Extraordinary Domestic Tradition

The following extraordioary Joinestie íiadition is extractad f rom a áew book whieh is nmoh talbed of in Europe : "Tbe Duke i Alba, Iho brother-in. law üf Napoleon III., is a short little man, who has something icy about his whole manner. Stnall and weak, his face displaya an ahibasler hue, whioh gives him a ghost-like aspeot. In Spain the story is current tkat the Duke was buried before be was born. Whcu bis mother wan eneiente with him, she was taken so desperately ill that all the attempts to restore bar reinaiuedjtruitless. The Dutohess died far from Madrid, at a chateau whiek had always been her lavorite residence. She was buriüd in tbe, faiuily vault ; and, as it is tho custom af the Spanlsh noliility, several valuablos, amoug otbers her rings, were put into the coffin. The treuswea which had been leffc to obliviou with the Dutuhess arousad tho oupidity of sotne ruffians; they broke into the vault on the uight following the funeral, robbed the duad woman, and would not leavo the ooffiu till they hadpluckod a flashing diamond from the finge r of the curpae. The diamond was on the little finger, and would not oorae ofi. Thia gave tlie bodysuatohers the truly cannibal idea of cuttiug the finger, The pain aroused the apparently dead woman ; tibe cam.) to her senses, sot up in the coffin, and, by her unexpeoted wakening put the robbers to flight. When they depurtod they forgot to close the vauli. The DuteLess found suffieiont sirength tq quit her coffin, and returned to the, chateau, whore she was at fitst Uikon to bo a ghost, and a priest was called in to oxoruise it, but as he was uunble to ban? ish the epectre, the people in tho chaleai( gradually began to believe in her eorporeal existonoe. The Dutchess recov ered, and travo birth to a boy, who haa never lost the deathly pallor which he brought into the vvorld with him.- Napoleon III and his Court, by a retked Dí ph'iatist.