New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1854-12-06
MR.. JONES IN PARIS.
WRITTEN By huNsELF.

Dear Jdne Having obtai ned leave of absence
from my worthy employer, Ndr. John Hoxton. of
Drury Lane, packed up my valise and whisked
over to Paris; the city which I had pined after
from early boyhood. After procuring lodgings,
walked out to take my first lesson in sight-see-
ing. My steps brought me to- Place Vendome,
where paused to admire the column erected in
its center, the shaft Of which is adorned with
plates representing the various battles of the
great Napoleon. l turned over in my mind
each event in its order, when suddenly some one
touched me on the shoulder.
ssMonsieur admires re colu mn,'' said a voice
l turned and found a very elegantly dressed
Frenchman close at hand. E[e was about thirty,
thin, slight, pale, rather sialloW, with pointed
beard, moustache, short hair, little sharp eyes,
and hooked nose. He wore patent leather
boots, q black suit, and an eye-glass, AMI alto
gether looked quite the gentleman. He la id his
hand upon his beard and bowed
"Monsieur is English 7" he said, with am in
sinuating smile.
81 have the pleasure" I replied, with 80, ne
surprise.
"Monsieur, your hand,'' he cried; aze unio,
Of mine country and Of yours is re finest tine in
historic Let me 20 you mine city,
ssYou are very kind,'' 1 replied, bowling. be-
| cause he kept doing SO all the time
I can not repeat all the fine things he said.
because he really did speak English very badly
but 1 understood him to say that the spectacle
presented by the present alliance of Gaul and
| Albion was a graade spectacle; that it was a
| fine thing to behold the two nations, once at
war, now at peace; the Csgzdrrr CHATS the
way he pronounced it) was an insane fool; what
could he do against the armies Of Nap-ol- -e-yon
and the fleets Of Vecktoria In q word, we
were brothers, and must fraternize He ended
by volunteering to show me Paris.
| My prejudioes against the French fell before
his polished manner. He had such delicate
way of paying compliments. He linked his arm
in mine, and took me to the Louvre, where he
showed me an array of pictures quite wonderful.
Then he took me round to the Palais Royale,
treated me to some English bottled beer, and
wound up by an invitation to dinner. 1 hesi-
tated, not liking to take advantage of his kind
ness; but he insisted. We're we not allies,
brothers; must we not fraternizes He would
dine with me tomorrow. At last he became 80
; pressing that yielded.
We entered q frst-rate looking place, not q
bit like our eating houses. All mirrors, marble
| and gliding, slver-spoons and forks, snow-white
table cloths, a perfect Hebe behind the counter,
ressed as for ball, to whom every body bowed
on entering and leaving, and walters who moved
abt ,ut with o celebrity quite amusing. I thought
we 1yel'e going to sit down here. But no; Mon
sieur j, lies (this was his name) after touching
his at to the lady at the bar, asked, as he ex-
1
waiter. with an apron under his arm, bowling
and se,rapin,g showed us the way. We were
ushere d unto an elegant apartment, and in five
minut, IS more we were provided with two glasses
of absi gathe--so it was spelt.
NJ. J'nles placed his little liqneur glass of yel
low lior,id inside the tumbler, and slowly, delib
erately, with renal 'kable precision, poured the
water on drop by drop The small glass over
flowed, an,i the tumbler in few minutes wal
full of m lky looking fluid. He then did thu
did / It v as the most disgusting effort at sue
tion ever made. DIR. Bird never ordered mt
such dose of physic. The Frenchman saw
did not ap prove it. He explained to me tina
perhaps it as an acquired taste, SO was porter
At the very name of this beverage he made
wry face (wb at would have given for a glas
of hall. and.I ialf? but added that it was uni
yersany drap X before dinner to promote apps