Extracts from our Paris Letter.

Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3661, 20 September 1880, Page 2

Extracts from our Paris Letter.

The Spanish lady is a Creole to perfection : her eyes look lo?e, before she can ■peak it: she dances, sleeps, and fans away life: she eats little, a cup of chocolate, and a biscuit smelling of rose pomade: for sapper, a serenade: she is devout, without being nearer heaven: be* lieves in relics, and that God is locked up in a jewelled box on the altar: she wears short dresses, open worked stookings, and shoes without heels; likes jewellery and showy colors: marries* when occupied with her skipping rope, feeling that a husband is indispensible: her bedroom is full of shells, artificial flowers, and pet animals, an absence of order and cleanliness : in summer she washes herself, but in winter it is so cold. The German is a lady at once romantic and sensual: lore originates in her head and descends to her heart: she has " the devil's beauty," thanks to her chaste eyes under half-closed lids; loves men in general and one or two in particular; is a rigid Lutheran, severe for the sins of others ; for her own, she settles them with heaven direct: false and cunning; says yes and no in all scandals as the majority inclines; has a weakness for study, music, housekeeping, darning stockings, and making jam; her bonnet is shaped like a Strasburg pie; her teeth are rarely brushed, and her hair is combed twice a week; her corset generally extends from her chin to her knees; has a weakness for paper flowers; her boots have inusable heels, and, in a pinch, would serve for a portmanteau; her stockings are loose, and her garters under the knee, have the inscription, "To Fritz," "To Arnold," &c. The Italian lady has hate in her heart and love in her eyes; by nature a courtesan, loves money and j pleasure; is idle, disobedient, and ambitious; is religious by externals, and loves art from and for its material side; trains herself for adventures; her mother has married Count A—, has eloped with Prince B——, and quit him for the Marquis C ; her sister has ran away with the artist who painted her portrait; she has returned home with a tenor, and now lives happily with a prince; attractive; she does not dress, but drapes herself; she rolls herself in a scarf; a pin suffices for a head-dress, and a pearl is enough for an ornament; when speaking the voice is harsh, but harmonious when singing; she ever marries an Italian, and only seeks strangers after wedlock; she is credulous and superstitious, dreads the " evil eye," and knives in the form of a cross; her bedroom is at once a sa&m and a museum of art treasures. The Russian is beautiful and intelligent; totally disregards Mrs Grundy; speaks freely, of her mother's lovers, and promises to have as many as,soon as she will be married; goes to watering places, gambles, and swears like a trooper if she loses ; bora a prineesv, she will wed a prince, who will beat her every time he is drunk, that is to say, every evening; lives iv Russia when her husband is abroad, and abroad when b« is in Bussia; is not naturally bad, but guards no secrets; she relates all the privatt life of her frieuds, giro the

addresses of her own loveYs as freely as that of her dressmaker, and changes both as frequently; wears Parisian toilettes with a charming recklessness; has luxuriant, falling hair; speaks French better than Parisians; is an excellent whip, and is happier the more the horses are savage ; she does not ask far anything with the preface, "if you please,'' but "give it me, or expect the knout " • she lores dogs, truffles and champagne; she sups as « mun ; her bed-chamber is a collection of furs, and she is ever armed as if for combat.

Fify years ago the I>ey of Algiers struck the French Ambassador with his fan, which led to the conquest and the annexation of his realm to France, and that extends for 600 miles along the nor* them coast of Africa. The country is naturally rich, but as a colony, it has failed owing to the system of government being military, not civil; this drawback has been remedied since the advent of tbt Republic. The French have just celebrated the golden marriage—a forced one of Algeria with the mother country, and drank the health of old Sion, who first | planted the tricolor on the heights of Algiers, and sincn called " Sion's Hill." Everything indicates that the Jesuits will quietly depart, as they h are ever done when expelled by monarchies, and the more so as the Republic is resolred.Jhejr^, shall leave; any private .person intending to take them in will incur a serious penalty. The Royalists enliven the dull season by getting up lectures in favor of the immediate restoration of Henry V.— a harmless folly; the remnant of the amnesty is compromised by the conduct of the friends of the Communists being dictatorial; only think, they hare proposed a transported in New Caledonia as Town Councillor of Paris !-

