The Portland daily press., 1868-04-15

fornians. Twelve families of these came last
week from Rome and stopped at the Grand
Hotel, Mr.. Tho-s, originally Maine man,
but now of California, has just purchased an
exquisite dinner-set of French china at twelve
thousand francs; it has been on exhibition in
rue de Ia Pax. By the way, Il am told that we
in the United States cannot initiate on porce-
lain certain eolors for, while carrying the
baking" they change like lobster in the boil
ing. If this be so, o land OF schools and la
boratories, of libraries and dye-vats, call up
your Jacksons, and Cookies, who have left
their stories half told. Herein We must largely
minister to ourselves, for the inner recesses of
the Sevres workshops are not exposed to the
eyes of the curious, and not all the tact, and
the brute force, and brides of the first Napoe-
on extorted the secret of the manufacture of
Venetian glass, and to discover the secret OF
the Bohemian paper stands a New Jersey
manufacturer knew no better way than to Or
der his workmen to break any number. They
make these now at Cambridgeport, Mass.
Speaking of our country folks being on this
side the pond, was struck, last week, when
IN the Luxembourg gallery of pictures, with
the fact that two American artists were copy
ing Rosa Bonheur's Oxen Ploughing the
Fields, one being Miss Robinson, an artist
well known in New England, and the other
Mr.. st also from Mass, and little further
on Miss Nm of Boston, was sitting before
her easel to copy the magnificent fruit piece
of Saint Jean, and while hearing that other
New England artists were in the gallery, one
of the sons of Arson Burlingame entered.
Miss Kellogg and her party were in Paris
about ten days since. She told me she had
just closed an engagement with the London
Drury Lane managers. In the burning of her
majestv's theatre she lost her wardrobe for the
role of Martha; nevertheless it seems this fire
was blessing, for theatre builders and archi-
tects had long condemned the building as un-
sound, and walls and ceiling were ripe for fall
ing. What fearful ruin if the structure had
fallen in on a house packed with human lives!
was pleased to observe that Miss Kellogg
has remained entirely American. She is OBJ
serving and learning much but with the SIM
pie purpose of freighting herself for home VEN
lures.
heard last week the Opera of Hamlet at
the French Imperial Opera-house, and like all
Paris was enchanted with Miss Missions Ophe-
liza. 1t is fine piece of acting. The elder
Kean once borrowed one OF his most popular
telling attitudes from an impassioned Method
list preacher, and when studying for role he
never failed to go directly to nature; and Miss
Nilsson portrays insanity with such feeling and
truthfulness that 1 believe she has followed
Kean's practice. The sweetness, delicacy and
plaiutveness of her voice in the character of
Ophelia must be heard to be appreciated. The
French have taken the Tate and Garrick lib
critics with the play. The Ghost, for example,
recommends the Queen mother to the cloister,
and Hamlet lives king, as Dick Wilmington
was Lord Mayor of London. A ballet dance
under the form of Danish fete comes in to
relieve the severe dignity of the play-by the
by, these danseuses receive lessons from the
once famous Taglioni, who has had the expert
ence that Douglas Jerrold said attached itself
to most women, of having fortunes kicked or
kissed from them; twice she retired with a
competency, but is now 81 ad to earn her bread
by teaching.
The scenery of this opera is wonderfully
managed and SO is the coming ON and the mag
nifcent presence of the ghost in his full suit
of armor. The French reach the inner re-
cesses through the senses but so delicately do
they idealize the sensuOus that they make the
earth no longer seem earthly.
The Emperor and Empress came in shortly
after the opera had commenced. have new
er seen the Emperor in apparently better
spirits MOI the Empress when she gave tokens
of being more absolutely in ill humor. When
the Emperor was perceived the audience gave
quick, low cry of "L'Empereur." At first
/ thought it was fire, till catching the sound
looked at the Emperer's loge. They did not
greet the Emperor, perhaps this omission
wounded her self-love. She showed herself as
charity as possible to the audience, while the
Emperor leaned forward and applauded liber-
ally, and towards the close of the opera went
out and congratulated Miss Nilsson on her sue
cess, distributing praises to the other actors
and actresses according to his usual tact.
Miss Missions great success has brought her
scores of offers of marriage.
The Russian pianist Rubenstein, who has
been playing in Belgium is reported to be
contemplating United States tour.
The Odeon is about to put Lear on the
boards taking great liberties with the awful
sublimities of the play.
Miss Dix is to be married sometime in
April. A beautiful fan of point lace and carv-
ed pearl is exhibited at the Compdgsaie des
hides as abyou which may be held during the
ceremony.
Mile. Cora Pearl, one of the successful Cleo
patras of the demi-nlonde, the Englishwoman
adopted by the Partisan world through the
force of fashion and who keeps her position by
her tact and unscrupulous audacity has been
again the talk of the metropolis. This time it
is not on the boards but in the fifth chamber
of the civil court of the Seire that Cora ap-
pears to show cause why she shall not pay M
Denugent for a certain many-faced bracelet.
AS an affair of this nature creates lively
stir among the curled darlngs of fashion,
and the Cleopatras have always carried it
over the quiet-eyed Octavias. your readers
may be struck with the incident that illus
trates one phase of this myriad-sided Paris.
The Observation-Disclosures it doth appear had
sold to Mile. Cora Pearl a racs-eourse fan. 1t
was of white silk and this" coQuet bijou" or as
young ladies would say, Glove of thing" rep
resented the fair Cora on horseback len An,a-
zone-she is Menken); the reverse had some
lines of Alfred de Musset embroidered in gold.
which lines signified that rich England would
more than once throw her net to the sea before
drawing pearl so precious. Then there was
the repairing of a parasol, and charge for a
miniature to ornament cigar-holder the to-
tai of the bill amounting to two thousand and
seventy francs. 1t was presented the End of
last September, and elected the following re-
ply in which the pluck of the Englishwoman
is SO rampant.
Under no kind of pretext shall take the
miniatures sent by you, Nine. Denueent
When spoke of having them made 1 asked
the price, and was told they could not tell
Surely, if 1 had doubted of their price should
not have spoken of them. AS to the small
miniature for the cigar holder for the others I
paid $50 francs, and for this / will pay 300
francs, nothing more.
The fan, with the photograph, 600 francs!
You cannot indeed demand such a price, l
will give for it, the photograph included 500
francs. see, besides, the face on the fam and
the last miniatures are no likenesses, not at
all, at all, (pas du tout, du tout) beg you to
send again my bill. 1t is clearly understood
that / give only the following prices: Fan 500
francs; miniature 300f; total 8O0f.
CORA PEARL.
The seven miniatures which Cora refused
were painted by Madame Denugent. One re-
produced the features of the Englishwoman
enclosing the likeness of cavalier, the six 9th
ers represented the Empress Josephine, the
Queen Hortense, Madame Recamier, Madame
Tallien, Mademoiselle Georges, and Diana of
Poitiers.