Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1871-02-15

A correspondent o. hnS 7
4, Pr. avs that when the farisiAIs ~
,s.v.r,sd fr6m the first shock OF me u.lili-
f,.-'l.rut. they regarded Il very mnch
= 49, vouh Al exhibition u nreSorkA-
r. wrne learning. a. an American
- -, 10 dodge the shot
~ s,thered 10 every high place and
..;e,n n vantage where they could sc
~ uvru,echnical display, and Naiehe.i
~,itb cur;ous interest FOR every Hash and
80 exploSion. With a difference,
h,,,,.x.r Whenever a bomb came con
gpicuously near, they fell Hat on ta me-,
faces With a ludicrOus unaniiniiy' Inc
Farisiaus are wonderfully obedleni %
ulIes and receipts. For every situation
in life they have a recipe. And a. theh
have been informed that when n shell
bnrSts upon them the best chance OF e.
cane i 10 fall Hat upon their bellies,
down they go wherever there appears the
slightest symptom Of danger. Nothihs
can be more laughable. You hear, OF
Won fancy that You hear, n whizz IN the
Air. Instantly the Parisians-men and
women-pick out the cleanest place and
sprawl on the ground. OF course the.
will learn ere long b. be less eager 20 fall
down but when one first begins TO obey
a rule one takes il in its widest sense
and followsit absolutely. When the peo-
pie are more accustomed 10 the shells
they will learn 10 distinguish cases where
the rule is absolutely necessary and where
il is superhuous. For the present they
are all obedience with range OF the shells,
and kiss the earth with an alacrity, which
will no doubt be effectively reproduced
in the comedies, farces, and burlesques
of many years TO come. That there have
been deaths, and that there has been de-
struction, it is impossible TO deny; and
death aud destruction are always terrible
TO witness. But for the object which
the Prussians have in view, the prodi-
gious cannonade with which Paris has
been visited might as well have been a
salvo of champagne bottles. The only
practical result of the bombardment
which can find is one Jest the more for
the little boys Of Paris. When they see
man or woman particularly we'll
dressed-say a man glorious in furs that
argue an extraordinary care OF his per-
son, they cry out, "Flat, flat shell
a shell-d yldt Uealtre Il! Down on your
faces" The man, gorgeous in furs, falls
fiat on the ground-perhaps in the gut
ter-and the Partisan urchin reioices
with exceedingly great Joy. The effect
of the fire even ON the fort of Vanvres,
which has had to bear the chief assault,
has been insignificant as yet. In Paris,
ON the right bank of the Seine, we can
draw a line like that which we see in
maps of physical geography, where we
are told that here is the line which limits
the cultivation of the vine, and here the
line beyond which is not heard the song
of the nightingale. tits the extreme line
| to which the Prussian shells have carried.
They have burst upon the gardens of the
Luxembourg, upon the Invalides, upon
the Observatory, upon the boulevard and
street, which take their names from the
hottest of all hot places-the Boulevard
d. Enter. But most of all they seem tC
converge upon the Pantheon, for it ap
pears that the Prussians have an idef
that here is powder magazine. There
is not grain of powder in the Pan
theon--only hundreds of women anC
scores of men praying to Sainte Gene
We've to save Paris-though the blessed
Virgin of Nanterre seems TO hear then
not. This quarter of the town begins t.
be deserted, for it is dangerous. A can
tiaiere is in her bed, sound asleep, an(
dreaming, doubtless, of her gallant reg
iment shell kills her in her sleep.
dozen people are drinking in cabaret
q shell comes to scatter them. A mothe
is sitting at table with her two daughters
q shell smashes into the room, but doe
them no harm. In house hard by i
bursts on two babies in their cradle T; tn,
mother rushes in terror-stricken, an(
swoons with Joy to find the babies ar,
unhurt In one of the houses some sol
diers are cooking their dinner; a shell
comes tumbling into the pot, and th,
dinner is dissipated, but the soldiers ar,
unhurt. In an other house cele
brated painter is working at his easel;
shell plunges into his studio, destroy
his pictures, but does him no bodil,
harm. A cab joys along the streets il
the lazy fashion peculiar to French cabs
1t contains two ladies, and if the coach
man had been little more active it nee'
not now be recorded that one was kille,
and the other only frightened. Fright
ened People may well be frightene'
at such personal experience but Paris
nevertheless, is comparatively indiffer
ent, and the psychological moment is no
come, nor is it at hand.