Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, July 25, 1875, Page 14

THE CHICAGO TEIBUNE: SUNDAY JULY 25, 1875.—SIXTEEN PAGES. . .EUROPEAN GOSSIP. - A Prussian’ Ball-Roem Miystifica-, ton—flow a Pink Pearl « Was Bought, . The True Condition of the Ex- Empress Carlott’a.a An Emperor's Dumplings—Fashions in the French Cepital, A Great Scandal in High Life-~-Flirta- tion and Death. : . Hyde Park in the Scason---Nota- bilities on the Drive, . A BALL-RONM MYSTIFICATION. Arsene Houssayelp Parig letter in New York Tribune: Madame Rattazzi (who does not re- samblo that provincial academy which coutd mever get itself talked sbout) pave to-picht a Vendtian fete in tho Avenuede I' Imperatrice. The women were masked. the men wore tho TVenetian cloak. It was very pretty and smus- ing. Icannot detail the quadrillea of mvatifica- tions which filled the ball-room The French ‘women have succoeded the Italians i the art of plaviug imbroglios. Here is one worth reporting: A represent- ative of tbo peopie and s former FPre- fect of Empire wanted to go to the ball witbout their wives, buy the two Iadies, who were coustns, arranged to go there withont advertising the fact too loudly. Natu- raliv they came principuily to be revenged upou their husbands, and you may easily imagine that they went at it with & will They began.by teas- ng thess gentiemen a8 to the cousequences of their sbeemce. ‘‘ How,” eaid ome of them. * could you leave these poor women at home ? Are you quite sure they will stay thers without you? How do you know they have not gone to drive in the Bais, {0 ralk sentiment in the moon- light 2” *: Nonsense,” said one of the husbanda; * we know our wives ; they are doves who go'to bed early. Our wives are the old-fashioned kind who stay at home and spin." ** Take care! Penelope also staid at home and spuu; but vases did well torewrn.” 4 ; Tbe husbands recognized their wives, but this was only thié first scene of the comedy. ‘I'he lively invention oY the ladies did not cease there. A guarter of anhour afterward they had sac- ceeded in exchanging their red and blue domi- ®o8s, 60 a8 completely to deceivo theirr two hue- bands, when they returned and tobk their arms. Each thought he was talfiog to tus friend's wife. The two women had never been 5o tender and so engating. and the two friends were soon startled with their good fortane. * What," said one, *the Prefect's wife! I thought her so dis- creet. I neveryheard her pame mentioned. It must be tbat I am fresishble. I am . sorry for the DPrefect.” “What,” eaid the “other. “I am eorry for my friend, but I sm not sorry to plav this trck on the Republic. These Opposition Desuties imag- iue that the Bepablic bas reformed mporals : they had better be reforming their wives.” Both Pretect and Deputy exerted themselves to the uimost to invent pretty speeches. Both lacies were 8o carried away ihat thev easily congented %0 leave the ball atd improve the beautiful sum- mer night ks making a promenade in_ the Bois. Bat the two husbands were a little frightencd by their soccess. **Yes," fnid one. *‘1c would be delightfal to take a turn 'n the Bois; buf if vour busband should perceive that you wers pot here—-" My qusbaod! Is it véhr place to recall my busband to me waen I wisa to forget his existence?” Aftér this charming speech - there was pothlag to do but to go out the garden-gate, cnter & carriage, and drive to the Bols. It was & time idsl of the night, setto music by the whisuling of the biscabird,— tha: densive bird who ouly came to Pans 20 mike game of Pansians. The Depaty never mounted the tribune with such emotion a8 he telt in kissing the haod of s wife. ‘* Who ©could bava told me,” murmured the Prefect, * thet @e fairest day of my lifo would come ina pivk do%uino 2” This epor: could mot last al- ways, The husbgnds at last percoived shas they were flirting with tbelr wives. One boxed her husband's ears because of his excessive amabil- ity. The other eava she never witl pardon hers. What does all this prove as a studv of the hu- man beart? Thore is material there for a whole chapter for Movtaigne and Frasmua. Porhaps X'will write it myself some dav, but at present I ‘will merely dedace -the moral that masked balls are & good thing to bring husband and wives to- or. . Our married people cams back gayly to supger after their seutimental promeusda. They nar- rated the sdventure to me. I uevar saw macried ,mea a0 delighted with their wives. BUYING A PINK PEARL. p The following is & late Parisian story: A oartain jeweler has s piok pearl which is the joy of all eyen, but never goes mto the world. Why does it dwell in perpetuity in the show-case of a jeweler? Thers isin Peria a lady of shadowy fame who thioks herself a woman of tbe world because she is very pretty and bas s courtof suitors. Her meaus of existonce are not known. Bhe came ona fine day from Poland, saying that her husband was s -prisoner io Siberia. Sho is still young. and bears his absence gayls. When 8 man isdead in love with ber she does pot say like s celebrated sctress, “If you iove me jump out of the window,"” but she tells vou, *‘If yon Jove me 8o much, give me the only thing I want on earth. It is an incomparable prk pear! which°I have ecen at a jewaler's, for ‘which I thirst like Cleopatra." Bbe tikes her lover to the jeweler. He fis himself charmed ‘with ¢his wonde#; which eeems to have fallen from the breast of Venus after having rested there a little longer than the other pearls. How vould so beaatiful & woman be denied a thing so beautifal? eakpecally-as the pink pearl costs ‘only 10,000 francs. No man dead iz love could refuse it, espocislly s the jeweler socepts a check as readily as the cash. Sothe pearlis bonght. A few days afterward the srdent sapir- ant is astonishéd to miss it from the lady’s nock. “An"” ghe seys, “I have written to India to order one liko it, and then I ¢hall havetwo pend- ‘wnts worthv of s Queen. - Piease keep my secret till I hava them both.” 7 And while ehe 15 thus talking to ope, she is esving in the strictest confidence to anotber, & My riend,4f you really love me 80 much, do me & Tavor. Thore is & pink pearl at my jewel- er's worth st lesst 100,000 francs, which he ‘woald give me for 10,000, but my dresses have ‘cost gomuch that I have nothing oo hand for jswels. Help me buy this, which _is indispenea- le to_my hat ess.” 8he leads him to the #hop Iiké s lsmb to the elaughter. * Ia it not of the loveliest Orient? Old Homer's Anrora ‘hevsr eptinkled finor ones among the roses which sbe scattered from ber fingors.” X nally the second does as the firsy, captured by the Poatry sud the mirage of the thing. It is always the same story witn the third. the fourth, and the fifth. **Above all, keep my se- cret £ the other one comes from India” Giv- ing & pearl Lixe this to a woman is not like giving moues. It is unhooking & etar from the skv, it is cutting a rose in the Caliph's garden. This who'e little comeds is 80 well managed that asch simpleton imagines his gift a privilege. Who wonld not be bsppy to give delight to those beautiful blae exes, fall of poetic dreams ? Bo that, in short, eince she has been in Paris, Bow cften do you imagine that the jeweler has sold hin pink peari? nty-ope times, Total, 210,000 {rancs; which the mnoble Polander from tae ancicnt Paland hes levied an be love of har neighbor. CARLOTTA. Rome correspondencs Phi'adelphis Bullefin : ‘A moath or six weexs past there appesred in several of the Enropean journals an extremely interesting account of the poor Empreas Cariot~ ta. ‘Tthen been reprinted, I ses, in the Ameri- can pewspapars. I was taiking of this account Iately with a peteontge who knows & great desl of Earopean courts