The North-Eastern Weekly Gazette. — 1888-09-22 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

ORDINARY. they seem to have awakened to a sense of the evils attending it. Lady Blessington having been made aware of No wonder, then, that all scientists should the extraordinary aptitude for divination peacondemn tee marriage of the Duke of Aosta with seined by Millie. le Normand, begged her at the Princess Letitia Bonaparte, such close con- close of the evening to give a sample of her sanguinity existing between them. This alliance powers. She demurred at first, but on being is the more to be wondered at, as it is contracted strongly urged consented to tell three fortunes, with tbe avowed object of providing an heir to Lady lelessington brought three gentlemen to her the Italian throne, in the event of the demise of in succession. To the first she 'mid : "Your life will be a lucky and a happy one; you will die old, E ing Humbert's son and presumptive successor, who is of delicate health. and without pain. On one occasion you and one As regards the Italian Revel house, a late of your children will miraculously escape destrucinstance of the kind was the "deceased Duke of Son." To the second she spoke as follows "It Geroa (father of that beauty, Queen Margherits), seems incredible, but I would address you in the who, however much he may have endeavoured to words of Shakespeare, 'Thou shalt be kieg conceal his physical defects, was as true a hunch- Yea, sir, you will reign." But a' ter gazing in the back as capricious Nature ever moulded. This palm of the third the ermine eirl grew deadly hereditary deformity manifests itself inter- pale, shivered, and dropped the hand she held. mittently. One or two generations of well - Recovering herself with an effort, she said hurproportioned children were born into the world, riedly : I see nothing worth recording in; your and then, lo! so some poor hunchbacked little hand," and drew back. However, before leaving creature appears. Thus it will be understood the the house that night she asked to see Lady Bloc. birth of a Prince or Princess of the Royal house I sington alone, and implored her to beware of that of Savoy is always a matter of great anxiety third stranger, and not receive him riny more. among the members of the family. "He will commit murder,"she edded,shudderingly, , hing Humbert married his first cousin, and "and be sentenced to death." The first of the three that even was too close an alliance to be ad. men was Charles Dickens, who, in 1864, retroming visable. The germs of insanity do not appear from abroad, was in the terrible railway accident to have crept as yet into the Royal house of at Staplehurst, and escaped unhurt, alterwarde Savoy, but the latter, like other reigning families, the M. of "Our Mutual -Friend," the child of hi has its hereditary aftliction, and a terrible one it brain, was found in a little handbag among e is. 'From time to time a hunchback son or debris, and miraculously returned to him . daughter is born to the Italian Princes. In the harmed. The second • man was Prince Loin,. - unitary there was a hunchbacked Duke Napoleon, who heed; not long before made his ee, of whom Brantenne tells divers lively escape from the "fortress of Ham in the disguise eectotes ; the Princess this Duke married was of a workman, gained the Belgian frontier with a hunchback also, and their descendants have the assistance of Doctor Conneau, and taken °Mime been similaily deformed. By-the-bye, a refuge in England. The third was Charles natural SOD of the Duke referred to, born crooked Wainwright, then a promising painter, who him his hither, is said to have boldly takes the ended by killing his wifo tinder circumstances of nom of Bolin (Huochbook), and the game here. 'revolting cruelty; he was condemned to death, peculiarity wee long observed among the but his sentence was commuted to imprisonment , who, till our those, were one of the for ,life.—" Reenom RECOLLECTIONS Or COURTS families of Savoy.