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 mmm. '^ASGEDECEPTION. iier the V Oman's Wife, War • '"W-Bemarkable B atoHeal !•• • ji^rallel^BccaUed. 38â€" an opiqoeqa tion anl dacaytoj t ot man forarer. titnlir tenuta d in tumaltuosK in mysterious ck writhing mauea, I ig the work of ' man agency. Soi k that by theendj tered white obJ3 the sarfa^e of But they wew tcaat Spsncer " -, nsatu n waa created a 5 ear rgo ^f rnoctmcTnt that two hohd f^Cpa" Wis ..had been iTMpaii. "»."" "T"" quietly i" rt were bung togethtr aa man " 'f'^R caae kturacted widespread and the developem« nte wer« tcbNd. An jnvcatigat'on showed gticii. jv*»: jid J L Ho'^so"' who came with her 'j,,'rn a imall town in llliDoia and Lac, had deserted ber A onniugnifleattirej fODnd work J^ l:,ud near Waafun Mrs. H .d- Pldbereeli "Frax.k Dubob." a. d fn U'" .^./i carmenta leadilv naaaed lifnri cated garments leadily passed jjjjfiTE-LOCKIKG COT7STBTMAK. '"iLabcut 30 years Old. Af*er living tf npon for several a onths Dabois met lO^irtiDg aRood looking girl nam- Fu^ltrjWhoie mother was araapect ""'owl^'^g in the tnrskirtsof the vil Af'era tfr*' courtship the conpia â-  1 1 took up their rasidt-iice trie e's mi.ih« r. A few weeks after iirieci, £11 ' t"f' "IJ their rasidt-iice '"edding it b.g»n to be whisptr.d 3j(,jtiheg»com was a wcmui, and dllage g«-"P« " ^H'"" *•»»««" ^»«- The tews spread, and in a few weeks 'ieadm" pspeis f^ the cjuntry contsimd LspaichrB in regard to the queer case, ' peculiar phases were ciscnssed in "ediiorial crli mns. Dabois and "his" vonnj wife stoutly denied the storiei, ..heyweie bo lothtred by inquisitive â- inr! tnd newspaper correspondenti that .decided to leave the to«n, which they J it the d a i I onr of night, going to a 11 place named Brandon, where they bs- "ij^jiig under sn assumed name. At lart ° ful er ttok up the ca^ie, and decided i out for herself whether her daugh- ii HUSBAND WAS A MAN OR A WOMAN. invoked tbe aid of officers and followed Cecoople, ovortaknpthem at a Brandon 1 Sae inouced them to return to Wao- Bat they fled a second time, and were Ctiightofior stjveral moaths. Hudson ^d of the case, and a'ter making an in- asgaticu, te't satitfitd that F. anfe Dabois Jio other than bis recreant spouie Tbefi gsn seitjhirg for the queer y matched I 1( ^ttr considerablt) tjoub'.e he dis- yeredthem, and sure enough "Frank Du- " proved to be the missicg Mrs. Hud- ji She refused io return with her hus- ind at first, but upon being threatened ft arrest decided to leave "her wife" end tgin to h(r abandoned home and her Jjrchildren. Gertie Fuller returred to her jcther's heme in Waapun, where they ccn toned to live until a few days ago. She re- ijjd to talk 1 outsidt ra about her marriage lit contended to the li s' that Dubois was a Hudt on ook his » ife tome and later on ted to their foi rrier place of lesidtnce in iiliiois. Last fall Gertie Fuller became a jither, and she strenoutly asserted that lilcis was the child's father. The strange ._ J never been explained satis'actoriiy litail kinds of iheories have been advanc- It ctrtainly was ore of the strangest Ditrimonial murriages on record. The last hipter vas enacted at Chicton, a small jiain the northern part of the Suate, Iteie Gertie Fuller Dabois wai married to Insn named Lehman, and they have gone iMjine, Wis., where they will in future A HSITOEICAL PABKLLBL. ICbtvalifr, generally known as Madam, pioD, waa bom of good family at Tonnerre, f France, in 1728. D'Eon was a man of lilliaDt parts,, a writer by no means ccn- mptibleon various eubjeots, an acccmp- lied diplomat and a brave officer, atd at period he was minister plenipoten- yto the British court. A little quarr.l f.i the Court de Gaereby, who succeeded i:m8»ainl[a8ia5cr, was assigned as a rea- pfcr his not returning to France, but, it iprobaHe, that the real cause of his slay lErgland was bis sctirg as the private ptof Louis XV., by whom he w£s aUow- h penBion, D Eon continued to reside in Won for fourteen years, and was in habits k fiiendahip with the most distinguished lenon!, Rumours, at first faint, but idnally acquiring strength said, THAT d'eON was A WOMAN. pierewere cert an feminine indications in «« voice, »nd he was known to be averse to Biffairs of gallantry and to manifest ex- hme caution with respect to fema\es. At ^gihit began to be generally belitvod, Mia Ee gland and France, that he had right to tl e title to