, 1873-08-22


ferenco. For some weeks I WIS unable to un-
derHtand this variation Of conduct. began to
fancy TINT had grown particularly attractive
but soon discovered TINT my increased magnet
ism lay In my familiar humanity.
Jones, Smith, md Robinson all told me TINT
they bud not seen anybody they know sinco tho
warm woather commenced, and that to meet IN
acquaintance WIS rowling novelty. They be-
guilcd mo into tho ahade, and wore anxious to
know what had become Of everybody,
where could DO found tho ne1t day, tic noxt
week, or tho next month.
Joncs informed me TINT ho belonged to six
clubs; that he had becn agam and agaiu to
eyory ono Of them, and had not mot single
soul ho folt like talking to.
Smith said he had ridden up and down Droad-
way In stage, and watched tho upward ind
downward Btream Of humanity for Week with
out rosting his eyos on any countenanco which
ho Recognized.
Robinaon had dropped into all tho lending
hotels, evening after evening, and had not dis
covered anybody to shake hands or gossip with.
You can porcoivo, therefore. what an addi-
tional interest ia lent, just now, to Man
a Now-Yorker, has ;, somo individuality,
| and is regarded by htB follow-citizons worry much
M hc would be if encountered by any Of them
Gu tho top Of Mont Dlauo or in the midst OF So
lara.
uNnAvEL1Sa coNNunAn TANoLE.
merchants, who woro married, mud who hid boen
for soma time intimate frionds woro living in
tho samc house, and they and thoir wives Nhoy
had no childre1) were on entirely harmonious
terms. After wllilo they camo to the conclu-
| sion TINT they had married tho wrong women;
| tlat Calico (prosurning that to be hiB namo)
| should have ospoueed Mrs. Muslin, aud TINT
Muslin should have boon tho husband OF Mrs.
Calico They discussed tho mattcr openly, and,
| aa they all agreed upon it, they Ind no
difficulty in readjusting their matrimonial ar
| range1nente.
release hfrs. Muslin became Mrs. Calico, aud
Mrg. Calico Mrs. Muslin. They were altogether
satisfied with what might bo termed the now
connubial deal. and, though they coasod to 1.-Two
under the same roof, thoy were still on tho
In little moro than q twolvomonth, Calico dis
covered that ho did not got along, on tho whole,
lalf 30 pleasantly with his now conBort as he
had done With the old, and learned upon inquiry
| sequently quadriatoral convention WAS held,
at which Mrs. Calico aud Mrs. Muslin expressed
their preference for thoir previous condition
Of wedlock aud tho roBult WAS another journey
TO tho West, and another divorce.
Tho reunion ia only two or tlroo months old !;
but, ut present. PROMISES understand. to DO
mutually agreeable and adhesive. If it does
not, Calico and Muslin will not be likely to OK
change partners as they did before, since thoy
hnvo learned by experience that they canuot
"swap" wives to advantage.
Ono thing that this imbroglio-to use the rc-
| porter's word-olearly demonstrates is, that
| nouH wives are moro interesting to other men
than they. nro to their husbands; and That
familiarity much Of tho charm they were sup
posed to possosa before they assumed
sach relation. Wodlock not infroquently
haa p.s proved ~ q gu, Gnro p for contraband
il tho case Of Laura and Petraroh, Paola aud
francesca do Rimini, Hugo and ParaBna, aud
countless other historic lovers.
The PRINCESS EnirAA ONCE MORE.
IRE! Il PAS noen 90 long slneo tue rflncoss Edltha
horo that slo u won'nlgh 1orgotton. Tho last
heard Of hor she was sent to an asylum or tho
grouna Of insanity, though tue general opinion
mrs inn. er Holo ''ouo'0 @s mama TOT rfoga
1oa remember that sue claimed to be tho
daughter OF Lola Montez aud Ludwig, King Of
bayara the father OF tue present monarch She
sti Insists s1a On tas w. anu says furthermore that
vent by some enemies of her mother, and so
strictly guarded that aho found it impossible,
after repeated efforts, to effect her escape.
Elnally, IN lsov. sho sncGeodSa, with tho assist
anco o, sno 1@moIs P@,1 1 sast pootnngo. ana y1ung
Aochefort, IN gaining her freedom. though not
boforo Bhe had been several timea wounded by
shots (she shows her woundsl fired at her whilo
cumming the conVchs wall: Her hurts were not
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carriage through the Black Forest with III. Mos-
saut, who accompanied her to Munich. and then
separated from Aor:
bhe obtained a9 interview with the present
King Of Bavaria, her .half-brothor, who had al
lowed hor handsome annuity for Bomo time
previous, and now gave hora considerable sum Of
money. With this sho wont to Paris, and later
to London; but finding, Us she says,
that sho was continually porsoouted BY
tho Roman Catholic priesthood, she determined
to come to this country.
she had no. been long In Now York before she
made tho acquaintance Of Cornelius Vanderbilt,
and ho introduced hor, eho alleges, to Woodruff
l. Clahin. They Interested her 10 dooply in tho
cause OF Woman'H Rights, and especially III