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BELLEFONTE, PA.
A The Largut,Cheapdit nnil Beat Peper
1* t' l< I.IHII Klt IN CENTRE COUNTY.
Ol.l>K'S MCREKU.
HOW TI.ON PIO* 1.00K9 AND I.IVES —CEI.INE
I'll AC Mont's I.EER —CEOIZETTT's SMII.K
—AMERICANS IN I'AEIS.
From Olive Wnn'e L*lt*r In Cluclniiall Kni|tilrr.
See that dark couple wheeling past
rapidly, behind a massive brown mare
whose eye-blinkers bear the badge of
the Itii|>erial crown, still to be seen,
siiriiiuuuting an N, oil many of the
piiluces and great buildings of the
State. Inside on the dark green cloth
cushions is Prince Napoleon, a great
nia.-s of man, whose fatness seems to
have been absorbed, leaving the jaun
dice-colored cuticle hanging in loose
wrinkles. The sight of bun makes
vour heart throb in spite of yourself.
He is the living image of the great
uncle, the hero in whose honor the
superb arch crowns the summit of the
Champs Klysees, whose ashes lie at the
Invalides, on the borders of the Seine,
in the midst of the jieople he so loved.
One cannot choose hut wonder what
** is to be the ultimate destiny of this
one, and whether the Imperial purple
will ever swath this lean and slippered
Pantaloon. Fortunately or unfortu
lintel v for him, us you choose to look
at it, in the intellectual or the moral
sense, he is in the hands of a mistress
whose towering ambition will brook
no rival for him lor the throne, not
even his own son. This lad still
haudsome in spite of her forty years,
strong-minded, marvelously well in
formed, is, as I have told you, a C'hi
cagoan, married to a Frenchman. I
believe the Princess Clotilde does not
hesitate to say that it is her husband's
relations with Madame de Caiiisy
which have brought about the es
trangement between Na|ioleoii and
herself. Clotilde lives almost the life
of the cloister in an old castle in Sa
voy. an appanage of the kinglv crown
of Italy. Thither, once a year, goes
Plou Plon to visit her. Their rela
tions are a sort of friendly truee.
They have two hoys, and one or both
may yet lie EmjßTor of the French.
This l>eing the ease, it behooves
them as parents to have no disgraceful
rapture, and each lets the other lend
the life he thinks liest. Clotilde is so
devout a ('atholic she is almost a canon
ized Saint already, aud Plon Plon —
well, parol'" (V honneur, he is not a hit
like that, not he. The road to Mad
ame De Canisy was, as all the world
is aijure, past Cora Pearl, Anna Ifi**-
lions, Planch D'Autigny, I.a Grande
< inga, and St. Antony alone knows
who else besidw. In 1)e ('ainsy he has
found his master mind, and the whole
cnrottcrie Pnrieiennr, to whom he is
I still an envied object, for lie i yet iin-
mensely rich, are pow< rh -st make
his allegiance falter.
We are opposite the Vaudeville
now, the home of Sardou's genius, as
theGyninase is that of Dumas. I/*>k
at this little person coming out of the
stage door. Did von ever see an ugly
woman who was prettier than a pretty
one? Don't know what I mean?
Ah, then you never saw Maggie Mitch
ell with her scrawny arm la-fore her
nil eyes, her tangled hair looking as
if the hats had slept there, bewailing
in a tear-choked voice that Landry
w ill not love hor because she is "the
ugly Fanchon." Then you never saw
Celine Chaumoiit in the monologue
which is now turning the heads of the
town, and called Le Petit Altbe, where,
for an hour, without the assistance of
it living soul, she enchains the atten
tion of three thousand enraptured
spectators nightly. What a golden
voice! The diction of Sarah Bern
hardt, the diablerie of Lotla ! Those
-mincing airs, eyes raised prudishly to
licaven, risky words underlined with
but a quiver of the mobile mouth, del
icacy, distinction, the hearing of an
aristocrat, glossing over the instincts
of a Gavroche —that is the plain-fea
tured Celine Chaumont, to whom the
gilded vice of Paris writes projiosals
which she answers with an eye-wink,
and the French equivalent of "Do yon
see anything green ?" In the sense of
homage paid to prcttim**, there is not
a pretty woman in Paris so pretty as
the ugly Chauiuont.
