The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1883-02-12
LONDON GOSSIP.
DY FIANEUR.)

by FI.ANEUR.)
So Prince Krapotkin once more
finds himself in d,,rance vile. Since
his arrest at Thonon, his wife has
been seized with nervous attack.
The gaolers must not go to sleep, or
the famous Nihilist chief may escape
from their grasp as he did in Russia.
The police say they have damning
evidence against him. If they are
not mistaken, the Prince has been
preaching dynamite both in Paris
aud London under Il false name.
Talking of Krapotkin reminds me
Of good story about Mazzini.
While the notorious Italian agitator
was in London, he went out one day
with an English friend and bought
lot of rusty old swords and pistols.
"What OH earth are you going to do
with them?" asked the Britisher.
''Nothing at ALL" replied Mazzini
"only when the police hear Of my
purchase, kilograms will be sent
everywhere, and not king or queen
will sleep quietly tonight" And
the Italian chuckled. e s-.. t - .
The latest news from Egypt in the
French papers, is that Lord Dufferin
has found fault with the corps dw
bullet of the .khediye for not being
Sufficiently dressed"
What scare in the fashionable of
Paris, has followed the publication
of the first volume of the Memoirs
of the Comtc Horace de Vicl-Castel! !
And no wonder, seeing the piquant
revelations about distinguished FAM
lilies in which the book abounds.
The Comte, regardless of all sense
of propricty, has divulgcd the Sc
crets of the alcovc of everybody
whom he came across in. the course
of his long career. Nothing is hid
den, everything is put down, in plain
black and white, with the names and
weights and colors of the riders.
The Comte died in 1864, leaving
an unmarried daughter, a son who
died suddenly short time ago, and
n brother, who is one of the immor-
tails of the Academy. How the
famous memoirs came to be pub
lished is not yet clear. The family
say it was against their will. The
manuscript, according to one report,
got into the hands of a certain young
lady who had been OH intimate terms
with the deceased. She showed it to
several Paris publishers, but they
declined it on the ground of the
compromising disclosures it contain-
ed. So she went to Geneva, where
she was more successful The first
volume left the press the other day,
and five hundred copies were sent
over to Paris. 1t is said the me-
moirs are copious enongl to make
sixteen volumes "a so,gp
Shortly after it had appeared in
the French capital, the police seized
it, but nearly all the copies had been
sold, and fabulous prices were offer
ed for a glance at it.
| / have had the luck to see tho
coveted book. 1t is indeed an extra,
ordinary one, and will set the scan
dal-mongers going right and left. l,
contains some harse Judgments OF
men pas and present.
For example, talking about tht
political event of 1851, the count
calls M. de Turgot N, lea. .toutre
and Lamartine IN cieun .fou, and
includes Girardin among les larron'
dc la presse.
But these are not the parts tha
tout P0ris are gossiping about
What they are taken up with All
the amatory indiscretions revealed
Persons who have hitherto passed a
saints, are, if the mechant count i
to he believed, found to be no bet
ter than they ought to be-" i can
not mention names, it would not b.
proper, and might be llbellous; bu
l may say that well-known stars 0
the yyaNd monde are included j