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OUT OF TWO WORLDS, '., OR…
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f PUBLISHED BY THE CONSKZgJ OF HER GBACIorS MAJESTY, THE QUEEN OF EOUMANIA] OUT OF TWO WORLDS, OR THE PRINCESS AND THE PROFESSOR. By Carmen Sylva pELIZA- CEXn, QUEEN OF ROUMAKIA). Griefswald, November, 18011. /oU thiiik I am angry ? 0h' no' darling. But that' it should end so, it shall end abruptly— immediately. You \V "hall remain struck in your pride, and it shall strengthen you. Your heart shall grow whole with it. r j J^ No, I am not angry, i/Aa'- then. I watch 'ik VvV through the winter f\ nights alone by the r! light of your little I'j lamp and worlr. Do fou remember, Ulika. when you looked at me quite puzzled, after you had bought the lamp, and sighed: Whatever do you do to make a thing like this burn ?" The Iweet little princess did not know that lamps require wicks; she thought they grew in them of their own accord. At night time I am not angry. How could I be before this lamp? But in the day time, when the stingy sun happens to shine And yet it is no anger, You cannot help it; no more can I. It is the lot of human nature, and, therefore, I endure it. We could not understand one another. The Whole chasm from man to man, which is, oh, ever am much wider than between man and the brute, lay between us. I knew it ages ago, bat knowledge is of no use to him who is blinded by love. So I bear all the blame, and will bear it in silence all my life. What is your dreadful outbreak of sorrow oompared with my mute madness. I delight in your sorrowful words; the greater the longing, the sooner will your grief vanish. When years will have rolled by over the dteam of our marriage, they will soften your recollection; soon you will smile sadly at your own folly-and then you will be saved for yourself and your friends. Saved for what life is, and is intended to be for you — the monotonous uniformity of small joys and still smaller griefs. But I am in continual tonniot with it; I have done with every kind of oivil life; 1 shall remain here until spring, because I muat; then I shall go into the lands pn the other aide of the sea, where that is food which is evil here; where our absurd European notions are abolished. And when I tbea have learnt enough I shall step before my people and shall tell them what is rela- tively the easiest way of bearing life. But why guffer P No, I shall teach how I myself have found peace; the firm hope in the general and complete destruction of every- thing created; the new scientifically based oreed l But will they believe me, where the one did not even believe me who felt my w&vin breath when I spoke? Great God, what days ize beginning again She has deserted me. Yes, deserted. I wanted to philosophise it aw^v, but it is here again, the impotent rage of the first week. I have not been able to gain that over the woman whom I loved to distraotion She has saorificed me to public scandal. How I coold read it on the faces, of all, and, therefore, I drove them all away, except my old nurse. And now I have lent her away too! She ventured to say a word against my goddess! Although the old creature has carried me in her arms, yet she should not have ventured to do that. Against my Ulla ? No; if others say you have acted wickedly, yet I know that you did well in going away. Now the old house is quite forlorn, like it used to be-still more forlorn; the charm which animated it is dead. Sometimes I still seek it. Then I oreep quietly into the rooms npstairs. Unaired, unclean is everything; wild the objects lie confused which I did not tear and smash to pieces in the first hour of the dreadful awaken- ing. However did I survive it ? Now I am never angry any more! Past and gone! I had feen it coming. However could I be so terrfied? From the very first day of the wedding I tormented you with it. Why, I actually conjured it up! Do you remember, even already on the ship when we sailed out of the foggy country only to get buried here in the new 'tog ? Day and night I have sought to find in your face the resolve which you have now taken. You executed it very wisely; the bvidges between us are broken off, you will never see me again. 1 suppose the whole marriage was a torture to you? Only con- fess it. When we fell out for the first time in London and you had become my wife, no longer the free Ulla, my bride, then you gulled your red curls wildly in depair ? And When we spent the first day at home, I sup- pose yon atked me with a sinking heart, So this is the longed-for happiness!" And you had that miserable taste in your mouth as though the whole affair were only a nightmare? How the little town oppressed you; how you shrank from the well-intentioned confidences of the neighbours I felt it every time like a stab through my heart, for I read it better in you than you yourself were able. But then I became madder all the time in the devouring terror of seeing you unhappy, always more obstinate; and I dragged you into the tobacco amoke and beor-smell gf a public—I would never have dared to do it to another woman. I pre- tended that it did