The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1865-03-20
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nop Fernando, of Portugal the tatner
.Lwa uon ra;an;nr : king, has just sent to the
OIL Ine .1 nf lnnafortistes of Paris, proof
."h;ng ooJ.Go5 evbjbiting great ability. 1t rep
ntS 0som,e a fnneral oration pronounced by
,eOo'o oo4 over q deceased brother. Around
the bier is a crowd OF other cats express
inc their griefs in various ways; some
wine their eyes, some look upwards with
rssionation, while others seem transtixed
nv 5esnair, but all stihe their sobs and
listen 70 the orator, who is seated with
intense gravity on a tub.
Prof Tyndall, who is always delight
inc the attendants at the Royal institu-
tion with beautiful experiments, revived,
iatelv one that originated with Frank
lin 4 piece of gold leaf, about 81 inches
LONG WAS cut in the shape of fish. A
iarSs Leyden lar, with an elevated knob,
having been charged, the gold leaf was
hrouURt near it. This gold fish sprang
toward the knob, but stopped within two
inches of it, and remained hoverlng In
the air. its tail waving like that of fish.
Tbs lar. when carried about the room,
was followed by the fish, which remain
vi thus SuSOenutu III thO an "A 80
its tail for nearly an hour
A correspondent of the Cincinnati Ga
.ette, writing from Paris, says: L have
already referred to the great ball at Paris
on the llth. There were $500 persons
presont One of the saloons was adorn-
edwiththefnrniture of the drawing-room
of the first Napoleon According to the
ha L
ions were divided as to whether the 1alr
English beauty, Mrs Miles, or the Etote
de Nord, the American Mrs; fehoius'
carried off the palm of lovehness-tne
former in amber and pearls, the lattei
in a eostume of cloth and silver, which
10 nv uniuitiated vision appeared more
eccentric than becoming. The Empress
scanned hv her marked admiration to give
il in favor of England The Marquise de
Gallift was decidedly the most remarked
of Paris beauties.
Paris is lust now laughing over the
u;sadyenture of the Duchess of D
who it seems always distributes at tne
new year a great number OF orders ioi
bread among the poor of the FauDourg
ST. Germain. The Duchess had placed
pile of those orders on her desk. and
beside il a pile of visiting cards and ell
welcomes. the latter being duly directed to
the dear five hundred friends OH her
visiting list, and desired her maid toput
a card into each envelope. and then car
ry the whole TO the post; the maid VINO
was fresh from the country, and not up
to" Paris ways, put bread order INTO
each envelope, and duly dispatched these
misplaced aims to the Duchess friends.
The amazemect of the grand folk OF the
noble faubourg on receiving these orders
NAV be imagined; but the pile OF cards
that had remained on her desk; having
mt the Duchess on the track of the mis-
lake made by her sOubrette, the cards
were at once dispatched, with request
for the return of the bread tickets.
The Paris Journal des Debats records
the decease at Versailles, the 2lst ult., of
Madame de Saint Quentin, aged LOG and
3 months, having been born at Saint
Dizier, October %, 1853. She enjoyed
the full use of all her faculties up to lO4
wears. going out regularly every day, and
making and receiving frequent calls
She was always desirous that her visi-
tors should enjoy themselves, and would
seat herself at the piano, play contra
dances and sing songs of the olden times.
She would remark to new visitor: "Iou
probably have never heard woman
above 100 years old sing or play on the
piano" Her Tooth anniversary was re.
figiously celebrated; and as she traversed
the church, leaning upon her son, himself
near 80 years of age and weakly, she said
to him: Goodness. how feeble you are!
YOU seem like an old man"
A Paris letter gives an account OF a
grand hippophagic banquet given in that
city last month by society which has
for its object the introduction of horse
flesh as an article of victual.-
Three horses, aged respectively thirteen,
seventeen and twenty-three years, were
killed for this feast, and were served up
in the fern of horse, boiled horse with
cabbage, fillet de horse, hashed horse a
10 mode, roast horse, and finally horse
liver with truffes.