If wc walk these boulevards but
long enough we shall see them all
Grevy, Gambotta, Marshal McMahon
the Orleans Princes, Alexander Du
mas, the whole kit and tollic of vary
ing prominence in every line, who air
their success or failure once at least in
the twenty-four hours on the aephaite.
There is Madame Thiers, accompanied
by her inseparable sister, Mademois
sellc Dosne. Madame has been to
f England, the land of the exile, alt
summer long, and has brought hack
a mass of |>a|>ers which are to set the
seal on Their's greatness. Yonder is
Croizelte, the Due d' A u male's big
shapeless lump of sweetness, her lovely
mouth pressed up in a happy smile, as
she leads her pretty boy, in whose
biistaril veins courses the blood of
King"- What a pageant it is! See,
here is Kmile Zola himself, turning
hastily away from the brilliant spec
f tacle of the great artery of the Boule
vards into a side street, where per
chance he can exercise his talents as a
naturalistic rejwrter to better effect.
There are some things that French
people do not do in broad daylight on
the Boulevards, after all, though one
would scarcely think it. It is the
province of Zola to discover those
tilings, and noting them with reporto
rial accuracy, hold them up to the
shuddering gaze of nations, crviug
aloud, "Behold ! how vile we are."
Yet to the American observer on
the Boulevards there is another sight
to he seen here of far more inti
mate interest than nuythinug 1 have
yet mentioned. It is the procession of
Paris-Americans themselves, the as
phalte-poisoncd hybrids whose hoot
soles lick the pave day by day, month
by month, year by year. Ostracism
troni Paris means to these shuttlcrs,
whom listless inaction has emasculat
ed in the intellectual and mora! sense,
something worse than death. Some
thing a great deal more unpleasant
than dishonor. When a mail's dead
lie is dead ; but to he alive and not in
Paris? The vile moral atmosphere of
England, the healthy onward tenden
cies of America Good God ! they re
coil from these things with horror.
They prefer to pass their lives looking
in the bonbon■* windows of < iotiaehe, or
lounging under the arcades of the Kite
de Uivoli. To remain here these
lieings, lost to shame nod pride, sick
with the crapulence of the beauty of
Paris, will not hesitate to beg, are past
masters in the art of liorrow iug, and —
oh, yes, certainly, if the worse comes
to the worst thuy will steal. Any
thing to stop in Paris. Sometimes
stealing has quite unpleasant conse
quences, though, hang il all ! An
Americun was escorted to the frontier
hv the gfiisdarme* the other day —no,
not for the little triflle of |s'rsua<ling
the unmarried girl to take, as they ,
say here, the keys to the fields, as her
mother did before her ill Washington,
bringing iihout the terrible tragedy
that you know, and go live with him
—hut simply for selling the father's
jewels, which the conscientious young
lady had appropriated. Fine minor*,
we, of the morals of the French, when
in Paris our own country i* represent
ed by specimen bricks made of such
villainous day as this !
Til E (-HN. TJIOM \N ST AT I K.
A UOKA or ART WHICH COAT SIXTY TIIOC
SAND IK. 1.1, AH*.
It was natural, after the death of
(cn. (i'-o. 11. (homos, that the soldiers
and officer* of the Army of the Cum
berland should desire to perpetuate
his memory in some titling manner.
At the annual re-union held in De
troit, immediately after the demise of
their old commander, a proixwitioti was
th erefore made to erect a monument
in bronze. 'I he idea at once took de
finite ha|K', and committer-* were np
pointed to collect subscription* to de
fray the expense*. A surplus in the
treasury of the society was appropri
ated as a nucleus to the fund, aud
afterward ('ongri -- donated a quantity
of condemned cannon to the snrictv to
ward the monument, the sale of which
realized about $20,000.00. Through
these instrumentalities, viz: private
nubscriptions, the appropriation of the
society, and the donation of Congress,
the necessary funds were secured. Be
side* these finance committee* a gen
eral committee was appointed to have
charge of the whole matter. This lat
ter l**ly immediately invited artists to
send in nifMiels, hut although a num
ber were submitted at two separate
meetings, held in Pittsburg and Ihiy
ton, none were deemed worthy of ac
ceptance. Uu reporting this fact to
the sooiety, the general committee wa*
authorized to proceed and select an
artist to whom the work could bo en
trusted. Acting under these instruc
tions, the committee decided ii[*>ii Mr.
