, 1872-12-08
PARIS.
II
Rossfni---The Inscription on the New
City HaIl---An;maict1la
in Wheat.
Marriage and Divorce---Berryer and
Bugeaud---Mlle. Bern-
hardt's Charm.

hardt's Charm.
F5os1: Our 0,sn Corrcepo1dent-
PARIS, Nov. 20, 1872.
RossI1
Ike Bellini, sleeps in q Paris. buryingg-gKound.
The Italians made noisy demonstrations after
his death Of their resolution to bury him in
hanra Croce Ghe Westminster Abbey Of ltn1y),
but they all ended, as they began, in noise,-a
common weakness of those who speak the - soft
bastard Latin" Rosslni's widow, they say, was
the obstacle to the qualification Of the Italians
wishes. She made absurd conditions precedent
to his removal, and, when these were accepted,
she insisted on still ahsurder conditions. Being
woman, q French woman, widow, and an e1-
opera songstress, she was inpenetrablo to rea-
Bon. Time flew away, blunting memory and
bringing new cares SO Rossini WAS left in
Pe1e Ia Chaiee. There he is likely to remain.
His widow has built tinsel and gingerbread
chapel witt. his vault beneath, and thither his
old friends went the other day, with
crowns OF yellow flowers, to commemorate
the fourth anniversary Of his death. think it
is to be regretted that he is not buried in his
native land. During the long, mournful half
century of its thraldom, Italys only glory was it's
martyrs, its composers and its singers. They
revealed to the world the ancient genius, which
fingered under all the feiters and chains of Aus
tria, and kept alive faith in 1taly's future in
many breast. Rossini himself had no love for
his native land. he loved best the place where
company WAS gayest. giddiest; most careless.
He cared for nobody, for nothing; all he asked
of earth was good yictuals, and plenty Of them,
and to be amused. And yet, as write, fear
wrong Rossini, for he left munifcent and judi
ciouslegaces to hs native town, and to places en-
deared to him by recollection Of youthful hours,
when hope made all life, even its clouds, wear
rosy hues. It Was weakness Of RosEini to con-
ceal bis thoughts under the giggler's mask.
Laughter was the a1nor by which he protected
himself from those fools who arc continually an
noying eminent men with their inperinence or
their folly
TO De REBUILT.
Parisians have heard with qualification that
the Tuileries lace is to be rebuilt, and on the
same design as the burnt edidce. The City Hall
is likewise to be ..ebuilt; but there is angry
wranging over the inscription which IS. to be
placed on the new building. The Radicals, who
are Communards at heart, wish an inscription
which Ehall only nontion the City Halls de-
struction By fire, without hint Of the hands which
applied the torch. AL the other members of the
Municipal Council wish to put the scoundre1s in
perpetual pi1lory for felons guilty Of arson
ASIa1ALCULA IN WHEAT.
The French farmers in Lower Normandy have
complained q good deal of smut in wheat this
year, and which is not to be confounded with
rust (cnrie), or with the other sort Of smut call
ed here charbon, which. as well as rust (carie),
is produced by parasitical mushrooms. The for
mer smut (nleHe) is cauEed by very singular AMI
ma1cula, which have great analogy to the little
anima]cula frequently seen in vinegar. These
animalcula are found in two different states in
wheat,-as larym, Or grubs, and as adult WORMS;
but the grain which contains them is always
completely modified in appearance, and consists
OF small, round. hard. thick husk, OF 8 black
ish color, filled with white substance formed Of
microscopic threads, which are nothing but
dried, stiff animalcula. Il they be placed in
water, they SOON become animated and wriggle
with great vigor. If the wheat be old, some
time (hou1s or days) slaPses before they they
animalcrla introduced into the grain OF wheat
1t has long been demonstrated that the trans
mission takes place in the ground, where smut
ted grains infect sound grains. While the
sound grains are terminating, the smnttea grams
them are terminated in time by the humid soil
They then pierce the envelope which imprisons
them, and so to the sound grains, guided BY
that instinct implanted for self-preservation in
near the point OF the growing stem, where they
remain until the ear be formed. The ear, during
its early formation is soft and pulpy, and the
animalcula easily enters it. 1t has been de-
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