New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1868-10-03
PARIS GOSSIP.

u ais correspondent gives tue lollOW-
ing interesting account of base Russian
Prince:
All the world is now iBquisitive to know
how stands the young Russian Prince
Narischkine, who tor the last two months
has been fencing with the bank at Baden
Lucky Princei He is now AS well known
as Victor Hugo. Not day passes without
the newspapers telling us OF the money he
has lost, the bank notes that have been
stolen from him, the necklaces he has
bought, the scenes he seeks, and the inter-
miltenee ne finds. Let us in turn give some
particulars about this lion of the green
baize tables. When | say lion, | use,
need scarcely say. figurative expression
for nothing about the Russian Prince in
question reminds one of the king of ami
mails,
Some people imagine Russian prince
Is necessarily seven feet high. and walks
about with bear skin over his shoulders
when the thermometer stand at blood heat
in the shade. Prince Narischkine has
nothing of the giant about him. He is
scarcely over five feet six inches tall, is as
thin as q luciier match, and is very pallid.
Everybody in Paris has seen him at the
first performance of new pieces--a young
man looking like tired child, and who is
said 10 be tired of life, though he is only
at an age when others begin fairly to live.
You eau certainly see him in stage box.
stiff as a ramrod, rose in his button
hole, his neck imprisoned in
white cravat which brings out still
more 81 IDLY the verdiSlis color of his
complexion. Ia this dried head the eve
alone seems to live; his glance is astute
and piercing; his bearing is that of per-
feet gentleman. If he rarely laughs It's be-
cause he is never amused. Over bis lips
fits smile which would appear disdainfll,
and which is at bottom only the expression
of ill-concealed receptions, for that satiated
child knows very well nobody can bur with
millions The gifts nature bestows gratuitous-
ly on its privileged children. The bottom
of this temperament is fatigue. Prince
Narischkine goes to the theatre as he
stakes hundred thousand francs, merely
to spend a quarter of an hour. He
never laughs. He rarely talks, and when
he does open his mouth one would
think it is put in motion by a little steam
engine his adroit tailor has managed to put
into the pocket of bis black dress coat. All
Paris knows this young man, but nobody
knows his friends. He is a man of cold
and disdainful character, who does not
easily make acquaintances. The upfortu-
nate fellow has already learned, though
only five-and-twenty, to disdain friendship:
as for love, he knows what it costs. He is
at Paris almost always seen alone. He
buries his sadness in the walls of a cottage |
where he sometimes remains two or three 7
months together in contemplation OF his |
millions. They ask at the club, where ID |
Prince Nafischkine@ One answers :. He |
is at Naples" Another says, "He is |
sick When everybody begins to for |
get Prince Narischkine he returns |
FIRE her than ever, more irritable than |
before. Nobody knows whether he good |
or ill natured, for nobody knows any thing |
about his lie except he is a great tease, and |
all the actionS of his life are contrived to |
annoy somebody. He wouid give 500, 900 |
francs for picture worth sixty francs Just |
for the sake Of annoying an acquaintance,
He would lose BOG. 900 france at cards to |
irritate his partner by making the latter
lose 400 francs. The master Of an infinite !
number of millions, lie feels keen en-
joyment Of his companions pecupi-
AIRY embarrassments. He knows he
has the advantage Of millions, and
he likes to make ii felt Last winter.
after winning 100000 francs at his clab, be
set ont the next morning for Italy. He
did not care for 100000 francs, but he did |
care a good deal to enjoy the knowl- |
edge that his departure greatly ANNOYED |
the aoquaintaces whose money he had won, |
Prince Narischkine carries this desire of |
showing the superiority of his millious
with him wherever be goes. At Baden he
pretends to humiliate the bank by throw
ing on The table q pocket of banku0tes /
which makes the banker tremble with anx-
iety and pleasure. Prince Narischkine |
goes about the salons with two or three |
hundred thousand francs 10 banknotes and /
throws all on the table and announces his |
maximum is 1000 francs He is as quiet |
at Baden az a. Paris, He scarcely opens |
bis mooshto say 5000 francs on the rouge.
When he wins bis little eyes glitter with |
unaecustomed hrilliancy. When he has
lost 100000 francs al trente -et-qaaFa1sts |
be goes to play an ice at dominoes to
avoid the appearance Of vexation. Prince |
Narisehkine likes TO conceal his sensatlous. |
and none Of his companions accurately |
knows what takes place in that alex birds |
little head. Il Is true, nObody ever ac-
cnsed him Of an evil action; at the same /
time. nobody ever heard Of his doing a
good deed. Nobody knows whether his
fortune should be envIed, OF whether be !
shoufd be pitied for his absent yonsh. ButI
be shows money does not 0onstihlts happi1 /
ness. have eeen him ollen. have OBJ
served him good deal ct the gaming tables