and the private affaits of royalties. This person said: ' The descrip- fion. givbn of ihe presest life sad habitd of tos Empress leads ode to-believe thet she i no longer insans ; sk» msy be melascholy, bat she has ber reasom, and is- etermly refusing to hold ecimunisation with tee ontside warld, in which ‘she uffered so much sorrow. Is mot that the impression it made upon you 2" T replied in the sffirmative, and, apropos tothe Empress' mode of life, I told myvinéion strange and interesting etory 1 Nad heagd that morn- ing, of » lady who hsd some fatal grief whichs had swept away from her all human hope sn: Lelp. She wusa woman of foriune, high enl- tare. learney, indeed ; she was singularly alone in life ; all her near relatives were desd. Sbe was about 35 years of age. Sbo lived in an ele- eantly furmshed apartment ; one of the rooms was a fine lidrary ; all on une flat, en suite, a8 i8 common ia kuropean honses. She dismissed her servants, for thirty vears refused to hold 0¥ intarcourse with society, and led an entirely solitarv Life. Every morning s confidevtial servant came snd entered a door thau was left anlocked &t & ceriain hour. She went into the bed-room and put it in o:der. also the dining- room. removed tha dixhes of the yrecading aay, and plaead an the table the food for the succead- twenty-tour hours, but she- never saw her mig- tress.. Written orders, made in theconcisest, clearest form, were left from time to timoon the Qining or dressing-table. Through these orders 311 business was directed and everythiog pro- vided that was nceded by the recluse. The whole suite of rooms, except the dining, sleep- ing, and dressing-rooms, remained atricyly closed for thirty years. People talked s great doal at firet, much coriosity and wonder was expreased, but’ in time other wondems appeared, aod tbe Iady snd her solitary life were forgotten. The oiiginal confidential earvant in course of -time died, and snother reliable person succeeded to the post, bat. nothing changed the babits of the ladv,—rhe wh,nev:g seanhb_y soy obe. Some thirty years went by, when one morning the servant found the bad undisturbed, the food untouched! 8he forsad the doora and searched for her mietroas. She passed through long succession of rooms which presented a most sirange avpearance A thick bed of dust lay oo every article of farniturs, a silent cover- iog over carpets and floors. But strainht through the rooms was s narrow, direct path that led to the end room or library, a path swept clean by the loug trailing ~ parmems of that olitary womsn in_her daily wals of thirty vears. It sweived neitber to the right mor to the loft. The servaut followed tha strange path to the library- Thers she found her misiress seated at & reading tablo in a high backed chair; her hands were folded peacofully in her lap, her head was leaning back. the sad, worn old face was calm and still. She had, at lm& gona to that other golitude, Death. On the table were Homer and Virgil ; thoy seomed to be the only ‘books vhe had resd, asthe others on thoshelves were bound with the dust of years. There was not one written line or word left. The solitary thirty years had ended, as they had bien lived, in solemn silence. The sorrowing woman st last knew the Great Secret, which told her why she had been called to suffer euch keen mertal anguish thaj had snapped all bonds between her and her kind. When I heard this szorv it affected gne deeply, and one of the mast impressive @ointa was ihe meation of that long path leading thiough soii- tary rooms. and which hed been kept_ free from the gilent dropnincs of dust through’ cveles of years by the solemn steps of the suffering, lone- Iy woman—the only recordof her solitnds| This featurdin the recital wasas a ghostlv bang, -tracing on space some mysterions and inexplica~ ble desien of s rraw. ) i When I bad finished this story my friend said, with a fiue earcastic smile: * Yes, this is very affecting ; but we must bring ouraelves back to earth with stern realities. ,All such stories are fables, aud oo gieater fable is thers than this oue publshed of the poor Empross of Maxico. It is = pious fable, however. created by her friends in order to throw around her last days an air of decorous digaity that doed not exist. Their loviog care for her memery induces them to send for:b thisbesuti- {ful romance of an 1msginarv dailv life, led by a beautiful, rteroly sorrowful and refined womsu, 1 wish it were true, bat unbappilv th8 reality is 28 revolting a5 the romance 18 attrac:ive. Tha ‘Empress, instead of being better in bealth, is worse, and ner death, it is believed, is cloao at band. For some timf her insanily has taken the most brutish for 8he pever leaves her bed, and has all tke habia of an animal. The poor Quesn of Balzium bas been unable for t¥o vears to bear the disgusting sight of the unbap- py Carlotts, but pow. as she cannot last manv months, the Quecn goes constantly to her. This is the sad truth.” THE EMPEROR'S DUMPLINGS. Pall Maul Gazelte. If sovbody in Vienoa iosists with stnbborn- ness on haviog a silly whim gratified, be will cer- tainly be ridicaled with the phrase, **Kaiser bin 1", Enoedel rouss i’ halen.” The origin of this good-natured rebuke 18 this: Duriog the first vear of his reign the Emperor Ferdinand®made a trip to Styria, and while on an excursion to some mountsin valley wis surprised by a heavy shower. The Emperor, with his snite, sought refuge from the storm in a farmer's cottags where dinner had just been served. Dumvlinga of very coarse flour formed the principal feature of his meal, to which the Emperor was cordially invited by the furmer's wife. To the horrer of the Chamberlain and courtiers, Ferdinand helped himself very freely, and made a heartier meal of ths domplings than they hsa ever seen him enjoy at a grasod dioner at the *“Hofbute " in Vienna. After his return to the Capital the Emperor gave ordery that dumplings of coarse flour shuld henceforth figure every day oo the Imperjal dmner table. The disgust of the chef dz cuistne may easily be imagined, and the Emperor's physicians also unanimously vetoed his new favorite dish. Bug Ferdinand, who on other occasiops had never shown & will of Lis own, remained this timo firm 28 8 roc’s, and would not give up his faucy for dumplings. When the physicians positively du- clared that thev could not allo# his Majesty to dine off dumplings, he stamued with his foot, and cried that he would not sign anothor offivial document until be had got dumplings for hia dioner. * Emperor I am, aud damplinga I will have!