New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-08-29

to send IN their claims. Charles, 1t appea rs,
was q cashier in q bank. who married about
two months ago young lady Of his own
class, with every prospect before them Of
genteel life, and, If genteel, therefore happy.
At one fell swoop Charles lost his situation
and his gentiity. What remainedf A young
American would have put his shoulder to the
wheel and his wife would have helped turn
it, but the pair of gallant BritOns preferred
to face death rather than work and
shabbiness. They took laudanum in order
to perish in each others arms But
that the exit might be as genteel
as beftted their position, they packed their
trunks. left will bequeathng their jewelry,
paid the landlady in advance for the annoy
ance which two moist, unpleasant bodies
would cause her, and then kept diary OF
tho effect of the laudanum for the benefit OF
the Coroner in German, Greek, and English,
requesting in the last entry to be buried I'M
der the same clod. All this so admirably
dramatizes the delicacy and refinement OF
the aristocratic tendency, the resolve to be
genteel or die that we are sorry to spoil 1t
by saying that they were brought back to
this world of bad ton by stomach pump, and
arrested on charge of intended suicide and
murder.
The next column, however, drives us back
to admiration of our own democratic rulers.
Here is the Empress Augusta offering to be-
stow prizes of E30O each for two competitive
essays, one on the best technical surgery in
time of war, the other on the Geneva Conven-
ton and suggestions for its development and
perpetuity; the essays to be in German, En-
4. hio to yhnan hu
band has just conducted gigantic war to a
successful close, offering prize to the men
who can best show how war is to be made
less fatal or how the higher, nobler decision
of reason may be permanently given the place
Of brute force, and war dethroned by peace.
What right has any ruler to meddle with old
established customsf Why does she not
keep to her needlei That our English
cousins have not altogether abandoned
old fashioned sentiment for new tangled
common sense is shown in the next paragraph,
where the faithful are exhOrted to pay honor
during this current week to Ste Marie Ala
codue. This nun, the advertisement states,
was visited personally by our Savior, who
crested his head on her breast and proceeded
to take out his own neaTt lin which hers
clay like burning atom and place it In her
"body, making her the perpetual guardian
"of it." On this was founded the Worship OF
the Sacred Heart and to her shrine at Paray-
le-Monial all the devOut are called to make
pilgrimage price of frst-class tickets, f5;
second class, Ct IS. Hundreds of solid
John Bulls are going, not with cockle-sheli
and staff, but with well filed pocket-books,
to resort to the restaurant car, which accom-
panies each train, loaded with meats, GRO
quotes, and champagnes, &C., &c.
But here among the deaths is a notice from
one of the colonies which stops the critical
eye. On June 3, Alice, aged IA; June a, Maud,
aged II f; June 6, George aged 10; June Z, Mary,
aged and on the evening of the same day,
Robert and Willie, aged and 2, children of
ID. Richardson. Among the births is that of
son on the same week. The horror of the
limited story, the strange fact of the order of
age in which the deaths occur, the thought of
the mother lying by her newborn babe, igno-
rant that it alone of ell her little ones was
left, Danish all other fancies from our mind,
and bring us back to the truths that underlie
all facts of love and loss and death.