, 1874-02-15
Tts Celebration in America and
Europe.
scenes in Rome, Venice, Nice, and
Paris.
The Warfare Of Confetti--- on
the Corso---" Senza MoccoIo !"
Procession Of The Observation-Disclosures Of
the Latin Quarter Masked Ball
at The Grand Opera.

The Festivities In Our Southern Cities.--
Tiny Mardi-Gras Can Never BE.
come Wel1-Establishel
Holiday in Chicago.
For two or three weeks the prominent stations
on roads lending southwark have been cnliyencd
b7 illuminated rIacArds. setting forth the mani
fold attractions OF the approaching celebration
"NAnD1-Gn.s"
II New Orleans and Memphis. to which is gen.
orally added, in g1eatly-enlarged type, the re-
duced rate Of fire at which the companies will
convey plcnsure-Beekers to tho sccno of enjoy
nent. For few years past, these ADVERTISE
meuts have reappearcd punctually at the be-
ginning OF February, and have afforded very
ssrccable motive for q trip to the land of fresh
frs and bananas and an escape from tho
captciouH temper Of Northern spring.
This year, however, the citizens OF the
fourisl1ng municipality which il pleased to call
itself the Metropolis Of the Northwest, have
ciyen more critical attention to those flaming
bulletins. with other views than those Of the
sxpectant yoyager. The energetic pioneer, and
The staid pater-fa1nilias OF Puritan antecedents,
to whom French is not, to say the least, quite
30 familiar as his mother-tongue, have been
moved to inquire into the meaning. motive, and
origin OF this unfamiliar festival, They have
ransacked voluminous guide-booke, and CATO
eIsed that 1oGuacious and omniecient being, the
Eetu1ucd Traveller, and, US result OF their
Investigations, have resolved to
n1roET THE CURIOUS EXOTIC INTO CHICAGO.
The short space of time Intervening between
tbis decision and tho dato inexorably fixed for
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.n.rst;on ~ of tba ,o1;day ,era dnrn. the mas.
ent gear. 1ts celebration upon scale Of IN
ren,l rnarnifccnre ;s nromised for t1,e ,.vt
IT, ls:.:... - 49, 11;a, J.. ~, .1,
An7 -oA''''o y. :" ~" "9"0'y ~ 'oo e''o"o01
q our busy people would be m event OF some
significance, and one not to be lanented if the
newcomer were capable of justifying itself to
onr reason and our necessities. How far it in
rta1r r. Al GO 1,,icbt nerbans ba cn,hared from,
nAe'' ~ w 81 N0s pe'n"po 70 eesa'10u 1'o1
snce in those old countries across the sea, where
it is either native or of very ancient adoption
Nardi-Gras-Fat. or. as tho English sav.
cl~.-s rr-aa. =, 49,
en'o'e' Aoe1aa,-is 'no
LAST DAT pEronE LENT;
it is the elimination Of the Carnival.-the jolly.
7nhicund nes1,-loyinc ecclesiastic. WIN males
.,, ~ h;a ,aar .ad sn;r;tn.1 h-otbo- Aer-
NJ! ~ 1'e i1un' s.1' otN :."a,s n 41au
hednesoas' Inc ca1nl'aa 'teen 49, III Aoman
Catholic countries, the week before Lent, and,
by it's name, proclaims itself to be the wild,
,ioton. yeve1 of what tbeo1ogians ca]1 "The
Flesh /" before thu 1opc Forty Days' Fast when
:, Ao9,' - os1'A, ~ :.
ZIG op1lat enal1 oo"'nees o'et A. ''o '.o..ns H.
Probably ti1cro vas + tlme-the era OF the su-
pEemacy Of the Roman Church-When the cele-
bra+;on of the Carnival. and Of this last day Of
H. eIccstos w,s nnite General, if mt universal