The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1878-06-01

"uoaO lotoiy anu SehIie race mas Won
the hearts of Englishmen every where
Pleased as children they wander from
place to place perfectly free from i'm
pertinent intrusion, and happy in the
individual liberty which is no greater
boon to a peasant than King.
By far the most perfect exhibit at
the present time is to be found in
the British department; England
took time by the foreloek. The Uni
ted States is struggling hard to make
mp for lost time, and will no donbt
make good report The attendance
has been very good ever since the
opening day.. though there is not a
single department that can yet be
called finished.
/ During the week which is past
there have been several individual
! Examinations in honor of the Exposi-
ton, the most notable being that ut
the house and ground of Madam
Rothschild, which was exceedingly
beautiful. Paris is very full of peo-
| pie everything is on the rise; the
Grand Hotel put its dinners ups last
week from six francs to eight, and
most of the other hotels are following
snit. Paris is not only full of people,
but it is also full of delnsions, one of
the most remarkable being the idio-
syncracies of the French clock. I
have yet to find two which keep time
alike. Seven times did / set my
watch between the church of the
Madeleine and the Porte Saint. Denis.
and finally missed an important en-
gagement by being fifteen minutes
too slow.
But among the numerous hidden
pitfalls which beset your imperilled
feet there is nothing that equals that
delightful illusory fiction which meets
you at every turn, English spoken
here. /" It is almost rs much Of an
enigma as that sublimest of all lnys-
teries, the French sausage, whose nn-
fathomed compound no enterprising
gastrenome has yet had the courage
to explore. 1t was the wife of the
great Snowman Barnum, / believe,
who made the uncomfortable discov.
cry that the choicest of BologBes were
madefrom the flesh of the donkey,
We should have comparatively little
cause for complaint If the sole compo-
nent of this delightful comestible
was the body of our long cared and
respectable brother, but in it are re-
note possibilities and probable con-
tigeneies which would seem to give
value to the time honored iniunc ton
as shnt your eyes and open 4yonr
mouth, etc. And here let me pause
for moment TO refute q slander in
diistrionsly circulated and generally
believed, that the French rabbit
might be found roosting on the tops
OF fences disturbing your dreams at
night. Never was there o fouler or
more unmitigated slander. The gem
tie forester may be seen OH any
market day on the top of basket |
with a string tied to his leg, and the
purchaser can follow him from the |
moment that the axe of the execution
er decapitates him, to the instant he
is ready for the pot. | take greater
pleasure in exploding t:iis infamous
Libel on French cnizine from tire fact
that the knowledge of the allegation
has often filed he with serious and
uncomfortable misgiyings, but now I |
attack my rabbit frieassee witw q
faith that might move mouutains,and
look upon frogs as divine dispensa-
tion with which a benefcient Provi-
dence, in the plenitude of its power,
has cemforted the children of men.
And now word of caution to trav-
elers. He who would tread these
streets with unmeshed feet will need
to be wise as serpent though he
ean scareely be expected to be gniteI
as harmless as a dove. If in your
walks along the boulevards, or through
the delightful maizes of the Champs
you meet female of es-
pecially sanity countenance, whose
eyes are fixed demurely on the ground,
aud whose face reminds of the angels
which you may have seen occasion
lily niclied in cathedral aisles, don't
raise your eyes, don't turn about,
ton't look over your shoulder or sou
are lost go down into your pocket
vt once for the prayer book or Bible
hat your wife or mother gave you
when you were about to depart from
lome begin by repeating the thirty
nine articles, and then slide gently
nto the apostles creed or any other
If those spiritual safeguards, the an-
;hors of which are supposed to hold
asst when Your moral ark is in dan
yer. If yon find yourself still drag
ug, try How doth the little busy
bee y or the first verse in the last
,Iapter of Eelesiastes and if, after
I'll this, you still experience signs of
weakness, stuff cotton ID your ears,
,ull your hat over your eyes, pack
lp your traps and start for home; /
Paris is no place for you, and even /
hat universal paDacea, saltpetre, /
would scarcely avail in your moral /
md spiritual preservation. Il
BR0ADBRIM.
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