J. (p A. Ward, of New York, and a
contract was nt once entered into with
that gentleman. The committee con
sisted of Genernls ll.xtker, Sheridan,
Cruft, Davis, Jordan ami Whipple,!
and Major Dutficld. It was a part of
the contract that at least three of the
horse's legs should be ujk>u the ground
as it was not the intention of the socie
ty to have the animnl appear in an un
natural attitude. For over four years
Mr. Ward was steadily at work upon
ihe statue, and early last spring his
Plaster of Paris east was transferred
to the foundry of Burlnn Bros. A Men
ton, of Philadelphia, by whom it was
most successfully reproduced in bronze.
The first cast was made about six
months ago. since which time the firm
has Ix-cn busy upon the work, and the
finishing touches were only made a few
d ys before it was shipped to Washing
ton. The height of the sfatue is about
fifteen feet, the figures being about
twice life size. Ifl> rtwt was 8 40,000,
exclusive of the |icdcxtul, which was
erected by the Government at an ex
pe se of $20,000. This pedestal is
of granite, about sixteen feet high,
and embellished with bronze decora
tions, including the representation of
the hadge of the Society of the
Army of the Cumberland, partly
surmounted by a wreath of laurel.
The statue complete weighs Altout
7,500 |Miuuds. The horse ami rider
weigh about 5,300 pounds, and the
base 2,200 pound*. The picture which
j* given of the statue gives a better
idea of it than can any word descrip
tion. Suffice it to say that the work
is deservedly the object of universal
praise. Those who knew General
Thorn*" best are the most gratified
with the likeness, faithfully portray
ing, as it does, the face and person of
the dead hero, lie has not lieen ideal
ized out of recognition. But there
was no need of this. Commanding in
presence, of fine features, bearing in
every line the marks of the courage,
the will, and the force of character
with which he wa* endowed, the man
whose memory is thus perpetuated in
bronze proved a fit subject for the ar
tist's hands. And the work ha* been
done faithfully and well. < bie's first
impression, too, in looking nt the work,
i.* a feeling of gratitude that the horse
—for it is the horse, lifter all, that
claims one's first glance, iu an ei|iieo
trian statue —-is a possible horse, ami
not the stagey, theatrical animal that
poses and postures in so many of the
Itublic squares of the I'nited States,
•lager ami alert, with fore feet firmly
planted on the slight useent up which
the quick ride has just been mudc,
with one of his hind feet on the *lo|s
placed before the other, with his head
raised high iu air, above a magnificent
breadth of chest, with every muscle
full of life and motion, the horse is a
superb animal. H<- is encumbered
with the least possible amount of trap
ping, only the necessaries of equestrian
life. 'I he anatomy i* good. Altogeth
er, Mr. Ward has modeled a horse
whose strength und speed and "eyes'
quick intelligence" irresistibly remind
one of the ride from (ihent to Aix.
The figure of < ten. Thomas is firm and
dignified. He sits easily in the saddle,
leaning slightly backward, and with
an intent look swce|s the horizon.
The same simplicity of treatment
which the arti-t ha.* used throughout
applies to the dr<-.s ; the double-breast
ed military frisk coat, buttoned to
the chiu, plain riding lioot.*, 1 ><-11 und
sword on the left side, his right
hand falling easily and naturally to
the saddle, and held a little hack,
grasps hi* army slouch hat and glove*.
It is the iiitenttHw* of one single pur
pose, animating horse and riimr, that
makes the statue instinct with life.
