The daily gazette., 1875-02-23
PARIS LIFE
Lacy Hamilton HOope,'s Letter.
Especial Correspondence OF the press.l
PANS Feb 4 1877,

Especial Correspondence OF the Press.l
PARIS, Feb. 5, 1875.
We are having lovely weather now,
real Indian summer weather, with pale
gold sunshine and soft mild air, and
all the sweets OF a really pleasant Pari-
sian winler. The, doors Of the florists
shops are crowded with plants, set out
to catch CLEAN of sunshine and a
breath OF air. Flowers are blooming
as though u We're spring, outside the
windows OF the concierges' lodges on
the principal streets. Furs are bur-
den and flannel q delusion. We begin
to dream OF light silks, of grenades, of
straw bonnets. But for the short days
and. the chill air of nights, one might
readily think that winter was past and
over, and that spring had come upon
US with bound. Gay groups sit out
side the cafes, slipping coffee and beer
and glancing over the daily papers. -
The Champs Elysees and the Bois de
Boulogne are daily alive with brilliant
equipages and dainty toilettfs. Like
torpid butterflies, the gay world of
Paris futters abroad at the Inst CLEAN
OF sunshine. They ought always have
fair weather, these Parisians, for they
appreciate it SO fully and en- Joy it so
amazingly. They are as sensitive to
the changes in the atmosphere as
thermometer, and go up or down as
suddenly and from the same causes.
L The exhibition of fat cattle and
poultry at the Palais d. Industrie has
recently been opened. II il perfectly
colossal In its proportions, and includes
the fattest pigs, the plumpest chickens
and the finest cattle that were ever
seen. French chickens are always a
|marvel to me. They are always fat,
well-havored and tender, and in all my
experience of Partisan cookery have
never yet met with tough one. The
grand nave is occupied entirely with
the living objects of the exhibition
Down the centre are ranged the pens
containing the cattle, while the poor
lpigs, whose graccless plumptitude of
fends the aesthetic taste of the Partisan
exhibitor, are showed aside into an OBJ
scure corner. 1t is impossible to make
apiglook pretty, dress him up or group
him as ohe may, and so he is not dear to
the Partisan heart, whatever in the
shape OF hams and sausages he may be
to the palate.
Around the nave are arranged the
| cages containing the living fowls, some
OF which are really charming speci-
mems ofthe feathered tribe. The dead
poultry occupies (oh, desecration y one
of the up stairs galleries usually devo.
ted to the exhibition of paintings
Very appetizing do these defunct bi
peds look, fat as seals and white and
clean as the back of lady's hand, tho
truftied ones stuffed, till from oblonl
their bodies have assumed a spherica
shape, and with black slices of trutflt
Just showing through the thin white
skin. Here are the capons and thu
tpoultry of Bresse, La Fleche and Nor
mandy turkeys, one of which weighs
thirty pounds unhappy geese far gon'
| in that liver complaint the autopsy o
which gives us the delicious toie gfus
and golden-skinned ducks just read.
for the spit. The exhibition of cheeses
(which is divided into two divisions
the soft and the hard, is very extensive
and we learn fir am it that the deliciou
lfrOm0ge de Brie is made in many part
lOf France. AS for the butter, VIII
weeping and with wailing do | con
fess that it surpasses even our fal
famed Philadelphia product, even O
darlington himself. Solidified creal
with breath of spring in it-such
| the best French butter. The fow
: feeding machines, of which / gave
description in one of my letters las
summer, are in active operation
Public opinion is divided concernin
i the cruelty or kindliness of thi
8 method of fattening imprisoned duck
and chickens. The defunct object
I of exhibition are more agreeable tina
D the living ones on one adcount-the
make no noise. The chorus of quacl
ting. squeaking, growing, bellowin
and grunting that greets the visitor
on entering the building is enough
stun dragoon.