™ (“*Kaiser bin 1. und Knoedel muss i’ haben!"”) hesbouted, and to prevent a com- plete desdlock of the Government machine in Austria, his fancy had to be gratified. PARIS FASHIONS. .Lm:y Hooper’s Paris letterin Philadelphia Bul- letin; ** The costumes in wash materials, now being prepared for sammer wear and for sea- side resorts, are extremely preity. Fashion de- erees that corsages and tunics in linen or per- cale, worn with silk ekirts, whether black or col- ored, are no longer in good stsle. The whole toitette must be of ibe eawe material. The blue and pink striped Oxford linens, which were so much in vogus last season, are still worn, as are 180 dark blue and black cambrics, trimmed with bands of chain-stitched émbroideryin white, and ecru linens, trimmed with embroidered bands and rafiies, the embroidery being either white or of the same chade as the linen. The gavest tints are also employed in these suits. Some of them come in robe patterns, that is to say, with woven borders for the overskirt, the flonuces of the underskirt, and the edge of thie corsace and sleeves. These are mostly white or dark-blue, with bands of coa- trasting color. Very neat and cool-looking suita in this styds are in white, with the bordering baods 1 gray or marine blne. Costumes trim- wed with Madras plaids, and made of dark-blue cambric, are very showy and effective. The plaid, in rich orange and red tints, is put on in bands around the corsage and overskirt, ana forms the flonncing on the underskirt. The tunic is bordered with wide kaitted thresd fringe, ::‘pmduum; the colors of the plaid, inter-mixed th marine-hlue. Dretses of thin white mus- lin, tamboured with dota or leaved, and trimmed with parrow imitation Vaiencienues lnoe, are to.be worn.over underdresses of pale Ppink or blue. They form becoming and inexpensivh toilettes for youag girls. Neither fonlsrd nor herpant have been ar much 1 _favor this sesson a8 they wers Iast year. They have been super- seded by the new basket-mesh silk grenadine, which comes in sll shades, and is » rich-looking and durabie fabgic. A ne' style of jowelry bas {uat been intruduced. It consiats of sprass, eaves, flowers, grour.s of birda and cupids, ete., carved in thestyle of coral jewelry outof the axvfiisuely tinted pink shetl” from which soapy- looking csmeos used to be carved for the adorn- ment of our mothers and grandmothers. Noth- ing more lovelv than tbe tint of this new mate- xificm be imagined, shadiog, 38 it does, from the most vivid vet delicate rose-color to the purest whitd. T can compare it to nothing save the bues of & moss-rose patal or thoss of & sun-~ sot-flushied snow-bank in the Alps. A HIGH TONED SCANDAL. Paris correspondence Boston Globe: Tha French papers are full of a society scandal, or divorce in high life, of '‘the Coant di Mello from bis wife. The case was begun three vears ago in Portugal, and came dp in May lust before the Court of Appess, which denied the motion for a soparation. Aw the Count and the lovely Coubtess wete well known to many Americans in Nice during the winter of '72, » few getails of the cause of their domestic troubles may not prove uninteresting. The rich Russian- Prince de N givi a'grand soiroe st bis elogant vills, and invited several Americav officers, who were then with the fleet at * Villefranche.” ‘Amt_mg the invited guests were the Count aud his wife. During the evening they wers both introduced and popnlar Vicomte Gustavus i tha.g' o?)%?cnr with a glorious record for e e et aod belonging to one* of the most illustrions families of Balgium. He hen-the bean of the evening and the pet of :L‘:ltwdiu.' but saffice it to say Lilio fell desper- ately in love with the beautiful Spacish Qguni- e85, and she with him, though her pride.forbade lier to admit ths possibility of such a thing. Yet she was proud of her, conguest, and accepib marked sttention from the haudsome officer. It was her first meeting, though they were not nn- known to esch other. During the evening, the foolish wife wrote a few lines on & alip of psper, which she intended to give the young Visconnt to caution him aganst her jealous husband. During the dancing, the enamored pair stole in- to ong of the fairy bondoirs, and a tete-a-tete was plesaantlyiprogressing and s rendezyous pascionately solicitod by the Viscount, when, with _trembling band, .she banded him the few lives she had written, wraoped m,!le! bavd- kerchief. * Read this s littlg Jater, " said she, and started to entor the ball-room, but was met, face to face, by the infuriated hrx:hagul who had D i missed them from the room. was on his lips. -** My dear Viscount, " 8 +if I mistake not, mv wife quits monopolizes your society. It 1s nearly two.hoursBincegou left tho bali-room, and the guests began to in- quire for you. ¥ While thus speaking he reached his hand fo take the haudkerchiof which he rec- ognized s bis wife¥, when* Lilio drew hack in indignation, exclaiming, * This handkerchief i8 not yours.” * Pardon me,” #aid the Couat, * it bears such a strong resemblance to that of my wife's, and if hers. she must have given it to. you.” *“You are mstaken.” eaid _ Lilio; it was mnot given to to—TI took 1t.” * The handkerchief is worth 200 lonie, and if you took it yon are a thief,” was the retort. At this, the row began; hot, anery words were exchangod. The result wasa challenge, and a duel arranged to take place the next day. During this dispute the poor Countess fainted on & sofa. Two American officers went a8 seconds or the Couns, and *the* autagonists mat s short distance from Villefranche. As the moinent drew nesr, the youug Bolgian asked a8 & special- favor to be allowel to wear his whita vest, giving 88 & pretext his fear 6f taking cold, and the contest bogan withi swords. - At the first *‘pasa” Lilio's sword fall from his hand, the sabre of_hie adversary having pierced him to the heart. He fell without uttering a word—dead. His -'seconds,” 1o oxaming his wound, found the fatal handkerchief ¢ pierced' by the sword of Mello and eaturated with heart's blood. - Tnese are the details of the causoe for which the Conat asked 8 geparstion, on suspicion of his wife's infidelity, and waa denied by the highest court of Partugal. . HYDE PARK IN THE SEASON, London correspondence. of the New York Herald: Scene Hyde Park, time half-past 5 p. m. Four rows of carriages stretchMg from the Marble Arch to Keneington Gardens, a distance of two miles. Wae take our way by Albert Gate to the park, and, as we enter, we see in an elegant Victoria drawn by one horse—a pewer- ful high stepper and not afflict:d with a bearing rein—a kindly Iooking old lady to whom we taxe off our hat 88 we recognize the Batoness Burdett Cou.is, n name that ishonored wherever civiliza- tion prevails. the Earl and,Countees of Dudley are doing ** Darby and Joan" in a little ‘phaeton that is running merrily behind & paif,of hand- some robo ponies. The Countess is driving, and it 18 impossible to avoid beiog struck with bher queenly face and besuty. It is, however, of the ‘cold stamp, and hef skin is “mot Bo delicate as that of some more unpratentious besuties. There is, however, a pecaliar charm in the way she bends ner head as she replies to the salutation of a young officer 1m the undress of the *‘Blaes,” who are stationed at tho barracks closa by. In a rumbling baronche is the Duke of Grafton, porhaps thinking of hia piace, the wayward Mrs, Eaton, who eioped with Maj. Harfo.d. whom, on the deatn of her husband, she mhrried. The Queen presented Mrs. Eaton, oo her first mar- riage, with & pretty Arab pouy, which the family canred to beretarned to Her Majesty when the petite sinning beauty compromised herself. Cndonnted!