The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1860-01-27


mems clothes, she said she had observed that
men got their living easier than women, but
she refused to give any information as to
her birth and parentage. She was removed
to the female wards of the prison, but her
repugnance to show herself in woman's
attire among her fellow prisoners was so
great that she committed suicide by hang
ing herself to an iron bar with pocket
handkerchief. She led a chaste life.
A JEW, residing at Lyons, lately lost his
purse, containing 12O0f, and advertised the
loss in the usual way. The next day he re-
ceived this letter:
Amiable Israelite-It is l who have found
your l2OOf., and you may weep for them, for
you will never get them back. 1 am leading
the life of Sardanapalis. Here is an account
for dinner: [ A detail for two meals was here
given.] shall continue to live in this manner,
gracious Hebrew, until your l2O0f. are exhaust.
ed, and will finish by drinking glass of wine
to your health.
A PARIS correspondent of the Independ-
ance Beige writes: 81 mad the good fortune
to visit, the other day, the private apart.
ments of the Empress, at the Tuileries.
Workmen had been engaged OF them for
two years, during the absence of their
Majesties. These suites of rooms, which run
in parallel line with the reception rooms
on the drawing room floor, consist of an ante
chamber, a waiting room for the ladies of
honor, a saloon of audience, private room
for her Majesty-that is to say, the most
retired and private room of the suite. The
Empress, whose preference for the style of
Louis XVI. is we'll known, has desired the
apartments in question to be entirely deco
rated after the fashion and taste of Marie
Antolnette. NJ. Lefuel received orders to
renew the elegant ornamentation of Trianon
in this Partisan palace. Art and industry
have done marvels under his superintendent,
so that we see again the graceful arabesques,
the rounded tapering volutes, the exquisite
garlands, and the fine carvings of the latter
part of the eighteenth century. All the
models are unique, and executed with ad-
mirable nicely, from the door handles to the
chimney pieces, the panels and squares of
glass; and the whole furniture, from the
timepieces to the tongs in the fireplace, is in
harmony with this style of decoration. The
first saloon, of pale green, is adorned with
arabesques of deeper tint. Medallions
glisten in the panels, and within them are
birds, painted by M. Appert. The prevail
ing color of the second saloon is rosy white;
the arabesques are rose-colored. Then
comes the private room of the Empress, the
ground of which is of very light green, and
the paneing of which contain the portraits
of her ladies of honor, painted by M. Du-
buffe then her first Withdrawing room, lined
with green stuff, on which are hung valuable
pictures the doors of this cabinet and the
next are of amaranth and palisander, set off
by bronzes, gilt and admirably chased"
The Jerusalem correspondent of the Bos-
ton Traveller says that Prince Alfred, Queen
Victoria's second son, who is midshipman
in the British navy, while in the port of
Java, received severe thrashing from a
brother MILDLY, whom he had insulted and
it is related of him, greatly to his credit, by
his brother officers, that after his defeat he
begged the victor's pardon for having COM
menced the quarrel.