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i | ! Qa THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE : SUNDAY, JUNE 1. 1873. ——— “ NEW .YORK. Remarkable Effect of the May-Sum-- mer---The General Out-of- Town Exodus, " . Beorge MacDonald to Become a Citizen of America---The Metropolitan Mania for Practical Jokes. ; Idiosyncracies.of Count de. Gur- owski---A Blanhatian Fugi- o tive in London. From Our Own Correspondent. * = New Yomz; May 29,-1678. Ths euddon, though not unexpected, arrival of eummer before the close of May, Lias changed the aspect both of external and of human na- tare. It has made the city delightful and beau- tiful, and, by the contradiction running through our kind, it has induced residents to busy them- sclves with departure when they have mest reason to remain. - THE BESULT OF EARLY SGAD(EB. Many metropolitans had been made so pain- 1ally conacions of tho backward eeason that they Thid extended their wintor recreations toan un- usual length, They 'had expected to give par- ties and receptions throughout this entire month ; but the sudden elevation of the mer- cury has compelled them to abandon their social intents, The fashionable houses in the fash- fousble avenues and- cross-sireets are Aal~ resdy closing snd the ocenpants hicing sbroad, to the eprings or the sca-eide. It is & pity that Manhattan, which hasnot looked so charming in many months, ehonld be desertod when it has just put on its fairest face. - But it i3 always &0 here. The plensantest ecason is the season during. which the fewest of the natives stay in town. It really seems &s if eversbody had cither gone or was going to Europe, oxcephthe comparatively few who are packing up for Saratogs, Newport, and Long Branch, The social season, 80 far as the city is concerned, is hopelessly atan end. There are always a bundred thousand or so Birangers on this island; and they still S1I the theatres- and concart-halls; but permsnent residents sur- rendered city gayeties and city dissipations the very wmoment that the thermometer marked 85 degrees. . A SPECDMEN RECEPTION. As gh example of how unwilling persons are to epend an evening within doors in warm weather, T may mention that Dr. Holland gave a roception, a few night since, to George MacDon- ald, prior to tho latter's return to Enrope. Near- 1y =1l the noted literary people were invited, and ~ Sot two-thirds of them sent regrets. They were aficted with ‘what is called the” epring faver, or they were getting ready to leave town. At the first reception given by Dr. Holland to Mr. Mac- Donald, last October, his drewing-rooms wers * crowded . with poets, essayists, cntics, story ‘riters, and journslists. The other evening the number was alarmingly reduced. William Cullen Brysat, Parke Godwin, the Roy. Dr. Hewry - W, Bellows, 'Edmund Clarende Stedman, Whitelsw Beid, Nosh Brooks, R. _Watson = Gilder, Miss Eate Field, Mra. E. L. Youmans, Mrs. Henry M. Fiold, hrs. J. W. Draper, Mrs. Lulu Gray Noble, Miss Adeline Trafton, and many others were there; but Bret Harte, Richard Henry and Elizabeth Stoddard, Miss 1'dna Doan Proctor, John Hay, Mrs. Mary Mapes Dod Frank B. Stockion, Mrs, Lucia Gilbert Runkle, and forty or fifty other distin- guished guests bidden to the entertainment, wete conspicuous by their absence. | THE MACDONALDS. - Mr. and Mirs.' MacDonald, and oneof their numerons children, enjoyed -the occasion, bat | regretted tho need of their return. They will ** apon come back to this-conntry,—perbaps o Te- side permanently. They are most enthusiastic sdmirers of America snd. her institotions, and says that the fow months they have spent in the United States have caused them to think of this “nagia of Warsaw 'and Kalisz by order of the:f: Grand Duke Constaatine, for wearing tho pro- hibited Polish cogtumes, and for_singing anti-. Russian songs. - When be. was 16 ho went to Berlin, and studied in different German univer- sities for five years. Returning to Poland, ho as 8o openly and bitterly hostile to Russia that “ho was soveral-timen thrown into prison. ond was ope of the prinoipal instigator: - Surrections of 1840-81. Mo fought us & volunteer _in_ the _frst campaign, and was ds _sent o Paris, 88 an agent of tho Polish Tevolutionists, to con- for with the French Republican leadere, _Aftar the suppression of the insurrection, Gurowski was_gentenced to death and his cstates confis- cated. Ho could not be conveniontly executed, however, until he was .caught, and be was too .wise to quit France for. the sake of sccommo-. datiog his would-be executioners. He remained in Paris for some years, and in 1835 published & book, *“The Truth About Russis,” favoring tho idea of Pan-Selaviem, which 8o pleased tho Em- peror Nicholas that ‘he_pardoned .tho author, and invited him to_St. Petersburg. The Count went, was employed in the private chancery of tho Czar, and subsequently in_the Department of "Public Instruction, where ho introduced va- rious measures tending to Ruseianizo Poland. Ho had the same disposition then that he- showed afterw: and he becamo involved in §0 many quarrels with leading members of the Imporial Court that he resigned his office. As the Emperor would not accopt his resignation, he flod from St. Poters- burg to Berlin, and, after wandering over the Continent for five or six yoars, ho came in 1849 to this country, ana was duly naturalized. He published ten or twelvo books in French, Ger- man, and English; wos alwoys restlss, alwaya odd, slways incomprobenaible, and . justly re- gardod 85 one of the most poculiar characters of Lis time. ding’ the length and severity of Notwithstandi e len, tho past \'rintur,slnd the extraordinarily cold and backward spring, the mosquitoes hereabout have riever eatirely disappoared, and tho warm woather has increased them most unpleasantly. A rumor is %flvflsnb&'obfily nnfounded— that the Rov. Henry W. Bellows thinks of cn- tering the bosom of the Roman Oatholic Church. W. B. Borrows, formerly of the Eyerctt Housa and Maison Doree, who ran away from bis fam- flyand his debts, last yosr, with a feminine affinity, has cpened & very handsomo restaurant, called the New York, in London, and is carrying on businéss after the American plan. 8 ‘The new Tribune building’ be finished, it is thought, about this time next year; though, 28 calcnlations of this sort are somewbat uncor- tain, it might be safe to add a few months in 0. S Three more large hotels in !!mud\:iy, above Twenty-third strest, are seriously talked of. The more hotels there are here, tlie more hotels seem to be needed. 5 TItis said that nesrly one-fifth of the wealthy men who fail in this city fail directly bocause of their building handsome and spacions honses in the country. Nothing swallows money quite 8o readily 28 an ambitious country-seat. CoLsTOUN. PIO NONO. An Xncident in the Life of the Boman* i Pontiff. From Appleton’s Journak Among tho bands of prisoners brought from the field of Mentana by the Papal zouaves and their French allies, was an old, hazel-eyed, slim and sinewy veteran, named Giuseppe Critoni. He looked more like a bandit than a soldier, and he wore the red shirt of the Garibaldians. He was well known among the rebels, and he was feared by the Papal gendarmerie as & very dad- gerous man. He had been in Rome previous to the disturbances of 1848, plotting in.favar of the revolutionists, and on many occasions since that ‘memorable year, he had acted the epy for Maz- zini and Garibaldi. Critoni had a charmed life, £0 far a8 escaping keen and crafty policemen is concerned. He never was arrested until after the -Papal victory at Mentsna, In 1866 he nar- rowly escaped the clutches of Alberto Massnllo, the -shrewdest detective in the service of His Holiness, by putting on the disguise of a mendi- cant friar, Critoni was & native of Viterbo, and in his boyhood he played with and loved one Aas- tai Ferretti, whom the veteran rebol often in Iater years called the most noble and gentle of” boys. Critoni and this boy often practised gword-exercise together, aund thoy = became somewhat familier ‘with the use of the rapier and broadsword. Critoni's chum be- ing remarksble for his devotion to relig- ious duties, his parents had him sent to &n occlesiastical training-school, while Critoni o 28 & new home, Mr.. MacDonsld might bave turned his Jecturing to much account, had he not suffered during his sojourn from ill- hemith. His farewell locture, on * Hamlet,” lasat ‘weel, netted him ovor 2600, snd was, therefore, a substantial testimonial on behalf of his ad- mirers and friends. -Ho certainly needs to make money, being pusely & literary man, with eleven living childron. He may not have filled Lis purse by tho. children of his brain; and the children - of Nature. when D in excoss, are sdmirably caleulated to diminish any ordinary income. e A VILE SOCIAL CONTAGION. . 