The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1868-01-11

The editor of Paris lNagazi"e
tells us that the other day he was ask
ed why work -girl--oeuorieres-- have
such fancy to CONT suicide by char
coal in Paris.
What replied the other, care you,
literary man, obliged to ask me- a
doctor, such Il thing? And are you
| ignorant that suicide by charcoal is a
| purely literary invention ?"
"Well, did not know it.''
sWel. suicide by charcoal dates from
1925. 1t was made fashionable by the
| File du N,tsicien a drama in three acts,
by NJ. Crosnier, who was director of
the Porte St. Martin, ofthe opera conf
que and of the opera, and who died de
putty. Crosnier used a little trick to
pass his piece The theatrical censor
ship pays great attention to the dia-
logue, but cares very little for the in
cidents. Therefore the dialogue of this
play was made straightforward and
simple enough, but the stage directions
were full of detail, especially those de-
voted to the suicide. Since his time
poison has become the popular thing in
sensation dramas, but charcoal has
never lost ground in garrets. ..
The lie Petit Journal de Paris
states that the Jardin des Plantes Is
haunted with thousands OF sparrows.
Whether it is that, moved by pity for
their bird friends in captivity they come
to visit them, is not stated. But they
pick up crumbs even in the cages Of
the most ferocious animals. and make
very good thing off the bears. But
on Saturday, Nov. 81, the attendants
remarked with surprise that not soli-
tary sparrow was to be seen. They had
all rushed away in terror. A great
buzzard had escaped from his cage, and
was calmly soaring over the gardens.
The little French sparrows, alarmed at
the terrible American specter, had re-
treated in terror. After much man
agement the ''turkey buz:' was recap.
tured, and the sparrows resumed their
sports i'll the garden.
A LADY's OPINION OF a LADYs MAN.
Mrs. Stephens, in her Mnnthiy Magazine,
gives certain class of men, tiIc like of whom
are seen in every community, the benefit q!
her opinion as follows: Our own private
opinion OF the lady 5 man Is mat !ic Is
contemptihe-a sort of the life
hardly worth thinking about IL handful of
foam drifting over the wine OF life. some
thing not altogether unpleasant tn the fancy.
tut of no earthly us. \ woman of sense
would as soon be put la Sca in man oi-Snr
m,d. n. singics, or take up her resi-, 'enci'
Al IA card house. ;IS dream ot attaching her
sc,f Ia IA lady ki.cr- Women worth tho
name .,.e seldom deceived into tmiuHinL q
islv JI the cii,lCuSt specimen oi ilIs Y.
y nattvcr ihclr ignorance may be- wonar'y !
intuition must tell them that tue nien W"O
We Tor {: great object, and WHOSE spirits are
:, firmly knit that they arc able /" encounter
Jhc storms of lie men " hose dcEuh and
warmth of feeling resemble the current ot
some mighty river. and not the pebbles on
Is surface. vino ii they love, are never smit
en- 10y mere beauty of and features
hat these men are more worthy even oI occu !
jving their thoughts in idle moments than !
lie tops and men about town with whose !
Ut, ntinn they amuse themselves. If We
we're to tell him this he would only laugh ; |
Ie has no pride about him, although full OF /
Ianity; aud it matters not to him y hat we
BROADLY affirm or quietly insinuate Soft |
md delicate though he is. he is as impervi-
'us TO ridicule as hod carrier, and as re
,ardless of honest contempt as u city alder |
nan. Were you to hand him this article,
le would take it to some social party, and |
cad it aloud in the most mellit1uous voice,
s an homage to- his own attractions"