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OSS WIN AN'8 COURTSHIP. Htrunjj*! Htory of Boyish Love and Complication. A YOUNG MILLIONAIRE'S LOVE SCRAPES. (H. Y. HeraM.) The first chapter of the society drama that if to be revealed in the mil (or divorce brought by Alice Winans-O'Keefe against Roaa K. Winans, the Baltimore millionaire, waa unfolded yesterday before Referee Stephen P. Naih, at his office, No. 07 Wall tree!. Xbe plaintiff sues for divorce io order to eutablisL a mairiage wbiob ibe > took place ID 1871. Shb appears Mm. U'Keefe because, the eaye, bhe was told by a Baltimore lawyer that under the laws of Maryland a marriage without due oeremony is uot legal, and thereafter she married a man named Keete ; but learn- ing tbat the laws ol this State hold a mar- riage to be valid where the parties have held themselves before the public to be husband and wife she left O'Keefe, believing that her supposed marriage with him was not in fact a marriage, and now seeks to estab- liah her union to Mr. WiuauM. The defend- . act U the owner of eiteneive estates in Maryland and of a royal retreat in Balti- more, which be hai surrounded with a high atone fence in ordar to shield the eyes of stately matrons and prudish maidens from becoming offended by the sight of the nude antique statues with wbioh his parka are adorned. Mrs. Alice O Keefe, or Mrs. Winaos, enters upon the legal drama a sample girl, Alice Baalfeld, in the role of a governess with Mrs. Hunt, of London, and the latter with Mrs. Dukea, of Lewes, England. Bhe is now a woman, blonde, baa a full face, and is plump and fair to look upon. She was dressed in a gray dree of tome soft material and a plain black bonnet. She gave her testimony in a quiet, lady-like manner, and did not lose her composure even under the searching i-examination by Mr. Cboate. THE MITEM ANT MILLIONAIRE. Mr. Ross Wiuaua is a man about 35 years of age, of rather email figure. Ha baa black yes and dark brown hair and wean a full beard. When the plaiutitl took the witness taud be raised his eyes for a moment and hot a piercing glanoe at her, but showed no other signs of emotion. Her lawyer was instructed to commence on June Kb, 1883, a suit for divorce against Mr. Ross B. Winans. The millionaire was just about going to Europe at the time, and by mutual consent of counsel on both aides the care was referred to Mr. Nash yesterday. Mrs. Winana was represented by D. M. Porter, while the millionaire defendant had Joseph H. Choate, James G. Carter and L. C. Led- yard as counsel. I HZ CLAIMAJII'S 8TOBT. According to her testimony given yester- day she first met him in December, 1870, at the Langham Hotel, in London. He was studying at tbat time at Cambridge, and being young and warmhearted was mitten at first sight. He sent her flowers aad books, wrote her stirring epistles, a tew of wbioh wsre offered in evidenoe, and sent her photographs of his own, with appropriate inaortptioua on the back.' A dozen of these photographs were produded before the referee, bearing snob inscrip- tions as these : " To Ally from Rossy." " With the sweetest ot kisses, from Homy to his little devil Alioe." " As a help for the remembrance of Rosa R. Winans." Upon Mr. Winans' urgent solicitation Miss Baalfeld returned to London, where a wedding by consent took place between the two lovers at the Orosvenor Hotel. At the hotel they were registered ag husband and wife and be represented her to bis friends and the servants at the hotel as Mm. Wiuans. He next took her to Cam- bridge, where he also represented her as his wife. Bdib went back to London and thence to Spa, Germany, where they remained six weeks. There numerous articles purchased by Mr. Wiuaim were a* Lit to Alioe under the address of Mrs. Boss Winaus. Having returned to London the plaintiff was introduced to the brother of her husband as Mrs. Winans. t THKIB ABRIVAL IN NZW IOBB. Next both appear in this oily, where they arrive on the steamer tiootia on May SOtb, 1871. The passenger list of the steamer contains the names of " Ross B. Wiuans and lady," and on the same day there appears on the register of the lire- voort House the entry, " Ross R. Winans and wife." After a brief stay in, thin city both parted, he going to Baltimore to meet his sick father and she to Chicago to see her mother. But soon the sound of other wedding