Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 27, 1875, Page 2

THE C ICAGO TRIBUNLE: MONDAY, DECEMBER 2 i 1875. the nobln gifts with which thay are endosed by | to walk like ngincefnl littls Iady." Meta rmilos Nature; dwarfe, bliads, ¢ tultiflos,—thoncruslies, tidiculen. The trfical pathot of ths fato of Mra, B—s 1i— wsa loteneified by the NEAUTY OF AER CHILDRRN, ‘These pure, young souls,—tue olisat & glrl of 13, with her browl, noble brow, thick, clusterin cucls, and eatuest ayes, strong. ecif-contained, resolate, rtanding ro patdently loyal by her mathee'sside; the littlo Jat," ovar whosa baby teauty rusted a shadow of impending morrow; and the fairy sprito between,—awoet flowery sucked down frum the shinmmng surface of the rivor into the elimy marshes: ** tho beat hlood of England in their velns," asthe mother pathot- ically moanod,~whst ia to beoame of them ? What did thay feol and think in the lifa of hone- Teas discomfort and dosolatlon fnto which thoy wace suddenly whirted 2 The eldest girl has or- {dontly upusial forco, and it may ba that the mother's misforfunes will being out in the cbild one of thoss herole charactorn which now and anion emerge out of the abyamal comman- pincoof sverage human nature to the sthieve- meut of Jofty dosds, Not long ago an American lady, a widow of 20me moans, hoaltating a8 to her plaus, mat, At A _ watering-place, an mgreeablo English lady and hor daughtor. Mutually stiracted, thoy tsikod of taking & houso together in London, sud meanwhilo Mrs, 8—— (tuo Ameri~ can) accompanied her Engilsh frienda to Bou- logue, whers thay hnd engaged an apartment far two months, Bho did not Jike the place, and, aftor s fow days, proposed returning to Bogland, with the promise of joining the party In London ac a lator day, The suggostion causod such con- storoation that she lingerod through cousteny. 13ut the poor woman was bored to deatl, aud, each time that sho tried to get away, slio waa entertained with thonsme soenoes, ontrestios, romonstrances, oven roprosches, obstacles were throwss in her war, nnutil {6 dawnod upon ler bo- wildered mind that Ler friend was TRYING T REEP IED A PRISONER, In belof, to make s long story short, sho was obliged o come to au opon and violent breach witl: hor frland, and bave recourso to sho Ameri- | can Consul, befors she could offect Lier euoapo. Mrs. 8—— conetautly aflirme that, ¢ ebo had been younger sod of a timid nataro, she wonld robably have remainod the bond-slave of tho v‘nfill-h woman for life. ore 8ad waa the oxperience of Fllon C——\ & musician, whods story bas aroused groat in- dignation in all who kuow of it This Amerlean [+ girl fail into the clatahos, in tho guise of an en- erpatta boardiug-bouse mistross, of a fomalo Qctopus tn human form ; & new typo of ch ter, probably devoloped anly in our own sgo, and which I'flattor mysolf tist I have been the firat to sualszo and name. For partionlarsof the Qctopus, ace, in Victor Hugo's Iraveillenra du LONDON GOSSIP. watisfaction. e ovory day baforo lio aska for anything slsc, and A Warning {0 Amcrican Girls Inte ?' Abroad. Loout roady to be a hravo soldier somo day, by tharking (ad Tor whatover hs givos, snd sating it without ever thinking about {t.” **8clhion ! schon ! " aaya Kt, Nichiolas, whivh means **Good! good!"™ *'And bas Ilauschen boon & diligent littls boy, andi foarned by hoart somse littlo Christmss hiymus to sing uuder tho Christmas-trao? ' Aud littlo Hansohen, tho youngest of thetn all, his face as rod a8 fire with tho rxcitement, and his blus eves a8 wido open as ho can atretch them, before the mother can auswar, opans his mouth, and curats out just as Joud as bo cab sing, witls his new Chrlstmsas hiymn : Tioly night! sitont nizht 1 Darkness nll, sase yan light Bhining o'er the atable whers Witch tha worshiping, biessed palr, Nig tho Heavonly Culld, *Well dono," says 8t, Nictolas, T will ask tha Christ-kind on Christmag-Day to bring & veory fuil wagon to this houss and now, to show what very nico things o is golog to bring with Him, Jo has sent you beforehand s fosy spoct- mons of what Ho will liave ig Ilis wagon.” Ho ho opens the big bag that liangs by hia slde, aud trings out apples and nuts, canay, Coristkindehons, and all sorts of cakos, cape- cislly big figuroa of limself, and gives oo to oach ous of the delighted children tells them to be as good e thev bave boen, and, if poesible, better, until Christmas comes, and thoy shall havo still more beantiful gifts, ‘Theu he shakes bands with the children, makes a low bow to the mother and suntle, and says he muat hiutrry off, as ho has to visit every honre {n the vilage, and inquire about All hin children, Bometitnen, instoad of 8t. Nicholas coming i pereon, tha father goes ta the door when the knock 14 heard, and comes back with & great bag of pood things, and tella the children all that Bt Nicholas saked him, and what bo nawered beforo recoiving this forotaste of “hristmas for them.—Julia 8 Tunoiler in St Ncholas for December, THE AMERICAN CUISINE, Feminine Types of the Vampirs and Bird=ol-Prey Bpeoica, The Dream of a Pactess, and Iow She Sought to Nealizo It, Sad Experlenca with an Ootopus in the ¢ Form of & Woman, Srectal Correspondence of The Chicana Tribune, Toxpox, Eng., Doc. 10.—~It is sarprisng how many American girls are coming to Loudon ag students of Art, Literaturo, or Boience, These it may bs woll to warn »; types of the vampiro and bird-of-prey specics, peculiar to this climate, by whom sn American woman I8 regarded a8 a most choice prizo: for, oven if ineignificant hernelf, sho may yol bo made available in procuring introductions to her more infincotial conutrymen. English wocinty, with ita complox organization, based In many respects on injustico, producos a very largo class of women. even among tha upper claseos, upon whom is forcod a huwmiliating carcor, which can oaly bo sustained by 1GYORLR AND PETTY INTRIGUES, Consider alono that painful and agitatod class, fringa of the aristocracy,—women excinded by povorty from the sphore into which thoy aro born, snd for which, by cultnre and organiza- Hon, they are fitted ; nnablo, for material causes, to maiutain tholr position; oqually nnabls, for moral canses, to resign it. To what misery aro thean hopeless rouls exposed, How nocossarily aro their faalta developod in rank luzuriance, and thoir gooa qualitien stitled DLy thelr wretchad lives; flitting aimlossly to and fro from chieap watering-places to comfortlesa Jodg- inga in London ; wlithout rost for sonl or body ; tormentod as it in an nnimogioed circlo of & Daute’s Inferno, Thoro fa s host of theso women, in alt surts of positions, witlh s}l sosts of characters, but with this one thing in common ¢ Past and Presont—An Eunvious Nows Yorkor Ifeviles n Chicago Dinner, New York World, Dee, 15, When Brillat-Savarin came to this conntry, an emigre of the Revolution. be found a native and oharactoristic cuiming which oxtorted from him the cordial praise it deserved, Ho bas recorded his particular sdmiration of the rosst turkoy of New England—tha typical dindon in those daya, that their lives hayo doseloped i thom | jfey, tho groat novolist's marvelous description | if no longer so, of tho whols civilized world— s most . eclfiah . aod cruol eagor- | of m conilics between hie horo and & sea dowil, | and of "the now almost purely traditionsl ness in sdvapcing | thelr own petty | into whone caye uncounciously ho ontered; or | ‘“‘cranberry ssuce” of the samo rogion, » viait tho Brighton Aquarium, where may bo eeon a number of spacimons of a smaller varioty of thia redoubtable monster. Mins C——, who bad como to England, with hor brothir, for s year's travel, svaa laft in deep afliction by the doath, altor a eudden {lloesa, of tbis beloved ralstive. An orpbau, with an ardent love of muaie, the accom- {-nmmem in hinr caee of truo genins. slio resolved L? I‘flmlin and becoms A professiousl musician. u preparation lucent, tinet with clonamon (in color only), firm, in eurfaco liko & pond nowly frozon, in subetanco romothing betweon tha original blano-manges