wear the dress of a ale. Wagers to a large airoont were laid liioj this subject and in 1771 one of them INDCfd a most sensatioral trial before "Ard Minsfield. The action was brought -f Surgeon Hayes against Jacques, a bro- Iwand unditrwritcr, for the recovery of â- â- 'fn hnndred pounds, Jacques having l|wat aiz years before received prtminms 01 |nft«- ...,-- I â€" in per cent, for every one of wnich he itood engaged to return a hundred guineas, 'henevfr it should be proved that the Chevalier D'Eon wa? actually a woman. In "M cause three setmingly unexpected wit- "'"es, two of whom were of the medical .. â€" on, positively sware that they tad Jutained such proof as admitted of no con- l«^iction that D Eon was of the female sex. I i TEHDicT WAS IN CONSIQCJBNCB OIVKN I the plant £f bat it was afterwards set I J" V ^^ P°"' ^^ ^^' -^*®' ***'â-  "*^ ^• l»« vergennes, one of the French Ministers, I** letter which he wrote to D'Eon, declar- I'd that it was the king's will that he 1 would asaome the dress of his sex"â€" «tasingthe dress of a woman â€" and this in- ll'i'.cticn was repeated on the chevalier ar- wiiijin France. It was obeyed, and till *« tod of his long life D'Eon dressed and ?• looked upon as one of the 'softer sex. ^^y in the Fiench revolution he retaroed ^%land still as a female, and remained ^fe I'll his decease in 1810. Death proved ^folly of those who forced him into petti- 's. for his manhood was placed beyond ^daabtby an anatomical examination cf tod 1?^' "y. **• " metamorphosed, *hY he continued to acquiesce in the ^.% when he might have safely asserted ^^ there appears to be no means of dis- I J* ' ank of earth caved in on a labourer at ^8aa City, and while three or fonr men in (m H^J^u »ere trying to figure how long li Von u ® to dig him out the rest wait* d. ""Wt to have lived, according to the fig- I ikj'o ty-fire minutf s, but W88 dead when Eaxliak VcaWn af the CaIm^ Ad»Ilf ^?*??.^'.*'» Minlrter of Mirtm aa a --v ny-DTe mmutf 8, but W88 ' «ached him in forty-three. S;.f ?°*f'»«*». •»«» thinks he ««Bab.jhMterm of ofBo^ however sKrt. by abiluhiiig something and ttM^ivTni, something eUe. In ^Snd a manT^u? ent. Who may have been rather presomo. tnoos Mid flighty as an mAns^^^. ber, qtucklyiiets sobered wh?n Fe is setTo learn the difficult work of msnainnff T de- partment about which he know, nothii. He must rdy at fiist upon hi. permanSt staflF' sod this prevents hhn frcm attemut- ing rash innovations by and by, when he fiasaiquued experience, whatever re' orms he may see fit to propose will be Donated m a prudent fprit, and are more likely on that account to be satisfactory and durable- It is c rtainly a pity that a Minister of proved abl ties should be turned out of office just as his services are beginning to be appreciated; but und« r our Eugliah system t^e setvieeH of a stitesman who goes into Opposition are not lost to the country, for he brings his experience to bear in coatroll- ing the woi k of hi. sn mcs or besides which thtra is a departmental etiquette which binds a Minister under ordinary crcum stances to carry on and c( mp'.ete good work cammenced by his pred«oe«or. Two or three little faota will shew bow harmoai- ously both parties in the State coabine to keep the mechanism of Government in good working order, despite their struggles tor pewer. An inocming Minister is always re- ceived In his department by ^he outgoing chief, who put him fn pcsstsvonof all the facts atout current buainesi to be transact- ed. In acknowledgement of this the naw Minister during the whole of his stay in office takes care that his predecessor shall be the first informed of all events oonneoted with the department which may be made public. Thus, if important news arrived from ab oid, a copy of the dispatch woald he forwarded at once by the present Foreign S cretary to tbe former holder of thecffice â€" the idea of this being that the latter, as critic ex-officioof the Indian policy of the Gov- ernment, has a claim to be supplied with ample and rapid information. Thesa pa triotic courtesies are LOt practise i in any other country, and one may allude to them with pl(.arare as showing that â€" '"For some true result of fcood All parties work togetuer." But if they bave so worked the result is largely due, as we have shown, to the Queen's wisiom in siding with neither a~ty and in tstabLshing relations of personal friendliness with niostot