not disgust me. You fought with a fainting fit, yet your will was stronger than your body, but my boyish pbstinacy was stronger than everything. It seems as if I wanted to hear from you the insulting words, It I am a Royal child. I can- not do that," so that I might reproach you for the speech, and be able to nurse a grudge against you. You never said it, but I heard it. I heard it ceaselessly. I felt the oonde- scension of your manner. Your humility tortured me; I took it for irony. Yes, I cannot understand it, but it was so all the same. I aoted coarsely—and should always act 80 again. For 1 cannot bear that you should feel how much you have sacrificed fOr my s.ike. Ulla, Tjlla, • know that I am Vietoli and you an ang-1. but that is thai I reason why I become more hard-hearted all the time. Ah, if you had only done one wrong thing to me, and if it was not I who had done them every one how mild, how good should I be But you are unable to do anything wrong, at any rate not to me. 1 suppose, you know that you are quite free ? Do not be too proud to accept that at least from me, other- wise 1 shall commit suicide. Are your friends rejoicing ? Do you hear daily how right they were in saying that you would come home again in a year's time ? Shall I tell you now what your father said to me in Frankfort? Oh, I shall never tell you anything again, either orally or in writing. And there is no hereafter, no hope 1 Griefswald, December. You no longer write. One, two, three week's I waited; now I am satisfied. So I was a good doctor after all I You have over- come the worst time, and I -1 will only think of you Christmas is approaching In what noisy merriment did we seek to forget, a year aAo, that you had wept burning tears of home-sickness! I knew it well, Ulla, my darling; J had heardyou sobbing and pretended to be asleep. When the hour of dawn came you could not bear it; you at least wanted to hear an organ, since you could not gather the whole castle about your s'veet tones; you begged of me to hear Mass on Christmas morning. I was so willing to do it, but I believe at first I resented it, and brazened myself in unbelief. It was very beautiful,singu- larly beautiful. Yesterday I again went into the Church of St. Niobolas-only by mistake -but I could not bear it, perhaps because a terrible east wind was howling, and the church was so cold ? The other day, when I had not been to bed for a few days, like in the old time before the letters of Ulla at Horst-Ran- chenatein came into the Wallenstein-house, nothing could keep me in the room. When day dawned I went to the station—like the people of Spiessburg, who still convince them- selves daily of the fact that they now have a real railway-in order to see the early mail by which you fled. Two students met me there, and recognised me. They thereupon begged of me to preside in the evening at their supper party. The little captain's wife also came up to me; she was going home and in- quired after Her Serene Highness. I said i had just received a letter from my wife, of good news. Since then I have not been to the station. In the house everything is going to wrack and ruin; my attendant is as clumsy as I am where no wgman's hand putZl things in their places Ttrat pleases me very much every kind of destruction is beneficent to me. But I could no longer get angry never again, my spirit is all gone. How long is that to last ? January. I have burnt all my MSS. I now feel wonderfully well. The time approaches when I could get away, but I think I shall remain here. It is here that I saw you for the last time; here are a thousand objects which passed through your hands. Perhaps you ex- pected that I should send them to you ? But it is too late now, and 1 did not think about it at first. But no, I do not suppose you wanted them, for they did not oome from your castle I expeot it was intentionally that you went away in the dress in which you once quitted Ranchenstein. It was I who taught you to run away. Why need I have been surprised ? I have lived right through the whole winter on two hallucinations; the one was that you were coming back Every evening between five and six o'clock I heard the carriage drive up. I sat downstairs at my writing-table and did not move; stared, with my pen in my hand, at the blank sheet. The front door-the heavy door-against which both of us sometimes used to press at night for a joke when we had come back from the shore, by the road on the other side of the Ryk, past the Saline, over the heath, where other people never go Yes, you then quickly open the front door your- self. It is dark in the big hall, but you find the door in the recess; you have seen a light in my room through the shutters downstairs you fling open the door noiselessly, but I do not move yet. There I am 1" you exolaim, laughing, rejoicing like that time in Ragaz, where the lovely maid knew how many hours I had waited for her, up in the wood, only to lock her in my arms for one single moment. But sometimes, too, you say nothing; but you have embraced me, and your curls fall over my face. If it is past six I get up. "Not to- day—to-morrow, perhaps," I