of Milan and tho goava Jeliv, not of the Havaus, bnt of the old English plantatious in Jamaica. If aman would mess- nro the hoight from which our native cuisine bos_doclined, and the abyss toward which it tends, lot him road DBrillat-Savarin's culoglum upon_ the turkey, with cranberry sance, of our grandsires, aud then contomplate for one briof morpent of shuddering bat usoful disgast tho leathary deslceated fowl, with ia socompabi- mest of oxidized bullats, floating in red-cabbage vinogar which now deforms ths table of tho avorago Amorican hotel, Bat {t is uscloss to look monrnfully back upon tho past, As Mr. Longfollow, we bolieve, has someowhere observed, it comes not back again.” We #hall never aeain dino on the dishes, any moso than at tho hour of our grandsires, All that we can hopa foris to lift sur couutry up and urgo it forward in tho now path of culinary progress which is now openad to it by the altared circum- stancos of the wortd. ‘Tho American ouisina of inlerests, whatover they may be; aud in an- deavoring to mako a tool of thelr nnauspecting fellow-creaturos. Lowor down in tho social scalo, smong the boarding-liouses sod lodging- hotnes, are new and ondlozn varlaties of JABTIES AXD DIRDS OF PREY, to whora wiles and machinationstho unfortunata strangor Is exposed. Some six months ago, Misa L—, a girl of ** great ability (pupit of tuat admirablo artist of tho dosigna for stained-giass windows, Misa Collingridgs), met at the bonsoe of » mutual triend, a bnllisnt and agroecable English woman, with whom sho formed an acquaintance which +non ripened into an iotimacy, Soon after, Mra. B-— H———, who was living in & very ologaut houro in an aristocratic quartor of tho towa, ine vited Mien L— to pay hor a visit, snd sccom- paoy hor to her country-geat, n vills in Kent, to which sho was soon siarting, With & two- JMISFORTUNRA DO NOT COMP BINGLY. Scarcely had she bogun her atudios, whon hor little proporty in America was swopt away,—=s pebble in the avalsucho of s great failars.” At thio same {tme, through the dishonesty of certain scoundrels in London, who undortoak to carry throngh an ooterpriso for her, aud proved utterly uptrustworthy, cepecially & base bound, uudesersing the name of man, called T—— (knowing tho facts,—mhich I should like to report in fali, but am forlidden, —1I canpot use language leas atrong), eho was left in utter destitution, And now it waa that Mra, N——, the landlsay, rovealed bortruo char- scter, 1litherto she had beon obsequious in do- months' vacation openiug bofore ber ib | yotion. Indeed, it had boen her warm | the futoro muat shape jtaclf like the cuwsinesof doserted London, " whero slo was com- | offors of caro and motherly protes- | all other civilizod»natlons, npon tho genersl parativoly o stranger; with n woskness | sion which had detormined Miss = C— to | fines of tho cuisiné of France, It may be made remain in London, instosd of sccomoanying aparty of fricods to ltaly,—hor firat plan, This waa uatural ; for sbo bad hoped to makg capital from having ap Amarican artist and lingnr in hor_house, Fioding her abandaned, and pursted by miafortuns, without giving ber timo to mature nowplans, to form frisuds, to colloct her bowildored sonzes, sho turnod upon Lior with A YINDICTIVE CRUELTY. that s indescribablo. ~‘Tho satiafaction of harrying and torturing hor victim satisiled ber only for ahort time, Returning one day from a droary wslk, the girl found bhor brother’s pkotobes, eoumlls, and books (articloa to her of iuostimablo value), sa well na sll hier own pos- sosions, stoleh from her room, and horsolf turned into tho street, monoylcss and doatitute, Mias though with raro genius for her for elegant surroundings, presty things, and nits pooplo, Minole Li—— thonght beraelf for- tunate, and accepted tho invitation without hes- Yation. But what rovelations awaited her whon ebo had onco cropeed tho threahold of that olo- sut mansfon, Tar, {ndeed, although tho house tuolf wan of pubstantial brick and mortar, tho {deal bome ot which she had heard so much— ‘ono of the artistio and htorary contres of London "—had uo oxistenco; it was unrosl as the moat visionsry Chatosu en Espagne,—the MEREST VIGMENT OF A DUEAN. Tho fact is, that Mre. B—- l—— (I ro- grot Lthat courtesy forbidd me to write in full her formidablo and aggressively aristocratio name) was not only o clover and brilliant womsn, she wan alk0 a poot, for whickithe world bad scarcely given hor crodit. Left by the duath of lier hus- more amplo, moro varied, and, in gome depart- ments, porkaps, moro piquant, but it will be ea- nnu-hy Freuchin * form and prossure,” snd whore it diffois from its prototype will ' diffor from it, for oxample. as the sonnats of Rurroy, or Milton, or Shakapearo, diffor from the son- nets of Petrarch or Alichel Angelo. At presont wo aro in tho chopping seas of & ‘‘transition poriod.” Qur cutsing is not votd indeod, but it 18 commonly ** without form,” like the earth bo- fore the Spirit of the Word moved over it. Thero liea before us at this moment the Chrnslmaa bill of {ara of o great tiotel in Ohioago, which given the monat vivid and the most heartbroakiug plo- ture of this chaotio condition of the oculinary mind. It is s bugo bill, priutad on what is ealled o **Japaness napkin,” a traly loathsome inven- tion of tho Oriental mind, Lboing an application 0 the dionor table of the paper pooket-handker- band—w wortbloss Eclon of the nobility, | Tat _8nd ~ of "high _epirit, s timid, | chief of Japan and Chins, and tending to do- who lad squanderod Lis latgo ostatos | sbrioking. inexporionced,—the droamy srtist | grade the digoity of dinner prociadly as the pa- in recklems = dissipation—with @ lovoly | bvP0; the Iast person in the world to.mest and E" collar degrades the decorum of dress. The family and & ntisuce ©of an - | ©0pa with such a position, Thus, but for ono | bill bagins with thressoups, one of them nmmuny come; powerful ro]mveu bardoned agalast | of those Providences which show Liow the guard- | desiguated & ** Bportaman Clear of Partridge,” iou angels oarc for their denr cnes, some swift aud terriblo catsatrophe would probably have Loen the ond of this adventura; a noblo Jife sac. rificed to o maliguant combination of ** things ', —a few unprincipled scoundrels, and & vindfo~ tive Jodging-house koeper. As it was, sho wos wafted, ss {f by a miraclo, intg the haven of » hapny homo, where her irohbled spirit found roat. Boon after, thanks to the iuflunca of our Mintster, to whom the facts wore mado kuowp,—one only of tho 1npumerable instances in which Gon, Bhenck, with his Isrga hoart and wide-dlscerning iutelligenco, hns oxerted a be- nofloent influcnce upon tho lvos of Amoricans in London,—uhe FOUND HERAELY SURNOUNDED DY WLIENDS, and in a position to continuo for the requisito period hor musioal studies. “Thin has proved a terrible blow to Mra N—, who, a8 you must bave peroeived, is no loan de- serviug tho mudv of a great artiat than Mrs, B H——, Bmall, prim, active, wiry, and ‘wonderfully oosrgetic and resoluto ; with large, insatiable ~ bluo oyes, and' & small cap _with flowers ~perched on tbo top of her herd, sho looks & singular cross botween a preciso old mald, an olderly Fille au Regiment, and one of Napoleou's grona- diers, Bho bas more than svorazs ability, and seams even to havo begun life with noble nspi- ration d high aims ; bt ber lito has beon o bard one, snd,_in the loveless, bitter strugglo, her doul has dlod, she Lns Tout faith, hopn, and charity ; bas cuased to bo humsn, Donbte losn thore are mnumerous types of good and eovil beings 'sod croatures in all of us, which struggle for supromaocy. Tho mea-devil, cotled At the base of this woman's characler, has gradually devoured her uobler qualities, un. til, given ovor to insatiable avarice and vindict- ive cruelty, sho romalns (he pure type lu human formof a MOMT 1NBIDIOUS AND YFATAL MONSTER. Agnln—Can you read that torritlo doscription by Victor Lugo (such ss 1o other living writer oould Lav P"“""’” De you remomber the cold, rolentless, intloxible, life-inirating