OUR PARIS LETTER.

Evening Star, Issue 4214, 29 August 1876, Page 4

OUR PARIS LETTER.

Paris, July 8. Prince Jerome STapoleon desires to bo addressed as plain Monsieur .Napoleon. The journals accodo to his wish, adding " exPrince JerOme." . The dogs have their day in Paris. Siuce the commencement of the warm weather the police have applied the regulations respecting muzzling dogs with great severity. This has produced a reaction. Scientific, practical, and professional men have attested that the muzzling caused the dogs to go mad by preventing them opening their mouths, not only to drink but to perspire, as it is by the mouth, and not the skin, that dogs transpire. The outcry has had for effect to pat an end to muzzling of dogs in France; but every dog must be henceforth provided, with a eollar, having thereon the name of the owner. Without this the animal can bs taken and shot. The consequence is a decrease in wandering dogs, and. an increase in the dog-tax revenue. In the play of ''Louis XI," most of the artists have to wear furs; many persons actually go to the theatro to witness such torture; but they themselves have to undergo a little, as the Sencgalion temperature is tto respeotor ef persons. There continues to be an increase in the number of boat-resi-dences this season on the Seine; these Xoah's arks are very pretty looking and coquettish j they have for roof a dower garden rand people can fish from their bodroom windows j the rats are the only inconvenience, they are alike insensibe to traps and poison. One of Baron Rothschild's bachelor brothers, has a very pretty shiphouse; the idea is not suited for a man with a young family, and it is said that a leading stock-broker when he gives a dinner party on board his yachtbouse, presents eaoh guest with a ticket, on which is engraved a number corresponding to a lifebuoy on deck. ]S'ext week Paris is promised its Mammoth floating concert room. This is a vast barge, fitted up u a bar and singing saloon. It will bo (*wed up and down tho river for three kourc, from 8 till U p.m., so that a mouth - Ml of air can b a caught, ; . A satirical jsurn d depicts Turkey accumulating its heaps of massacred subjects with Mahomet looking on .-it the increasing meand of dead. The sqnib is entitled "The Mountain at last coming to Mahomet.' Pleasure yachts now indulge in tho amusement of letting fly pigeons to convoy t friends on Bhora "a message from tho sea." The unexpeotel death of M. Car.iu.ir Perier, when everyone believed ho had con tueted a well-nigh fatal attack of gout, ha» created ranch astonishment. Ho iinpru dently drank a cup of cold milk while in dalging in a carriage drive, this braaght o; inflammation, undor which he has succumbed, aged sixty-five." Siuoa the fall of ths Empir. he haStaking prominent pnrb in p-lilies' and it is ma,iuiy to his frrnmejis and moderation., that the Republic, even .such-as it is, J)M been, constituted, K'e w&s a Royalist

by birth and eduoation, and eldest son ol the 1 famous Minister of the same name—the best I statesman Fraace ever had, as he was the impersonation of liberalism and legalitj, but crushed all violations of the law without pity, no matter from where they came. The deceased, one hour before his death, talked of his two sons and his brother-in-law, the Due Pasquier, President of the Senate, as +o the politicallifcthey ought to lead. Then ho suddenly stopped, smile'!, bowed,' and expired. M. Thiers arrived post huste to bid his friend good-bye, and sat for a full hour weeping beside the body. That evening M. Thiers gave not the less a great diuner party, where the Rnglish and Russian Ambassadors, old friends of his, had a long chat with him respecting the Eastern question. He is opposed to the dissolution of the Turkish Empire. In every ohurch there is a tronc or box, at the entrance door, into which the faithful ] drop their abolns for the Pope, the poor, or the church. Since many months a sensible falling off in the receipts was remarked, detectives were employed, and they soon found the rogue, a dumb man who, with a piece of whalebone and glue, extracted the coiu from the opening in the box. He professed to be dumb, the police doctor was sent for, and promised to make him speak. Ho opened a case of instruments, the prisoner at once dropped from his mouth several pieces of gold, and confessed his crime. For years he has lived by robbing the churches in I'aris and the Provinces.

