The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1872-11-19

arm civilization. the department VI Iohsaon
a:has issued document In tavor Of tolera'
ton toS ali religious creeds; they have, more.
over. adopted the police system Of the Uaited
states. and their first railroad was opened on
the l4th OF October last from Yeddo to Yoko'
hama, the Emperor presiding over the cere'
monies and passing over the road.
:, In the Paris theatres professional laugh
srs are employed, who engage to indulge IN
the most contagious hiliarlty, the time for
fhe,rmerr,ment being previously arranged. {.
a few! nights since the programme was
ohsnned without. the laugher's knowledge,
ana wfer, he bnrst forth uproarlously In the
midst Of touching couplet about Alsace and
lorraine, the audience nearly killed him. ne,
%y.1M..E. Brewster, an American, who Killed
recount df Parma,ra lieutenant OF the Ma
tlonaT Guard, OF Italy, In duel some months
apo.ihss recently been arrested In Naples.
The duel originated In the Count di Parma
making. insuitlng remarks about American
inst,tntlons to Mr.. Brewster, in fashionable
cafs{in Leghorn, which Brewster resented
With q blow, for which he was challenged by
the count. They met. near Leghorn-ffteen
paces were measured, the combatants were
blindiolded, pistols were the weapons used,
and the Count di Parma fell at the first IRE.
The largest bridge in the world is said to
be the Tensas and Mobile bridge, on the Mooile
and Montgomery Railroad. It's length Is M
1urrcs, UrosetnS tho-Aobilo- end Teneno
Rivers. and includes ten. draws, one for each
az the nsyIgable channels into which the
rivers are divided. The bridge itself is con-
ssructed of wood, but Its pillars or supporters
are iron cylinders, which rest on a solid sur
face Of wooden piles, driven down evenly
With the bottom of the stream and the mud
and ndintervening mOrasses. 1t has oeeS tnree
wears In course of construction, and Co.'S one
million Eve hundred thousand dollars.
:@s.potatoes have recently undergone con-
siderable rise IL the markets of Paris. This
heavy advance is attributed to the large pur-
ehases made In France BY the English dealers,
who are going through the country near
Paris and buying up all the potatoes and
sending them off by railway to the northern
ports 10 be shipped to Great Britain. In con-
sequence Of this extraordinary rise In the
trice the French minister, OF the Interior has
ordered weekly returns to be made to him OF
the quantity yof potatoes exported In order 10
adopt the proper measures in case OF q scarcl-
ty IN this useful root. 1t is, therefore, proba-
blsthst skonld the price continue to rise, the
expectation Of potatoes from France will be
prohibited. -.
uI&One Of the most touching incidents of de-
votion the world has ever known was the last
act In the lie OF John Walker, the fireman on
one Of the engines which came In collision on
the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad a week ago.
He was caught between the footboard and the
hot wa1t OF the engines furnace, and, from the
horrible:posltion; 1t Was impossible to extrl-
GAIA him. When he first realized the fi!ghtful
death awaiting MIN he implored those around
hlm,to XIII him at once, rather than allow him
tofdie slowly :Then In moment becoming
calm. with that perfect selErenunclatlon with
which life. begins, he forgot his own agony,
and, with his dying hand, wrote farewell
message to his vile, that she might know his
last thoughts were OF her.
-Harvard Univeralty has lost heavily by
the Boston fire. Itheld property In the burnt
district to the amount Of s562, 1000: This
amount Includes the value Of the land. It will
cost $500, 900 torebuild. Towards this 1t has
SlOO, 900 of good insurance out Of the $4,000
for which it was insured. The permanent loss
is thus reduced to 100000. "Ihls,". says
President Eliot, i've must beg" By the
losses Of the fire the university Is cut of from
about $4,000 of rents until 1t can REBUILD
Bone Of the most essential expenditures Of
the university we're made from this Income.
Several of the professors salaries were paid
from it; portion was used for the repair of
buildings, asd the remainder was used in the
everyday needs OF the college.
The Cincinnati Enquirer says that the
great fire. in Boston will fall with crushing
weight upon Chicago. The East, and Boston
especially. has furnished for years the capltal
which made Chicago blossom. 1t is Boston's
money which Is now rebuilding the city. The
business men of Chicago are burdened with
debt, and their creditors are chiefly Eastern
men. They have been obtaining from them
unlimited accommodation, extensions, and
moneyed fayors. All this must cease. The
current of sympathy will now set toward Bos-
ton, and Chicago,s throat for the time is, to all
intents, cut. The surplus capital of the East,
which has steadily flown westward for invest.
ment, will for months to come be needed at
home. Chicago has sustained by the Boston
fire loss half as great as her original ca
lamity.
"A correspondent of the New York Sun
suggests the following device to avert large
CONGREGATIONS: II q blanket had been steep
ed In water and hung up in front of the hottest
FIRE in Boston or Chicago, and kept thorough