think. In the morning comes the other dream: I have really gone away, I have really gone away by the morning train. I come up into the castle. I do not ask the warder, none of the servants in the hall. I go past them all without a word, right up into your room, into which the linden twigs once stretched their blossoms. There you stand at the window, Come," I say, come," take you by your hand, and you follow. But I have destroyed the right to call you. And even if I were to do it, what would be the good ? The torture would begin anew, for I love you a thousandfold more wildly than ever. I have learnt nothing; we cannot understand one another. I love you madly, but I would rather kill you than live through the first year of our married life over again, with the consciousness of having made you unhappy. But kill you in the first hot em- brace. February. I am not goill2 away, noi, do J work any more; I have reached the conviction that I am unable to perform anything. My life is the image of my existence and my powers. It wanted to storm the heavens, and could not even crawl upon the earth. Everything was a hollow sham. All longing is destroyed by reality, and every- one is tied to it, even he who has imagined himself a demi-god. If I had not wished to enjoy, instead of denying myself, how many people could I not have served But what would have been the use even of the greatest achievement ? Nothing, and that is a great oonsolation, for 1 pay the tribute of humanity. Do you know what I often thought as I gazed at night from my bed at the stars That you and I have only existed figuratively, not really-that we were in reality only two heavenly bodies, who, according to the eternal laws of Nature, only collide to be dashed to pieces. When the heavenly bodies cross one another's path up above, in case they are not completely destroyed by the collision, they fly apart in opposite directions with such velocity that their orbits never meet again. Bit sometimes the one heavenly body destroys the other Ulla, and he continues to travel in his orbit calmly, while the weaker one sinks back into nothingness. I am proud of being this weaker body. But pride, too, is extinguished like everything else; like pain, despair, and madness. Only you were obliged to remain in the general destruction, since you originated out of the never-previously existing, thou Diana, who art become a Loreley to me. Greifswald, Feb. 16, 1865. A letter! A letter from you! From Ranchenatein I In the same firm hand- writing! With the same postmark! And you have onoe more written my name How did you feul, Loreley? How did you feel ? Ihd your lips twitch spasmodically, or did you press your lips upon on« another, and did your tine transparent nostrils tremble with rage a I took the letter and went upstairs into your boudoir, seated myself at the little black table, upon which still lay three Bologna glasses, which you were so fond of breaking in your hand in order to play with the glass dust! Have you broken many of them ? So you still concern yourself about my dust ? The year is not yet extinguished! Yes, your fairy tale is touching, like all fairy tales. They are eternal, for only that which has never existed is eternal! Child! no happiness of reality comes up to the imagination. My life begins to take a wonderful new form. I live with you I have forgotten that you were ever really here my house is peopled by you! Every book, every objeot, stands in closest relationship to you. Sometimes I ask you to hand me something. Then the long train of your dress rustles. You always wore very long dresses, but mostly silent ones. Do you remember how the people at the officers' ball admired you ? It is a year ago to-day. You were in pure white-.m pure white And I got furious when I saw you stepping into the big hall so Royally, for the fellows in uni- forms were squinting at yon, particularly the Pasewalk Cuirassiers, who had come over Oh, but in the dark velvet gown in the station when we ran to the Bodder, and not, like the other people, on to the overflowed meadows, so that no one should see you. Ulla Ulla! But do you ever think of the northern summer in Stubbenkammer ? But now I have you more than I ever had you, and you are set free Once again, you will write to me, when you would like to give your hand to another. And do you think I am afraid of that ? No, no, my beloved I believe on that day, on which you will righly long for your freedom, in order to give it away again, on that day I shall be the happiest of all mortals! Then I shall know that that is atoned for wherein I have sinned. Then I shall lay myself into my coflin, close my eyes, in which your sweet pioture dwells, and shall dream of you for ever. I am already doing that now—dreaming all the time; no longer thinking! I often also no longer see things clearly, and read the same book three times in succession. Only that to which I have long been accus- tomed can I still do mechanically. It is wonderful, dar!ing, how everything has died out, and only a soft, hazy dream remains. You are mine for ever, because I have lost you! (To be concluded next week.)