bells brought discord into the har- mony of the true lovers. Mr. Winans for- got bis " little devil Ally," and took unto himself a second wife, a Miss Ludlow, of Baltimore, who died in 1881. But again the wedding bells were rung, and this time Mr. Winans married a Miss Whistler, a sister of the great English artist, with whom he is still living. HOW THEY WERE MAHKIEU. Two ot these letters sstt to her at Lewes were shown to the witness, which she iden- tified as being in the handwriting of Ross B. Winans. They were written in London, and were full of expressions of affection and of regret because he was separated from her. None of them were at all elegant in style, and some of them were rather coarse in the profans expressions used. Afterward she returned to London and she says he pro- posed marriage to her, but she declined, becaune her mother and family knew nothing ot their relations to each other. On her second visit to Lon- don, she testified, he renewed bis offer and eha assented, asking that the wedding take place in church. He replied that he was an Ameri- oan, and that in America marriages were valid without a church ceremony, so they went to the Oroivenor Hotel, and he gave her two rings one a new wedding ring and the other bis mother's marriage ring. At the hotel, and in their subsequent travels, be always presented her as his wife, she aid. On their arrival in New York, in May, 1B71, she says she asked him to announce tbeir marriage, but he said bis father was too ill to receive tbe news of his son's marriage. He went to Baltimore to visit bis family and she went to see his mother in Chicago. There she received letters from Mr. Winans almost daily. ROME Or THE LOVI I.ETTID!. A number of these letters were put in evidenoe. He addresses her ae " My Own Sweet Ducky," " My Own Little Devil " and in other tender forms, and in some of them use* vulgar or profane language. But nowhere does be us* the word " wits " or " husband." In two of them be encloses small sums of money 160 and 930 regrets that he is not able to get more money for her and tells her she ' must live sparingly." In another, however, he refers to the fact that she had been invited to go to a theatre by some new acquaint- ance. He telis her that be does not under- stand how she could have so far lost her good sense as to become so inti- mately acquainted with this Stranger, and exclaims: "My God, yon ought to have given him hell at his presuming to ask a married lady on so abort an acquaintance as that such an insolent question. Have nothing more to do with ihe d d black- guard." This is the only reference he makes to her condition as being that of a married woman. In another letter be tells her how to put a chair against a window so as to prevent the outer air from sweeping across her bed and giving her a cold, and gives a pen and ink diagram ot the open window, the bed and the chair. Still later they met again in New York and lived at various hotels as husband and wife. Mr. Choate, in a searching cross-exami- nation, inquired of the witnees the parti- culars of her early life. Bbe testified tbat she had studied music at Wiesbaden, and under Heller iu Paris and H alter in London. NAVIGATION 0V Ml !->- BAY. A I >.IMOU. Ililll. I. . \\ hl,l. . . Uvlulou. The Halifax Herald publishes an inter- view with Captain William Adams, tbe famous Dundee whaler and Arctic navi- gator, who goes on tbe steamer Alert to Hudson's Bay on behalf ot tbe Hudson's Bay Railway and Navigation Company, to report on tbe feasibility and practicability of tbe route to Europe. Capt. Adams has had a third of a century 't experience in navigating northern waters, and is confident Hudson's Bay is a practicable route four months of the year. He say 8 navigation is open from tbe middle of June to tb end ot Oatober to ships properly equipped with two and a half inch iron bark for tbe outside shell, with suitable loe stem, inside fortifications, and with extra beam. These ships should be limited to -J ..00 tons in size ; larger vessels would be too long to wind through the ice packs. They need not be wooden ships, as after making two tnpa to Hudson's Bay during tbe season they should be employed in tbe Atlantic or any other trade during tbe rett of tbe year. Men if energy and spirit will make iba route a auooess. If the railway route is practicable, tbe