coila of besst flung around tho oxhauated and expiriog man? Even then, with siimy oolls of & h\:rocdllcll hatrod masked {u frioudahip, did she envelop hor unsuspectiog vidtim ; even thay, when satieflod that sho could uot muko profit ont of her, did she soek to crush and de- stroy hor lifo. ‘I'hess women, you will perhapa aay, ato excoptional characters. [t msy be, Bat these facts have come to the knowlodgeof coe porson within & comparatively short time, and such A{!m.u flhov:‘ lwlm l? ;,lmnqfimra‘or insrigue porvades all portiona of Euglish socloty ; they o omidichin b Show, t00, Low wary Amoricana abould bs ia | Daneath the bavlo et wi orhison showarem forming new acquaiutancea Aoy straujery. Tho Hs-blvod of the alatn, Poured out where thousanda dio Luat 0ne may reign, , cruwds v’fn celobrate flis Lirth will to men g ‘Who brought the messaga of Aud bursts of joyous song Bhall shake the roof above the prostrate throng, Christ is not come while there The men of blood, whoss criuies afirunt the akise, Kuoel down 10 act of yrayer, ey vise, Amid the joyaus strains, sud, whes. Q0 forth, with sword and fla To wasty the Lauid i 1lts most holy name, On when the day shall bresk O'er realma uulearaod in warfaro cruel arty, Aud all el wiitions waka ‘To tasks of peaceful bauds aud loving hearts, On such » blessed morn Well may the uations say (hat Christ is boru, ._u'ul;nm Cuilen Lryant in the Sew York Evening 'oals ‘which possibly means a parce. Threo kinds of tish follow with oyaters. Then wo nave ten sido-dishies of cold moat, and eight boiled dish- ea, clostng with tho truly marine moss known as a ** Now Eogland diover,” Ten rossts follow, one of them, ¢heu / beisg **a turkey stuffed with oysters and cranberry sance,” A combiua- tion ouly to ba paralloled by tho blaspbemons wrotch who recently, in & Westetn tawn. ingult- od his Makor by eating two dozen saw oysters, rolled 1n Muscovado sugar! bixteen entroos ; eoventeen kinds of game ; a wild turkoy, pols- onod with aweetmosta ; a medley of vegatables, and & mass-mooting of pastry, conclude this monatrous compilation, worthy of Gargasotus sufforing from a 0t of indigestion, Yot what might not have boen dono by an artist posscssing a culipary paletle wo rioh’ and varied a8 this, had ho but learned the ioitial significance of the torminology which he bor- rows and abuson from Vatol, and Careme, and Francatelli, without so much as dimly perceiv- ing itg significance! Christmaa happily comes but once a year. 1f it eame aven thrioe [u Ohi- “fn' dinper would rapldly becomo a hopelees thing in thst vigorous but somowhat ill-regu- Iated capital, CHRISTMAS IN 1875, From the Spaniah, No knlm{nt Liast profaned ‘The day on which the Prince of Peace was borr No bloody atreamles statnad ‘Earth's sllver rivers on that sscred morn ; Tt o'er the peacoful plain ‘The war-horse drew the poasant's loaded waln, The soldler bind Iafd by His eword, and stripped the corslet from his breaaf, And bung his helm on high, ® eparrows’ winter homo and summez nest ; Aud with tle ssmo strong haad Thst flung tha barbed spoar, e lfi-\nd the land, Lier to s yranite-wall by his osrcoer of costly ox- Ernditlxm pustained by dobts which they bad eon required to pay,—sube had prescd the fimt year of tns widowhood in retiromeut in s small zountrs-town, Poet-like, in ber seclusion she dreamed o dream. And this wes nor dream: To create for horsalf snd children the home for which mhe was fitted, aud to which sho bad been accuntomed. Bhe reanlved to have an slegant town house avd Leautiful country-soas ; aud to allow five dear frieods—bosrders, but unscknowledged boardora (could Mea, schnowlodge that ehe was takiog boardors? Rhades af her ancestors, forbid | )—to share with bor the advantages of this houso, paving .£1,000 each for the privilege, and thus cusbling ler to sustain it s A TIULY BAPIY YAMILY, who should mugrato togathor from the {own-houso to the muntrg‘hnusm taks Kuropean tours together, and possiblyfvisit America, 1n pursusnce of hor dresin,—uo poot was gver moro absorbed by his ideal, no philanthropist by bis Utopis,—shoe cane' to London, Qu the strength of ber formidable namo, with » vory nuall advauce of money, sho gainod possossion of ber elegant house; the house gave her un- limited credit; sbo purchased eclegant word- robes for heraolf and childron, plato, wine: on- goged batler and men gorvauts ; provided all the {muplmmllln of » firsi-class establishmaot, nshort, hke s very Napoleon, witha maguitls cent conp d'otut, 86 created out of almont abso~ Jutaly nothing the homo she had boou droamin) sbout. Bho was nat anly a poat, but & succeaal: poct. Ounly ons thing failod : The five friends, with tho £5,000 essential to her success, Bho advortised for them; sho aought them o soolety ; sho employed bier new soquaintances in hunting them up; aho gave balls aud partios to entice tham to Ler iouse,— ¢ IUT ALL IN VAIN, Bbe had a constant succeasion of aspirants slmost ready to Juin her, and yet, somohow, at tha Iast woment they fell away, With her grandeur and Napoleonia schomes, sho secmed w frighten off these more timld sud vulgar rouls. Ono boarder, aud oue aloune,—pardon me, Sfricwd,—sho did secors; but Lie, slarmed perbaps by tho stafclivess of the bute .er, aftor the endurance of two months, au away to Germauy, fodrink mincral wators tor bis hoalth, Sho was loft alano, = Alas | ad- rertisementd and dreains would vot sustaio this azurious ortablishiment. Mirs srrived st ‘he mouent of the collapso. Bho was re, B—- ——"s last hopo. For might not this little ar- 4at-hand load her into ** freah flolds sud pae- ares now,” whore roamed tho rich Amoricans of 1er droams, where thoukands of poanda ghttered w the tme-lo&m, and bank-bills sprang up with hograsses ? Would sha not jolu with her for tho ake of hving wu 8o clegant nansior in Quecn's iato's Gardous, and, thus sistained, might sho <ot yet **pull through™? Vain dolusion, Min- o T——, finding & bailif 10 the house and aecution threatened, declined tho ologaut diouer arty vropossd In ber honor, and W introduca .er hoaters to Minnlc's distinguisied friends, nd fled incontinently to her protty studio ; thile My, B— l—, aftor standivg at bl{ ganst her oreditors, with a hoerolsm which onld have dowe credit to s feudal Baron of hree couturios Ago, barricsded in Lor Stately nausion, from which sise refused to Le efected, Wil DBIVEN FOUTIL AT LAST, vith ber childron, to bo rushed dowu in the un- ovely warshes of cheap London lodging-hoasea, Poor Mre, B—— 11 Yor montha sfter it whe hisuntod Mirs L——'s atudiv, aud be- mwne koown-to all hor circles. I could i iwonty pagos with the sccouut of her fofinitiely fantestic saviogs and doivgs to which ooly & Clackorsy conld do justice, For, whore such A wowan beging to sink, her good qualities Oh ttme for which we yearn! Oh Babbath of tho nstlons, long forelold 1, Heanon of pesce, return | Like & late Hummer when the year grows old ; ‘When its aweet sunny dsys Btecp mead aud mountaty slde fu golden haze, For now two rival kings Flaunt o'er our blecding land thelr hostile flags, And every moruing beings The hovering vulture from the mountsin crags To shere the battle nisin Ia strewn with dead the youth and flower of Spain, $ Christ ix not como while yet ©'sr half the satih the threat of battle lowers, —— &t. Nicholas’ Day in Gormany. One of the deacouessos, good aud wise Histor Elupeth, **meine licbo muttor schwester,” told me how they celobrated Bt. Nicliolas' Day st hor elater's houss, and in » great many other Gler- man familios : Lata in the evening, on the day bofore, just about tho timo whon the childron are usually sent to bed, & loud knocking is heatd &% (b uor ; the mother, or auotle, gues out to lot the stranger in, and comes ruunlog back, with : ** Oh! chitdren! chiliren! wuatdo you think? hore i6 Bt. Nicholas coming Ing the Chirist-kind has scut bim to ask about you sll, that he may know whether to briog you soy preseuts st Christmas or wat?" The cluldrog sll Lecome very much exclied. Lattle IMauschen ypulls his spron wtraight; Kard amooths dowa his hair wilhs hig band ; fletta Bets turos out lier foce, sa auntie is rominding her 1o do all day long; and as thoy ars allon tiptoe with nkmcuuwn, tho duor opens aud lu Ineve Changed Fis Miud, Detrowt Free Fress, wre velled, Ler follics only come to | walks Bt. Nicholas. A great big bag hangs by A strapping big stranger entored s store on i surface. For wmy vwvn Ym. T regardad | bis i suow-white balr falls fiom uuder his | Woodward syenue yesterdsy, aud lesning too acr wib the profoundest pity.” Bho was a | bishop's cap; aud so much long milvery beard | Lioavily on the show-¢ase broke one of the panes svwen with msuy wagoiticent qualitiea; she uad the coursge, fortihity of resource, directnery at viion, of a great Goueral 3 puwer and energy lost through 'w“fl faults so ingrained futo her pature that sle was mnconsclous of their eustency; the results of Lad n-hnn.