The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-04-20
THE PITH OF PARIS.
WEEKLY GOSSIP OF THE CHMDNI-
QUERs.

aUERs.
New AnecdOte Of the Great Napoleon
How the Cardinals Were Deprived OF
Early yegetables-The Latest Wits
cisms.
Especial Translationsl
The memoirs OF Bonrrienne. lately brought
to light, contain the following curious anee-
dote of the first Napoleon. It was told to
Bourrienne by the Empress Josephine her.
self:
When Bonaparte was paying court to Nine.
de Beauharnais, neither the one nor the other
was possessed Of q carriage, and Bonaparte,
who was over head and ears In love, often
gave her his arm when she went to see her
men of business. One day they went together
to see the notary. Raguideau, one OF the most
remarkably small men that ever saw In my
life Nine. de Beauharnais, who had great
confidence in Raguideau, had come TO see him
| that day for the sole purpose o. making
known to him her determination 20 marry Ine
young artillery general. Barras protege.
Josephine went alone into Ragudeaus prl-
vate office, leaving Bonaparte outside. where
/ the clerks were at work. The door OF Kagul-
parte heard distinctly all the arguments
which the notary used to dissuade Nine de
| Beauharnais from the marriage which she
propoHed to contract.
"You are altogether wrong; you will repent
| it; you are committing great folly" said
he; you are going to marry man who has
nothing but his cloak and his sword"
| "Bonaparte,' said Josephine to me, In re-
| counting the circumstance afterWard, never
spoke to me Of this, and never supposed
/ that he heard word OF what Raguideau said.
Can you conceive, them Bourriene, OF my as
constituent when OH the day OF the corona
/ ton, dressed In the imperial costume and
wearing his crown and sceptre, Bonaparte
said.
I" Let Raguideau be found and brought to
me at once. wish to speak to him.
1 iflF,c. mt Ky hnf
him.
9Th bein! said the Emperor, have noth-
ing but the cloak and the swordY
| The fact is Says Bourrienne) that Bona
/ parte, who, during the time OF our Intimacy,
had recounted to me all the circumstances OF
| his life which he remembered, never spoke to
me OF the little "set back" which he received
at the door OF Raguideau's office, and which
/ he did not seem to recall until the day OF his
coronation.
Pope Leo XIII verify suffers no opportuni-
| ty to escape for effecting some economy in
/ the pontifical budget. His solietude extends
even to the kitchen garden OF the Vatican, Il
| we are to believe the following narrative in
the Independence Beige:
Leo XIII was recently promenading in the
kitchen garden. where the pea-vines had al
ready begun to trace little waves OF verdure
in the sunny earth. The old gardener was
preparing salads on the edge OF the garden.
"Ah, good morning, friend" said the Pope,
but I never knew where the vegetables go
that you raise here
"Your holiness" said the gardener, some
what frightened, tits the canons and pfelates
| that get EN-"
"Ah, really, and by what right"
II know nothing about it, your holiness.
But it, been a long time since they have been
i taking them all. = ==7=
Leo XIII cast a rapid glance around him,
estimating the Importance OF the products
i nj ruf u Z
MY friend said he at last, .sto-morroW
take to the Campo di Fiori everything that is
| saiabIe and do the same each day artery ward.
i "As you wish your holiness. But what
shall say when his eminence Cardinal asks
| me for the early vegetables that he dotes on
/ So and particularly those two artichoke8
there II that he has been making eyes at Tor g
"Tell him." said the Pope THAT if he wants
them he must go and buy them at the Campo
| di Fiori."
And SO. it happens that since that time
i Professionals, heretics and free-t thinkers may,
by looking sharp, eat lettuce and celery
| grown in the sacred precincts Of the Natlean
to the boards OF their eminences the cardinals.
At the police court:
The Judge-What is your age madam?
Lady-Whatever you please, your honor.
Judge-Forty five years. Your businessY
| Lady-Hold on minute, your honor:
you've made a mistake OF ten years In my
age.
Judge-Well, then, ffty-five years.
i Lady furious) Il tell you, sir, on my oath,
| I'm only thirty-five.
i Judge-Ah; SO you have finished by answer
/ ing my question,
When Roqueplan was director Of the opera,
| they brought him one day a dansense OF phe-
| nomenal thinness, but whose meagreness OF
body had not prevented her from engaging Id
| numerous adventures.
"Well, what do you say" asked the intro
Queer of the danseuse.
| II should say" said Roaueplan, after con-
| templating the lady, that II | should see
| seven such as that in a dream, and [ were at
the head Of the government, / should not
hesitate an instant. / should order all the
| granaries to be filled without delay
A happy definition OF the word piano: IAN
instrument which tortures q great number oil
persons for the satisfaction Of one"
CHAINS PEACEFUL OF little sketches in the
latest lhariunri all relate to art subjects, and
are occasioned by the approaching opening OF
the salon. Here are two or three OF them :.
figure armed cap-a-pie)- Perfect, that figure;
there's nothing lacking about him,
The Artist-No Nothing laeking2 Well, should
say there was! It's joan OF Are-its q ronadasl
Here's your portrait, finished for the ex-
hibition."
sWhy, what in the, you've made me
look precisely like NJ. Grevy!" ),
"Um! That's SO they couldn't refuse 10 ad-.
NIT my picture"
At the studio OF painter Of the natural
ist" school. Picture on the easel represents
horrible mass of entrails
ugh! You've painted nothing but boWels!'
sPreciseIy: it's an interior, you know
An infiriated gentleman is going into
commissions before a life-sized painting OF
} lovely female, in recumbent attitude, and
absolutely undraped. a,
, "Thundering Jove! Do my eyes deceive
me5 No. It is a portrait of my wife. Oh-hr,
.Calm yourself, my friend, beg you.
didn't have time to put clothes on her. I
J should have been too late for the e1hIpiUon .
At a visit to sick chamber: ~.
"You have suffered much, my poor friend?'
II should say had. It was pneumonia"
aAnd where the devil can 1t have come
. from?"