Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 23, 1876, Page 3

THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, JANUARY 23, 1876—SI3 XTEEN PAGES, 3 . NEW YORK GOSSIP. The Yvarm Weather Gives 2 Ppeath-Blow to Florida Travel. A $2,500 and a $25,00C Supper at Delmonico’s. io Account of a Doorstep Waif's RBecent Marriage. 4 Troy Wifo In the Toils of a Bochester Yillain, Watning to Ladies Who Clean Their Gloves with Benzine, Clars Louise Eellogg ond Young Jim Bannett's Matrimonial Prospects. goueial Corresvendenes of T'ne Chicago Tridune. Kzw York. Jan. 20.—Behold a marvel! Hero {tis midwinter,’and one af thelleading retail dry- goods firma sdvertises * Swiss musling and orpandie dressea ™ ag *appropriate io the sea~ con” The warm winter weatber bas killed Florids travel dead as = door-nail. The Peno- wyivnis Rasiroad Company gpent considerabls oty advertising round tickets to Jacksonville aod return st 50 each, bat the inquiry from plessare-scekers was 80 light, and the demand trom eommercial travelers and other ordinary ors 50 evident, that the excarsion-tickets pave been withdrawn. Tho regular faro is €675 all rail, though the steamers to Savannsh iseuo through tickets for considerably Jess, and inclnde meals and ststo-rooms. It is doubtfol shether the Florida atmosphero has ‘been warmer than the aversge ‘of this latitudo for December 2ad January, and it is mot sur- prising Florida pleasuro-soekiers aro faw end far petween. -. The effort to attract people to the winter resorts of the Southern States, and to the Dermuds and Bohama Islands, as woll,l_é the West Iudies, i increasing yoarly, and it ‘bécomes a matter of exceeding wonder whether the people who rush off to Northern watering s in the summer and to Sonthern resorts in the wioter ever have any ides of home comforts whatever. GORGEOTS AND EXTEAVAGANT STTPERS. One of the most gorzeous banqusts ever given in this country tock place at Delmonico’s a few evenings since. 1t was given by s well-known Tall street broker, Charles J. Osborn, as the result of abet with another Wall street party pamed Travers, on thoe price of Lake Bhore stock, Theso bets are of daily occarrenca, but, 45 this one involved somethicg more than an ordinary amount, itswinning wascelobrated by a bsnguet for forty-two peraons,—the Winner and’ loser each iavitiog twenty friends. This sffsir , cost over $2,000—or . &n average .~ of ™ more - than ~ §50 for ssch guest. This recalis an extravagant en- lertainment given at Delmonico’s & few years g0 by two denghters of & well-kuowa financier, formerly s Foderal officar-holder, and now & Bunk President. The occasion was the iwenty- fret birthdsy of their only trotber. Having ob- tained permission from the father to make the enterizinment 2s grand and magnificent 28 they pleased, theso giddy girls (oo chickens either, ‘mind you) gave Delmonico &n order to prepare & Tfeast and ball for 100 persons * regardless of ex- pemse.” It was carried out in strict accordance with the order. The guests’ invitation-cards were engraved pear], highly ornamented. The eopies of the menu were also engraved on gmall {vory tablets set in Bussia leather, with a smail tendle to esch. The flowers used on the occasion were 50 profuse that it is 50id that that evening not & lowercould be had tor love or mocey in New York—tte market had been literally stripped by Delmonico. The feest itself was varrespondingly magnificent. The bill for this recherche birthday party was pearly $25,000, and the astonished father paid it like a man, though he fervently ejaculated that be was glad ;h-u ‘wers no more sons to cslebrate their ms- " posasmie mszost or A wAm, One of the up-tonn churches iu this city was well illed by a fachionable rongregation about s week 120, 0n the occarion of tha marrisze of & well-kuown societs girl to the man of ber choice, —the scion of = popular Philadelphia sugar- merchant. Probably not & dozen persons pres- ent knew the most interesting fact in the bistory of the bride. She was 3 poor, meglected Waif iwenty years ago, and was found one win- try morning upon & doorstep in St. Mark's plice,—then a fashionsble quarter of the city. No clew to her pareutaze was ever found, but the family (chosen Trobably with that object), hav- ing »o child of their own, took in ihe waif, and raared the littlo girl with a8 much care as if sne had been thew own. A few yearaalter an appli- cation was made to Judge Cbarles P. Daly, of this city, for a decree awarding legal custody of the child to its protectors, 2bd henceforth ehe took theirname, Sho was educated theronghiy, aod became & pet of tho family a8 effectuslly as ifshe hsd been born nto it. In time She was introdaced ioto society as Aliss G—, and met ber present husband at a {amily reunion in Phils- delphin. Now she is houored and petted by so- ctety, and promises to become & reigning favor- ite. Who knows but omewhera tho real mother of this interesiing woman niay not be walching the career of ber child, and that, sometime, may make bherself known. Truly, fact is often stran- ger than fiction. A NEW YEAR'S LPISODE—A FIFTI AVENUE BELLE IN DANGED. The callers at one of the moxt popular Fifth &renye dwellings onNew Year's doy were shock- d and surpnacd to miss from the parlor on that -dsy ong of their favorite cocicty belles. Ier sbgence was caused by an accident which will bear menuoniugias 8 waIning {0 some of your Chicsgo gicla to avoid & simiar danger, This young Iady was sbout preparing herseif the dsy Letore to receive New Year's cells. and, baving a PAIr of six-button light kids which she b TOrm pn bLour OF 60 On & pro ou8 occasion, eonceived the econom- icsl idea of cleapsing them with B preparation af benzine,—used by s drogs- maker toremove a spot from o dresson o pro- vious occasion. She placed the gloves on her Bsods (and arms) snd, sfier cacefuily sponging the few goed spots with the liqmd, held her bands pear an open graw fire todry off the gloves. In an instant the vapor from bor haads ignited, the flames ran up her arms, her dress- rleeves ook fire, ehe wos for a moment in of bewg: burnt to desth. Her father s t, aud instantly grasped s woolen table-covar and wrupped her 1o jt.This smoth- ered the flames, but she was dreadfully burned, xd hes been confined to her room every day since, until day before vesterday. Ier hands ::: arms fi h:n lngt:zuul{d scarred, snd the oc- asion 3 likolv to cast o shindow uj Birl's future life. EoR Heouss, ANOTHER VICTTM OF MAN'S VILLAINY. There cawe o this city a few days ago the wTeck of 8 woman. who formetly lived in- Troy, X. Y., where she was known s ono of ihe most ‘popular and usefal young ladies in that city. In 1868 she married the gon of ® prominent Roches- ter legal luminary, aud withb bim went West 1o teside. For a time he was prosperous in busi- ness, but it seemed 23 his prosperity increased that ha grew tired of his wife, aud found his Ragociates and companions emong fast women snd prostitutes, Tie resnit was that the wom- a's health was ruined, and she bacamo attiicted with a disease nnfit to be named. Then misfor- fane came upon the busband, and he was at one lime' incarcorated for several daye in Ludlow Streat Jail on & charge of fraud. This broke. mp bis Westera business, and be pecame more reckless than ever. He l:_l:'ned Y eouana of tife that fairly ;!lwva bis ¢ erazy, end then, procuring & physician's tartificate that she was inssue, Lad her removed 2nder p false pretense to & lunatic asylum. Her (teoda heard of it, Lut wera denied access 1o Yor, and th busbend mesnwhile lefs ihe city and removed to snother point. The ¥ife was treated with comparative kindnegs 1n ssylum, which was such an_improvement £pon bigr trestment in ber former home that she "pidly recoversd. Finding borself abandoned b husbsnd, ehe communicated with rela- ves in’ Troy. They proceeded to effect