2 & 'f}ifife‘yf?“u“r““gmfi" o8 F88 Biva seen the Beconnt of the opera-hosx lately practised upon hundreds of persons, inducing them to go in full ‘dress on a certain evening to the 'Sgion Teague Club. This is only cne of many such. Again and again, within & few months, invi- - tetious to formal parties, claiming to be given by wealthy families, have- boen sent out, and csrringes lave rollad up. to- the doors,—. where the families had expected nobody,—until. long aftor midnight. Such jokos as these ara - social ouuageu, and some of the gentlemen upon i whom they have been tg;nyed have ‘been trying to find the offenders, that they might take per- #: sonel rodress. _Sothern, the actor, who 8 an incorrigible, and by no means delicats jester, and ’ml): ta been. fim o mtlhs mtlwra‘fi oumerous such hoaxes, has wril & card, denying all ¥nowledge of -and responsibility for them. © « ~The: gmlcz' parties are said to be some.of the . members of the Stock Board, many of whom are ers boys in feelingl'_gnd habit, ‘without good tastoor good sense. The names of the individual jokers hava been carefally concealed. If theyhad not _boen, we_ehould have' eard, ere this, of sundry slapped faces, knock-downs, and caniniga, in the vicinity of Brosd stroet. It womld boa good thing to make an example of & few men ca- pable of the mesnness acd indecency which must ba the cause of tho shameful pranks that liave been committed on respectable citizons . here for some months past. AX ECCENTRIC CHARACTER ~~~was Count Adam de Gurowaki, mentioned in my’ last letter 08 a contributor to the }’BWY::K Tyribune. In Washington, where he resided much of -the time, everybody knew Lim, and’ — almost everybody aisliked him.- He was o man . of.strong and independent character, fall of nercus impulses, and very warm-heartod when- - his heart -was once reached. But ho was o " Whimsical, inconsistent, irritable, hot-tompered, that hardly any one could e with him, Ho was _constantly .involved in quarrels, and ho was seldom on speaking terms with more . iban one-quartar of his intimate acquaintances 2t the ‘same time. The persons representing - this quarter were ceaselossly changing, but the . fraction remained nearly the eame. Gurowski $ e reconciled to his foes as suddenly and as - unsccountably as hie broke with his friends. On * Afondsy morning he would be._threatening to . Ehoot somebody ; andon, Wednesday afternoon ‘he would meet the man ‘ho had threatened fo shoot, and, seizing him by the hand, express’ eternal devotion to him. . The recipient of such extraordinary demonstirations wounld have no ides why the Count hnd cither grown angry, or, after growing angry, had been reconciled. Of courss, after keeping up, these eccentricities for - & term of ¥ nobody. cared what Gurowski .- did or said, 8o long as he abstained .from per- sonal assatilts. These he very rarely induiged in; but he was ever on the ove of -making them, Some time before his death, hs waa considered - trazy, thongh in many things ho was supremely Eane. He was one of the lions and characters of - tho Federal City; and he has been sorely missed « ever gince his demise. He was foll of all man- - mer of contredictions. . Generally rude to the last degrea, he sometimes showod remarkable. * delicacy, 'While ho excited 8o much aversion that many persons shunned him, Lo, soemed to! exerciee # specics of fascination upen not & few. men and women. Some_of the cleverest and most interesting women in Washington wera ‘emong his most ardent edmirers, and submitted 1o his whims and petulance with's patience that was incomprehensible. The sccrab charm of Guroweki was cue of the most mystarious things —~ond lis _mysteries ‘ wero.. countloss— --in - his - wholc nature and history. Gurowski “\as_ not, s was often sup- sed o spurious nobleman. _Ho was s genuino unt, a Polo by birth, the oldest son of Count ZLad's'dus Gurowsli, of encient descent and grest wwealth. His father, Laving taken part in- tho insurrection of Kosciusko in 1784, lost the frester part of his csiatos;”Gnd, ‘Adwm, not g born until cleven years after, was forced, more or less, to shift for himwelf. From his earlieat years, the young Count was a_ferocions vairiot, and was twice expolled from the gym- himself went to Ancons and jeined his father in the banking business. After a lapse of over a decade_of yenrs Critoni revisited his native city, and, when he asked for Mastai Forretti, was - in- formed that he had entered into holy orders,- and was then'‘a'curate in one of the parishes of Viterbo.. The mesting of the two former play- ‘mates was as ardently enthusiastic as two South- ern Italians could make it. Critoni had not been many days st Viterbo when be was seized with -pox, which was prevalent there during his stay. Ina critical stage of his malignant- dis- ease,Critons sent for tho curatey Mastai Forrottl, who, rflm’, Iminis nr}flw a Titos of tho nn:h‘ rafan him in thaarderof the ¢ g &' pious insRtukion SatabRAkG in Beces oF Tha: soven great aflictions which the Catholic Church attributes to the Mother of Christ. The ‘membors of the order wear two black scapulars, suspended from & cord worn around the neck -gnd jngide the clothes. It was this badge the curate, Mastai Ferrotti, placed npon Giuseppo Critont's neck, after having enrolled him a mem- ber of the ¢ 8ette Dolori.” ‘Critoni recovered and went back to Ancona, promising ever o re- tain the sacred insignin of the order to which ho belonged. Timo rolled on, and Mastai Ferretti ‘went as a missionary to Sonth America. Henco the intercourse of the rebel and the priest ended for over forty. {’em.' In turns, Critoni became’ 3 bankrupt® broker, . journslist, a school- master, and a revolutionist. In the last-named profession he remained until ho died. When, on balmy spring eveniog in 1867, the Papal and French soldiers had marched in tri- umph throngh the Porta di Popolo and the Corsp, grosted by tho choars of tho papalini, while loval owers and laurels were showered from the ad{ joining windows, the most important of the prisonors, among” whota Giussppe Critoni was tirst, were brought, under De Charette's charge, to the dungeons of Castle8t. Angelo. Bofore nightfall, a special courier from the Pope bronght orders to the officer” in charge of tho ‘castle to grant the prisoners every priviloge that prudence would allow. Consequentiy, the nsuseons food and sour wine, usually supplied to tho incarcor- ated in the dingy colls of 8t. Angelo, were substi- tuted by good fare and wine of a generous flavor. On the second dsy of bis confinement, Giusoppe Critoni became Seriously ill. In a faw doys sn indubitable case of typhus fever developed it~ solf, and. tho physician advised that the patient. “be removed to the Santo Bpirito Hospital,—an institntion founded by Pius IX. Whon his Holi- ness had heard of Giuseppe