{ or no truinine, eugendered by her uterly false, un. real Dife. Bho was recklessly extrsvagaut, of detal coald wo luugur dis- dresma from soalities. Au absclute , sba refused to tuake MDY Compiomise with. circumstances or persons. Worst of all, * she biad too hittle cultare Elnla oulture) to aspire toaloftier aim than that of material lusury snd xocisl distinction, ‘Iheso unfortunate wom- i Baecloly manacles them Lands and feet; in- dioumy parslyzes their oeargies; deatroys covers hls faca that the chuldren can hardly see | of lfl’lhlflg but his oyes, Theae, Liowever, look so ¥ind sud good, aud twinkle s0 Elnu-nuy. thae * Haven't got “tue mouey™ replied tho little Hanschen lets go the mother’s dreus and | atranger, yonturos m atep nearer to the now guest. The ** Weil, you can' go out of Ltho atore until yon Iatter bows very politeiy to mother sud anutje, | pay for that glavs," sald tho storekeeper fu a sad says thet, ay Christmas s very near, the | determined volce. Chrigt-kind bas gens him to all the houses of * 1'm gorry, but I'm willing to be licked, It that tho villaga to find out to what will do you auy good,"” roplied the strauger, rap- the Christ-kind must bring presen idly gotting out of two costs and a vest and was, whou ho comos in litsly showiug arina like foints of atove-pipo, wagon. Then the ssiut makes ve: ‘* Ob, T guoea {t “was ur%l‘y accldontal,” maid glasa, **That will cost you @2," eaid the proprietor. srifculsr ltoquires sbout each child. * Ifse the hop-keoper n an altered voice, as he got to turu out her toes whon sho walk bebiiud the counter iu & Burry, * and youneedn't wiger an , o acar tckel ou sto gowg up the av & py I think Mets is trylng very hary to loarn L4 L2 £ . with pleasare, and 8t. Nichoias gives a nod of ** And doss Katl eat all his soun nuur;mmhln about ansthing that is puat on hts " *Yea, Karl has learnad not to be a baby about hisdinuor,"” says thomothar, **and is gotting Suddenly fortane beamad upou them, now railways wore to bo bullt in Prussis, 'STROUSBERG'S CAREER. A Daring and Unserupulous Speculator. The Btory of the Rlso and Fall of tho {ireat Europsan Contractor. Correanondence Sew York Trivune, Deatay, Nov, 10.—Ths careor of Dr. Strous- bosg I8 oot unlike thatof Raston, of Califoruls, in its short and dazzling brillianoy, even it it be less traglo In what promises to bo ite close. o was probably & less accowplished man thas Talston, avd cortainly & less honest one. Mo nover enjoyed at Dorhn much resourcea of mouoy or of public confidenco as the other had in San Franolsco, That imporial breadth of gonception, that magnificont show of public spirit, that impressive asrocistion of personal aima with national onds, whiol half redoom tho errors of Iialaton, formed no pard of Btrousberg'n charactor or policy, 1o was at the beat & DARING AND UNFORUPULOUS SPECULATOR, whoao echemes would hsve boen only incidental- 1y of publio bonefit, Iis rallwaya wera poorly built, his mines swers Indifforently worked. Ile ends Ll caroor, too, not with tho drsmatio effect of Tialaton, but like a vulgsr swindler in a Rus- sian jail, while pawnbrokers aro speculstiog with Lis wife's jowola. In splto, howover, of thana {ibints of dlssimllarity, the two men and their tvo caroers must suggost w comparison to many obsorvord, Strousborg is a Polish Jew by birth, I think thio patornal signature was Btrausberg, but I will not add with positivencas tho erimo of falso speliing to tha moro serious offenses of which tho spocolator has sinca bocome guilty, The oliange dotes probably from bis long residenco In London, whera the aimplest way of writing patronymics {s looked on with disfavor, Ho bad 'sn uncle- fn London posscasing some fufluencs in businesa circles, who holped inmany ways and donbtlees mssisted him in winning his English wifo, About twenty years ago Btrousberg was sent to Berlin as agant of thoe Albort Insuranco Company, and thers doubtiess learned somo of tho finaacial dovices that have puzzted mors conservative obeeryors, In those days of honest tofl TR WAR TERY POON. Nelther hia nor hin wifo bad any fortune, and tho fucowma from the insurance business seems to have baroly kept shom from actual vémnh ome and the coatractd for them ware awardod to Thomas ~Drassoy, tha groat En- g:’iuh capitalist, Birousberg, who spoke th English aud German, won perbaps by hls ability and entecprising spirit thie confidencs of Brassoy, aod was made_his chisf representative and buninesa agoot la Prussis. From that time his cateer waa mado, Iissorvice undor Brassoy | initiated him into railroad onterprisos, and on- ablod him to mastor tho srt of sccuring invosts monts, « Tho onthuslastic confidence shown by some mon and some institutions in Btrousberg's on- terprises {8 {n curious contrast to the rescrve sod akepliciem of tha Bank of Prussia, Up to about ouo year ago this institution would not take his papor, even fndorsed by tho fwo uamea which ita roles roquice. That the beiter clasa of capitalista here always distrusted bim, {8 shown {n tho comparatively smsll losses now o known. Wit tho Discount Hocioty, which was for soveral years lis chisf finsncial support, ho enjoyed unlimited credit: sod the suthority of that lnstitution may have holped him abroad, whero tho prudonco of Gor- ‘man backiog waa provecbisl. In the vartous localities where his ontorprisos wers coaducted, he essms to have fmpressed paople a8 an UNSELFISI PUDLIO TENEFACTOR, In Roumania ko stood next iu bunos aud digaity to tho P’rinco hitnsclf, At Bubna, noar I'ragus, tha vary pessanta were roady up to the moment of the nrublutu Jul their swsil saviogs at his ocommand. (0acow, ovo of the most pros- orous and prudent cobocrns, the Commorcial ak. of Loaus, seoms practicslly to bave givon Lim the key to itd vaults without any check or security whatever. A spocies of fanat- iciam took awsy the resson of alf who were hon- ored by ble promissory notea. The wan could borrow otllions, whilo lia notes for hundreds were daily protestod at Borlin, Btrousberg is & short, stout man, notive sud decided in bis viog an__improssion of talent, energy, vower, No oue could moeet Lim without boing struck by his appearsuce, The earnostness of hin solf-nsaortion, tho darivg magaificonce of his schomos, carned everyshing before biw. At Moxcow, while the stockhiolders of the Commorcial Bank wero A\m. deciding to throw him ovorboard, ho walked ioto the room, a8 Loma XiV. into the Varlisment of Paris, snd domanded at ouco a now loan of $1,360,000. Ho was lviog st tho liotol Dessaix with a sulte of retainers, at =» cost of $102 por dsy. Whon arrosted and sakeu to tha dobtor's prison Lo had just $29 available mouoy in_his pocket. Btrousbery was what the ¥rench would call an eutroprovour, the Gorwand au unteruehmer, and what we would call an “undertsker," if wo hiad not porvorted that word into a limited aund wholly grotesquo sonse, o was s CONTRACTON. o built railways, bought sud worked mines, founded vast iodustrial establishments, aud took care aiwsys to gain mnnnf for himself, if oot for hiscreditors and associates, Just how Inrge a piivato fortuns hie had acquired is not known, for bio was always lnbmu:rn{l in