¥ oue of *ha pretuest sight in - the Park is_merry, dashing Ledy Avlesford, the bosom ¥riend of (he Princess of Wales. She is driving a pair. of cheston: thoronghbreds in her Rusband's mail phaeton. There isnota member of the Coaching Clnb that can handte the ribands bettar ; and wheu ehe is tonling four- io-hand her off leader thinks of tur~nr round and lookiug at her in astonishment. * h Count- asg is young, rather dark and not § r cularly pretty. She is s favorita everywhero. and no wonder, a8 she is very vivacious. and just now her eyes sparkle 89, as sha is tclling some fanny story, that sheglooks very handsome. She is, possibly, talking about Finch’s performance at Stockbridge last week, when he rods s race “ and won it too;" and his orthodox breeches having been left behind be Lad 1o *‘getup” in panta- loons. Lord Roseberv. who is not often seen on horseback. is sitting oo one chair, with his feet on snother, 8o he mast have paid twopence. He is talking to a Iady that not manv men can follow over a country. She’ is Lady Charles Ker, who, two or- three vears ago, for mnearly o wmonth hotered Hetween life aud death, because of an' accident she met with tho hanting-tleld, when her horse fell with her, and, in msing. put his foot on her head. It was thought even after her recovery thaf she would be blind for lfe. as well as diefizafed; but it would now be difficalt from hér appearance to tell the terrible ordeal she had paseed through. M. Chaplin, sauntering down the gravel path, dressed in his usual blue frock-coat and with bis bavd in the tail pocket. joins the pair, and, as all three are good taikers, there ie plenty of langhter. But see the people right and lef making way for an open carrisge drawn by two bays that Anderson wonld give 800 guineas each. for any afternoon. The gentlenien all un- cover, and presently we discern the sweet face of the Princess of Wales, and we loyally stand bareheaded to do homsze to our fa- tore Queen, whom we love 8o much. She seems to have u smile for every one, and such s smile ! Trulv *‘Bertie " is & lucky fellow. We have not yet come acroes the Prince of Wales, - He is not on horseback 60 much as be used to be. In tact, it is not easy to ** mount " him, as he rides 18 stone, He ffeans to mske = raro show in India, and his best carrizge horses and chargers are under orders. Sir Robert Peel. who looke like tho King of Sardinia, has just lefc Tatter- sall's, where, in conjunction -with Lord Rivers, that donelity champion of tha Tichbotne cause, he hag been settling dispated cases in betting. As he walke down the promenade gorgeons are the salaams he makes to almost every lady he meets. With the fair sex, homever, hia does not seem to be much s favorite as the Earl of Hardwick, thongh some people say he is nothing more than a * barber’s block.” ‘They ars envious. The ladies thivk heisa charming man. He is tall, well made, has meely-cut whiskers, and his attire is a8 fanltless as his harse, which is perfection, The animal he is bestriding -was once 8 racer, but was tJo slow for the work; a beautifal bay with biack points, plenty of bone, perfect Bym- merry, aud marselons knee action, He looks ail over like a thoussod guiness. He seems to kmow his beauty, and he and his rider are, per- Laps, the vainest peic in,the park. Taken as & pair they urhmlg are, but individnally they are not. Watch thal haughbty, forid-comploxioned man seated on an Arab, and who, every five minutes, looks around to see whether his groom ia peither more nor less than 80 yards behind, His patent-leather boots, admirably-fitting coat aud trousers, hat that would make the Iate Lord Palmorston go mad with envy if he could return to the flesh, and lavender kgl all bespeak the dandy. Thie gentleman was dnce the Hon. hFr Calthorpe, but a lot of people who wers in his way dying, he became at the same time Lord Calthorpe. With a rent-roll of £40,000 per :l?i:m i :nm c:n afford to ba any- . Last year he was sppoin the stowards Of the Goodwand r':g'a u;:e‘:: lug, and in consequence the Earlof March has bardly spoken to his_father, the Duke of Rich. mond. since. Lady Hastlogs, on¢e sucha fine horsewoman, has quite a home bird since the appearauce of the *cbick,” and is not here, and we mirez to ‘see Lady Westmoreland ‘*on wheels.” In the old days Wwhen * Frank ” was in “festher,” how unper?ahn ured to look on horseback! Lord and Lady Westmareland are a credit to the Anglo-Saxon race. The Duke of Cambridge, rith his _faithful friend and mili- y secratary, “Jim™ McDonald, seldom miss & l 3y from the drive. They both, we notice, have taken to somewnst. atosdier cattle than’ thoy used to nde. Here comes the Duke of Beau- fort, the finest whip in Europa, + abking along with his coach. This reminds ue that 1 we har- Iy we ahlllrgef‘ to * Huchett's " in time to see the ** Dorking " and tne ** Windsor " come in and halfa dozen othera. In " another letcer we shall say something about the cosches. ISABELLA. THE FLOWER GIRL: . Ieabells, formerly the flower girl(;o?Lth Parig Jockey Club. who was dismisssd bacayse she re- fuse .to coutribute to- the support-of her mother, notwithstandinig she hadan tricore of some 8,000 francs & year, was at the races, this season, competing with her 1;val who succeeded her at the Cub. Isabella was dressed a I'Espag- nole, sod had s red flag with her name o it, to attract attention and sell her bohquets. A curi- ous crowd gaghered around her carrisge. She is old, coarse. aod ugly. She grew impatient'with the crowd sud said: **Shall I standon the coachman's box soas youall can gat a better look at me ? Leave the ground clear if you do not want flowers.”” She has become very unpop- ular since her dismissal from the Club, NAVIGATING THE AIR. Thei Schrosder Combination of Aire . Ship and Balloon—What the fn= ventor Expects to Accomplish. - S Neo York Tribune, July 22. W. F. Schreder, whose povel invention in the shaps of an air-ship asserted to be eotirely unde the ocontrol of its engineer, has been mertioned in the ITribune recently, wes in thig city yzam-fhy exhibiting his model and drswings, and consulting with eng- neers. The nachine isinthe fogmof a hife- boat, suppargel by a balloon, and propelled and steered in the desired direction by appsratus like that in us¢in marine versels. The boSt is 65 feet in lunftb by about 10 feet In bread:h of beam. Its rile are of three-quarter inch wire, ‘®od each is capable of beariug a strain of 8,400 unds.. Over the wire framework attached to he ribe is stretched canvaas boiled in oil, 80 a8 to be impervicus to both water and air. In esch eod of the loat is a steel-rod or mast, 23 feet bigh, which is securely braced by stays from avery part of the vessel. Pach mast terminates above in a strong cap of wire frame- work, which eacircles at either end .the pomt of the egg-shaped bal- loon, whichis thus alwavs carried aloug with the veasels nevir dragging behund or swaying from its positio), no matter how high the rate of speed maybe. Around the middle of the h-}. loon passesa strong girdle, attached to the bal- lobn at poitta ouly 2 feet apart. From this de- #cend the mmerous- carrvine ropes which snp- port tho car. Tne strength of the balloon Ia insured by an aggrigate of 837 miles of netting, capable of " bearing s strain of 25,000 pounds. With this arravgemert, if the balloon should bmiat— whieh, it 1831aimed. is beyond the limit of prob- ability—the firm girdle, secared at the ends o the mastheids. would ohly sllow the bottom of the batloon io float up, forming an immenae par- achute, thebnoyancy of which would ssuse a slow desgert. in apiral direction. The grestobstacle to succens in aerial locomo- tion heretdore has heen the rotatory tendency of the ballon, which, 80 long as onlv one motor wea emploted, was an insuperable difficulty. The aaronajt could not steer sgainst this rota~ tion. But itbccurred toAlr. Schroeder that if pro- %flhloueoflfl be effected both before and behing, v one powr pushing and another puljing, the rotation wolld be got rfd of, and then ghidanos would be t comnarativelv easv matter. To sccomplish his he Las put at each end of the boat & propeller of two blades—vo that by vlacing thim horizontaliye e can seitls his boat flatunon the ground—each biada con- strneted of wire and canvas, and 15 feet lone by 4l¢ feet broad. These provellers, when working tofether, “act the one to pull and the other to pwb the ship forward. They will be able to maki over 1.200 revolutions per mihute. At each endof toe sbip 1e & large ruddsr. and these when vorked together stand at angles op- posite to each other, 8o that they act at beh ends, turning tho stern ono #ay mdethe bow the other. As this machinery.is disconnected, the prorollers can both work it one direction, or in opposita-direc- tions, eud, ® they are reversible, headway can be made eqmlty well in either