The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1872-08-06
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TUESDAY, AUGUST 6, 1872.
NEWS OF THED4Y

Under the new postal regulations, wher'
transient or irregular postage matter reache
its destination unpaid, double the prepal'
rate shall be exacted on delivery.
The idea of sending the New York morn
ing papers to Chicago by pneumatic tuoe Il
time to read at the breakfast table, does no
seem 30 feasible when we know that the laV
governing pneumatic power Is said TO oe
ssThe mean speed of transmission varies IN
versely with the length, and inVersely als'
with the square root Of the diameter Oh tn'
tnbe." If this be true, body which fashet
through tube mile long In 2Re minute
would take sixteen minutes to go tnrousL
four mlles of tnbing, and weuld crawl through
the thousand miles between New York ano
hIcago lp one year, two hundred and twenty
nine days, ten hours and four minutes.
-.Dlon Bouclcault proposes ito Introduce
some radical reforms to English theatre
goers in the Covent Garden. which will
open next month. He will begin the perfor
mances at precisely seven. O'Clock, and Close
them Invariably at quarter before eleven, tc
enable families from distance to reach theii
homes before or by midnight a part OF the
house will be reserved exclusively for ladies
and children, who may come, fearlessIy, un-
attended by gentlemen; "ladies visiting the
orchestra stalls, or the so-called dress circle,
will not be. required to remove that part OF
their head-dress which still retains the name
/, of bonnet;" bills OF the play will be furnished
gratis; and no fees to attendants VIII be al
lowed.
"A correspondent of Wilkess Spirit OF the
Times, who ought, to be posted, says he has
recently carefully examined Longtellow, and
ia convinced that he is hopelessly broken
down. The hurt leg Is bathed two or three
times a day with cold water, and his Journey
to the well for that purpose, about thirty
yards from the stable, too plainly Indicates
the extent and severity Of his injury. His
ankle, which has heretofore frequently In bis
training given unmistakable evidence Of
weakness, Is now completely disabled, and the
suspensory llgaments In the desperate strug-
gle yielded and gave way to his terrific pro-
pelllng force; and, says the writer, u have
not the falntest hope that they can ever again
perform their functions"
The Louisville Courier-Journal of the lst
instant says arrangements for national re-
union at the Falls of the Ohio River are at
length set onfoot; an organization has been
effected; working committees have been ap-
pointed; the lth and 18th Of September have
been chosen as the time, and there Is no
reason to doubt that the proposed peace meet
ing will be great affair. Carl schurz and
John Quincy Adams, Emerson Etheridge and
Ben. Hill, Charles Sumner and Austin Blair,
LYMAN Trumbull and Horate Seymour, Hem
bricks, Voorhees,, Doollttle, Vance, Bradley
Johnston, Groesbeck, Walker, OF Virginia, and
many others eminent in the North and South
Will be present.
What is the worth of maiden's heart?
This question has come to be decided by cool,
unsentimental experts. The daughter OF a
poor widow In Berlia, Germany, died of heart
disease, and the young physician who attended
her during her Illness persuaded the mother,
in the interest Of science, to give him the poor
girls heart. After the lapse of some time, the
doctor asked the widow for an honorarium of
eight thalers, fifteen silver groschen, for all
his visits and trouble. She delayed payment
he complained, and then she gave out that she
considered the gift OF her daughters heart as
an equivalent to the sum demanded. II this
was not acknowledged, she required the heart
to he returned or the fee In dispute to be
handed over TO her. The doctor cannot now
produce the heart, but persists In his claim.
so the question must be tried, whether
.maiden's heart ls or ls not worth eight thalers,
fifteen silver groschen. stl1s. : -
The amiaole character Of the German En-
peror Is shown by the following: "Some
short time s. ice two young ladies were
searching in the park at Babelsberg for the
monument erected 20 the poet Heinrich Won
Kleist. TheX were engaged in lively discus
slop with oue ct the keepers, who very natu.
rally knew nothing at all abopI 1t, when the
Emperor carriage approached noiselessly, ,aua
thegood-natured monarch inquired the cause Of
the dispute. May it please your majesty said
the keeper, these maintain that the monu
ment of the poet Won Klelst must be some
where in the park, and they think ought to
know where 1t ls.' Really, ladies' said the
Emperor, the keeper is right, aud you will,
not find the monument here; 1t Ia some DIS:
tsnce off, So saying, the monarch got ont of
the carriage, and addressing the coachmaD,
said,i tDrive the young la.les to the monu-
nent at the Frederlck-Wilham Bridge at the
same time motioniug the ladies to get in; the
latter were In no small embarrassment at this
unexpected honor, but at length took cour-
age, and with many protestations of thanks
mounted the carriage and drove off,"
-Napoleon's son, the ex-Prince Imperial Of
France, Is beginning to take part in public
life. He distributed the prizes at the annual
fste of the House for Little Boys, near LODI
don, on July l3, and on the same occasion he
made his frat speech In public, if we except
the few words uttered at the "baptism OF
fre.n His health was proposed by Lord F.
Csyendlsh, N. P, and on rising to responar
the newspapers tell US, he was received with
roupds of enthusiastic cheers. He said: "My
lord. ladies and gentlemen, l thank you very
much for the kind manner in which yon have
received the toast which your chairman has;
so kindly proposed to you. I have most will
ltpgly assisted in drinking the toast OF the'
health of their royal highnesses the Prince
and Princess of Wales and the rest OF tne