her Minister so that no jealoi sies could arise among tht m The latto King of Bavaria ised to make the lives of M n-steis whom he he disliked un- bearable by qutsuioning them about the af- fairs of their departmeir s until he ha 1 ex. posed their ignorance. Th's would be a le sourse alays open to an ill natured sovereign; and it mus '• be remembered a jain that the personal influence which Mr. 61 ai- stone 1 as praised her MaJMty for exeituog in hf r coirts^ondence with foreign rulers is aujnUnence which need not have been given, es It ccnstant'y has b:en. to s^rve Minitti^rs of either {arty who happened to want it. The Queen might have refused her g.oi of- fices to get incompetent Ministers out of scrapes, and she would have had constitu- tional Wi.rranty fcr so doing s nee Mmisttrs who are [not loth to solicit her M. j 8*;y s assistance when they were in d' stress nav«j sometimes not scrupled to cavil at letters written to help their opponents â€"[Ttmple Bat. ^^^ The Height «f Wares. Many experiments have been made to measure the height of naves in all ccniition' oi weather. One authority goes as high as sixty four feet, and another ^s low as five feet, giving it as his r3»Bon that the pene- trating power of wind cannct rca^h below that depth. Oi this philcs- pher it may be presumed that he was a martyr to 8 a s:ck- uess and that he must have contented him- sf If with making his calculationsin his study. On the otner hand, a height, of sixty- tour feet is a' moat as absurd, thonghitis true that the eaithquike wave has been kcown to riee to sixty feet; yet sar^es of this kind are happily scarce, since when they occur they are not only in the habit of raz ng whole towns upon the coast line where they breek. but cf carrying some of the ves- sels they may encounter at anchor in the neighborhood to the distance of a day's walk inland. Practical experience, however, will look with Buspicioa on most of the scientific theories touching the altitude and velocity ot waves. Professor Airy's table oouplis speed with dimensions, and, as a sample of his calculator, it may be shown thiac the wave one hundred thousand feet in breadth will travel at the rate of 533 90 feet per secoad in water that is ten thousand feet deep This is possible, but it is difficult to accept such ccnolcsion as exact. At all ev- ents, there is nothing more deceptive than the height of waves. The tallest leeaa in the world run off CJapa Horn, where whether tbe wind blows east or west, they have a holi- day ground within a belt of eight or ten de- greea that compass the globe without the intervention of a break of land. Any man who has run, say. before a strong westery sale rauud the Horn will know the magni- tude of the seas that fellow his ship. View, ed from the stem when the veswls sink m the trjugh, the oncoming tea that is about to undermn the ship snd litt her soaring to the flying heavers will seem to heave its rushing summit to the height of the buzbo- top but when the summit is gamed by the observer and the waves viewed Ircm there, it will then be seen that these crests whtoh from tbe deok'looked a long way up will now appear to be a long ^y down. It is a common 8hore«oing phme that the searan" mountains high." The idea im- pUed is not very generaUy accepted by saU- ors though the term may be sometimts nssd by' them lor convenience. The truth is if waves weiets tall as they are popufarly supptsed to be, no ship codd hj wj poeM- bilityUveinthem. They are Urfty to the fancy, becsose at sea they are nauaUy sur- veytid from low freeboards. To a spectator on a steamer, with a six foot heigh* of side an Atlutio or Padfio SMfe wonltlMMf s ur ily appear es a mountain compartd to the sspect itwould take from the deck of an old Isie-of battle riiip, with a thirty-fcot "dip; cr from one oftboie lofty, gl'wd and Cas- tellated stmctuTf s triiiob in fwmer timw took six months to jog »o»)erly fioni tte A FLOOD OF FLiarae OIL.- ha left 9100,000 to the pow of Waoen ooan^y bat he died before he could eo- knowuMlge and sign the doeoment. Beddf! Hr. Bonae. twelve deed bodies ^AHl!il*Q ,etoy8^}i?v SS ^^J I S^iisnUe. O., noaUi the a»Pj*«jJeim^deTelopnient in this eOon. «y»» which dJaeetw he was tbe last sor- v^mg victim. It left Un » blind and hjl^esi cripple, indsubjeptet times to btsof inaamty dmugwhuh he seemed to sofbr an the sgonizing eneriences uroogh whidi he psaaed.on the day of the greet disaster, twent|y-three yean J? -^P^i.