mort- goges and notes. Butho mauvaged to organizo sod suppoct & costly establishwant at Berlla, where bis Liomo nominally is, and everytning tlat could be tranaferred l)'lpi!lr! to have boen made over to his wife. 1f the nawspapors ba corroot B0 has aoted ko & true woman and wifo, A mino which sho owned jn her own namo, snd which was worth 1,600,000, sho sold somo time ago, and put the procoeds into her husband's euterprises, Nor was this all. Wuen tho orash cama phe was at ther country-sent, Zbirow, nosr Prsguo, and she promptly sold hor jowels aud other treasures, in yalua ucarly €75,000, and soat that fhoney ta him, Afcer bia arrest, shie startod at once for Moscow to offect lus xoleasa. Tho poor woman, whio had just boen living in a castlo like & prin- cous, was obliged to borrow monoy to pay hor railway fare. It is stated that at the station, where hundreds of men thrown out of work, and many of them ruined by her husban catasirophe, wera nasambled, sho was treated with respoot and sileut symflthy, The incident domeryes uotice. ‘The devotion of the poor wom-« an to hor Lusband {s the ooe single bLright fes- ture in this caroer of pretease, of swindling, and of shame, aod it {s gratityiug to learn thet aven tue rough peasants of Holicwnis can apprecisto the fact, Aftor sho affalr of the Ronmanian railways, which turew s tomporary cloud over _the " philanturopiat's” fame, be removed to Lon- dosn. It was aven rumored that hio had retised from busivess, They who sccopted such & thoory know littls of iho man's yestlsss patnre, for about a vear ago ha returaed, and in a short o was agaln DEEP IN A VARIETY OF XNTERPRISKY, At Bubns, near rague, aa abovs mentioned, be began & achema which was brilliant {n prom- {uos of success, The vicinity furmshes ooal, irou, sud wood, in abundance. Thewe are the thres principal materals 1squired for tha oon- struction of railway cars or ‘¢ wagons,” when Sirousberg fssued propos- for stock in & company which should have {bat object ho found plonty of vios tims. Maoy paapla still balicve the pn!ml bad elaments of success, but it wabted the eloment of prudens, not (o eay honest, management. It waa too oclossly bound up with bis other schemes, sud when they failed it falied. At Moncow ho was building and vrgavizing raliways, and waa engaged in othor works ot public imgrovemont. Hora ain be found plenty of dupes till the truth revealad and the crash came. ‘ireo oitica sre now contending for the satis- faction of punishing their common foo. Moscow haa the victim Limuself, bot penniloss ; Prague haa ihe Lubos prop- erty and its 4 v Derlin baa bis houss and fornitare, ‘I'ie issne of the case must be swaited Letore the whole teuth can ba known, bat they who are Lis creditors will doubtlesy eujoy thal nopor for an indofinite time. I ought to 2dd, Iu fairness, that there are e, in no wise counactod with Btronsborg, who still believe thot he is su Lonost man, #fud even s deserving aud usaful citizon. ¢ —_— The Providence Tool Company,. A correspondent of tha H%rhl flold (Mass,) Jepublican repsosents that the “bottom faot™ in the recont suspension of (ieoue & Crauston, bankers, and the Providonas Tool Company, was the delay or omission of the Turkish Govern~ ment 10 place their socond instaliment of £600,« 000 lo London to the credit of the Tool Com- y, which has sn order from Tutkey for 600,000 Peabody-Martini rifies, aod hLas already thero for agon. Tivery peneration witnesscd foton moro and mora magnificent offerod by tho princely ownor ta the monarchs of whom ha wan ahifsped 200,000, Tho firm of Greene & Cinin- ton rms to prominepen In the palmy daya of the Hpraguo [iower, Mr, Groono Is dend, but tha frm aull holils 100,000 ef his monuy fora | well nigh the compesr. Josoph I, of torm of venrs, aud. being conridernd thoroughly | Ausirla, Christian, King of Denmark, Paul sound, hold Inrga doposits, Their spacial Luni- | T. of Russin, Gustavas 11 of Hwadon, noss wan Y placing noten” os commission, when a firm hiad run out its hine of discount sl lts own bank, Noturally they camo to uso their dopositorn’ mooey for discaunt purposes, formod but & group in the golden book of the guests receivod at thin most hosoitable house, And thon camo tho alorm of tho Qroat Revolu- tion. Chantilly wout dowa like a tall troo bn. making tha duuble proiit of commirsion and | fora tho biast. " Tho oll castle of the Constably dinconnt. Tholr deposta at ono timo exceeded | was demoliahod almost ontnaly, ‘This anciont 1,000,000, The Toul Oompany, on getting | chapel where for centuries had besn annnnlly their Turklal contiact, oxpouded $1,000,000 in new - machinory. Tho Company ltaol! waa uot connlderad vory strong, but ita rtockholders woro Lieavy mon, sud oaxly raised wliat wan wanted {n" Duston, New York, DProvidoudo, sud otber ousies, somo of the banke ryie A _rogular liue of £100,000 of the Company's paper, 'L'o ralse still more iney rororted to Mr. Uranston, and individaal stosk- hotdara are eatd to bave promisod to back Lum, if ho shouid at any tuio iud bimeolf strait~ ouod by mdvancen totho Company. Ou theso roprosontations ha loaned to them nomo €400, 000, It was whisperod last week that tho Tnrks wero behind 1n thor remittauces, and tharo wore aignt of 8 run on_Mossra, Qreono & Cranaton, Neither the Tool Cumpany nor tho individual Bwocknolders rosponded © to Mr. Cranston's calls, and ho suspendod to protect his depositors. On Monday afternoon the Tool Company asked an oxtension, Tho offect was nearly o panfo {n Rinodo Island, but a bettor fecling provails, as wa bave alrosds noted. It in thought the Company, which mads 200,000 profit last year, wilt ba kept running, ‘I'ho em-« ployes, uumbering 1,500, have signod a contract poatpoutug pay-day, THE CASTI eolebrated the curious rite known as La Mewa des Chirna de Bt fuberi—a masa actually sung in the prosonco of the 1hince's pacin of hounds, whicn were supposod to bs groatly odifiad by the porformance—oven this vonerable rolict wai not spared, whilo mobs of ardont patriots mada n rait of the Oraugery, and thn tower In which had been preservod tho armor of tho Maid of Odcleans, Al tho glorlea of tho Park mera tramplod under foot, tho islands in tho lake, the Ile d’Amonr, 1'le du Iois Vort, the Wemplo of Veous, tho Great Cascade, the Pavilion of BMansard, the I'aieanderio, Pm Menagerio, tho Laterie, foll alike n prov to bo destruction. OF the Chantilly of the Mont- moraucis snd the Coudon scsrcaly auylhlng was permittd to enrvive, sava the enrlons pavition called tho Cabinat ds Wattoau, which had Leon dacorated in tho most morotricions of stylos by & not teo serupulous paluter, and which bad besn rendered infamous by tho orgien of the Regant Otlaans and tho Duchessdo Borrl, That thia building abould Lave escapod demolition seamed liks 80 much savago thoozery on tho part of tho poopte. ** Bolioid the Royal relics of the eightoonth contury 1" might “bave snoerod thy onfranchised domocracy. In A slmilar apirit of syniciem or io sardonlo veneration of a no- torioun patriot, great portiona of tho atables of Chautilly romained intact, fur in thoso stalla lind ones ofticiated, In tho capacity of a groom or lielper, & nian who subsequently rose to ba & momber of tho ter:jblo Trinmvirate which dreuchod France with blood and fillod all Europo withs terror. One of tho mosl noted modorn **ilinstrations " of Ohantilly ia tho oternally fo- fsmous Jean Paol Marnt. The Dno d'Aumale’s proporty, ruined as aro tho anclent propartiony of its cdifices, still offors accommadationa, nud even handsome quartcrs, for a novlo family, Chanotilly races have beon 'for thirty yoars tho delight of tho Parisians and of foreigh visitors 10 tho Fronch Capital. It would bo for tho best, rorbaps, to coutinuo to regard tho antiquo domain fn ita pleasant sporting and picturesquo aspoct, Tho Chantilly of thy lmsg. robmilt in strict accordance with tho original doaign, might awaken somo vory ugly rewiniscencos of Frouch history which 1t would be in the highest deyreo expediont to refegata to pormanent oblivion, — A French Doge