Critoni's arrest, he _seemed uncommonly interosted in the noys,--an old feeling seemed aroused within him. Critoni .recovered, and was sent back to Castle St. An- - gelo. Confinement again told on the old rebel's constitution, and a relapee of the dresdful fevor ensued. This time tne voteran's heart fell. He _kmew that death was upon him, and the chaplain appronchied his ‘bedside more Juently than usual. The night upon which Giuseppe was warned that his hours were briefly numbered, the officer on duty in Castle Angelo was informéd by the sentinel that two priests demanded entrance into the prison. As neither of them could give the pussword of the night, the sentinel referred them to his officer. = - % i - Haye them searched and then closely " ques- tioned by the corporal of the guard,” was the officer’s direction. The clergymen were searched ; but norevelationsof a treasonable nature were ‘Dbronght to light. . The officor, coming forward, inquired upon what ground they sought. zccoss to the prison ot that hour. Ond of the priests, & corpulent and gray-haired old man, said that they bad come to visit Giusepps Critoni, who lay at the point of death. The mention of tho old rebel's name by a priest at such an hour was suspicions, and tho ofticer bluntly refused admit- tance.’ The younger of the.priests then said : X am here.in ..the -name. of His Holiness the Pope. Ho gave me permission, in person, to enter the prison to-night.” The officar replicd thai in such troubled times as thoss a verbal ‘permit was not valid. - “‘And by whose authority are you here 2" the officor asked the old gray-haired pricst. “ On the authority which the holy Church hag given me.” i The oflicer was confused by this indefiniits an- gwer, and insisted that the parley should c:fii declaring that Lis orders were such that he coz not converse unnecessarily with unknown priests or laymen who came to the gates of the castle’ after the hour of the “Ave Maria,” unprovided with the parolo and'an order from the General- \in-Chief or the Pope. The old gray-haired cler- - gyman then requested the officer to -give hima sheet of paper, which was ‘duly furnished. The ©old man, placing the p;psr on ‘the door of the gusrd-honse, wrote : Pass” the Pope and Mon- stood confounded. .- Tho Pope raised his hat; tho ‘moon shone down on his silvery locks and hand- gome_ faco. “Thero was no moro' doubt. Tho officer fell on his knee and begged tho holy fath-- er to sparo him the disgraco and penalty which his ingolence deserved. ‘Tho officer was not only. oxcused, but promoted tho next dg. Moro liko a. oor priest from Piedmont that the lord of the ‘atican, Pio Nono, with Morinzzi, passed into the room where Giuscppe_Critoni, tho rabel, Iay dying. ‘They confronted each other—cach the dearaat compmion of the .othor's youth, who wore playmates at a time when their destinies +were unknown, and when their prospects on the lifo-path seomed equal. One was now Pius IX., Pope of Rome; tho other Ginseppe Critoni, the most trusted adherent of Mazzini and Garibaldi, that Pope's arch-enemies. But Pins IX. was not the man to consider those things at thet moment, for his heart being a8 open and lib- eral as his purse, he conld not forget tho asso- ciations of his childhood, and recollections which o man can be worthy without revering: “Do you remember mo, Giusoppo?” asked the Pope, while ho thin, sinewy wrist of the dying revolutionist. The raving -was over, and the calm which precodes desth, had set in. Giuseppe, looking up, said, *‘A priest, but I donot know yon.” 4 “Tt s, indeod, to0 long for you to_romember my faco,” enid tho Popo of Romo, * Do younot recolloct, Giuseppo, that in Viterbo, more than 40 years -ago, you know & boy named Mastai Forrotti 7~ 4 - The old rebel strivod to raise ipon his pillow, and, opening wide his flickoring eyes, he ox- claimed, *“Whero 18 Mastai Ferretti—Pio Nono— il papa £ 2 k “Ho is here, Ginsoppo. Iam ho, and T wish zouto spesk fomo " The dying man prossed e Popo's Land, and then fumbied his shirt as if soarching for something on his bosom. At last he clutched somothing,. and gasped, # Moatai 1" The Popo looked down and found botween tho rebol's fingers s scapular of the order of tho Seven Dolors. The promise had been kept nearly half a century, and toars rolled down the vonerablo Pontifl's cliceks. Tho lnst words of s o tho dying rebel wero, ** Nof agawst you, Mastai, not you,” which meant that it was not against the Pope, but the Papacy, ho bad tukon up arms. POISON. Slow and Fazst Methods of Killing. From the New York Sunday News. The subject of poisons is one of gereral in- terest, whilo very erroneous and imperfoct notions have been held with roference {o it. Metallic salts may entor by the skin and pro- duca violent disorders. The poison of serpents, and cadaverio virus (s0 dangerous in a simple 6erutch), are almost harmless in the stomach. A slico of melon, a plato of strawberries, & gluss of beor, a highly-spiced dish, a cigar, will some- times produce all the symptoms of poisoning. It is well known that one patient may bo killed by a doso of chloroform hardly sufficient to make another insensible. The same doso of landa- num produces in one person vomitings aud un- ensiness ; in anothor agroeable sleop. Parsons in delirium or convulsions can bear without in- convenienco enormous doses of morphine or of chloral ; 80 also with quinine in cases of fever, nicotine in smokers, alcohol in drunkards. The system may oven, to a certain pomnt, be habitu- ated to certain mineral poisons, like arsenic. In the lower animals thero aro phemomona still more curious, * Slugs feed with impunity on leaves of bella- donna, swallows on caterpillars or venomous in- sects (e, g., cantharides). Pigeons bear opinm easily, and their pupil does not dilate under tho influence of atropine. ‘Goats do mot appear to be incommoded by taking leaves of tobacco; frogs are insensiblo to the stings of becs. On the other hand, frogs aro #o sensitivo to strych- nine that they are somotimes employed to dotect: the presence of this dangerous poison. Further, dogs are very sensitive to tho action of ardent Bpirits, pigs to that of pepper ; and other cases might be given. Arsenic in picces is much less active than powdered arsenic, and this again than srsenic in solution; while for rapidity and violenco of effects, all are surpassed by araenic in the gas- eous form, or arsonotted Liydrogon. Cases &ro known in which several ouuces of mercury have passed through the alimentary canal without cousing eorious inconveniemces. Mercurous chloride, little soluble, may bo dispensed in decigrammes, while mercaric chlorido, _in consequence of * itn solubility, cannot bo used, even in oxternal spplication, without tho greatest caution ; nnd.l,) in the gascons stato, the mercurial combinations bocomo still more dangerous, a8 was shown some timo since in tho case of two young English chiomists, who died from having respired the vapor of mercuro- methyl. Certain poisons, like prussic acid in concen- trated solution, Lill almost 1nstantaneously ; strychnine takes only & fow minutes ; with ar- senic tho time may be reckoned in hours ; with hosphorus the agony may be prolonged several ye. Thoso are motallic substances which, taken into the system ropeatedly in small quan- tities, produce no inconvenience for months or even years, and only show their pernicious ac- £RBRE el seenmuiniod pas seachod then appear suddenly, This is ofton obscrve in workshops where mon sre brought into daily contact with lead, mereury, or copper; and also in rooms the ‘walls of which aro covered with greon paper containing arsenic. We msy, in an attompt at classification, note o main groups of poisons. As types of the one gronp may be taken sulphuric neid, canstic potash, nitrate of silvor ; as types of tho other, &trychnine