^^i' **»" *«• • oinstfw of wells, yielding from one hundred to t^ree hundred battels tf oil a day, on the then newl;y-deveIoped tenitcwy om OU creek. Flowing wells were then as yet nnknown. Barley and Merrick sank a wdl to the depth of two hundred feet, but as the yield was small they took out the pumps, and started the drill to make the well deeper. About 5 o'clock in the afternoon of April 16, the drill had gone to a depth of three hundred feet, when it struck a I vein of oil and gas, and instantly the oil roshed up throufh the five and a-half i inch tubing, hurling the tools high in the air, and gushing up in a fountain fifty feet in height. This was the first flowing well ever struck in the region. The great noise made .by the escaping oU was heard for half a mile around, and in a few min- utes the fountain of oil was surrounded by a crowd of excited men, women, and children. Tbe well was spouting at tbe rate of one hundred bamls an hour. Above the roaring mass of oil the gas rose so densely as to be visible as a cloud at least sixty feet high. As soon as the oil began to gush forth all the fires of the engines in the vicinity were extinguish- ed. There had been no preparation made to receive so unprecedented and unex- pected a rush of oil, and in a few min- utes petroleum was running in streams in every direction. Dams were built and trenches dug to coUect the fluid that was running to waste, and in a short time a lake of oil surrounded the derrick. Wallace Riley, then a young man of 24, arrived at the scene ef the excitement at 6 o'clock, from Meadville. He was to be married that evening at 8 o'clock to the daughter of a farmer who lived on Oil creek, near the Harley Merrick well. RUey went with his prospective father-in-law and joined the crowd at the flowing well. The nature of petroleum gas was then unknown, and while the crowd stood about with no thought of danger, the gas from the spouting well was slowly spread- ing in every direction and filling the air. There was no fire nearer than a quarter of a mile to the well. That was the boiler- house of a well then drilling. By seven o'clock in the evening the gas ^m the flaming well had reached the boiler, and, taking fire m a second, tiie whole air was in a flame with a crash and roar like the discharge of\a field of artillery. The fountain of oil became a stream of solid fire, fallii^; backv to the ground, over an area of a hundred feet around, in blazing globes of boiling oiL Instantly the ground wui covered wi^ flames. A scene of in- describable horror ensued. Scores of people were thrown to the ground by the explosion and surrounded by the burning oil as it seethed on every side, while the flaming gas roared above them. The most of these managed to reach the outer cir- cle of tire with their lives, biit were hor- ribly burned. At the time of the ex- plosion everything in tlie neighborhood for the distance of a quarter of a mile around took fire, and shanties, derricks, engine-houses, and dwellings, were at once wrapped in flames. The boiler at Dobb's well, eighty rods from the origi- nal fire, blew up writh a tremendous re- p(»t, instantly killing the engineer, Wes- ley Skinner. At this time the whole air was afire. The jet of oil, rushing up for fifty feet, was a pillar of living fire, yrhUe the gas above it to the distance of one hundred feet was flashing and exploding like some terrific electrical display during a thunder-stonn. The sounds Of the ex- plosions were almost continuous, and the roar of the flame was like the nulling of a violent hurricane. The heat of the fixe was so intense that no one could ap- proach within 160 feet of the limitsof the fire. Among those who were prostrated by the first explosion of gas was the young man WalliuM Biley. He succeeded in g aining his f oot, and being fortunately only a few stops from the outer edge of the fiery circle, he made hia way through the burning oil, and fell, all ablaze, just beyond the limit. He was seized by ouers, who jplunged him into a hogshead of water, extinguishing the fire, and car- ried him to A neighboring shanty. Within the cirde of flame, not ten feet from the edge, at the spot where Biley escaped, four bodies could be seen boiling in the seething oiL One man who had been digging at a trench to convey the oil to a lower part of tiie nound, was killed as he dug, and