I here i* not the slightest impri*iou,
ahieh many an urtist would not have
been üblc to avoid, that < ion. Thomu*
bus taken oil hi* hat, and is standing
for his portrait. He has tuk< u hi*
hat oil' to get that long, free look to
the farthest horizon tlint he ha* conic
tip the slojh' for that Is.th hor*e and
man have come for. The modi-ling i*
brood ami free, and the work thor
oughly realistic in all it* details. It
i* a!snliitelv |ortmiture. hut it i* not,
th cretorc, commoii-place nor unworthv.
The artist ha* Ihii ton modc-t to ob
trude hi* own private ideal of a hero
or u borne and too truthful to take
lilx-nic* with the fact*. There is
something, also, altout tin - hor*c and
his rider that is in sympathy. It i*
this, and the bold <lu*h ami • freedom
Irum coiivcutionaliti"-- which charac
torize the statue, that give* it the
charm it j*..--<*•. Altogether tin-
Army of the ('umbcrland have ev<-rv
r-a*oti to Is- proud of the mouuiiient.
EOK(tOTTE> < (IMiIfENS.MEA.
KKFKKKNI'KB TO A II W STATFXMF.N
WHO HAVK SI NK INT"• OBI.IVION.
How etihemenil is |sliticnl fame.
Among the thousands who figured iu
their "lay as Senator* mid Representa
tive* in Congress, the nnnn-s f but
few are familiar to the present genera
tion. ( lay, Wcb-ter, und Calhoun
made an impress on the history of
their country which, ts-rhajH. will
'never lie forgotten. The ela.-- of
statesmen standing next to them iu
ability ar- even ?mw almost faihnl out
of the public mind. John Forsyth,
of < Jeorgia, was one of the most m
eoniplisherl otrhaml delwler* that ever
appeared iu the Cnited States Senate;
yet how few of the TV**,<*><l of |m-o
tie now dwelling iu this land of ours
now that such a man ever livisl.
William C. I'reston, of South Carolina,
was an orator of great power and a
Senator who reflected honor on thi*
State. After his death how soon was
he forgotten. Weliater'a reply to
Robert V. Hnyne i* likely to keep his
i Hayne'a) memory fr*h in the mind
of the reader. Otherwise he would
have Ims-ii lost to the recollection of
jMisterity; yet hewn* one of the most
i>ri 11isnit men of his day. William T.
Barry, of Kentucky, wn* one of the
most eloquent of men, ami played n
conspicuous part in the |iolitics of hi*
State. It is safe to say that a large
majority of the present voters are not
apprised of the fact. Felix (irundy,
of Tennessee, wh* noted for his elo
quence at the bar and in the hall* of
Congress. It i* only the |iolitieal
student or the survivors of the era in
which he cut his most prominent fig
ure who know nnythlng about him.
Maryland kept Gen. Sam. Smith in
Congress thirty-nine years, and we
venture to say that thousands of the
tMilitieian* of the present day never
heard of him. The same may lie said
of Nathaniel Macon, of North Caro
lina, who represented that State in
( ongrcss thirty-seven years. We might
go on anil specify a score of others,
equally talented and influential in
their day and generaton, who are but
seldom thought of beyond the precinct*
of their lilcmhJ relations. If such should
he the fate of these distinguished poli
ticians, what is to become of the men
who arc uow strutting ou the political
stage ? A large majority of them will
not he remembered five years after
they have Iwen consigned to private
life. Hyeh i* political fame.
"WltK* a stranger treata one with a
want of respect," said a poor philowo
pher, "I comfort myself with the re
flection that it is not myself that he
slights, but my old ami shabby coat
ami shabby hat, which, to say truth,
have no particular claim to adoration.
Ho, if my hat ami coat choose to fret
about it, let them; hut it is nothing
to me."
From tli (JoMiiAti <if ikwUia,
EO.NHINH.
IIY OXOIUIK W. IIIKOKRYK.
A fis-ling of longing
Now draws me away '
From hotmi und it* loved ones
To wander astray.
Fsr over the hilltop*
The clouds hang In sir,
Aglow in the *uiilh-m in*, —
Who wuit for inc there!
