Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-04-30
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

Batty, the lion tanner, had a bad scratch
on his hand from one of his lions, at the
Paris Cirque lately. Although tie sight of
blood might be supposed 10 add to the
danger of the performance it was coutin-
ued without interruption.
A doctor named Strauss recently pub
lished in London q novel called the "Old
Ledger" which the Athenaunl described
as exceedingly bad, selfcomplacent, vul-
gar, indicate and profano. Dr.. Strauss
thereupon brought an action, which the
Athen9um defended, upon the distinct
ground that the criticism was warranted
by the character of the work. The coun-
SCI for the plaintiff finally withdrew the
case, and the Judge expressed his full con-
currence in that course as the wisest for
the plaintiff himself.
An old man, aged sixty-ive, who lived
alone in a state of great Indebtedness, at
Saint-Mande, France, had not been seen
as usual for some days. TIE Police made
an entry into the room he occupied. when
he was found there lifeless.-having appar-
entity expired from spoplexy. Only a sum
Of 2fr. 40c, was discovered in cash, but
beneath a heap of rags was found con-
cealed shares and bonds of various rail
way companies, representing a value of
4so, 0o0fr. Nothing whatever is known of
the miser's family.
During a recent discussion in the
French legislature, the Minister of State,
in giving a list OF the revolutionary Jour
mails published in France in l84S, was re-
minded OF the omission of one called the
Gu{Hotlle- A correspondent of the I'M
partial DauphiHois gives the following
explanation Il hesitated long in bel.ev-
ing that ajournal bearing that abominable
title was really published in ls4s. After
innumerable researches l have succeeded
in discovering two numbers of it, the only
ones published. The curious part of the
matter is that this terrible journal, print
ed in red, the more readily in all probab-
ilisy to brighten old ladies, is entirely de-
voted to the suppression of punishment of
death"
The female head, writes a Paris CORES
pendent, has become a sort of museum
for gold bands, canoes, butterflies, and
pendulous wreaths which hang under the
chin. On the forehead of the fair one
may be seen a number of small curls with
a comic twist, while the back of the head
an enormous lump of hair, |
which, instead of being kept together by
the cabbage net of three or four months
ago, is now allowed TO assume a more
wild and picturesque aspect. On the
of the head, and between the two
distinct compartments of the hairdresser's
built-up creation, q small dab makes a
"ger-up' exquisitely eccentric.
importation of blorde hair from Ger
and black locks from the regions of
The sunny South is now one Of the most
active branches of the of
and the barber has become a per-
who gives himself all the airs of a
Minister of State. He grants his au-
licences and accords his counsels upon the
anne principle that NJ. Drouyn de Lhuys
'eceives the diplomatic world. Before a
barber of fame and name will re-
GIVE a fashionable lady, she must solicit
be honor by placing his name on her list
or a certain hour and day. He will then
lot ask what particular head toilet she de-
Tres to adopt, but with the decisive
7oice Of Il great general, he will tell her
iow her hair is TO be dressed-an edict
which there is no appeal. The do
nestle brush and comb, the cosmetics of
times, lie neglected in the dark
of bedroom furniture. We
ave got TO suchan elaborate mode of hair
that no lady attempts to design
nd execute what may be called the capil-
AIRY shrubbery of the head. Humble
ressmaker girls, and those who used to be
allied griscttes in more primitive times, {
spend their ten son in having their
air dressed and somebody else's hair stuck
n the nape of the neck. For their locks
lust now be "rolled in many a curious t
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