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Show Mahib Taulioni, the celebrated Italian danseuse, has just died at Paris, JJugcd OS year?. This lady made her debut at Vienna in tho summer of 1822, shortly after which ho performed per-formed in Paris, where she surpassed in grace and agility all competitors in the ba'let. From that timo for fifteen years, eho was considered the leading dancer of Europe. In 1847 she retired from tho Ftago with a handsome fortune, purchasing a palace in Venico and a villa upon lake Como, and spending spend-ing many jcurs of happy married life. But during later years heavy lossos ompelled her to seek a livelihood by moans of hor profession, tho Franco-German Franco-German war having been particularly disastrous to her. In 1872 the lady moved from France to London, and opened a s:hool ofdanoing and and doportmcut. Her greatest trouble in tho Londou world, which Bhe had so long left, was that the young ladies of the present generation didn't know how to bow, and seemingly oouldn't leuro. |