The shndow-wing'd raven*
Move *hjw ly itloiik,
Arid joining tlo-ir party,
W.'" with the throng.
They <>ar o'er the mountsins—
I pit-* rock und tree;
<), joy ! I i'hol(| hur '
Hho tarries for me !
She roved through the forest;
The signal I sing ;
The note of the song-bird
O i-rjoyed with the *|irint.
She linger* Mild lit term
And whisper* with glee
"He *llig* it u sweellv ,
He sing- it for iue"J
The Irut henrn* of turuo-t
Are gilding the height;
t My lo\i*J oiietiill tarries,
She fi-nrt not the night,
lit hmok*ide the wander*
The green meadow* through,
And darker and darker
Night'* thadowt pursue.
I glide through tll<- hllthe-
A wandering tiar.
She ttari* arid hn tremble*
" \\ liat gli am* from afar ?
" Ti* "inly my lantern.
My di-areti aiul bet,
And I, at your fuel, love,
For here I am blest!
El HEME'S I.AST ItEEATIA E.
tiik nr. \tic iv a tnnin or tur. MoTiira or
rue n i m nr.- hriubc iikk
n*i uiiTra'a aaii i \ ai^
Ihuia Maria Mamiela Kirkpatrick.
<it < locburii, Duwnger (Vjunte** uf
Mi>nti jo, ihi-.l on Stttunhiy in Ma<lri<l.
She wa* Iwirn in 1 TIM#, "and wa* de
*c.-u(lec| on the faiher * *iiie from a
Roman Catholic family of Scotland,
which sought refuge in Spain after the
downfall of th' Stuart*, (tne of her
uuc <-* tor-, Roger Kirkpatric k, a
eou.-in of Robert Uruce, won the fam
ily motto, "l,muk -ieker," by ru*hing
iiiiek with this exclamation to finish
the Reg. Nt Cuinyn at the altar of the
GreyfHan in Dnm/Hsa. Hlaaoofisll
into a deadly fc-ml with the Lindsays,,
anil hi* grnn<l-ilaiighter Margaret wa*
the heroine of the ballad of "The
I.arl* Daughter. Ihe father of the
( oiint" -of Moutijo lieing Itritich < 'on
sol at Malaga -lie there married Cvp
riati, < oiint of Montijo and Miranda
ami Duke of I'eneranda, three time* a
<>randee of Spain of the first ela**.
IK i husiuiiiii'- family, the I'orto-Car
reros, of (icnoa, after s-ttliiig in Spain
in the fourteenth century formed eon
nectioiis then- with many illustrious
house*, including the (iuzmau.* and
( -riln*. A colonel in the Spanish
Army, the Count hncl embraced the
French cause with fervor, fighting un
der the banner* of the First Empire
in Spain and France and firing one of
the la-t -hot- in defense of Pari* in
18H- Hi* wife bore him tyro daugh
ters of singular beauty, whom, after
her separation from lur hu-hand, she
took to Pari* in She placed
them for a brief space at the Convent
"Iu Sacrv (ci-ur, and here a* a child
the future Kmpreaa was fete*! and
cart*ed by Prosper Merimco, a jjfp
long fricml of her nmther. The elu
cation of the daughter* wa* complet
ed at Toulouse, at iiristol in England
ami at Madrid, to which city the
Countess returned upon her huhaud's
ileath. In 1 Mo, when with them she
residc-d in the Rue St. Antoine nt Paris,
Mine, de Montijo wa* suhjeeted to snr
veillauee by the |Hliee of Ixruia Phil
ipje and a confidentiiil re|*irt made
nt that time wa* published by the
French Republican* after the fall of
the Second Empire to injure the Km
pre** in the public mind. Tbe sum
ami substance of the report wa* that
the Countess de Montijo lived iu
easy but not nttlm-nt circuntManocw. re
ceiving few female frieucU, hut having
many visitors at her reception*, where
then' wn* some talk of politic* ami a
good deal of cnrd-plnying. Her eldest
"laughter, while still very young, mar
ried the Duke of Alba und Berwick,
bead of the great house of Fits. James,
a descendant of the great soldier Duke
of Berwick, the tint ti ml son of James
11. and Arabella Churchill, the sister
of the Duke of Marlborough; and also
of the terrible tyrant of the Nether
lands. This great nobleman settled a
liberal allowance u|hiii his mother-in