open- ing of ocean navigation from Hudson's Bay to Europe is only a question of time and mouey. He thinks tbsre if as much danger in navigating tbe coasts of New- foundland and Nova Sootia during the breaking up of tbe ice iu the spring as in navigating Hudson's Bay and Strait during the four months indicated. Tbe safsty of the shii> there, as here, depends very largely on the common sense, experience, watch- fulness and caution ot the captain. Speak- ing of tbe whale fishery, be gave very interesting facts and figurss showing its enormous profits, and says either Halifax or Bt. Johns, NIH., would ifcake a far better whale fishing headquarters for the world than Dundee. The Kranaalc KaVrl ! War. War is, of oourte, economically purely destructive. Tbe men employed produce nothing ; tbe engines prepared are useless, except for killing ; the money expended is most of it consumed on objects wbion oan yield no direct return. Enormous quan- tities of food are wasted in transport, domestic animals are used up in unproduc- tive labor, and the men slam are among tbe strongest m the nation. Nevertheless, tbe economic loss of war is often not felt for a time ; and it is probable that in the war supposed to be coming with Russia this will be tbe case to an unusual degree. It is by degrees tbat the economic effect of war comes to be felt, through the agency usually of taxation. No natioi^caii throw away two years' revenue in one in an unproductive effort without becoming gradually poorer that is, without having less to spend in giving good wagea to great multitudes of men. Suppose a war coat 50,000,000 a year, and the American war cost 120,000.000, though much of tbat is spent iu wages, the whole is loss, for even the wages are paid, from the economic point of view, for doing nothing. When tbe war stops, therefore, there will be distress, great or little, in pro- portion to tbe expenditure, but great or little, equally inevitable, not to be kept gfl by any financial arrangement. It may be rendered short, of oourse,or even innocuous, by other causes, such as a sudden diaoovery of a new and cheaper motor, which by reducing the energy to be expended on pro- ducing a result, pot i lively adds to the national force, and therefore to tbe nstioual producing power, or by tbe opening up of lew channels of industry ; but, apart from these there is no avoiding tbe economic consequences of war. War is waste ; the nation pays for tbe waste by taxation, and therefore every individual in the uatiou must, pro tanto, suffer. The particular war may be right or unavoidable, or purely Belt-defensive, but one of its ooiisequeuoeti must be this ; and it is never wiee to con- ceal what must inevitably happen. up. r Paper slippers are tbe latest form in which psper is introduced iu new inven- tions. Au Knglishman has patented a sys- tem of manufacturing slippers, sandals, and other coverings of the feet out of paper. Paper pulp, or papier maohe, is employed for the upper, wbioh is moulded to tbe desired form and size, and a sole is provided made of paper or pasteboard, leather board, or other suitable paper material, which is united to tbe upper by means ot cement, glue, or other adhesive material. The upper is crossed, embossed, or perforated at the instep and sides which renders them somewhat pliable, and pre- vents their cracking while in use. While the keystone was being placed in the principal arch of the Maotlatiaa bridge on the road from Zaeateoas to Jopala and Bienvenido, Mexico, the arch gave way, and tbe thirty workmen were buried in th ruins. Only Tour men were rescued alive AnEngliahman who lately visited Antwerp Cathedral declares tbat Rubens' master- piece, " The Descent from the Crots," is mob a wonderful picture that it is worthy of Miss Thompson, the painter ot " The Roll Call." A DREADFUL HOLOCAUST. Many Lives) Ix>t by a Fire In Cincinnati. DEAD BODIES PILED IN HEAPS. lrs .iti. u-h. ,i 10 Death tr JuM Ihr V* Illdo*.. A Cincinnati despatch last (Thursday) night says : A fire this afternoon in Bulu- vaiA printing establishment at lit Sixth streti cuuBod tbe death ot nineteen persons. It was at first thought that only fire womei. wbo jumped from a fifth story window were killed, bnt when tbe fire was subdued so tbat the firemen could enter the buildiug it was found that ten bodies lay in hetfepB ou