The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1848-10-24
Partisan Gossip.
[Translated for the New York Home Journal


din whose great play of Semirarnis was listened to-
among the full audience of other distinguished
fashonables by two of the most superb and aristo-
cratic beauties of Paris.
Charming play'' said one, " isn't it -
g Yes 20 said the other, but was choked with
the name of the hero-AntOiHe! What possessed
Madame Girardin to baptze him so vulgarly. Why
not call him Oswald or Arthur! My coachman's
name is Antoine, and | remembered him, OF course,
every time the name was uttered.
The lovely blonde listener lauged merrily, but pre-
senty assuming very serious air, she replied =
g NV dear see how, from a lesser inconvenience
you may fall upon greater These poor authors
do not know what they may stumble on in picking
out name. Suppose the heros name had been
Arthur That is, if remember right, the name of
your husband, and you may judge how much worse
it would be to have him continually brought be-
fore you-much worse than your coachman, Ell,
my dear Z"
Oh heavens indeed yes would as lief come
to the play with him, outright"
GERM OF A New PLAY-The late charming pro-
duction of NJ de Musset is called The Caprice, and
is based upon love in good society. A high bred
man feels his heart beat with equal violence for
three different ladies at me time-two single and
one married lady, the latter his Uife. The sequel
ends in his preferring the lady to whom he has the
easiest access and the novelty of this result Is said
to have rendered the piece very plquant IN Paris
AMONG THE ROMANS ETC.-OlIlheH NeA-
COUNT never leaves his lodgings in Paris without
two sort of cards in his pocket, ready for the paste
board initiative in case of a quarrel-one set OF
enameled and cOrOneed cards, and another of ordl-
nary paper, with his cognomen in simple print. On
a recent Sunday, promenading in the Jdrdtn d HI
GER he had an alteration with we'll dressed man,
and in the most approved manner, drew out and
presented one of his cOroneted cards.
50 Pardon me, Monsieur" said the Count, hand
ing him another card lone of the plain-paper kind,
will you give me back the first card gave you
and take this Those are intended for gentlemen"
How TO STAY LArE.-At late ball in Paris,
very stout gentleman, proprietor of bad catarrh
and very charming wife, insisted very lneonVe-
niently (at the close of polka in which the laters
breastpn was quite too Intimately made acquainted
with the Xaistcoat buttons of a very nice young
mani that Madame should take leave, and return to
the less Objectionable bosom of her family.
Never mind" she said to her partner, " invite
me to dance the next quadrille all the same. will
find way to stay for it.
Slipping out while the sets were forming, she
went into the gentlemens dressing-room, found her
husbands hat, and threw it out of the window
Then returning and requesting her spouse to first
find his hat and call the carriage, she accepted
partners for the next six dances, quite sure OF two
hours before the hat could be recovered.
NEW YORK THE MARKET OF PARIs.-A formi-
dabIe utqSe has been issued by the Gar against
the introduction of the products of French industry
into his capital, and the Queen OF England has
taken the same means of Furnishing naughty France
for her revolution. The other capitals of Europe
have, for similar or other reasons, become small
customers to the Partisan dealers in elegancies,
and New York is now the Bagdad of fashionable
commerce.
suppressions of French establishment at her court
Starting lately for a ride on horseback, Prince Al
bert sprang into his saddle with new whip IN his
hand The head was of gold, designed and
finished with the perfection to which Partisan art
has attained
"Yes-I received it this morning from Paris ~
answered the Prince.
Z" From Paris % asked her majesty lowering her
eyebrows You have then forgotten my prohibit
ton Take that detestable object out OF my sight,
and dispense with your company In my ride
The royal spouse retired quite confused, and the
milf lasted till the next evening-an uncommon
thing, as any one midnight seldom lets pass unpa-
cited a coniugal excitement of the lrasclble
Victoria.
AT a recent drawing-room at Buckingham Pa
lace, the superb Duchess of Sutherland, Lady OF
Honor to the Queen, incurred, In the same way
the sovereign displeasure. Her toilette was I'M
commonly elegant and fresh from Paris. The
Queen turned to her with very irritated look, and
ironically felicitated her on the stylishness Of
her evening dress, adding, have understood
Duchess, that your physician thinks the waters o.
Bath would be good for you. You can go there
tomorrow; and, as you will have some prepare
lions to make for your departure, you can be ex'
| cused this evening" The Duchess curtsled In
| silence and withdrew.
| CAN THE DEAD WIN AT CARDS "A very GU
rious Iaw-case came recently before German
court. arising from the following circumstance: "A
| gentleman sat at a faro-table in the town o.
Koethen, Saxony, playing with the usual attentlol
and silence. Several plays were made, and the
| card which the gentleman continued unchanglnglY
/ to nut forward won repeatedly The gold pushed
| towards the winner by the crOupler, however, was
| not drawn in by him, and after several more accu
| mutations had made the pile inconvenlently large
the keeper of the bank rather angry requested lne
| fortunate man TO take IN MS money. WIN iii
ewes fixed on his card, the player took no notice O.
| the request. .
Draw in your gold - was again uttered BY
several around the table.
| No answer.
Monsieur! you incommode the other players ?
| said the croupier
! The same motionless silence.
A person sitting next the offender took hold of hi
| hand 1t was stone cold The winner was dead
As the body was being removed, the cr0uple
drew back the money he had showed towards tn
dead player, alleging that the game, based upon re
'ciprOcal engagement, could not exist between IN
dead and the living. The heirs of the defunct pre-
| sented themselves, the day after, and claimed tn
| money, declaring that the winner had regularl
commenced and continued the game. The questio
was carried before the tribunal of Koethen and wi
probably depend upon the evidence as to the polr
of time when the player ceased to live.
DRAw-BRIDGE PLAN OF GETTING A WIFE
One of the most celebrated bankers Of Europe a
present, is Mr.. -, the chief partner of the hous
of 60 Hope and CO." This gentleman was slmpl
clerk in the great house he now controls, when n
10 o7do IN business VIII
the Earrings. After its successful completion
having meantime been Hospitality entertained .
the heads of the house to which he was sent ~ u
Amsterdam clerk requested an interview WIN lJ ~
Barring, and demanded his daughters manu-
: marriage. e ,,o,, =,
but a clerk - .e1Io.
But if 1 were a partner in the house OF Hope
"Ab then the case would be different -
, The clerk went home and asked private int
view with Mr. Hope. Without preliminary, he r
ouested to be taken into the hrm as partner.
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