The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-06-02
Sketch of Gambetta Out of Power.

Coming from the Chamber [ saw M.
Gambetta on the bridge opposite the
Palais Bourbon, urging his portly person
against wind which churned the
Seine into a whirlpool, and made most
pedestrians clutch their hats despairingly.
The great man has grown old with
almost alarming rapidity, but not since
his fall. On the contrary, it is only
from the moment of his departure from
power that his eyes have frightened and
his step has grown comparatively light
His face is flushed, and his eyes are
sunken, not as a reliable informant who
was with me when he passed told me,
i because of dissipation, bit because of
overwork. Never man toiled as Gam
beta toiled for twelve or fourteen weeks
previous to his resignation. His doctor
gave him the choice to die OF to stop
work, and before he was compelled to
admit publicly that his physical energies
were tagging came the political crisis
which gave him repose. He went down
to the Chamber ON the day that / saw
him with the air of man who still had
an important place there, and observed
that hats were DOTTED on all sides as he
went along. Wicked De Blowitz, the
Paris correspondent of the London
Times, says that Gambetta still keeps
the tri-colOred cockade, which belongs
to the Prime Minister'S equipage, upon
his coachman's hat, which if true, might
be considered as an indication of great
expectations. Gambetta is more fire.
quently seen in public-at the theater,
in society-now that the strain of his
labor is relaxed. He is now visible in
box at the Francois, now heard Of at
dinner party where the company is bril-
liant and gay. He is not man of the
world" once said General Galliffet of
him; she can not boast of tenue, but he
can say neat thing; from his. corner of
sofa after dinner he sometimes sends
forth fight of witty and caustic say
ings, sure to be long remembered.
Every one who has heard him In the
tribune knows what remarkable faculty
he possesses for crushing an adversary
with a sharp retort, which stings for
many days.-Paris Correspondence.
Cinnamon In Australia Bargaining for
Wives.
A Chinaman, when anxious to have a
wife of his own nation, says the North
China Herald, sends letter to an agent
in Hong Kong. A reporter has one of
these epistles, hut it is practically i'm
possible to translate it into English.
The following is a condensed transla-
ton: 81 want a wife. She must be a
maiden under 20 years of age, and must
not have left her fathers house. She
must also have never read a book, and
her eyelashes must be half an inch in
length. Her teeth must be as spas'kling
as the pearls of Ceylon. Her breath
must be like unto the scents Of the mag
nificent groves of Java, and her attire
must be from the silken weavers of Ka-
Lii Ching, which are on the banks OF the
greatest river in the world--the over
flowing se-Kiang. The Price OF
a Chinese woman delivered in Sydney Is
e38. but two Chinese women only cost
e52: therefore the heather Chinese i'm
mort the women in couples. TIE i'm
norter never sees his women until they
arrive. and then he generally selects The
best looking one. The other is shown
around to a number of vel tO-do
Chinese, and after they have inspected
her, she is submitted to what may be
called public auction. The writer hap
pened to be present at one of these sales.
A young girl aged about nineteen was
offered, and after some spirited bidding
she was purchased by wealthy Chinese
storekeeper, whose place of business IS
in one of the leading towns Of New South
Wales. for e120. The deeply melan-
choly aspect of the Celestial girl as she
went away in company with the man
who purchased her was deplorable to the
last degree.