Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1884-11-02

ME, wnethef IN politics, science, literature
or art; the share he took in this or that af-
fair; bow he became celebrated; his last
illness and his death.
Certainly have seen il.
The next day the anecdotical article ap-
pears: the manias of the man-his oddities,
sayings, and everything Of that kind"
Just so.
well, in the third, with an account Of
the funeral, comes in higher style a pane
gyric or the reverse. One speaks Of the in
huenee he has had in his day, and the arti-
Gle finishes with few details Of his life
only known before to his most intimate
friends. That's the sort Of thing, is it not"
Exactly"
well, has il never struck you how rap
idly these articles must have beer worked
up and thrown OFF,
II must say that nave always looked
upon them as real toW' de force"
"Ah, but you were only half right; there
is good deal of tour, but very little force"
How"
well, these articles which strike you as
perfect specimens of French facility are i'm
promptus worked up at leisure like those Of
MascariIie; they are prepared months
years beforehand. ~
Madame, could not doubt anything
coming from q mouth so charming as yours,
but l may be permitted to express my sur
prise?
Express all the surprise that pleases
you"
"How can it be that"
"Wait; prefer to give you an explans-
ton Of the whole thing. | know it all from
beginning to end. As have told you, my
husband is a necrologist; and this is how
he sets about it. 1t is, | must allo%, some
what complicated
That | can readily believe
"Whsn the 'Dictionnaire Yapereau' ap.
peared my husband at once saw there was
anime of wealth in it. He took out all the
summaries OF those who had reached fifty
years, pigeon-ho!ed them, and posted them
up from day to day.
But how ingenious
Each time he came across a fact, de
tail a pun even, relating to one of these
celebrities, it WAS added in its proper place;
and directly any of them fell i'll, my hus-
band took care that his account was posted
up to the very day.
Capital! capital.
And il was by this that Monsieur Guizot
was so complete because he had threatened
seyeral'times 70 have done with life, and
that was why, as told you, his was such
good death.
"Ol course. ! see now And which are
the bad deaths, will you tell me?'
why, those who die without beat OF
drum or sound Of trumpes NJ. Beule, now,
went OIL without saying as much as look
out so he had to wait eight days through
not being posted Up.
is it indiscreet to ask for which paper
your husband works
"But for all Of them.
How can that be?
Without doubt all the neurological arti-
cles are By my husband; he varies them &C,
coriing 10 the opinion OF the paper. He
wrote four Guizot articles; Que for the Con
serya,iye paper one for the Radical, one for
the Liberal and one for the Liberation
sentative.
What happy idea,
AYES; and he wrote nth for The Bona
partist papers.
us your husband the only one who doe
this sort Of work.
Alas no; he has several rivals, although
none Of them have the material my husband
has to work from
HE must make good thing out of it
"Ah, ifthere was no dead season, then
"But there is always little current flow
ing, isn't there?"
THE Academic FRANCHISE and the In,
stitut-yes; but they are far from being all
profit.
"Whyg
"Ob, there are so few of them celebrated"
OtcourSe. | had not thought of that y
"To say nothing of there being so many
quite unsympathetic and then there is
so much i'll luck. Bazaine, for example;
he ought to have broken his neck hundred
times If once: but no-come what NAV, Ba-
zaine always fails on his feet.
May ask if this interesting profession
was your husbands discovery.
"Well, not quite; the real discoverer. the
inventor, as VI de Fay would say, was Jules
Lecomte. the chronicler. When Rachel,
with q weak lung, was sent by the doctors
to Cannes, Lecomte thought she would not
return, and he prepared his article. The
South of France doing nothing for her, the
great tragedienue was sent to Egypt. Jules
LeComte continued polishing up his me-
moir. At last she died, and Lecompte
who was one Of the first to hear Of her death
took his article off to the Figaro, then but
small paper. NJ. de Eiliemessant caught
at it at once-he never wanted telling
twice-out came the till, and Lecompte re-
ceived 500 francs. Jouvin said to Murger,
NV father-in-law is mad And Villemot,
who WAS then getting but 100 francs a
month at the Figaro shriked, Jules Lee
comte, the rufianr
well the Figaro struck off 20, 900 copies
Nobody could believe in such success
Ny husband, who was friend of old Breg-
and, the porter at the Figaro Office, had the
story from him, and directly thought that
something was to be made out OF it; so he
left the tin trade, which had offered him
very limited horizon. and commenced at
once his present profession, which is now
really paving concern
81 can easily believe it. And have you
any good deaths in your eye at PRESENT.
"Three or four; but, you know, with this
sort of people one can never count with GER
tainty on anything; great men are so bizar-i
resi-
"But genius has its prerogative."
"Ies; | don't say to the contrary; only,
you'll allow it must be tiresome
We had Just reached Trouville The
lady prepared to get out, took her little
bag, her en- tout cas-, her rug, and her
cloak, on which she threw glance of dis.
satisfaction; and then meeting my eye, aud
miStakIng the look she saw there, she said
ut is my waterproof you are noticing
All! if N. Theirs had consented not to hang
on so obshnately this winter | should have
had fur cloak before now"
Well she has fur cloak by this time
Temple Bar.
Gold Nuggets.
The largest gold nuggets ever found we're
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