and morphine, Lot some drops of sulphuric acid drop on o piece of wood or sugar ; and their substances 8oon take a yallow color; then,a brown; and in & fow minutes they bocome black and complotely carbonized. This i8 explainod. by tho extremg affinity of sulphuric acid for the elements of water, hydrogen and oxygen, contained in sngar and in wood ; soizing them, it leayos the third element, tha carbon, in tho'stato of dark mass without' consistence. The effect of sulphurio acid in the animal system is quite similar ; the skin of the lips, the mucuons surface of the mouth, of the maophagus, of the stomach, are burnt and disorgenized in's fow seconds, We mny a3 easily understand the sction of canstic potash if we allow some of it to act, in concentrated eolution, on a piece of doerskin; tho ekin immedistely contracts, becomes trans. parent and gelatinous, and finally diegolves, In- troducod into the system caustic potash produces & similar perforation of the most rosistant mem- brancs. % %.E‘in‘ add somo solution of nitrate of silver tothe whito of an ogg (albumen). The two substances combine, in part, to_prodnce congu- lation. Now, as albumen is sbundant in. the animal systemn, and especially in the. blood, wo may expect that this salt of eilver will produce.. in tho blood vessols the ‘samo cosgulation, ac- companied with obstruction and other ovily, ' in tho circulation. This is what actually occurs. In these throe cases tho action is immedinto and local ; the disorders are, at least in their origin, confined to the argans with which tho poison comes into contact. We observo ulcera tions of the lips, the tongue, the pharyns, the cegopliagus, the atomach. The poisonis most froquently ojocted in vomiting, along with pieces of the membrane, and blood, and_thick, lack, masses ; the epigastric region being very sen- sitive. 'This primary action, though of extrome violenoe, rarely causes immediato death ; it is followed by a reaction of tho whole system ; n sharp inflammation, with fover, spreads to sur- rounding organs; the patient feels burning thirst, which is the mora intolerable that tho acs of deglutition has become 8o painful. Con- sciousness is genorelly retained, and the ner- vous system is not affocted excopt in an indirect way. In the most favorable cases, the curative process is very slow, and often incomplete, on account of tho lesions _and internal sores. -the issué is death, it rarely comes before the end of the first - day; sometimes not for several wecks. O post-mor- tem examination, the body somotimes shows a complete perforation of gastric membranes in Bomo parts.. We have thus given a brief sketch of the phenomens of poisoning by corrosive poisons of the first group. How do thoso of the ocond differ? The direct local action is nil or insignificant. The introdnc- tion of the poison is first known by the taste, which ia bitter or astringent. Vomiting is raro, and the ejected mutter presonta no unusual ap- poarance. Therogion of the stomach is not sen-" a{;lny Ql!‘eckfid; but the nervous systom is, and violently. or o profound forpor, or a general or partisl paralysis, The issue, whother recovery or death, s gonerslly very speds. n the casoof deafh, and the body being examined, there is found o appreciablé anatomical alteration inthe digestive pagssges ; thoro is cerebral congestion, and more or less cadaverio rigidity. xChomiéh-y%atocts the ‘poison in tho blood, in the norves, in the brain, ]l}nd ""3‘&“‘" kxlrll]n 8 orfians ot( ‘uecru‘tlilm, the iver and the eys, where it accumulates in ordor to elimination, signor Moriazzi. Popo Pius (In propris per- |- It would be a mistake, however, to supposo o). i bk : The officer read the curt communication, and that every poison must be assigned to one or other of the tWo classes. or tfifi they are in -reality quite distinct: and ~spart-—Tn trath;-our- f There ensue frightful spasms, -| ten this -forwarded to Mr. Bt | buogled, with & n two groups of poisons only represent the oppo- site oxtremes of a long series of intermediates. The best characterized caustica have -an’ action’ which extends beyond that of local burning.' A part of them, penetrating the -tiasuo,-is often carried along with the blood to 8 considerabls distanco from the starting point, Thus the iodine used in cortain surgical operations has not a- purely local actin ; entering tho ciroulation, it ;vrodnm!. after elimination by the' mucous’ sur- lctr?‘f.lhe stomach, all the symptoms of * acute, gastritia, ; e ‘The cantharidine spplied in blisters afterward Bmdnnaa an irzitstion in’ the urinary passsges y which it is eliminated. Mercury. rubbed on the skin canses an.irritation of the sali- vary glands; phosphorns produces fatty de- eneration of the liver, accompanied with jaun- ice. - The paralysia and other affections of the nervous system caused by arsenic and. lead, provo that these substances have an action extonding beyond the digestive organs, The chemical " altaration of the blood corpuscles b carbonons oxide and sulphuretted hydrogen not sufficient to explain all the symptoms of poisoning by these two gases. A class of gub- stancos termod drastio, bocsuse of the intenso ir- ritation they produco’ on mucous surfaces, do not owe this” property simply to chemical affini- ties, for thoy act thus only on living substances, cu;ntglu of reaction. oigons called ‘ narcotic” produce & diminu- tion of sonsiblity, & xefation fn the functions t{;" the norvous system. -Morphine, paralyzin, t) functions of "the brain, stupefics the aagses; while curare, which is like strychnine in its ’fifi“ action on the motor nerves, is like mor- phine, inasmuch, in place of exciting thom, it aralyzes them; the mind consclously recoives impressions from without, by the -sensitive narves, while the will is unable to move a single muscle. Chloroform, ether, nitrous oxide, and othor anmsthetics, stupefy grecisolyu:mn nerves which curare does not affect. Atropine, 80 often used in ophthalmic oper- ations, produces & dilatation of the pupils, whilo physostigmine has the opposite effact. Santo- nine acts on the retina, 80 ns to givo ail objects Iooked at & yellow color. Ipecacusnha root owes tothe emetine it containsits special action on tho stomach. Veratrine affocts particularly tho mucons surface of thenose, and, When inhaled in vory small quantities, produces endloss sneez- ing. ‘i‘hu effecta of opium, often contradictory, havo been observed for a long time. Mark how an oxact knowledge of these been reached. Chefnistry, firat consulted, discovered in_opinm of varions qualities, aix substances quite istinct, which sho has been ablo to isolato and produce soparately, viz.: morphine, nurcotine, codeine, narceino, pavaverino, and thebaine. Physiology, in a sorids of rosoarches with theso o0ids, found that thoir action wes _varions, in degrod and kind. It is narceine’ which has tho most marked soporifis action; morphine prodaces & less agrooablo sleap ; codoino hu the same prop- erty in o 10ss dagree. On tho otber hand, papa- verine, narcotine, and, abovo all, thebsine, havo an oxciting_and ‘stimulating action, sometimes oven convalsive, The variablo proportion of the six substances in different kinds of opium ox- plaina the different effocts observed. Curero is the poison with which the American Indians prepare their arrows. When an animal is poisoned with curaro, examination of the Dlood after doath shows it hds died through as- phyxia. Observo how Claude Bornard has pro- ceeded in order to discover its paralyzing action on the voluntary motor nerves. With s pair of bellows Le produced artificial respiration in a poisoned animal, which thus continued to live, 2a appeared from tho boatings of the heart and tho color of the blood; and yot it was incapable of making any voluntary movement. Its mom- bers would ratain whalover position might bo givon them; and yot you might shake it, pinch it, burn it with a hot iron—all would bo useless ; axcept for the action of the heart, the body was asif dond. Was the animal, thon, insensible to pain, and in an msthetic btate, like that ob- tainad from chloroform? This wonld appear & plausible conclusion, but M. Bernard iwas not content to rest here. - “ Perhaps, he eaid, theanimal feels pain; bat if it fails to show this bysome reaction—a move- ment—a cry, may, it not be becauso ita_par- alyzod members no -longer obey its will?