her faleass, god she is now with ber motier and Tajer in- this cits, a3 2 leading hotel. Thongh &arcely 27 yenrs old, she looks Like s womau of :fl»mt a3 %he was pointed out to me in the reskfast-room to-dsy, I could ecarcety realize sbe was 80 young. WAR DX THR GASLIGRT COMPANTES IN BROOKLYX. < ites Are Jnaking wars in desd ess~ neet upon the gaslight companiés (of which there ara several) in that city. They have been subjected to atl sorts of petty swindles and an- noyances—{rom a requirewiont that thoy shallde- posit &1 for every burner in the house ag securi- ty of monthly bills, down to defective meters, 3ir. Samuel J. Young, Secretary of the Metro- politan {nsurance Company, demurred {o ths doubhng of hia pas-bills “for corrosponding monthe of this and Iast years, so he paid under protest. and demanded a test of the metor. The Gas Company declined, snd pro- posed to change tho meter. He procured an in- Juuction to provent its removsl, and then had tho meter tested himselfl. It was fonnd defect- ive, the reistering showing an excess of 6 per cont over the real flow of gas, The Companv thereupon backed down, and refunded the amount illegally collected from Mr. Young for sixteen months. But the most eflective way of bringing the gas compAvies to terra bas besn by the very general adojtion of kerosene oil in licu of a8, and fn ono mstance by the erection of private gas works (using garoline) in the cen- tre of 8 block to supply all the surrounding noueea by communication through tho resr- yards. The stores on Fulton stroet, the leading Brooklyn thoroughfare, are so geperd!ly lighted by keroseno that gas is the excaption aud oil the rule. S0 the compapies bave come down from $3 £0 $2.75 per thpasand, but the City Council ts 80 excited on the subjoct that they passed a res- olution granting_extraordinary privileges to a new company. €0 lodsels drawa, in fact, that the Mayor has been comvelled fo vetd it: butit sliows the depth of fecliug 2gainst the present monopolies. 5o A SQUALE OLD SIAN—THE ELDER DUNCAN. Tlardly any ootice has boen takien of the grace- ful et of Mr. Alexander Duncau in deedivg to tho Assignee the property which had been con- veyed to him by tho firm of Duncan, Sberman & Co. before their suspension, to secure their in- debtodness to him. It was & manly act 1n what- ever light it is viowed, 0ad bis prior arrapgement with Drexel, 2organ & Co. to protect Duncan, Shermen & Co.’s letters of credit abroad was 2lso & generous businees. A gentleman recently returned from Eaorope, wha held one of the Jet- tera of credit meantimo, informs me that ho saw Alexander Duncan in London ehortty after the failure, aod after ,the arraugement with Drexel, § Morgan & § Co.: had been com- pleted. * He states * thal the elder Dun- can was greatly shocked.- and morlifiod by the failure of his son’s bank, and that. as the founder of the original houss, hie felt personally argrioved that fho SUSDODSION W8S Decessary. He bad the credit of the firm next to lis heart, and moy informant behoves that if the old man bad known exactly the cordition of affairs he would have made some arravgement to save the firm. What especially troubled him was tho at- tempt to cast a stigma upon tho firm for alleged dishonorable desling, for, although he was not 1n tha loast degres reeponsible theralor, he felt the #tain opon the namo. Persopally, his name and reputation abroad aro in the highest rauk, aud a London banker informed my friend that the word of Alexaader Duncan was 28 good so- curity 1n the English metropolis as a Govern- ment coneol; but he added, “the Now Tork firm belonged to & ditferent order of animals en- tirely."” e OAREY TIALL IN COURT AGAIS. 7% Peopls ars wondering’ now whether Oskey Hall really meant it when he abandoved the law ana essayed the rola of an actor, and especially whether 1n tho claracter of tho much-sbused and innocent convict, who was finstly vindicat- ed, he meant to repreaant his own case, or that of genteel fiction. The latter view was openly charged by Mr. Winter in the Tribune criticism. and 1s zenorally accopted. The amusing part of the sequel is the tender of & complimentary benefit by the actors and octresses. This i a Lotos Club enterprise, of which Steve Fisk ana Osakoy Hsll sre members. and was concocted over ssndwhiches and champagne the night that Oskey bado tho stage sadicu.. Oskey made his re-entres < in court -~ on Monday in the case of the contested Jury Commissioner- shin, end in opposition to the distuguisbed lawyer, William M, Evarte, on the other side, There was quite a welcome greeting extended to him by his bretbren of ths Bar when he came into tha court-room, and he is now regu- larly engaged, s if the litle episodo of trying to bo sn actor had mever bapponed. AMr. 1all deservea credit for one thing : s soon a3 ho was convinced Le bad mistakeu his eall- ing ho had sensc enough 10 quit and resume bis old professicn. o . = A BTORY OF EATE FIYLD. - Oskey Hall's expericnce ou the stage recalls the appearance of that vigorona wrter Aiss Kate Fiald. She was the pet of the critics be- fore &hs appeared, and probably no dobutante was ever prased more incessantly or olaborately than _ this lady. But her feilora was too palpsblo to Le overlooked, and sbe was quickly advigsd to withdraw from pub- lic gaze as an ectress. and devote Ler time to, literature. So far ehe adopted the suggestion 8 to give up her engagemout 18 this city, but she never abzndoned tho ides of becoming an actress, and continued hior efforts in emalier cities Iike Hartford, Newaik, ete., with more or less saccess. She kept on studying and re- hearsing, and obtained some credit of improve- ment. Then' eho went sbroad and parsevered in her resolation. She is now making s tour of tho provincizl cities of Great Britain, alternate- iy appearing in diamatic readings (with a spice of Dickeps, which she affects) aud in 1sgular thestrical performances, Her friends insiat that she is steadily imfroving, and, when she returns to_ Ameiica _with the indorsement of a London audience, the Now Yorkers will be crazy to go and see fer a8 an actress. They quote Clara Louisa Kelloge's experience—she was only a very siight favorite gotil she went abroad 2nd carried London by storm, but when she returned, lo! an ovation awsil her. Miss Ield has not studied the peculiazities of New York in vain. AN INTERVIEW NOT FRINTED, The *‘ boys” have got & good story of a re- porter of a morning daily who tried 0 intorviow. Fraok Moulton's wife on the subject of the Mutnal Council. He was received by Frana Limself, who declared that tho interview was impracticable, He didn’t propose that his wife ghould be cross-examimed by any reporter. The latter then tried to pump Frank bimself, but the latter declined, and motioned the reporter to the door. 