OUR PARIS LETTER.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 4, Issue 347, 14 November 1879, Page 2

OUR PARIS LETTER.

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(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT*)? asgfc-r.

It takes a week to transport; goods by railway from Havre to Paris, aijd a month from the west to the east of 'Franco. In coaching days the carriage was efilectedrinS one-half the time. [ v ■ \ Prince Jerome Nagojeonysends his illemate sons to the Jesuits' college, R ; ue dj3 Vaugirard, lawful" heira;;£b 'the government lyce*e of Vanves. The Edmunds are reported to be more talented than the Edgars. * The astronomer Arago had but little faith in railways, like Thiers and the late Earl Derby ; he could not understand how a few parallel rods of iron could change the"face ol~a "count ffT^TSS male a good Minister of War .and, Marine.; "j The " Swallows" a newclub just founded ; the.l members must have nofixed^^ i re^d^fi'ce^ 1 the fashionable' ,, statifin§j"' i feW?>wing the seasons. , t .' ~, _. A new Parcels 'Company has -taken for device the "Wandering Jew," and for mottj9 l \"Phr'ie7fe et < f\ \*\ ' Claims that; Demostberiesj not Gambetta, was'the'Originator of the policy " Opportunism." ~ r- , t ~r ?_ . _]■ The eminent critic Sairlte-Beuvo fell in lo.vo at nine years ;of age .with' hW cotilsin, continued the passion till his teens, and being.refu.sed hep .hand resolved, to die a bachelor, winch he ! did.' ' ■ •

When the revolutionary tribunal sat at Lyons, the accused the decision of the Prekdehtf; W-heb tne? latfer touched his forehead, the prisoner was to be shot,; •when the , axe, symbol -of'ofScß ptaced'on his breast, ito:be;giiillotiried:;: anx&iwhen on the register of cases, to be acquitted. "Aβ jiiifiujrgjßhtl of ?|B3oj aVo/fvS lie goSb ■regularly to the ChUdh of Sfi Mery," not to pray, but to visifa™ side chapel, on the .floor of «r,hielx!i« iUh'e) dtatn ;©£! hUrbldo& from four bayonet thrusts and a, f ,«

The policy, of Napoleon 111., in f 1866, undermined France and "made an abyss: that of 1,870 iprecipitatetl hen thereiny : >

" Papa is dead, Mamma ?" " Yes, my child." "He will never come-back?" " No, my darling."l ■' "Then ' be' •happy, mawmaj I. wjll; n;qw/give all my love to you, arid will never forgive papa.for leav r ingiiis,'" '.i.! <* ! *s '! - •■•> < ''»'■' ' ;

The " Persian Letters" of Montesquieu have had twenty imitsit*i6hs ;• thef'original alone surviyesrt- the ; best criterion, of merit. .. vj<i<; ■j , : ~,.., ..,: j ; .,j > _ : . ; :l

• Napoleon L,, whe,n, he ,desheds to show his great friendliness, to people, always playfully pulled their ears. ' , ; .

"Snails with the. vine flavor" are. for sale in the me Sti La'zare ; a. churchyard taste would be nearer reality; for , the majority of the univalves are 'gathered in the cemeteries, not in vineyards; : : •<■<]', V>

A collection of-toya, saidjto .belong rxi the late Prinze, Imperial, is offered for sale.

" Love," said the First Napoleon, f' is a passion : which puts everything iri the" world on one side, in order to see and to place only one object on the other." The ex-Kirig/' of Spain wis'eebn'a'few' days ago ruiming, after ;au omnibus, the conductor intimating' to Don Fran9ois d'Assise thah'Ww&s'compfof. A guide book to duelsJxas.appeared, for the BslTbf seconds and doctors, and in the interests of f ainiliesi and society. • > ■ ■' ' loiit\ie engaged, a of Zulus,' /\less,(petawayo," a torpedo, tree,,a jand.deyil fish, a .flying foxj and a collection of'" carniyQrpus , . i; "' '.'" i i "''.';',,'i'>' M. Rogues, ei : Mayor of Puteatis," orice a'leading Communist, bdt now jimnestiedv denies that he performed 1 the duties of guiUotinerjduring his compulsory residence in New Caledonia.,: i ;.: ! i-:-; ■;s =

The pantaloons, lOf, the .French: soldiers will for the future be.;' biue : blaek," not red colored. ' In , time the Prussian helmet will be adopted.