WHAT THE CHICAGO EXHIBITION…
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WHAT THE CHICAGO EXHIBITION SHOULD BE. By M. BARTHOLni.] A short while hence the United States will oilebrate the 400th anniversary if the discovery of America by Christopher Columbus, and I am asked to fitj what sort of an exhibition the American people should inaugurate to commemorate that eventful date. 1 am decidedly of opinion that, although the exhibition should be international in character, considerable prominence should be given to the national side of the show. America, which geologists believe to be the oldest portion of the globe we inhabit, is the youngest, or ono of the youngest, of discovered continents, and the advent of the United States among civi- lised nations imposes special attention. The year 1892 will be a memorable event in her history, and the exhibition should be planned, not to show the world at Chicago what he»- elders have already attempted elsewhere, but what four centuries have done to make the United States greater to-day than most of thli oldest countries on earth. Tho moment haa come for summing up four hun- dred years of time, wherein the United States has reached such a stage of prosperity that it oommands the respoot and admiration of the world. While oordially inviting the wholu world to contribute its usual exhibits, tho Chicago Fair should strive to be as perfectly represen- tative as possible of the country and the anniversary it commemorates. It if the United States as a nation and the entire American Continent that should be placed on exhibition. The main object to be kept in view, at I take it, should bit to set forth the development of the resources of the country, in order ultimately to enlist the investment of foreign oapital and to add to the population a wealthier olass of emigra- tion from abroad. It should be, in fact, the most majestically symbolic" American dis- play that the nation or the world ever has witnessed, and that is why Congress has done well to locate the show at an interior point. From that point of view no better oity than Chicago could have been selected. The largest in area, the second in population, reaohid by rail from every point, situated on one of the finest lakes in the world, with th« grandest hotels and buildings, the handsomest boulevards and parks, it is the city par eX- celknce for a such a pageant. Then, again, Chicago is a typical American ocntre. J he thought of holding a 400th anniversary in a oity of a million inabitants only half a century old i., in itself, an inspi- ration. It has, morever, plenty of room. There must be more open space at any future exhibition of any magnitude, if it ia to be enjoyed by the great mass of the public, and if it is to pay. And, as money makes the mare go, there is no fear of a collapse at Chicago. Paris pledged kl,600,000 to guaranty the success of her Exposition last year, and Chicago has already secured £ 11,000,000. They have pluck, money, and brains in th« Prairie City. and the success of the enter- prise need not be questioned for a moment. After a" battles of sites" no less aouLe than the one we had in Paris before the first ston«'- was laid, a site has at last been selected, not outside the city, for that would be alto- gether too distant as the place for the erec- tion of the necessary buildings of the exhibi- tion. The selection, so frfr as 1 can remem- ber. is an excellent one. There is amplw room, and the spot is easily accessible from all parts of the city. So far as the site is concerned, nothing could be better, and the only wonder is that it was not chosen at the outset. But the selection of a site is only a very small part of what remains to be done. The interest in this great enterprise is pronounoed, and the action of the commissioners is closely watched even on this side of the Atlantio. Progress will now, no doubt, be much more rapid, and aotual work must at once set in. I am told that the various agents and oommittees having in charge the task of enlisting interest and securing exhi- bits at home and from foreign countries report pleasing success, and these initiatory steps will soon crystallise into aotual results which may be chronicled as definite facts. The exhibition, as I say, should be tho- roughly representative of the whole American Continent and a veritable epitome of tho Republic. This is the more imperative as the United States has never been adequately represented at the great European exhibitions, and Americans will now be given an oppor- tunity to show the world what they can do, espeoiaily in tiw field of manufactures, agri- culture, and the sciences, and thus prove once more to all men that the United States are indeed, the Great Republic. Chicago has accented an enormous resppn- sibility. The American nation and foreign countries expeot that the World's Fair in that city shall not be second