M. Dumont baa a dog Panpier by nome, and bly mastor is devoted to smoking. Somotimos M. Dumont gots out of tobacco, and Pompier, knowing whero tuo tobacconist is, hias fiva Bous glveu him, when ho stralghitway goes ta the to- acco ehiop, buys tho wood, aod roturns with it to his maater. Bomo ¢ime ago Pompler had somo money givon to lim for tobacco, but, meoting A spaniol fust round tho corner, tha two doga had a gamd of tag, uud the money was lost. When Pompior camo Lowmao sithout any tobacco ho got n sound thrashing, Noxt dnay Tompior went out azsin with more monoy for tobacco, Round tho cornor, suro enough, waq the samo spaniel, trying to lure poor Pompier from tho path of duty. Pompier did his best to rogist tamptation, but alas ! Lo way wealk, and ho fell from yraco a sccond timo, and tho monay waa foat. Now, boingz & Freuch dog, of courso some flen of suicido flaehed throngh bis brain,'bnt, being & moral dog, and a icilectiva dog witll, he looked carefully at the situatiou, Au hour aftorward Pompier marched into Mr, Dumont's prosonco with full 10 sous’ worth of tobacoo. Of courso his master wan satisfled, Noxt day tho dog and his master took & walk in the Luxembourg gardons, ‘they anprosched n group of hoys au;n«ml in playivg pitoh-penny, “1 say, you, sir," criod ouo of tho ganius, * that is a nica'dogr you haval Oh, I recognizo him, X shall tell tho police all abont it. if you are not a thiof, your dog {s. Yosterday, when wo were playiog horo, that dog mada a jump for the ooies, goubled thom all up, and was off again iko lightning,” ~ *Iyis with regrot,” ndds the authority for this dog atory, *‘that I am forcod to state in the mout ponitive torms that Pompier waa a thief, Of courae, ic may ba quits ja order to inaist that dogs are ondowed to-day with n Bu- perior order of intolligenco, I have nothing furtlor ta advauce, nordo I wish to exicnuato Pompler's crimo,” e e OF CHANTILLY, ¥ts Restorntion by the Dac d'Aumnle. ZLondon Telegravh, I{a Royel Highnesa the Das d'Aumalo must be a bold man, " Ilow should it bo otherwise with a doscendant of *hat bravost of paladiu, Robort lo Fort—with a I'rinco belonging to & houso of which, to quote the magnillicont comptimment of tho late Bir Rtobert Peol. “all the eous wora brave, aud all the danghtors virtaons ?" Yot nre thero adventures well mgh too porilous to be un. dertaken by champlons evon of tho mast heroie calibro, 2 was weit poioted out by Una, when sho vainly attompted to dissnado the Réd Croms Knight from confronilug Error (n its don, The Knight judesd succooded in slasing tho mon~ ster, but, as (t was born again the noxt momoot, the maidon's waning was, undor tho clrcumstances, justiliable, ~ We mizht ndvige tho Duke, who s a ripo scholar In 1inglish lotters, to pouder woll on that passago inthe * [aorle Quocne,” tn shich Koights Ir- rant aro admonished that oft flro s without smoke, and poril witbout show; and that it ia sometimes wise, *‘whilo foot {8 at tho gate, to stny the stop ero forced to rotrate,” A rocent paragraph in a Parls ovening papot anoouncoes that the Duc d'Aumalo has dotermined to tako a step which many persons may doem to be fraughs with mnet risk. The Duke, as {8 well known, has iulerited tho vast domamns and tha bulk of tho tmmenso porsonal wealth of that lnet of the Coudes who, n littls more than forty years slnce, closed o profligato tifo by a dreadful death, tho myrtory surrounding which has nevor boen oloarocd wp. Among tho brond landa whioh aro now tho mapuni of tho third eon of TLous Ihilippe 1s tho magnificont catato of Chantilly, aituatod some five aud tiven- ty miles from Paris; and, If tho statement of our Fronch contomporary bo suthontic, tho Duka haw decidod on ontirely rebmlding, tn ace cordance with tha originat dosivns, that famous Chatesu of Chantilly, whieh waa sacked and wrecked half & dozon times during tho fNrat Rovolntion, and of whose “original™ fabrlc thero in now stauding scarcoly more than tho romaing of Xenilworth. The expense of tho work of restoration impated to the Dako s esti- mated at 4.000,000 of france; but this outlay forms, gorhaps, by 0o means tho most important foaturéMn the ndventurous echome, Buch a sum as £160,000 may scem but_a bagatolle to a milllonalre I'rinco; but ho who robuilds Ohan- tilly must brivg back itn meny memorioa both for ovil and for goud; and it 1s pessls bla that tho majority of tho French people wonld rogard tho rosturation of the castlp, ** in aocordance with tho onginal designs™ with about tho samo degroo of favor that thoy would bostow on & pm?efl for re-ereoting tho Dastila, A Tronch writer has woll obsorved that conld tho remembrance of Louis XIV. ba wholy blotiod out, Chantilly might bo used ss a convertiblo term for Versailea: and thai if, on tho otbor bhand, tho crown of France could bo placed on the brow of tho Telt Conde, Versalllos wonld bo virthally Chantilly, Alboit widely differing in thoir etyles of architecturoe, tha two palatial edi- fices may bo qualitied as twin brethron snd rival twins, Versaillea was tho paisce of n King ; Chsutilly the palaco ‘of a I'rince; but thoro wan httie to chooso bLotwesn thoir atract- ural magnificonco and tho splendor of their bistonieal traditions. Vorsailles, in its bighest estats and alinlest days, was envious of 1ts rival, and Louls XIV. was greedi- ly ambitlons to appropriuts the opposition oha- tenn for lus own anjoyment. **Ay consin,’ he #aid to the great Condo, ** put a price upon that bouse of yours at Chantilly,” "It isat your Mn{eun'fl sorvics for nothiug,” replied tho Lero of liocrot, **only I must be purmitted to live in the portor's lodge.” "I nnderstand you, my cousin,” rotirnod the Graud Monarque, with n frown ; ‘*Chantilly will nevor bo mino." And yet the castle aud ita demesnes had onco bocu sppanages of Frouch Royalty, It was originally fondat denfuu. hold in tho tenth contary by Barons' who olaimed to be descendants of Charle- magno, snd, passing subsequontly into the Mont- moronci family, 1t wan groatly enlargoed, half in thoe Gothio and half inthe Hensisssnce atyles, by tbe renowned Constable of ¥rance, Anno do Montmorenci, who here entertained that Charlos V. of Spain who had taken both himand his Royal master, Francls I, prisouera at tho battlo of Pavia. Montmoreno’s ransom was flzed at the modest sum of 150,00¢ gold crowns,—the price of a province,—but tho sum was cheerfals Iy paid, snd tho darkly suspicious Spaniard, who was afraid to trust himolf with hia former oap- tive, Yrancls, Bt JYoutalnebleaw, or at ihe Louvre, hoartily accoptad tho hospitality of the atout old Conscablo. Evil dava wero 1n store for Lis race, A contury later, tho Coustable’s de- scendnnt, 1lenni de Alontmorenci, ontered: joto a plot againat Juchelien, and was bohoaded at Lous louse, Cuantilly aud ita horeditameuta wore con- flacated by Louis X1IL, who flung thedomatn, like #oinn ricl baublo, to bis cousn Isnri de Bourbon. And, fudoed, the castle, situated betweon two foreste—those af Chautilly and Dalatro—has ‘beon compared to a dismopd sparkling in the mwiust of emeralds. With tho proprictorslsp of Louls do Bourbon, son of lleori, called the Great Condo, the history of the splendora of Chbautilly marches with giaot strides towarda ita apogee. ‘Tho bioro, who waa as vain as e was vallant, ropaired and voautifiod tho chatean from roof to basemont. Mansard wad his arabie tect, Lo Notre was his laudsoape paiuter, Le- Brun was his docorative painter, avd in the saloons, pavilions, aud ploassuunces of the com- potitor of Vermailles, walked and talked such men as_Moliers, Bossuet, Racine, Bollean, and Bourdalouo, Madawo do Seviguo wrote ono of ler wont famous letiors at Chantilly; Intor days Mademoisello Claiolais, = Made omoisclle de Bons, and Mademoisolle de Clare- mout wero tho threo Graces of the enchanted place; aud hers, at tho most dissolute periad of sho Regeucy, P'hilip of Orleans brought soandal s well ag splendor to requite the hospitality of hia boat, Darker doeds bad beoo dune ere then a¢ the Castlo. ‘Lhe Dug do Bourbou, who was the son of the Urand