Litchfield enquirer., 1866-11-29
BEST DRESSED MAN IN PAR1s.-A young

BEST DRESSED MAN IN PAR1s.-A young English barrister has succeeded in marry ing M He R-, the wealthiest heiress in Paris, and connected with one of the high est families. The young lady was known to possess an undistinguished weakness for @ well-dressed man, and, by loudly express ing this opinion, had been of more service to the tailors of Paris within the last year than Count d'Orsay in double the space of time. The barrister had many rivals, but the most formidable was gentleman ac- knowledged to be the most approved dan dy in Paris. The lady selected these two to decide from, and invited them both to her chateau. The Frenchman declared to his friends that he meant to cut the matter short at once by so outshining the English man by his dress that the latter would re- tire from the field crushed to atoms by the superior skill he was determined to mani fest on the occasion. The Englishman said nothing, made no boast, but accepted the invitation, and, together by the same train, the two rivals left Paris for the seat of war. It so happened that the French dandy had furnished himself with regular housseau for the occasion, at the great English tai lor's in the Rue de Helder, and the English tailor, out of sheer compatriotism, had told MT. H. of what it was composed. A sudden idea flashed across the brain of the barrister. His servant, one of the sancti- fled hypocritical roae valets, for whom Lon don was always famous, is something about the height and size of the French pretendu. MT: H. immediately ordered for this al.
 Y the exact counterpart of every suit or. dered by the Marquis de Ia B-. The first day at dinner, the poor young mar. quis was disconcerted, when, upon enter. ing the dining-room, his glances alighted upon the very counterpart of himself. stand. ing behind the Englishman's B chair: and he looked angrily at his rival to see if any in. suit was intended; but the Englishman was va too intent upon making himself agreeable to notice his rufied temper. The second day the same scene was enacted, although our hero had completely changed even the style of his white tosunare :; and again wal the same M-humor displayed during tho whole of dinner, while Mir HI ----aa wwas nrof
 lting by the silence of his witty rival The third and fourth repetitions were too riidic ulous. The young marquis, too clever and too much the man of the world not to feA
 the absurdity of his position, prudentl, withdrew e,a 8 1aesrs ier'.<..- @'7'1'
 M. Bouquillon, who about a year a aeo wa, commissioned by the French Governmen, to search for documents bearing on the lif. and works of Calico, has discovered yer, large number of manuscripts, which he iha, been allowed to copy, with view of wri
 ting abiography of the great astronomer
 nlconducting his reseatches, M Roauillor has received. considerable aid from Signo, Mateucci, the Italian Minister of Pubi, Instruction, from Signer Donati, the as tronomer, and from other learned Italians The scientific instruments used by Galilet are all preserved, and photographs of them
 taken by M. Boquillon, will be included il lthe appfoaching Paris Exhibition.