in interest to the Paris Exposition, and to fulfil this expectation she must make it beautiful. This assthetio feature I, as an artist, would especially insist upon. The general character of the show should be rendered evident rather by the manner in which objects are presented and brought into play than by their accumulation. I am apprehen- sive, in the rapidity with which the buildings are to be run up, that their decorative character may fall short of the wonder of their construction. At Philadelphia, during the Centennial Exhibition of 1876, I noticed that some of the side buildings were much morn interesting than the main building. Now, as Chicago will, no doubt, improve the occasion which is thus offered her by con- structing something intended to remain after the World's Fair has passed away, I should lilra to see an edifice rise from th3 ground which, while constructively perfect as it is sure to be will be truly grand in design and a credit to the country as regards internal ordination and external adornment. The educational effect of a structure of this kind can hardly be over-estimated. The American surpasses the European in general mechanism, but the senae of beauty has not yet been sufficiently cultivated in the national mind. Not that the artistic sense ia by any means wanting in the United States, but it is carelessly sacrificed to considerations whioh are wrongly held to be of more im, mediate concern. If, as I trust it may, the management is led to right reflection on this important subject, the United States may furnish to the world a more meritorious proof of her genius than she has ever before done, even in the faco of her unexamoled sooial and industrial development. I think that tho fact of loving art and seeking to encourage its taste in those em- ployed develops their artistic faculties, and there arc plenty of skilful hands in America capable of great things jf properly stimulated. As the Fair will be a celebration of tbo discovery of America, artists should be com missioned to make emblematio use of the, richly-romantic records of tin three Americas in their elaboration of decorative designs. They would soon discover undreamed of riches—a wealth of absolutely fresh material awaiting tho vitalising touch of art. Nor should the claims of men mord mythical or less prominent than Columbus, but no less heroic in the history of the dis- oovery of America, be altogether disre- garded in ths apotheosis of the great Genoese navigator. A section dedicated to the Norsemen, and the early voyagers, as well as those travellers who explored its in- land solitudes-the bold pioneers likeLasallo, who discovered the mouth of the Mississippi —might advantageously be introduced. This would in no way detract from the renown of Cbristopher and his brave crew. The Chinese are also credited with having reached th* shores of Americ1.,at a remote period. The claims of Columbus, however, rank pre-emi nent: and a special museum, including every objeot of interest, either in the original or facsimilear, must, of course, take precedence of the rest. I he house where he was born, the books, papers, portraits, letters, furniture, arms, and costumes relating to the great oap- tain and his family; the very chains with which he was loaded by Bobadilla in tho old Moorish tower at Santo Domingo will prove intensely attractive to Americans and foreigners alike. Lake Michigan might obviously be utilised to float a caravel modelled after the one which brought Columbus on his voyage to Amerioa. The antique civilisations of the South American Republics, with their temples, palaces, tombs, and habitations all the pre- historic relics of Peru, Yuoatan, and Central America, offer no end of motives for deoora- tive purposes; and the grounds might be embellished with monuments copied from th.) ruins still extant in Nicaragua and Mexioo. The history of old Colonial days, from the time of the Conquest until the Revolutionary period, is brimful of additional interest to everyone who may visit the Fair, and should tax the energies of the management to the utmost. Nothing better calculated to enlist the sympathy of foreigners or quicken the pulse of the rising generation in America could well be found than these mementoes of the nation's early annals, rendered doubly dear by age and present associations. The museums, as well as the many private collec- tions throughout the country, might be placid under contribution to make this portion of the show as complete as it deserves to be. As regards the more modern features of the Fair, instead of a mere huge bazaar, heaped with the miscellaneous contemporary produc- tions of all countries, I would have it to be a vast illustration of the historic progress of civilisation as shown in th« application of arts and science to the pursuits of peace. Collective industries from cities and towns rather than a multitude