Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1867-10-15
PARTICLES DE PARIS. .

The Paris correspondent Of the London Times
dscourses of the small wares at the Exhibition
rs follows:
Gone of the chief characteristics Of the ar
.;ola de Paris is that, whether it be necessary
or unnecessary, it plays upon the fancy and
comes to us in strange DISCUSSES 1t is not
anonph that you should have an ink bottle on
vour table it is above all things necessary that
This pk-bottle should appear to be something
else It is cannon ball-lt is a pound weight
1t is negro's head-it is railway engine.
you take the negro by his black, woolly hair;
YOU find that his skull opens on a hinge and
there is pot of ink where his brains should
be So there is store of ink in the heart OF
the cannon ball, in the pound weight, and IN
the boiler or the engine. The play OF fancy
which is allowed in this way Is boundless MIR.
Harry Emanuel has in silver railway locomo-
tive, with tender attached. The locomotive
contains whiskey, the tender hot water, sugar
takes takes the place of coals upon the tender,
and the stoker il converted into a silver sugar
tones. Ii yon see silver drum upon friends
table, it is a riddle; and You must guess what
if is 1t may be anything from a match box
to a mustard-pot.
"Here is little model of an umbrella stand
with an umbrella, walking stick and whip
in it. The umbrella is pen wiper, the walk
iug stick is pencil, the riding whip Is a pen
holder Here is a silver gilt coal scuttle with
coal scoop in it; you are expected to use 1t
for salt cellar. Here is little hat box it is
intended for matches. Here is silver COW
with large fly on her back you seize the fly,
and find that it is the handle OF a small lid
upon the back Of the COW. The animal Is hol-
low she is intended for a cream jug, and the
cream pours out OF her mouth. Here iS a large
acorn it is nutmeg crater Here is small
ivory coffee-miil it is a yard measure. Here
is fiddle; it is toothpick. Here it is a bee
hive; tits box of bonbons. Here is 4 clock;
it is the paunch Of jolly farmer.
I'm these iancilul designs the French are
more prolific, and, on the whole, happier than
the English are, but they sometimes make sad
blunders Thus they have fancy just now for
making umbrella handles OF rllinoceros horn,
but this horn is cut into the appearance OF a
chain; it is chain, however which denies It's
own nature, for it is quite stiff the links not
being loose You expect an umbrella handle
to be solid in your grasp; the handle OF rhl-
noceros horn offers itself to you as apparently
loose chain, and in reality it has nothing
whatever Of the nature OF chain, except the
appearance.
''The chief centres for the manufacture OF
articles de Paris are Paris, Vienna and Lon
don. What they make best in Paris ale small
bronzes, little boxes Of enamel, or earthen-
ware, and of inlaid woods. In the way Of
brcnzes [ have not observed a great deal
that is either very new or particularly good
You see the same old figures that you have
known for years past, of horses, dogs, deer,
cocks and hens, rabbits, rats, ducks, geese,
doing service in connection with paper-weights,
clocks, match boxes, sand trays, pen-trays, and
other accessories Of writing table or chin
ney piece. In the making OF boxes the French
are still unequalled. They have wonderful
sympathy with that extravagant passion OF the
human soul for small boxes and receptacles. -
They have boxes for everything--tor gloves.
for jewels, for handkerchiefs, for stamps, Tor
bonbons for pens, for waters, &c.