* To tost this_eupposition, he repeated the experi- ment, taking care, batoro introduciog the "poi- aon, o tio the arterics leading to the right leg, £0 that this limb, not bemng poisonod, might e- tain its power of movement. ~ Ho then obsorved that i tho left and paralyzed log were pinchied, the right indieated pain by 8 quick movoment. It thus appoars that tho enimal poisoned with curaro retains its_porceptions of oxternal im- pressions, without being ablo ta show it. Tho procaution of maintaining ertificially the respiration (which would bo arrested by paraly- sis of tho pectoral muscles) is, it may bo steted, unnecessary in the caso of a frog, because this animal, owing to the fineness of the skin, may exist & considerable, time withont. pulmonary rospiration. If thedoso of curare benot too strong, the heart, an involuntary muscle, con- tinues to act ; and noxt day, the animal, which had becn loft on tho tabla sppasntly dead, wil bo found briskly jumping about a8 if nothing had occurred. WHEN | DIE. When life eludes me, sud I dfe, Wil faneral-shronded vossels ply i , minorke; And lgngmlzmdemnftd traing 16. Coroil'rlea be? 'Will gloomy flags and pennons float K¢ aofetnn half mast Sl remmote ‘Humanlty Feol that z force hath disappeared, And left Earth nought but stark and biered Inanity? WILT on stately I While lutes nttune léflng-gurzde’- ery . And Isureates thyme? Will centuries effulge my fame— ‘Will History shout out my name, To clockless time? 1 wonder, when T hisva to dle, If, 0 the asking years flash by, 1 can reply (Even whilo T feel the rattle’a thril), 170 beep of earthly ude,” ana will "hat be a lio? Jomx McGovImy, Anecdote of Dickons. Blanchard Jerrold, in his new book, ** A Day with Charles Dickens,” quotes the following an- acdoto from the private jonrnal of one of Dick- ene’ juvenilo precocity 18 » newspaper roporter : Dickens began his career when a youth of 19, under his uncle, John Henry Barrot, who start- ed The Mirror of Parliament, in opposition to Hansard. - Hausard always compiled his reports from the morning newapaper, whereas BArrow .engaged a specinl staff of able reporters, send- ing important. oration in proof to its spesker for correction. Yhon Stanley fal- minated bis philippio against 0'Comnoll, it fell to young Dickens’ turn to roport the last third of "it. Tho proof of the whole specch was : ? tanley. He- returned it 10 Barrow, with' tho romark that the frst two-thirds ' were .. 50" badly reported as iabennmm%b;; but thatif the gentloman who had 8o admirably reported the last third of Lis spocch ¢ould bs sent to him,. he would speak {he rost of it to him alone. Accordingly, st an hour sppointed, young Dickens mado his sppear- ance at Mr. Stanley's, note-book in hand. 1t was With ovidont heaitation that tho servant ushored him into tho library, the tables of which were coverod with newspapers. Pregontly tho master of the house appeared, éyed tho youth sus- picioualy, and said : “Ibeg pardon, but'I had hoped- to seo the fiemlem;n who had reported part of my speech,” /“Xam that gentloman,” retorted Dickens, tarning red in the face, and feeling his dignity somewhat offended. - *+Oh, indoed I”. replied Mr. Stanloy, pushing nbout the papers, and turning his back . to con- ceal an involuntary smila. B It was not long ' bofora stopped in; and then ‘Btanloy bogan his spocch. At first he stood still, addressing one of . the window-curteina ns Mr.:Speaker, Then he walked up and down the room, gesticulating and declaiming with all the. fire and force he hod shown in the House of Commons. , Graham, with* newspaper before him, followed, and occasional- 1y checked him, when he had forgotten some trifling point, or had transposed ono. proposition in the pl of another. : en the entire speech had been fully reported, Btanley roturned the revise, with - Dickens' --corrected- - edition of the parts of the -spesch which had been to Barrow highly complimentary to the -etripling reporter, and with » shadowy prediction of 8 great cargor for him in the fotare: - Dickens hed totally forgot- ¥ lent, nnhi,mmnny years after, he was dine | rd Derby for the first ving. been shown with ‘betore dinner into the Ii be folt a strange consciousness of having been In it before, which be could not account for. . He was in a state of bowilderment all dinner time; for ‘he could not recall the circumstance ‘which ht the re- porting sdventure to his mind. Bat, at all events, something did, and he reminded his host of it. Lord Derby was delighted to recognize in his new friend his boy-reporter, and told the story to a select few, who, with Dickens, had stayed after the vestof the company had de- parted. PR Sir James Graham, o other gueats | ~“"METROPOLITAN MODES. ~ The Multifarious Batiste—American Goods Palmed:Off as - Foreign. Algerine, and 'W’hite Grena= dines..-Charming Dresses. Recent Importations, and Redin- gotes. 4 From Our Ouwn Correspondent, New Yoz, May 29, 1873, Wo haye come from March fo June atsa bound, and are enduring eummer-heat before wo have really laid aside our cloaks. We've no right to complain, though ; for all the weather- wise and otherwise have predicted early and long-conlinued summer. On the whole, it is rather agrecable fo feel a slight moisture on hands and faco, arising from natural causes, since we have been so0 long condemned to arti- ficial heat. Last Thursday, your correspondent had, and thoronghly enjoyed, s coal-fire in the grate; and to-day every window is open, and a muslin gown would be comfortable. All this, however, is only confirmatory of my remarks a fow weeks 8go in regard to the usclessnees of preparing any sort of eprig clothing. It is wiser far to begin on cambric as soon as you coase to make cashmere, and 80 succeed in being rendy for ono season, Batiste, which should be called 2 PROTEAN G0ODS, 18 the favorite stuff of tho hour. It is sometimea eilk and linen, sometimes cotton and linenm, sometimes 2l linen, and sometimes all cotton. Itincludes in its variety almost every kind of cloth adapted to the next two or three months, Geonerally, it is reasonsble in price, of good width, and tho dealers say it is fast driving gren~ adine (colored I mean, for black is a standard ar- ticle) out of the market. The batistes come in all the shades commonly knownas ecrn, and have satin stripes of silk, satin stripes of linen, 1ace stripes, polka-dots in silk, linen and tufted dots in wool. These are all intended for polo~ naises and over-dreases above silkskirts or skirta of the same in plain goods. So many new stnffs appear expreszly for polongises as rather to decido the vexed question whetler they will or will not last another year. Besides, there are moro now and pretty polonaise-pat~ terns than thore are upper-skirts; wherefore jupons will, probably, have to retire to the back~ ground. . One more device in batiste I forgot to men- tion,—that is, pattern-suits, imported with tha trimming of beavy white embroidery, all ready to goon.. A model (s picture of the euit made) for the costume is attached, and they are very pretty, and not very dear—g22 a dress. Thero arenot many of these drosses,and for that reason they will probably be popular. Many so-called linen . costumes are really batiste whose superior lightneea and coolness have commended it groatly. Tho