The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-12-21

The Substances used were balladonna and
atIophine, an extract of the same; aud TO obtain
them she simulated partial blindness, for
which they are employed as a remedy. Tue
woman appears to have had n mouomania of
crime, as tbe neither robbed her victims nor
derived any benefit from their death; she is even
said to have nursed them with great tenderness.
She was at length detected by French painter
named -, whose wife she had attended.
Madame B, after showing symptoms Of
poisoning, recovered, when the accused, 6ndiug
that she was suspected aOsconded. She was,
however, subsequently traced aud arrested so
Unexpectedly that she had no time to conceal
the poisons she had in her possession, and al
OF which are in the hands OF ofiustce.
The Pau Hdit Gdzslte says:-"Women ought
to be- and we trust are, grateful for the extreme
care and attention bestowed upon their dress by
the other sex. Whatever fashion they adopt,
whether their pettlcoats are trailing on the
ground or killed 10 the knee, inflated like
balloons or clinging to the lmDs, whether their
bonnets be coal-sCuttles or teataucers, their
hair plastered down or trizzed on high, gentle
men are always ready with their structures, their
criticism, aud their very best advice. And we
aTe never repaid for this our gratuitous counsel.
Whether our sleeves be ggots or tunnels, our
trowsers flowing like Lord Brskine's or cut
down to knckerbOcSsrs, ,sour hats pancakes or
ChimDey.pots, the ladies make no remarks, utter
no remonsusnces! Their chill indifference
would, indeed, be some what mortify fying but for
that sinCerest hlttery, their imitation. At hum
BILE distance they made every now and then little
timid attempts at copying the attire of the
NOuluanJ race. muCu ike Tue negro VINO, Wlen
ordering his first pair of boots offered the cord
Watner q shilling extra TO put squeak leather
into the soles. Just now the anxiety shown by
the protectors Of the fair sex about the fatal
effects Of chignons is deep aud serious. We
thought it had passed off, but the spacious
seasoD'b has revived II, and correspondents of
the press continue TO utter the most portentous
warnings OF wrath to come in the shape OF divers
diseases and certain death if the practice be
persisted in. Does il ever occur to these pro
phets Of i'll that the wearing of false hair is no
new fashion? There is Wig in the British
Museum the date of which, we believe, has never
been fixed and which might have been worn by
Jo,ephs Pharoah; it is certainly handsome
enough TO adorn any potentate. The Roman
empresses whose busts abound in all galleries of
sculpture can never have had their marvellous
coitfures built up without additions TO the natu-
raj material. In the seventeenth and eighteenth
centuries every European gentleman who re.
sDected himself wore the most voluminoVs wig
he could buy may, only sixty or seventy years ago
our foreiathers adopted one as soon as they
began to grow grey or bald, and their wives ut
the same period OF life donned the brown horror
of the front" which many of us can remember
Is false hair more dangerous a. the back of the
head than on the forehead or is it the mere
name chignOn which evokes the present terror?
As long as hair is regarded as an ornament
and as long as the in6rmities of nature deny it
to many, false tressCs will be more or less
employed. To demonstrate against silly and
hidsous eXaggcration oftashOni is the legitimate
business of a satirist, but to meet it with equally
silly eXaggeraiion Of different kind will serve
no good purpose"