Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1870-04-05


promise. English and French names
and business appear lettered upon
the signs and cards nailed to the
walls. There ia Photographic gal
lery, and | went in thinking to find
some pictures of neighboring desc
latlon. to send to Lancaster. But
such evening twilights are melan-
choly, and the infancy of the morn
ing prefers TO forget rather than to
remember the images Of night
Miracles Of creation are preferred
by the artist, so | found nothing in
the line Of departed glory. AS in
lost battles the eye is first overcome,
so with images OF sadness; the art
lists think TO obliterate unpleasant
views by taking no account Of them.
And perhaps we should all be CRATE
full for the necessity which compels
us to forget the old day and witness
the birth of the fresh morning
We venerate the old but love and
welcome the infancy of a brighter
day
My letter is longer than was in
tended, but | have yet to speak of
Paris, whore we stopt over a night
and most Of two days. Paris is o
progressive city, up to the times, as
much SO as any city in the world,
but is sadly neglecting TO inspire
other parts of the French empire
with any progressive spirit to cor
respond. A powerful living head
joined to corpse may illustrate
Paris and France. We, including
the English clergyman and myself,
put on our best equipago, on q bright
morning, and left our hotel for a
walk. We soon tired and then hired
cabman at franc an hour to car
ny us about the great metropolis of
fashions and French Revolulione.-
He spoke English and said he would
carry us through several Of tho
finest Boulevards, Streets among
them the Rue de la Paix, Rue St.
Honore, Vivienne, RicheIieu Rivoli,
&c. Among the noted places we saw
the Artesian well de Grenelle, 1850
feet in depth, throwing up 1900 cubic
feet of water each hour; Palace of
the Tuileries, formerly the residence
of the kings Of France the Louvre,
a most beautiful palace Palace Of
the Gutenberg, and Rue deVaugird,
formerly used for the House of Peers,
now by the French Senate the Her
cules saloon which ia an amphithe-
atre with a lovely garden in front
Palace dc. Justice, a massey stone
building about as large as the Lam
caster public square Palais des
Beaux Arts, large edifce for eXhib-
iting works of art and labor Hotel
des Invalides, work the size Of q
small mountain, and with tall col
umns supporting overhanging sculp-
ture works; Palace Bourbon, a very
gothic place; the Exchange and
Hotel de Vile or town Hall, very
great and grand, supported in front
and sides by 66 Corinthian columns
Museum of the LIxembourgan art
department and museum; Chapel
Expiatoire where Louis XVI and
Maria Antoinette were buried after
being guillotined; the statue OF
Marshal Ney and other noted officers
and 100 other places, some of them
noted as favorite resorts of Louit
Napoleon. Paris is pretty much al
same color and of the same materia
"a granite the color very near o
Milwaukee brick, really the most
beautiful material / have seen il
Europe, unless it be the reddish gran
ite or sandstone SO much used fol
building between Liverpool and
London. The gayety Of Paris il
better understood by seeing the
ways OF the people than describing
it. The people appear in perpetua
routine of pleasures. and act al
though all were familiar to each 9th
er. There appears laughing good hu
NOR among the ten thousands abroad
the old and young alike. Bands
of music and street organs are ev
erywhere and the city full of Napo
Icons soldiers dressed in red pants
and gay caps and coats, white gloves
and all armed with bright guns
The city police are also gaily dressed
| was shown many places renowned II
revolutionary annals, among Others
the'place.where Robbespierre's guillo
tine stood, and where his own head Eel
from the block. The bloody plac,
now supports - church, next in it
rear, and o stone bears the words il
English, "FrGhce still llues."
COVER.