Condo, kept oconstantly nesr him & prince of parasites, a toad-eater in ezcelais, namoid Mousieur do Bavtenll, who oo« cupied lia brief lolsure in mivistorjug fo the whima and caprices of his noble owner by oarve ing sonnets and opigrams ou tho trunks of the trees in tho park. DBut the capricea of noble owners are aometimes of o naturo so practivally focose sa Lo be somewhat iucouvonient to thelr oufects. It pleased Monsiour le Duc, whilat sup- flna ona evening with his favorite, to cause ousieur da Banteuil to drink s greal deal more champague than was good for blwm. While :Iu parasito was in & balf-helpless condition he princely Ynmn smptied tho ocontonts of Inrge box tull of Bpauish enuff into Lix gl Poor Bauteuil gresdily uwaliowed ths druy; draught. Tho noblo company grestly enjoyed tho wry facod ha o, But be inade so nan; that he died forty-eizht hours afser in the mosi horrible mgonios. Nor cau we forget the equally tragical bus losy scandalous etory of Vattol, the famous cook. >hurlng the fotes given by the great Condo to the Grand Mouarquo at Chantilly 5UU guents were entorisined, aud thoy woro feast- od at Lwenty-pine tables, At two of those ta- blea ono nixlit e reli had boen wauted, The cook's anguinh of mind was (nteuse. Ho was diehonored, hio said to liid frieod Gourville, Tuo uwext mosuing, in lieu of the vast gupply of fish which he expectad, two petty purveyors oul brought lim & fow turbot aud ‘wsck “La mares mo manqae,” he cried. tel rusbicd upstales, alced tho bilt of hilw sword sgatuat the door, sad slabbed Liwee!f fo tho hoart, But, irouy of {rounies, just as they were rafsiug the corpse of the poor ohef from the blood-stained tloor, s great rumbliug of wha way heard Iu the paved courtysrd ot the cast! I¢ was * o mares qui arsivair 7§ and wagooloads ot every kiud of fish haid cows from every port A Profesylonal Creake Somo montha sinco an Laglishman named At- kinson baught a country place noar Pithiviers in Francp. I'ur many weekas theroatter, carpoutors and masons wore busily employed in ropalring and altering the cbatesu: and aftor thelr worls had boen comploted, Mr. Atkinson issaed {nvita- tions for a largo dinuner party to ail the most promiuent familjos In tho neighborbood, Tho guosts arrived at G o'olock, and, ou taking themr seata at tlio dionor-table, noticod with surprise that thers was not evon ono servant to Ua soen, I'ho soup was coogumed it sllont astonishment. ‘When sil had partaken of it, the hoat sounded a whiatlo, and, g8 1f by magioc, tho sonp-plates dig- appeared, and {hirea moguniflcont ailver plattors, eufl contatuing a roast goose, appoared. Littlo oribs of terror woro hoanl from the iadies, Mr. Atkinson took no noto of his puesta’ surprize, but, remarking that it waa 8 very warm evoning, whistled again, and the whols coiting disapponr- ed, the hoat's black coat vanishing at tho sams moment, feaving bim clothed in a white smt, The guests, alarmed, wero about to riso from thoir obairs, when they found thomuslves, therr chaira, and the table snddeniy ralsed 5 feot above the floor, They, Lowsvor, were soon lowored ayain to the floor, and all took refnge in hasty flight from the demoniac abode. A judicial jn- yestigation was instituted, and it was found that Mr, Atkinson hiad boon for ten years tho chiet machiniat at Covent Garden ‘Theatro in London, ‘whers ho hod amassad » nics little fortuno. 'fno dinnor was a little froak to indulgo his fondness for his oid puranit, —_— Native Woodns for the * Coutennial,” Sun Francfsco slorning Cill, ‘Ths oolieotlon of Paciflo conat woods deslgnod for the Centonntal has boon uugmumm by the addition of molect spocimons ot Metiorn woods, vopresentiog 420 varioties, Thesa samplea have been collectod by J. G, Qerding, and will bo ex- hiblted at tho Contennial under the anapices of the Boutharn Pacific Ratlroad Company. Among tho samplen ars apecimens of white, blaok, gray, sod curlad walnnt, All thene woods are suscepti- bls of a fine polish. Thoy aro on oxbibition at the railrond depot on I'ourth anda ‘Townsend stroets. A wample of ongrovers’ wood, onlted muols, alao holda s placo in tho lot, It le extenaivaly used by the (llustrated 1ourmln of this country and Europo for oograv- ing plates. The fecomats {a b shipbuitding wood, which Is said to be equal in strength and dura- bility dn wator ¢o tho best live oak, The lance wood, of which epacimenn are also shown, was usod for fpeata Ly the savago tnbos that for- merly inhsbited the forosts of Mexico. It I8 now extenuively used in the mauufacturo of futes sud other musieal instrumonts, The collection embraces many samplos of chony, biack mes- quite, linoluse, blocdwood, avellana, prima vera. grafadillo (a rosewood), acatisps (a yellow rose- ‘wood), cabano (a mahogany for vousering), hin- clua (keentod), and hualgean, bosutiful in grain and suaceptibls of the higheat polish. it D Willlam Xtoyd Garrison ois o Compose stor, Newhuryuort (Mase,) Merald, On Friday norning lafst un)nldo:ly goutloman flmud our oftico and ¢n1d it was his~ birthdsy, 6 was 71 yoars old. Yifty yoara mgo, ou the 10¢h of Dacember, 1825, hio had attained lils ma~ Jority and Oaishod hia apprenticeship as a comw poslior in this oflico, having sorved moven years and two months. He wishod to calobrata the auniversary by seiting up matter where ho hed loarned tho mystery of printiog, and to see If bis hand had forgotton ita cunping. A caso and stlox were acoordinely furnistied Lim, but the copy he selocted himsalf, ** My Dsalm,” by White tler. The gentlomau provod to be a rapid and cotrect comporitor; in faot, no ercors could be discoverod in bis proof. Hisname {8 tolefably well known in the world, It ls Willlsm Lloyd Garrlson, At the time whon Mr. Ourrlion wag tho oldeat approusice in the Jierall ofice, Joe seph B. Moreo was the youngest, and while the matter was bolng sot Alr, Morgs camo Inand met his old fellow-workiaan colabratiug his somi-cane tonnial, William Lloyd (srijson 1s & native of N‘l‘xwufww“' and wa# oducated o ité common schools. ¥ow 13 Oents Provented Sulolde. The Weatern agent of {ho Clildren’s Aid So- elety 1ovortn sn Interesting Incident coucorning oo of the boy» recuutly sout oul b0 the Wit by the Bociety. Ibis boy haviug expromsed his thsnke to the agent for providiog bim with & good home, he was fuformod that hs ebould thaok Qod, 4 the agent was ouly an instrumnent fu His bands. “Yes," esld the boy, #I do thaok Him for keeplug ma from tsking wy lte.” e tuon stated that on the provious E‘xdhy be had walkced to Hailem, hoping to get work, but was disappointed. Ou Liw way back to the Bow- ory, boiug witbgut monag, and baving esien ha® lingdom for thu survice of she grest | nathin 4 day, hio daterwiued to drown him- R i g6l St nlht be wont coward the Notth Tuver, Of suob, theo, wers the associations of the intendiog to jump iu, but before dowy so he concluded to Foad & fe mout which & ! Caatle of Chantilly. Hank, valor, wit, beauty, w vorsos from a Touta- and learning had held slnost. jucassant caruival ary Lad givon bLim. Ho then wont hahind n pila of lumbor to pray to God to forgive him tho min bo waa abont to commit, On returning to tho midewalic Lo looke! dosn, and seong womething, fishod it up, and found { wan & 15-cont #tamp. Ho chanied hue course, obtainod & nght's lodging with tho monoy, cama to seo tha Hociety' agont noxt day, aud'en the following Luesday loft for tho Wost. ———————— TIE CENTENNIAL And tho Goldeste! . New Jork Sun. Tho YVienns Intornational Exhlvitlon of 157) wan rather superb. It bad tho exporisuce df tha provious sliows of the same sort In London ai.) n I'aris to utart with. At the boginning Austria appropropriated 3,009,000 to tho projock; but with the sxpress suipuintion that not auothor dollar would bo given by tho Qovernment, The show thas set on {ta lege was to atand and go shead alono. It was upan from May 1 to Nov, 1, exactly aix months, It cast in round num. bers 812,000,000, Thore wero seven aud one. quarter million visitors. ‘Tho entranco fess ' barely paid the ranning expenses of tho exhibi- tion,'aod