suits are gen~ crally trimmed with fino pipings of white or Na- poleon-bluo linen, snd occasionally with brown and black. The season has been g0 Inte that trade Las becn extremely dull, and a glat of summer dresses having accumulated on the menufacturors’ hands has put_down prices to & reasonable standpoint. When a whole suit’ of linon, or batiste, or lawn can_be purchased for from 29 to 515, and bo ontirely satisfactory, ono has no right to complain of high rates. - Napoleon-bluo_linen, about which there was 80 much talk early in tho spring, has not proved n success. The color ia 50 dark and so dead as to make even very fair skins look dall and sal- Tow,— result no woman is anxions to attain. believe it weshes well; but ag other thinga wash just ae well, and aro o great dosl prettier, fow, oxcept tho novelty-bewitched, will - purcheso it. 1t is a noticeable ond pleasing fact that the dnintiest and most graceful dosigns in percales and calicos are on tho American goods. Domes- tic manufactures have o improved in taste and quality of late that thoy deserve the highest ‘praise. Many a lovely cambric and lawn, which ears a foreign mark in the shops, is reslly the product of some busy New England city. ALGERINE— 60 christenod, T suppose, because it has some- thing Orjental about it—isan odd staff of silk, spun and raw. It has alternate bayadere stripes of the spun silk and rough ones of " the raw, and looks a8 if it would hold together about five minates. The width is a yard and three-eighths, and the prico from 88 to 85.50 a yard. The colors chiofly whits, and Very pale on mno color at , imes has dashes of bright- ke Naturally, this is mainly used for tho polonnises over bright-hued skirta for evening, snd, if one coula feel any security of its not falling imme- dintely into a thonsand tags, it would be charm- ing to wear. Bome of it has s broad satin strips, wreathed with s delicate brocaded vine, and ig Eukimflafly snitsblo for carriage-wraps, of the burnous description, for very warm days. It will not bear trimming, other t] & hand-~ some white fringe for the edge, which, with entire fitness, may be simply hemmed like tha redingotes. WHITE GRENADINES, even more seductive than ususl, are extensively made into evening dresses for the spas and sea~ shore. Women are gtowmg tired of - paying more for having muslins done up than waa the original cost of the gowns, -and are taking rofuge in the matorials ‘that do mot need subjection to the laundry, and that are Teally beiter adapted to tho coolness of the night-air. Nothing is prettier than flowing robes_ of muslin, if Joudo 10t care what you spand for them; but their price in the beginning ia but & small part of the total expense of wearing them. A CHARMING DINNER-DRESS, of crepe do Chino and grenadine, was composed in this wise: The.skirt was of rose-colorod crepe, demi-train, and had’ two side-plaited flounces ton inches wide, each hoaded by & pipod band of the orepe with & standing plaiting two inches wide. @ polonaise was of white gren~ sdine, with & brosd brocaded satin stripe, also white, It was ;gry bat‘l)fl'mlt, and the uffs _were caught up by long sprays gt wild _roses and leaves. The waist hed & neck, -and 8 vest of the crope in folds, odged with Valenciennes. Tho bottom of the polonaise had only a two-inch hom.._Tho sleaves were flowing from the elbow, and a bnnch of roses and leaves hold the fullness in one large pleat at the baclk. AN EVENING DRESS 3 of white grenading had & demi-train skirt, cov- oyed with bias ruffles to the waist behind, and to the knee in front. Each ruffle was finished by & light white fringe, two inches wide, which merely overlapped the top of the next rufile. Tho apron had s fringe twice tho width of that on tho flounces, headed by three pipings of white gatin, half an inch apart. " The wast was cutin o single docp point before and behind, and cord¢§ with o singlo eatin cord. A bins rufle surrounded . the: point behind, and ended at the wunder-srm seams; and the front_ point was trimmed with the ssmo {ringe that was on the apron. Tho slooves were threo loosa puffs to the elbow, and s fall. broad ruflle below, edged with fringo_hesded by tho satin pipings. Tho heart-shaped neck waa bor- dered by toree bins folds of grenadine, with a decp fringeand o standing rufilo of Honiton Ince, which also served for undersleeves. SILE SACQUES— : to spesk of those old-time garments—come bac] this year In full force. ~ The fashion of making an onter garment to overy suit superscded them for & timo almost entirely, but they reappear in overy conceivable shape. Most o largely of the polonaise ; are tight-fitting ; have loog sl much be- uffed 'in = the back, -and 8o heavily rimmed a8 to obviate any necsssity for an over- skirt. - Some of them are pretty, bat more ugly, and al could well spao the greater part. of fhe ornamentation. One thing i8 noticeable : they all have satin in the decoration, in the form of pipings, folds, bindings, ete. xamining some BECENT TMPORTATIONS of French dresses, one fact impressed me : that the ekirts were all very dimply, even scantily trimmed, and that the trimming went straight round the skirt, instead of being sftor different models before and behind. This ia a hopefal sign, and significant of sn_ attempt, at loast, to roturn to good taste and good sense. at thero is & desire on tho . part of the sex to be allowed to . give less time and thonght to the subject of dress, almost every one will admit; but it can- Iy or quite | ot well baaccomplished while the modes complicated as at present. That the rej of the matter lies largely with women, Is true; but that, to effect reform, there must be mutual agreement and effort, ia also true ; and the sim- { lest and easiest way out of the difficultyis_for he modes themselves to change. Then the but- terfly will bo as readily made to_see the wisdom | of the alteration as the grub; though gene: o buttorilos are the. Sost’ obins. of ‘bench Irtl:;n tho question of fashionable attire is at stake. - . = THE REDINGOTE g 2 has llll’l{ taken tho town by storm. It appears on everyl og;, and in every imaginable hue and matonal. The fat-and the slim, the tall and the short, the dark and the light, the pretty and the plain, the old and the young, alike admire and wenr it. I do not remember another garmont so° * taking * with the entire gex. - . > Having run the garment ¢f woolen stuffs, it is boginniag to be faabioned in linen, . per- ale, pique, and even plebeian calico. Its simplicity of dressing randers it well adapted to washable goods, though, for my own part, I do not like it in any thin fabric, article is, I hink, in a measuro responsible for the button- distemper which broke out early in the spring. The diseaso i dying out to & large extent, though battons are etill a ent featuro in all the new dresses. Bome of the molds . used on the redingotes are really as largs as small {n(resenaplmu, and give the garments & posi- Ive and rather prononce afr. -Oxydized and old silvor buttons are not much worn, for which ero- due to the expensiveness of the genuine thing, and the fact that the imitation wears badly. " Nothing but the most unequivo- cal Iack of taste wonld ever induce s woman to load bherself --down - with dozens = of metal abominations in .the way of buttons. Whst with metal chatelaines for um- brolla, fan, vinalgrette, purse, card-case,, etc., eto,, feminine promenaders present & cient- 1y bizarze appearance already, without covering themsolves with unnecessary evidences of their wealth. -It would almost seem as if wo were doing our best to return to the styles of the aborigines, and one almost expects the girls of the period to perambulate Broadway in primeval wampum, beads, silver, gold, and other orna- ments of the so-called Indisn tribes. It wonld sometimes be hard to tell which was