'The interviewer did not move rapuly enough for Frauk, whon be again_suzgested an carly esit. Still the reporter did mot move, snd Moulton became angry, Thuse who saw big trained coolness on ths Beecher tnal do not un- derstand bow sugry Moulton can be ac times, and thig interview was cne of them. He peremptorily ordered the man from the house, and. 8a the reposier romoustrated, iloalton took him by thie collar and lad him to the front steps. Ho tuen applied bis foot to the follow's coat- tails, and essisted a downward movement. Tbe peper has pever suid anvihing of tlis wuterview, but what sarprises Mouiton most is that be did not read a long s1ing of questions and answers she next morniog as exchanged betweun himself and the reporter on that occasion. I THEY LET JUDGE VAN BRGNT ALONE. Probatly smong the lawyers of this city, no single sabject liss been 80 actively canvassed wichin the last month a8 the attituds of tho legal fisternity toward Judge Charles H. Vau Brant, of the Court_of Common_ Ploas, who 18 guilty of constructive bigamy, i1 marrying & socond wife after being debarred by adecree of divorce frqm g0 domag. Judge Van Bruni is holding sessions of his Court without any demon- strations of disfavor on the part of the lawyers, but sn effort bas been made to get tno Bar Association to t2ie action on tho subject, with a view to Lring it before the Govaraor. Just here, Lowever, tho benevolence and good fecling of the fratermiy come . Judze Van Brunt 18 depondent solely on bis salary for support. He is & pood lawser, snd formally bad an excellent practice, but, if ejected fromthe Bench in di grace, e would be ruined as & Iawyer. His intimate frionds bave set up 8 ploa in Lis behalf that bo and his wife (who is innocent of Wrong) would be stricken down in poverty if be leaves the Bench under compulaion. They urge miti- gating circumstances a3 to the divorce, and rep- Tesent that, whils be pleaded guilty 88 a means of specdily ettlivg what threatened to Lo a prolonged aud disgustivg cootroversy, yet he wag not gulty of continued error 8 implied in the plea. Bo the probability is tbat, out of charity, the erring Judge will be iet alone. HOTEL EXPERIENCES. y A married couple, who are scarcely over their honeymoon experiences, some time ago took board for the winter at tho Fifth Avenue Hotel They remained there just two weeks. They paid their bills promptly, and were outwardly as correct and proper in their condnct 23 anybody could wish. They next boarded at a well-known botel kept on the European plan, not far from Madison Square. They remsined st this house fcn days, snd ate now at a well-known Brosdway hotel, near the Fifth Aveoue LTheatre. The sccret of these frequent changes is curious, The couple hava no cutldren ; the wifeis fond of gociety; the hushand is not. They do not oo~ tertain each otlier, but tight like cats and dogs. Already, at each of tho hotols mentioned, they bave Lad ‘‘scenes™ requiring the intervention of might-watchmen and botel clerks, and they have changed from sheer mortification in being known 83 such malcontents. On one occasion they had a pitched battle with chairs, pokers, aud other portsble furniture. The undoubted result of all thiswill bo a divorce euit on the ground of incompatibility of temper, but which 18 the aggrioved party and which the aggressor it will be difticalt $o establish. ¢ CROUKED WIISKY IN NEW YORK, A few days ago the proprietor of a prominent botel par in this city made the following state- ment in reply to a question whether there was ] any crooked trhisky sold in New York : - - * We have been offered whisky repeatedly with the sssuranco thet it was cheaper than it conld be medo for, althongh 1t appesred etraight. * On ssking how thas could bs. done, the explanation made was it bad boen comsigned to parties hers who bad made advauces onit, and, not be ing able to sell it at the quoted market prica; had forced a sale by lovuri%g the price, in order to get their money back. TUp to isst July this was an everyday experience, and there is bardly | = whisky-house 1n Now York that did ot sall tho | fluid at loss than tho cost of manufacture. The finer old whiskies, of course, were included, al- though it was not 80 essy to detect the orooked in that a8 in other grades. Before the Chicago developments are through with, I expect many other New York honses beside those of Boyd & Co. and Seth Ely & Co. will bo mentioned. Crooked whisky! Why this was the grand de- l\)vut“{gr ity sale, though it was mode in the est. ‘Thiy man knows mors aboat it than he is will- |* ing to tell. ¥y WOESE THAN WAITING FOE A BRIDGE. The Iast few days Liave been o foggy that the Brooklynites who coms and go to New Yory have had a rongh time crossiog the ferries, The boats run as often s they cap, but s balf hour in making a trip, usually occunying two or thres minutes, 1§ more trsing to patience than Waiting: in s Cbicago River to return. _ CLABA LOUISE XELLOGG'S MATRIMONIAL FROS- PECTS. The Evening Mail printed an _announcement Intoly of su engagemont of Clara Louiso Kellogg to bé married after Lent to a well-known Episco- palian, giviog nis namo i full. The next day it unegmmedly' contradicted 1ts own atatement. 8o Clara Louise is not to be given over to matri- mony yet. Her hfe of single blessedness is. troubling tho papers almost as much 28 that of’ James Gordon Bennett, The iatter, it 18 atated, is now engaged bevond question, so they will let: him alono; but Clara Louise had better geta Jiancee at once—the papers won's lot her rest until sbe is married. - BrATLY. $p, HUMOR. ™ The Lady of Lyona—A lionees Noah's dove brought the first *¢ green-hack.” “ A dosd ben ia bottor than a Live oae ; she will Isy wherever you put her. _ Wiy is 5 1ady’s deehsbille like the milkman ? Because 1t is a morning wrapper. + Beeing is not belioving. Thers are many men you can Eee, and yet cannot beliove. Labarers in tho Michigan woods are working. for their board. Thbavs it the woods ave for we believe, _atons o * 4 Al js wanity,” romarked a_tinware-poddlor, tho othier day. ** \What's Life to me, anyhow, but holler and tia soll 2™ 7 An alternative—The legal courss which is open to Englandif the hhedivé dontpsy his interest—Sue his canal.—Punch. Charles is8 mad becsuse they have stuck a Iamp-post on bis coruer. Says its nono of the town's biz what time he comes homa nizhts. Amanin San Francisco bes fuvonted o ma- chino for reducing refractory ores. He shouid apply it to tho Yala and Harvard Boac Clubs. Some people will bs orerpolita. ** Don’t tran- Dble youruelf. I can find the way myself.” *On! nonspose, my dear. I'm very ploused, inased, to ehow you oub.” ... A Now Hampshire man sonds fonrteen of his cluldren to oue school, and when they combine against the teactcr, he knows that Le can safely bet upon the result. ‘Whatis the differenco betweon a profane man and sn oid toper? Only that the one swears often times 1n thie courss of a month, and the olber swears off ten tumes during tho same pe- riod. Detroit policemen don’t seem to ba very good marksmen. *1 want vou either to hitme or ‘stop making such s Diamed racket,” said a thief in that city, at whom & policoman way shooting. 5 Wo cannot be too earefal how we play with ihe English-language. Ono dsy a married Iadye of Trenton, winle admiring the falls from Wa burton aveous bridge, remarked, **Isu't thi 443Ma,” £2id & young Brooklynits, a3 he stood before the fooking-glass wrestlivg with a shirt- collar, 1 ghall bo 24 years old to-morrow, sud, when I tedect that I never yet had a shirt to fit me in the neck, it foems as if wy life bad boen 8 failure.” ... . *What do you mean, you little rascal " ex- claimed au individual t0 an impudent youth who had seized him by the nose upon the sireet. |. +Ob, nothing, only [ am goiug out to scek my fortuge, and father toid me to seizs hoid of the- firat thing that ‘turned up.’ ™ “*Miaria,” observed Mr, Holcomb, as ho was putting on his clothes, **there ain't uo patch on chem braeches yot.” I can't fix it now no way ; I'm too busy.” ~ **Well, zive me the pateh, then, an' Tl carry it around with me. I don's want peope to think I can't aiford tho clotn.” Lord Clare, who wss much opposed to Cur- ran, one day brought s Newfoundlaua dog upon the bench, snd. during Curran's specch, turned asido and caressed the ammal. ' Cur stoppod. *Go on, g on Alr. Curian,” uai Lord Clare. _*Ob! T beg a thousand pardons,” waa the rejoinder, *Ithooght your Lordship was in consaltation.” ‘Two white boys and & negro in Gerard went ‘possum hunting, the negro furnishing the dogs. Next day the darky was asked how they came out. “Eocht four pogsume.’ *“Well, whet did you get?" “Dunno, Massa, yor gee we's gwine in ‘calioot, and kocht four possume. Mara Jim tack two, and Maas Mack Livo, and 83 wo's gwine in cahoot, I recon I gits de cahoot.”