Shreveport semi-weekly news. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1865-18??, 1865-09-02
A Paris Physician, NJ.

We are laughing heartily over an G
adventure which has happenedto one {
Of our medical men. The story +
would be much more piquant were ,
to mention his name but L do not
think that would be altogether proper,
so YOU must content yourself with
your toddy less the nutmeg. The
doctor is Il married man. All doctors
in Paris, who are in good practice,
have . carriage those who have
bad practice go III the omnibuses
those who have poor practice don't
go at all The hero of my story is IN
good practice, therefore he h1s car
rage. Having Il carriage, he must
have Il driver. You know him now
Il doctor with a wife, Il carriage and
driver. Ills large practice. his am
bition and that negligence about /
money matters into which a man
whose mind is busy about other mat !
tiers, is apt to fall, have made the
doctor less careful than he ought to
be in registering his patients names.
His wife knows this, and being like
most french women, inordinatcly
fond of money, size ordered the driver
to keep list of the patients visited
and report to her in the evening
After the visits We're paid, and while
the doctor was busily engaged re-
ceiving patients or studying his pro
fession, the driver would be closeted
with the wife, making out list of
the fees earned that morning. When
quarter-day came and the doctor
rave his wife his fee book, in order
to make out the bills, she collected
her memoranda and his. This time
they agreed almost exactly-less one
patients name. Her memornda in
debted Mile Augustine with thirty
SIX visits during the last three months,
although there was no such name
on the doctors list And yet
Mile Augustine must have been ser-
ously i'll, for the average was three
visits week But que YOU lez-vous.
the doctor is so negligent The bill
was made out and sent to Mile
Observation-Disclosures visits, at ten
francs the visit. She was furious
but said she would see the doctor
He came the next day. She show,
ed him the bill. He laugh and said
some thing which made her laugh
they both came near dying with
laughter. The next day she sent The
800 francs asked, and requ sted :
receipt. Where did she get the
money! Ask the doctor.
The fates seemed to have willec
that | should not get rid of gallantry
to-day; for must tell You a strange
story revealed before our courts: l.
December, 1861, there died in Ii
Charlie Hospital a woman nance
Maria Christowich, who was in hel
18th year Her life was an eventtu
history. She was born at Ragusa il
1892, and was in her earlier days ;
beautiful woman; her eyes were
brown and sparkling, her feature:
regular, and her hair jet black. II
her twenty-fourth year youne
French officer fell in love with h-r
won her favor. and carried her o!
with him to Cairo, where they LIVED
in great spLendor for many years, an'
where he occupied very importan
place. She came TO Paris with hin
on visit, and was presented +
Court I.ouis NNIID as his wife.
They returned to Cairo and con
tinued to live in state of na@nitI
cence until the officer died. Ihei
expenses had run so near their reve
nues she found herself at his deaf.
in possession Of an incon>iderabl
amount Of money compared with tn
sums formerly at her disposal; never
theless, enough remained to enabl
her TO live at ease. She returned t
Paris and lived in comfort for som
years. Unfortunately the banke
with whom her money was DEPOSITED
failed. She lost all her fortune eX
cept the rent she received for hous
at Cairo, and which yielded $500
year. She became miserable an
distrustful. She was afraid that eve
this last remnant cf her small estat
might be wrenched from her, and sh
stinted herself in thousand ways
deprived herself of food and apparC
to accumulate money to suppl
the place of her house at Cair
should that too go. When her bank
er failed she Quilted the comfortabl
lodgings she occupied and took u
her abode in wretched room on I'll
ground floor of Rue d,Argenteui
which the sun never reached an
which was constantly damp. Sh
gave $50 a year for this squalli
habitation. i'll suited with one VIII
had inhabited palaces and eaten o
plate; but avarice made it seem ;
delightful 90 her as these had bee
She received the rent of her hou:
at Cairo, through the missionaries
the Holy Land, and in the presence
one of the priests Of St. Roche, h
parish. She contrived-althoug
thev knew her circumstance