The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1880-06-18
Sara Bernhardts Whims.

When Sara Brenhardt left the convent
it is recorded in The Theatres of Paris,
she hesitated between being nun or an
actress. When she was at last an actress,
and perhaps the most notorious in
France, she suddenly felt that she had
missed her vocation, and that she was
really intended for a sculptor. She
called for the modelling clay and the
tools of the trade !; she took few les
sons, and at the annual art exhibitions
since she has exhibited various pieces of
sculpture of varying merit-not as anna
teurish and quite as startling as one
might expect. Her latest attempt was
statute for M. Garnier's new Opera
House at Monaco, which that clear
sighted architect peremptorily rejected.
She passes all her days in her studio
when she is not rehearsing or riding rap
idly on horseback; but already, in spite
of her success as a sculptor, has she
turned her ever-restless intellect to the
sister art of painting.
In all this there is certain SAVIOR OF
merely meretricious sensationalism. The
very thinness of which Mile. Bern
hardt complains is sometimes exagge-
rated w1llfully by the costume she
chooses, and gloves too full are deliber-
ately wrinkled along the arms to increase
the attenuated impression. In all the
recklessness of character, in the sudden
freak for sculpture and painting, in the
balloon trips described by herself at
length in volume profusely illustrated
by M. Clairin, in the hastily dictated ar
ticles contributed to newspaper, in the
eccentric caprices which give rise to
strange tales of skeleton in her studio,
and of coffin in which she sleeps, in the
willingness to sacrifice to the impulse of
the moment the demands of art, which
must be steadily sought and long wooed
ere it be won-in all this there is evil
dence of conscious self-advertisemen
not to say a distinct trance of charlatanry.
WHY Hrs FINE Was REMITTED.-T
is good story told about town, in which
Governor Blackburn figures quite prom
inently. A Marysville saloon-keeper,
Martin Grimes, was fined $3.50 at a re-
cent term of the Criminal Court for
keeping a pool table, on which he al
lowed minors to play, in violation of a
city ordinance. Martin was Federal
soldier, and lost leg in the service of
his country. He has supplied the miss
| ing member by a cork imitation, which
| is SO perfect that none but intimate
| friends know that he is MANNED. Acting
under the advice of his lawyer, Martin
| visited Frankfort to appeal in person to
| the Governor for a remission of his fine.
Before going to the Governors mansion
he unscrewed his cork leg and left it in
| the care of friend, and with cane and
crutch hobbled into the Gubernatorial
presence. He told his story, showed his
honorable discharge from the army 'sfor
| wounds received on the field of battle" "
and was reading long list of names Of
| distinguished Marysvillians appended to
| his petition for remission, when Mrs.
Blackburn entered the room. Discover
| ing that her husband and the one-legged
| man were discussing business matters
she apologized and started to leave the
room through door at the time closed.
Martin Grimes is shrewd sort of fellow,
and witbal something of cavalier.
With none of the grace of a Chesterfield,
but with all the instructive politeness
which courtier shows his queen, he
hobbled to the door, and with Louis
XIV. grace swung it open for the wife of
the Governor to pass out. DR.. Black
burn noted this, and as Martin hobbled
back to the table, rose to his feet,
grasped the old soldiers hand and cried
enthusiastically, "Grimes, shall cer-
tainly remit your fine, and my only
regret is that have not the power to re-
NIT the Commonwealth Attorneys fees
also. - Corr. Courier-J Journal.