—Columbus (Ga.) Enquirer. ‘While some boys were skating on one of the slips up the river, & gentleman moticed one on the bauk who looked longiagly, but who bad no meane of enjoying the sport. *Well, bub, 't you any skates ¢” asked (he man. “ No, ““Why not?" ¢'Cause mother ssys I n't prepared to die, and father says he needs the money to buy him some undershirts!” was the lonesoma reply. —i— A country gentleman Was strolling out with & cockuey, -3 genuina cockuey,—wheun they finally -fpmwbcd & meadow_in which was standing a glorious erop of bay. The cockney gazed at it wonderingly. It wesn't grass, it wasn't whost, it wasn't turnip tops. ‘*Vy, vatever does you coll this stuff?" said he to his companion. “That? why bay, to be gure,” was the reply. * Hay ! exclaimed heo, ** Come, that's cutting i alitlo too thick. 1f that's hay, just show me the hay-coras—come, now. At the breakfast-table, the other morning, & Detroit landiady gave Mr. Jones 3 severe look and gaid: “ 3r. Joues, Iundarstaud vou hava been circolating injurions reports about my bouse,” * How, madam?” *I understand that yon said you bad used better batter than I have Liere to groase wagons with.® I did say B0, madam, but Dot toinjuie your house. & bave used beiter butter, madam, to gresse wagons, but 1 woulda't do it again. I'd sellitto you !" 'She accepted tho spology.—Detroul Free Press. It would seem from the following that thers is much need of & School Board at Weardalo. A ‘dootor there was lately summoned 1o a cottage in Teasdale, aud found a boy patient in nocd of his services. * Put out your tonguo,” said the doc- tor. The boystared like an owl. *“My good bay,"” requested the medical maa, “fet mo see your topgus.” *“Ialk English, doctor,” put in the mother; and then, turning'to her son, sho gaid: “Hoppen thy gobbler and push out thy loliker.” The boy roliod out his tongue ina moment.—Liverpool Zimes, UNFORGIVEN. Forgive yon! Batter ask me to forget ! I might have onco before my heart lad sed In this chill séa of hate, whose restless tide ‘Boets on » thore of cold disdain and pride. Dut new—oh ! can you deem my soal 50 weak, SoJost to sv'rything, that it could spesic Thoso worde? Now. after all my woan's neart Has suffered, can you dream I would impart flo forgiving 7 Even if you knelt . o (b cral wrang 70u've dealt, Here at my feet, I would not s200p 0 low Ax that; my lips could only bid you—Go ! And yet Tloved youonca? you say, Well, that may bol Ti nd Change have done their work for me | ¥l‘::t e Jovs es turned to Winter.iate it may have maae my life, too, desolate Apd cald: but that recks little now to mo; Mis'ry and wo have ever ssamod o be My only birlhright : but what'a that to you ? ©0God ! you've brought dark mem'riea into view, That long bave lain, almost forgetten, hid Deep down within y heart; and now the lid You lift, £0d, through the deep cloud-mista of eaze, 1 gee, af last, slf that ['v buried there. Butgo! Too much I'va shown you of my heart, 1 fear, even now, Remember that we part Just i wo mel. | Tue pusty lorgrer ded | —you r—the Termeed ok, Qol-yenRon—i 3L w; (Ewma). that | Madison-street car for the bridge over the | . GOSSIP FOR THE LADIES: A Protest Against Female Cooks —Y¥owen in Michigan ) University. " The Ruling Passion: Strong:in Death” =--A Perfect’ Pair---Leap Year. ‘Feminine Lynch-Law---Heroes of Wom-~ en’s Novels---Jocosities About ihe Fair Sex, PEARLS AND TEARS: © 'Toplight thy faith for woe or weal, i Arsayed in poarls 50 rare 4nd Lridal rol 1 Bavr theo Imeol, B T‘l" myru'l"m,!ld fll{‘lflh’ - i wift cawne the thought: uilelegy ; Tiigat eyes will diim with yeans: o A proverh speals 1 warning tone * Paarls ure transformed o tears,™ Now on 3 monrning garb I guze, Befors the altar kneeling; iyes dimmed with teara thou dost uprafss; “Unto thy God;appealing, Faint not, bestrong, O weary heart; Not always staft thod mou; A proverd comfort doth impart’ 4 Tears ynto pearis will turn 1™ ' WOMEN - AS COOKS: J. W. F., Jx., writes to the Dhiladelphia Press: Will we not after awhile, with the gencral utter worthlessness of hired” women in' tho kitchen, coms to the’ sensible’conclusion that the only good cookis'a man cook? I'think'we have too long delayed that resnlt already. The New York - “Times, whioh'in its Sunday issno' hag o depart< mont called the- Household,” wheroin- are printed all matters of particular interest to the housekeeper, said this this week : The art of dinner-glying Las been commented upon and written about by simost all the men of taste aud Lon vivants whomwa can recall. Strangeta say, there ave not beon many individuals of the female sox who hiave devoted much time or attention to writing about . this allimportant ‘subfect. Although the majority of couks must, be women, it would eeem that they practica their trade under proteat, for one never hears of their | rlsing to auy great eminence {1 thete profession, or of their having fuvented a new dish or sance. 1t is cor- tain that women have not the same lovs of good cating 14 men. They are much ossier satisfied, and, asa Tule, would rather 2o withunt a dinner than tzke the trouble 10 order oue for themselves alone.- It 18 only when tho mals element steps in and asserts its lova of good cheer, tuat tncysrs spurred onto exertion. It s not for ticmselves, but for their husbands, that they study cookery books, copy recipts from one suother, sud 7 to devise all sorta of new dishes. Who ever Léard of s lady inviting six or seven othar isdiey to dine with ber, and promising them that the great attraction of theevening wonld be an wncommonly food dinner ! Nothing is more common among men. There are man whose sl menit consists in giving. good dinners, snd who have broagist the art to poridedon: Anm Enghsh newapaper, not ong since, in' giving sowe hinta ubout engaging cooks, advised its_readera never 10 engago a cook whohad loft u place where there were ladies only in the family, for women aru satisfied with eo little in the way of cookery tiat'vho would Le surs not 10 suit. Itisallthemare ‘to their credit that there i 5o much time and sitention devoted towhat they must consider 2 dury, and not self-gratiication. The Times is right everywhera but in the last lines. The women deserve mno’credit, They perform their duty carelessly, and will not learn. Thae cook yoa get'to-day knowa just xs much as tho ono you dischasged yestorday; and no more. ‘Tan to one elio cannot properly boil s potxto, and certaily she will spoil your steak. Wo aredriv- an to make our own coffee st table, ard the eale of Fronch coffes-pots is consequently lmmense. If we stall postpone the male cook, aud would eat: with any sausfaction, wo_shall have 10 get chat- ing-dishes and give Bridget only the voge- tables to destroy. On tho scora of coouo- my slope the malo cook should be- pre- ferred. e may. cost. more in salary, bat will make things eatable. sod of “much that goes into the'barrel now he will prepare de- lcious dishes. Did you ever know. a profes- s10nal woman oook 10 read a cook-book? _1f you dud, and csu find her, save her for the Centen- nial Exhibition. She woald be the greatest curiosity there. Col. Wood. of tha Museum, would give anything for such an attraction. Did you ever know one to’ origioate a dish ? They rob us with their destruction, and Lill: our stomachs with their fearfal eoncootions. Would a club, & restaurant. or a hotel, with any regard for its reputation, dare have as it8 chief intho kitchen & womac ? Women are_hostile to good eatinz, and they ought to be driven out of our kLitchers. WOMEN: IN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY. Prof. Moses Coit: Tyler, in an article in Scrid- ner's Magazme for Februsry, suys: Having been in happy operation for twenty-pine years 28 & university excluvively for men, in the year 1870 it [the Michigan University] opened its doora 1n all departments for the admission of women, According to the most recent raturns, 