The New York herald., 1873-08-09
NEW YORK HERALD SATURDAY SUPPLEMENT-

having commonly . lean purse, he Is deter.
mined TO have his pleasure cheap. He hires gar
ret in nsherman's cottage, varnishes his shoes
with his own hands and shines out in them after.
wards IS brilliantly as II he had paid crowd Of su-
perclious walters for Frightening them. He leaves
his luggage at the station and spends whole day
In going from house TO house, till he has found Q
bedroom for next to nothing. The man Tor woman
indeed) lives, and means to live, in the open air.
He does not want Q fine apartment to sleep in; any
dust hole will do for that; and he perform his
ABLUTIoNs IN A PIE DISH,
or without one, II there is no pie dish to be had.
The words ''comfort'' and "decency'' have hardly
any meaning for him. He does not care
for comfort; and, a. . matter Of fact, he
does not like ''decency." He considers IL Q "pret
udice." He does not dine about expensively. He
puts himself en- pension which means ION board"
At hts nshermsn's house. He bargains for every
dish which Is to be served to him. and II there is
one short he makes Q riot about II, as though he
were monkey pinched by the tail. pleasant
little gentleman he Is, however, when his bargain
ing Is all over, and he sips his gOoseberry syrup
and Iced water at his ca)y
On the whole, when all IL said and done, the
French watering places are far inferior to the Ger
man ones. The fact Ia, Frenchmen do not really
care for anything out OF Paris. Here, however, is
the DeBC tn0t can De 6alO OF tno DeBt OF
THE FRENCH WATERING PLACES
at the present moment.
l have come for q fortnight's squirt along the
watering places OF the Norman coast. leaving Part
slams to ike chestnuts in the hot sun Of the
boulevards The review Of the new and fully dis
organized French Army, In honor Of the Shah is
over; the Assembly will be prorOgued In few
days, and the members Of that august body, feeling
as much need for fresh air az oysters do about this
time, are nocking seawards in their alpaca coats,
relying on MacMahon to keep the State pantry safe
in their absence, TWO of them travelled hither
with me from Paris-the one o general, with not
much real hair, but plenty OF alse the other aradi
Cal, who has left the immortal principles OF ;7s9 in
his city lodgings and brought with him Panama
hat pair Of white pantaloons and fishing rod in
stead. This rod leads to mild pun on the part of
the General, who says, "Tosjours pecheur2" and
the radical grins, for he and the General have
shouted at each other often from opposite sides
of the Versailles theatre that, now they have
started to battle their manly limbs in salt water,
it seems but natural they should proclaim eQ
SHORT TRUCE. eHr
We had q pleasant run down, discussing, with no
more heat than that which the sultriness Of July
night supplied, whether the young Prince Imperial,
who Is in Switzerland, would make raid over the
frontier next 18th of August restore the eagle
y
but the Generals wife, who has been IN condition
Of subdued coma ever since beholding the million
dollars worth of diamonds on the Shah's coat by
electric light, turns the politics by observing to me
that the stars look like precious stones, which they
do somewhat though Instantly. This brings US to
the ROuen refreshment room, which remember to
have last seen when Manteufel was occupying the
city ana pressing down upon the Rouennese like q
nagstone on frogs. There was one OF the same
waters then as nova busting Frenchman,
one umbrella and q half high, aud whiskers that
nap out on either side OF his lace ike wings
and look If they were going to ny away with mis-
head. He was finely civil to the Prussians and ls
civil to us gets us table, tells us we have an
hour to spend, and asks whether we will have some
jelly with little veal round 1t and bowl Of straw
berries stepped IN claret follow. They have been
establishing q cookery school in London and teach
ing the British mind to understand an Omeette
Some English confectioner ought to travel over
here and preach to the French the beauties OF
strawberry mess; that is, Strawberries mashed,
with ice cream and sugar, sucn as Etonians do love
and eat, for claret over the strawberries sheds
too bright color on this world Of SIM We make
up party Of eight IA Russian, his wife and two
daughters being co-tenants OF our carriage) and
by the time the last strawberry has gone the
Generals wife feels her interest in subsidereal
THE PROSPECTS OF REPUBLICAN DOCTRINES
than he was an hour ago. and the Russians evi-
IDENTITY fall to hoping that they may linger in these
latItudes all their lives and never see their loved
country again They are pretty young ladies' these
Khersonese Counts daughters, and pratte French
with purity which seems natural to all Russians
speaking other tongues than their own. So Is the
Generals wife pretty, for she might pass for her
gallant husbands granddaughter, and both she
and the Russians are disposed to be mirthful when
we get into the train again and the General
relates the story of a determined man who wanted
to found a temperance and anttobacco paper in
Paris some months ago. As such q thing had
never been seen before President Theirs feared Its
influence on the excise revenues and was for Or
dering the editor to hold his peace But q sharper
Judge of men than the President--none other, in
fact, than NJ Pouyer-Querter, member for that
very Rouen which we have Just left-suggested
that II the paper nterfered with the electors
OF Beleville and Montmartre would espouse its
theories out of simple spite to the government.
Much better" said he, write to the editor, telling
him to 20 in aud VIM" and Barthelemy st.
Hiliare Thers' secretary, did this, and the editor
of the Temperance ana Anti Tobacco Advocate Is
now at the top Of the list for examination in the
Bankruptcy Court. after a long vacation. And So
amid this discoursing, we reach eleven O'Clock by
DTEPPE. 60
Would 1t be believed that this town, which is
now a small copy Of Brighton was once more pow
erfu than Marselles and held its own against
Venice, Genoa and Antwerp In the fifteenth GEN.
tury 1t had 90, 600 inhabitants; its sailors were the
hardest in France, and claimed to have sailed
round the Cape OF Good Hope before the Portu-
guese. 1t is certain that they captured the Cana
ries, and among the first visitors to the New
World exploring Florida and opening the fur
trade in Canada. They also established the earliest
European colony in Senegal and had the
largest trade with the East Indies. In the
reign OF Francis /. 1515-47 the prosperity OF
the town had risen to such q pitch that
Deppe merchant, Jean Ango, having a grievance
against the King OF Portugal, manned neet OF
his own and sent IL up the Tagus, with orders TO
lombard Lisbon unless satisfaction were given
him. Nhereat satisfaction was given him with