The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-12-19

parlor adjoining the dining-room, where all
the visitors assemble and await the entrance
OF their Maestes.
The brilliant gathering of ministers, mar
| shals diplomats, and notorieties of the arlsto-
cratic, financial, literary, and scientific worlds
with their respective wives, all in full Dire IS,
| being duly assembled, chamberlain throws
open door communicating with the lmpe rial
| bOudoir and announces their Maiesties, who
thereupon enter the room arm-ln arm, and
make the tour Of the company, welcoming
each person with few words of easy greet
| ing. They then pass on into the dlning-room,
| take their places in the centre OF the oval
table, followed by the guests, who seat them.
| selves under the auspices OF the servants, all
| in the order indicated by cards laid on each
! plate. Beside each plate Is bill OF fare,
! printed on satin; and the dinner is, of course,
| such a repast as lover of his kind, improv-
| ing on the famous wish of Henri ~, might
desire to see the rest of humanity sit down
to daily.
As both Emperor and Empress shine in
the dispensing OF elegant hospitality, diyested
of the Stiffness of official etiquette, which
especially marks their receptions at Fontain-
bleau and at COmpiegne, and talk freely with
those whom they receive at their table, these
dinners are as animated and agreeable as
they are elegant and recherche. After din
ner their Maiesties, ON rising from the table,
pass into the great drawing room, agsin fol-
lowed by their guests. The Empress gene
rally seats herself in a tavorite arm chair, the
lady guests grouping themselves about her.
The gentlemen talk to the ladies, or form
little groups among themselves; and the
| Emperor moves slowly about the room, going
from group to group, listening to what is
being said In each and often joining in any
conversation that happens to be going for
ward. Coffee is handed round by splendid
"Mercuries," and the company becomes
gradually more and more animated.
These evening gatherings are often varied
by games OF various kinds, music, the acting
of charades, and even the getting up of plays
in which the various parts are taken by the
guests. Some of these entertainments are
extremely splendid; all the resources of
chemistry, upholstery, jewelry, and millinery
being pressed into the service of the whm of
the moment
The mornings are passed by the guests as
they please, some remaining quietly in their
rooms, others passing them in the magnif-
cent library; others, again, riding, driving,
| walking, or visiting one another in their re-
! spective apartments. At quarter before
twelve all, in elegant morning toilette, gather
in the parlor, where they are joined by their
Majesties, who, after dispensing their saluta-
tions to each guest as they do before dinner,
lead the way, in similar style, to a dejeuner
y
more sumptuous evening meal.
The Emperor is always hard at work up to
the hour OF lunch, but when not too busy
with State affairs generally spends the after
noon out OF doors. There are hunting and
shooting, long excursions in the forest, visits
to neighboring sites of interest, and whenever
grand hunt has taken place the curious
scene of the curee-picturesque but horrible
is enacted in the great Court OF Honor.
On these occasions the Emperor's hounds,
each held in leash by valet wearing the gay
livery OF the Imperial hunt, are ranged in a
vast circle round the court. Behind each
valet stands q second valet holding alOft a
lighted torch, and behind this circle of flame
is dense crowd composed of the host of
servants and employees belonging to the I'm
perial household. The Emperor and Empress,
| with their guests in their splendid dress. as
| semble in the balconies and galleries that
overhang the court, the dark mass of the
palace, with its lighted windows and the tops
of the trees dimly seen against the sky,
making up scene of lights and shadows that
| would delight the hearts of the old Flemish
painters. At a signal from the Emperor, the
| hounds are suddenly loosed, and spring with
| yells of savage delight upon their prey, which
| they tear to pieces and devour, literally, in
! the twinklng of an eye. The ordinary Curee,
in which the stag set apart for the dogs re-
past has been killed in the course of the days
hunt, is calle6 the CNTee .tTOide. The curee
ch0ude, in which the hapless stag, captured,
| but not killed, chained to stake in the mid
die of the court. is devoured alive by the
hounds, is reserved for the visit OF a crowned
! head.
The only occasion when this hideous relic
! Of barbarouS times has been TecuScitated
| during the present reign is said to have been
! during the visit of the King of Prussia to
Fontainebleau. The evidence of the appetite
! for horrors which this dbominable custom
presuproses in wearers of diadems, crops up
| here now and then not only among the un-
| educated masses, but among those who might
| be expected to have reached a higher phase
of development. Think of father, holding
high rank in the French army, an educated,
clever and amiable man, taking his young
daughter, a few days ago, to the Morgue TO
witness the sad and revolving display OF the
dead bodies OF people who have died by acci-
dent, and who, having nothing about them to
show their identity, are kept there by the
police until claimed by their friends. After
such proof of depraved taste on the part OF
persons moving in a superior walk of life, it
seems natural enough that the two most
| popular amusements of the day, at this present
writing, in this brilliant city, are the CHASTITY
figure of murdered woman so cunningly
initiated in wax that it passes with the crowd
for being a real corpse, as the exhibitor Inn
pudently proclaims it to be, and similar hor-
ror declared to be "the head Of guillotined
Kentuckian," which is made to roll its eyes
end to talk. by means, it is supposed, OF cleo
trified wires and a hidden ventriloquist.
Another Scare Over the BOrdcr-ThC
FeniRns Marching on Canada
To the Ne1o York associated Press.
SwEETsBURG, December 1s.-Much excitement
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