The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-03-09
FOhEieN FEksoNAL AND OF ANA
GOSSIP.

L composer veCetq-
rian, and has not drunk any wine for many years.
One banker in Paris, III. Thibsudeau, holds
seventy thousand pounds worth Of Confederate
bonds, for which he paid fifty per cent. of their
face.
Lervy. the hair. dresser of the Empress Eugene,
employs eighty persons at his establishment. and
Is very wealthy. His father was har-dresser of
the Duchess Helene, of Orleans.
The Germsn School Review says there are $50
American students at the various German uoiver.
sites, and over 600 male and female American
pupils at irst.cass German bosrding schools.
Senior Harzenbusch has been appointed poet
laureate OF Spain. As his name indicstes. Senior
| Hartzenbusch is of German descent, his father
Spain.
The grandson, of the emperor of Russia is so
feeble and sickly that the st. Petersburg physi.
clans predict his early death. Both his father and
mother. the grand duke hereditary and his wife
Dagmar, are in feeble health.
Prim's opponents in Madrid charge him with
being an opium eater. His friends admit that be
occasionally takes that soporidc drug to get some
| relief from the chronic neuralgia pains to which
he has been subject for several years past.
Louis Nspoleon's favorite phrase before he
assembled the French throne was % Tres fate
Tres TGHe (much fattered, much fattered y
When anybody called on him he used that phrase
| often IN very laughable manner. Eugenie sue
| ceeded in weaving him from it.
Gambetta, the celebrated young Partisan law
| yer, who by his famous speech in the Bsudin
| press trial achieved such brilliant success and
| will be one of the opposition leaders 10 the next
| corps legislatif, Is married to young Mexican
LADY. who accompanied the wife of Marshal Bs-
| zaine, in 1867 from Mexico TO France. Gambetta
| is the grandson Of an Italian. His father was a
distinguished member of the bar of Msrsees.
1auchintz clears annually between forty and
fifty thousand dollars on his famous reprints OF
| English and American authors. The only Ameri
| can author whom he ever paid anything for
repubshlng his works. is Longfelow and it IS sus.
pected he did that only for the purpose of obtain
| ing advance sheets and heading of the Belgian
| publishers, who intended to issue a cheap reprint
| of LoDgfellow's last work.
Henri Rochefort lives at Brussels in a very fine
house, for which he pays 20 600 francs year rent
He keeps splendid carriage, half a dozen ser
wants, and gives expensive entertainments. The
Dix Decembre, the BoDapartist weekly, of Paris,
calls upon the French democrats no longer to pa.
tonize man who, while pretending to be their
special champanion, leads the life Of Sybarihc
arstocrat.
Giscomo Meyerbeer, il has now been ascer.
tained left to his family fortune OF nine hundred
thousand dollars. His executors think that not a
few OF the operate managers and music publish
e1s with whom Meyerbeer made contracts, chea-
ted him 10 the most outrageous manner, and that
IL he had been more vgilant in this respect his
profits on his most successful operas would have
been more than three times as large as they re-
ally were.
Count Beusts personal appearance has recently
undergone very marked change. His hair Is
turning very gray and his handsome face is be-
coming very angular and emaciated. Hard work
e believed to be the cause. Beust is thought to
be the most Ddefatigabe of European prime min
listers. He generally works in his cabinet till ia
the morning, and rises again at 7. The emperor
entertalns the liveest admiration for him, and
often rays that he believes Beust to be the public
functionsry who earned his salary more honestly
than any other official in Austria.
The private fortune of the various members of |
the royal family of Prussia is estimated at ffty |
millions thalers. The old king SPENDS his money |
w md hoc I'd EffIo
the crown prince is economical and accommodating |
money very rapidly. Prince Charles and Prince |
Frederick Charles are spendthriits, aud have |
heavily mortgaged portion Of their estates. |
The queen dowager is believed to have saved sew
eral millions dollars, but she is on such bad terms
with the other members Of the royal family thati
is thought she will leave her money TO charitable
Institutions rather than to the king and her other
relatives.
The eldest son of the prince of Wales bears the |
most striking resemblance TO bis grandfather, the
king of Denmark.
The sultan intends to have his son educated in
Vienna. He is to remain there at private school
for two years, and to receive the same treatment |
as the other pupils.
An American ex brigadier general is giving
drawing lessons in Heidelberg, and poor French
count, the descendant of one Of the oldest French
legitimlst families is the most fashionable dancing
master In the same city.
The Berlin papers say that at the United States
legation in that city everybody feels convinced
N.
Bancroft the ambassador, or Mr.. Kreissman the |
American consul at Berlin.
Worth, thesfamous dress maker, or as be pre-.
fers TO be called the dress critic of Paris it said
holds in bis portfolio the US of nearly every
lsdy in Paris, and a sudden liquida.
ton OF his affairs would carry dsmay into most of
the aristocratic families of that capital.
A curious diplomatic secret has recently been
divulged In Prussia. The Cabinet of that country |
at the breaking out of the ws= between Spain and
Morocco, intended to conclude an alliance with |
Spain. TO take part in the war, and conquer colo.
ny in Northwestern Africa. The rapid successes
of the Spanish armies, however, thwsrted the Dur.
poses of the Prussian government.
The klIg OF Bavaria has approved the plan SUBJ |
mitted to him by the committee which was in
structed TO draw up paper on the International
Art Exhibition, to be held at Munich in the spring
Of 1869. A very large sum will be appropriated
10 order TO make the exhibition as brilliant an at.
fair as possible. The most eminent artists OF Ger. |
nsny and France have already promised their CO.
operation.
There are in London Il2,4Os professional
thieves, 22S0 receivers Of stolen goods, and $3.50 |
lodging houses for thieves
A dog story comes from Paris. For the last |
eight or nine months an old man regularly made
bis appearance on the banks of the seine, with a |
arge dog. The dogs hair showed be suffered |
with skin disease. The old man had consulted |
veterinary surgeon, who had prescribed an oiut, |
nent 10 be followed Immediately by bath. The
Did man, the dogs master, had followed the pre-
'cription for two.thirds of year, and the dog, |
10 fer from getting better, seemed to grow worse.
Panied by the dogs sufferings. the master re-
solved to end them. He could not see the death
Of The faithful companion of ten years, so he gave
orders to the man he had hired TO snnoint and |
Dathe the dog to drown him. The servant took a |
arge stone, secured IL to rope, and began play
Dg with the dog in order to slip the moose around
lis neck. In these gsmhols the man slipped, the
ope became wrapped around him, and he fell |
INTO the river. He was no swimmer, and he was
10 embarrassed by the heavy stone that he must
necessarily have gone to the bottom. The dog |
plunged in. seized the drowning man by his
,othes, and swan with him to the Shore landing
lot where the man had fallen in but at the place
ONE distance mp the river where the man had |
Isily amounted and bsthed him.
young Marquis OF Butte, whose recent con- |
ersion TO the Church of Rome has occasioned so
much talk in England, is mild.fsced lad, hair
'arted in the middle, and looks somewhat like a
,irl in boys clothes. at school he avoided mas.
uline sports, but kept bees aud read. His mother
vas formerly an actress and Roman Catholic. |
The married the old peer, who had no children by |
lis first wife, and didn't expect TO have any by his