the more artistic and truly beautifnl, their cosfume.or ours. 3 FURBRLOW. Fashion ltems, - From the New York Erening Mail, Flowers have succeoded foathers a3 bonnak IDERESE gray English watorproof clofh uits of \y En; ‘walerproof loth are tho corroot cbsttmo for ocoan. temel. —Polonaises. with basque fronts are much wora, " —Velvet is used as » trimming on all kinds of | light materials, this epring. —We notice that the gray aerga so much worn for ':m:a Inst spring is now used only in over- costs. . —Tho new thing in fans is the Trianon.” It measures 18 inches from point to tip. The, larger they are, the more stylish. —Normady caps of white Swiss over bl or ink eilk ars in groat {avor for broakfast foi- lettes. —Hysteria must be a fashionable disease smong Indies, else Why tho waiversal vinai- grette. - —The redingote has fairly taken the town by storm. Tho ladies, one and all, are dolighted with it. It is stylish, handsome, and becoming. —A now style of carriago has has mada its ap-- pearance on the avenue; it is a crosa between s dog-gart aud on rish ‘nuntinlf;;n]r. mall diamonds have largely incressed in prico Iately, owing to the fact that the dismond- catters find it pays them only £o cat latge ones, —Tho favorite boutonnieré with socioty men is: s ginglo pansy,—emblematic, no doubt, of the shrinking modesty so characteristic of that class of the commaunity. 4 5 —The loose-fronted polonaises which have boen introduced here ook too much like morn- ing wrappers to be liked for strect wear, and are Yery common. —We aro gotting back in fashion farther than. over. Ruffaaronow worn o large that they have to be atiffened with wire. —Tho mania for old laces sgain rages; cold coffeo_produces the desirable tint of age quickly and effectively. e —Ladies’ wearing apphrel can be rendered un~ inflammable by & solution of sulphate of potsah and alum. —It ia 6aid that hereafter a band of musio will bo tho correct. thing at al our fashionabla wed- —-E; new style of bracelet has lately come info. great favor. It is made of a very fine thread of zold which, by s sort of knitting-machine, is. Imitted into s tubo. This is afterwards crushod flat, forming s band. Theso ara ornamented in grery imagiasblo design. On frm in this city- has ordered o thousand dozen of the bands from tho manufacturer, for the purpose of working them up into handsome bracelets. MARIE TAGLIONI. Reminiscences of the Great Danseuse ~-3ow Qucens of the Bnllet May Be Good and Grow 0ld=—From the Foote lightstothe Dancing-School—A Back Glance of Thirty Years. To the Editor of the New York Herald: A tolegraphic fiash and we are told (falsely) of . Marie Taglioni's death. ‘Isit possiblo?”. X thought zhe died long ago.” ** A very great dan- seuse.” ¢ Well, well; 8o they go. Who next?". Such were the brief comments over the dinner table, and quickly the last bribery at Albany effaced all thought of, probsbly, the most ox-- quisite danseuse that ever lived. I did not marvel ,at this indifferonco, . for .Taglioni is but"s nsme in America. No. vete- ran theatro-goer enthusisstically recalls the divine grace that made her dancing the very Ppoetry of motion, yet it was an indifference that grated barshly upon one who knows ler to be the best of women and who is proud to call her friend. Andif I lays pansyat her rhythmic {feet, it is to inspire in others respect for a great artist, who is an honor to womanhood. *‘ Do you know I have heard that Taglioni is_in Lon-| don?™ ssid & woman of society early in the’ winter of 1871. . “Sho nsod to be Very intimate with Lady Morga, st whose house 1 met her: froquontly. She was charming, snd T shall re- now the acquaintance.” So to Bond .stroet my friond went forthwith, and. from Mitchall, the Quecen's bookseller, who is a1 conrant of évary- thing, from the last novel résd by Victoria to tho arrival of the last ~artist, she ob- tained the neccssary information. A fow ovenings lator, I wes invited t0 o din-’ ner party at this friend% house. On entéring the draning-room I recognized all but cme’ of. the guests. On a low chair sat a refined-looking woman of 65, dressedin black velvet and lace, whose dominant characteristic seemed to.be i~ obtrusivencss, and who, in consequence, wonld. st all times and in all places be unobserved un- less by the rare fow in search of ladies. “My’ doar,” whispared tho hoatess, *“tlat i tho great 2 either ividuala or the public. It an incomprehensiblo magnetism that halds 1y willing slaves st the feot of friends or gening without which Venus would lure but for a day, and Apollo mgm empty benches after ong (short season. La Taglionis face is romes ‘rather than oval ; there are few:wrinkles in (o corners of her pleaaant, ihmd BI85 eyes, none at all on hor amooth forehesd. Her bair, worn in plaits at the sido, and covered with black Loy at the back of tho -head, is dark iron-gray; b toeth are good, and the xpression of her delr. cately-haped " mouth-denotés benevolanca tad smisbllity. * Her volco ia . soft sad Tom: and there .was 'something prett; atiampla to sponk Eoglish wi l’gen%un?:; who was enthusiasticin telling her. how he adorad her thirty years ago, whos hi and Bow wild he bocarme over that famons par sy quaire~Toglioni, Corilo Casloita Gris, wod /UC] —al ‘which the o i will poverconsp o falk, L o ou—air—very—goat,”. replied La ith tho awootest 5 Sedids ang Frbemh woguond “I—hno—not—rgesk—-ugllzh ince—twenty. five— gn—va?d—m;—wu—hare—ba—mn. ARt mon image DOUS ne Bl lemg s e e ouis ee” Monsiour was much more desperate 1 Madame at tho {mposeibility of iving over asies those palmy days of the ballet in the.presence of his matare goddess, and retired to 4 comer where, in the ear of & youthful coun Be i xfi\;lxved ‘his pent-up feelings in superlative Eng. ¢ You think that man mad, perhaps,” said elderly aristocrat, who namp':mp'tnom e praize aoything. I assure you that the art of dancing has lived and died with Taglioni. You can have no conception of tha wonderfal postry that woman put into every motion of her body, of the intellect visible in Ler foet. A ballst wy Taglioni in it wag the eubtlest of varse. Thera were meaning and feeling in everything she did. Nover waa thore anything like it befors her day, never has thers been anything liko it since, believe the world will nevar ses her liko again.” “You aro_right,” chimed in s dowager. “Dancing to-day 15 & lost art. French saltation is a nuisance. ere is the be: of tours de Jorce? Dancing without sentiment is nothing Tmore than gymnastics.” ¥ ““True, true,” echoed & venerable connoisseur, and in the midst of that genuide hymn of praiss La Taglioni eat. quietly conversing i French withs distingulsied Eoglish nctress who also could remember that night in 1847 when she danced-for the last time in London, And why had La Taglioni returned as an old woman o the scene of her former conquests ? Ab! it 'was a sad story. Years before she had retired to s villa on the Lake of Como. There cho-had lived peacefully; thers livod her only daughter, to whom, on her mn;:fls with & Rus- sian prince, the mother gave ber hardly- esmed fortune. There she wonld hava romained ibut for the Franco-Prussian war which' deprived her of the greatar art of her income, and very nearly ¢aused o death of her only son, a French officer. Beverely wounded and sent to Germany, he was follawed by his devoted mother, 2nd murssd “And after what was Itodo#” said La Taglion, when our acquaintance ripensd into friendship; “Istill had monoy enough to live upon; and had I been alone I should have gone back tomy vill. But thers was my son. An officer in the army, you know, is with for- tane. 