The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1867-05-23

table method of cooking maccaroni--
brings one TO the village of Boulogne,
| from which the Bols takes IT name
Thence another stroll of half an hour
or SO through the by paths fthc wood
carries the voy0gGur to st. Cloud. From
tho first TO the last Sunday Of that
month fair Of the most obstrepcrous
kind is held within the Pare, almost
under the very windows of the palace
"a fact which makes 1t easy to under
stand why the Emperor should find
the waters of Vichy beneficial to his
constitution during that month, and
why the Empress should be so anxious
TO refresh herself afrer the fatiguCs of
season by the sad sea- waves at BiarritH.
The fair itself is the noisiest of all
conceivable gatherings fs
Some years back Paris had mum
Der of eccentric characters, but they
are dropping off one by one, and no
new ones spring up to replace them.
! First, there was q broken down gen
tleman dressed in hidoous rags, who
used, day after day, and from morning
to night, from years end to years end,
to pace around the galleries of the
Palias Royal; he went no where else,
and where he ate and where he slept no
one knew. Next, was n poor crazy
Italian, who, in winter and summer, in
spring and autumn, in rain and snow,
as well rs in sun shine used to figure
in light nankeen dress and white hat,
with wreath Of fowers-rcal in sum
mer, artificial IN winter--round the
hat and another around his neck
Thirdly, there was an American schol-
ar, lean, lank. gaunt and scraggy, dres.
sed in along black gown and n black
skull cap. He used to pass a life in
the public library. with piles Of books
before him. 1t was believed he was
compiling French and American
dictionary, but though he toiled Tor
years and years, the work was never
completed These three men are gone
now Then there was an old gentle
man whom the street boys used TO call
General Rlfliard, who strutted about
the streets Nttired in gorgeous military
uniform, with big sword clanking at
his heels. The uniform was unlike any
worn in any European army; but woe
to any body who dared to make sar-
castle observation on it-thc General
fow at HIM like n tiger This poor
man lived IN my part of of the town,
he had an ugly habit of stopping to
talk to people he did not know; and if
they showed desire to get away from
him, he used TO put hrs hand, mcnac-
: ingly on his sword. He too, has gone
to better world There is now only
lIo is SO designated because he wears
) the Persian costume and the Persian
hoadgcar in black shecp-skin. lie is a
venerable old gentleman. with fine
beard, and IS scrupulously neat and
clean. He is passionataly Son6 Of mu-
sic, and is to be seen every night at
, one or the other ofthe opera houses
seated always in the very best places.
He is also frequently to be found sOun-
J tering on the Boulevards and the
Champs Elysees. He has the repu'a
tion Of being wealthy, Yet this man,
, though in Paris more than thirty years
though he is wol known by sight to all
! Parsians, has never-never-hecn seen
speaking to living soul. lie fequcnts
the haunts Of men, yet shuns the com
munication with man.
A writer in the last number of the
CornhiH Magazine says: "Many French
actresses have passed from the stage
TO the cloister when their beauty and
renown were in their most brilliant
= periods Others have withdrawn into
/ sccluson almost as complete, obscrv
2 ing in the world the strictcst piety and
! and giving the most virtuous example
Q Mademiselle Colombo distributed the
blessed bread to .he congregation o
a her parish church. The notorious Ia
a Maupin and the vivaeious Lucy assum
. ed the veil, and put the conventual gate
s between them and anu the world
r where they had figured in n very dif
= ferent line of character. In the las
G century Madcmoselle Galltier retired
o from tho stage, publicly announce
r her conversion, and became sister o
If the Carmelite order at Lyons. Half
n a-dozon Of her fair colleagues, but esI
- richly endowed as actresses, tool
n courses nearly similar, Some among
J. us may remember Madame Gonthe'r
the bouncing, buxom, hearty. hilarlou
: actress of tho Varieties in its brightes
y times. With all the jollity of charac
Q ter above Indicated Madame Gonthei
J. was sincerely rigorous in the perform
a, ance Of all her religious duties. Sh
's was profoundly in earnest when, beini
g about toplay new part for the frs
1t time, she crossed herself as she stoo
n at the wing, and murmurcd, with a
. emotion that was notat all feigned, no
le even ridiculed by the comrades VIII
is respected her, Mon Dieu, fdites moi