dircction.” Bat this is not all. On each pide of the boat is fastened by hinees & wing 35 fest long by 15 feet wide D front and 10 feet wide behind, which is oncave on the inner snrface. It i set &t an augle declining slightly to- ward the fronf, and flaps up and down at the rate, nnder_fall sneed. of 160 or 170 strokes a mhute. It works on the principle of the bird’s ving, catchine the air in the hollow benesth in tie downwa-d stroke: the upward nressnre texd to lift the machine, bt as the wiog is slighttv inclined forward, the resulrant of this pressure upon the angle of in- clination 8 » teodency to push for- ward, which i8 no little help to the pro- pellers. This apparatus, by being carefully rerulated 80 18 to create 8 balance between the force of the vind and its reaistance, will alsn ennble the ar-ship tn stand stll, which would make it very wiaable as a means of military ob- servation. The maclinerv will be operated by a verv light, stronz bydranlic encine- of about eight-lorse power, to be built esrecially for ths pupnse. The balloon will hold abnnt 80,000 subic feet of gas, and etill aMowed all ndtded rovm for expansion; but to provide aeafngt a posib'e lack of gas 8 gas generator of Iarge capacit* will be kept on board to keep up a constant smolv. In case of a leak little balloons eneired with bird lime will be nept up nside the grest glube, which, being anckd into the leak ana sticking there, will sop it completely. Only sach a hight—to bemessured by the batometer—will it be attemptac fo reach 88 will carry the aeron- anuts above kurricanen and thunderstorms. n s Btill air it inclaimed thst a speed of fally 70 miles an har can be obtaided, while a far greater veloitv can be resched with a favorabla wind. The whole air-vessel will weigh 2,809 pounds, aod freight to the awount of 12,090 ponnds can e carried ander ordinarv conditions. TImmediatdy after Mr. Schroeder’s 1etnm to Baltimore, tle contract will be *Jet by him ana George W. Gail of the firmof Gail & Ax of Bal- timote, bia rartoer, and it is expected that tha vessel will lo readvby Aug. I5 at = cost of £5,000 to 36000, The inventor will go first to Washington,and thence in turn to New York, Philadelphid and Baltimore, when, 1f he has bad the sncess of which he is now confident, he will mate proposals to the Government to carry mails ;o Eurppe. LIB EL SUIT. Price Mcerath Sues ¢ Wilkes® Spirit? for $25,(00—Wilkes Arrested and Un= abte to Get Bail. New York Timef Binatoas, N. Y., July 22.—The diffienlty be- tween Messn. McoGrath and Witkes has assumed greater propirtions than was anticipated. The simple charge of assault and battery preferred by the latter agiinat the former, growing ont of the fracas that owurrod on the 21st, will be settled to-morrow, but Mz McOrath has wued Mr. Wilkes to remver 235,000 damages for the libel- ous artioles illeged to have been publighed in Wilkes' Sgint, on July 17, entitled *The Mon- mouth Man-Trap.” ~Th% complaiot prepared by Mr. Fotey, cue of Mr. McGratn's counsel, wis filed to-dwy in the Supreme Conrt before Justice Bockes, aud an order of arrest abtained. requiring the Sherlff of this oounty to arrest Mlr. Wilkes., It was intrusted to Dapity- Sberiff V. H. Brown, who served it onm the de- fendant at_the United Staes Hotel.. The order cailed for 82,500 bah, which Mr, Wilkes sought, but, not betag able to furnish, remained in the Deputy Shenft’s custody to-night. The order ig returnabla to-morrow at 11 o'clock. Mean- while there seems to be some difficnlty in the defendant's way, and his counsel, J. R. Putnam, * was very anxious to have the tfme for the order's return extended. Ex-Judge Smith, of New York. was named as = ‘Ymblhlo surety, but as be does not own any real estate in this county Leirnot eligitle. However, it is anthoritatively stated that Cammodore Gurrison's guarantee for Mr. Wilkes' appearance at 11 o'clock to-morrow allows him to remain at his hotel to-night. No intiggktion has been given by the Commodore of any¥otentionto go on Mr. Wilkes' bond. Thia gentleman s20ms 1o have grave dificulty to-night in secaring swreties. Shogld hefail up to the time set down by the Court for his appearance to got bait, he will probably be lodged in Bailston Jat. This i what Mr. McGrath hopes to acineve, a8 his incarcerstion wiil render it impossible for him to appear against MoGrath before Justice Scott; at 2:30 0, m., where Mr. Wilkes is- plaintil in the assault and battery csse. In amyavent the case will ntobab’lry bo heard at the Beptem- ber Circnit Term. The fight will be s bitter oue, deapite the sfforts of mutual friends to make peace and hush it up. —_———— ‘The English Scandaj Case. New York Graphic, It ia Teported that the friends of Col. Baker, of England, who has retracted his confession of an assault on iss Dickinson in a compartment- ' cfl:1 have addreased to him a letter offconfidence and admiration. proposing a public reception when he retuins from his g er-resort. It is signed by Colonels exclusively, and sets that ha 18 the victim of a vile consplracy; Mled Dickinson was induced by her friends to make the charge; that his so-called epeech of contrition was extracted from him while he was in an emotional and self-sccusatory mood; that his styie is proverbially hyperbolical sod un- trustworthy; that it is an attempt to blackmail him. and that he in beliaved'to have tlready pard lagge sums of momey to bash the - matter up, morteaging his commission (o raise it; and, finally. that hig charscter 18 known by his broth- er-Colonels to be. good, and . that it is morally ‘lgg n&nluauv lm];glnb]; h:b‘:}x?. coald eom:i& offense oharged. Palace basir hiredfor lhs'eovll.lon. i *GOSSIP FOR THE LADIES. ’Bathlng,: and, Bathing-Costumes at Home and Abroad. Extravagance Voted Vulgar by the : Grand World of Paris. Proposed Esfablisfiment of a Man’s. Rights Association in London. _— A Btory for the Girls—The Woman Ques- tion in Fiji—A Slight Mistake, The Duke of Montrose and His American Bride-~Miscellaneos Notes Relative to the Fair Sex. * BATHING AND BATHING-COSTUMES, Olive Logan's Long-Branch leller #n the New York 5 Graphic. In the first place, the bathing-houses are shanties, unfit for ladics to dress in ; and, in the secand, the exposure tothe gaze of the loungers on the beach is an ordeal which many ladies are unwilling to undergo. The poorness of the bathing-dressos on hire and thq absence of female attendants are other resspns why eurf- bathing is not very popular. The contrast with - European practices herein is so striking that it is roally extrzordinary, with the rapid progress in kindred matiers we have made of late, there isnone in this respect, "At the English watering-places the modesty of the Iadies is maved by the use of the bathing machines, into which the -bather enters {ully dressed, is driven into the water, and out of reach of tao cloge wcrutiny, bathes at ease, afler having modressed in the machine, In Frence all srrangements relating to bathing are perfoct. Bathing-houses of all dearees of ele- gance can be had for the biring, and the beach is enlivened from end to end by the hand- some structurgs belonging to, cottsge-peo- ple. Not to erect one's own plessant bath- ing-house would be considered a strange omis- sion by families living at Biarritz, Etretat, Dieppe, or Trouville, and, in fact, persons liv- ing anywhere within 5 or 6 miles of thoss places put up elegant cottages on the ands. The Jbright and graceful appesrance of these struct- ures adds grestly to the attractiveness of the beach ava French watering-place. Inside, they are always comfortably and often sumptuously fitted up, & small stove being considered an indis~ pensable neceasity. These are private property, of course, The casual lodger at the hotels wighing to batne fids, however, the following comforts gwaiting him: Bath-houses of varying conveniance. according to price ; a fine colleo- tion of excellent and shapely costumes on hire ; male or female attendants, aa required, who, immediately on seeing the bather emerze from the ses, place s hot-water foot-bath and well- warmed towels in his bathing-house. The pre- cautions taken to prevent accidents in the water are also excellent, and well worth Imitation here. As maoy as a dozen baigneurs. or ‘“ bathers,” are always ia the water at any frequented spot, and these men take especial care of ladies and ohildren, earrviog infants in their arms during the whole length of their bath, and keeping a close watch on the movemaats of every person, that none mav venture rashly. Boats, too, ply about, the bathing-grounds constantly daring bathing-hours. and scoidental drowning is al- most imposeible. 