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,r markets in the open air, besides large number

er markets In the open air, Oe5ldes large NUMBER
of shops-one upon the broad asphalta pavement
bordering the Church of the Madeleine, lone upon the
walk of the Boulevard, at the Chateau d'Eau, and
one upon the Quay, called, from the circumstance,
LIE quai aur feurs. Tuesdays and Fridays are the
Madeleine days; Mondays and Thursdays those OF
the Chateau; and Wednesdays and Saturdays those
of the Quay. The same old women do duty at
them all, and fold up their tents and emigrste
every night The bouquets not sold at the Made
Ieine offered at half price the next day at the
cheaper fair in the Boulevard; ard if the weather
is fine, and revigorating odors are in demand, it
lie very that they again transferred to the
still cheaper market in the Quay. Paris bouquets
have one popularity about them which it is worth
while to mention The flowers are cut excessively
close and the requisite length of stalk is attained
by splicing on stout splinters of straw. This ope
ration is moot skilfully done, and the combination
Of straw and wire is really a beautiful piece of
handiwork. You feel positively as if you had too
much for your money, and as if SO much delicate
braiding and interIacing must have been dead
loss to the horist. But in this country, where the
raw material is dear, and labor is so cheap, it ia
much more easy for him to furnish you with stalks
made by hand than with stalks grown by nature.
A purchaser at the flower markets must be careful
ana never tdkc d U)UQuCt Ut D. pOI Ut tHS HF6L
price asked. 1t is rarely necessary to pay over one
half, and never over two-thirds The old women
have one bad way with them. They are apt to
drop little quick lime or other injurious sub
stance into the earth contained in pot or box of
flowers. so that the plants may speedily die and
the purchaser come back for more. However as
they never DO this until after the bargain is made,
person has only to keep his eyes his property,
Il 1, lkI
to take place. On fine day, the aaphalta of the
Madeleine seems to have sprouted with flowers of
every color of the rainbow; and you wonder how
so hard ground can have produced so delicately
petaled and SO sweetscented crop. The next
day trace of the harvest is left, though the soil
that bore it is still there, in all it's adamantine and
impregnlble solidity. You walk on it now !,
in no danger of crushing rosebud, or disar-
ranging violet's toilet. But would not advise
you to stroll upon the asphata along the Chateau
d'Eau just now; every footstep would be as de-
structive as howtzer among the enemy, and if
there really sexes, and if there really is propa
cation in the botanic world, each stride would
leave daisy or two orphans, few moss roses
chidess, and perhaps widow bright checked
carnation, but who will not put on black for all
that. The flower markets are we'll worth seeing
by every stranger in Paris.
One more of the political prisoners of Louis Ma
poleon has gone TO his rest. He had his choice
between going there and being sent to Cayenne
He died, after illness of month. He was in
generated at Belle Isle after the affairs of Deem
ber His antecedents were in every way frightful;
he was, before his condemnation, book. keeper al
Marseilles, and had been in lS4s captain in the
national guard How true it is that evil causes
ultimately lead to ruin
The improvements in progress in the Bots de
Boulogne have recalled to mind ;he embellishments
proposed to be made by Henry Ill. The idea of
this monarch (lleaven be praised that he never
executed it) was to lay out elk large avenues, all
of them meeting in the central open space known
as the Rond du Roi. Here he contemplated the
erection of magnificent mausoleum for the recep
ton of his remains and those of the kings of his
successors Every chevalier of the order of the
Holy Ghost would build himself tomb with a
statue in marble along the six diverging alleys.
The.space between would be planted wi tn poplars
and other trees esteemed for the goominess of
their verdure-cypresses, weeping willows, SC.
Sin hundred years." said this mela ncholy king
'this will be most delightful promenade, filled
as it will be, with tombs to the number, perhaps
of four hundred Louis Napoleon has the merit :,
if he has no other, of not having COMPOUNDED the
Bots de Boulogne with Pere La Chaise. His en-
belshments will be more in tone with the uses to
which the forest is puts and the artificial lake, the
serpentine river, the island in its midst, the
awns, the vstas, the statues, the Swiss cottages,
and the points of view, will be vastly more to the
taste Of the Parisians than the mausoleum, the
expresses, and the four hundred tombs.
fire burst out few days back in house
in the country, during the absence of the owner,
and the whole building was consumed. Two gen.
'armes, Oh inspecting the still smoking ruins,
were struck with the circumstance that
mains OF furniture were to be found anywhere.
Carrying their Investigations further, they per-
ceived in the garden mound of earth, covered
with green turf, and ornamented with fresh flow
ers. Curious to examine this apparently new con-
struction, one of them got pickaxe, and, on
turning up the earth, found below several wooden
cases, containing all the furniture of the burned
house most carefully packed up. The owner, on
his return, arrested the charge of having set
his house on fire in view of pocketing the in
suranCe.
The Heraldo of Madrid publishes an ode, ad-
dressed to the Empress of the French by the Mar
quis de Aunan, young poet The following lines
will serve az a specimen of it
Gun heroe saliva un pueblo que moncilla
ensangrienta historic,
Y dos leda la perla de Castillo
En- premio de gu gloria!''
Spanish is much like English that it is hardly
worth while to translate this fragment; for those
that are poor lnguiss, however, here is literal
version:
:" A hero saves people that disgraces
And stains with blood its own history,
And God gives him the pearl of Castillo
As the reward of his gory!"
So it seems that even Spaniard, in order to
adulate Louis Napoleon, finds it necessary to viliy
and abuse the nation be governs. They were dis.
grazing Themselves, and staining their history,
when the hero in question stepped in to the res
cue. / should hardly think it could crafty
Emperor to be told that the nation he had saved,
or pretended 10 have saved hardly worth the
pains. pearl of Castillo, for poor job, is re-
warding him beyond bis deserts.
The following is fact. | should not have be-
lieved it, were not person who eye-witnessed the
my authority and guarantee: tiler, who
was walking the roof of house five stories
high in the Rue DIES Fossss Montmartre, lost his
balance and fell to the ground. The spectators
expected that he would have been killed on the
spot, but to their establishment he quietly got up,
picked up tool which had fallen with him, walked
to the nearest public house, took glass of brandy