The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-07-17

peer, one of The most famous sportsmen
of his day, was deprived of his commission
as a colonel of militia for having ventured
to appear on parade and to receive his regi-
ment's salute with an improper character
it was thus that she was officially described
on his arm.
Shortly after this event the earl in ques-
ton, annoyed by the unpleasantness to
which he had been subjected on her account,
intimated to the lady that their intimacy
was at an end, and presented her with a
sum of 10000 as a parting gift.
1t was by means Of these 10000 that she
was subsequently enabled to the mar
riage which later on brought her a title but
not consideration, for she advanced tho
money to the official in question at a mo-
ment when assistance of hat kline WAS alb
~solutely necessary to save him from ruin,
and, being aware of the exact value of his
pledged word. insisted on taking his name
before the altar or the registrar, | forget
which-as a kind Of collateral security.
| doubt if there is any private man of
leisure and fortune in the world who sub
scribes SO largely to newspapers and peri
odicals of every class and language as the
Duke of Portland. His newsdealer's bill
amounts to close upon $4,000 per annum.
He commenced this fad about four years
ago, and every paper and periodical re
ceived since that time has been carefully
filed, catalogued, bound and stored in one
of his country seats i'll Scotland.
Two persons met the other day at Paris.
in the Jardin des Tuileries. who passed one
another as if perfect strangers, notwith-
standing the fact that in former times
their relations had been of the most con
tidential and intimate character. The one
was the ex-Empress Eugene, who had
come to visit the gardens through which
she had strolled so often in happier and
more glorious times.
The other wasthe ex-bishop who up to the
fall of Sedan was her private chaplain, her
father confessor and her lord high almoner.
The rank which he held, both in and out of
tho church, In the days of the empire NAV
be estimated by the fact that of ali the
French prelates it was he who was chosen
to pronounce the blessing of the Christian
church and to celebrate mass at the open
ing ceremony of the Suez canal.
The choice was all the more peculiar in
asmuch ~ he was Il Jew by birth and the
brother of the well-kn0wn Hebrew banker,
ignatius Bauer, who represents the house
of kothschild in Madrid.
MonsciQneur Bauer owed his position at
court and his influence over the empress to
the interest exerted in his behalf bv Napo-
leon Ills mother-ln-law, the old Comtesse
de Nontijo.
lntrigues with ladies, however, brought
about his ecclesiastical disgrace after the
fall of the empire. He was uufrocked, re-
verted to the Jewish faith and is now one
of the most amusing and ribaid of viveura
who haunt the demi-monde of the French
capital.
Among those who called at the Hotel Con
tlnental to lnscrlbe their names on the visit
ing book of the "ComtesBe dc Picrrefond5''
tho name by which the Empress Eupnnio
was known during her recent stay in PARIS,
was Arthur Meyer, now one of tie aiming
lights Of the Fnubourg st. German, and
mentor of princes, besides beng the dir