law, who, with her -second daughter,
fated to make a still more brilliant
match, maimed her life of travel,
dividing her time between (Jermany,
England and Spain, always, however,
maintaining her foothold at Paris,
where, after the Revolution of IH4H
and the foundation of the Seooud Em
pire, her daughter Eugenie became n
court beauty and in due course of
time Empress of the French. Since
the marriage of Eugenie and Napo
leon, Mme. de Montijo ha* liecn little
heard of, though her daughter has fre
quently visited her at Madrid, where
*ne ha* lived in a splendid *ort of
half-retirement. At the tilffe of the
death of the Prince lm]K>rial, In June
last, the t'ouuteaa was in very feeble
health and it wa* feared she would
Uot long survive the news which,
though broken to her with all geutle
ness and every precaution, threatened
at first to prove fatal. Her death
leaves the cx-Emprcs* absolutely alone
ill the world, the Ducbea* of Alba and
Berwick,it will be rememliercd,having
died in a vory melancholy manner
winie yearn before the full of the em
pire.
A* soon an the uewH of the illness of
; her inuther reached the ex-Empress
Eugenie authority for her to pass
through France wan ohLaineii |y the
| English Embassy there ami she arriv
ed in I'arin on Thursday night. There
-he HiM-nt the day with the Due do
Mouchy and had aome affecting in
terview* with the ex-Queen Inaliella,
I'rinee Napoleon and others. At x
o'clock on Friday bight she took u
special train for Madrid, where she
| arrived Sunday. She wan too late,
j coming only to find her mother al
ready dead. King Alfonso, who was
waiting at the railway Htation, ootn
| iiiuiiicated the sad new* to the ex-
Empress. She wished to go to her
mother's residence at once, hut wan
|M-rMiaded finally to go to the Alba
induce, where many thousand visitors
have ealled to inscribe their iiaim-n in
condolence and resjieet. Sundav the
exT.inprew visited her mother's house
and prayed over her.
rttifit imi.itoMi MOAOFOEV.
frttm tt llarrial'ttrir I'alrtM.
I he I'acifie railroad compnnie- have
diwlonerl with sufficient distiuetm-*-
their purpose to demand the rc|*il of
the Thurman act. In round figure*
the imlehtediion of thin gigantic mon
opoly to the people of the Cnited
State* in st'i4 f o(Mt,(00. Thin in the
amount of tenuis of the United State*
issued to them a* a mili-idv and for
which the people are mqsmsible. Of
thin debt IJo.ikhi.(mii i- due from the
Central I'acitic railroad, BL'7,imhi,iuhi
from the Union Pacific, and tM'tHMj,-
• xhi from the Kun-an Pacific. The
rent ha- been dintributcd to branch
linen which are under the control of
the grand niouo|ioly. There bond* of
the I nit<-d State- are a second mort
gage on the Pacific railroad*.
Kver nince the construction of the
Pacific railroadn by the magnifiecnt
subsidies of the ir-ople the muuager*
of the mouo|Kilv have nought to ew ajn
from their obligations to the govern
mcut with the view of ultimate Iv evud
iug payment of the whole amount of
the debt. 'I bey have r--itcd puvue-rit
in every way, in ( oiigrew, in the de
partment*. and in the court*, until at
hint the I hurmuii act hit* brought
them to bonk. Ihe act having been
declared valid and constitutional by
the Supreme Court nothing remain*
at present hut to enforce its provisions,
which require the monopoly to pay
into the treasury of the I nited Stat"-*
a certain percentage of their net earn
ing- a- a ninking fund for the ultimate
extinction of the debt due the people,
lint a -mail jiortion of the amount
that ha* accrued under thin act ha*
been grudgingly paid into the U**u
ry, though the owner* of the mon
opoly arc sharing enormous profit*.
