The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-06-08

Princess Editha, however, a lady-boarder at the
hotel, who took an unusual interest in her
offered to take her back, watch over, and
guard her-and, what is more de-
fray her expenses-unti council
of physicians should decide in her case. The
affair has created quite discussion 10 the news
papers among those who knew the late Countess
of Landsfedt. AS bearing upon this subject,
the reader may possibly remember small book
published some years ago entitled the "Story of
Penitent" and purporting to give, through the
medium of DR.. Hawks, of the Episcopal Church,
'true story" of the last hours of Lola's life.
This little book is both effective and affecting
in religious sense. The trouble is that have
heard the truth of the account denied in toto by
those who profess to have the fullest knowledge
with respect to it. / have been told by one of
Lolas most intimate acquaiutances that she died
in extreme destitution, forsaken by professed
friends, and writhing under extreme agony of
soul, and that her last words, instead of
humbly- expressed hope of forgiveness, we're
we'll perhaps it is best not to write what they
were, but to throw the veil of charity over every
unkind report whose truth we cannot abso-
lutely prove, and to hope, as l do, that her
peace was made on the same terms of infinite
loving-kindness on which other sinners before
this have been made welcome and at home on the
other side of Jordan
Horace at the Hoffman.
Bismarck, whose physician ordered him
pose, thought of coming to the United States in
order to get it. Deluded man. By such an in
tention he proved very plainly that he little
understood the American institution of inter-
viewing. To this torture Mr.. Greeley has re-
Gently been subjected From his trip to Nassau
he returned quite i'll with intermittent fever,
and, instead of proceeding to his suburban home
to practise what he knew about farming he
took rooms at the Hoffman, arrayed himself in
a flannel dressing-gown, and tried hard to ex-
ercise patience and stop swearing. The diff
Guilty has been increased and rendered almost
insuperable from the fact that the newspaper
reporters have focked around the door of his
bedroom, for it is so seldom they have an op-
portunity of interviewing one of them
selves, so to speak, that when the oppor-
tunity offers their assiduity knows no
bounds. But in Mr.. Greeley they find hard
task. He is said to be an extremely difficult
case to interview. In the first place, it is next
to impossible to gain admission TO his presence;
and in the second, the only way by which he
can be made to say anything worth putting in
paper is to betray him into momentary fit
of spleen. Then, indeed, his shrill soprano
whine makes itself heard to some effect, and
he exhausts an entire thesaurus of blasphemy of
all the choice synonyms by which anathemas
can be expressed. AS a sick man, he is far from
sweet. Were / a nurse he would not be my
favorite patient.
Weston's Walk.
In spite of the fact that the hundred miles
were accurately portioned off for Mr.. Wes-
ton, he has plenty of detractors who are fond of
saying that he never walked that distance in
twenty one hours, and that they can prove it.
G A., q. NJ t.
particularly admired for, it is that he takes
pains to keep himself apart from the pedestrian
beats who seek notoriety at any cost. AS yet he
has not taken the trouble to reply to his detrac-
tors. Probably he is too busy arranging how to
dispose in the most prudent manner of the
$500. His present business of pedestrlanism is
much more lucrative than his former one. Some
years ago, when he used to live at the Savery
House, near the Park House, Beekman street,
he was poor book peddle-. His daily tramps
were then wearsome enough ween, and he
had no suspicion that he would ever become
champion walkist
Wasting Public Money.
Mr.. Fisk gives us music for tue million on
Sunday evenings at his Grand Opera House,
and a number of equally charitable people pro-
| pose erecting baths for the million at various
eligible points throughout this city. Apropos
of this intention and of the design of the city
authorities to aid them in the matter, member
of the Common Council arose yesterday, and in
an elaborate speech announced it as his opinion
that for the city to bear any portion of the
expense of public baths was shameful waste
of public money. That member is evidently
not of the opinion that cleanliness is next to
godliness. In spite of his denunciations, the
bath-houses are going up, and this summer the
as yet unwashed majorities of Gotham expect
| to become cuticularly clean. ALI BABA.