, 1877-12-30
GOSSIP FROM OVER SEAS.


Baron Rothscild has just purchased, at the
very handsome figure Of 0,0oO, the complete
picture-g gallery OF dead collector Of Amster-
dam, whose heirs arc luckicr than those OF the
patient and eccentric collector, Van Huysanack.
This amateurs peculiar "wanity ''was engrav-
iugs He began collecting under the First
Empire; and ut every financial crisis,
every social revolution, he heapel together
more raritics, till, as he said, he had US many
rare engraylngs as would cover the Place de Ia
Concordc, or as would take man q year to
examine one By Que. lie died with his old hands
resting on one of his favorite portfolios, filled
with priceless works by Durer, Ratmondi, Aide
grave, Titicn, Rembrandt, Fracaccini, Ticpolo,
and the like. and left willard such will ]!
No single collector or gallery can ever take adj
vantage Of his half-century's toll. Beginning
at period twenty Years hence, from
time to time, and till the whole 1os
tents Of one portfolio are to be secretly
sold all over Europe, no two engraving in the
same city within year Of each other, aud all
to be sold to dealers-none to collectors. An
ample annuity has been provided for the man
who is to execute this odd bchest, and provision
is made for succession Of executors till the
whole work has been accomplished. The sums
received from the sales are to form school
fund in Flanders. Perhaps, after all, the old
collector was not a msanthrope, for how much
excitement and how many surprises he has
prepared for the collectors Of the twentieth
century!
Tic Continental Societies P. c. A. have print
ed i'll their bulletins the story Of Sin Chun's
faithful dog. Sin Chun nourished in his house
hold dog to which be was much attached. One
lav as Sin Chun was sleeping heavily in a
thicket the Governor Of the Province, who was
ont on 4 hunting expedition, CHANGED to pass
and ordered the grass OF the thickct to be fired
in order to frighten from it whatever game it
might hide. The dog tugged at Sin Chun's
clothing, but could not arouse him then running
to q stream hard by plunged into it, and
returning to where his master lay
rolled himself over and over, wctting the grass.
This performance hc repeated several times, Till
he had SO saturated the ground that his master
was safe from the flames; then exhausted and
cruelty burned lie laid down by his masters
side and died. Sin :Chun, awakening, was not
SLOW to comprehend the danger to Which he had
been exposcd and the means by whce it had
been aycrtcd. With many tears be carried home
the body Of tho ooe, wrapped 1t in q costly
6hroud, andssplaccd it in a handsome tolub, which
the Governor caused to be called ever after
wards "lhe Tomb OF the Faithful Dog"
Not long ago there died at the Hotel DIeu,
Paris, Cadondal, an odd and quarrelsomc char
acter, whose anxiety to fight with anybody on
any pretext or none was not more absurdly c1-
ecssivc than that described in t. t'Romeo and
Juliet" The reams Of paper he consumed in
writing challenges, the thousands upon thou
sands OF friends he sent to thousands OF op-
poncnts, who would be bold enough to COM
putea is the old man lay dying In the hospital
priest was sent for to afford him the
last consolation Of religion The worthy
father did not spare to tell him frankly
in what condition he was how obnoxious 10
Heaven was the desperate life be had led, aud
the necessity for his prompt and thorough re-
pcntancc. When the good priest had left him
Cadondal beckoned fcebly to friend who was
watching by his bedside, and whispered hoarsc-
": "Take down that priests address. lie las
used language to me that won't tuke from auy
man LYING. If-I-gct-oyer-this his-I-will-
send-a-conp1e- -of-friends- -hiu-with-
a-chal--.'' And before he could finish the
sentence the veteran duclist was dead