117 of that sex are now availing thomszelves of the right to university instruction thus recoguized. In the. distribution which they have made of themselves among the scveral departments, there is no little sigoificance,—four of them baving cliogen the law, forty-seven medicine, and eixty-six literature and ecience. Bofors 1870 there wers sevoral colleges in America which had adopted the syatsm of coeducation; bus all of theso had adopted that syslom from tho beginning, Michigsn 13 the first University which, having begun its life and attained emineut success upon the old exclusive system, then delibs eratoly incorporated npon itself the new aud more comprehensive plan. The resolution to doso was by Do means s hasty one, or taken with much cheerfulness. It had been under gongideratian for wenty yeara, aud when adopt- ad at last 1t was adopted with no little anxiety. Our experience of five vears has, I think, con- vinced everybody here thst this auxiety was nob well founded. Neither good order uor the schol- arship of the University has suffered any harm from the presence of ladies in its claes-rooms ; while the plhyeical disasters to tie women themse|vee, which an _eminent medical authority has of late clearly demonstrat- ed to -be the penal cousequences oOf femiine toul at the dry and arduous tasks of university study, have thus far_strangely failed to make their appearance in this neighborhood. Indeed. the ladics hers seem to thrive lo- Uicrcusly. well under the rugged regimen to which they have beon put; and their omission w0 verify the predictionsof au a priori slarm is something borderng upon the cruel. A benev- olant mind observing these things can hardly do less then utter a word of kindly caution to all persons who still desire to take unalioyed com- fort in. the doctrine that women are not fit for universitics, or that universities are not fit for. women; euch persons should abjure the neigh- borhood of- institutions hbko the University of Michigan, and faithfully limit themselves to speculanyo daip. *“THE RULING PASSION STRONG IN DEATH.” * M. 1L B, in the St. Louis Rcpublican : She Lad been & beauty and s belle in the days of Gen. Juckson. Shebnd been s fine, well-kept ruin along through Zachary Taylor snd Franklin Pierce. Some way-slic had held her own with Andy Johneon, but she went all to bits down the home-gtretch with Ulysses, and here, on the dawn of a third term, or an impescbment, the poor woman was put to bed for the Iast time. She was past speaking, but sho. pettishly mo- tioned toward her head and a neighboring box, from which her affectionato daughter took a flow- er-trimmed czp. Thepoor old bead, g0 soon to be'taking its final rest, was stuck into 1t, a lace handkerchief thrown over the helpless hand, and, sensible of ber improved appesrance, tho dying woman listened to the minister. By this time several membera of the family arrived, and a doctor, making bis regular vit, said, * Mrs, — can't live an hourat tho farithest,” and so Jeft us alone with this old, old wWoman, slready within the shadow of those mysterions gates. She was in the full possession of her sendes, oc- casionslly getting a faint renewsl of ler vocal nowers, and weakly whigpering something univ- telligible to the auxious esrs that bent above ‘her.” From the recess of & window o tearfal group epeculated what. the last strugeling, flickering desire might be, *Its about Iobert, her son thal’s in Havana,” whispered a vieco. “No, poor, -old_dear; its some agony in ber head; 8ce, she. motions toward it," Te- taroed aucther. ‘Perlaps wbe wants the window open,” suggested a disciple of A. T Pavist %von Leow when & person if dying, they either gesire.a window raised, or sowe one is impelled to raide_ope, and thus tho freed episit makes ita oxir.” This theory struck ma as being the right thing, when grandms got one more puschase on the fyng silv-~ thread 8o nearly broken. ‘Thia time e heard it; almost stropg were the last words of dosr, old, fashion- able grandma, and they were theso: * Don't bury sue in Barker's front.” Dacs B0y 00s Sup- posd that *‘Barker's front” isa disazreeable portion of the family lot ic Greonwood? Far fsom it.-Tho Bazker's froat from which this -pleesant tete-a-tete, 'after tho day’s separation— dying woman turned wasa new top pieceof diack hair mado by a hair-dresser named Bar- ker, which had never suited this old lady. Of allthe * 1ast words” on record, it sesms to me thesa fow fechble remarks of Grandma G— are the most characteristic. A PERFECT PAIR. Aletter from Madrid to the St. Lonis Globe- Democrat says: ‘Mrd. Riis a young and’ very pretty German' woman;' devotedly ‘loved by s Lusband who thioks her'the queed’ of the uni¥ verse, and who is ready to sacrifice: everything’ that sho may be eatisfied; the love between them is vory sweet and idvilic, snd she seems to e a fair samplo of one typs of the stardy Northern race,—an affectionate wife, yet not too 1ond, wisaly humoring her husband's whims, but raquiring ‘enough of “him to ‘mike him always féel thac she is there, to be caressed and cared” for, as‘in-their courting days.” A carefal mother, bat uot at' all nervous, sceing the chitdren’at certain hours; then leaning them with the narsos ‘while sha * practices her music; reads and keeps pace with: her husband’s interests, eat- ing alone with him that the all-engrossing care of tho children may not interrupt the teeping his home ‘and ‘lLierself *sttractive, but what is more than all, I think, makiog it palpa- ble in every act that she expects him to give as well a8 toreceive; and not allowing the sweet courtesies of betrothod and early marriage days toshp by derees into that familiarity which 100 oftén briugs indifférence, if not contempt. T, «v hiave perfect’confidenca in ome-another. Tto biears her go into extravagance about the of- ticers, sces Lor blush-ond become prettily con- #cious ' when'looked at admiringly, snd when his attention is laughingly ealled to it he simply pits her hand as much a8 to' say, * We under- stand oue another ;* and in her turn she enters a8 heartily into bis admiration ‘of the dark-eyod Spanish girls ‘a8 anybody ¢onld. and only Janghs when he tells of Low he boaglt a pair of gloves solely for tiie pleasure of having them put on by some graceful scnos * LEAP-YEAR. In thres years out of every four (says ‘an ex- change), man g the privilegs of * popping the question,” and the annoyance of Sometimes hay- ing o plain-spoken No! for the reply. On' the fourth year, womén may propose, if it 8o pleases her. Intheeventof refusing, the ponalty, we' believe,is, that - tho ‘ungallant - gantiemsn shall present the tender damsel with-a new silk dress. | There_is a reservation, howaver, that the right to claim this penslty dependa’on the circom- stance that, when she " proposed, the dam- eel was tho- wearer-of a'scarlet’ potti- coat, which (or a little. of the lower portion of which) sho must exhibit to the gen- tleman,—the underetood’ idea being that’ tho silken dress " shall”.cover the petticoat. In a work entitled * Courtshin,Love, and Matri- mouy,” published in 1660, is the explanation re- garding ladies’ privileges in leap-year: ** Albeit, it is nowe biecome & parte -of- thie common lawo, in rogard to social relations of hife, that as often as every bissextilo year doth retarn, the ladyes Liave the sole privilege, during (he time it con- tingeth,. of making love unto the men, which they dos, by words or lookes, as to them it socmeth prefer; and mofeover, no man will be entitled' 10 the benefit of clergy who dothe in any wiso traat Ler progosal with slight-or con- tumely." ¥ FEMALE LYNCH-LAW. A Thiladelpbis item apprises us of & fact, never suspected before, that Judge Lynch is married. She takes after the old man, too, in very close fashion. Sho called on a Mrs. Os-’ borne, on Taesdsy, ' aud demanded of ‘her an apology for slandering her (Mrs. L.’s) busband. AMrs. O. rephied that she wouldconsent to- her ctorna) puoishment first; Thereupon Afre. | Lynch drew a_pretty little rovolver from her pretty little muff and ingerted a good-eized bul- let in: Mrs. Osborne’s lefc lung: We arenot pleased, says the - Cinoinnati: Times, with this class of performances; bat John Henry looks upon them with s cheerfal countenance. 