The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1878-10-26

, icontidentally and exchange such hilarious
chuckcs that fancy one priest must be re-
latng to the other such "bonne historic" ~
that suggested in the we'll known picture, Or
il may be, these cstfmablc ecclesiastics arc
convcrsng about the Orphelinat At Aneuil, in
which VI. Saint GcncSt, the military reddcten1
Of the Fig0r0, has taken so laudable an inter
est, and in aid of the funds of which excellent
institution the readers of the Figdr0 subscribed
in the course, OF Il few days sum OF some
thing like 100000 f. The fact is all the more
worth mentioning when it il remembered that
the French although bouniiu IN private
almsgivIng, have hitherto been slow in re.
spending to appeals for public subscriptions,
| That wonderful system Of our voluntary
contributions" is virtually in It's infancy among
they have hitherto been accustomed to look,
in times of pressure, to the state and to the
state alone.
could very well understand why chas-
seur, in pumed cooked hat and holding u
note in pink envelope in one of his buckskin
gloved hands, should have been cooling his
heels in the e.chamber. Madame la Mar
quise de and.Gomme had some request no
doubt to make. There was an old gentleman,
again, in black skull-cap, very comfortably
bestowed in u corner, where he was sleeping
the sleep Of the just. Sleep on, harmless
chucklchcad. ! have met you before the whole
world over in omnibuses, on board steam.
boats, at church there is always the man who
goes TO sleep. He is the lnea descendant of
Eutychus He is the living and snoring type
of tho obese Roman Senator who INDUCED IN
forty winks while Messrs Brutus, Cassius,
Casca Il Co. were stabblng Caesar to death at
the base of Pompcy's statue. While glance
not unsympathizingly on the slumbering vete
is so nice to be asleep and to forget the
world and other worries! A Turk came in-l
the regular modern Turk, the battle of Bor-
surtout figuring the body of the bottle and his
tez the redsealed cork thereof He puzzled |
me even more than the Zouave had DONE |
could not refrain from asking my courteous
mad folks who came that way. Yes" he
remarked, 1.-THE average was about half luna |
tic day. The Archangel Gabriel generally |
calls on Mondays; Wednesday is the day for
the gentleman in Il straw hat with blue rib |
bon who has discovered the perpetual motion
and he is followed on Fridays by humpback-
I'd man in a cloak who has found out the |
feasibility Of aerial navigation. The great |
great grandson of the Man with the Iron Mask |
only calls occasionally to ask for the address
If the son Of the Dauphin Louis XVIl and
since the collapse of the Compile de Chambord's
nothing has been heard of the
ady who declares she is Joan of Arc, and that |
she was burned but got over 1t by means of
electro alvanlsm and the Eau de Lourdcs"
My hosts would not suffer me to 90 away with
)ut showing me the composing rooms" of
he Ffgaro, of which | need only say that they
Intimately resembled some other composing
'ooms which have seen in the course of the
asst quarter of Il century, and then, with great
ear and trembling, pecped into some rooms
where number Of gentlemen were buSily EN-
'loyed in writing. They were the Cyclops
orging the bolts Of ,Joye. For aught could
ell had been gazing momentarily on the
profound 81, Myslcrc," the lnscrutabe " 10
lotus," the ineiiable Diplomatic" and the un.
pproachablc Monsieur d. Orchestra" OF this
conrived and extremely clever
PAPER.
| was hidden, in departing, to look on a por-
raft of his Royal Iiighncss the Prince of
Wales, an excellent likeness, superbly framed
n the Hispano- Moresque patjo, In the tapes
ry hung cham Der took place the famous noe
urnal concert and banquet, concerning which
o many absurd stories have been told. The
prince simply wished to see the steam print
machinery was not to be seen in full action
until long past midnight. The redacti0n of
he FignyO, like true Frenchmen as they are,
bought that they would combine "a little fes-
ivity with the technical exhibition, which the
Prince was to witness; so they got up little
Oncer at which some of the first artists of {
he Parlsian theatres where delighted, although
hey had been hard at work until midnight, to
sslst; and the concert was followed by a sup
er; and his Royal Highness went away i'm
nensely delighted with the graceful hospitali-
Y which had been offered him. A precisely
imllar entertainment was got up and with
parallel success three nights since in honor of
wo Russian Grand Dukes now in Paris.
Strange Effects of the Touch OF n Cat.