The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1885-02-21

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groom in elegant livery presented
himself at her house =
Give bouquets of twenty francs
each for Madame the Baroness of
x" And one of the highest
names of the metropolis hattered
the ear of the fower-girl.
Madame, the baroness, will send
for these bouquets" added the
groom, "and you will send the bill
tomorrow to her hotel"
Half an hour after, the bouquets
We're finished just as another groom
in livery entered the store =
Give bouquets for Madame, the
Countess of h, who will send
for them this evening"
every WELL" said the delighted
flower merchant. And she already
counted her profits while arranging
the flowers. An hour after came a
third order for Madame the Mar
chioness of v: fourth for
Madame the Duchess of K;
and so ON, until the enchanted bou-
quetiere had added to her list of
customers ten of the first names of
Paris. "Goodm said she, to herself,
"a thousand francs to-day Now 1
can afford IL handsome bouquet to
take with me to masked ball
AT midnight she repaired to the
opera house with light heart. But
what was her surprise, upon enter
ing the room, to behold her fifty
bouquets in the hands of fifty domi-
noes.
"Good Heavenw thought she, re-
coiling a step or two, ''all the great
ladies of Paris are at the ball to-
night"
But she very soon discovered, to
her great dismay, that the great
ladies" were little grisettes, and a
sad presentiment flashed across her
mind while they gathered in a circle
around her. Each grisctte was at
tended by cavalier, and the poor
florist found herself subjected to
the seyerest ridicule. Alone, in the
midst of hundred adversaries, she
believed the whole ball to be in
league against her, and she vainly
sought an opportunity to retire. For
an hour she was forced to remain, a
mark for the most cutting sarcasms,
and was on the point of losing her
reason, when she managed to escape.
Returned home half dead with
fright, she sent her bills next morn
ing to the ladies who were supposed
to have sent the orders of the day
before. But. alas the same answer
was returned at the ten hotels: "We
have ordered no bouquets"
"Oh! | have been horribly cheat
ed, cried the poor girl, in utter dcs-
pair. And ten notes, which she that
moment received by post, confirmed
the terrible truth -
"If madame said each epistle,
wishes to know the persons whom
she gratilied yesterday, with fifty
bouquets, she can see them on Sat
urday, at the opera, in the first ten
balcony boxes to the right"
The retaliation was as complete as
it was merited, and the chagrincd
bouquetierc clearly recognized her
dupes of the past year
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CREMArIoN.-The feeling is grow
ing that the best disposition of the
dead is to burn their bodies. As ed
ueated people know, the process Of
decomposition is really slow com
bustion. We are burnt up in anv
event; but in ordinary interment the
decay Is accompanied by the genera
ton of worms, and the dead flesh
becomes offensive and poisonous.
lncineration by man is natures pro-
cess improved. An argument for the
burning of the body that is of great
force, is the danger to the living from
ordinary burial. In 1854, the yiru-
lencc of the colera in London was
greatly aggravated by cutting Il via
duct through an old battle-ground.
The plague broke out in Modena,
Italy, in 1898. which resulted from
disturbing the ground where victims
of the plague had been buried BOO
years before. 1t is believed that
every cemetery contains the seeds Of
Yirulent diseases, which may reap
pear thousands of years hence by
being thus carefully preserved. In
recent years we have discovered that
foul disorders are propagated in the
human body by microbes, fungus