tbe fifth floor and one lay on tbe fourth. There were six who jumped from the wiadow and were killed, and one man after saving the lives of two women by let- tiug down a tope from tbe roof was himself killed by tbe burning in two of tbe same rope oefore he reached tbe ground. This w Mr. BjllivanlArotber of the proprietor ot tbe printing works. Tbe tire originated by ite explosion tf a gasoline stove on tbe second floor. Tke tUmes entered the elevator shaft, which is next to the stair- way, and all chance of escape was cut off. Tbe k.ilsd are mostly employees of tbe dye work* wbiob occupied a portion of tbe buildup. LIST 0MH VICTIMS. Tbe list now obtainable is as follows : Mary . iwry , aged 17, ol Covmglon, killed ; John Sullivan, killed ; Emma Pincbback, badiy iojnred ; Josie Hawks, severely burned ; Wm. Bishop, of Coviogton, badly injured Mamie Sheppard, fatally injured ; L>. , i- Meyer, killed ; Dollie Blank, aged ft, jumped from the top story and was dashed to pieces; two sisters named Punter, ol Newport, both killed. Mary Bcactrim, aged 17, of Newport, was killed m leaping from the fifth story ; Charlss Braam made an effort to catch her, but the force' was too great, and she dashed on the pa%ement at his feet a shapeless corpse. Fanny Jones, west end, was also killed. In addition, ELIVBM COBPliM WEtt FOCHD the building, and a search for others being prosecuted. The fifth story wan completely burned out, but tbe walls still stand, and the other floors are not much damaged. The building was occu- pied by Sullivan A Co.'s printing works, Ortb, Winell .'- Co.'s dye bouse, tot Ledger Postal News Company, Parisian Dyeing aud Saonring Company and J.R. Kings- ley, 1'lt.uug works. It was not long until tbe *. re was under control. Tbe mass of . r n h and telephone wires preyented the ; rcLctn putting up ladders promptly for the relief of tbe inmates. LA.TKB i AHIICI IJJIH. Additional particulars say : Looking over the tosne after ths event it is plain svery life could have been easily saved. At half- iaat one J. jPOreen, city editor of the "!!< Star, npo^uoing up the stairway to bis ofaee saw dense clouds ot smoke issuing from the rear windows of the building, and immediately telephoned to the fire depart- nieut. Tbe engines arrived almost instantly, and as the firemen oould reach tbe building from the front and rear it was not fifteen minutes until tbe fire was so much under control tbat tbe chief engineer wan able to reach the fifth floor. But he was too late to rescue the girls employed there, and to bis horror he found ten dead bedims lying with tbeir bands to their faces and tbe faces blackened and distorted in death. The girls were lying upon benches and tables and some on tbe floor. Their clothing was not burned, but tbe kin ou the back of their bands was scorched. It baa been fairly ascertained that the fire started from a oan ot benzine ou the second floor and quickly extended to tue elevator. A boy on tbat floor said be neard a report and instantly fire leaped to tbe elevator shaft and darted up. The shaft reaches to the top of the building, L J from the third story to tbe fifth it was encircled by a wooden stairway, wbich was tne anly means of access to those floore. . E1CIUFICE9 IN SAVING OTHERS. As noon as the Ere started John Sullivan, ooutin of the proprietor, ran up the stair- way to the fifth floor to give warning to tbe girU. Instantly almost be found he was too lute to get them down tbe stairway, and that .nil own retreat waa cut off. What he did for the frigbteoed girls oould only be told by glimpses that oould be seen of him at tLe smoking windows, wbenoe four of the girls had already leaped to death. J. R. Kinsley's son aud his foreman bad gone to ii-e roof ot ths building adjoining this on the west, and knowing the girls were imprisoned on the floor beluw, they procured a rope and lowered it to the window where Sullivan was. He grasped at it and fastening one of the girls to it, helped) her out ot the window, and Kingsley and Sohroeder lowered her saiely to the sidewalk. The rope was brought up, and Sullivan again fastened another girl and sent her down safely. The rope oame up a third time, and as the other girls by this time were all suffocated or afraid to venture, Sullivan fastened tbe rope to bis own body, and was being low- ered, when half-way down flames shot out of a window aud be fell head foremost to the sidewalk iu tbe presence ot a horrified crowd, wbo bad witnessed his heroism. The firs was almost insignficant. The wooden stairway around the elevator shaft is not burned so as to be useless, or even unsafe, yet the flames seem to have per- vaded all the floors, and to have ruined all the paper and other light combustible material. Sullivau estimates his loss at 16,000 to 910,000. The loss to the building is slight. IB! I A I Al. MM now made up is : Anna Bell, aged 48 ; Dollie and Lizzie Handel, twins, 20 years ; Fannie Jones, 22; Delia, Katie and Mary Leaban, sisters, 23, 14 aur 1 . 