Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1869-05-17

A Morning in Paris How the Day
Is Begun fn the Gay Capital of the
World.
light and by Lamplight."
1t is nine o'clock in the morning
About this time that part of Paris which
makes it what it is, the head and heart OF
the city-the boulevards-begn to move
| do not say that Paris wakes up at this
hour. Is there ever o time when Paris
sleeps7 "What an uprosr there would
be in the world if Paris was once to be
silent"
"Quel bruit ferait le monde.
lie jour GU Paris Sc tairait."
Paris has closed it eyes-Paris opens
them again--that is all. 1t is nine
O clock in the morning. We step out OF
one of the doors of the Grand hotel.
What is the Grand hotel? A palace in
which, especially since the last subjuga-
ton, the kings of the earth have dwelt
world in miniature; hotel with seven
hundred chambers, sixty walters, thirty
cooks, twenty-five washerwomen, and en-
army of doorkeepers, grooms, chamber.
maids and house servants. "A hotel,
do | say A town rather-built from
the ground upward, and by no means a
small town, for it numbers twelve hun
dred inhabitants. This town has q tele-
graph bureau, pneumatic railroad and
a postofice. 1t has its own cafe, its own
cigar store, its own optician, its own bar
ber's saloon, its own tailor's shop, where,
as every inhabitant is informed soon after
his arrival, Estate uniforms are embroid.
cred" II has its own book store, and in
the name of all that is good what has it
not2 1t has its own newspaper-Ld
Gazette des Etrdngers-written and
printed in the hotel and edited by the
famous Henri de Pere, who is renowned
as a writer, and more renowned as q
duelist. But do~not be afraid OF this
paper. 1t is very witty and very anus
ing, and is every morning gratuitously
placed, yet wet from the press, in
each room of the hotel. The town
which contains all these wonders is
| Eve stories high. Each story has three
districts, OF quarters = Quarter de
Scribe, QUARTER du Boulevard and Quar-
tier de rOpera. 1t has fifteen streets, on
the corners of which q tin.plate informs
YOU of the name and number, as in any
other city. But what model streets these
are They are nicely covered with car
pets, adorned with wall mirrors, plea
sanity warmed in winter, comfortably
shady in summer, full Of amusement by
day, and at night as splendidly illumi'
mated as ssll saloon. One can imagine
that with its fifteen streets sRd l2Oo In
hsbitants the place must be very noisy
The quietness that prevails is one OF its
objects of admiration. No servant bear.
ing trunks, loaded as was the ark OF
Noah, passes up the stairs with thunder
ing noise. No walters run TO and fro IN
haste and confusion. Platforms ascend
from the lowest to the highest story, and
quietly convey baggage and persons e
the desired point. The electric telegraph
does the rest. You know that this does
its work in silence. Halls, adorned like
the castles of princes, omen before your
astonished gaze, having Persian carpets,
and ceilings beautifully painted, resplen
dent in gliding and ornamented with
mahogany, msrble, lace and velvet
Newspapers in abundance lie upon the
tables, The languages OF many lands
are heard, but uttered in subdued tones
that others may not be disturbed. The
murmurings Of an entire world enter
your ears, but gently as The waves OF ths
| mighty ocean when their force is spen'
upon the beach. Before you, in th'
court Of honor, under glass-covered halls
before broad, sandstone steps, betweer
rows of lofty oIeanders, roll stately car
riages to aud fro. Behind you, in
magnificent saloon, filed with rows Q