The New York herald., 1875-12-19
elephants, a den Of lions and herd Of white

Defrees Sons, of London, nave cnarBe oi
lighting the building on the terms OF $l25'-
900.
There are eight crystal chandeliers, each
Of a ton weight, twelve feet six inches in
diameter and twenty feet in length. The
eight chandeliers will contain
FOUR THOUSAND LIGHTS.
float light, containing $500, surrounds
the interior of the building. Each seat is
covered with plush velvet and the private
boxes are carpeted. All the drapery and
decorations Of the circus consist of the best
silk, velvet and satin, with gold and silver
tassels and fringes. The promenade or
winter garden is 479 feet long by 20 feet
wide with fountain at either end. Mir
rors and chandeliers richly adorned will
line the promenade on both sides. There
are
THREE MILES AND HALF
Of gas pipes in the building, and 16,8OO
yards of velvet three miles of gold fringe
and 4,600 tassels are necessary to complete
the decorations. The chandeliers cost $4,000
each. Durand, the painter, was engaged to
finish the interior and Lefort is to arrange
cafe, which will be
THE FINEST IN PARIS.
Its dimensions are $50 feet long and GO feet
wide.
Since Mr. Myers left America he has
travelled with his circus through Great
Britain and Ireland, France, the Netherlands
and in fact over the greater part of the Con-
tinent- The property belonging to his
travelling company is said to be worth
ST., 600, 900. He has engaged for stablng
purposes o farm of 900 acres at Orsay, near
Paris, where he has nearly 200 horses.
MYERS COMPANY.
He has in his company japanese, Arabs,
the Ochansky family from Holland the Mad
igans from America, and large number of
There are twenty-one clowns in the troupe,
and sixty-fve trick horses.
wAGNER's FAILURE
''The music of the future" has failed at
Vienna That is Wagner, after bringing out
the "New Tannhauser" and "Lohengrin," /"
discovers that the Wagnerian revival
has resulted in loss of $1,000,
The people who were opposed to
Wagner were many more than those
who were in his favor, though he was by no
means without very turbulent support.
But while Wagner professed in all humility
to be devoted merely to the pleasure of the
viennese he and his wife
D1sGUsTED EVERY ONE
with their arrogance and their insulting treat
ment of the artists. They professed to stand
somewhere in position between the singers
and the orchestra but really displeased
both. The first nights were well patronized,
but the attendance soon fell Oft
THE ANTI-wAGNEBIAN PARTY,
under the lead of Speidel who called the
ballet music of the ''New Tannhauser" re-
voting, have a great triumph. 1t is by no
means certain now that Wagner will in May
next return to Vienna to bring out the un-
abbreviated ''Die Meistersanger"
NELSON'S TOUR.
Manager Ullman has decided to take
Nilsson on q tour of Holland and Belgium.
BOOKS.
Among tho notable productions is La
prade's ''Tribunes and Courtiers, which, like
most of the works of this poet, breathes the
air both of romanticism and of piety Jules
Arene's book on China, mentioned last week,
continues to make marked impression.
SOCIETY NEWS.
A new society of painters and sculptors is
organizing in Paris. It's specific object is to
relieve distressed artists. There is also
under way society for the revival
of the sports of heronry and hawk
ing and since the affair has an
air Of success, the modiStes, ever on the look
out for novelty, have already displayed in
their showrooms an assortment Of chapeaur
h<rons in which the plumage of that bird is
as conspicuous as in the bonnets of the Scot
tish chieftains we used to read about.
AMERICANS IN EGYPT.
have just learned that all the American
officers in the service of the Khedive, except
Colonel Stone, are ordered to join the Egyp-
tian expedition against Abyssinia General