1t seerns atrange that theirrepressible cognetry of the American women should not have niched itzelf (to use Mme.Qe Sevigne's expregeifin)in her bathing-costume. Women of the most marked alezance in drawing-rorms obey the law of our land. and mate the vilest acarécrows of them- selves to go into the surf, More bathing- dresses are let out at sLong Branch in a single week than are #o disposed in a whole season at all the French resorts combined. Everv French indv frequenting les baing dz mur pays special attention to providing herself with un costume de bain. And ihus outfit is carefully selected ig regard to its betomineness in color and cat; in it it mnst be 88 perfect, its freshuvess a8 un- doubted, ‘as anv dress that Madame wears. Some of thess costumes are really”| charming, and, when donped, enhance the beanty_ or eleeance of their . wearers guile as much as any,other. A delicate rose anuel, with knife-laitinga of white, hat trim- med in accordance, piuk hose and stratr ehoes, nayy-blue serge with stripes of vellow, green, aud brown merinos—these are gome of the com- binstions whioh dwell iv mv memorv from last season. Manv ladics have seversl smch cos- tumes,—sn extravagance scarcely worth men- tioming, as the materials of which such dresses ara made are verv cheap. Buf, whatever a French Iadv's eea-bathine costame may be,—her own and three or four |t of them in a season, of hired from day to day from. la baigneur,~one accesso- 1v is abeolutely indispensabie. I mean the long tlanwel cloak, which it would be to offend the piaimest provriety not to wear from the moment the bather feaves her cabin until she is ready to plunge into the sea; then the cloakis throwa off, to be immediately douned again oo leaving the water. Sometimes the beach is literally strewn with these cloaks. Each claims her own, and I never heard of a misappropriation. To dis- pense with these cloaks—warm and dry after leaving the sea—saod to run along the sands ex- nosed to tha wind, in a dripping batb-dress, would be considered a piece of imprudenca in a hvgienic sense; snd to dress and go away without hav- ing equalized the circulation by the use of the hot foot-bath, would be locked upon as sheer madness, only worthy the barbarity of American cpstoms. Male and female ationdants kesp all bunons‘, striogs, etc., in perfect order upon bathere’ costumes, and it is considered necegsary to thorouglly wash awayin fresh water everv irace of the gea for the proper preservation of bathing-costumes. It is true that manv Amerl- can ladies here at the Branch have their own bathiog-costames, but these are almost inva- riably made of dark flannel, and no effort at coquetry is attempted. ANTI-WOMAN'S-RIGHTS ASSOCIATION. mdon Corre; e New York Times, A good deal of smusemeut has been occa- sioned by the matured establishment of a new association to protect the male population from the insidious aggressions of political females. Ar. Bouverie, one of the last of the old Whigs, is named a8 the President, and ihe object of the assciation will be to watch the attempts of women to obtain the franchise, and to organize & powerfal opposition. The society will iuclude members on both sides of the House, but 1t -ap- pears to have originated mainly among the Lib- erula. This wonderfnl effory at self-preserva- tion on the part of the men has at first rather the air of a joke, bat I fanoy thers is really something in it. There is, of couise, no reason why men should not combine to defend what they consider theiw' rights when women com- bine to attack them; but solemu preparations of this kind are only ecalculated to invest the woman's movement with an ari- ficial importance.. The agitation iz s noisy one, and the activity of the performers in vunning to and fro scross the stage like the supernumerariés of a theatre, gives a spggestive fea of their numbers; but in reslity thers is verylittlein it. If it was to aseums oythin like a gerious aspect the great masjority women wotld be found to be itsa most formida- ble opponents, and the men might safely leave the one part of the sex to scatter the Among other women's questions, that of e compartments for ladies in railway ges has, of course, been brought up in by the scandal of the (alleged) aggressive Col- otel. In point of fact these women's cowpart- ments are provided on many lines, but, as a e, ladies refuse to travel in them, snd some of them have written to the newspapers in a very candid way to explain their reasons. One ground seems to be an objection to the company of babies, who are usually consigned— with their nurses—to the Iadies' ocom- partmenta; but it is also urged that it is 60 much more plezeant and convenient for ladies to have the company of gentlemen, inas- much a8 the latter may be relied on for many Lttle services and attentions, such as opemng carriage doors, helping, Iadies out and in, find- ing out for them how the trains run, opening and shutting windows, which ladies never ex- pect from esch other ; and then, it is added, the conversafion of geotlemen is so' much mare lively and instructive thaa that of therother sox. In fact, there is quite a cry of horror on the part -of the women at the idea of thair being com- pelled to travel in Orental meclusion. may ba thought that in. this, respect males require protection more urgently than in regard to tha franchise. If there were * gentlemep's oom- " parcments,” to which o ladies were admitted on any pretext woald perbaps solve the prob- lem. Babies, however, would still require some Bpecial accommodation. v EXTRAVAGANCE VOTED VULGAR IN PARIS. New Yorx Wortd. With the excep:ion of. the antediluvian Ep- glishman Worth, who atill battens.oo the. belat- ed enthusiasm of lovely ladies from the Iand of the *Big Bonanza," the dressmakers of Paris are in despeir. [n theveally grest world oxtraca- gauce has at last been definitely voted vulgar, and, 28 the really groat world never does any- thing by halves, an’ Arcadizn simpticity apd frugality bave become thé fashion. At » grand baj just given by the Duchess of Chevreuss, the grandmother of the youthful Duke of Luynes and one of the * summits” of French gociety, the toilattes of the ladies were as “rgmarkabie for their sim- plicity as far their besnty. At the racesioths Bois de Boulogne, the three Infantas of Spain— young girls, it is true, but Princesses of the House of Bourbon—sappeared in exquisitely-cat dresses of simple gray mohair. at agrand concert in the Champs Elysees, the Priu- cess de Bauffremont-Courtenay—Duchess of Atrisco sod Marchioness of Le- ganes and Morata in her own right—made 3 seneation in a charming costumas of pale blue Oxford qlace in white, which had been made up by her femme-de-chambre, sod which cost gprecisaly 7 