Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1880-09-02


shipped 10 the country of the CARDS
There these red or blue gauzes. that have
| adorned the whitest shoulders in the
world, perform similar duty tor the
| bsckest Every one knows that the
! Carbs have passion for transparent
tissues. Tue Warehouses is coming
| fortune out of her speculation.
! The Vjscount de Polly, that club man
| OF renown, whose dog.csrt and high.step
| ping Grsy the modest promensder may see
! every day in The Avenue du Bots dc B1u.
! lOgne hit upon q speculation still more
! curious, The story is Incredible bu, strict
! ly true, One day last month the Viscount,
| who had dropped 3 good deal of money al
| his club and ut the races, wss looking over
! his pspCrs. He came upon the plan of $
| superb mOnument-the new family tomb
OF the De Poillvs, constructed in the
! Cemetery of Pege Ia Chaise by an uncle
who thus far had its gorgeousness all to
himself. The young man had never seen
| il.
"But this belongs 10 me-" he cried, as
he restored the plan of the architect To Its
place among the other papers; this
monument is a part Of my inheritance;
suppose we 60 and have look at H."
He went. When he left the city OF the
dead--one OF the curi0sities OF Europe by
the way "a queer p.Gject was buzziug IN
his he.d. Some hours later IN the day he
was clJsetei with q wellkncwn money.
| lender.
"Will you sell for me my family tomb?'
he asked. The plot alone cost $4,000
| francs 1t is in the best part part OF the
| cemetery. The structure cost 60 600 francs
| There is only one of us-my uncle, who
| had the thing put up The condition OF
the sale is that his ashes shall not be dis.
| lurbed. There must be rich fellows in
| Paris, you know, who want family tomb.
| Does it strike your"
The mOuey-lender, who scented in this
affair possible repayment OF the sums he
| had lent to the VisCount, and snug COM
mission TO boot jumped at the PROPOSE.
! ton. He found at the Hotel Continental
| a brave Brazilian, fresh from Rio, rich US
a Jew, and greatly embarrassed for the
moment by iDcOnslderate conduct OF a
relative who had died in the hotel. The
| csc 1tcheoned tomb daZzled in the Brazil
lan's fancy, the bargain was closed, and
an ex merchant OF hides now reposes by
| the side OF the uncle OF NJ. the Vlscount
| Polly.
| From the celestial heights where he
! doubtless rests from his labors, NJ, Guiz)t
must note with satisfaction how faithfully
| the present generation is following out
! the programme he laid down when he
was First Minister of Louis Philippe:
| "Get rich - Every body in high society
! Is trying now to make money. That
would not be such a bad thing if society
did not play the hypocrite about it, did
not lie about it, did not feel false shame
about it--not the money itself, but the
getting it.
o. course there are great and Inning
exceptions. 1t is no part of my purpose
to throw fidicule on noblemen who have
won deserved distinction as manufsc-
turers, engineers or cattle breeders. The
people honor them, and rightly, But is 1t
| not laughsble 10 see people who made
their money yesterday, aplng the pride OF
! this aristOcrscy whose faded coats Of arms
they have reglded with the marriage p0r,
tOns of their daughters?
Nothing can paint the indignation OF
Madame the Countess de Ia Ferronays.
You must know that the Mayor of the
Eighth Acknowledgement of Paris took the
shocking liberty Of addressing to this
noble lady, as to al the other residents of
the d strict, q circular letter requesting
her TO illuminate her house on the evening
Of July II, in honor of the iete of the re-
public.
illuminate! Aud in honor OF the Re
| public The Countess gssped, shuddered,
| flushed, grew thoroughly angry, sat down
at her cost Y writing desk, and penned
reply to the Mayor which deserves to be
rescued from oblivion:
The shades Of our anCc stOrs, msssscred
by your Republic, would rise up before
! US to curse US.
And who were the ancestors of the
Countess de la Ferronays up to 1879?
Rude peasants, of the name of bert;
! toilers at the pillow, lsborIOus and setvile
| They enriched themselves in the shadow
of the Revolution. The grandfather of the
! great lady was clothier, her father an
| agent; she is Countess!
Are not these shoddy aristoCrsts as
! laughable as that avarCious MARQUIS de
! TlllanCOurt, who secretly makes his own
| bargains in the fish market, or that Mar.
! chioness de Nrincourt who insists in
weighing all the meat brought into the
house with her own taudsg
This manner of doing ones own mar.
| keting is not as rare as il might be in the
| escutCheOned world. Count PItocki. the
mlIltonatrlssiDlus, who died last year, had
! it, So has Count Trimoli, Cardinal Bona.
| parties bro,her-in-lsw; his greatest pleas
! ure is 10 rausack the markets and return
! home loaded down with impossible mel,
| ons aud Brobdingnsgisn csbbsges
! | have In my mind a gentleman well
| known, victim of this mania, whose
msrketbasket, expressly made for him,
| was to all outward seeming handsomely
bound quarto. Everybody in his part Of
| Paris TOOK him for bIbIOphile, and there
ua fzlK of yF "a.