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Bummer tour to Germany. While stepping jcu^ 

 the door of the opera-house in Berlin, to gain 

 her carriage, she let fall one of her bracelets close 

 to the pavement. Stooping to pick it up, she 

 noticed at the time, laughingly, that "one of the 

 horses belonging to a carriage standing at hand, 

 dropped his head so close to her face, that he had 

 touched her, and left a moist kiss upon her 

 cheek.'' In a few days the unfortunate lady was 

 taken ill with that most horrible disease, glan- 

 ders, and in a few day more breathed her last, in 

 spite of the attendance of the first physicians 

 of Berlin, and every resource to be obtained by 

 wealth, or by the ceaseless vigilance of friends. 

 — Court Journal. 



In March, 1853, a messenger named Meignan, 

 of the commune of Chemilli, consulted a quack 

 by the name of Moyne about a discharge affect- 

 ing one of his horses. Moyne, who passed in 

 the country as formerly a pupil of the veterinary 

 school at Alfort, and even assumed in his prac- 

 tice the title of veterinary surgeon, declared, after 

 having examined Meignan's horse, that he was 

 affected with " strangles," but that Meignan 

 might use him and treat him without any risk 

 of harm, and that he would answer for his re- 

 covery. 



Meignan, equally simple and confiding, followed 

 this dangerous advice. He made use of his horse, 

 treated and groomed him according to the instruc 

 tions given — in fact, was too faithful an executor 

 of the prescriptions of a man m whom he had 



