSE
ton. He proposes to. test the encacy of prayer
In general, and particularly of prayer for the
hok, by setting apart a certain hospital to be
I pecially prayed for by the whole body o. the
faithful for given period of time-say FIVE
years. At the end Of this term the death rate
could be compared with that of previous yeara,
and also with that Of other wards or hospitals
Of the same grade for the same period, and
thus It could be seen whether the praying had
had any effect. Professor Tyndall does not
seem to think the idea bad one, as he says 1t
is desirable to have clearer notions than we
now possess of the action Of Divine Provi-
dence in physical affalrs."'
The burning Of Chicago involved the loss
of all the official records of title to real estate
In Cook County, and last winter law was
passed By the Illinois Legislature for the re-
lief Of property holders, which provided for
the purchase at a fair price of certain books
and abstracts of title which were preserved
from the flames and are the property OF
private parties. These books comprise IN all
about two hundred volumes, and belong to
three Arms, whe act as one party In their ne.
gotiations with the authorities. 1t appears
that g fair price for these books, which tend
to show q continuous chain of title to all the
real estate in Cook County, according TO the
Views of the owners Is s750,0O0. The county
board Is unable to see the matter In that light,
<but do not know what they can do about it.
The system of Involuntary contributions
forced upon subordinates In government
Offices, which the plous Senator Buckingham
tries to Justify by comparing 1t to the religious
offerings made for church purposes, is being
pushed to extremes under the exlgencies OF
the present campaign. Already two requisl-
tions have been made on the department
clerks in Washington for the expenses OF the
North Carolina election, and the victims are
beginning to inquire among themselves how
much salary thcy will have left If the e1tor-
tion continues at the same rate, after con-
trlbuting for Maine, In6,sna and Pennsyl-
vania. They fear that by the time the No.
vember contest approaches they will be
drained dry and Will have exhausted their
credit 30 that the 81 vernment will be obliged
to fill their places ;alth new men who Will be
able and willie, to contribute freely In the
hope of compensating themselves for present
outlay through future opportunities. The
mode of levylng these contributions, accord
ing to the Washington Patriot, is to head the
list for each class with the name of we'll
known clerk, against which Is placed the
amount per head assessed against that class,
after which the paper Is presented to the
clerks in succession. They all deem 1t pru-
dent to respond to the call.
The prevailing idea that teais the ordina
~ drink Of the whole Chinese people is pro-
nounced by writer in Petermann's Mittheil-
ungen, nothing but popular delusiop. ''The
people Of the lower classes" he says, ''es-
peclally In the northern provinces, only know
it as luxury, and drink water with as much
pleasure as the wealthy do their infusion of
green tea. The middle classes In
the same districts use an Infusion of the
dried leaves of certain plants, and it Is
only the richer classes who allow them
selves the luxury of drinking real tea
Even in the provinces where tea Is grown
tea-drinking is not general. The plants
grow on hills often not less than a thousand
feet above the nearest valleys, the inhabitants
of which must therefore buy their tea from
the planters. Now, the poor prefer to keep
the copper cash they would have to expend for
this purpose and take hot water instead, or,
what is more common, an infusion of the
leaves of other plsnts Which grow wild in
their fields. These facts seem to lead to the
interference that the use of tea in China has
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