The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1872-11-29
NEWS OF THE DAY.

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NEWS OF THE DAY.
The Japanese Mlkado has been sitting io'
his carte de vislte.
The Potomac River was frozen over, al
Washington, last weeS.
The New York Elevated Railway Was
made q success by the epizootlc. :,
The Marquis and Marchioness OF Butte WILL
wilt the United States next season.
-seyeiral hundred Chinese haVe com
menced throwing up dirt for Tom SCOTS rail-
road In Texas.
/. -ytrpipis, which didn't have a cotton lac.
.o-v heSore the war. has erected twelve OF
them since
The Erie Railway is said to earn nearly
Ava hundred. thousand dollars a week, gross
receipts.
The Duke of Edinburgh magnanimously
declines to become an admiral until he shall
have passed through the grade OF captain.
Five hundred dead Chinese were shipped
10 one freight invoice from san Francisco
lately.
miss Sarah W. Barton, an American girl,
now studying music In Florence, is 70 %
prtms donna Of opera In Warsaw, Poland, Inc
coming winter.
The Cincinnati Enquirer has reduced
itsmisIng to g science. Here is a late exam
ple:- Henry Lyman, shoemaker, Terre Haute-
BEDFORD. Jealousy.
The Khedive will convert the tops OF the
Pyramlds into lighthouses. Couldnt the
sphyn1's optics be made to beam kindly on
Nile ~navigators as well!
John Strong, of Weschester, Pa, was
hanged the other day, and smoked his cigar
to the foot OF the gallows. After he had nm
ished the sheriff sold the ''stub" for five dol
lars.
The Louisville Ledger crashes is teeth
and saws: 1.-THE Radical papers of Pennsyl-
vsnia ara determined to kick Forney out OF
their ranks. If asses can outkick q mule they
will probably succeed"
ina letter from Polynesia to a resident
Of New York the fact Is mentioned, which we
do not remember to have seen stated before,
that In some Of the Polyneslan Islands the rite
of circumcision has been practiced from time
immemorial. This might be a blue to anti
ouarians who are Interested In ascertalning
what became Of the lost tribes Of Israel.
The Boston Coliseum cost $250,000, and
YVES sold at auction on Saturday for $4,000,
and the big drum, whose cost was $500,
changed ownership at the same time for the
ipnominious sum of $50 so. Much has been
written at various times about the vanity of
human affairs, but We have not seen a finer
Illustration Of the commonplace truth than
this for many a day.
The Idolators of beauty-the Chinese-are
forever Of the feet Of beings whom they
adore. When any Of their wives are indis-
posed, they fasten q sllken thread around her
wrist, the cord of which Is given to q physl-
clan, and 1t Is only by the motion which the
pursstion communicates to 1t that he is allow
ed to Judge OF the state Of his patient. This
precaution of jealousy ID almost unique IN It's
kind.
The English papers announce the death,
at the advanced age Of eighty, OF Lady
Becher, the once celebrated and beautiful
Miss O'Neiil, who made her debut on the Lon
don stage nearly sixty years ago, a few months
after Edmund Kean. After a brilliant theatri-
cal career Of five years she married Sr Will
Ham Becher, an Irish member of Parliament,
and retired from the stage. For the last quar-
tar of a century she has lived In seclusion on
her estate In the extreme southwest OF Ireland
1t Is announced that the expense OF collect
ing the revenue is to be curtailed by consoll'
: dalton of districts and reduction In the mum
Der OF collectors and assessors. II this an.
nouncement had been made before the late
election q great deal of kerosene thai
was wasted In torches would have been saved
lit had been made on election night severa
hundred hurrahs would have stuck In as many
throats,. and there would have been less noise
In the country.
The manufacture OF artificial clouds is re
ported to nave been resorted to In the French
wlne-growing districts, to protect the crops
from frost. Tin receivers, filled with a pecu'
llarly prepared tar, were disposed over an
area of many acres, and when the tar was
ignited thick white clouds rose Into the at
mosphere, and, spreading out evenly over q
large region, remained suspended several
wards above the soil. In seasons when frost
is feared, the tar clouds would lnterpose be.
tween the crops and the sky, thus checking
the night radiation which often causes such
raysges in vineyards and gardens, both In
spring and harvest time.
"A New York paper says OF MI. Stanley
The few friends and Journalists who saw Mr
Stanley yesterday beheId a short, thick-se
man who. though quiet and dignihed IN bill
manner; was without a particle of the vanitJ
whioh many Of the English journals have sc
loudly decrled. Ris complexion has beeI
thoroughly bronzed by the tropical sun, anc
the sprinkling of gray In his hair attests the
severity OF the African levers. Avery black
moustache aud imperial add rather than de-
tract from the robust outlines Of his face
Eyes Of unusual penetration evlnce by their
steadineSs the deter mination of his mind and
the strength Of will which carried him safely
through bis perilous undertaking.
Making bricks without straw must seem
easy to the modern churchman, compared to
the process of consecrating a child without
water, and yet that errattc divine, the Rev.