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Show AS ECCENTRIC WOVA5 ON HER TRAVELS, The Countess Perwenwater is a character. Recently she took a steamer steam-er at Jersey Ciry for Liverpool, and the goods she carried with her were thus inventoned: Une guitar, with 1 two strings; two old cane-seated chairs, one with two legs; three empty four-gallon four-gallon demijohns, uncorked; two peacocks pea-cocks and a black-and-tan, in a box; two broken children's cribs ol mahogany, mahog-any, one without rockers; one crossbreed cross-breed hound of English birth; one champagne basket, covered with dust; one broken painter's easel; three rickety rick-ety deck chairSj with varnish scraped off; one bag ot tinware; one six by three pedestal, without statuette, cracked; lour plain, square, Irish chests, two painted red aud two black, locks broken and hanging, each marked in white letters, "Countess D;" two mammoth chests, cross-tied with half-inch clothesline, with same mark; these contained the countess' numerous hats; fifteen very ancient- j looking trunks, tied across the sides and double-knotted at the back; one tray for mixing dough; two tin berth-room berth-room trunks; one bundle of loose oloth-ing; oloth-ing; two portable hat-racks, rather worn; sis cases of mysteriously packed bottles, supposed to be ale; three crates of sauces, mixed pickles aud catsups, put up in every conceivable shape; one copper-colored work-box done up in oil; seven heavy treble-twilled English Eng-lish traveling shawls tied with twine; thirteen gray woolen blankets, blan-kets, made in form of "shake down ;" seventeen packages of files of newspapers. newspa-pers. The countess wore on this occasion occa-sion a green silk dress, a white crape shawl, a pair of white silk gloves, etc When the laborers took hold of the box containing the lady's favorite peacocks and the black-and-tan, the curious crowd pressed down on tho eountcss until her lace-trimmed bonnet took a peep skyward, and her costly shawl swept the rough boards of the pier. "Handle 'em gently ; they're my only loves!" sho sharply cried, as she broke through the jeering crowd, and reached the foot of the gang plank. "This remarkable re-markable woman," says tho Smi, has a fine estate in the north of England, in the county of Cumberland, called Derwentwaier. She has always been noted for her eccentric manner and antiquated an-tiquated notious. Her wardrobe is said to consist of over two hundred rich aud elaborately trimmed dresses, girted with gold laces, fringes and parti-colored velvets. She wears no diamonds, dia-monds, and but one plaiu linger ring adorns her hands. She claims to have among her apparel robes worn by some of the belles of the time of William the Conqueror, and when she travels, these are part of her personal luggage, carefully care-fully packed in the fifteen trunks mentioned, men-tioned, which are as antiquated as the dresses. Her appearance indicates an ago not beyond forty, though possibly older. She will visit Scotland aud Wales before returning to her homo. Ex. |