The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1872-12-25

OUIlHluld5 0uo AoRkI
only have the joy we wish them, now anu
ALWAYS, they will be happy indeed.
Nua- The next issue Of The NEWS will be
on Friday morning.
NEWS OF 1HE DAY.
Piles are driven by %gunpowder explosions
In Washington.
One hundred women are studying ID" In
American colleges.
"A steamship line between the United
States and Italy is projected.
The new government postal cards are ex
ueotsd 70 be ready by st. Valentines day.
~-Rismruarck's son Is engaged To an American
girl
4Bsmarck gives up nothing but the preai-
dency of the Prussian cabinet, still retaining
tho portfolio OF the war Office. he may lessen
His official iabors by the act, but he certainly
loses nothing OF bis power and influence.
"A New Orleans Journal gives Jac stnass
Of Judge Durelps signature when sober, and
when he signed. the 'infamous order OF De-
csmbsr. 6.np The latter is much heavier and
Irregular.
The San francisco Bulletin says there are
NOT ieass than one thousand miles Of narrow
gauge railroad planned and in various stages
Of fo~rwardHess In California. It Is true that
most Of these projects are still on paper, but
some. of them have been advanced several
steps, subscriptions have been secured, lines
located, and estimates made.
"a Louisville man who had only been &C.
ausintsdw With his girl two nights, attempted
TO kiss her at the gate. In his dying deposit
don he told the doctors that just as he "kissed
her the earth slid from under his feet and his
Doul went out Of his mouth, while his head
touched ths stars" Later dispatches show
thai what allied him wa, the old mans boot.
s-The next confidence man who attempts q
diamond speculation In California Is likely to
fars padly. Tho Virginia City Enterprise, no
stiolnuA rumor that diamonds had been found
ct the mouth OF six-mile canon, "mskes the
following emphatic decision: 1.-THE report may
be true, but the man who attempts to sell a
Share Of the stock in this market will be
shoto
The following curious advertisement APP
pesred In one OF tho Cincinnati papers the
other day ; 'Personsl-Wanted-The under.
,sigusd; q healthy young man, unable to pro-
eureother employment at which he can make
an honest living, desires to inform professors
OF medicine and surgery that he will submit
hlmsslt to experimental operations Of almoat
any description for reasonable compensation.
Address Vtvisectlon, box 2S45.
Tho Paeldc Railroad thinks 1t can defy the
SHOWS this winter, even, II they are as severe
a. those Of last. Over the mountains 1t has
iraissd It's track for one hundred miles from
itwoto seven feet, so that the Winds will keep
II clear; isnow.sheds over the track have been
built for an aggregate distance Of fifteen
miles; the snow-fsnces have been extended to
%eightyImilss, and monster snow-ploughs Of q
weight Of, thlrty-dye tons are building to open
-thsblockades that may, In spite OF all the rest,
come from long and severe storms.
The Grand Duke Vladimir, OF Rusaia, has
been betrothsd to q daughter OF the Grand
Duke OF Northumberland. Before the
recent conference OF the Empercrs at Berlin,
thescustom was that when q princess married
Into tho imperial family of Russla, she had to
Join the Greek charch. From this change Of
faith the German princess Will be saved II it
istrue, az It Is reported to be, that at that
conference the Emperor William perempto-
rily declared that henceforth German prln-
] eesses marrying into the Russian imperial
family must be allowed to continue In their
former faith. .e
Somebody who has been ''studylng our
weIghsa reports that upon the average, boys,
az birth, weigh a littls more, and girls a little
less than ak pounds and q hall. For the first
'twelve years the two sexes continue nearly
'equai in weight, but beyond that time males
acquire q decided prepondersuoe. Thus young
men OF twenty average n hundred and for
ty-three pounds each,,' while young women of
twenty average one hundred and twenty
pounds. Hen reach their heaviest bulk at
about thirty-nve, when their average Is about
one hundred and hfty-two pounds; but
women slowly Increase in weight until nhy,
when their average Is about one hun.
dred and twenty-nins pounds. Taking men
~
and women together, their weight, at full
growth, averages about twenty times as heavy
as they were on the arst day Of their exist
ence. Men range fromops hundred and eight
TO two hundred and twenty pounds, (the Itch
borne claimant weighs about three hundred
and sixty pounds y and women from eighty
eight to two hundred and seven pounds. The
actual weight of human nature, taking the
average of all ages and condldons-nobles,
clergy, tinkers, tallors, maideus, boys, girls,
and babies all lncluded-is very nearly n
hundred pounds. These figures are given In
avolrdupols weight; but the advocates of the
superiority Of woman might make a nice point
byintroducing the rule that women be weighed
by troy weight-uke other jewels-and men
by .avoirdupois. The fgures would then
stsn1-young men Of twenty, one hundred
and forty-three pounds each; young wumen
Of twenty, one hundred and sixty pounds, and
DO on.
Thrilling In the extreme must have been