DB LESSEPS' LOVE STORY,

Waikato Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1550, 10 June 1882, Page 1 (Supplement)

DB LESSEPS' LOVE STORY,

The Pesther Llvyd Bays thai Eerdinuid tie Lessees hat beeu an Othello, though without the miserable ill-luck of S^iakipeare'a swarthy hero. Like " Okhello,? hj won toa present beautif al wife by the aarratton of hia •dventareß and dangers. M. to £tmfl 16 now on the verge of eighty, but m ppite of his great age he retains ihe hopetatyisß '»m freshness of youth, and has *»««£*¥»"*• iv thi« respect, to Pythagoras, T"^. n * Alexander yon Humboldt, and even t£ thOM heroes of Indian legend who enjoy their Hveu twice over. At the age of eixtjMght, M. da Lesieps was left a widower, and haS ». troop of grown-up boub and daughter!; Boat few s«a« aft« i* ww reported, to the amwement of the world, that the lively ••p«ia+ genarianh»d mwried * youog Oreota m»J«»y of astonibhiog beauty, who haa nMa^ brought "him cix children. In » otrtain P«ißian family, wheie M. do Leweps oftea vieited, there m* • bevy of five Bieteri. The old man delighted to gather them arcun4 him, and relate siiiriog episodes faom hie travels. One day, while Bperting of hw experiences in PaleatJne, be mdhe ted undergone great dangers ana diffiopitiea among the Arabi, became they could not oonoeive how a m«n oonld live withoul » wife. The pjettieel of the cistere innooently aiked, "Why, then, do you not marry again?" ••Because lam too old," replied M. de Lesiepg. " Besidei," he added, "if I were to fall in love with a young ,gul» it would be absurd to think that ihe _ would fall in love with me." " Who knowa I" observe* his questioner. Lesseps told, hie young listener about the Bwe of Jouoho, wmon, after being dried and placed in water, agam burst out into bloom. Soon after be obtained one of these roseß, and presented it to the young g«l. In a few daja Bhe appeared with the rebloHSomea rooe ia her hand, wbioh she gave to t&a. honoured guest, sayicg, at the same June: « See what a miracle the water huß efieoted upon the rose ; it is tbe bloasoming of love in old age." Their eyes met, and M. ae Lesseps, believing that his Desdemona had • meaning in what she did, quietly said : II you really thick that you dare venture to sh»re the remaining years of an old man, here is my hand/ But fqs his marriage it 18 very uncertain whether the bold projootor would have undertaken his laborious task at Panama. She is always at his Bide, and has been his chief help and support throughout, his atauous conflicts with pohtieiant, money-lenders, inquirers and laboarwa. — London Echo. '

* A stobt is froing tho rounds to the effect that the widow of a murdered man ia France was induced to took into the eyes of the corpse, and deny, U ehe dared, that she saw his murderer in them, according to popular belief. She looted, shrieked, and fainted. She distinctly saw her own face. It was tbe result ok a device of tne family doctor tmd the son of the murdered man, who, like h's father, was an »mmri staffer. He had put a pair of enamelled eyeß into hia father's head, aad the woman whom tbe murdered man had married about twelve months be6ore confessed her crime. The etory is told by a Parii correspondent, which is of itself proof enough ot its truth, aa they are notorious for their fidelity to facts. Bather than 1 write anything that was not true they would send a chapter from the latest published French romance. A Woman's Dbbam.— The Bath (Me.) Times states that a Udy in Bath wa* recently much alarmed by dreaming tnafc some one was holding her wrist. Vainly endeavouring to scream for assistance, she succeeded at length in whispering -just loud enough to awaken herself. After a few minutes relief at being no longer under the influence of the dream, she became conscious that some one was really holding her left wrist, and all her strength was inadequate to release it. Her terror now rendered he* as speechless as Bhe had been before awakening. After awhile, however, she xwovered her senses sufficiently to look l down, and she found the relentless grasp ! was that of her own right band, and not eaay to withdraw from its twin companion* so desperate had b^ome its hold. State Senate Bubton, of Ford Bend j County, T^xaa, was formerly a slave in Vi »^ via. He was taught to read and Tjate by his mistress, whom he afterward rewatded by supporting her fall her death, the Wat having impoverished her, ana sending her .daughter a cheque for one thousand dollars on her wedding-day, r MABxnua by telegraph and ttlepnone bat beociiwvery popular. Ik prwnti tb» preaeniPtiom killing the bridt/ Bat thi» ii th« way of the world. AWraji begin re»