The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-05-25

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1t had been found at the establish
ment of an old lapidary, and in the
whim or the moment was purchased
by one of Nine. Du Barry's host of adj
mirers and by him presented to her.
There appeared upon it, below the
surface, and as If under water; an out
line as of picture containing shuman
ngures. Strange to relate, when first
the gem was given to its afterward
unfortunate possessor this outline was
not clear, but after it had been some
months in her possession it grew more
vivid
This was possibly the result of the
many polishings to which IL was sub
Jected by various hands in the hope
of ascertaining the nature of the gem
one day the negro boy, Lamor, who
was afterward instrumental, from re-
Venge, in the downfall of the Du Bar
~. declared, looking at the jewel that
he could decipher the figure of a wo-
man with dishevelled hair leaning be-
fore scaffold and surrounded by
crowd, while beside her stood the ex-
ecutioner.
A strange but authenticated circum-
stance is that the negro servant boy
precisely described the guillotin. DR.
Guillotine had not then invented his
celebrated instrument of death, nor
had the horrors of the Revolution be-
gun.
Snatching the jewel from the hand
of the servant, Nine. Du Barry ex-
amined it, saw the kneeling woman,
the angry crowd, the death knife fall
ing, and, with a cry of agony fell
Senseless to the floor
In the possession of the first Napo-
leon was a beautiful agate which
served as a paper-weight upon his
writing desk 1t is related that one
full fef Do,
up the agate, and. turning it around,
exclaimed. See, Napoleon, there is the
word 'Esilio!'" The word "esilio'' is
the Italian for exile.
Napoleon, always a superstitious
man, looked at the stone. and as he
deciphered the fatal word outlined in
its veins, grew pale.
Without comment he dropped the
agate into the pocket of his coat.
Nothing further was said at the time,
but gossip declared that Napoleon aft
erward attempted to break the agate
and so discover whether or not any
audacious hand had succeeded in trac-
ing the fatal word.
He found that it was a natural, not
an artificial tracing.
BY taking unto himself fourth wife
at the sedate age of 104 years, says the
New York World. Mr.. Townsend Miller
of jamaica, adds valuable data for
poets and sages who seek to fix loves
age limits-if It has them.
The poet Stedman, one of those en-
gagged in this inquiry, records in his
charming verses "Toujoura Amour
that Miss "Dimple Chin of three,
when asked Eat what age does love be-
gn?" replied, Ills so long 1 can't re-
member" and babe him ASK some
younger lass than IT, Cid "Grizzled-
Face" in conversation with the poet
was equally positive that he had not
reached the limit in the other diree-
ton:
Youth may PASS and strength may die
But of love 1 can't foI etoken;
Ask sore older sage than l!
AS it is unlikely that Mr.. "Grizzled-
Face" was anything like 104 years old
Mr.. Miller's example will strengthen
the suspicion that the age limit of love
is a chronological Mrs. 'Arris" and
that there amt no SIGH a thing"
One of the American commissioners
to the Paris exposition scouts the idea
that American women travelling abroad
require chaperones. Whatever the
conventions of society may demand"
he says, the American gentlewonan,
even though she is budding into wo-
manhood, is perfectly able to take care
of herself abroad in conditions which
to the woman of the continent demand
a chaperon.
Il was coming down the Rue des Ma
tions one day, when 1 noticed a par
ticularly good looking and well-dressed
American girl sitting upon one of the
iron chairs that were placed every
where aobut the grounds. She was
drawing pictures in the gravel with her
parasol. looking at no one and not
striving in any way to attract atten-
ton. I observed a Frenchman of the
Boni de Castellane type cycling her and
/ fingered, being Just curious enough
to desire to see what would happen.
Discovering that she was unaccom-
panied, he approached with a polite
ness so exaggerated that it was inso-
lence, made her a low bow.
"She eyed him calmly, and not
muscle of her face moved. The broad
and silly compliments he began to pay
her were received with the same stony
stare. Slowly she unclasped her pock-
etbook and searching among her
change, took out cinque centimes, or
one penny, and gravely handed it to
him. as though she mistook him for a
heggar asking aims.
oh, non, non, Mademoiselle,' he
exclaimed, flushing. Thereupon she
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drawing pictures in the gravel again as
if the incident had already passed out
of her mind. The disconnected French
man could not get away fast enough"
Over a hundred years ago Josephine
Beauharnais, Empress of the French,
wrote this description of her birthplace
on the island of Martinique-wordsI
which bear an added interest now
Nature, rich and sumptuous, has
covered with a carpeting which charms
of its objects. She has strewn the
hanks of our rivers with flowers and
has painted the freshest forests around
our fertile borders. I cannot resist the
temptation to breathe in the pure arU-
matte odors waited on the zepnyr's
wings. 1 love to hide myself in the
green woods that skirt our dwelling
There 1 tread on the flowers, which
exhale a perfume as Itch as that of
the orange grove and more grateful to
the senses"
It is odd how some trivial remark,
without any particular relevancy. will
find a niche in our memory, and re-
main there for long years after really !
important conversations are entirely
forgotten. says the New York Tribune. |
Almost all of us can recall such chance |
sayings made by some one of our eld- |
ers dong since dead probably, that we |
remember as wildly as If ii were of re- |
cent occurrence. Occasionally these |