Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1872-09-23
ALEYA. GAZETTE & VIRGINIA ADVERTISER
(FOR TIE COUNTRY

Marriage and Death Notices, when not exceed
ing ell ght lines fifty cents.
On the Roof OF Notrc Dame.
All here is dingy aud grimy old door,
leading up great stone steps to the cathedral
roof, where the lover of the picturesque may
wander for hours without ever wearying 1t is
Il long way up, and the steps are worn and old;
millions Of feet have made great creases in
them. Suddenly you stagger out upon a wide
platform and Paris, threaded by the curving
Seine, Paris with its hundred palaces, its giant
avenues, its vast towers, its glorious parks, lies
spread before you. \ ou feel as if breathing a
1,urer air: you are of the world, yet separated
from it. You are elated, iubilant, exalted.
The hum and din OF the great capital smltes
but gently upon your ears. 4 strong thrill OF
excitement runs through youa you press to
the outer railing, and look down FROM the dizzy
height into the place below. Are those ants
crawling on their aut-hili, or are they really
llcn in the market place As you get tired,
ard seek 4 spot to Tepose, the old woman who
mas her home in a little house in the betry,
invites you TO place on rustic bench. Do
they drink beer then on the cathedrais top
Oa yes, indeed, Monsieur, and champagne,
too, when parties come to see the sun rise 1t
is quite the mode now in Paris, Monsieur, for
bridal parties to come to the old tower here
ut early morning, to make a champagne
breakfast, and to view the sunrise. There
was one young lady here some months ago
poor darling who was 50 frightened at some
gargoyles which she saw on one OF the gallery
balconies that. she swooned and was carried
downstairs. and home in a cab.
Perhaps the good woman or her husband
n
figures which serve at once as ornaments aud
rain spcu,s. and which are as goblin-Eke and
ghostly as figures in a fairy tale. As you stand
on one of the galleries overlooking the vast
descent from the upper platform to one OF the
lower roofs, you see ranged around, IN rows,
gigantic figures of dragons hippogritfs, unna,,
mable monsters and compounds OF men and
beasts in sportive or ferocious attitudes They
seem to have suddenly descended from some
unknown region of the air, aud to have been as
suddenly petri6ed. Among these animals and
monsters stands the figure of a tall old man,
clad in the garb of the Middle Ages, gazing
outward into ether with wild and puzzled ex
preston upon his features. He shields his
eyes with his hands, as if afraid to look too
carelessly upon some unutterabe glory and his
long beard is blown back by the wind. Turning
a corner suddenly, and coming upon this as
tonishing figure, it is difficult to persuade ones
self for moment that it is not alive.-Ffom
"ht and -4Jout Paris, ty Ettacara Alng, IN
ScrJncr for October.
NOVEL SCENE-In one of the New York
Police Courts on Thursday last, boy OF l3
years named Nathan Simon, was arraigned for
beating his wife Emily, lady of 30 summers.
Nathan is an overgrown, beardless lad, who
had dirty face Mrs. Simon is a somewhat
tall lady, without any special claim to good
looks Nathan whimpered like an unwilling
school-boy when brought before his honor.
Justice-How old are you, my boy?
Nathan-I' m thirteen years, sir.
Justicc-How long are you married!
Nathan (blubbering ng)-One year; | want to
get divorced now, so do (cryiug).
Justice-Why do you beat your wife?
(plucking up a little)-Because she
won't get my supper ready; she says she Jeai-
Gus of me; that's S what makes me mad
Justice Nov see here, if you are brought to
this court again for maltreating your wife will
send you to the Juvenile Asylum.
Justice Ito Mrs Simon MADAM, take this
boy home and wash his face.
4 FRANK CoNFEssloN.-At last we have
little good sense from an expert witness. In
late murder trail in Memphis Doctor Allen
was called to testify as to the question OF the
sanity of the prisoner, and this is the glst OF
his testimony.
Il have been practicing physician TOR near
ly thirty years; | have had some experience In
cases of insanity, having been for ten years
medical Superintendent OF the kentucky Lu-
natic Asylum, and during that time had over
1000 crazy people under my charge; have
heard the hypothetical case read by MIR. Phel-
an; | am here as an expert, and before answer
ing the question would like to say that the
more | studied the question of insanity the less
| understood il; and if you ask me where 1t
begins and and where it ends neither nor any
physician in the world could tell you; IN tact,
on occasions like this lawyers make tools OF
themselves in trying to make asses OF doctors.
PUNISHMENT IN SOUTH AMERlcA.-Thc
Congress- of Peru has decreed the abolition OF
the death penalty, and fifteen years lmprson,
meut is 10 be the maximum OF all punishment
in that republic. lu Colombia the maximum
runishment, according to the constitution, Is
t,n vears~aud an article in the Code provides
thai convict Shall have the third part OF his
sentence taken off if he shows signs OF repent
aDce, which, of coarse, is not very dlihcult Tor
= convict to do. But the Legislature OF 20
lonhia has still further reduced the maximum
penalty by decreeing that all punishment emu,
neratcd in the penal laws shall be diminished
oue-third So that for the most horrld arson
or murder criminal can be sentenced 10 no
NJ more thau six years and four months in the
peuitentiary, and if be repepts,, his term must
be diminished to four years and eight days.
\ NOTE FROM EMPRESS EUGENE.
following letter from the ex,Empress OF IN tne
French to Partisan journalist, Monsieur 'e-
pillot, was recently published ,o-,
''CHIsELHURsT, February - 1871.
Il have to thank you, sir, for the artlcle = lee e
which you published on the. occasion .! n. .ne
Ebcls that have appeared against me: - l neSel do
supposed that day would come "nen " uH :;
ict.d woman would be an act OF courage III
France. In the midst of the many affections
with which we have been visited be persuaded
that Your article has been consolation to me
in nrorino 49, tbero are still amongst you men