Omaha daily bee., 1874-05-19

WINE, coffee anu NeTlldUie Deer. OHe
nuisance has been suppressed, that
of the claque, and to give Atheni-
ans a better idea that they are in
the country, huntsmen, in charac-
ter, play jolly echoes in tie hours
of chase under green boughs, with
the light of the young May moon
beaming through the tenderest OF
leaves. -r--
The Fine Arts Exhibition has
opened, and certainly in the num-
Der of pictures no annual display
has ever surpassed the present. In
the salon d'hOnneur Is an equestrian
nortrait of Marshal McMahon; for
merly the portrait of Theirs was
SUSPENDED in the same place; it is
the nail allocated to Presidents.
There is another painting intended
to make a sensation, but which the
crowd looks at with indifference
that of the Prince Imperial. He
is i'm mourning, with the Gordon of
the Legion of Honor-fOr he picked
up a ball near Spichern; beside him
is a boquet of viOlets, half-veiled
with Grape, and one of the volumes
of the Correspondence of Napoleon
1. Remove the accessories, and
the boy-fgure remains without
color, or expression, and anything
but calculated to kindle enthusiasm.
The hanging committee and the
jury of admission have shown real
liberation in admitting this political
portrait; its symbols create a smile,
but will make no converts. 1t
would not be a bad idea to start an
exhibition of all. the dispossessed
rulers at large, including therein the
army of pretenders. Every wOr-
shipper would of course pay to
gladden. the eye by a look at his
saint, and the proceeds might be
applied to the fund for the widows
and orphans of the wars, a kind of
Geneva Cross charity, for the vic
Tins of glory or defeat.
Some years ago one of the leading
Stars of the dcnai-mOnde was Gro
sale :" she led a purple and fine
linen life, had her establishment,
her carriage, her horses. Her in
fuenee could make the fortune of a
tradesman and the happiness of a
modiste. She shot from her sphere
suddenly, as all her tribe do, and
was as speedily forgotten as benefits
conferred. A few days ago an old
young woman was found dead in a
sort of den constructed in the 10
man's-land, where rubbish is shot
down; the body lay on a heap of
rotten straw, and was covered with
as much vermine as rays; in the
hand was a brandy bottle, nearly
empty, and near it a few crusts of
mOuldy bread. 1t was ROsalie-
perhaps i'm her days of innocence a
''prairie flower" too.
On the tomb of Talma in Pere
La Chaise Cemetery, a new born
child, healthy and strong, has been
made UP in a bouquet of
lilac, violets, and lily of the valley.
If mothers desire to get rid of their
shame, eve this plan is better than
uidtioii VI tuIONiIS lucIi Ill
to an ash-pit.
OF all the food authorizations yet
exposed, that of an old dairy wOm-
an near Nantes is the most afro
ciOus. The chemists deposed, they
found the milk had been adultera-
ted with wine. The bag, aged IS,
has been sentenced to six months
Imprisonment, and fined fir. 50.
Our Belshazar feats of private
life to-day, are put in the shade of
those of the seventeenth century,
when peas cost S1.OO per quart,
and in 1895, double this sum. The
dinner parties of Catherine de Medi>
els, cost each "fifty thousand
and to make twelve
plates of soup, the cook Of LouisXV,
employed 20 pounds of beef. Lol is
XIV was truly "Grand." He ordi-
ate four ordinary tureens of
soup, a capou flanked by four par
tridges, without counting sundry
kickshaus and wines, In the middle
ages, whale and seal, dressed in
their own oil, formed favorite
with the opulent. Dumas,
when he brings out a new play,
walks up and down before the thea
ter where it is being acted; Sardou
to a cafe to smoke; Often
bach helps the chOristers, and Siran-
din, out of fun, leads the cldque.