CLIPPINGS FROM HOME PAPERS.

Tuapeka Times, Volume VII, Issue 369, 1 July 1874, Page 3

CLIPPINGS FROM HOME PAPERS.

AN ARISTOCRATIC " WELSHES." The London correspondent of the 'Leeds Mercury ' states that there is a terrible scandal afloat connected with a member of one of the highest families in the land, and himself an important Governmen* fficial. It appears that at one of the West End sporting clubs, where high play is not only tolerated but fostered, the gentleman was a frequent and regular attendant at the whist table, and a singular success had recently attended his play. Suspicions having arisen amongst the other , players, he was closely watched, and it was noticed that on each occasion that he dealt the ! cards a card fell upon and was after the deal I picked up from off his knees, and this card was j invariably an ace. Of course a great hubbub at I once arose, and there were even rumors of executing Lynch law upon the aristocratic "W.elsher." Calmer counsels, however, prevailed, and "the Greek" left the club precipitately, and has suddenly disappeared, not only from London society, where for so many years he has been known under a soubriquet that it would perhaps be unadvisable to repeat, but from this country. It is said that his private affairs, in spite of the large official salary of which he was in receipt, are also in inextricable confusion. At least two ducal families are closely related, one by blood and the other by marriage, with the hero of this most untoward episode of London fashionable life. RISEN FROM THE RANKS. An American paper, the ' Lowell Courier,' gives the following account of the Hon. Frederick Smyth, once a resident of the Lowell, and lately Governor of New Hampshire — " one of the best Governors the Granite State ever had, as well as one of her most successful and selfmade business men:"— "He began here as a porter at the Merrimack House, then kept by Mr Murdoch, and used to black boots at four cents per pair. He subsequently was employed on the Middlesex Corporation at eight dollars a month, and he tells with honest uriHo +w tho tarot pair o£ pants ho ovct owned, wllicll I were not of homespun, were earned on the Middlesex. He was afterwards promoted as yard hand on the Tremont at 75 cents a day. Having thus accumulated a litt'e money he went to school, and in due time woiked his way up by energy, industry, frugality, and ' faculty' to the Mayorality of Manchester, and to the Gubernatorial chair of his native State. His first visit to the Merrimack House after he threw down his blackening brush as porter, was ; in company with his executive council as Governor of New Hampshire." TRANSFUSION OF BLOOD. At the last sitting of the Paris Academy of ■ Sciences, an interesting paper was road on an \ operation of transfusion of blood successfully i performed by Dr Behier, on a female patient, ' who has since left the Hotel Dieu perfectly ( cured. At the time the operation was decided J upon the woman api eared to be on the brink of J the grave; the pulse was imperceptible, her weakness such that she was unable to move, J her eyesight all but gone ; she was unable to speak, and nothing would stay on her stomach. Dr Behier performed the operation in the presence of a number of students, to whom he afterwards explained the principles by which * he had been guided. He said it was highly ' important the blood to be injected should be r pure and in its natural state, without being de- s prived of its fibrine or allowed to cool. Such c preliminaries had been considered neces.ary in order to prevent coagulation in the vein, but there was no need of them if the operation was quickly effected. The blood should not be dead but living, haying its globules unaltered by stirring and refrigeration, and being still in „ possession of its albuminous matter, the nutri- j tive qualities of which were extremely great, j while at the same time it contributed to the j prompt transmission of the fluid. One of the obstacles that had hitherto caused transfusion j, to be looked upon with disfavor, was the diffi- v culty of introducing the nozzle of the syringe into the vein, it sometimes happening that the p trocar would wound it without penetrating into i! the cavity of the vessel, or else would pass through on the opposite side. The late Dr Nelaton had proposed to obviate this by an 0 : ncision of the skin an inch Ion;;, in order to _, bring the vein into view ; Dr Behier prefers i: opening the vein with the lancet, as in blood- w letting; he recommends the injection to be ii performed slowly to prevent the sudden repletion of the right ventricle of the heart, which would cause asphyxia and death. The imminence of such a state is indicated by a premoni * toiy cough, on the occurrence of which the injection should be instantly stopped. The .i quantity of blood to be administered in this case was not more than eighty grammes. Baron Ifcrrey, after the reading of this paper, said % that this was one of the most interesting cases of transfusion of blood that had ever come to i, his knowledge. The possibility of success was 2 now proved beyond a doubt, after a controversy which had lasted for upwards of two centuries. AMERICAN LiVDIES CREATE A SENSATION. Here is a drama from real life. Few per- a sons who have mixed in Parisian society during B . the last seven years but have encountered the V Misses Bell, three young American ladies, rich, * and remarkably beautiful. They were the sen- * satiou of every ballroom, as well as its compli- \ ment. The most admired of the three young ] graces was Carry. She disappeared since last autumn ; her family stating, in an embarrassed way, she had "gone home." There was a l skeleton in the cupboard in this princely abode. c Carry in 1873 had taken it into her head to sit £ for her statue, as the Duchess of Ferrari did, I in a state of nudity, for Titian ; the eminent * sculptor executed his task ; the marble created ' a sensation at last year's art exhibition, and at its close the figure was deposited in a mortuary chapel in Pere Lachaise Cemetery, constructed g previously by Carry. • All this was a secret be- \ tween her and the artist. Last summer she encountered the latter at the sea side, and her folly led to her seduction. In September, find- - ing herself to be enceinte, she demanded her ■ seducer to marry her. He refused, alleging his ' " reputation " would suffer, as the hasty mar- ! riage would suggest a pecuniary motive ; and second, he could have no confidence in a ' young lady who had voluntarily sat for her statue, as she had done. Carry then acquainted her father, who, after suggestions, gave her a bundle of bank notes,and shook hands with her for ever. She then hired an attic in one of the back streets, overlooking the Champs Elysees. She sought a midwife to effect a abortion, gave her nearly all her money, but hesitated at the deed. A few days ago she was recognised mounting painfully to her garret, a little bread and a cup of milk in her hand, by a gentleman who had known her in her happier days. She was starving, and an old black silk dress was nearly all her clothing; He brought her a chicken and some wine, assisted her to her

miserable bed, watched by her while she slepi heard her history when she awoke, and whe going away, left orders to be summoned in cts n of emergency. His valet called him during th night. The poor stranger was in the pains o child-birth, attended by a cook who came to he: c ' aid on hearing her cries. The doctor arrive. I c I The accouchement was difficult, but the chile 8 ' was born alive, and, ceding to her prayers, wn< c placed in her mother's arms. She hugged the infant so, that it was suffocated. She was in an ? access of fever. To quiet her, she was given 3 her dead child to press to her breast; and " while endeavoring to make it suckle, while | singing to and rocking it, she indulged in a loud '• laugh. Carry was dead. She and her child 1 now sleep in their sumptuous tomb, beneath ' the famous statue surrounded with white lilacs. " This strange, eventful history has already been prepared for the stage.