The Challemel-Lacour incident has been worked up to vex his great friend Gambetta; next, because the new ambassador to London is not only a republican, simple, severe, and accomplished, but also his nomination is the breaking up of that system wbioh placed all diplomatic functions in aristocratic families Instead of dancing in palaces, M. Cballemel-Lacour will labor to develop the commercial ; prosperity of two peoples. - A bridegroom arrived from the country in Paris, to be married. He deposited his heavy trunk in a doorway, and weut to seek cbange to pay the cabman; when he returned, the trunk had -disappeared ; later, he decided te go to the police office, but on his way wm astounded to see his wedding outfit hiing up for sale at an old olo' shop. It led to 14 rogues being arrested. A builder, returning home at the sma' hours, and finding the door not.opened as quickly as he desired, commenced to batter it in with paving stones. His wife appeared at the window, fired six shots from a revolver, and cried "Help! murder! and fire!" A respectable young man has been found strangled and drowned in the Seine. He was in love with a barmaid, who rejected his love. On the day of his death he presented her with a dozen of pocket handkerchiefs marked with her initials; these formed the cord which strangled him. Baron de P——~—, belonging to one of the first families in France has been arrested .for swindling. The spirit of trade is in the air, even among noble families; the' late Due de Borgo, though as rich as Croesus, sold from hi* estate at Saint Cloud, the game, fruit, vegetables, and the milk famously watered of his two cows; the Marquis de Ch—, hires out his family plate for wedding and dinner parties: the Countesse de B- , has twenty lodging houses in the city, and two of the most elegant ladies of Paris, have shares in a shop that sells their old toilettes and superseded ornaments. Viscount de P——, has sold his family tomb —his uncle being the only tenant— to a bacon merchant from Chicago, who has buried, a relative therein, and buyer and seller are now cronies at the Wash* ington Club. Several aristocratic personi i make their own marketing: the late and | wealthy Count de Potocki ever did so, and ! the Marchioness de C——, weighs !the meat out with her own hands.

M. Leon Say, as President of the Senate,' generally arrives ten minutes late: his colleague, Gambetta, is ever as a King.

Henceforth, in the Paris cemeteries there will be no separate places for creeds: all must sleep, as they expect to live in heaven—democratically. lhe inmate of an asylum dates from her cell an invitation to hear her lecture on her next "out-day," on "Spiritism." She has discovered something new during her seclusion.

" How do you exist ? " was the question addreised to stammering friend. " I eat my papa-papa-trimony," was the reply. ._

"Atticns" in the Leader says:—* "Several members of the House are reported to have been indebted to the Celestial vote at the late contest. Kong Meng, in gratitude for having been made an Exhibition Commissioner, helped to distribute circulars written in Cbinese denouncing the Liberal party, and used his influence with the same object, so that his countrymen through* out the colony polled to a man where* ever they could for the party of 'Jaw and order.' They could not in evjfry case pass through the ordeal of an ex* amination by the returning officer, and at Stawell the allies of Mr Service were routed by a very simple expedient. Before going to the poll they had been instructed that they should be asked two questions—first as to whether they were natural born or naturalised citizens, and next as to whether they had voted before ! -that day. To the first query they were to reply ' Fes,' and to the second ' No,' and after a little drilling they marched to vote. Liberal ingenuity, however, proved equal to the occasion, and knowing that the enlightened Chanamen had got their lesson by rote, without understanding the meaning of the fare© they were asked to go through, the scrutineer for the opposition candidate reversed the order of the questions, whereupon the unsuspecting heathen blandly declared that he had voted before that day, and that he was not a naturalised citizen, and was greatly surprised at being bundled out of the booth without having exercised the suffrage. The stratagem was good; but would not a shott Bill forbidding such a travestio of the ballot by excluding Asiatic voters be better stiU P" The diameter of the earth multiplied by 10S gives the diameter of the sun; the diameter of the sun multiplied by 108 gives the mean distance of the sun; and the diameter of the moon multipled by 108 gives the mean distance of the moon from the earth.

A real bad itiff ueek isaueok ior«ir< dating thing.