The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1860-06-06
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49,
The Firsa Wedding.
A correspondent who witnessed the wedding
Of Countess Bodtsco In Warrington last week
gives the following reminiscencss Of her firs
marriage:
remember the Countess when she was I
school girl In 0eorgetown--the sweet and
lovely Harriet Williams, the fAvorite queen OF
every May day. Her father. worthy NOR.
chant Of that ancient aud respectable burgh
gave her every advantage OF education but shs
was IS simple artiess and unaffected ~ ths
daughter Of ar humble citizen could be- He,
personal loneliness was something rich and
rare. when the sixteenth summer shone on he,
bright eyes. Her form WAS a model for sculp
tor, 50 delicate and roun6ly shaped-A dream
osbeauiy seldom realized on earth. The Coun
ranions, and was At once conquered. He wa
old, but in excellent preservation, and when
made up-As he always was whenever he mp.
peared before, not only company, but his m o.
intimate friends-he made a good figure IN the
most agreeable society, and was highly accept
able, not only in the saloons Of the fashiona-
BILE, but in all well bred circles. !tis gooa mo- q.
iare and intelligence commended nm 1aso ~
eminent men Of ali political par ties One OF
his earliest and kindest friends was AenIy
CiaD, for whose talents and geh'aslty ne M" III
nneounded admiration: inaesa Pc ." 'rther
uncommon among men, But there Was reaily
a strong tinc.ure Of romantic seasioalay aoou'
the excellent old Count. ne W ne lom o. en;ov.
Pc The Attachment ofchiliren to him was
extraordinary, and could only have b zen con-
ciliated by that genuine oenevoaence anu o zen
1enauce and gushed out in his c0rdH.i voice
he wooed and won the affections OF the most
beautiful girl that. had ever been seer' IN me-
tropelitan circles. His old diploma tic col
leagues laughed-some good n Ature<i ladies'
sneerea-,he beau monde wondered, but he had
his own taste, and he made the sweet, young,
blooming Harriet Williams his WIFE,
twas n splendid wedding, becoming the rep
resentative of the Emperor Of all the Russias.
hut tasteful chaste and elegant in all Its APP
This was in .compiianos with the particular
reques, of the Count. although ner Iatner, Mr.
Brooke Williams was present. MI buchanan
the principal groomsman. ana ess Sc pen ZEN
tixit;.s were in the highest style OF that hos
pi,ality for which Count Bodlsco was so long
famous among US. He was devoted, some
would say doting, husband, ana she was
loving attentive and in every respect exem-
plary and happy wife, the hgnt OF ms munln-
cen, home the ornament OF MS social circle,
the companion and fr,eno Oh MS i1e' ana inc
chief soiace of his last hours
What a world we live in What q change
from the scene in which saw that bright and
beautiful girl give away her nrst love. radiant
1hen as the morning star Just above the hori-
z,n! What strange alteration had time
wrought in a few short years! Here was the
magnificent matron, on whose face could yet
discern the lineaments that In carrier days
nIlei all hearts with tenderness, and even
some of that peach-like bloom which was the /
browning grace OF her girlish complexion
And beside her was gallant cavalier, IT. the i
fuN yisor of manhood, bearing names conse-
Grated by associations OF history and romance
the Douglas, the Gordon and the Scott
Who will say that reality has Its romance
SIZE OF THE HUMAN RACE.-The largest
circle of the terrestrial globe Of uniform tenn
perature is the equator. Those running par
alIel 10 this as, for example, the tropics, po-
lar circles &c. diminish as they approach
either pole. The stature OF the human race,
especially that Of men, likewise lessons, though
not 10 the same extent at all, from the equa-
torial and tropical regions toward the poles
In the warm ATTITUDES are found races OF men
of large dimensions dwindling in the cold re-
aions of the higt ATTITUDES, so that 1t may be
affirmed that men grow low sin proportion as
The latitude is high. /
But women are more uniform IN slza tnan
men being of nearly equal height in places
where tnen vary very much in size. In re-
gions where males are much taller than the
average the women continue OF about the i
same medium dimensions.
The fact, 100, appears from historic monu.
men.s. that the size Of the race in general has /
not varied from the earliest ages, and that
men and women are now OF the same dimen-
slons as they were before the period OF Moses.
This, we suppose, is amply corroborated by
the evidence afforded by the thousands OF |
lnummes, which have been recently unrolled l
after ly ing hidden for thirty and forty centu- |
RES perhaps, in the catacombs of Egypt