A PARIS SKATING RINK.

Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 38, 5 June 1876, Page 3

A PARIS SKATING RINK.

i, ; slating rink in Paris ami its /».<*^'-- ilifiplny a i" IW fashion, nothing less •• nil /rats," carried about by certain 1,, 11: is true the animals are white, liii'v arc rats all the same. Tht; Paris .s|n',iiili'nt of the " Argus " thus refers ~,, mill to some other social- proetivities i, a curious allusion to royalty is . ; The skating rink lias become a : iviiili'/.vouk of fashion, and people go. instlifv go in the public walks to- thy lii-bouloguc for thesake of exercise, to ,„iii, ;i .l,i.vi-< all, to In; seen. There it [■ t'n'si; white rats made their appear-

I t.lic tiny white rots, winch have jcd out; el-* fcliM good graces of »>nr |liy fair i'IH'M, the King t'hai-te* and luiVai; lan-dogs, fciach of these fair .. (: sneak iit' the ladies, mind has her ml;, whichshe takes everywhere with lamed and trained according t« its Natural taste. Yuri have there the vuv of music,, of the nit that fall's* Mit» uvs so soon as it hears an air |>taye*t ic piano, thy snorting rot that jumps* ~vn: tin, 1 obstacles in its way and ■s liiu'in in a. sty hi worthy of a steepler tin-; dandy rot,, dressed tip in thy si. tvshiim, Ac. I's it not delightful, and praiseworthy tasty! ftetweeuotirsetve* ■ hid.is an; not precisely the tJower of ;;ic!v, and there is* as much dil'terence ciii otii: of them and a dueheas of thy )i>m'ii St. H-triuaiii as there is Wtweeti ,i! and they are to f>« met even whei*v and always cu fcfiu most mnioMS places —iti the skating viuk, r .Irive in the Fxus de lioidogne. at iiiM'S, in the dress circle of the minor jts on tli« first evening a play is fhl; out, and- in the promenading of |',isiiiosia'>!« cafe's,, concerts, admired |h.-, i .. hy gentlemen *>l the first f i i, ■, i':i Ky princes of the hl'ood.