The daily gazette., 1876-05-11
Correspondence Of the Delaware Gazette.
PARIS, April 26th, 1876.
PA RIS LETTER.
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Uo wever, the "goody" print in many
hands is Monseigneur de Segurs, He'll
1t is as full Of typographical informa-
tion as Red Guide book, Milton
gives his Satanic Majesty colossal pre-
portions; others limit him to the ordi-
dairy dimensions Of a grenadier. Not
few have fear of him as the sparrows
do the straw soldier placed in cherry
tree to frighten them; for the first few
days. the birds are coy, then they at
tack the fruit, and ultimately finish by
perching and chirping on the soldiers
head dress. He'll then, according to
Monseigneur, is in the centre of our
planet; geologically, it is composed of
needle rocks and arid deserts, where
all is blackness, abysses, with Ice
bridges. There are boilers as vast as
ocean, filled with the impions and the
credulous; there are grid irons, on
which millions are grilled, the Martyr
dom of st. Laurence being nursery
play in comparison Herewith; there
are revolving spits where heretics and
schismatics are impaled, and those
who have eaten meat on Fridays, are
packed like herring, but in barrels at
white heat. Imps are employed with
red hot, iron pitch forks 10 turn the
damned from time to time, with per.
mission to swallow one when cooked,
and to be subsequently digested-Jo-
nah fashion. The food of the wicked
consists of toads and vipers, and their
drink is-unfit for publication; to cool
them, Providence-who is known to
move IN a mysterious way-sends oc-
casional showers of molten lead, sui
phur and boiling oil. Collin de Plancy
remarked, that some theologians have
devoted their lives to describe what
passes in the Internal Regions, with as
much assurance as if they had made a
voyage there.
/ A less painful subject is the "return
of Spring." as it took its departure.
after answering to the astronomical
rell call last month. The sky no longer
presents that tantalizing indecision-
equally ready to laugh or weep. Paris
ians have at last accomplished their
heglra to the Champs Eiysees, where
they seem to live, move, land have their
being, from three p. m. till midnight,
amidst cafes, with or without singing;
mabille Balls, the circus, theatres, and
Kinks; roller skating is the prevailing
mania; every mansion eXacts rink as
well as croquet lawn; be assured bal
comics will yet be converted into tiny
rinks, and houses so constructed, that
the garrets will he thrown into skating
arenas, instead of being questionable
bedrooms for lower or rather "upper"
: servants. We have lifts, why not add
rinks to all the comforts of home?-
1t is very pleasant to dine at this sea-
: son in the open air, hat on hand, and
top coat on back; it is charming to
have something green before and
around you; the bright stars in the
deep blue sky, form ceiling so enjoy
able, that any bill of fare would pass
without growl from dyspeptic of
seven years standing. One is SO phil
osophical, so lost in the charms of ma
ture, as to excuse caterpillar drop
ping from tree into your clear soup.
This is the season combining the last
pleasures of Winter with the first of
Summer; the bois is charming, being
still free from its "dust coat" and you
are certain to encounter friends and
acquintances who have been hiberna-
ting since October and look now love-
ly after six months intermittent inhu-
enZa, and sundry earthquake shocks
iof gout and rheumatism. Philosophers
: observe, that new journals appear with
the new leaves, but never live beyond
the life of the roses. 1t is the selected
time for ladies to read the newspapers
in the open air; unmarried nieces pre-
fer those journals with long lists of
banns of matrimony; old aunts fail
fall back on the deaths, and pronounce
a paper positively witty, when it He-
gisters the decease of several octogena-
rians.
Minister Waddington is the first
member of the Cabinet who has spo-
ken up like man fer the young Re-
ipublic, and his pluck may be attributed
TO his anglo-saxen origin. He prom
iscs to infuse new blood into the
shrivclled university, and will allow
young professors to teach in the State
colleges, as in Germany, On their own
account. He ardently desires ebllga.
tory education, but first solicits funds
to provide the requisite school &C
commodation. Edmund About, who
has become quite military in his in
stincts, since the Prussians inprison-
ed him. urges on the Minister to have
collegians taught to run, swim, fence,
box, shoot and ride, before devoting
several years to design noses, eyes and
ears, under the name of drawing. 1t
is suggested that before the Chamber
of Deputies ratifies the site for the ex-
hibition, competition of plans for the
buildings, on any of the positions pro.
posed, be publicly held in the Palace
OF Industry. In any case the exhibi.
tors and visitors may rest assured
France is resolved to produce some
thing like marvels. The fste of 1873
will be the nations, that of 1867 was
but the work of dynasty.