New-York tribune., 1866-05-02

-,bs, is sanconing BY solemn frmar the Isthmus of
suez Canal Company ii is great ptg that the devoted,
intelligent reroycring inspiring b. d of that enterprise,
Monsieur Lesseps could not be e axed over TO side
"boss that railroad tb' continent which Samuel
Bowles so eloquently lays o".-the need 4.
Your readers may 70 collect, in rambling notice oI
Victor Hugos lrar~ eHrs de la Mer, printed from m!
Ms. in TIE lngJEg a month ago, the mention made
there of the enco ter between the hero OF the novel anu
devil Of devD fish. 1t has been to French readers ho
most effective passage the book, and Of the two pares
to the conbyt the devsh has become, not te most ao
mired Ger, ,ainly, but quite tho most notorious. inc
French n,ne Of this monstrous cephaopod is Pienrre.
Yet moDstrous drawings Of him, largely drawh ron
imagination rather than from sea-waer oTiglhas apPeeI
in tie cheap illustrated papers, The jokers ana lnni
fellows have got hold Of him. and put him. IN symDoee
way into all of offices where the essential business
to catch and bleed the pensye pubhe P'eurre 10 as.
becoming the distinctive class name of that portion OF the
female community hitherto known as LtoRhes LoTenes,
Bcles COcoffe One Of these by the way-or u might
have been fortunate femae-he fashionable ana Deller
classes of monde aud dtmlmonde nave 80 Perlscuy su
ceeded in mutual rivalry that one can tell the eye 20
which sphere Of society specimen Of either beongswas
befaen by drol accident the other day She was nons
aot driving, my little neoogst critic II you please-ug
eocher was driyngl in open carriage with very a
amount of bonnet and quantity OF ornamental simulated
vegetable growth her head; the street was crowded
Tho lfd horse OF the following vehicle, with appetite
provoked by the false Appearances stretched forward
e his eager neck and nibbled to high shneks iion te
less fortunate fenae-quiek attention. aha
then shreeks of laftyer from the heartless thIong OF
curious pedestrians Meantime the reyiled horse hopeful
and huneered Bit deeper into the deceptive povender ana
finally bit of all the back OF the head-oi mar ana 'hhbS
| of the lady. -
would if could and dared, strive here to convey
some pcture-some image Of the form and ashioh-oi
the last fashionable hats for women But THIS is qute
beyond the compass of male witsthough they are
the ttlet cloves of things" in their KIND that tne sun
ever shone upon woman's fair face in despite or III Wy
for once variety Primarily, IN IT'S essen'l
nuidditv this last best Gift Of womans hatfo IL
does not so much approach much less shade or disguise
her sweet facets not unlike basketcoyer. mean one
of those covers of those baskets such as we were
used ever many pleasant years ago. to carry our noon
vctuals to school in Of some slX inches or so uahe
cav and somewhat scoOped in the middle. This PdH,cra
saGde finds place for Itself on the top OF the modefh
female head in tho uncertain country situated between
her ,nosiby own front and somebody elscs luxuran
back-hGir settlements What with the style, and the
ribbons and tho thiscs and the that's thereunto appe
tanning AIN assured that OF these charm ngy simple
basket-cOyers does not cost GO or 70 francs.
From long and fguresiuhsd report Of the Minister OF
Agriculture, Commerce and Public Works, on insanity IN
France compress the following: At the beginning Of
1861 there resident in institutions under Govern
mem, supervision 1898 insane subjects Of whom ~ lop
were properly insane; 3,7i6 idotc and f3 cctias ms
docs include the unfortunate insane treated IN ther
homes, and whose number amounts to almost as many
more. In 1861 Of population ofsonehng over 81 VJo-
CO., ~ 2i insane The proportion OF men is greater
than Of wOmen-as the statistics Of suicide, species oil
mental disease always give more male than female We
tins. II is worth noticing that the proportion OF idlots
and cetas is fcanGy larger IN the class privately treated
than in the Institutions exposed to surveillance Among
the provoking causes the report shows that ID France s
with us, rum ard religion, both taken intemperaieiy,
are the CHIEF.