New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-06-16


whole system, sparkling out at the eyes, crink-
ling about the mouth, beaming from the cheeks
swapping out from the fnger-ends The essential ele-
ment u.s. perhaps, agreeable unexpectedncss, which is
the base of the enjoyment we receive from Heine's
wit and Rabeaiss humor, and the first sight of Mont
Blanc, and driving on a winding road through line
landscape. Certain it il that though primarily aroused
by material gain il is not measurable by economical
standards Thus II the amateur catch Correggiothis
afternoon at 80 francs and lose five hundred bank
bill this evening the resultant of contrary feelings
more grateful than if he had paid 500 francs for the
Correggio.
Then he likes the very atmosphere Of the place. The
Close, fusy azote, more nimbly and swcetly recon-
"ends itself to his Yontsd senses, than would the
spced breath Of Araby. We all know how association
holds by the You going past Guerlans door
in the Rue de la Paix:-Eh : ha! ouef, eff ia-f-f-
ifahh n! The very same-yes her favorite hand
kerchef perfume And, presto, Whit, the gathered
ss of long. naughty years OF practicaes and expe-
riences worse than Illusions vanish from before me-
DRY magic mirror revealing dear sweet, lovely fascl-
Mating Laura etotis 16, etdne tue IL Ammo Dom
I'M 1885, You walk right two doors further to the
Hotel Westminster ask the Concierge If Mrs. Ddsoury,
dame Aaerfcaiae, is at home. ON, Monsieur, da
premier eauche." The mirror breaks as you 90 up
stairs yon shake Didsbury and his wife, still hand
some matron by the hand kiss charming little Laura
secunda and talk of their European touring, and the
weather. and old times, with the unmoved placidity OF
Benedictne chronicler Direct vision and hearing,
and the SIXTH magnetic or sympathetic, sense OF imme-
date bodily presence of feebler faculty than the
nose. think the way from the upper olfacory to the
sensorium, must be more open and direct than that
which lies through the optical or auricular nerves.
Some years ago az l would once hurry past an open
trench ON Broadway, my excellent companion the
eminent DR.. b.. would rather linger and seishly pro-
long for second two the anxious expecance OF a
hypochondriac patient in the next block that he might
SAVIOR the foul whis Of escaping gas. They reminded
that busy practitioner ofjoy student and long since
by-gone nights of leisure, when he sat admirng under
Booth in his prime in the gas-nfected pit of the old
fremont.
Another class Of habituts is made up of those whose
time is Lot money. They toll not, neither do they
spin; but they for the most part seedy lilies They
come here get rid of the day; at night they spend
few sous and the hours till bedtime, in cafe over one
cup and dominos they 20 to the theaer They are
no, all poor some of them are rich renters. Oc-
casonaly you see them with their feet at the regis
ters occasionally in the back part OF the room fast
asleep They driven in by tie inclement season.
and by their want of company The Frenchman is
an essentially gregarous animal When the Winter is
past and the rain is over and gone they arise and 60
away and light upon the benches in the gardens and
public promensdes, and wherever other men most do
conpregate 1t was one of their tribes who
entering the comfortable readngroom of that treasury
of printed knowledge, the BibGotheque Imperiale,
found every chair already taken. Chevslers Their
momeer centierade marked nine and fraction below
zero and one man had arrived two hours after the
doors were open "Will you have the kindness to call
for very large volume ?" was his sautatory adj
dress TO one of the clerks Monsieur will give himself
the trouble TO write down the titlel don't know
it," "Tbe subject of which it treats them" That
does not mater-I want one of your biggest books"
But II is quite impossible to furnish the gentleman
work of which he presents Indications let the gen.
tleman explain at least for what end he desires 1t 2?
" To sit on, par6leu -
The transient population of the Hotel Drouot, is
partly composed of those who to purchase de-
finite object of use or luxury They have probably
set eyes and heart upon it at the exhibition of the pre-
yious dsy-an armchair, or Arab gun, or Shanghae
rooster or Chinese Mandarin, undoubted Teniers,
or this OF that The thing they want, may oddly
enouph happen TO be the very thing that half dozen
others want; the price of then rising beyond their
expectation they either are carried away by the ex
element and chase after it, till it is knocked down at
three times its worth; or they prudently withdraw
from the contest and console themselves for the dsap-
pointment by buying something they do not want very
cheap. l met artist of my acquaintance Whose
work YOU win be hearing of before long, think, and
seeing, | hope), going to room No. one day last
March with thoughts intent old carved bedstead
there on which be had dreamed all the preceding night
Accidents said H., sometimes befall at the Hotel
Drouot SURPRISING in eccentricty anything known in
the annals of families however regulated may get
il for 100 francsl" ii. is colorist. The old bed
ste ad really DID, not artfcaly worm-eaen and SCOT
stained went for 800 francs, at - o'clock. Ats my
arts, bought square piano. externally, OF unexcep-
tionabe mahogany for 80 francs. How fit an instru-
nen for musical purposes, H. and myself whose COM
bined musical attanments reach only to general dis
tinctions az between the " Dead March in SAUL and
| We won't go Home ill Morning" had no means OF
| testing. The last time at the ateGer, he was
| mediating the disembowelment of keys, hammers,
strings lever etc.. and using it for clothes press.
The better sort of auctions whether of furniture,
wardrobes articles of vrtu, gainoc6s, are preeed-
ed by day OF exhibition These displays of the ma
terrell of French society are worth the attention of the
| observing traveller As the market Of town gives
one glimpse as it were into the very bowels of the
! land showing the meats which its people feed,
and at what cost suggesting store OF profound reec-
tions on their physical and other constitutions; 30 the
Hotel Drouo presents to view the outward clothing OF
society It's material surroundings in the way of neces-
sites comforts uxuries, and whm-whams, offering
certain measure of its wants tastes and mode of their
| qualification On Sundays, when there ordinarily
MANY exbilfious the Hotel il lronpcd with spectacle