he could be seen, as he fell over the hancUe of his spade, roast- ing in the burning oil. H. B. Bouse, of Warren county, one of the most prominr ent of the earty oil produoers, for whom Bouseville w« Bubaieqently named, and whose revenue from oil wells at the time of the great disaster amotmted to 91|000 a day, was standing near the treneh tiiis man was digging, when the explosion oc- conad. He iras lifted in the air and thrown more than twenty feet away, alighting in a pool of biasing oil. He rose tohis feet, ana ran, all abliuee for a short distance, and fell. He was seized by several men, his burning clothes extin- gidshed, and carried to a shanty. Not a vestige of plothing wasjleft upon him ex- oeptnis stockings and boots. His han was burned off as well as his ears, his eiyeUds, and his finj^rs. His tiytibaSiM irero Mitirely bnmed otii His body wMA blistered from the bre a s t down. He never lost eoiwdonsness, but £ved mhe hours, dnriim whibh time he; delih^riitely di»- :trt^dniii '•'^.^ 1*1^*. iiTBi W* will' « tihija onfy â€" Iâ€" the nothers "oal Iten CSarioa rix ooidd lie Walkir; t#b county; Wcri^ (ftHtaier, el WlMabnrg; John StevwM, tadd Masoa, and Albert Gardiner. Twelve men, who are known to have vnited the ^ot, stntittara sight- seeing in the dl reg^ona, were, believed to have been among the victims of the dis- astCT, as thqy could not be found and w«re never hettd of afterward. Muty- fonr men wMoreaeaed. asWaUaoe Biley was, but their injuries were so great that twenty-two of then died. The soene at the height of tiie fire « desoribed as having haea the most frifrht- f ul and at the same time tbe grandest spectacle ever witnessed. The flow of oil continued unabated for months, and as no human power could extuiguish the flames it continued burning furiously. The well finally gradually exhausted itself, and the fire was at last conquered. Hundreds of thousands of barrels of oil were consum- ed, and the well which would have been an enormous fortune to its owners ruined them. Wallace Biley wab burned in almost ex- actly the same manner as the unfortunate Mr. Bouse had been. For weeks his suf- ferings were intense, and he constantiy begged to be killed. The youog woman whom he was to have married on that terrible evening was his conntant attendant during all his suffering. JSis life was saved, but he was left sightless and without hands, while his fara was terribly disfigured, and his lower limbs were fleshless and drawn out of shape. His mind was also badly affected, and id- though he recovered in a great measure his mental powers, he was subject to fre- quent lapses, which lasted'sometimes for days. During these spells he raved con- tinuously about tht? hurrors of the scenes at the burning well. It was during one of these paroxysms that he died,apparent- ly in the. greatest agony. Be had been cared for foi twenty-two years by a brother. The young woinan to whom Biley had been engi^ed to be married died within a year after the frightful catastrophe of the burning well. â€" Philadelphia Item. Ballway Trarellbuir. A London paper calls attention to the fact that Uie managers of English railways are now studying to provide for the com- fort of passengers instead of trying to se- cure more gorgeous accommodations and greater speed. This subject should re- ceive the attention of railway managers in this conntry.^ With all the recent im- provements in cars, railway travel is still very uncomfortable. Tne time of leaving and arrival of trains running between great cities is often very inconvenient. On some of the trunk lines between Chic- ago and New York, the trains leave about 5 in the afternoon and arrive at about the same hour in the morning. Persons who leave home at the hour named go without supper. Perhaps the train stops twenty minutes for refreshments at some unim- portant station where there is but a single eating-house. If this is the case, half of this time is occupied by the passengers in going from the train to the dining room, in waiting to be served, and in returning to the cars. Ten minutes do not aff jrd a sufficient time in which to eat 1a meaL Five or even six in the mormng is a very inconvenient time in whi^ to arrive in a great city. Especially is this the case if the passenger is a stranger. He does not know where to go, and is generally at the mercy of "hotel runners. There is no opportuiiity of transacting business