New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-10-29


/ French journal tells hefollowing story, which,
If not fact, is an egceen. fable.
] was walking one damp evening in the gardens
\ of German Kursaal when my attention was at
A tracted by several white marble statues which
4 seemed 70 be shiVering IN the shrilI night air.
T" What have you done, poor things said half
aloud, % to be put out there in the cold when Won
ought to be sleeping comfortably in museum ~
i Inc answer was Just trembling on their pale lips
when the gardener came by and Interrupted them /;
| SO put the question to him.
| The gardener was German: consequently a
\ philosopher.
! All, monsieur" he replied, this il world of
| vcissitude One must do what one can not what
| one wishes, here below. These statues once stood
IN the museum OF o prince Of the Germanic Confed-
Grafton; they were not carved to be set out of
doors to catch the rheumatism in the gardens 81 q
hnrsaal; but no one knows what his destiny may
be. |, myself, for example, Mn
Y You, yourself, may revive the fate of the stat
ues, ana be preserved one day in a museum; but
| You have not told me how they came here.r
/" mat y what was just going to do. Monsieur
knows that all the German princes great and lie.
tie, especially the latter come ID this watering.
place and stake their money at the ronette.table
All Of them are not Rothsehilds and this one
spoke oi lost form after form till he had nothing
piled TO the bank:
~ am prince he said, a sovereign prince,
by tue grace OF God and the treaty of Vienna
nave an ancient castle in ruins the top of rock,
III.
How many forms have you in your pocket !,
None Mt Gil; but have ribbons Of numerous
orders, doube-headed eagles, and silver falcons.
anu numerous other heraldic animals, which have
fight TO display on all ceremonial occasions. /
am colonel, too, of q regiment, somewhere |
dent know exactly where ID is at present They
say the Cid once raised large sum Of money on
MS handsome moustache and these certainly are
" ut y as n9ca rs tile most renowned mouslache
in the world"
NJ, Inc bank laughed and would have laughed
stli, perhaps when the prince suddenly recoilected
that besides the animals on his coat of arms liz liza
half dozen statues In his museum. and cnnid astf'
mate the value OF its contents: SO the prince re.
eeiyed a bag Of forms on this security. and ere
e,ght Gays were passed, they were swept in the
swallowed UP the ducal treasury. The Prince paid
his debts like an honorable man and that il he
reason why you see the statues herep
me next day was walking again in the garden,
in the bright sunshine, between two rows of orange
trees which looked very thriving and beautiful IN
cottage. g
Monsieur is admiring the orange trees, said the
gardener, who was watching me through the fo
liage; there ID another Of the yicissitudes of
fortune.r Va
Like tie statuesm
rt. fre!clselyi they came from the same source.
Inc prince was walking in this garden the dav after
ms loss, playing with the bestarfed ribbon over
knrsaal. " 'ite
o ~ d very me 8hfden,1 he said to him.
bnt there il one thing wanting'
You mean statues, but, thanks to your high
ness, we shall have those here'
No, no; that is an old affair. have flfty fine
range trees, which would look very well in front
IF your windows = = OA'
lorins.' - ~" 'iVt9aau
. Any fine orange trees would be worth that.
,ut these are not ordinary trees. They are the
sly ones At WHICH Mignon was looking when SIZE
aid to William Mester:
- noge tlon tle land where orange and myrtle
Are enplenih OF deeds that done their cline
.ou have heard of Niguon's sohg?u
4. On, certainly who has not2 In compliment
AiSnon, then, ! suppose | must give five thou
and florins more
+" But stay moment; one must be honorable.
suppose ought to tell you that have an infalii-
le secret, by which can break the bank the next
me sit down to the roulette table,
!" II your highness has an infallible secret that
course makes a difference
lousand flofins .
:, On the contrary I will add FIVE; that will
lake twenty thousand for the trees
The prince tried his infallible secret; and the
range trees, in consequence, came to take their
lace with the statues.'