The International Exhibition of 1878 only awaits the sign manual of Parliament to commence work. Everything connected with the projoct is cut and dry, and plenty of time exists for execu ; ing all the marvels. The site is already being marked off, and the engineers and contractors otand "rea-iy' to do their duty when the Bill becomes law. The heaviest part of the undertaking will be the approach roads. Opinion here is not at all favorable to the miracle of Lourdes, on the oocasion of the fete 3 in connection with the consecration of the cathedral erected to commemorate the alleged appearance of the Virgin to tho girl Bernadetfce, a few years ago. She was directed by the Virgin to bathe her feet in the little river, aud then corao and listen to certain revelations, affecting, of course, only the Catholic Church, and which counts two hundred millions of souls—less "the boy Mortars,." Tho crowd of pilarims was variously estimated at from 40,000 to three times that numbor. Thut the pilgrims mustered in force is evident, since special correspondents had to seek a night's sheltor three miles distant from Lourdes, and to content themselves >ltn a oam and a few bundles of straw. The roughing will prepare them for doing the autumn manoeuvres of the army. The whole proceedings were calm and orderly, the Government in no way interfering. When they did interfere a few years ago, as at 3 antes and Besancon, rows ensued, which would seem to corroborate tho wide-spread impression in Franco, that the promoters of disorder are ever the governmental agents. Do not believe that these pilgrimages represent religion per .«?. Franco only Goca in them Ihe politics of tho Vaticsn and tho speculation of Henry V. ; while feeling not tho loss astonished that thirty-two bishops and their accompanying clergy, with the Archbishop of Paris at head, have not employed their authority to stop the melancholy exhibitions of miraclf-s debited under thoir responsibility, old para lysed women, after half a century of infirmity, became as nimble as girls in their teens; tho blind are restored to sight, and the deaf -to hear, <vc. The Bishops havo hore compromised their authority, and aflicted all truly Catholic consciences. Tho Church does not refuse to these miraculous cures all its authenticity, but it prevents tho reconciliation of science and religion, whilo encouraging a belief in the supernatural in tbo common affairs of life. This is but quietism, fatalism—something very near allied.to the religion of .wlahomet. The ode has severe penalties against eomnambulcs, sorcerers, &c, and it ought not to tolerate that (rod has waut <f the rheumatism of an old crone to manifest His power, whilo He has given us the world as the greatest of all miraclos. Oh. Rcligio-i! what, &c, &c, are committed in thy name ! These pretended miracles a-ul revelations of the Virgin begin to distract Catholics. Every tiee in tho interior Boulevards of Paris represents a value of 180fr., its caring throughout the year is valued at 23fr. expense. The following receipt may prove useful. Near Nimes a showman was pursuing his ordinary calling, chowing off three pet boars to the astonished natives. At the same moment a boys' school had just sent forth its young ideas. The chief bear seized a "fat boy " abont ten years of age, and was arranging him for a " ling," when the master attacked the animal with his stool. The showman begged him to take care and not iujuro Bruin, and drawing forth a few raw bones from a side pocket gave them to the bear which immediately let go the lad. It is proposed that journalism be raised to the rank of the fine arts. In the sense of murder being one of the fine arts, journalism is that already, as not a day passes but a | newspaper here assassinates somebody. However, it is remarked tho killed and | wounded by newspapers ever enjoy the most robust health. Public writers complain that while painters, photographers, and dentists are decorated, editors arc not favored with the distinction of promotion to the Legion of Honor.

The parish of St. Sulpice is perhaps the most important in Paris, it is in the centre of the Faubourg St. <-erm;iin, which is an institution in the capital, composed, as it is, of the really old Catholic French nobility. The parish has * population of 40,000, and the clergy number twenty-two. One of their body has just celebrated his golden wedding. He has been in orders theso fifty years, and since his ordination has been attached to St. Sulpice Church. After a high mass was celebrated, a sermon was preached lauding the virtues of the old gentleman. Then the clergy congratulated him and entertained him at breakfast. After the invasion and the Commnne 40,000fr, were subscribed to purchase a sword of honor for Marshal Macmahon. The sword was never ordered, and the Marshal merits to be complimented for his modesty A subscriber asks what has become of the money ? A young man, respectably dressed, threw himself, a few days ago, from the Pout <V Alma into the Seine, lie floated near a man occupied in fishing for gudgeon, but who never moved, being absorbed in the intricacies of a "bite." The young man rose and rose, and then sank. His bi,dy has not been f-iuiid. Tho fisherman was nearly stoned to de:;th by the crow!.