of individual exhibits would be far preferable, and these, as often as possible, pre- sented in a picturesque and an active form. And in this conneotiou I think the manage- ment should carefully guard against giving more prominence to one section of the country than to another. Each State or Territory should be fully represented, and as often as possible by what I might call living pic- tures. For instance, Chicago, the bustling Metropolis of the West, might be more typi- cally represented, perhaps, by a stupendous grain elevator, with its overseer and worliing hands ever ready, during exhibition hours, to offer demonstrative evidence of the manner in which grain is manipulated in such a building. Maine might be made fairly to figure by a taste- fully constructed log-house, showing in the rough the different kinds of timber rolled in her extensive forests. Virginia might be pictured by a Southern tobaoco factory; Texas by her cowboys; California by a ball scooped out of one of her giant trees, &c. The United States differ from most coun- tries in possessing considerable cities very widely discriminated by climate, latitude, and other conditions. Each of these great centres might select some special feature of its in. dustrial or agricultural wealth, or several of them, having a feature in common, might club together, in order to exemplify, by a living picture, either the produce or the manufactures giving local colour to their section of the country. What, for example, would be more interesting than different samples of the vine, with the fruit on the stalk, brought together in the same hot-house, from the various centres where that plant is grown in Ohie, Indiana, and California R An Indian village on the Indian territory a mammoth toboggan a house wherein everything is worked by electricity, from the opening of the door to the cooking of a dinner a glass tunnel under Lake Michigan—these and a hundred more are-so many side pictures that could not fail to add picturesqueness to an exhibition which, while intended to be inter- national, should include as many national features as possible. The history of human habitation at the Paris Exposition of 1889 was a good idea which might be adopted in a mcnlified form at the Chicago Fair. Why not construot a series of habitations illustrative of the rise and development of a large town in the United States? First comes the trapper, then the pioneer, then the railway, then the whisky booth, the log-house, the cottage, tfhe school, the church, and the use to which th|e.ivarious materials employed by man have beep put since the discovery of America -the rough wooden shanty, the old houtf* built of board in the Greoian style, the tim- ber-work as used in the first bridges; then th9 brick, stone, iron, and marble materials of more recent times; in fact, a regular show of constructions arranged chronologically, with the powerful means and implements employed by master builders of the period in works of magnitude, such as those used in the transport of houses, &c., might be fully illustrated in this conneotion. Many a visitor from this side of the Atlantio would like to see petroleum pumped through long tubes, as is done at the springs, or witness the process by which gold in California is separated from the ore, and, instead of viewing a steam plough or thrash- ing machine in some lone corner, would much prefer to seethe machine at work in the open on some broad field specially set apart for the purpose, and life, in fact, imparted to as many dull instruments of the same class as the extent of the grounds will permit. It is to be hoped that the fine art section will be worthily representative of what America can do in that direction. This is usually the weakest point in any American display, not from any lack of talent, but because art is looked upon more as an object of luxury than of usefulness in every- day life. Independently of the con- tributions of American painters and sculptors, showing the progress made in that line by the United States during the past few years—decorative art-which ha3 made great strides of late, must be associated with such a show; as, for instance, the models made for industrial ornamental purposes, coloured glass windows, drawings, &c. Thct highest talent America possesses should be pressel into service, not only to design the bost arrangements or to construct the largest buildings, but to put into execu- tion what was only the dream of the Cen- tennial Exhibition at Philadelphia. To the United States the World's Fair, by bringing together her people so that each section shall know all the others, will be invaluable. In this way the feelings of jealousy between different States will be transmitted into simple rivalry of efforts collectively conducing to tho greater glory of the American Republic. Of course, the park will be ornamentally laid out with shrubs and