New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1867-06-07


Homeopathic Doses" All that Glitters
is not GoId"-The Different styles and
the Cost of Living in Paris-The Great
Exhibition; It's Magnitade; n short
Description Of -"The World In
Miniature"-A Compa, ison OF the Nor
ais of London and ParIs-The scarlet
women-Cora PenrI-A Fearful |
Temptation to Virtue-The Theatres |
and Churches The Police system |
Paris; her Ancient and Modern His |
tory, etc. etc.
Correspondence OF tine Republican,
PARIS, May 10, 1867.
1t is best to take Paris as one should take
very rich food-in small portions and at
intervals. Dizziness, safety, and sometimes
disgust are apt to follow too free in
| dulgence and "a too long continuance in this
Babylon the Great Your correspondent is
always glad to come to Paris--he is not un
J frequently glad to leave it again. There is
! a proverb that when good Americans die
I they go to Paris-but nevertheless it is not
| 3 paradise. Genuine happiness is not often
/ % be found herc-but great, exquisite, and
tumuituous pleasure and delight may be-
| II you have the necessary amount OF t,.enty
franc pieces to pay for it. Your CORE
|
March, to see how the exhibition building
was being constructed, and remained
week. He returned again on the first of
April, saw the ceremonial opening of the
great show, and remained ten days. He is
now again here, and beholds the exhibition
in all its glory and Paris in her greatest
pride and beauty.
II is well worth coming TO see. The ride
from London to Paris is well worth the
twenty shillings thatit tcosts-theexhibition
is cheap at the two francs per day that will
admit you to its wonders-and Paris, out.
side of the exhibition, is cheap at any price.
And you can enjoy it at any price. You
can live comfortably here, even now, for
five francs day, including all your ex-
penses. You can live splendidly for three
times that sum. You can live royalty, with
all the magnif3ence of Sardanapalus and
with some eDjoyments that Sardanapalus
never dreamed of, for twenty-five francs a
day. Or, if you prefer the cheap and nasty
style" you can 60 to a certain place on the
Strand, in London, where for thirty shil
lings (say seven dollars and quarter,) you
= can buy a ticket that will bring you &c
r. Paris, board you here for seven days, and
take you home 10 London again.
There is no use in attempting to describe
- the exhibition. 1t is too big. The bare
j, catalogue Of its contents fills a book of l2Ot
/, pages. To convey any adequate idea Oft, ai
=. a whole, would require the labor of months
| have observed that some of the Londol
correspondents say that the exhibition
is comparatively failure-that it is not 81
very grand after all. This is simply saiC
because it is too great and is intended t
cover their notifications in being com
PEELED to abandon the idea of adequatel,
describing it. The magnitude of the affai
overwhelms them, and as they sink beneatl
it they utter this little cry to show tina
they are not at all alarmed. They remint
!, one OF that fabled person who, seated on th
peak of the highest mountain, felt tn
waters Of the deluge rising about him, ant
y beheld Noah close the door of his arl
lie against him. II don't care about gettinl
Of i'm said this reckless personage-"l do no
:, think there will be much of shower"
u This, however, may be said of the eXhibi
tion. The exhibition building itself
ugly--although not SO hopelessly and pain
fully ugly as 1t promised to be. But tn
}, grounds that surround it, and which ar
parceled out to the various nations of tn
eaftn, are Deautilul, anu III WduueTlu
in through them the visitor is delighted
O. surprised, interested, instructed, Q
amused at every step. There have bee
great fairs before now, in which tn
natural, industrial, and artistic produC
tions of every land beneath the sun wer
displayed and the exhibition building her
contains nothing but such display, a
=, though on u greater scale than ever befoT
W attempted. But until now there has nevC
Ia been spot on which one might behold Ii
world itself In miniature. That is what th
,a grounds around the exhibition building arr
1t is as If some one with Aladdin's lamp ha
caused house, street, a temple, or a tom
to be taken up from every civilized eountr
a. on the earth, and from some that are NJ
, civilized, and had planted them here, pc
Ia pling them with their native ihabitant
and enabling the visitor, for the ridiculous
low price of one franc, to survey mankin
from Indus to the Pole. While confess TIL
-, care comparatively little for what is insiC
~ of the exhibition building, | ayow the CO
5 a slant delight and amusement lihave derive
:, from this outside show, and day after ds
journey from RGssa to Japan, and fro
YER China to Turkey, "stopping at all the inte
m. mediate places,n as the steamboat advertis
,.a ments say breakfasting with a Polac
wv ching with an Arabian, dining with
lis Mandarin of two tails, and winding up |
ub. drinking coffee and smoking pipe with
j.. Malignant and turbaned Turk, and ha
ave not got tired with it yet. know very WI
srs that while part of this foreign display
genuine, some of 1t is fictitious; but so lol
as the deception is well kept up II answe
lust as we'll. When 60 TO the theatre |
not make myself unhappy because happ
ed, to know that after the curtain has falleI
49,. will meet Prince Hamlet in the coffeehou
avn over the way, drinking porter and offeri
as to bet against the fayorite for the Der
are race; and, to-day, when one of the JapS
a eser confdentially informed me that
remembered having waited on me wheI
was lying III in a tavern in Sackville sire
r in Dublin, where he was n waiter III did 1
feel aggrieved. The world is full of hu
/. bug-it ia often better TO laugh at IL than
get angry with 1t.
Inte resting as find this portion Of
. exhibition to be, it does not sufiice to '