Smyrna times., 1866-05-23
Suferings or a Rich Man.

SunertngS or H1ch MAN.
| A few years ago there arrived in Paris GER |
tain Count Kuschelcff, accompanied by his |
wife. The Count is enormously rich; he is |
regarded as one of Russia's millionaires, amp
his yearly income amounts to three millions of
! francs.
! The merchants, especially the dry-goods and
jewelry men hastened to offer him unlimited
credit, and the Countess availed herself of the
/ same very freely. The house of GOurdon &
/ Co. sent few articles of the toilet to her, for
which they charged 5,640 francs and simple,
but by no means splendid robe, at !, 900 francs
! Neither the Count nor the Countess troubled
themselves about payment, SO that GourdOn d
| Go. at last were obliged to have recourse to
the courts in order to get paid But the Count
decidedly refused to pay. He mentioned that
he was Russian, and that, according to the
Russian law he was not liable to pay his wife s
debts He stated further, that the fame of a
millionaire had preceded him when he arrived
in Paris, and that such fame was calculated
to ruin any millionaire in Paris. All the mer
chants, he Said considered foreign milliOnaires
as their lawful prey. His house was actually
besieged 10y offers Of merchandise and packa-
ges of goods. The spacious rooms fhiS palace
were nearly all filled by boxes and packages Of
all sizes. sent by dry goods dea ers, jewelers.
aud milIincrS. 1t would have tax zen more than
arriving hourly from these people. 1t was ne
ccssary to put stop to this and to raise this
industrial siege.
The Countess accepted everything that was
sent to her address without knowing or caring
how easily, in this way, Russian millions be-
came consumptive The Count paid. in the
: course Of two years at least, two millions OF
francs solely for little toilet articles, which his
wife had bought on credit.
In, IL It. oP
nounccd through the principal papers, that
he had sent his wife into exile in the south Of
France. that he should give her only 100000
t francs year toilet money, and that he was
not going to pay any more debts of her con-
, tracing. Even this heroic remedy did not
D succeed the merchants and milliners sent their
' goods to the south Of France, and presented
/ their bills to the Count at Paris. Rendered
s desperate, the Count now sought help i'll the
{ courts OF law, and, fortunately for him, they
n rendered decision entirely favorable to him.
c He need not pay any debts contracted by the
n cxtravagant Countess Stutgdrt Europa.
), NEW SYSTEM OE EI0RSE-S SHOEING The
It Paris correspondent of the Daily Telegraph
= gives the following account of Il new system OF
r shOeing horses the invention of Paris black
e smith:
e Instead of the shoe being placed-frequent-
= ly much too hot--on the hoot, and burning its
own resting place the outside of the hoof i,
cut away round the foot to about the depth o.
e half an inch this leaves Il ledge into which tht
II shoe fits, and is then flush with the frog whicl
10 touches the ground and the whole foot rest
u on the ground instead Of being raised, as o
"a DID, by the shoe The visible advantages o
7! this arc-that the foot is little pared, and that
y instead of a great heavy shoe, the animal il
* ShOd in what are little more than racing plates
IL The advantages claimed by the inventor are
Is that the horse never slips, that the shoe allow
~ the foot to expand naturally, and that 1t last
d. as long, and is rs cheap as the old plan w
ne naturally objected that the foot was less pro
re tected, and consequently more liable to injury
r. to which the inventor relied that horses in
n' state OF nature have no shoes, that the fro
= hIrdcnS. and that he has been for months shoe
us ing the Paris omnibus horses which pass owe
III very rough streets, in his new fashion, an
I" with great success.
::II .ExomcS. A Paris letter tells of a reccr
- ~ European tour made by gentleman in scare
-, Of various articles of high reputation in Par
~ and supposed to be imported from ioreig
i 'iI cities The tourist visited Milan and asked d
."' the principal restaurants for famous dis
iir m served in Paris under the name of coteiettcS
Vi Ia MlIndiSe, but the MilancSe walters shoe
~ their heads, and said they had no knowlcdg
IL of the dish At ST. Petersburg he attempte
ITS to buy some articles of Russia leather, bu
arS failed in the same way A Stockholm tn
~ glove makers were unable to supply him wit
nc "SwcdiSh kids and at Savillc he endcavOre
- - to purchase genuine Spanish fan, but fine
20 ,S ing the specimens shown quite familiar,
aao % inquired how it was, aud was told these spar
ee". e ioh fans were the newest and most fashions
~ BILE styles 81 Just reserved from Paris. II
nf tour developed the striking fact, that articl,
highly priced because they purpOlt to con
from foreign places supposed to excel in -uC
co. manufacture, are not known in those places
'oI ALL Nine times in ten these "exotics Il
ex' produced in the cities where they are offert
he for sale, and high prices are paid for them
cks that ground, when they would perhaps
be sneered at as specimens of native nanuia
adj turc.- Ledger
IN III THE MAN VINO NEVER HAS ANYTHING
o"n u"n HIS OwN.--Of course you have encounter
NJ "l this pest lie borrowS your penknife, your
ON zor, your writing utensils, your umbrella; al
,om what you lend him goes, as a rule, to tn
nd bourne from which no traveller returns n
~: rnu that he is dishonest, but he considers hims
MI ~" a sort of pensioner on the world at large
~ minor conveniences, and has no idea that tn
a. a., restoration is expected As he is usually
80 good natured fellow, who would give you ar
~, thing he had if he had anything to give, Y
anv don like to snub him; and so he passes throu
"S ovS life in his shiftess, careless way unconsciC
O o;i Of his demerits-a tolerated nuisance Willir
t;tu ly would you raise subscription, heading t
in ,is1 ol uonors yourSe, 70 iurlllsn nun VIII
is no tenacity in his spshod nature. VIII
ex- ever you might give him would slip throu
Iord his fingers Besides your professional borro
pie, er of small chattes prefers iodn to gyf.
4, as So far as your personal comfort is concern:
it is best to meet his application for loans ": WI
ii of an emphatic No" He is not pertlnaclo.
les a A few rebuffs will suffice. He knows W
the enough that if you won't supply the aTI,clc
mix. wants, somebody else will. lfyou are niea
lud- there are others who are generous
rits, -,---I.,
hak- A contemporary suggests that LADY on on p p
the ting on her corsets is like man who ulillhs