New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-12-20

French A91nN 80 f1E6p9&e made u
leisure, li6s S6o1S ef NksS5kIle; they an
prepared. moeths-yeaEs n advsaeel"
| Madam, ] shouldn't Ike TO doubt the
truth Of words that issue from % pretty {
mouth - yours, but still you win permit
me to exhibit little asteaishmeut.r
Don't be 1t all embarrassed, beg yeu.'
"How can this be d0nef"
"Come! prefer to explain It to you ri
once, - l know al about the process. A
told you, my husband is writer of obit-
uaries. Here is how he proceeds-it u toll
erably complicated"
al can believe that readily
''When Vaperau's Dictionary of Con.
tempOraries' first appeared my husband ri
once perceived there vas mine in it which
could be worked. He selected all the ind.
yiduals who had attained their fiftieth year
and wrote biographical sketches of them
which he took care to add to from day to
day, according to need"
THAT was very ingenious"
''Whenever an act, q detail, even witt
cism, was nOised about in connection with
and put it in its proper place in the Aketch;
and whenever the subjects fell sick, he ar
ranged things in such way that the
patients sketches were written up to date. -
Perfect! perfect!"
''Thus, NJ. Guizot was very complete, be-
cause he was often taken sick in that way
before leaving the world. That is why
told you he made such good DEATH
"Ah! very good! And which are the bad
deaths, pray your
"Thoso which occur without the sound 81
drum or trumpet, as it were. N. Beule. fol
instance, who died when nobody expected
it. As result, he did not get any articles
written about him until eight days after
ward. because his sketch was oot fixed up
to date"
''Thas is true; and mav dare to ask with
what journal your husband il eonnectedf'
"With all of them"
"How can that bel~
"Why, becauoe all the obituaries ESQ from
my husband's pen, and he merely varies
them according to the opinion Of the jour
nails Thus, he wrote four Guiz0t articles;
one for the conservative papers, another for
the radical papers, . third for the semi-con-
servatives. Q fourth TOT the seni-yadical
Sheets"
"Thst was sery ingenious"
He oven wrote !. fifth article for the
is your husband tho only oae who does
this sort Of business!''
''Alas, no! There are some ounglers who
are also engaged in it, but mono of them pos
sess az complete cabinet as my husband"
"He ought to make great deal of mOneyv'
elf there we're not bad seasons.''
But you always have something 70 rely
on"
These 10 che French Academy and the
Institute; but there are some very poor sub
jects among the members"
"Whyl"
'There are 40 few among them that ere
celebrated for anything"
''That is true; I did not think Of that"
"Without considering that there are many
there who are not eympathetic. Besides,
We are unlucky sometimes. See Ba8aine,
for instance; . hundred chances to one that
he should have broken his neck climbing
down the walls of Fort St. Marguerite; but
what did he dot He got away safely"
MAY dare to ask if your husband 10 the
inventor Of this employmentF
mot exactly; the real inventor, the one
who initiated is, as n. de Foy says, was
Jules Lecomte. the ehroniQuer When Ra-
chel was sent 60 Cannes by her doctors,
because her lungs were weak, he thought
that she would never return. and he pre-
pared his ARTICLE Southern France having
failed to better her condition, the great
tragedienne was sens 60 Egypt. Jules
Lecomte kept at work. At last she died.
Having been one of the first to hear OF her
death, he took his article to the Figaro.
which was but a small newspaper It that
time. NJ. de Villemessant, the editor, I'M,
derst0od its value at once; he understands
thing of this kind very readily. He
ransacked his money drawers and gave
Lecomte 500 franc. JOuvin said to Murger:
Ny brother in-law has become crazy And
Villemat, who was then earning only 100
francs q month ON the Figaro. exclaimed;
That Jules Lecomte; what erashv Tho
Figaro issued an edition of 10000 copies.
Nobody could believe IN such success. MY
husband, who was friend Of Pere Bre-
gaud, the carrier Of the Figaro, learned tho
story from him. and Thought there vas
something to be made there. He left of
gathering scraps Of old iron. which offered
him but q limited horizon, aud he began
the preparation OF his cal inet of obituaries,
which at the present time has real value"
u find no difficulty in believing Sou
Have you any good death in view z"
I'VE have three or four; but. you know,
with that kind of people there is no reliance
to be placed. Greas men are 60 eccentric."
''Genius has it's privileges
IL don't say that it has not: but it is
We reached Trouville. The fady made
her preparations. She took her bag, her
reticule. her travelling shawl and her cloak.
which she looked at disdainfully. Then.
after moments reflection and following
;he direction Of my gaze. she said with
mile:
lyon are looking at my waterproof! Alb,
I NJ. Theirs were NOT so obstinate, this
winter l would have q fur pelissev'-Eron,
he French.