The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1864-11-26
The Curlosities Of Freneh Restaurants.

such places And Is It strange that vice
and brutality rage rampant
The CurIOsities Of French Restaurants.
The Paris correspondent of the London
Star writes as follows:
Restaurants for the working classes in
Paris have days recourse to every
species of invention to attract attention.
Last week, one just opened in the Faubourg
Montuarire, promises dinner of two cours-
es and dessert to whoever writes, in leg
ibfe hand, the answer to rebus offered eV-
cry morning for solution by the dame de
compton. Another, in FaubouFg ST, An
tome, hit on a still more strange expedient.
He chose for his ensign gigantic golden
sausage, which he swung enticingly over
the door of his restaurant, the words, ga
la saucisse dor" In huge gold letters, bla
zing beneath. His salon was large, it's
white walls decorated by festoons of the
tempting edible so highly appreciated on
the other side of the Rhine, and in every
fiftieth sausage five franc piece in gol4.
His principle was that as his customers
called for ssusages they should be cut off
in regular rotation from the string so artist
icallY arranged round the dining hall. The
result may be better imagined than describ-
ed. The eager anxiety depicted on the
countenance of every OuVrter, as be neTv
ously examined and finally ate his sausage,
would have supplied phrenologist with
many good subjects for study. The ex-
pedient proved highly remunerative to the
proprietor, but the quarrels that ensued
were of 80 serious nature that the police
have nterfered, and the master of the es
adjustment has received orders to either
shut up his shop or proceed on less excl
ting system.
You must constantly have remarked in
the windows of restaurants of this class
triumphal arches, columns, aad every spe-
cies of architectural device, constructed
with marvellous ingenuity of hun lreds of
snails piled up in moss. | have often been
puzzled to know what was t be ultimate des
tiny Of these myriads of snals, whose
! shining shells evihce an amount Of care be-
slowed on their outer aspect, which proves
that they must be there for a purpose. In
| France, you must remem Der, that sHsis
did occupy public attention, an electric
sympathy having been discovered to exist
between the male and female snail, which
suggested to some enthusiastic SaVant the
idea that the expense of electric wires might
thereby be saved. At this period of their
history their name in French, which from
the DAYS of the Pharamonds had been tam =
aeon, was changed to eScqrgot, which pat
ronymic they retain. The race, however,
sank into oblivion, aud one was only re-
minded of its merits by aPothecaries' ad
vertsements announcing the most delicious
syrups, lozenges, &C., made of suails, aud
warranted to cure every cold aud cough that
ever was caught. Yesterday, however,
meSSieurS les eScdrSOt8 occupied the atten-
ton of the police court. Snails, il appears,
are eaten at taverns and public houses, not
in hundreds aud thousands, but in myriads,
and snail go~rnets assert l shall not dis
pute the point with them that they possess
a delicacy of flavor which exceeds that OF
oysters. Soft.
A shop in St. Denis was let few months
I ago TO milkm an, who undeIlet it to a GER
tain Lancray. Extraordinary sounds, as o
rafting chains, were heard al dead Of night
emanating from the back premises, and
fsugh Ia vapor, fe'id and sickening, arose
liz black fumes, penetrating the closed and
curtained windows of sleeping neigbbors.
What could il be Evidently the smoke
came from Lsncray's yard. What dark trad:
did he ply The police were applied to,
and the mitkman was proceeded against as
having unlet his shop TO so mysterious and
awful parsonage as his tenant proved.
Lancray stated that he was a wholesale
snail merchant, that he employed agents
who bought up snails in different parts of
France, but the most esteemed came from
Burgundy, and to prepare his snails for the
Paris market, the process of cleaning mus
first take place. This he was in the habit
OF DONG over night by putting seVera
then stirring them with iron forks, which
: caused the rafting sound so terrifying t
: NJ. Lancray's nervous neighbors and tina
!, the next process was that of boiling. which
: unfortunately, resulted in the rancid smok
= so offensive to their olfactory organs.