A statistician estimates that from the number of judicial separations granted to married couples, on the divorce law being repealed, the new Court can count upon 3722 Cases being "setdown for hearing." According to professions, it is the financial world that figures largest for relief.

A new journal appeared -r- " The Rights' of Men and Women." It is printed on rose-cojored paper, arid demands that the Salic law be repealed, debarring ladies from throwing their caps, say at the Presidentship of the Republic.

Victor Hugo, in his scheme for a European Republic, not the less- claims that that of France should remain " one and indivisible." ''' : : :

M. Lachaud, jun., states —a politician is an individual who embraces the political career because s it c«n ; be something; a statesman? bWcause itis'sbmethingi ' l •

Louis Blanc is, perhaps, the' smallest man in France, hence why he is humorously called the " member for Lilliput." On arriving at Marseilles a few. days ago, the Republicans unyoked the horses of his carriage and took their place-rFrance is a land of equality—while two men. seated in the vehicle held the conquering hero up by the legs on their shoulders. * M.Pertus, one of : the rising poets, has woven in patriotic stanzas .the .remarkable events in the lives of the,great men of France.' The opening sonnet is dedicated to Sophocles, and' the concluding' one to " Agla6," his • pet ; parrot, " who inspired hi m .'V ; i , ,\ •- . ; .-.-.» .■••.-•; The Monitmt Universel attributes :the pamphlet " Nine Years, of Republic in France " to M. .Arthur Deschamps, Minister for Foreign Affairs in Belgium. ,i-The.lat- ;- ter. wrjtes, like the shade' of VMerimee, f rom • the Champs Elys£es, ■ "'.tih'at, 1 since several years he has quitted this World:" " M. i Charles : Blanc says—"Gardens are theanuseums of nature. ,, ■■■■■. The grave question," where is Gambetta ?" is at last solved ; he is at Meudon, studying military ballooning, and intends visiting the dove-cot iri the Jardin d'Acclimatisation to witness = the departure and arrival of the military, carrier,, pigeons. Coming events, &C. , A Spaniard can-breakfast on a cigarette", and find a supper in an air of a guitar.' A monument is to be erected to Dr Bazin, who discovered that cutaneous diseaseswere due to,the presence of insects, and wliich his famous pomatum destroyed. He saved thousatidsfrom a scratchy

', Albert Wolff, a naturalized "Prussian and roundabout journalist on the Paris Press, has just-built a pretty villa in the suburbs, and has named it '-' The Bohemian's Nest." „....: .., ~ '

In old French duels—the time when antagonists were in danger of being killed, the two most classical coups were—the

" Lancheschi , thrust," where the foil entered between the eye-brows, and the "pig thrust," where the weapon cutt the artery under the ear ; either" left the patient beyond all surgery. The Prince de Sagan was reported a few Hays ago to have fallen from his horse and broken his spine ; numerous friends called and left their cards. It was a jockey of the same name that met with the accident, so the Prince sent him all the cards wrapped up in a bank note for IOOOfr. In 1815 the annual budget of France was one milliard of francs ; to-day it is three, and the tendency is. still to " pluck the bird without causing it to cry." Catherine 11. observed to her friends Voltaire, Diderot and Grimm : " You forget our positions ; all your beautiful theories are _ worked on paper, which suffers everything ; while I, a poor Empress, have to work on the human skin, which is irri- [ table and ticklish."

The halls attached to several newspaper offices in Paris, and farmed "but-for' publicity, bring in nearly as much revenue as "the^advertisementsin the journals. Merimee says : " A Parisian salon is an arsenal where one can obtain the means for making a noise, where it is" necessary to know how to become weary, to lie incessantly, and. to never have too much wit."

