Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-08-21
a hlaht at BulIlars.


AS the war goes on we. shall proba-
bly, become better acquainted with the
traVeling-cOrrespOndentO3 Of the
London Daily Telegraph, who is Ger
tainly the most picturesque and vivid
of all the rowing writers of that sensa-
tional Journal. Take, for example,
this striking description of an evening
spent at Bullier's, a famous dancing
resort OF the students IN the latin
Quarter Of Paris, Just before the de
parture OF the troops for the war: t~
"Did you ever meet q lvelier race
than the NeapOlitan peasantry about
P0rtiei and Tore del GrecO-algays
eating maccaronf, always meandering
In the ainuosities OF the may dance,
while at any moment the boiling lava
flood NAV come tumbling down the
burning m~o0nfainis sides or the
shower of ashes .engulf them as the
two doomed cities were enguhed
eighteen hundred years ago. DdnSons
done sur an TOledn. For tomorrow
the lava, and the scOrie, and the hOF-
rOrs of an eruption. Tonight Nesu-
wins Is en goagene, and the water is
iIlumined with twenty thousand adj
ditionai lamps There is a grand
patriotic ball at Bullier's; so, about
nine o'clock in the evening, we hail a
| Victoria, and bid the driver take the
road toward the Luxembourg.
ttBulIier's ito Mabillea as Highbury
Barn Bto CTemorne. As the ClOserie
dies Lilas' it has been celebrated in the
lfdSti of Partisan pleasure places for a
great number OF years, and viii re-
mind the old Paris man Of the kindred
but now defunct haunts Of students
and grisettes-the Prad0 and the Chau-
miere. The grisette, / need scarcely
remark, Is very rarely met with in
HausemanniZsd Paris, and will very
| soon be reckOned among the extinct
animals. The RdD La FOntaine sang
her praises justtwOh hundred years ago;
BalZac and Gavarni made her re-
noWned throughout Europe. The gri-
settle atOneS for some Of the enOrmities
of Eugene Sues detestable romance,
THE Mysteries of Paris;' and there
are few pleasanter pages in the pleas
ant books of poor Albert Smith than
those which describe the adventures
of Mr.. Ledbury and his friend Jack
johnson with the sewing girls and
Waistcoat-makers of the Quarter Lat
1 ILL., IOHrfo CtCtftlc4 4AAClC 4AG III
longer any ~grisettes. The washerwO-
mans drudge seeks among her soap
suds for the field marshaPs baton of
the GrGRde COeOite, and rarely fails to.
find it in the tub. The pOrter's daUgh-
ter dreams Of riding in the grand open
| carriage which she has often opened
the p~OTtecocherie to admit; and the
whilOm sweethearts of the students
of the Place du Pantheon AMI the
Rue de PEcOle de Medicine emigrate
to the Allees DIES Veuves and the
Boulevard Malesherbes, and set their
caps at Pennsylvania petroieocrats
and mahOgany-cOmplexioned Brazil
ians, with their waistcOat pockets full
| of loose diamonds. Bullier's-the
| Closeries des Lilas, which is half a
garden and half a barn, both very
poorly ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS a scene
last night which would have glad
dened the heart of Mr.. GiOYannelf;,
and made Mr.. Baum jealous. AT least
three thousand people must have been
packed into the area set apart for
dancing and prOmenading ; but the
distinctions of locality were quite set
at naught. The visitors waltzed in
the gravel walks, and the promenad-
ers talked about in the middle Of the
| quadrilles. If a couple made up their
minds to dance, they did it anywhere
ION the fiure,' as the Irish say, or
in the middle OF a flOWer-bed, or in
front of arefreshment buffet. Several
pas SetdS were executed on cane-bOt-
toned chairs, and one gentleman of a
lively and eccentric turn-I hope he
was provided with waterproof leg
gings-absolutely got into the basin
of the ornamental fountain, and pad
! died about in the water like a mad
Triton. He would have done better
to have stood upon his head-the
bath might have cooled him.
From nine until half past eleven
there reigned at this Bullier's one of
the most extraordinary spectacIes Of
! patriotism gone mad l ever witnessed.
1t was entirely of a civilian nature. L
did not see a single soldier in uniform
.prasent-the tiremen and GaIdes de
Pari is on duty eXcepted-sO the pekiRS
had It ali their Own way. l dare say
there were a great many students
present; but the modern alumni of the
Latin Quarter are no longer distin-
guished by their bushy boards and
unkempt locks flowing over their
shoulders, their broad brimmed and
steepIe-crowned hats, their exagger-
ated rundown collars, and their short
black pipes. The ettdidnt of 1870 has
taken to wearing braces and smoking
cigars, and washing himself-just as
in England Messrs. Bob Sawyer and
Ben Allen no longer appear in pea
Jackets and big buttons, with the
kIswh AI.o-LoF Gcrhfoof, , nrOfru1fn mo-
| from the pockets thereof, but have left
of sack-Or excess in the consumption
of haIfand-half, which amounts to
the same thing in the long run, and
live cleanly, like gentlemen. Min
gled with the possible students
at Buffers were an overlooking
composed, l should say, i~ndifferently
of clerks, counterjumpers, young
tradesmen, and the Undesirable class
who bear the generic name of BO-
hemes. There were no WOrkingmen;
the blOuses prefer the barrier bulls.
There were no handles; that glitter
ing race seems to have entirely disap-
peared from human ken for the pres
ent, Just as Spain, since the collapse of
General Prim's nice little intrigue
which is about to plunge Europe into
blood and misery, seems to have been
temporarily blotted from the map.
As for the ladies, of whom an amazing
quantity adorned the ClOserie DIES Lii
las, it is sufficient to hint that among
them the mother of the Graeehi vas
rather conspicuous by her absence
than otherwise, and that anybody'S
daughter was the female most strong
ly en- eUideHce. Collectively the ladies
were fascinating. Individually they
afforded to the contemplating mind an
opportunity of remarking how fire.
auently in France extreme personal
ugIiness is found in combination with
great elegance of figure and wondrous
taste in dress. q
ssThey were all-clerks, counter
shippers, anybody's daughters and
simple married wOmen-as mad as
hatters Hundreds of little tricOlOred
lags-you may buy One at a toy shop,
with a brass eagle surmounting the
staff, for ten sous-were waving to
and fro; many of the girls had bou-
duets arranged in the three colors, and
many of the men wore eockades of
the same pattern in their hats. They
danced and stamped and screeehed in
excitement, but, i remarked, almost
entirely deserted the retreshment buff
fets. If this had been an American
revel, the bars would have been
thr0nOed. 1inuOrinO mn with thesmeu 4