While reluctantly niakiug j"fty merit*
Mr. Iluntingtoii, the pre.-idctil of the
C entral Pacific branch of the ruouopo
ly, insolently denounces the dec i*ion of
the Supreme Court and demand* the
rejH*al of the law. There i- no danger
of rejH-al in the present Democratic
t ongme, hut the movement will pro
bably be made in the appMachitig
Session of Congress and the business
will l kept warm in the how- of the
adveut of a favorable lb-publican ma
jority and of a restoration of Cirant
ism. The votes iu the next session of
Congresr will revc-al the strcugth of
parties in regard to the monopoly and
enable it* manager* to lay their plan*
for the future. They already exult in
getting rid of their moat formidable
antagoui*t in Senator Thurman. The
next object of the a**au!l of the Pa
cific monopoly ia Senator McDonald,
of Indiana, and the Cincinnati Com
mrrrtal (wildly suggests to Jay (ionic!
that he provide for the immediate set
tlement of ten thou*aud negnxw from
the- .South iu that great State to con
trol the elections. Thi* intimation to
Jaytiould wa* hardly new*ary. Mr.
John I). Defrees, public printer at
Washington, in an interview publish
ed iu the New York JVilntnr, boasts
that negro oolonixation in Indiana i*
rapid'v progressing, and that under
the law of the State the colonist* will
bo entitled to vote in six month*.
The Pacific monopoly ran well afford
this expenditure if it will relieve them
of so sturdy an antagonist a* Senator
McDonald. Asa political venture it
would lie far more profitable than
negro coloniaatiou in Kansas.
The olyoet of the Pacifft monopo
lists is to carry ou an underground
warfare against "the Democratic |nrty
in detail. Their alliance with the Ro
puhliean party i* becoming every day
more perfect. Tliey have •ecovered
control of California, and the votes of
that State in Congress and for Presi
dent are to lie given to the Republi
cans in carrying nut the compact be
tween a powerful and unscrupulous
corporation ring and a corrupt party.
Wherever the lavish expenditure of
mnuey can he made available, it ia to
be employed iu wresting State* and
Representative* from the Democ racy.
Every Democratic member of Con
gress who baa exerted himself to com
pel the monopoly to discbarge its obli
gations to the people is to be struck
down, and an obedieut servant put in
his place. There ia no mistaking the
magnitude of this struggle between
the liemoeraev and insolent corporate
power. The Pacific monopolists have
a hundred and twenty millions, in
cluding principal and interaat, involv
ed in this issue, and they will fight
with the utmost desperation.
j TIIK KtMNIAS IM I'Flt IA I, FA.MII.V,
I Vmn>-I—, I.l| l-nri. 1,4(1,.,
illiin lli* last week I'aris bus Ix r ri
j the ri'ijili-xvoiic fur tin: leading nicin
, .| t| M . J{iis-iuu in,j M . r i a | f'aui
ily, and in their train come an un
eountublc number of elegant and dis
tingui-hed persons. Antony the-c, and
."f •'"* ">"*t prominent, is that
I brilliant Kus-iaii authoress, the i'rin
| <•<•* < de Novikoff, whose powcr
lul cxpo-c of the Itu—ian attitude,
puhli-hcd in book form, and called
"la ituaaia Wrong?" creaU-d -uch a
Herniation in Kngland last year. The
book waa at ill further enhanced in
value by having a preface from the
vigorous pen of Mr. Kroude. Carlyle
i iu full sympathy with the ]{u—iati
' a,| He. 11 ere iu I'aria M me. dc Novi
kofl receive* the greatest celebrities.
I met I".mile de (iirardin a* I waa
going Pi call upon the I'rinei
te-dav. Kinglake vi-it- Iter frequently.
All I ari- journntlrtc rallies around
her. J'hy-ically, -be i H very line
looking lady, and, like all the Ru-iau
ari-locraiy, ahe -js-ak- both Kuglirh
and I - rench without the *]ightc*t lingo"
ot accei t. I,ike all itu—ian*, high
and low, Man . ,Je Novikoff ban the
greatest regard for America and tho
Americans and Menu anxious that our
country jxwple-hould understand Ku--
"ia. Her brother i- th<* general iu
alt. n dim re ,|„. (; rali( j j )ukf . , (J|) .
