New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-05-28
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From the Paris correspondent Of the New York
Express we extract the following:
"A young, beautiful and wealthy lady, tho widow
Of French officer who loat his life al tho assault
Of the Malakof, has chosen second husband
after somewhat eccentric fashion, arising either
from martial disposition 0r the difficulty Of q
selection between no less than ten sighting sspfr
ants for her hand. Madame q. invited The ten
gentlemen to breakfast, at her country villa and.
having thus united her suitors, informed them that
she would unite herself to that one Of them who
would consent to hold in his hand watch for her
TO fire at and break with pistol at twenty PAGES.
Nine of the party didn't care To run the risk ex-
acted by this female Travis but the tenth, q young
merchant, eonrageously determined to fulfill the
condition imposed. Madame G. loaded her pistol
forthwith, and stepped into the garden, followed
| by the company. The twenty PAGES were care
fully measured the mercantile hero pulled ont his
| watch, gallantly refusing one not much larger
than franc offered by the lady, and feariessly
assumed his place. The amazon toek deliberate
aim, bang! went the pistol, and down tumbled
| the watch, pierced to the cap. The gentleman.
| unframed by the adventure. has married the rich
widow and bought new timepiece.
| Here is an amusing little incident. excessively
Frenehy, which happened the other evening IN one
of the ten thousand minor cafes which crowd Paris
| and render the Parisians such a congregation Of
/ chatterers, coffee drinkers and small gamblers;
for you must know that 1t is the invariabe practice
at these places for the habitues and loungers to
play, at dominoes or with greasy cards, who shall
pay the cost Of the liquors consumed But 70 our
incident: nj. Nall6s one of the literary h0hanians
i of Paris, is yolubie talker as well as aeleyer
| writer full of aneedate and fond Of discussion,
and by no means averse to an attentive threng Of
i listeners. At one of the inferior cafes have
mentioned, II. Wales dropped in, q total stranger
| to the proprietor OF the establishment, and to-
most of the customers present; but be, neserthe-
| less, CHANGED to meet an acquaintance, and fell
i into conversation which soon became Discus
sion, and attracted general interest to such an ex
/ tent that the place was crowded until midnight
the hour for cl0sing. 5 s s ssa ~ Sss
| In Paris, as everybody knows who has ever set
foot in the place. nothing is so contagious as argu-
i ment and the excitable orators all talk at once,
and all work themselves up to fever heat. You
i can consequently imagine what oceans of beer
| flowed down the throats Of the dsputants on the
i evening in question. When the shutters had been
i put up, the crowd separated with regret. The
! oratorical Wales was going away with the rest,
i when the proprietor of the cafe who had been one
i of his most respectful listeners, touched him on
the arm and begged word In private. BAY
81 have never before had the pleasure of meet
ing you said the worthy landlord, ssbut you seem
Il to be of the right sort. am not bad fellow.
either; and think we may come to an under
/ standing. Ass 48z
well ~ returned the journalist trying to fathom
his interlocutors meaning, how shall we arrange
Iit?u IS
sWhy,p replied the landlord, ..f you would come
and get up bit Of humbug in my CATS now and
then, i should be delighted, and you nesd'ni
trouble yourself to step up to the Captains Office
for anything you may choose to order ~ ss J7
H. Wales has renowned public discussions fol
II fhn ftiturp s@sS