The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1877-08-28
out examination of our luggage, merely
asking our names.

nicely dOmicIled, with good rooms, having
no trouble in arranging the price tor
the same, with lights and attendance, rs
in most OF the hotels there are managers
or servants who understand English.
We ordered breakfast and we did enjoy
it. Not chops and potatoes swimming
in grease, but chops on a China plate,
Gelicatey garnered with parsley, potatoes
light, crisp and puffed, on n snowy white
napkin to absorb any grease, rolls white
and light, berries sweet and luscious with
the leaves OF the plant beneath peeplng
out, melons excelllng orr own in sweet
ness, butter in delicate fakes, and
chocolate as none others can make it, with
servant as polished and easy as only
French one can be, and all just the
opposite OF the London restaurant. Who
could not enjoy lt2 In addition, you
get it just when and where you want 1t
on the boulevard, cool, shady and IN
the midst of the crowd, or in the shaded
court of the hotel, with fountains and
flowers around you and the sparrows Al
your feet picking up the crumbs. This
is the way we take our dejeunia. 1t Is
not that the Londoner can't cook as well,
perhaps, especially If he wants - and Is
In 4 good humor, but II Is because he
don't know how TO do things delicately.
He is Just rs dull and heavy IN his c~tSl3e
rs IN his person; the ne drinks his
heavy ale and beer, the other his light
and delicate wine one making you dull,
Stupid and heavy, the other cheering
ipt hant and plnup
pudding against fruit ices and
wine, IN the midst of summer neat
Now take your cigarette and go out to
the Boulevards, or Rue de Rivoli, pass
over this street, rs clean rs your or my
office floor, and just as smooth; none OF
your deatening cobble stones. 1t was
sprlnkled when you were. In bed, most
likely, long enough anyhow to leave no
slush on the street; the gutterlng is Tree
from anything offensive, for streams OF
water long since mad removed 1t all.
Enter the garden OF the Tuileries, none
Gt vOur small contracted beds OF flowers,
no stiff, ugly -haped grounds, but as Tar
as your eye will carry you, away Oh to
the arch Napoleon, two miles almost, one
continuous waving line OF roses, geranl
ums, fuchias, lObelIas, carnations, hibiscus,
&c, infinite IN number, dazzling in color
aud filling the aIr with their perfume,
fountains OF every shape throw up their
cooling streams, many Of them with
crcIng. sprays to keep u gentle shower
falling continuously upon the grass ana
plants Marble OF the purest white takes
the many shapes and torm' that genius
carves theretrOm; whilst trees OF splendid
form and wouGerOus shape are either dot
ting the grounds here and there, or form
ing groves OF dense shade, and through
all which are chairs inviting you TO rest,
true nothing fancy, but comfortable
enough. and thousands Ot them. There
are chairs more luxurious in their shapes
and belonging to those who have the re-
ireshment stands, for which two centlmes
are charged. The manner in which
many OF these trees are pruned and
shaped Is beautiful. One avenue, per-
haps half mile long, presents on the
sides and top perfectly fiat surface OF
foliage, which beneath is cut into
gothic arch, forming a walk, through
which neither light nor rain
can penetrate Another row of trees
along the sidewalk forms con-
tinuous arch tor several squares
the branches only being lett, which eX-
tend in the same direction, forming I'D
archway four feet in depth. There are
trees round rs ball, from six to eight
leet in diameter aud ten feet high, each
IN lis box tour feet square, and all OF
which, hundreds in number, are put
under Ass during severe weather IL
you rise, say at four or five in the morn
Ing, you Will find large numbers of men
watering these plants, sprinkling and
sweeping the walks, wedding the beds,
picking up any stray pebbles or chips
IRON the finest lawn your eyes ever rest
ed upon-so the stranger rarely ever
sees the rougher work that is necessary,
and begins To think there Is some magic
about it, At one end of this fairy scene
YOU have the TuilerieS, how mass OF
ruins, whers facing the gardens TIE sad
effects of that terrible Commune OF that
depIorabe day when mob, y rabble in
their lrcIzy and fury destroyed
that which makes Paris the at
traction OF the world On!
how my cheeks tingled when standing
looking up at this place in ruins and de
ploring II. An Engllshman ut my side
said: That comes from too much lIt-
erty among people. 1t could never hap
pen IN England, and 1t is what is hap
peniug now in America My tongue
was almost psrslized. tor perhaps there
was truth in II, but l would not ac
knowledge it, and made the pest deIense
| could AT the other end stands Ma
poleou's Arch De Triumphe, c0mmem
Grating the COrsican's victories, and
through which pours the gsyety OF Paris
to that noble drive and woods, the Bols
de Bologne. The arch Is, perhaps, the
finest in the world, and rises some two
hundred feet in heIghth. he principal
group OF statuary on It tace the Champs
Elysee, and Is itself from thirty to thirty
i've feet nigh. Victory is represented as
crowuing the Emperor, and scenes from
ms various battles form the alto relieve.
This park eXcels al others in Ocsu \, lot
excepting any other sll that wealth, taste
and c!rgArC c. CAL 40 uas pcsh done Tor 1t
win "a lavisC hAat Cascades, iOuntaIrs,
LAKE AID flowers elnbe.ash It, IN every
nook and corner, while so dense and
c ass are the lsavs that 1t would seem
to penetrate. Is greatest
length Is i've miles, but 1t Is one contin-
ued spot Q: beauty srd iovelnes All
parts are under the care %: skIItuI gar.
deucrs; the roads graded aud >prInk.et;
he paths divcr.itct with graceful curves.
AT on SIDE Is The Iace course. Of $50
acres; and the buildings are elegant III
styl4 ami fuIsh. Close by is the cascade
-artlf,ial-a mound made Of stone,
drawn forty miles On ts summit there
Is y large lake. which pours through sR
intricate rocky way into \ basin IN u
wild precIpltste manner, 80 much 30
tina. YOU would tank !. al Alpine
stream dashIng over ratUra, rocA
and stone instead OF that which
is artificial Returning YOU
drive through the place de Ia Concord,
in which is placed that Egyptian obelisk
a gift from the Pashs of Egypt-EDg-