, 1872-12-22

PARIS, Nov. 50, 1870.
POLITICAL EXCITEMENT.
The intensest excitement prevails here; and yet
to write you minute account Of it is Like tell
ing you the tricks Of q game Of cards, for the
players are unknown to you, and that vi1lanous
telegraph (the neWspapor-correspond great
enemy) is always announcing the honorB and
stakes won before correspondent Gun begin to
tell the course Of the game: / am confirmed in
this opinion by the bungling way in which the
actors names are told you by the telegram. Duke
dAudinret Pasquier is turned by the telegraph
into Duke Doldfrybaskets Duke de BroGlie be-
comes Duke Debroguey, and Mons. Saint Marc
Girardln is Mons. Grandmasgndion. Agebraio
signs would be quite as inteligible. have
therefore thought the only way to give interest
to these political crises is to treat them histories
ally,--to wait until their end before tracing
them from their beginning to their sequences.
Meantime the telegraph will give ont their
anatony even before this page reaches mid
ocean. The excitement here is intense. Belle
Vile and Montmartre are filled with troops, All
day long, foot and mounted regiments, with
bands continually playing, traverse Paris from
end to end. The weather is unpropitious to in
su11ection. microscopic, penetrating rain
falls continuously, and the winds blows it up
sleeves and down collars, till patriotism shiyers
and RepublcaniBm freezes.
YOUNG RASCAL.
DR.. Seymour, a well-known English dentist
here, was walking on the poulevards some time
since, when his attention was attracted by boy
shout years old, pale, wan, il-clad, but with an
extremely interesting face. The boy was not
begging, but evidently he Was hungry. Dr..
Seymour questioned him, and obtained these an-
swors: 'My mother died during the siege.
Father was Communard; he Was arrested; I
do not know what has become OF him. am all
alone, without family, without friends" DR..
Seymour carried the boy home with him, and
bis wife, touched by the pitiable story
insisted upon keeping the houseless, friendless
orphan. DR.. Seymour informed tho police Of
the adventure, and Of his intentions. He dressed
the boy nicely, and the boy sobbed in gratitude:
Mrs. Seymour taught the child to pray, aud night
and morning he prayed for his dead mother in
most edifying manner. Tho boy had been in
Mrs. sey1nour's house about six weeks when she
one day said to him: 'Do you much regret
your mother?" He sobbed as If his heart VAS
breaking, and answered; .oh, indeed dol"
q taper for her" Tho boy went to st. Roch
Church, and bought and burnt taper for his
mother with the money Mrs. Seymour had given
sells tapers in church told Mrs. Seymour
how piously the child had said his prayers, and
how the tears had trickled down his cheeks. DR..
and Mrs. Seymour became more and more at
tached to the boy. Judge their surprise when
yesterday they we're informed by the police that
the childis father and mother we're both alive,
both respectable, never even suspected OF ad-
herring to La Commune, and we're janitors Of o
parsonage in the Ninth Ward The little knave
was at once sent home.
TIE PARIS JOCKEY CLUB
CWhose clubhouse is the first story OF the build
ing at the corner Of Rue Scribe and the Boule-
vard) has 730 permanent members, SO honorary
members, and temporary members. Its whole
annual expenses are only 372, 500. House-rent
and taxes are the heaviest burdens, s35, 400 !;
5000; dlning-room, 50, 800 !; fuel, 92,400. The
lato War annually mu1cts the Club $l0,6 $50 in one
tax alone (20 per cent on ali subscriptions.
Subscriptions yield $50 100; the card-tables yield
profit OF SIS, 600 and cigars 81, 400 more and
there are other SOURCES of profit.
MARRIED ACTRESSES.
4 married woman on the stage exercises less
magnetism over an audience than q single wo-
man does, even in our American theatres where
actresses generally are respectable, and whero
the mere presence Of woman behind the foot
lights ia not sufficient to warrant the loosest
thoughts. But the fact that she belongs to anoth-
er; that her brightest glances, her sweetest dim
pies, her most musical voice are not for me, and
that might sigh for them in 7ain,-do uncon-
eciously diminish the influence she exerts. 4
gentleman refuses to allow his imagination to
leap over q wedding-ring. The effect Of mar
riage On actresses has been oddly illustrated
here this week. There wa1e matches called
Christine Nilsson matches, and which had 3
vogue has 80 sensibly declined that their maker
has changed their name to Northern Star
Matches. There is something in name after
au.
TIE STUDY oF MYTHOLOGY.
The head-mistress Of girls school at Pesth
announces in her advertisements: Tin this
school, 30 much mythology il taught aa may
operas from beginning to end" Accomplished
wigesI Suitably educated mothers!
CHAMPAGNE.
In Champagne, newborn babes are washed in
Champagne wine, and, after baptis,n the first
thing the little stranger tastes, as it enters
home on return from church, is glass Of the
Oldest Champagne wine which the family can
procure: In Champagne, stu. not not, spPsrkl,ng' pa
nary stiu Champagne wine is not to be despised.
I have living near me q winner who sells the
ordinary still Champagne vine for twelve cents
the quart bottle. DO not pretend it is equal
to IN iced e4cds1 Me1 c1aId0n 4a Gf 5aon5 s5t it
Champagne flavor. How little foreigners know
Of French vines. and where to get them!
Foreigners think that when they have exhausted
Bordeaux, and Burgundy, and Champagne, they
have reached the end Of delicious French 8ineB.
How many other delicious wines there are in
France, many Of which are too delicate to be
brought even to Paris; the least joIting OF a
railway-ear destroys them. Maybe, one Of these
days, shall tear leaves from my notebook Of
pedestrian in the less-knoWn wine
districts, and tell what liquid rubies, and
topazes, and opala have quafed under peasants
thatched roofs. What wealth those poor folks
possess in vineyard, silk-house, orchard, dairy,
poultry-yard! know many wealthy people IN
the United States who are not half so well of.
To return to my muttous,-by the way, let me-
mention an odd French proverb: :" Ninety -nine
sheep and one native OF Champagne are
one hundred stupid animals" In Cham
pagne, you are never offered sparkling
wines. Still wines, sometimes SO old
it is really nectar, is The only wine eervcd,-tho
only wine drank by the inhabitants, who con-
sider it pure vine; while the sparkling wine
they consider IN artificial, . manufactured, 4
doctoEsd beverage. Marshal d'Artaignan wrote,
in 1880: 81 do not care for sparkling vine;
what want is clear, fine wine, With great
deal OF the Champagne perfume" President
Bertin der Rocberet, who sent his Eperuay wines
to tho great at Versailles, replied to their COM
p1aints that his Champagne did not sparkle as
other Champagne wine did: "Foam destroys, in
the best wines, that which they have best in
them; it gives some merit only to wines Of infe-
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