The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1872-07-23
Tbe Gba9leSto1t 9ems.
TUESDAY, JULY %, 1872.
NEWS OF THE DAY.

ace cars on the railways.
White wells are very fashionable in Paris,
and, of course, will soon be here. Ihey are
made of plain white tulle dotted with oiack.
"A Florida gentleman has set out this year
one hundred and twenty-five acres TO orange
trees, making the largest grove of the kind on
the continent.
TO the various footmen and pages VINO
have been in her service not less than twenty
wears. Queen Victoria has presented silver
medals which will be worn by the recipients
"A Paris paper says that Miss Nellie Grant
purchased at one shop alone In that city forty
thousand francs worth OF silks and laces.
rhey will probably be run through the custom
house duty free.
The search for DR.. Livingstone Is gradu-
ally developing the nomenclature OF Africa.
For long time Ujiji seemed to be the only
place of note, but now Ugogo comes up smll-
ing. We like 1t better. 1t Is good name for
the doctor to remember. He has been IN
Africa quite long enough.
The Protestant Episcopal Church in the
United States has flfty.three bishops (six mis-
slonaries,J 2s00 clergymen, or one bishop for
every ftty-fve clergymen, 225,0O0 communi-
cants, 24,5OO Sunday-school teachers, 23o,ooo
sunday-school scholars. and contributes Tor
church purposes S., 100000.
An ingenius apparatus has been Invented
by French physician by which the heart is
made to register lhotographieally Its own
pulsations. Such, 1t is said, is the peculiarly
OF the apparatus, in its adaptation to different
uses, that it may be modified 30 as to register
the variations of the respiration, the irregular
action of coughing, and similar physiological
and pathological phenomena.
Beau Brummel had friend, clergyman,
who sometimes dined with him. Brummel
used to say that you could always tell whether
there was going to be champagne by the way
the clergyman asked the blessing. If the
glasses Indicated only claret or sherry, ne
would say, ''For what we are about to re-
ceive," &C., bat if they betokened champagne,
he would shut his eyes and commence with
..Bountiful Jehovah"
The Chinese In this hemisphere show
remarkable aptitude tor adopting the practices
of Western civilization. In Idaho City they
have bank Of their own, and no sooner had
that bank been running on sound basis long
enough to accumulate goodly pile Of dollars
than its most responsible officer proved to be
defanlter in q large amount and at last &C
counts the depostors were threatening to
lynch him. What better evidence could we
have that the Chinese can be very easily In
structed In our ways?
Somebody writes to the Cincinnati Com
merclal pretty good story about Horace. 1t
seems that Mr.. Greeley supposed the Tribune
would experience a business loss by support
log the Cincinnati movement, but at late
meeting OF the Tribune company gain of
circulation and advertising was shown. Turn
ing to Mr.. Greeley, one of the stockholders
said /: swell, Mr.. Greeley, you have missed 1t
this time. You thought, beforehand, that we
would lose money. Now what do you think ?"
SWELL" said the old man, In his dro!l way, Il
had no idea the Cincinnati Convention would
make such iudicious nomination"
"A Minnesota wood-chopper hewed down
tall tree the other day, and upon splitting up
the trunk with an axe and wedge. found i'm
bedded In the wood at the point where the
trunk 6iverged into branches leather bride
of antique pattern, with bit and buckles at
tached, and all In q remarkable state of pre-
servation. 1t has been fully thirty feet from
the ground, and Its presence there can only
be accounted for by the supposltion that some
passing horseman had used the crotch of the
sappling as rest for bis bride, and, led from
the place in pursuit Of his straying horse, had
been unable to find 1t again, and abandoned
the bride to be carried up scd entombed by
the slow growth Of the tree. 1t is believed
that the tree must have been fifty years In
bidlng Its treasure.
The preparations for the marriage of the
young Emperor of China are being conducted
on scale OF truly Oriental magniacence. An
imperial edict requires one of the silk produc
ing provinces to furnish for the occasion 1850
pieces of silk goods, 400 catties of silk thread
and embroidered velvet, and 1900 pieces of
fine cotton cloth, $4,000 pieces of brocaded
silk, 200 pieces of plain green silk, and 1000 of
what are referred 10 in the record as ''silk ar
ticles of attire'' for the household and guard
of the Empress elect, 5000 silk dresses and
800 pieces of plain silk for the reserve ward
robe of the imperial body guard, and 5000 silk
dresses and 500 pieces OF plain green silk for
the imperial chair.bearers and escort These
are to be supplied free of cost, and the mer-
chants upon whom these overwhelming hon.
ors have fallen have respectfully petitioned
that the distinction may be shared by other
districts of the empire.
Peanuts are not numbered among the dell
caces which Mrs. Grundy admits to her des-
sert, and yet they are hugely enjoyed by a
large portion of onr population. The fire..
quenters of theatre galleries, cheap excursions
and country fairs enjoy them openly, aud
scores Of other people MUNICH them surrepti-
tiously. However or wherever they are eaten
it does not matter; ills a we'll known fact that
there ie an extensive and constant demand
for them. To supply this the planters of the
North and South Carolinas and Tennessee
have planted extensive tracts with them, and
are now rejoicing In the prospect OF an uncom-
monty good crop. Many of the counties of
middle Tennessee are planted almost entirely
With peanuts; careful calculations show that
in the event of continuing favorable weather,
the yield of this section alone will not be far
from eleven million bushels.