thare waa n defict of £0,000,000. In other words, but for the Govornmont subslly, tha entira cost of tha sliow would have been the precive rnount of tho deflait, Various roasong were assigned for this fallors, ‘Tho financial panic of that vear, the falling oft of vigitora lu tho warmost woeks, the foar of cholera, aund, pnnflibxr. tho freshly digoovered ufinm on tho sun, sli liad_somathing to do with tho deplorablo doficit. Bnt the real causcs were, firat, tho unttorly inadoquata provision for accommodating tho vast inftux of visitord ; and nesxt, tho abeardly extravagaut prices demaoded for such food mod lodginga ns wero offored, Tho Visnneso aot out with “tho idea that avery mothor's von of them was to get rich ju that shoit summor. Tha owner of tho Iabled goost waited ac loast until s bird had Jaid o fow golden egga befars lio cut her _open fo soe if there way F"m 1sido of her. Tho Vionos laode jords, lodging-lioura keepers, reetanranters, Loor-drawors, aiters, clothos-brushors, boote biacks, and alf the haugors-on and harpier who haunt tho unprotected traveler, sud: denly Awooped down upon the strangors and skinnod thom at the atart, The plunderod visitor was drivou to dleteaction, or to tho rail. road for immediate gopartite, No or“u stayod in the city an hour ibgar than ho wasdompelied to. Tho stories of tho outragaous robbories da- torred thousands from go:ng thers, and tha choice presonted of being awindled or being starvod drove thousands nway. 1t I8 much tobo fearsd that this brief history may ropent itself [n Phtladetphis noxt summor. A gontleman who was in that city during the Congrossional Junketing of lant weok, inquired of tho landiord ot his hotel what arrangemonta could he mada in advauco for accommodations for himeolf and family, sny for a fow woeks, dur- ing the Centennial show. ** My dear sir," gaid tho host, with tho bland smile of a watering-placo propriotor fu the fral woalk of tho moason, it is utterly lmpos siblo to sy now what wo shall clharge for T00mS of moals, “We may hnvo to pay A dollar & dozen for eges, aud a doilar-and-p-half & pound for butter, with overythiug clso at ko rates; aud, of conrre, our prices will bo in proportion, And ho smiled mors swostly than botors. ‘Those proportionate rflcefl may be out of all propor tion to the ordinary purkes of ordinary poople but to doubt that Philadeiphia Lns made up it mind to mnke as mucl money as nosslble out of tho show, and ospecially out of tho visitors, 18 to dinrogntd tho counonost human inatinet., ' Just now, tho Philadoiphians are excoodingly hospi- tablo to Congressmon, who are oxpected” to give tho mion-aud-a-half appropriation, and to those who visit the ci:{ to sriange for favorable accommodations for themmelves, or for choica places for thair wares in tho show rink. Dut it ia tho tandners of eannibals, swtho fesst thoin vletims to fation thein for future fryfug. S e “Tho Iively Jiotor, ‘Tho Keelv motor is by no means doad, as the lunz siluoce conceruing it might Lave lod soma tosuppose. on tho ocontrary, It was recently cryatallizod by the organizsiion of a company, the electton of Directors, and active proparation of tho machinery that is td gonerato and control tho myatarious and wondarful force which 18 nost o profound socrot to the many, Tho genorator that (8 being buitt tsof Anatrian bronzo, and eaid to bo capable of resisilng a pressurs of 88,000 pounds to tho square toch, ‘Lho uow recaiver i 8 porfect sphero of 10 inches Interior and 42 loches exlerior diamoter, welghing about 7,000 pounds, Tho propsratlons wil be completed in I'hiladolplin, aua in about three months aftor all this poworful and peculiar ma- chiners beging to oporatn tho wmstorial intercuts of tho worid will suddenly bo propelied forsward mavy sindia of Progrois on a pint of wator. Tho capital is 81,000,000, and ic is divided futo 20,000 shares at $50 por sharo, aud all these bave beon taken up by 115 porsens. e e Childlike Candor. The foltowing incident is revealed by the Potersburz (Va.) - Indec: *Somo days ago an aflfablo lify insuranco acont of this clty had oce casion to {asuo & policy to » lady from the coun- try, and asked the usual questions preacribed for tho examinatioun. Among thess was the nory, what disoaso ald Ler fathor dio of ¥ maxine tho surpriso of tho affablo agent when Bho mude tho raply: *Whisky.' Mo sald, by way of smoutling tho mattor down: *I reckan Lio must Lave had some dlisoaso, madam—con- gostion, porhaps, of the brain, ncuralgis of the heart, or womothing like that’ ‘No' she answored deliboratoly, *ho dind of whisky’ and nothing elao would bo_tho truth,’ and ¢ whiskv® waa tho disease that tho ageut enlerod on his papers. Who woulin's liko to haye an affeation- ate, truth-tolling daughter, to spread lus postuue mous fanie."” S EFernandy Wnd.? Gen, Doubleday, in his “Reminleconcos ot Forts Sumtor aund Moultrie in 1860-61," jnst publistied, gives s statomeat that it wonld Le worth whilo to road on thd floor of the House: *Those wero days (winter of 18080) of extraor dinaty proseription for opintons' sake. I hiedrd with profound indignation of thae cass of a poor seanatrorg from Now York, who had baen sont to Jsliin Charloston slmply for stating that she didn't boileve in the lustitution of slavery. Oun sppesling to tho then Mayor of New York, Fervando Wood, he replied thas he was rijoiced ff"’ was in prison, and hoped she would Le kepl ueve There aro somo othor **distinguished people™ mentioned In tho narrative, who would bo will ing to romain iu obacurity. ——— A Quecr. Verdict, A jury in Now York reccntly rendered s sin- gular verdict, The Clerk of the Court pat the usual inquiry : ** Gontlemon of the jury, have you agr on & verdict ?" * We have* baid tho foreman, * How #ay you," queried the Clerk, *‘do you find for tho plaintt or for tho dofondant?" T'he foreman in response handed up to Judge Luwrouce & roll of paper oo which was wristen “ We, tho jury, unammously agres that wo cane not find efther far_the pisintil or for tus do- fendaut.” ‘The Judge, 8asoon ss e could re- cover {ram hia astopishment, told the jury that hie would discharge thent from a furiher cous sideration of tho caso. Lively Seans, A gentlemau residing In Bt Louls bas Iately bad sent to him by & frlend from Californis two boans resembliug in shape s "boschnut, wluch aro possossed with & remnikable poderof anima- tion, waich thay show io advancing, rotreating, snd turning somorsaulia. Their antlos are iu- deed wonderful to wituess, Thoy are known in the Btate from whenca they cams as the jump- ing bean, Ho keops thom'la & sall Loz, and if lelt at uight ln the bodroom upon a table they make snich & racket Lo iy obliged to shut them up 1u & drawor 50 Lo can slesp, e Style at thv Cnpitale ‘Washington soclaty s absorbed by the high rank and sceplo display of the Ruesisa Ministor's catatlishment, Ths Amister and his wifo ga about on visis of ceremouy, accomgsnied by s chassour, who weara a lwnrd.' and s cap with a long, drooping whito femthor. This chasseur sits on tho box of the carriage alongeids tha coschiman, and dismounts when the oarrisge atops. aud, with drswa sword uplifted, assisis ber Royal Higliness sand s Hoysl Highoess to stight, and conducts them (o the honse, and {hen stands wilitary fashion until $hey sppear ————— mr, King's Tame Orows New Haven Payadium, A. L. King, of Buiffold, caught a young étow with some whito fuatbers on it, some time sgo, snd suocesafully tamsd it, The crow was in the babi$ of always sccompaviug Ar, King from T e to the depot, aud thea Hylug home sgain. The other day tha crow perched oo the alll of an open window, and, pocking ab the atiok that supported 1t untll be dislodged it, tho heavy eash camo down upon hlm and flnlshod his career, —_— The firss Btate election hold noxt year preced- fng (ho Presidential canysus will ocour in the spring in Couneaticut, and {n view of the Lupoc- tanco which will attack to ths result a moyemeul bas boeu siarted for piacing Postmaster-General JawELL at the Liead of the Republican ticket a1 candidate for Goveruor, "