for at least three or four hours. To avoid dis- comfort, it is generally necessary to go to a hotel in a carriage, and be at the ex- pense of paying for a room. The rapid speed of the train is no gain to the travel- ler. It is in fact a loss in both time and money. The proper time for arriving in a large city in the morning is when public conveyances are making regular trips, the hotels are ready to serve breakst, and the stores are open for business. The perpetual annovance of railway passengers by the venders of worthless books, stale pop com, unwholesome fruit and prize packages iii an abomination that should iMver be tolerated, Peddlhur is prohibited or restricted in most cities, and tbe peddler is a nuisance in a first-tl 'ss car. He is a train-robber whose pres vO is almost as objectionahl0 as a bad:-wu .is bandit He renders tnvelling a burden. The attempt on many railway companies to monopolize the trade in food, (kinks, and dgaxs is not commendable. It shows a very small mint. The comfort of pass- engers would be promoted by having sev- etu places for the sale of reneshments at the stations where long stops were made. Many people travel who van not pay a doUur for a meal. Th^ should have an oppntunity to obtain meals that are with- in their means. A lavatory should be provided for every passenger oar. Pas- sengers, especially in summer, beoome oovered wi^ dust and smoke after riding a few hours. Th^ can enjoy littie com- fort unless they have an opportunity to wash. Lavat(»ies are needed for cleanli- ness, health, and comfort. Passengers would care much more for them than for eiqwnaive oinsaient«tim. The number of women who travcd with young child- ren is slways large. The children are generally a source of great annoyance to the passengers. It would cost â-  but little to partitictt off and fit up an apartmont for a nursery on one oar on each passen- ger train. A ear having an aputment for women with young children would be a great convenience and would add to the revenue of a road by inereamng the num- ber of paasengen. Common oomfort is in greater d^saod than hii^7 oisBHnent- ed oasB and tbsj rapid speoii. (^tUsago lift fa St FMenkui; People hers all arm thonsdves for the winter. There oan be no question as to its rity. lindeed, oee would be Indinad to eH#1l ;#8l#«laMisl^i#iiWMMfe a Iriead, f r keen disupoiatment is expressed when the SMV is tuNty in f.Kin^ After the heavy sahifc wUeli bll in the late autuim «ni»«^raads are almost alicaisity cf ezirt- eaoe. If frost suddenly sets in l^sfore they are SMde it is under great difficulties that this v^aSaj people bitetc sapplies to the meVropoIis tbe mno of prcvisums riMS in invportion, and distress sasnss. Ioable windows are univarMl they are an abso« late aeoeasity. F«ir the admi s'on of fresh air oa»psae ia enii"«fMow is left ab that it outy be opened «t pleasure. Tbe rest of the window is so thoroiighly secured that not a brcalh of the keen ahr oui eater. The process aoeompUslied, the diSsrence of the tnnperatnre within doors is sensibly peroep* tible, and heating by means of stoves may t hen be delayed ftir some time. The interior of a Bossian house is not familiar to aU, so, under favor of the L- res and Penates, we will enter the Mored domicile, firet promis- ing that a well kept house in St. Petersburg or Moscow is exceedingly comfortable. A tall portly suisae (house porter) admits yOn, when a footman usher, you up a mostly xpacious, handsome staircase, often of marble, and after passing through the usuid doable doors you ate mtrodncei into an anteroom whera you leave your inevitable garmentâ€" your fur oI:ak. The reception rnoms are then entered, and these often seem interminable; e'ght or nice in nuinb r in tbe houses on the Palace or English Qaays are not unoomiron, generally opening into one another. The inlaid pai quota of the rooms are often very beautifulâ€" the floor polisher in an important institution in Rus- sia of course, some rooms are richly oar peted and do justice t) the loomi of Turkey and Persia. The silk or damask curtains, wall hangings, and coverings for the otto- mans are superb. A 1 is luxurious vases of apis-lazuli, porphyry, and malachite, pic- tures, and objects of art in general are in profusion. Tha Russians are very fond of prcmsnading through their suites of apart- ments, aud ample space u left for this pur- pose. The winter being so Ions;, every con- ce vable means is used to shed arpuud the charms of warmer climates trellises, along which various creepers are trained, are in- troduced pretty baskets of plants 'ulips, hyacinths, and camellias in full bloom, while winter is still raging outside,) the oon- (taut warm temperature indcors being favorable to their cultivation The Con- tinental fashion of living in flats much pre- vails here. Sleeping rooms are not invari- ably numerous in p oportion to the lezep- tion rooms but tnis state of things natur- ally improves with the increase of civiliza- tion.