Omaha daily bee., 1874-06-16

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for them is still the symbol of ma
teriai prosperity. Better to marcel
in that way, than to rush to the bar
ricades i'm despair, and be shot down
IN the interests of the unknown.
The Imperialists have now al
their candidates i'm the field for the
pending vacancies. They are wise t.
strike the iron while it is hot. All
that can be urged against these
candidates is, that they are Bona.
partists. The country appears,
thanks to the late minister's
wretched tactics, to be fast forget.
ting Sedan, and all that sort OF
thing, and if it in sheer despon-
dency votes the restoration of the
empire, it has a perfect right to do
SO, and will illustrate the imcompe-
tence of the French, and this time,
perhaps, conclusively, to lie gov
erned otherwise than by a single
and a firm hand. Napoleon "
will have in his favor, that the OPP
ponents Of the Imperial autOcracy,
when fortune placed the direction of
affairs i'm their hands, could do no
better than serve themselves, and
with greater clumsiness, with the
ways and means of the second en-
pire.
All is not yet lost, however. But
every day henceforth may, more
than ever, be anticipated to be filled
with the unexpected. Be surprised
at nothing; everything is possible.
OF course an effort will be made
once more to leave the country de-
pendent on the life of a man and an
Assembly i'm fragments. If the lib
eral and moderate deputies still de-
cline to form a ministry, capable of
making the Septennate an institu-
ton for its few years, of passing the
necessary laws to bring about a fair
and honest verdict of the people by
general elections; if the plan be con-
tinued to patch the old garment with
not even new cloth, there is only the
alternative of revolution of popu-
lar Indignation and revenge, to de-
mand the restoration ofthe Empire
to muzzle all parties alike, and lay
for ever those phantoms of liberty,
equality, fraternity, Orleanism and
Legitimacy.
The grand national steeple chase
has proved SO successful in point of
receipts, that not only will it be
continued as an institution, but a
second fat prize, to tempt English
horses to come to Anteuil, will like
ly be offered during the autumn.
The only Improvement visitors de-
mand would be, that the rain might
fall according to orthodox meteorol-
ogy on the just and unjust alike, not
concentrate its cyclOnic discomfOrts
on the course exclusively, leaving
the capital parched, and neighhor-
ing farmers praying for that down.
fall which only made the fortune of
tailors, dress-makers, and milliners.
The English horse having won, is
an additional reason for challenging
perffe Albion. The French really
seem to enjoy the steeple rather
than the flat race there is a sensa-
ton i'm thespectacle of jockeys being
thrown out of the saddle, of being
picked up with broken arms and
dislocated shoulders, and of witness
ing the Hfavorite" perhaps knocking
its head against a stone wall, and
shot to put it out of pain. The
Jockey Club of France ispreparingtO
render homage to its original found.
ers, forgets its Hamlet-Major
Fraser, a descendant of the executed
Lord Lovate, who first organized
races on the the Champ-de-Mars in
1884. He was notorious In winning
wagers. Thus he was n of the
twelve who formed a tontine bet,
that whoever of them lived longest
a bachelor, would receive the total
fines of fir. l20, 900. He won a large
sum from the Comte de Chateau.
villars, who promised to jump his
horse over the laid out dinner table
of the club; but the Countess fear
ing a disaster for her loved lord,
shot the horse herself with a pistol
during the night preceding the leap.
The Major also was successful in
playing a party of billiards on horse
back. His apartment consisted of
n room, with an iron bed, a bears
skin, a collection of boots and pipes,
a map of the world, and books in
sundry languages, for he was a cele-
brated linguist. Beside his bed
was a barrel of wine with a cock,
for all visitors tc help themselves.
His bed having broken down, a
nobleman offered him a bier as a
Joke, which was at once accepted;
he slept on it till it conveyed him TO
his grave, and he ever alleged it was
a capital plan for depriving death OF
its terrorS.
The tobacco shops i'm France are
government institutions, and their
patronage forms a kind of secret
service fund. The revenues ofthese
shops have never been accurately
given to the public. The shops are
of two kinds, those that sell tobacco
exclusively, and allowed nearly one
franc per pound on sales, and those
that vend in addition, postage and
inland stamps, playing cards, and
gunpowder. The retailers are also
at liberty to deal, under certain cir
cumstances, in wine and liquors.
1t is computed that that there are
8 5000 tobacconists in France, who
enjoy total profits of about twenty
nine millions of francs. Tie mean
annual gain is about 200 francs;
some mel from ten to twenty thou
sand, and one has been known to
make 10000 francs. The chief OF
the State disposes of the plums; the
next highest by the Home Minister;
the rest are the patronape of the