Extracts from our Paris Letter.

Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3718, 24 November 1880, Page 2

Extracts from our Paris Letter.

; The sporting season has Mt in with t vengeance. Beveral ladj crack shots treat their poets m mail; it affords them also an ' i oceasioi>;forchangingtoUettes,and employ* ing real offensive weapons; the Empress of , Austria is as accomplished with the gun, ;as in riding: she shoots in an Hungarian costume, short jupe, and sleeveless coat: 1 the Duchess de Ohartrea follows rather the hounds, and is ready to pass her flask to any thirsty sonl:. the ex-Queen of Naples looks like.a model jnmc Mnmt 1 when in sporting toilette: the Prinoess de 1 Metternieh is an. excellent shot, hut none can come np to the Princess de Hohenlohe, wife of the German Ambassador; ah* follows the chamois and aim like William Tell. The majority of ladies, however, prefer hunting the deer, it if at one* merry and theatrical; for taking a fcsdga or fire-bar gate, Mme. de Sonaere has"m rival: having an income of francs, she if disqualified as a oireus rider.' The thermal station of Contwsmlle is is much patronised this season. It is generally sacred to nymphs aged W, and Adonises on the shady side of 60; it is a capital place to catch an heiress, between drinking the water every ten minutes, and its effects. The Countess of Beauehaap is there the queeo of beauty, and never appears a second time in the same dress. A celebrated, lady under the second' empire is also a visitor, !**T*nK come "* for an inheritance of three million francs. , She was the cause of a quarrel between a dashing Colonel and a Prince. To get rid of the rival, the Colonel ordered the Prince, his subaltern under arrest, but the Prince obtained a private letter of the the Colonel's, in which he roundly abused the Empire, and had it placed in tfct Emperors dinner napkin. The ooasequence was Col. G—• was ordered to Africa, Since then he became ft, republican, and the bosom friend af > Gambetta.

Dumas M» has been described M •. combination of the negro, the Jew, aad % woman. His father was ,the most toil. liant of emtueurf. Victor Hugo it th» most prolix of eonversationaliiti.' Hs> has often "flashes of silence," that recall Lord Bute's " minute gun " sptakuur.. ' A. tribunal of honor is aittUg toTjtoids) if an aristocratic young lady, wfct'tafr thrown up her nun's toilet, for, •* m&) from Worth's, can be reoeiTed agaui !%,<' ■oeiety.