16 respectively ; Katie Lowry, M ; Lizzie Meiro, 1C ; Annie Mclntyre, 20; Fannie Norton, 34 ; Katie and Mary Pitman, sisters, 22 and 19 ; John Bollivan, 22 , Lillis Wynn, 20. The injured are : Will Bishops, printer, 23 years of age, crushed and burned, will probably die ; Josie Hawkes, broken leg Emma Pinonbaok, unconscious, will pro- bably die ; Mamie Bhephard, head badly cut. H< I M MI EIUIZLEHUT. A til) I rrm.uirr > H' Acted u Priest's *!!<. An Owego, N. Y., despatch on Sunday says : Tbe Palladium to-day pub- lishes an interview with Tbomau Crawford, the defaulting City Treas- urer, wbo is now in Hamilton, Unt. Crawford's statement IB that be found himself (600 short st the end of bis first year aa Treasurer. He oould not account for it, and confided his trouble to Father O'Counell, of St. John's Churob, of this) city, and in accordance with hia advice, ecgagsd in margin dealing in tbe hope of making enough to makegood the shortage.At first he made a small gaia, but unbae quently was a loser. For two years hs baa been speculating with tbe city's money, generally loiiog, and the noal result waa his flight from the city, leaving a deficit of (26,000. He says be took DO mouey to speak of with him. t- I !-.< H-N. I >fr. l> I ll It I I o \ OMI.U i >u>i. ird ui Perjury , Io I- . l.o u Wilt) I I, . 1 r Bnkr . . A Madison, Wis., despatch says : In Ibe municipal court, yesterday Mrs. Rebecca Merraot, of Baraboo, and Mrs. Margaret M. Cooley, of Mitchell, D. T., aistsrs, pleaded guilty to ths charge of perjury They have now each been aeotenoea to two years in State Prison. Each woman when sentenced had an infant in herarma. Kneel ing at tbe feet of tbe judge thry piteously leaded for mercy " for their babies' sskes." The scene was a heart-rending one. Judge Braley, with tears in bis eyes, said tbe law was inexorable, but he would fix the bwest penalty prescribed. Tbe women then prayed and sobbed and uttered terrible shrieks as they were finally removed by tbe officers. Tbey said tbat a man named Kirby had threatened their livee it they did not swear as they did, and tbat for yesrs tbey had lived in mortal terror of him. Bath are respectable women, ot good local repute. Their babies accom- pany them to the peoitentiary. An effort will be made to secure an Executive par- don in their case. The women are sisters of the wife of James Kirby, alias Simmons, a well knows oraeksman, wbo with a mau named Edwards was lart November sen - tenoed to State Prison in Wisconsin for five years for burglary in Modison. At the trial of Kirby these women swore that they were in Baraboo at Mis. Merraot't home the Kith of July latt, the night of the burg- lary, and that Kirby was alto there. Tbey also said tbat that night Mrs. Merraot gave birth to a child. Tbe attempt to prove an alibi was unavailing, however, and Kirby waa found guilty after a most exciting trial. Tbe women were then arrested tor perjury in tbe case. It was proven tbat the child was born May (>tb, and that Kirby was not present even at that time. I HI < II I I -I <( I * I !< 01 lilDumt n o( Hiln-h lumbln Waal II l. Hll It lib. A \ iotoris, B.O., telegram says : A mass meeting of workiugmtn was held last night to ratify tbe appeal of the workingmen to the Dominion support in oombattii p tbe Chinese evil. Four thousand earnest men assembled and listened approvingly. Power- ful speech and plain language were used. Tbe appeal takes tbe form of a pronuuoia- mento frcn. tbe whole struggling vbite population sent to every paper in tbe Dominion. The Trades Council demand* tbs passage of and immediate enforcement of a Restriction Act, and calls upon both Governments tbat tbey do vbeir duty. Tbe enthusiasm was unbounded, aud