'He offers . to_stay ‘home,’ and tend the baby, and wash the dishes, if bis wife wifl go out aud whip his credstors. +* Mra. Henry,” says he, **if you gat killed I pledga vou my word of honor that ou shall have s stunuing faneral.” HEROZS OF WOMER'S NOVELS. W.W. Story, in his -last chapter-of “In a Stngio,” makes one of his conversationalists' dis- coume &8 follows on the sverage ‘hero of a wom- an's novel : “Do women like brutal ‘men? ‘They are certainly.fond of drawing them in their novels. They generally either give us as their heroa consamptive clergyman, devoted to the poor, and constantly investigating slums, and getting » typhus fever in consequence ; or & fel- low with brutsl manners; large ‘muscles, and an infinitely tender;beart,which he“dispiays in the most peculiar and unaxpected moments. It wonld scem as- if, by contrastto their own na- {uces, they. preferfed: a touch of brutahty ‘and violence in our sex. . If they do not take to this, they goin for the snd Cosrad stylo—s melancholy creaturo, who Las suffered’ tevribly, who loves (o skulk in. tke shadows, who avoids: societs, and coltivates bis wounded hears.” fAUSICAL.. Burlington. Hawkeyg: A sweet yonng girl ‘went into a Cedar Rapids music-store, and asked the clerk if he had A Heart that Loves Me Ouly.” *No,” he snid, **but here's ‘A Health to Thee, Mary.’" That woulda't do, but before she turnad 10 go, sho- asked, * Have you *One Steat. Kiga Bsfors We Part'?” That Cedar Rapids clerk Jooked up sud down the store; the bookkeeper was oat; the. boss 788 up-atairs try- ing to sell & Granger a wheezyold pelodeon, and 80 he lesnea over the couuter and turned-out sbont balf-n-dozenof the best and most artist-. ically-finiahed articles that the zstonished young lady bad ever seen offered ina job-lot. She didu't ssy moeb, but she went out of the store inastep and-a. holf, and: rubbed her. gheeks thoughtfally all the way home, THAT JEWEL. Detroit busbauds and wives, eays the Free Press, sometimes—once, in a grest many yoars —have disputes. The other day, when a Beach strest couple were holding an angry argument, the husband raised his hands and exclaimed : *QOh! Consistency, thou art a jewsl!™ The wife at ouce broke down, and, as she sobbed, she gasped out: * You saw her at the opera, 1 suppogo; but, it she had toaplit wood, wash dishes, and tako care of gix children, she wouldu't look auy.better'n I do—boo-hco I " MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. «I¢'s a lovely doll, dear grandpa and grand- ma; but—but—I'd been hoping it would be twins!" o~ Ars. Amy Riggs-advertises in a Texas paper that she is abla to whip either ons of the two women shie gaw walking on her husband’s arm a fow nights before. What sn Amy-able Womas, she must be, eh? »- +Jobn Heory,” said bis wife, with stony se- verity, **I saw you coming ont of a saloon this afternoon.” **Well, madame,” roplicd the ob- durate John, * you'wouldn't have me stay in there, would you !* TLord Neleon's Izst words were, ‘‘Kiss me, Mardy.” How dilferent the languags of the woman who awakes at 2 a. m, and discovers her husband sitting on the floor in the firelight, try- ing to pull his boots off with his teeth, A Alexsadre Dumas now advocates s change from the French fashion of bricging up young girls in igorance and 10 lesding-sirings. She would know, it is truo, what a young girl ought not to be told, but, on the other hand, she would Lnow what 8 young girl oughe not to do, Qail Hamilton comes to the. front agsin, snd advises girls to look out for physical health sod beauty in a husband. That's all right enough for girls up to_a certain sge, but after tbat, as Gail very well knows, husbands are oot to be hind at o penny 8 grab.—~St. Louis Globe-Demo- crale . ... - Here is a noble example of doing good work for one's mother-in-law. Four “burzlars stole $1.200 of a Pottsville, Ps., widow, Wednesday vight ; and her son-in-Jaw shot two of them, captured third, and recovered all_the money. Young men will please observe this Leroic ex- ample. : A Indy who had just lost her husband was weep- ing and femeuting: * Ah, mother.” she cried, rasing her eyes to Heaven, *Ishould gladly give balf my lite to be eight days older.” -* Why, my child? ” agked her mother. The bereaved oue, regarding afectionately the photograph of her dead husband, answered, *‘Becauge, then I sbould no longer be grieving over my loss.” A Danbury couple have a nice little danghter of some five summers. A lady visitor obsarved to the mother, ** What a pretty cbild you kave! She must bo a great comfort to yon.” She is, indeed.” eaid the fond motber. * When I'm mad at Jobn I don’t Liave to speakto him. She calla him to his meals, and tells him to get the coal, and. other things thatIwant. She's real bpady” - EUROPEAN GOSSIP. Obristmas at the Quirinal---The Fete of the Principino. Dejazet’s Funeral~-New Year's Gifts in- Paris---The- Pope” and the- Late Duke of Modena: Laflite, the Freneh Bauker:--The Najo: leonic Prince Imperial --- Bis- marek’s Letters in Paris, _CHRISTMAS AT THE QUIRINAL. fhe Rome (Dec. 26) correspondeat of the London ' Times writes: The Principino, or, in more * céremionions” terma; Victor Emannel ‘Tomaso; Princte of Naples, eged G yesrs, had yes- terdsy afternoon a Chnstmas tree for'the enter- tainment of hid " youthfai™ playfellowa—little Picdmontese, Milancse, and Romans, the chil- drenof the ladies of the Princess Margliorita's Court. There were the two little £ons of ' the Marchesa Villamarina-Montereno ; the gon of the Marchesa Cafabrina; the two sons and daughter of the Princess Teano; the two sons of the Duchess Sforza: the two eonsof the Countees Lovatelli: and the two little daughters and one &on of tho Marchess Somaglia.: Pudc- tually at half-past 1, the “hotr of invitation, the carriages came rolling owe after the other into thé courf-yard, and it'was deligh't- ful tosee the bright, happy faces glowing with anticipation, and the eagerness with which the little feot pattered up ths circular staircass to'the’ Apparlamento dei Principi, a8 'it used to be called, aud na it still remsios.” Tho tree was erected in the Princess' State drawving-room=— that room, now well'known to' maoy, furnished en suite throughout, with delicate’ pearl-cofored satin, ‘relieved with a very slight mixtare of ruby, appearing in the frioges and' braids.” To- wards ono'side stands s marble group'iof Ino and Bacchus, one of the late Giovanoi Ben- zoni's best’ works, and acroes ome corner ia 8 etand. richly carved and gilt,, and of con- siderable ' gize, 10’ which-are framed s number of - miniature portraits of the ‘Savoy family, the celebrated Cunte -Verde being one of the most conspicdous.” Esch deep-set window is ' almost” a flowerfarden, - partly protected’ by & gits treliis-work, 2nd a bed of fiowers seoms to grow—for, as a matter of course, they are all in pots’covered with moss—at the base of the reat mirrora which half cover the end walls.” u the middle of the room stood'the tree, some 15 feet in height, the crest of & splendid its bravebes spresdlng oat with o reculafity’ so'per- fect thatac firat I thought they’hind been arti- ficially put together. Tho dressing was-the wotk of the Priucess Margherita horsel!, assisted by her ladies,” It was garlzaded with festoons or riband aud colored paper chains arranged ia rings, hung with all ‘kinds of bonbous and toys; and lit with varicolorea caodles in miniatare chandeliors. On' the ' mossy " bank arranged ac’the foot was'a wax figure, about 2 feet in length, of the Infant Jesus Iying in & basket and extending ita open arms; around wete placed 14 bandsome toye, one for each chuld. including the Principino, aad such as_would_delight not only any child, but the baby patricians invited to receivetnem. For the bovs wore' prosided a kitchen range, nearlya yard high, with- all the badlerie de cuisine com- Plete; & box of sbout tho same dimensions, Contalning a dinper service—plates, dishes, glasses, eversthing requisita to entertain'a largo party of doils; & traveling menagerie, made cage-fashion, filled with beasts, sud s soparste cago of monkeys On the top; & charming toy baronche,” s box- of architectural bricks, - aad = other similar thge: For the little girls there was & pretty basket with sll the arrangements, linen includ- ed, for & laundry establishment; a dear little: toilette-table, glass; sconces, and wil'appliances ; and w -box of papier-mache ;mpFets," to - be knocked over like niepins, with velvet balia ac- companyiog them. Tue Principino, a8 eréct as a little foldier, and with his'hair; which' is- kept cut short and brushed upwards, sa straight on. end a8 possible, received his baby gueats 1 ths little - drawing-room. The "Princess Marglieri and the other” mathers were present, of couree. ‘When all wers 2ssembled, the doors, which bad nidded 'the interior of the stats drawing- room and the -glittering tree from the expect:" ant glances cast m that direction, wers thrown” open, and -the Principino, taking the little Mario Somagha,—a lovely child —led herin, fol- lowed by the others two and-two. For the dis- tribution- of the presents therm was the usual lottery—a vase, contaiuing 14 biilets, into whieh each child put it hand iu tura, drew one, and took the-toy which'bors the corresponding num- ber. - The Principino, in due politeness to ‘his guests, took the last, and became the poseessor of the kitchen rango; bat it chaced thag Lis_ Royal Higaness was alresdy- the owner ‘of two’ kitchen 1apges, and 80, to the mutual - matisfac- tion of both, be offected an_exchange with ono of the youag Monterenos, who, being provided with plenty of building materials, but having no kitchen raoge, had- drawn' the bricks. The prizes having been distributed, the children then carned--tbem: off into’ the - litle drawing- room.: which ‘they speedily transformed"into a - play-room -for the first enjoyment of their acqaisitions, and mernly its” walls rang for & good hour. ' But they were not to be left at Chrastmas-time to ‘thinkof themselves alone: One of the pentlemen in waiting toid them: about the poor children in the Orpban Asylom, and priposed that “they -shouid- subscribe & Christmaa pregent for them {rom their pocket- money. The Principino patdown his 100 francs, and the others ‘were limited to 10 francs each. In the meantime, while the play was going for-- ward, the.lsdies 'asad gentiomen: stripped -the tree ofAbe sweetmests and toys with which it wad. 16aded; and "divided "them ‘into” fomtéen' parcels, one for each child: and, after ‘a merry Innch, thoy drove Lomo—thoe sents of esch car-’ risge heaped up with playthings—with remem- brances of & very happy Christrias. - DEJAZET'S FUNERAL. . ** Grace Greenwood " writes frum Paris: One of the most imbreesive, certainly the most bean- tiful and. touching' of ‘the funerals that have taken placa in Paris this winter'was that of the’ venerable . actress; Virginia Dejazet. It was's wondfid!ll tribute, not alone to genius, ‘but to character, for. the great 'artiste'wasa gentle, - generous, amisble,, and most- motherly woman. Not only did sil the leading Parisian actors, singers, authors, and journalists, assist at these obsequies, but hundreds of unprofessional citi- zens, and strangers of rank and wealth, while thonsands of the common people. artisans, ‘and workmen of - the faubourgs followed the faneral cortege witn -ead. Taces and uncoveréd heads; even to Pero.Lachaise; and,other thocgands stood waiting for hours abont the church wnd' along the line of the procession that bitter coid dsy—and you Dejazet had piayed so Littie for Tuany years, was 80 old that her exquisite acling waa to many of thogo people acarcely more than 2 beautiful tradition. During the moruing, be- foro being borne to the charch. the body was. Qisposed in the court ofthe Louse in which the. Dejazets resided,—placed just back of the porle- —as i the custom hero. The coflin was almost buried in a mass. of flowers, aud with beautiful crowns,~offerings of the differcat eities in which the actress had pl:{ad,—aauveg- irs of triumph and love. Every large town in France was thius reprosented. As sho was to bo removed to the charch, iier golden crowna were arrauged at the four corners of the hearse, and only Lo Jarge wreaths of leaves and tlowers on ber coffin,—one sll green, the other of white lilies, with her nsme snd.the. names.of, her rincipal creationa set in it in violets. At the church—that of In Trinito—the service was a8 complete and besutiful aa though intended to securo the ealvation of a sovereign Princess, and the music a4 sweet and sad as tha most melodions mourning over the bier of a saint. And yet Dejazet, was poor, and 8o, ignorant of religion that it is #aid ehe once, on the impulse of adevout moment, communed withoat baving confessed, and could not be made to believe that she was thereby lost. Hor funeral ceriainly wag not much ke *the-Little- Chtrch-Round- tho-Corner * business. Wa do thinga differently in the model, moral Republic. When we ceaded to bury the swcido at the ¢ross-roads, with a stake driven through his body, religious preju- dice conserved the stake for the heart for the mexmoary of $he,poor actor. “ETRENNES.” The Paris (Deo. 31) correspondent of. the New York Times says: The habitof giving etrennes, or New Year's gifts, has nosw become 8o common that very few-can escape {rom it. We baveto give and give throughout the month of Deceri- ber, and this constant giving makes s eensible drain upon feeble purses. For all who have ren- dered you any sort of service daring the year,even though that service was paid for at the time snd ‘n pour-Loire given also, etrennes in the shape of money ars expected, aid demanded with the ut~ most confidence. In many cases these demands sound very mensces, and you are in a man- ner dared to refuse the obole saked of you; and it would need more courags than I ean muster to resist some of thess impositions,” Tns poorly paid factuers, or postmed, afa tha first ta come,” and if you refuse therm you will bo apt to get your letters’lats” and to lose a few during the coming year. But in thiscade Goe gives cheorfully, althotgh- théy now' make a doubla demand, one posiman asking an annual gratuity for bringing your letters, another for brioging your pamphlets and papers. Then come the telegraph employes and your concierge, to whom you are obliged to give liborally. But this yoar the custom has beea extended to a point bayond which my good-nature could mot go. All the emploses of my furnishers have come to ask elrennes. My wino-merchans, for example, ‘gends me s fuw dozens of Bordeaux, and on payivg-bis bill T follow the eustom by giving" the porter & pour-boire for his tronble, although be should be paid by his etmploy This year this claes of peoble decided to'ask for New Year gifts in addition, and, in my case a lesst, thoy were promptly refused.” All this soems very petty busingss, but' the annoysace it gives 13 something incaléalsble, Yon ars called out overy fow momentsby a ‘quarzel’ be- tween your servant and soms individual who insists apog -his right to enter your houss and demand his elrennes. custom, o had one when not carrisd to” excess, is hero pushed to such an extent that it has become n flag= rent abusec ; but the question is, how it cao be stopped? ‘The only way that 1 can see 13 for business men to' pay thelr employes better in ' order to keep-them' from beggiog. bat they woem to'prefer sllowing their wen to get their saldries out of others if possible. Some idea of the system may be gained from the fact that none of the cafes pay their watars, the latzor gotting good wages out of the public. In some ©f the boulevard cafes the waitors have pat s premium upon their places, n man with somo money finding it to his benefit to pay a cortain house for a place upon the boulavards whera thie pour-boires are more generously bestowed. THE FOPE AND THE LATE DUKE OF MODENA. + Ajetter from Rome says: When the Duke of BModena lately died, and 1t was stated iu thepa- pers that ho'had lsid the' testamentary obliga- tion ‘upon his heir3 to psy yearly'to tho Pope, “until the victory of tho good cause.” 