The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1868-11-07
THE DEATH or MENEkEv.
4 SKETCH or HER LIFE AND HABITS
HER DEATH BED.


grief, but because thcTe was not tear
shed nor a single grief face behind her
hearsc. Moreover. because there were SO
few people 10 pay this last tribute Of com
passion. OF all her haon companions, of
all those parasites who lived on her,
drank her wine and brandy, borrowed her
money, abused her, not one was to be
found to sec her to life's door. There
were jurt twelve persons at her funeral
Half Of these were tradesmen or servants
the rest we're actors from the theatre
where she was playing. ! know all that
may be eaid against her yet cannot re.
press some pity ut her fate dying among
hsrpics without ore kind friend or gym.
pathIEing human being near her. Ilor.
rib!c Was her death. She died of nianta
ri p0in. complicated with Inflammation Of
the bowls and congestion Of the brGn-
She sent for DR.. Sims month before ,he
died, but he soon saw his skill was ilupo.
tent except to alleviate her passage 10
death. lie did all lac could for her
find fragmeuiary sketch of her habits 10
Paris in one Of our papers which you may
read with interest: " While | was in
London about three years ago, | came
nigh being run over in Regent street by
the strangcst turnout | ever s0w. The
harness Of the horses which came near
tramrliog mc under foot vas rs eaudy
aud a. vulgar as the carriagc was aris;o-
cratic sud in good taste Plates and
buckles at copper studded the bright gel.
low harness. and on the traces hum. n
hundred red tssscls ! fay nothing otI
the hor-en' heads. The strange turnout
stopped suddenly was Knocked down
by the right hand horse. aud | aiose
bruised ani iIl.humored. 4 f.o,n,an ia
a livery of doubtful taste ran up toward.
ne. aud after s>Lin. if | vas seriously
injured. begged nc 80 coGc to accept h's
III .s'rc-- excuses. farming round, saw.
lyIn. luxGtioosly on tle carriage cushion.
a beautiful creature, whore black eyes
rested on tue wi'h interest Buried IN
velvet msn,,lla, aud EcarInc round lat
adorned wiih hpaiing feather. .hc held
ou. her right hand which sIe had hastily
urglovcdj 10 usc. aud held the reign. in
her LETT baud. After told hcr who
war, she said: All. YOU arc n ncwsparer
writer aud Freuchman am delight,
cd !; Ncnlcn'~ horses have had the honor
10 knDok you down. Can't you come
this cveu'n. to take lea with ne IN nv
drc.sln. room ut A.'lcy'S theatre, Shcre
| am playrn: Mazcpra! ! bowed. She
gave her horsc- 4 heavy b ow. aud drove
rapi lis oT Three hours afterwards she
told me, between two ac's, the history of
her life. which everybody is now familiar
With Everybody knows that ,hc pos.
sc.scl a smatlcring OF al human knowl,
edge She knew aud talked On every
subject with giddying facility. from the
dialects 81 the Ecw World To toiran-eendcn-
tai mathematics. from Latin Ia rhil"soy hy
from Ver-i.icstion to the0In.y. The
astonishing traits oil this rare nature IL.
10 toms weaknesses, or rather some vices
inherent 10 the character oi women who
have lost ta-;e. aud Of ordinary men
After discussing the Immortality Of the
soul ard the divine essence of Jehovah,
Miss Mcnken would confess she was over
head and cars ia love with an Irish prize
fighter, aud she would interrupt the most
abstract dissertations and quotations from
Sophists of Hebrew doemas TO i0ss of
glasses of brandy with the gluttony Of a
drunken hostlcr. While che showed OF
to me hcr mind and soul. she changed
costume, and let me see, without modcsty
and without embarrassment, the marvel
Gus beauty, of her body. She showed
me the trace Of the balls she had rcceiv-
ed in war, and liftIng up tress of black
hair which she dropped on my brow with
thoroughly feminine art, she begged NE
TO sec the depth of the scar left on her
head by bullet. She admitted she was
the blind slave Of her passions, and traced
TO heaven the dcplorablc delights found
in the satisfaction of the guillicst appe.
tifcs She was a Jewcss, aud yet her
beauty had nothing oriental about it,
Her black eyes, edged with long lashes,
bad gamut of characteristic expressions
like finger board with a series of notes
of different tonaIities. Her eyes cx-
pres.ed anger, love, ferocity, gentIeness
Her nose had the aspirations of the wild
beast /; il sometimes invited kisses, and
sometimes made threats, or gave insults
As for her body, imagine not that body
ot classical Venus, but the body Of some
pecCliar Venus with round. obtrusive, al.
most thick outlines. llcr flesh was finn,
but slightly tanned by the climates in
which she had lived. and also by the violent
exercises in which she had ino lged since
her childhood. Tier flesh almost burst
the stockings that she wore. AS soon as
she reached Paris she sent me her ad-
dress. ! forgot what prevented me from
going to sec her Nevertheless, Que day
| contrived to call on her. found her
fourth. class hotel giving tho last
touches to volume Of poetry which her
London publishers impcriously asked of
her, and on table lay unfinished the
sheet of political letter destined to some
newspapcr(O in the United States. She
always wore long white tuDic spotted
with the ashes Of cigarettes, which never
quilted her lips. She always had around
her people who lived on her chamber
maid, female friends aud Americans(Y)
uncorked her champagne and emptied
her brandy bottles. assure you none Of
them wcre ahead of her in theserxcrcises
She spoke with enthusiasm one day of an
ldea Of NJ. Dumas, Sr., and Of one Of NJ.
Dugue's pieces. With the hope of play
iny the parts sketchcd in these projected
works she studied French, which she
,poke with difficulty, but which she
| ,vroto c,,;4a vcil Her drnSsino rnon NJ