, 1861-03-18

ened<tof]fng little Hungarian refugee Count
ont ofa window, no charge, although sundry
squatters were as mad as March hares about
her; eould be brought against her during her
first stay in Sydney.
-,.::>' An EscAPADE.' e..
i a thoroughly Lolesque escnpado signnlized
her departure from Port jackson. Her Cali
exceptions, set Of muffs, she dismissed them
in Sydney, paying them all their dues. They
had hoped to be taken on to Melbourne, and,
being disappointed, determined; to do all in
their power to prevent Lola from reaching
Port Philip. Accordingly they tramped up
in which chs had, taken her passage was near
ing the Sydney Head, the boat Of the Sydney
'baIIiff shot alongside and the Sydney hai}iff
boarded the packet 1n vain was security Of
feted for Lois; the obdurate official insisted
o9 carving her 3, 9H a., "5xsry %ea cried Lola
undreesed and got into her BERTH: !" Take me
now" she triumphantty exclaimed to the.
bai1iiT, who Was ddgeting about the door like
a terrier at q rat-holc. One glance into the
Etate-room-in addition to the curses both
loud and deep from her retinue, and the threat
of the. steamer to tcut the painter Of that
there boat if them as owus 1t mint over the
side in TWO otwos'-conyinced the legal func-
tionary that he had better leave Lola unmo-
1ested:. sir: -
Arrived on the 'sother eide" Lola provided
the artists and authors Of the Melbourne Punch
with pabulunl for cuts aud paragraphs for
weeks, and became, as she was in the Califor-
nian, a prime Eavorite in the Victoria diggiuge.
She returned to the other colony, and, rem
dered reckless By the 1scold shoulder" which
the "highlY proper" portion Of the New South
Welsh gave her, did her worst to deprive her
self Of the support, OF those who were willing
to judge her simply on her artistic merits.
For merely limiting that it was scarcely esthe-
tic to mar the effect Of an otherwise eIcellen.
impersonation Of Lady Teazle by smoking in
sight Of all, the house in the screen scene, 7
had the honor of being denounced in an in
diguant speech to all the house on the next
night, and was half promised horsewhipping.
=. rLoLl8 PETuLAscY.
= 4 proud, petulant little puss was poor Lola.
Happening once to suggest that It might be
well if she secured the patronage Of the Gov
crnor New South Wales, I got for reply,
"Governor de adviser Of King Louis-Goy-
ernor-who is your Governor? why in de
elnor? How Is Mrs. Governor, and how are
ill dc little Governors ?" On her second visit.
to Victoria, Lola in one OF her petulaut moods
fnriously horsewhipped Mr. SEkamp, the edit
or of the BzIlaTat Times who had dared to crit
Icfse her unfayorably and then came the Ii
whipped. The wife Of Mestiopheles knocked
down poor Lola, when" !" out Of condition" in
greeu-room, "larrupsd y her cruelty with ride
ing-switcll, and afterwards Was led forward by
her husband, AID presented to crowded dig
gers house Is the ''whipperess Of the whip
peress of.whfppers.' Shortly after this disgrace
Loln returned 10 California; and before she
came up again, de1sipg Canadian railway
guard, the last we heard of her in Australia,
was that the loss Of +" fricnd,'' who had fallen
overheard ION their return from an English
nlan-of war, with whose officers they had been
:uining) in the harbor Of Honolulu, on their
way to San Francisco, lad so affected her
mind that she had abjured forever the pomps
and yanitie6 OF this wicked world