The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-04-12
Suicide of BOscO, the Humchbacked Mes
senger of Love OF the ParisiRn Under
World,

Suicide of BOscO, the Hunchbaclked Mes
senger of Love OF the Parisian Under
World.
Amid all the hurry and pressure of the whirl
of pleasure amid which the Parisians are Just
now living, we have been forced to pause, TO
think, if not mourn, tor a moment over the un
timely death OF one who Tor many years has
been feature of the demt.nlOnde of Paris, one
on whom the denli-nlOnde, independent and tree
from obligations as it is, has been compelled
more than once to rely for help and AID in the
various whimsical scrapes in which it has been
led by its over-anXIety to do business according
to It's peculiar theory of ''k1lling two birds with
one stone," or trying to chdsSeS deUT 6eUreS a To-
fois, or, IN short, following any of the old tash
iOned receipts for keeping on with the old love
while seeking to maintain all due Observance
with the new. The feature which has thus sud
denly disappeared from the face Of the denl5-
monde OF our capital, Is no otlser tnan poor
BOsco, the Mercury, the messenger OF love on
whose appropriate speech aud discreet silence
hung for a long time the very existence of demt
monde itself. Poor Bosco was ugly and bunch.
backed, an obscure, humble overseec by pro-
49, fession, and yet such is the power of genIIs
that he managed to become one of the rulers Of
81 the very world he served, and to amass a small
independence, which, mad he returned to his
own province, content to pass the remainder of
o his days in peace and quiet would nave Deen
opulence.
But what has been our CONSERVATION, says a
Paris paper, to learn that not only has BoR,o
u departed this lie, but that death was admins
q tered by his own hand Bosco, who was Thought
to bring luck to all who had the good fortune to
g touch his hump with the thumb OF the LETT hand,
who would stand at the door OF the Maison dor
at the dinner hour, and bend patiently benea h
the crowd OF pressure OF the broad nat thumbs
of the crowd OF loretteS as they passed by oIe
up the stars Bosco, who was looked upon as
the guide, philosopher, and friend OF the denli-
monde Its literary star and shining light, who
all his life had been employed, not only to carry
in his character of ire, but TO write
in his character OF scrloe sucn heaps of hope,
and comfort, and consolation TO the tororn
the deserted, the deceived, and the BETRAYED,
who NIL the ranks OF the deniHnORGe quite as
thickly as our own. But although ready enough
to find all these blessings for others, poor Bosco
could find no single gram of comfort for himself
when the same evils had betallen hun. One OF
the fair frequenteTs OF the MaisOn d'Or-one OF
those on whom his services had been most
readily besto Wed-grOWn weary of the state of
blind ignorance in which her parents had af-
fered her to grow up all unconscious, as they
had evidently been, thar any other destiny thA q
that of wedding the beans, or milking the co n,
had been in store for their brown bold Ion 2.
limbed offspring. The torsue had no time 10
spare: she remained at home on business; she
drove TO the Bois, but the halt hour between
the Rue de Broda. where she lived, and the gate
of the Bois she could call her own, and so she
was wont to make the hunchback jump into hei
carriage take his seat on the yellow satin
cushion beside her, and give her a lesson N
spelling and writing the French language al
the carriage drove along. These lessons wer,
well paid and in her turn the torete taught hin
the role of the humpbacked dandy IN the Oheoa
HeTs du r PtnCe Nez piece in which she wa
about to make her DEBUT at the Sale Lyrlque.
\ Bosco was a more apt scholar than his pupil
and he soon mastered the difficulties Of the per
\formance, submitting 10 be dressed grotesquely
70 appear as bufioon upon the stage, allor TN
AXE of obtaining smile from the painted lip
othe lOrette with whom, by this time Bosco ha!
ghwn deeply, desperately, hopelessly enamored
Noe who witnessed the exhibition OF that de
Iorhed and wizened body, that perplexed an
troubled the mind, before the assembled COZ
EuptiSn of Paris, will never forget it, PEI
maps the annals of decadence never dis
picyed anything more degrading TO .hqmal
coi IN its double deformity, moral and phys
So St man nan was beheld during the nights exhibi
q continued. Mean while caprice Was guidini
sabsS.tS.e e ln another direction. The stage wa
ipg fSnge and she had determined on follow
Il Vel, Spttoiession - Of pOitrtnGire "a consump
ib NE coe.lg g more lucrative She had seen
part, VI ERi me Dame au1 Gahiehds. Shede
Ue sOnth--for Niee--where all th'