, 1872-12-08

would have kept all the children out - mh1
riage., Mons. Emile de dlraram hs Maa 4t'oieea ~ et
in London. while absent more than ten months
from her husband, Confound the German war!
How many divorces it has produced IN France!
The Duchess de Persigny was married wealthy
ternal Grandfather was jacques Laf6tte; her
paternal grandfather was Marshal Ney.
DERBTER AND BUaEAUD.
have lust read this interesting reminiscence
Of the great French orator, Berger. I must
preface It with d brief explanation. General
Bureaud was a warm supporter of Louis Phil
ippes Government from the outset, and, had he
been allowed to have his way on the morning OF
the 24th Of February, 1848 the Orleans family
would at this hour be on the French throne. 1t
was natural that, whom the Government had ar
rested the Duchess de Berry, it should wish to
confde command Of her prison to an officer IN
whom implicit confidence was placed The LIE"
giti1nist party. therefore, hated him Intensely,
and never spoke ct hm except as the Duchess
Bugeaud; SO, when Deputy named Dulong,
one day shouted to him as he spoke
..silence! yon are but the Duchess de
out. Bugeaud VAS, however, extremely concili-
atory, and duel might have been avoided had
not political considerations been mixed up with
the matter and allowed to sway individual opin-
ions. You remember how these causes led to
the duel between Graves and Cilley. As soon
as the signal to fire was given, Bugeaud dis
charged lis pistol. Dulong fell q corpse; the
ball had struck him in the centre Of the fore
head, and had buried itself in the back Of his
skull, after trayersing the brain. Public excite
ment ran high. BuGeaud became the most un-
popular man in France; he vas called by every
body "Dulongs assassin" General Bugeaud
hated Berger. While the Government was
hunting tho Duchess de Berry, he Berryer) was
arrested in Brittany for one of her accompllces
in the insurrection which she lad insanely Mt
tempted to raise. The truth is, Berger had
gone to Brittany to dissuade the Duchess from
embarking in SO wild venture, and to beseech
her to leave France. Honor forbade him from
confessing the truth at that time. One day,
while Berger was attaching Louis Phlippe's
Government with characteristic vehemence,
BugeAud stood in front of his seat and baWled
out to Berryer: ''This is no place for your
Berger paused moment, drew himself up to
his full height, and said in 9 tone Of thunder:
"The question is not who is in place, or who is
out Of place here; Or Berryer pointed to Du-
OF here!" The flashing eyes, the lips curled in
scorn, hernajestic gesture, the laundering voice,
sent thrill of horror aud indignation through
the Chamber Of Deputies. Bugeaud skunk 81
lently into his seat, and one Of Berryer's most
are lugubriously sublime!'
An ACTRESS 81 scHAna1."
Mile. Sarah Bernhardt, after brilliant career
at the Odeon, has been engaged at the French
CouE4t. 4l61 ul5L ptE14dAL6 dll4dNleu 1FEA40
body" (you know there are in all large cities
some 1900 people who are s everybody'-in
their opinion), partly because she is famous
what-you-may-call-em partly because she
is pretty (though fearfqlly lean), partly because
cause it was her first appearance in the French
Comedy (people like to be sin at the
death" -w which first appearances often
are}, and partly 6esaaae ;.', n, people 9I
wished to see how she played Nile de Belle Isle,
Nile. Madeleine Brohan had shone with such
brilliant beams that contemporaries eyes are
still dazzled by them Nile. Sarah Bernhardt
did not command the triumph she expected.
the 'scharm" in which she has confidence as
assuring her good and arerting bad luck from
her, is the skull of a famous girl Of the
Latin Quarter, who. was swept from
life, in full youth and full beauty,
waits deathbed was the hospitals common cot;
her grave was the dissecting liable. where limb
WAS hacked from limb, amid the jibes Of coarse
medical students, most Of whom had been init
mate with her; and her bones we're parted
among them, as souvenirs of the beautiful,
graceful, merry, giddy girl who had thrown
away her life here. How Nile. Sarah Bern
hardt got possession of the poor child's skull,
don't know but she has it, and she prizes it.
it is turned to base uses the mouth is used as
card-basket. The skull is scribbled over with
1naxims and other sententious sentences, for the
most part valuable as being in the autograph Of
eminent play writers.
AN INGENIOUS THIEF.
4 few aays since the general servant of 3 gen
tleman here entered. 'sike Niobe. all tears, -
his wife's chamber. sobbing, " Oh, Madam oh,
Madam u IS What is the matter, FRANCHISE =
' Madam, have stuck q fork into my finger"
feel it tomorrow st I should not be afraid,
Madam. if was sure the fork WAS silver" s;You