8 percent of their united incomea, o Cardinal congratulated s Holiness upon the circumstance that “tha Holy Seo had gecured a bandsoms income to the end of all time. The Pops 'shrugged” hit shoalders; and related the following hittle narrs- tive to the Cardinal: Tho Duke of Modena had kept accreditad to”the Papal Cour: s Charge d'Affairea who was a prelate, and who, liko other diplomatists, took holiday abroxd every summer. ‘When he returned to Romo “he always paid his respects to the Pope, and as regularly conveyed t0 Lim the Duke of Modena's devoted homage. For a year or two the Pope made no ramark; but on one . occasion he casually referrod to the Dnke's eoormous wealth. = Next year tho reverend diplomatist csme, 13 usual, to offerhis master’s homage. This'time the Fope manifested” some“impatfence, and ob- served that *-he heard tho esme assurancea year after'year, but—and here he made a gesture 28 of counting out mogey—he never saw any practical proof of thess professions of devotion.” The Euvoy conld not belp smiling, whichir- ritated the Pape to such a degree that he told bia Excellency plainly he mighe for tho faturs * soaro himself the ' trouble ‘of ropeating duch hypocritical asséverations. Naturally tho Eavoy reported tho whole occurrance to the Duke, who thenceforth contribated 1.000¢: lv'v'{:!mnb £120) early to the Peter’s Penco. ‘The Pope, in con- cludipg Lis etory, observed, '*He who was so mean 1n hife is not lisely to have become-gen- erousin death ; thorefors I bold this piecy of intelligenco to” be - merely o neswspaper canird. " ‘Taere was_a greas deal of talk about the old Emperor Ferdinand of Austris, bow be was going to leave me & splendid lagacy ; bat noth- 1ug came’of ‘it except prafessions of devotion, which don’t cost “anything, *sod certainly don't bring ma anytbing ! LAFITTE, THE BANKER. An English paper says: Charles Laftte, the great French banker, who has just " died, ‘was one of the Lest known 'men in Parid.~ He was koown not merely as o financier; but’ also 'ss a man of fachion and pleasure. s was~one-of - the founders of the Jockey Club. He was pas- sionately fond of racing, and introduced steeple- chasing int6 Frince. Strange to say, howaver, he koew nothing of horses, thongh s ran them; in fact, he knew g0 little that ba conld not tell his own Rorsés ‘apart. ' For all that,” hs loved’ racing for its own sake, and “betted very ' little. He was a great 'dandy in’ dress,” aud “wasal-" ways a mnoticeable figure wita lus rose or posy ‘of violets in hus button-holo . when at- tending the race-course’ cr thd''skaling club. He foved whist ‘even beter’ than he lToved racitg, and would spegd ihe greater pare of tha nigkit at the whist-table 'in the Jockey Clul ‘fhcagh Yo Qid not bet on - the~ace-course,” ha played for “very ‘high stakes at tho whist-table.’ A Fubber of £40 did not scare lum. He lost with the most supreme good-temper : not & word nor a frown ever betrayed his annoyancs. He hsda gTast'awount of business to ‘tranesct: Besides looking sfter his'baok. Lo was s Diroctor of the ilavze Railway, sud bad a great deal to do with Italian railwaye. He was oot fortunate in love. orinlaw. Separated from his wife in 1854, he was condemued to pay her s pension of £1.440," the pension being guaranteed by a lien upon & som of £29,600, and he had to give her a spm of | £20,000 8 Gowry to bis two daughters, Ho had ™ many lawsnits, one-of them in this country; and which resulted in his having to _pay " £150,000 . after having ‘spdnt £30,000 on the iawyers whomi he retained to resist the claim. - THE PRINCE IMPERIAL: 2 The Prince Tmperial (says a Chiselhurst lat! to the Paris Figaro)isof average height and ell- looking ; his teeth are extremely fine, and bis— month like that of the Empress, whila the re- ‘mainder of his face reseémblea ‘his' father’s, “On the upper lip a-small - brown mnatach’ is bogin-" ning to make its wppearasice. - Hisvelca'ia full, zoriorous, and well fittea to command: ' “To samr up, the Prince has-all the grace" of his age i be’ ia gay, imaginative, and -French. Showingms ™ & small piece of fanituro in which all his schod ~ oxercises wera placed, he said: “I preserve and regard'them_with' pleasura’ do’ you Kp3w why ? Becanse I m enchanted st Dot”having~' todo them again.” His daily labor is some-~ thing extraordinary for one of *his_age. Rising at daybreak, he sets apart’ all ‘the morning’ fof study. His Professors are’ English; remdiug in ‘- London. He 1s now at an 3o Lo be admitted to Oxford, bat it was preferred that he shonld study at Chiselburss tbe higher branches of education. After tanch the Prince rides oat; he La threo saddle-borees, and among them Heros, the woll * knowu sorvel of the Emperor. Sometimes; -in . fino woather, e walks out_with tho Empress. * Two or three times a week'he goes to London to take lessons in fencing, which i his ‘great™ amusement; he also practices at home -with: Connt Bassano. Without being attached to the Rritish army, he occasiondlly takes part in the €@rill of abattery of artillery, to which’ some of Lis Woolwich comrades belong ; it ia s fete for them when he goes to Aldersnot. It I stated that the Prince said notbing - sboct” Franca “no’ one would believe me. But, ss my- fnstructions are not to Oecapy myself with politics, L am o~ strained from giving an accouut of our comver= sation, which Iaated nearly thirtj-fivs minates; I can only say that when I leftthe Prince I was'* absolately charmed. BISMARCK'S LETTERS. * London Times’ D'aris correapondenca: - Sinca the last war, people have zeized with'a perfect rage on everything connected with Prince Bis- marck. Nowhera bsa there beonmore esgerness digplayed as to hig present sud past Life, his tastes, habits, likings, and antipsthies, A little while sgo M. Antonin Proust, who wites the articles on foreign politics in the Repabliqus Francaise, poblished a geries of feuillelons oo * Princo Biemarck, consisting of letters writtdn'- by tho Prince_at different periods, sud - com- mienta on his life, tondencies, ‘inclinations, and babits. These articles wara 50 successfal thst men who detest the politics of tho Republizuz Francaise bought it, cut off the fe aod perused them with impatien® cunosity. “Tbey bad such s ron that a French publisher now.ao- nounces their republication in a haudsome Vol ‘ume, withs preface by M. Proust skefchung the general policy of the German' Chancellor. The publisher is ovidently contident that the, name of Prince Bismarck will saffice fo commend shis edition de luze to the eager search "of Freach Tanders. « (vhat with stocking-darners, knitting_and gewing machines. sppte-parers, - Washers, and wringers,” says the Claveland Herald, woman 28 & necesaity s fading from the f(sce of the ‘earth.” And the Milwaukee Sentinel thinks thst “'if it wasn't for some ome to aplit the wood she'd hardly be misaed.” “Bat we should liks t know how we'd keop our backs warm at nighs . and get “out 'boots ' blacked " in the monitig.=<’ ‘Louistille Courier~fournal.™ - SRR