flowers, but it might be improved by architectural pieces, statues, and waterworks, which would lend animation to the scene. A grand subject of this kind might be erected in the central portion of the grounds. As the midsummer heat may be too great for some to visit the place in the daytime, the Fair should also remain open after dark. Kxperience has shown that brightly illuminated gardens and building commanded far larger patronage from the publio than the more sober hours of daylight. To Americans, too, this class of evening feteS would be something new, and novelty always attracts a.; nothing else can do. The United States can with especial pro- priety call together the nations already repre- sented on her soil by millions of emigrants from all parts of the globe. Nowhere can concourse of this kind take place more naturally than among a people so strikingly cosmopolitan in origin. "All the world and his wife" may be said to have helped to redeem the broad surface of the American Continent; and, in inviting a visit from tbeif neighbours and the outside nations, all may well go to see by what methods and applianoe" -industrial, educational, and political—that unique achievement has been accomplished. The World's Fair at Chicago will be a further proof of the greatness of the Republic, of the colossal industry of Amerioa, of the extension and consolidation of its trade. Pro- tection has done much reoently to bring th* country into disfavour the Chicago Exhibi- tion will do far more to restore its prestige and to give it greater prominence in art, in- dustry, and science. From every part of the world the direction of travel will oonverge towards Chicago. Therefore, the harvest must be plentiful, for with the visitors will come millions of dollars that will remain behind after their original owners are departed and forgotten. France cannot do otherwise than take leading part in the rally at Chicago. America it will be remembered, was the only great country that participated officially in tfe" Parie Exhibition. Hence the hearty co- operation of Republican France, both officii and private, will be warmly granted to the Columbus quardri-centennial of 1893.
TRAGIC END OF A BAVARIAN NOBLEMAN.
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TRAGIC END OF A BAVARIAN NOBLEMAN. The Nice correspondent of the Standard says Rumours having been eirculaled of a rnystel iaue death at the Hotel Mentone, I have with solve difficulty arrived at the fncts, which discloS* another case of suicide arising out of losses nt the gambling tables of Monte Carlo. The strictest orders were given to c nceal the red nature the affair, and it was reported to be a case natural death, resulting from internal hemorrhage* The deceased was a Bavarian nobleman, nana0'' Count QIJ!\dt Ifuy, and was connected with th* highest German aristocracy. He arrived 90 Menton-: six weeks ago, was, like many otherg, attracted to MOlltlJ Carlo, nnd became an kabilw of thetible. He played very high slakes, alld ended by losing a large fortune. Driven to despair, about a week ago, he took a I trge d"se morphia, from the effects of whioh he died on t6* ..fternoon of the next day. A few days before hiS tragic end the count had won back 9,000 ftancS one evening, which the hotel proprietor ha J ill vain offered to keep for him.
SINGULAR WEDDING! CELEBRATION.
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SINGULAR WEDDING CELEBRATION. A novel gatherm? took place Lut week in the schoolroom of the Stepmey-green Tabtriucl*' (Ja;den-street, E, on the anniversary of til* wedding of the pastor, the Rev. G. L. Brooks and Mrs. Brooks. The guests were 100 crippled «nd blind children, one little girl being blind, deaf, dumb, and lame. They appeared, however, brigh6 and cheerful, and some of them, by their pow< of song and speech, pleasantly entertained tllelt companions. They were select-d by Mr. Boyer, an agent of the Ragged School Union, which n0* receives every fortnight groups of little at its seaside holiday home at Folkestone.
HER&UUA OF A MEDiCAL ! STUDENT.!
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HER&UUA OF A MEDiCAL STUDENT. A Umentible ice accident is reported Armagh. Miss Minnie Heenan, of Keady, w«pt with her brottor, a medical student, to skate o" Clea Lake. AHMntM imd enjoyed the invigoratilit exercise Aw me time the ice broke, and she fell into t he WATER, which was 16ft. in depth. Off brother no to her assistance, but also fell idto the lake. He managed, however, to grasp sister and bold her head above the water. Th*? ) alter time he sirovrtft get on the ice, but slipp^ back again. A gate, a ladder, a rope, and were thrown to him, and after struggling for hour and a quarter hesucceeded in raising hims&* j on the ice, shouting, "Where is my sister"T Benumbed and exhausted^ the young lady sW** j and was drowned.
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