Htantiue, who met with a -ad accident
two davxago. Hi- Irntwrial Highness
wa- vi-iting that wonderful shop call
ed the l>juvre, on it- ojietiing day,
and -lippitig on the waxed -tuirca-e.
broke a vein in hi- ankle. Fortunate
ly the accident i- not serious. Tho
brother of this Grand Duke, the de
lightful Alexin, who made -ueli havoc
among the girl-' heart* when he went
ti America -otnc year- ago, will al-o
I*- in J'uri- in a few day-. The moth
er of these prince-, the Km pre— of
Itu—ia, i- now at t'annex, where a
lonely residence ha- been fitted up for
her. She i- incognito, but -till keep
up a certain degree of lm|K-rial -late.
Sixty men form her l—ly-guard,
while her immediate hou-chojd in
cludes chamberlains and ladies of
honor, Itcxidex servant- innumerable.
♦
ladies Hearting of Monogram-.
Fr"tß Uw I> ri'l'.i Tftoll*.
I h<* whirling of fti-hiou i
r*njn#i an old-fa-hion<*<J fiecor&tton,
t*hich II&I* itx merit*. are vria
rying of monograms, and are adopting
cuildcm- and motion-. Ibe tourlorntlt
anil early sixteenth centuries were the
tune- when luoUoe- and lauciful em-
Idem- flourished iie-t abundantlv.
It< -ide- hi- hereditarv l- aniig-, every
knight hud Mime emidctn- of fama-v,
and every lady her symbol, which
might Is* changed at pleasure. When
those were embroidered on iln-M* the
effect wax quaint and variegated, and
gave each oustume a kind of originnli
ty. furi-iau- have resii-covered this,
und bird- and mutton- arn embroider
ed all over drn—es. .V well -graced
• and well - putled j actres- who is tho
reverse of stout in figure appeared
lately with the device of ravcus on
her array. Her rival, who is not slim,
observed t)at "where the skeleton is
the ravens are gathered together."
Swallow, are more common than the
sombre bin! of the Danish banner—
|terhaj-> to indicate that the wearer
intends "flying, flying South." (told
swallows are worn on a hlue -atin
ground, though a naturalist might
prefer to reverse the colors. ]>ndics
of fashion, if the fashion prevails, will
soon look as quaint a- did Jacqueline
de la < irange in her costume broidered
with pink eagle- and black ducks, or
Anue of Bohemia with the crowned
ostrich. The mottoes may slip from
writing pajwr into wider use,and |*eta
once more style themselves, on their
title |>agox. U banni de The old
motto would serve many of the new
poet* very well, and the fashion will
nt least add some variefy to existence,
till the thing is overdone, and ceases
to lie an outward sign of inward me
dia'ralisiu.
Wit EN a man's house i# building he
never thinks the carpenter puts in
one-third enough nails, and frequently
and with biting sarcasm asks him if he
doosu't think the house would stand if
he just simply leaned it up against
itseff, and saved all his nails? Theji
a few years afterward, when he tears
down the summer kitchen to build a
new one, he grow ls and scolds, and sar
castic&llv wonders why that fellow
didn't make the house entirely of nails,
aud just put in enough lumber to hold
the nails together.
WHEN a fool is young he spend
much lime in parting his hair in the
middle. Wheu be is old and bald he
wates much more time in tryiug to
make the cuds of his sparse locks meet
on the polished crown above.
THERE arc limes when the simplest
act of charity, or the slightest wonb
of cheer or encouragement will accom
plish uutold good, therefore withhold
neither, for the result obtained is a
bountiful and noble reward.
THERE are many men who appear
to be struggling against adversity, and
yet are happy ; but yet more, who, al
though abounding in wealth, are mis
erable.
THERE are enough fine mottoes in
| the world. What we want is for men
| to wear them pinned on the lappel of
' their conscience.