stsrn earnestness waa manifested ic every coun- tenance. Cries from tbe crowd, " To Chinatown," were fortunately overruled by tbe leaders, and thus tbe largest anti- Chinese demonstration ever held passed eft quietly aud orderly. There is a deep feeling among laboring men tbat the time for decisive action has arrived. THAT FATAL. I 1 r The lri.nl.. whlrk KrwUcd In Ike liti, . It. .ih A New York despatch says : Tbs au- topsy on Odium's body disclosed that the spleen, liver and kidneys were badly rup- tured from tbs shook ot striking tbe water. There was a deposit ot tuberculosis at the base of tbe left lung. The right kidney was full of cystic cavities, and the left lung gave evidenoe of slight fatty degenera- tion. Tbs first, third and fifth ribs were broken. The death marks on tbe body were similar to those found on the bodies of men crushed by the caving iu of earth. The body was taken to Washington for interment. H.I. .1,1 Alter r. i.ia ! iii.lix Tbat the Russians are ever likely to invade India is improbable. I have no doubt, however, that they are by no means sorry to have approiohed India, because, in case of a dispute with us in Europe, tbeir presence so nesr to our Indian potHBBsions would oblige us to lend troops to India instead of aa was the case during tbe Tnroo-Russian war bringing Indian troops into the Mediterranean. Bnt for this I do not blame them. We cannot insist that Central Asia should be given over to barbarism in order that our posi- tion in India and in Europe may be strengthened. The Russians had as good a right to annex Turkestan as we had to make our numerous annexations in India. We are too apt to view everything through English spectacles, and to imagine that other powers will oblige us by doing the same. Nor can we iiolate our possessions in all parts of tbe world by perpetuating deserts on their frontiers. Tbe Russians, no doubt, wish to reach the ocean, but their objective point is not India hue Persia. London Truth. A Russian inventor ban devised meaun of S3 impregnating wood with a certain chemi- cal that matches made from it oan be uied several times over, thus effecting a saving of at least 75 per cent. Hammered brass tea-pots, with ebony handles, are among the newest things to be seen on fashionable breakfast tables. They are exceedingly pretty, and look aa well ou the sideboard as tbey do on the table. Tbe London Garden says that " tlie sooner the notion is dispelled tbat roses, iu order to make them grow more vigorously, must be out back to mere stumps, showing two or three budi, tbe better." THE vril.Wl-,1.1. TRAGEDY. *ccutd Pronounced Not Guilty by the) Auize Jury. THOMAS' SHARE IN TBE CRIME BT. THOMAS, May 20. The crowd at the Court Hovue was fully a large to-day aa at any time during tbe continuance of the Stilwell trial. Mr. Coliu MoDougall, counsel for Forbes, began bis address shortly after U o'clock, aud made one of the most eh quant pleas ever beard iu the Court House in this city. Mr. Ed. Mere- dith did equally well for his client, Mrs. titilwell, aud during tbeir addresses both the jury aud tbe spectators were moved to tears. Mr. Idingtoc, on behalf of tbe Crown, apoke in an impaesioned and logical manner, and while being fair to the prisoners he made tbe most of a ease that was poorly supported by trustworthy evi- denoe. Justice Cameron, in his charge, put the evidenoe before tbe jury in lucid manner. He bad not gone far when it was evident that he> considered the wrong man was in tbe prisoner's box. He commented on tbe course tbs detectives bad pursued, and said that ttucugb them tbe gallows bad been cheated of its just dnee. When they went into tbe corridor of the jail and said loud enough to be beard by Thomas, that Forbes and Mrs. Stilwell were going to squeal, tbey told an untruth, and gave. Thomas; a bint to become an approver, and if he was guilty of the murder of L jum Stilwell, an opportunity to cause tbe death unjustly of the prisoners at tbe bar. Thomas, besides being an accomplice, waa a perjurer, having sworn to three different versions of the crime. The evidenoe i-howed that Forbes bad no motive for kill' ing Stilwell, while Thomas had his rejec- tion by his sweetheart, Jennie Forbes, and the idea that Stilwell was the cause of it. Thomas' story of ths murder was not con- sistent io any of its parts ; it was not improbabls