- [Temple Bar. tTemation of an Indian Bajah. A case of cremation has occurred at Ebretat under very remarkable oiroum- atances. A rich Indian, the Rajah Abuse- bid Koanderao, with a suite ot 12, came lately to the Hotel des Bans, soared from Nice by the cholera. He died of an anthrax, or carbuncle, lather suddenly. His friends aaked that his body might be burned with Asiatic rites. The Mayor of Etretat, great- ly embarrassed, telegraphed to Paris for instructions, and an authorization was given, but great pains were taken to prevent the public from seeing the unukual sptctaole. At 2 in the morning the corpse was placed on a bier on the sands at the foot of one ot the great white oliffj of E retat, where it was feet fire to, and continued burning to 6 in the morning. There were scarcely any spectators except the native fiiendsof the deceased and some fishermen, who appear- ed greatly astonished at the unusual spec- tacle of which they were witnesses. The ashes, when the incineration was complete, were divided into three portions. One was thrown to tbe winds, another into the sea, and a third placed in a vase to be stnt to re- latives in India. ' A Tenetian Wedding Bay, A Venetian festival is a synonym o! *all that is magnificent and romantic. From the ta'-liest history the fetes have been events of the greatest populir intrrest and importance. They have been celebratsd moit frequently to perpetaato the mamory i f some triumph of the Venetian army, ancL t lie patriotism of the people has besn kept alive by these fetes quite as much as by the ccnsciousness of commercial impor ace a and power. For centuries the Marian festivals were the most important hoUdays of the year. It was a custom introdaoed early in the tenth century to select from the different parishes of the city twelvepoor maidens, distiDguish~ ed for virtue and beauty, who were pro- vided with dowry at the cost of the Stats. and fitted out with wedding tr j^eaus from the Treasury of St Mark. The girls were dressed in long robes of white, with loosend ed hair intorirovea with threads of gold, and in a rich barge were curried to the Cnnroh of St. Peter, followed by a cortege of gayly decorated gondolas, with mnsic and nngerj. the Doge and Signory accom- panying the procession. Each maiden bore in her hand a small box containing her dow- ry, and met her appointed husbsnd in the church. Mars was celebrated, and the b'shop officiated in the msrrisge oeremonny. This was the b^ginnimnff of tae fete, which lasted a whole week With the growth of luxury and laxity of m3rals the (eitival lost its original oharaeter, and it became neoes- wry to limit its observance, and during the Oenovese ww, in the fourteenth century, tbe celebration wras neglected and fell into di»nse. An incident which happened in the tenth century during the observance of this festival has long been a favorite theme of artists and poets, and illustrates too well tie spfrit of the di^ and the isolation of the new republic to be omitted here. The Trieste pirates long watched an opportunity to rob the festal barge of its treasures, both human and monetary, and one fine morning of St. Mary's eve they burst open the doors of the cburoh, surprised the congregation and es- caped with tha brides and treasures. The Doge, who was present, urged immediate pursuit. Every boat capable of carrying rowers was manned and put to sea in the greatest haste. Ven'ca rose as one man to join the pursuit of the pirates and to assist m the recovery of the brides. The enthus- iasm of the Venetians was so irresiiitible that the grates were overtaken and beaten in one of the entrances to the lagoon. Not a pirate escaped, such was the tary of the pursuers. The brides were recovered entire- ly unharmed, and the ceremony of marriage took place with increased pomp tiie same eveninf, l.i hi' f i