Extracts from our Paris Letter.

Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3857, 10 May 1881, Page 2

Extracts from our Paris Letter.

Paris is at last full; Cbateaa< have given up their residents, and which compensates for the moderate hegira to Nice, The Carnatal promises to be more Hrelf this season, and there will be positivelr a Boefgrds. The aucceig, of tbeC Republic merits the salutation qf a 'F^: t O[f r - r '. morituri te solutafit* For boifterwit ifcit and uproar, visitors mQat go to Italy or Nice to witness that overture to Lent. The preparations for the Hugo fete are assuming foratdrtle proportions :lod th#?T honorary, committee jißt6jraro 4^l the i. dwellers taypnd Mesopotamia;-*!!!? Par-; -\ nell even is' there cheek bj jowl with his fidm achates, Roehefattet. Special train* are to bring up admirers from the four corners of France, and flowers will be in as great demand as durin? s>--,co.n)petitiQU day in ancient Greece! '-I^wflT-ibe • veritable battle of flowers-**bu\t nt^oiffeUi. The masked balls are few and faKVetween; they have oeased to amuse sinae everyone can laugh. Originally; the masked ball* were founded in France, to allow pertou, : not presented at Court/ to encounter the salt of the earth disguised. Neijkker^ are ordinary balls very numerous; they 4M«V - being superseded by the, co(UIoh, ft ktuctdP olla podrida of dances and wiiiiiK'iii F addition to being inexpensive, »W: amusing, and admit of early breakiait jip. Children's balls are in vogue—public S» well as private. ' •*'■ ■'''.' ■.'".' "■ Jf] [■" '■ ,i -' Mnw. Adam, the founder of La Nouvellc fyvwi "r* 1? enterlained by her eigkty.five collatyraptrj, §t both sexes, at a wJmpli. mentary dinner. Pissing over the balladi writiteß to her eyebrow, describing. her to f be "brare as Pallas. utf;W3%fcl&ii Cypris." MrMiJ^milS^m^m pioneer, proposed the first toatt ai M matter of right; having had the hooorio write the first article forth* ftwt number of the Review. This brought oHhe heroine of the evening; w^o, after den»«ld. iug,indulgence for. the unexpected boMtt aad being unaccustomed to poWic sWak^ mg, as well as unprepared for the oc*wioß, read a pretty loog rpoßt-pimndial oratio«, -: on the foundation of her periodicar. ~ ■<>■ .*. Some isid w John pnnf.W," 'others vaid <« Not: r 80 , . ' "*

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