The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1873-01-14
NEWS OF THB DAY.

Tho Red, River .is frozen over 30 tns'
teams cross at -Deuison, Texas.
2A G-sThree-fourths Of the writing paper made
,in,thls county comes from Holyoke, Mass.
5. .--.Seventy.six per cent. OF the weather pre-
iieuons for. 1877 made BY the signal service Of
the wal; department proved to be e.sorrect.
-.--aA small boat, containing three men frozen
to death, was found recently adrift In the Ice
foes below Memphis. -
zssL,,,T The hide Of the deceased elephant Romeo
has been tanned. 1t contains two hundred
and twelve square feet Of leather, about three
quarters of an inch thick.
= 1t ia said that some Of the proprietors Of
the large New York hotels are about to dress
all the servants, porters, &C., In a regular
uniform! !allrea2 s.
o: .: The following toast was received with
great applause at a recent areman's dinner
in New York: "The ladies-thelr eyes klndle
tho only fame against which there is no in
slrapce.rrg s.5 SI9a ,..a ,.. .s..z, -.
The reason that Forrest did not retire
from the stage was because he believed man
said he; .,shell last twice as long on the ocean
Ias she wilIin the dooks.n z~s
1t 10 becoming fashionable TO send the
.sComplimspts ot the Season" by telegraph
asross the Atlantic Several such messages
were received In New York this year from
European. friends 80 > - Il ~
Henry Ward Beecher offers the following
advice 70 those who write to busy people:
/. Don't write at all. 3. When you can't ssslpf,
It, be !aharp, Short. and lsglbls.~s. When
you write on your own b1slnsss, pay for the
{, answer. : 49,
man In Oregon, on the evening Of the
recent earthquake, had informed his wife that
ne had Al important business appointment
which he was reluctantly obliged to keep.
When the shock came he rushed home with a
billiard cneir his hand, which be had forgot
:. ten 10 replace, and now bis, wife won't hear
OF any business appointments after eight
O'Clock kP.M. . ~ i-.;
"A plan for the strengthening Of buildings
3 hiss been introduced in Boston by a. California
architect. It provides for the insertion OF
iron up-r!ghts an. inch in thickness, and one
third. .as vide as the wall is thick, at intervals
OF ten feet, In every front and side wall, with
: cross.bars holding the four walls together and
] running through the floors, strap-iron being
used st intervals. and bound in with bricks.
7-Aa recent writer believes there are only
three things needed to bring about the mil
= lennium.i First, Q motive power to do all the
work Of steam but require no fuel; second,
:. ,ssrisl navigation, by which geographical and
political boundarles Will be obliterated, and
the whole world become one nation; and
third, chsmical food, 10 be made In the labora-
tnry:Wlthout either animal or vegetable SUBJ
stances, and produced 30 oheaply that want
will be unheard Of.
y "A vegetable posseasing angular qualities
has recently been discovered In Arabia. II is
called the Laughing plant from the effect pro-
: dnesd BY the the eesds. When they are pulver-
med aud eaten In small quantities, the person
eating them. VIII soon begin to, laugh loudly,
then to sing, dance, and do all manner Of ao-
surd. things. This lasts for an hour, after
which be goes to sleep, and having slept an
other hour, wakes up utterly unconscious of
what hes occurred.
The Herald, OF CIrclevllle, Ohio, gives the
following account OF q strange phenomenon,
near Bainbrldge, Ross County, In that State I:
s.Three miles from Balnbridye is located q hill
of eonsid cradle altitude, known as Copperss
Mouatain.- Out of the top Of this mountain
Issues q. constant stream of smoke, while on
Ito summit and general surface the vegetation
has withersd and died, until the whole hill
presents barren, sterile aRd desolate aspect,
blasted as II BY whirlwind Of fire. It ls be-
lleved that the entire Interior Of the hill is .
mass Of tgnIted combusllble matter, and that
the ars Ia, and has. been, spreading with con-
siderable rapidlty. The theory presented>to
acoountfor tits, that on or about the frat day
OF last October the party to whom tho land
belongs was burning brush on the hillside.
and that the flames communicated to inflam-
mable matter, probably crude oil, coal, or
otlee combustible substances contained In the
geological formation Of the hill. The quench-
ing Of the fire lie, OF course, impossible, from
It's situation, and how sooD, If ever, the fire
will reach q point where 1t can be controlled,
can only be conjectured. AT present there Is
no danger to be apprehended to properly In
the vicinity"
in spite Of the comparatively advanced
civilization of the Sandwich Islands, the
natives could not forego their worse than
pagan saturnala over the body of their late
King, ,Kamehameha ". These hideous rites
were strictly tabooed to foreigners, but some