'H.ianl}:;iw!mfll; ’he must live like & gentleman. I hsd given my dsughtor a dowry ; 1t 18 right that my son_should be equally well mfi for, and 50 I have come here to tesch ing and repair the loases of the war.” Sich was L Taglioni's unselfish naivestory. Atansge when most mothers are tenderly cared for by gratefal, loving children, ahe hnd come to 3 01 hly anti-pathetic climate,among & peopls whose language she conld noither spesk nor un- derstand. “*“It i3 not the same London,-of course,” she continued. ‘It is sad, you know, toreslizo the change. Then I was great; now T am forgotten, My- frionds have passed away. I bave issued cards; but the press, once 8o 1avish of praise, has said nothing of my arrival. I donot know how to make people acquainted with my dpurpose." La Taglioni not heralded by the London press? No friend to fight her bat- tles? It seemed incredible ; yot it was true; and to one American, who told this story to an editor, the great dansense owed the laudstory whic ymes sought her for rece, tions dad thelr children. v “ How charming to take lessons of Mme. Tage: lioni!” T thought, and_straightway went to her honsge in Upper Brook street. I found herin the drawing-room on the second story, convers- ing with her pianist, s French woman. T3 me; she gaid. “Eh b'ien‘ ‘ma chere, tell me the news.” *The mews is,* I answered, * that I want o take dancing-lossons of you. I wanb La Taglioni to teach mehow to curtsey. One of these days I shall bo proud to ssy that T & with you.” “ Que ©ous etes bien aimable,” te-. plied the old lady, tapping me gently with ther fan she always carried. * And moreover,” T added, “I want to seo your feot. I want to deo’ how you use them.” A second tapof the fan and a quiet langh were her reply to my imperti- nences, andin a few minutes later I stood be- fore the teacher, watching her pretty, little feet going through the simpla movements of that rarest of ‘all things—s grace-: - al courtesy. “ Ab,” eaid she, when we sat down, to rest, “1 don’t Know what is the matter withl peogle, bt now.a-dsya they have no manners. eo how they ealute one another. Nobody bows 3 everybody riods. Chil 8how no_respect for sgo. I think thore should be a bow of deferenca to mature years, but now, and girls nod to their iparents; and, as for walling, there ia 1o such thing, Pebpls hufflo and hiteh, The, “French_have lost the art they once possessed.: 4nd whon it comes o tesching dancing, mal chere! Well, well, I have 'patience, and if my- ipils show « willing _disposition I do my possi- $1ie; bt the gancherio of some] Itia locreln blo.’ I wonder whera these children have live and how their parents can endure such actions?; Tho American young ladics please me most, becanso thoy “aro “very pretty and qui to learn. are naturally more gracefok than the Franch, and. their readiness in seiziog ideas pleases mo, But ladies and gentlemen off polish are rare. ‘These are drawing-room man< ners,” and La Taglioni went through the saluts= tions and gait prevalent in society 80 inimitably as to mako tho piaist and myselt laugly heartily. - Those were interesting mornings that T passed: with La Taglioni. If it be something to sy tha! she taught me the gavotte, in which she Wks m; - partner, and nover lost ‘her temper at my man; imistakes ; that many a time we have waltzed t gether, ehe s agile at G5 &8 most women aros! 85, Toan say 1, and am. glad to esy I for know few more satisfactory pleasuros than asso-! ciation with the great when they are good.. never _tired of observi La Taglioni's nse her arms. They are long, butno one knt it. The clover danseuse mever allowad thems, to_ fall. - They: woro - slwsys S0 beanti~ fully curved in somo appropriste action as tof gxcite constant admiration. hus can intelloc ofy physique ; and ona -dsy_when she Wi t.hgn;h B ;lm-dmco, composed by herself and set to the well-known air of Louis XIIL. dance that conaisted of nothing but *walking, ' bowing, and fanning,—Iunderstood why nothing T apparent but consummate grace snd refie- ment.’ Toglioni. . Coms, you wust b6 presanted ;* a0d,” jeading me to the woman of. whom I had read s0 mnh, I then and there made ber Acquaintance.” I was in & dazed frame of mind ; for to associate age and gray bairs with a danseuse is so ntterly incongruous as to appear impossible. ~Per- pnmfloum seems to be tho prerogative, of the heroines of the ballet. In'the mind of an" imaginative public ‘to ¢rip the light fan- tastio too means to_bo always under 80, always lithe, always standing with' one foot in the air, alwaya wearing & seraphic smile upon & yot ‘more seraphic countenance. . TLe eternal fitness of things forblda dmemstg bo‘ev?jr gutd and forty. -You and the' imaginative o in in“{hs delusion that “the; donomu after the rogaic manner of mort ‘who walk on their Eeeli, but before age laya his- tyrant hand upon | thom’ they perform thoir fayorite pa»‘in the mout seductive manner, .and then, with a fare- | well waivo of {nviting vanish *into thin alt* Fanty & damsogae with & hesdache, 07 & corn, or gout, or olivo branches! Yot thers I sat. talking with tho groatest celabrity of the ballot, sged 65, and & grandmother ! It was o shock’ to my mervous Byatom for at least ten minutes. = It wns another shock to ‘see her ina lun[ildreau and an arm-chair, instead of bo- holding her through an opera-glass, arrayed in tulle and revolving aronnd the h_fwh_c man in tights, whose highest iration iz s i5 o spin on one leg liko a teof o o tum. Atdlnat {ure- gained my ordinary composure, snd, putting aside Terpsichorean dreams, was' ble to look at mmmer'f-gnuni rationally, Winning in man- Ter, with the courtly air of s lsdy of the old school,—a school that we should do our best to revive,—she at onco excited respect and regard; Tespect because of her graceful womanliness, because of sympathetic temperament. OF Togard medium height, dlight in figuro, she gavo tho impression of a healthy, well-preserved woman, ‘whose lease of life would not expire for fifteen or twenty years.. I felt persusded that La Taglioni could never have been beauf either face or figure; but I fell equally - persuaded of the fascination and gonius -of - her ait.” We all kmow that benuty has never been fhe sirongest magnet in it makes me to think of the i -At 40 she-is pasee. At 40 she must rotire. - it not heartrending, whan at 40 s woman her intellectual prime and can then do W] she never “befora dreamed of ? How different the fato of the nctress! Why, had I been actress instead of 3 dancer 1 might now be o the .u;lga, for I could plsy old women and, chere, X' would ploy them well. It is a grief mo that my ballets cannot bo perpetuated, ths the thinge I did cannot be done by others ; bat who can hand down_shades, nuances, poges thi dopend’ upon inspiration 7 Well, ‘it has &) gone, and I am an old woman. Iasmre to i; when the good God calls me. Until then—T' shall tosch un, deuz, trols, qualre, un, deuz, trois, quatre, and if all my{n‘%‘n are as intalligen and sympathetic a8 — hava reason 0 1o~ Joice" - K ; The day of farewell came at last; and, puttin o] heoed e 3 Faghent. e, chere, T am “fond of your countrywomeD; and it I- o W £ with you to Americs. Bup it~ camnod I have passed tho sgs When traveling agrees with the human constitution. I shell g0, to Italy, and, returning hero next winter, res! by woior o7 Do not forget me, and write to me.” ‘I have mot forgotten La Taglioni; I hsra thought of her as a friend; I have not wrilian antil now, and now itis no letter addressed o her, but to a public unknown to_her—by WhOEX che is unkmown. Lot those who speak lightly of this dear-lady'a profession think of her ges* tle, sweet example, and aek if the dausense flflh; "ot be 58 truo a woman as the best? The Wor would be the poorer for the loss of & d g oo tros Faond, acA peag e, 18] ‘mother, & true friend, and » grest artist Tnggliuni nobly wears her Iaurels and her cio"2 of thorns. To-dsy she is reaping & golden bas society. yui in London's most appreciative e i RS TTES e TTR. pemeeere , B e e Y2 P S e e, b g T et e