Council Bluffs bugle. [volume] (Council Bluffs, Iowa) 1860-1868, 1868-12-17
VOLUME xVIII.
shoots when he bss time, and asso-
ciates the Pri1cs Imperial With hinl
In kha6sa snarfa

in these sports.
The xQaeen OF Spain lives rather
retired. She goes every noFuing ta
mass, having declined the Emperor
Offer 10 have q chapel htted up In hes
hotel. Not much curiosity Ii felt for
her. as parisians do not love the
Rourbons. She does a little shop
ping, and the tFafiesmen thus pal
roaizea manage TO have q caaqsae to
cheer her on leaving Poor Isabella
iEaagines this 10 be sympathy. She
keeps ap the shqss OF ac0art. but the
thames come not. She IL ab<alt start
ing q newspaper, Al did ex-George oi
Hanover. to advocate her cause. lf
will be Q new channel for getting rid
OF any surplus cash. The Prince OF
Asturia VIII enter college next week
and Ii In hoped, viii reap mare ben.
efit from his edueati than his
moEher did from hers, he and his
Papa walk about like o1diaary folks,
| and when fatlgued condescend to
enter q restaurant for refreshment.
The girls seem delighted with their
Paris life, and bid fair 10 buy up all
| the TOYS and bOnbons in the city
Don Carlos aud his Princess try TO
keep themselves before the public
| the evenings they receive" are re-
ported as the perfection OF dreari-
ness.
The doctors have discovered q new
disease, and which they might have
held in reserve till the winter was
over. The malasly springs from the
u-e of steel pens, producing a con
traction of Ehe muscles, and designa-
ted crd8sDe dss ecriU1ias. No RENE
DIV has vet been found. So the idle
| have an excuse for unanswering lets
tiers atplast-the fear Of catching the
pen cydnap. The gay goose quill y
| promises yet to be the mighty in
| strument of little men " If ietters
are doomed, we will still have light
but of another kind, In the form of a
new gsts. The Tuiilerics and the
place du Carrousei are being fitted
up with apparatus tn display its
merits. France sid y wants light
4 young gentleman og1ee0esisA his
| father in an incame of IS, 900 francs
a year-the profit from an illustrated
| pager. He gave himself up To
i'play,n one OF the chief vices pat
r0pized by the ''curled daElings" OF
the Second Empire. He played till
he lost his last franc, and went tn his
residence, wound towel stepped in
| chIorOforn round his head and
| died-as he said he would do.
The Sovereign of Soyereigns-
Death, has been very busy during
| the week among distinguished men.
On Friday at midnight, he struck
down Italy's Mozart-Rossini. For
Ave hours before his death he suffered
the most excrqeiating agony, his
cries could " heard outside his house,
a. he craved some ice to cool the fire
raging within. burn, ! burn, "
he exclaimed, as the fever consumed
him. kissing his wife's hand, he
ssaid '.atIieu"-the last sensible words
| uttv-swsa. FEa~v Tyri-rt nzaFed hisa4 did
| he die il. the Catholic faith. He
who has written the Itabat has faith, u
was his response. Giacomo RoSSini
was born February %, 1892, at Pc
saro, on the Gulf cf Venice, and was
the son of strolling musicians, who
turned his splendid voice to profit.
In time he entered the musical acad-
emy of BoIogne, and from this date
commenced hi, lame. He gave 81
compos ions to the world. the first
in 1898, and the last, cantata, for
the Exhibition Of 1861 ; but he will
go down to posterity, linked with
II Bardiere di Serigtea, published in
I8I !, Guillame Tell, in 1879, and his
Ra6dt Meter in 1912. He composed
several Masses" one Of which had
such an infiaence on a priest al
Naples that he told the Macs 70 that
if he knocked at the door of Para
disc with that Mass, despite all his
sins, st. Peter could not resist letting
him in" He was twice married,
and leaves widow to deplore him.
After a residence Of five months in
England, he returned to France, and
as he gave his heart to the Parisians
during his lifetime, n. has requested
them to take care Of his old bones. -
Il is said he will be inferred In Pere
La Chaise, and though he has left
aside sum for his funeral expenses
and the manner of his burial to his
wife's choice, the Emperor intends
his obsequies shall take place at the
expense of the State. The chapel OF
the Madeleine has been selected for
the celebration of his funeral mass,
as it contains accommodations Tor
several thousand persons, and his
own music will, on Thursday, be
there executed. In any case, the
spectacIe will be splendid. ROsaiui
mad q great fear of death, and was
supersutiOus, like ali Italians. -
Wnen the l3th of November falls OGa
Friday, as it did this year, the
French hold it 30 be an uniucky
day" and 80 it proved, as he himself
had foretold, for Roasini. The spoil ed
child OF the parisians, he was as j al
Gus as u child. bis wit WAS short
and biting, and hlt alike both friend
aud foe. lie had the most sceptieal
Of smiles, and though rich In this
words goods, was penurious. OF
late years he was but an elegant tri~
der with his Tyre, and Gssiitmmie
Tel may be considered the swan Of
Pesaru's " last song. The Villa Ros-
sfni. nc Passy, where he died, he
built himself, In the Italian style |;
not large, but like the house OF Soc
rates, sufficient 10 accommodates only
grieads. Oyer the private entranee
,pas s Gilt ivrp which was takpr,