that Thomas shot Stilwell when the three were hunting iu tbe bush, and tbat Forbes knew about it. If he knew tbat Thomas was to fire the fatal shot before he did be was guilty of murder ; if bs only knew tbst Thomas fired the shot, which killed the victim, after, he waa an accessory after ths fact, and was guilty of a felony, but that was not the charge wbiob tbe jury were trying. Tbe jury, after being out an boar and ten minutes, returned a verdict of Not guilty." The audience burst into applause, which waa quickly quelled. II WM ascertained that tbe jury were unanimous in giving a verdict of uot guilty in Mrs. Stilwell's case aa soon as tbey entered the jury room, but there was a difference ot opinion regarding Forbes' case. Tbe prisonsre and Tbornaa were discharged from custody. I1ITCHZLL BXNTENCID. While the jury were out iu the Stilwell case Samuel Mitchell, wbo killed Alex. Mdlntosh for intimacy with bis wife, was. placed in the box . for sentence. The prisoner asked His Lordship to deal as Isniently with him a< possible. His Lord- ship referred to tbe large petition wbioh had beeu presented to him, asking him to deal leniently with the prisoner, on the grounds that the relations existing between bis wife aud the deoeasod constituted provocation for the crime. Mitchell WM senteuoed to ten years' imprisonment. Catherine de Medioie is credited with introducing the corset into France ; tut tight -laoiug existed long before her appear- anot at Fontainebleau. As early as tbe fifteenth century we read of a pair of bodies," the evident origin of tbe word " bodioe." Bnt it waa during ths latter part of the sixteenth century that it assumed tbe ugly forms depicted. No doubt it was at this period tbat it became, as Bulwer has it, a whaJsbone prison ; its busks if ivory and wood turning it into a sort of cuirass. Uosson thus describes it : Tbe*e rr'vle coat*, by art made ttroog Wiili bonra, wltb put, with micli like ware, Wboreby their backe and aides grow long, ADI! DOW tbey baraeat gallQtiare; Were '.bey for UM against the foe, Our ' Unif" fcr Amaiooe* migbt goe. But feeing tbey doo only stay Tbe ooune tbat nature <lotn Intend, Aud luoiburfl often by ttum Rlay Tbeir daughters young, anil ivorke tbeir end, What are tbey i Is out armnure stout, WLereln like gyanta Jovo tbey flout. It is instructive to study the faces of the unhappy women who farmed " tbe flying cquadron " ol Catherine de Mediois. Tbe bittiry of the times still more unfolds itself if we study their costume. Catherine de Mu'iicis, shut in her " whalebone prison," tbe folds of her skirts banging stiflly and diagramically, her sleeves like two Ion t black wing*, her littte black cap ,. stiff i-tuli collar and white ruS, appears like some great beetle. In the costume of Mary Stuart, as given in Laoroiz, we have the same bard, beetle-like form ; more beautiful, indeed, as the finest rpeoimen of tbe C.rabuB tribe is to the saored Ateuobus. The slasries in her black dress show tbe white robe underneath ; her waint, her arms, her throat are bound rouud with bands of precious stones ; while from her waist, which, oy the way, is by no means a slender one, is suspended a golden tassel garnished with pearls and precious stone. But oinsider tbe crown of poor women whom these two rival lueens led down tbe Dance of Death. A painted butteifly, with none of tbe insect's grace, is poor Eleanor of Austria, as depicted inLaoroix. Her body is prisoned in a horny cuirass, and her ruff is backed by two additional fans ot lawn ; her sleeven are diapered like a chessboard, and from under tier arms descend two pieces of stuff broidered with gold and shaped to look like an enormous pair of heavy double crutches. Her rival, Marie Toucbet, wears no such frightful costume ; she is, never- thelesB, one of the same tribe, a less hard and ugly ipeoisaen than Catherine de Medicic, less bard but not so beautiful aa Mary Htuart. But for forme completely inscotile, nothing perhaps ever went beyond those seen in tbe court of Heuri III. of France. Magazine of Art, It is becoming quite in fashion to send presents to the bridegroom independent of tbe gifts bestowed upon tbe bride. At the> recent marriage of tbe Marquis of Stafford lie was presented with no less than forty- three travelling clocks, sixteen gold) mounted driving whips, and six oases ol soar! pins.