<The late eminent architect and critic, M. Viollet le Due, always believed he would die from apoplexy, hence why he constantly had a penknife, opening by a spring;, ready tocut a vein if the " stroke" .came... It did arrive. He "srttempted'to open a vein in his temple with the knife, but the second stroke followed too swiftly on the first.

The Archbishop of Bruges, who hae just died, a prince, of the house of d'Auvergne, relates, that when a child, he was given religious toys to play with, while his brother, the general, was supplied with soldiers, cannons, &o. So he himself became thus an ecclesiastic, and his brother a soldier.

Two kinds of amber are found in the Baltic—grey, which is the excrementitious matter of a whale,-and yellow, a fossilized resinous exudation from pine forests, ages ago submerged. It is in the latter that insects and blades of grass are found encased as freshly preserved as when first covered by the exudation. The legend is, that Amphitrite, goddess of the sea, wore a necklace of amber beads, and iwhen Boreas, king of the tempests, hugged her too tightly, she became indignant, and commenced casting the beads into the Baltic as a present to the fishermen, till the god treated her more respectfully.

■On the Russo-Prussiau frontier there are two . neighboring villages, Nimmersatt (Russian), meaning " always hungry," and Immersatt (German), signifying "ever drunk."

Letter from a young lady from the country on a visit to Paris:"-d]very day there are splendid funerals, so I amuse myself enormously." .■•..-.'.-.■;

Thiers boasted that '' the Republic was the regime which divides us least;" Yet never were {so many victims up when assassinated as now..

If Victoria WoodhulJ be elected Presidente of the United States, the French will put forward Sarah Bernhardt when M.Grevy retires.

In France, young girls pass six years of their life to learn what they must foiget - wlreri TTi arried.

Wheh Marie-Antonette arrived at Versailles, she was shocked to find a private staircase leading out of her beiroom. " Madam," replied the ecclesiastic charged with the finishing of her education, " before fifteen years you will not speak thus."

" Monsieur, why do you agree with so many paiities ?"i *' In order to avoid having convictions."

Lovers will bfe glad to : learn that the Journal Offitiel certifies that telegraphic communication. '■ has ■ been re-established along the line of VAmour. •

According to Dr mothers give themselves unnecessary anxiety as to " waking baby." He asserts, onoe Morpheus has seized the brain, no noise around the cot can affect the olive branch.

Tailors now; fit out more ladies than dressmakers; and hatters are treading closely on the heels of milliners. An olddemi-tnondian, but penitent, had the weakness to have her rooms full of company, alleging she desired to have many people at her interment.

Mistress, while balancing, the accounts of the servant: " I obser.se ; Ade*!e, that you still spell " Saucisse'"'with only one " s." " ( I jknow that, Madame, Jbut I desired to shbw'you my economy." " Why has God given ; speech' to little chiJdfea, and riot to little dogs' and cats■?" Young hopeful, after reflection: '.' To allow children to cry when being washed."

In the rue Lafayette, " sea water deprived of its. impurities, and taken at no bathing station," is sold for half a franc per quart;' next door the same quantity of milk can be had for six sous, and a bottle of wine for ten. •

Rome prospered when her sons wived with a dash —as the abduction, of the Sabines ; she decayed when t'iey wed only with regret; or not at alii

No one knows the whereabouts of Mozart's grave ; that of his mother is rumored to have been discovered in the cemetery of Monteinartre. : .

TJie.'sweeps are on strike in Paris, just their.busy season/

: Estimates are called for to supply "130 artificial mouths" to the city lunatic asylums.: . . . ;

The. French Government has brought out a " Handy Koran " for the use of its representatives in Mahomedan countries. A retired financier in the Pare Monceaux, has a room devoted to an exhibition of all the bank notes of the world. Rubini, the tenor, afraid of "injuring his voices dared not smoke or eat to satisfy his appetite. The day he was to sing, he never went outside the door, save to the theatre. .-•■•.

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