francs and 50 centimes, or rather less than two” doifars in our currency. The wonderful improvemeats which have taken place of late yearpip Europesn manufactures while we have beén atumbling along in the twilight of * Protection ” are - partly to be credited with this most benign revo- Ilntion. The French drv-goods shopa now sell pieces of Oxfords at the incredible price of fire sous a metre, 80 that for. a franc and half a Jady can bay thirty yards of & lovely summer stulf, For thirteen sous s metre— less, that is, than 3 cents a yard—they sell charming tch goods for peignoirs; and. for from 20 £0.30 Bous a motre, mobaira and taffeta- lizes of the most exquisite shades. The result of this sta*e of things i, that for four francs ready-wade peignoirs can be bought in Paris, and fall costumes for the watering-places, with all the appointments of the hich- est fashiom,—plisses, tabliers, ftunics, and casa —for from to 85 france! No wooder the dressmakers rend their bair or their chignoos. With the exceo- tion of the conglomerato demi-monde, into which M. Arsene Iloussaye labors: incessantly with 8o much zest to delnds the feminine readers of Jay Gould's nawspaper, nobody in Paris new dreams of laviehing the work !‘“ the cosat of winter-costumes upon summer toiléta. By next year, perbaps, this commendabls re- form will reach and revive our own eprings and seaside resorts. Let broken-hearted busbands and desponding bachelors, then, take heart of grace. There really may be a good time coming, afteralil A STORY FOR THE GIRLS. Detrot Free Preas, ' Bit down on the porch, children, and let me tell you about Aunt Rachel, snd the story she once tolime. One day, when Iwas avont 12 years old, I bad planned to go after strawberries, but Aant Rachel eaid to me: *‘ A girl of yoar age should bexin to learn how to do housework. Take off your hat, roll up your sleeves, and help me do the baking.” Ipeuted ana sighed and shed tears, but was encouraged by the promise that T might go after the bakiog. Under good "Aunt Rachel’s divec- tion T mixed a big loaf of bread, placed it ona tin as bright as a new dollar, and was mbbing the flour off mv hands when ahe called out: “This_will never. noever do,"chila—yon haven't scraped your bread-bowl clean.” I shall never forget the picture she made standiog thero, her eyes regarding me sternly, one hand resting on her hip, while in the other she held the untidv bowl. '+ It will neter do, child,” she went on ; ‘it is not only untidy, but it makes too much wasts ; to be a good bousekeener you muat learn to be economical. You have heard th- story of the youug man who wanted an scanomical wife 2" *No "I Soswered, and I mirht have added that 1 didn't wish to hear it sither. ) ‘* Well,” she continued, *he was a very Iikely younz man snd he wanted s carefal wife, 50 he thought of & way he could find out. One morn- ing he went to call upon the different girls of his acquaintance and asked them each for the serapings of their bread-bowls to feed hie horses. You ses thev all wanted bim, so they got all they could for him. Finally he found a girl who hada’t anv, 60 he asked her to be his wifs, be- cause he thought she must bo ¢oonomical. Now,” said Auot Rachel, triumphantly, “‘snppose & voung man should ask vou for the ecrapings of your bresd-bowl, what tapld you say?” *Whst coutd I eav:""I repeatsd scornfully, **whr. I'd tell him if he couldn’t afford to buv oats for hia borses they might starve. I wonldn't rob the pig to feed them.” 1 suppo-e Aunt Rachel thought that 1ecson was all lost oo me ; but 28 true 88 yon live I never knoad the bread to this day withont thinking of her leeson in economy. THE WOMAN QUESTION IN FII. St. Lou's Republican. The Fiji Isisnders are wrestling with the woman question just as other more cultivated people are doing, and the Fiji men exhibit the eame hard-fisted intolerance towards the softor sex that the male usurper does everywhere. The Fiji femivinea have struck for their * altars and their fires,” sod are fighting for their righta. <Their Fiji lords and masters are doing their best to rob them of the privileges of being cooks or learning to cook, by oruelly bavish- ing them from cooking scenes. Now, if cooking is not one of womso’s natural prerogatives, what has she left worth living for? These Fijizns are serionsly and hotly disenasing the questioo of whether it is exactly proper fet woman to joln the jubilant circles snd' dsnee around the fire when a missionary is being cooked. There is a stron arty cootendingz that only the men should "be permitted to participate in this festive scens. Another party, which embraces the women, ‘of course, insist that it is particnlarly aporopriate for them to superintend the cooking department and. as- gjst in the sauces and seasoning, It isa very simole matter of culinary etiquette, that looks a3 if it onght to suggest its own solution, when it id considered that women would not only be of practical use in the ceremony, buf that they have precisely the same interest in seeinz that the issionary is well done as the men have. It is feared, however, that the anti- woman party will carry the day. This will be the hardest blow that the women's righters have had yet, snd coming from ‘such a quarter as Fijitoo! It is horrible to contemplate that, in any country under the sun, there could be # serious movement to deprive woman of the privilega of cooking her victuals, or even seeing it properly done. A MISTAKE. Washinaton Capital. Mrs. Straw—I heard aegood story concerning our friend Mra.*—, who, yon know, is on the briny deep. 2 Mrs. Bwitchem—Do tell us; she was so free with her Iaughs on others we enjoy anything on her. B Mrs. Btraw—The story rans that s dealer in articles of verfu here had io his establishment an exquisite statuette in Parisian marble of the Venus of Milo. Qur friend heatd of it, and gave it an fospection one day. After gazing &t it for some time she sxid : *Did you select that, Mr. Dalf 2" s %a; ‘em.” he r?a&md.edz;d **Why, you mus 8 good judge of a . But did yon ever see mine 7" £ Seute Mr. Delf responded, blushing, that he had not. **Mine," she continued, *is allowed to be the finest figure in Washington.” **Shonido’t doubt it, mzm,” respondsd Mr. D%ll. shifting nneasily from oma foot to the other. *1 shonld like to show yon my figuts,”she said,'earneatly. Delf blushed sll over. *‘Conie up to my house some time. Better come in the morning, when it won’t be likely for auy one to interrunt us.” Poor Delf! he fairly sunk under a table, and stammered oot something about being x member of a church, when our friend continued: * “1t cost me $120 in gold; iz pure Parian marble ; and I would like to havs your opinion, a8 bon are such an admirabls judge.” Ight t dawned on Delf. She had béen speak- ing of & statuette, and not a corptlent, middle- aged lady. A DUKE TO MARRY AN AMERICAN GIRL. New York Sun. ‘We learn that the Dowager Duchess of Mont- rose bas seng an sgent to the Uniled States o procure suthentio inférmation respectwng the estate of the late,Mr. Paran Stevens, ths former lsndlord of the Revere Housq in Boston, and the Fifth Avenue Hotel in this city, The Duchess wishes to sscertain what is reslly she solid valpe of the fortune left by Mr. Stevens, and in what kinds of property. it comaists. This. imowledge is gought, of course, with a view.of coming to an intellectual conclusioa seapeciing the policy of & matrimonial an £szliy of Montross maoriat 'E:,",'.’; betmey Lt is well known in sociery that gh poL, S of Montrose has fur tome tims ”“l-"ungmh - sepsible of the beauty, talents, ang been fhenta of the berera of M. Sorang o 88 0 said of babilit ~ m;;:ot between Lhem.' B 0l uglas Bereaford Mali : fth Duke of Montross, was pors il ke 5w 23 yeers old. Helna mies s05 0y 8 youns feltow, but in rather reducey 12 - 0kky B ces for a Duke; and the oxpected mape B would make bim ruch richer.” s [y family ig one of tha oldeat in the Segri.o%tmm itv, but it may gain new vitality 8 -.x?'h ) by an allisnce with oné of o patuecs il cessful youoger families of the new v,m':_‘ L 5 A MATRIMONIAL Lo $ . Miss de Vergas, says l&hu;rt:zn,:ypn to be married,—nothing very um,d;'u' that—but tho manner ia which tha prpesy ? sccomplish her design is curions, pro® I de Vergas offers horselt as the prize of a] oo for the sum of onalacof 100.000 rupees, Y 8 following conditions: (1) Twenty.tws e Siclieta at 5§ rupees each. (2) The takeg g E etsaresimply to sand in their. DAmes,—thy, h of their subseription to be_collacted wyer ! £ sum mentioned has been subseribed for 1 lottery to take place at a date. to b, announced, at the Town Hall, Caleaity, be aran and conducted by Miss desin 248 & The owner of the winning number wij) f."',. Y option of one of the following choices: ( marry Mies do Vergas, aod shara i 5B the principle of community of 800ds—hey tune of one lac of rupees. () Qr, in the o refusing the marriage, the sum of 5).op WY will-be paid to him. Miss de Veraunhini; herself 50,000 rupees. (5) Misw da Yo & serves o herself the right of refasing p oo, the owner of the winninz number, 8boyld by not . prove to be a person slie wonld espouse. Tn that case the winner will by o) the sum of 50,000 rupees. Sheis & Young hgy of bicth, of noble family, well educate spesks Spanish, French, aod s little z..fi"‘,, - clever, and a brilliant besaty, S MISGELLANEOUS NO ‘When a womaa bas buried her Ifx!& it sounds sort of Lieartless to hear hee LY of the cametery exclaiming ** Next I" A Kangas girl says that nothing 80 mad as to have a grasshopper down her back juat a8 her lover hag come oy propasing point. - i The tidal-wave of measles whish s 5‘ sweaping over Fiji wasstarted bya -““h! = girl. Bhe says she's sorry for the damags et _she wanted to be kissed. v . A Michigan farmer's wife (whoss j way, is Eliza) lately rlmducgd L3 m‘m&."t twing, and the hanpy agrieultarist now Al aponse his * fartile-Liga!" Two rival belles met at » fa 8 ter. ** How well you look umh?m h"]‘e exclaimed one, ** And how charming p thia dark ! " said tha ocher. Toka No Norwegian girl is allowed to herss nn:t::l she cas Bako bread ang. bt et and, as a consgquence, everv girl kit iong bators hs s Fesd e wras P Mother: **Now, Gerty, be s good g givo Aut Julia & Kiss, and sy roobaten Gerty : “*No, no! it I kiss her shell oz ears, liko aho did papa's, last nighk” Taes] Philadelphia husbands are not allowdd tha of night-keys, and, when ihe clock strikas 1, § they are nat at home, the griavod wifa sobe es “Sarab, band me my bonnst and shawi-iad sword-cane!” : Said a magistrate to an actress, * Yoar sion, ~Mademoiselle ?” *¢Artista™ “Yo age?" ¢ Twenty-two.” * Usher, vouetanos 8%oar the lady to telt the truth, the wholstriy, and nothing but the truth.” ‘How manv childran?” the censovtaiw, asked a Dubuque womsn. * Dont kndv* replied the dame, ‘‘they was elsven lab Al and I b'lieve thers was one or twocoms alwg in the winter; caill it a dozen.” The yoang man who offora tostop drinking sad chewing if his girl will marrv hlm.&‘:.ikfgb than & year after mariage, tall har that be soid nimself for 50 cents on the dollar, aud she will e ply that sbe paid 25 per cent too high forlim) | ‘Wheno a Daluth womsn wants to knowwhyln blazes ber husband didn’t order thas wood, he looks at her ia s chilling dignified way, andre- plies : ** I do not wish'to go to the Black Hils bat do not press me—do not arouse the tiger.” Probably one of the moat thrilling spectidia in tife—one that senda through the observeethe greatest variety of emotions in & mo: that of a girl darting her lips nndsr ber lovie's mustache to captare a cherry held betwsan by teeth. Just before marrying an old man for kis money, & Loafeville girl callod her father stids and, throwing herse!f upon his neck, sxoisimed amid smiles and tears; ** O, father! Your pedr, miserabledaughter Will have a new buc every weok.” B A foreign 1ady recently sold s kiss for $30,00, while a {ady-passenger who sued 3 Western oo ductor for kissing her ooly go: 31000 Tou showa how much batter one can do by ndivided cnterprise than depsnding on s tariff tabil rogulated by Iaw. A man in New York quarreled with his wife e Sunday evening. and then hung himaelf to b bedpost with his wile's aoron. This likthe matth monial iufalicity should teach wivea to alvan. bave a spare aoron or two abous the hoase, sl plenty of bedposta. L Ah! it is eomething like rest—aweet, Benufl rest—when a reporter can start from bome ¥ midoight, and not have’ the women In evity third house along the way stick their plzhm-)» ped heads from the windows, and ln,xjom!y i “Has that jury ¢ome in yet? -—M. A wild-eved man, carrying bis bat in entered the depat yesterdsy sud called oat it man who was whesling & hnmga-_r.rnc”k Illflfll( - Where's the train 2" * What train 27 A2 train—any train! My wife isn't ten rods and sho's got an ax-handie over her shouidél and sulphar in ber eye.” Tho Ciacyonati Commercial aga; tyraoni lecree of fashion it - conceal and fiatten the feminine brestt by & ¥ tem of whalebones. Open- war—for 6ome it son or Do resson—has boen declared agaiod prominent busts, and, the flatter the latiar s the more distingue are they considered.’ A Paris newpaper informsits tesdgrs there is s panio in New York 3 e scarcity of women, and that on this sccoant T by awlop gy & [ [ male population are beginning to leavs: Congress I8 disturbed abont it. and thst m: 4 & proposision to give brilliant fates Graw women froh il parta of the mn-y'; wilt then be kept there, 4s-the kept Sabines. i Tha Sudience at & French theatrs I8 o troubled by tall hats worn by Isdies. fie}d-‘ lowing was posted up in con_ipinnogl and poved to be very effective; s ager requests that all good-looking lsdiee Wi temove their hats for the mommaghlfil / the rest of the andience, The sged, ihe and the vlain, are not expectad to this request.” ] 3 Mockingbirds are valuable pets it & e giris. It bas been discovered that m&ym}':’& tate to perfection thesound of evety "":.e % kies, from the Inspirstionsl aud dsvoti the paroxysmal. When p-tarfmlm:mh"“ hears any suspicious ‘¢ swee-peeps ] mrlnr.Angeh:‘:fl will ]nnui:fibfi; {' ird the moaking-bird.” Tt is o traived in 4bis acoomplishment will being 459 in Brooklyn. e The Tsunton (Mass.) Gdzetle tel ‘“fi man who recently conceived the bribisnt id popping the quustion by poatat card. o ingpl‘;nfi disp‘:!gchad one ta the idal of Bz e ‘bearing simply bis name and this chlwn - His feelings can be imagined on zeum;&_ I%e. turn maila card mscribed most enstget bdxk When Jast seen he had checked his collir-BeX/ Chicago, atd wis inquiring the price of thrig tickets to the West, : Yesterday morning a Detroit husbaod -;:, his wife to one of tha depots, that sb® = start on a visit to the ooflntr{. to be D’-""< weeks, and. as she was about ready 10 “!.b" car, hasaid: * Dear me! bub won's £ b'_., some, though}” * I rather think you "1”"--' responded, in a dry, catting tans, **for A m:::al with ‘;1: women, four goflml i detectives, @ep sn eye on 3 e bat is was & 5ad Btailo.—Delroit Fros Presh The other day, A8 & woman in mourmin about finished isking hdcr ‘uhumhua- 3 h:f! bt groverv-store, 40 o piasod I » vohiale which brougnt her o, b8 the country, the gtocsr Asked, *Wouldu't %% hie some nice besns?” She burst hfiflh. madsm—what is fted. - *Did you say besos?” she gy fl‘}?'"nn;:n',;wma o Ma:;t J eart #) on ; i l;-;’fll iar{nnl the Insh o died.— Vi Her