Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-06-22
OLIVE LOGAN.
Paris Under the Electricity of
Heaven and the JablOOh.
kOf Patent.
Pen Pictures Of NOtables "A Friend
Iy Chat With Minister NOyes.
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PARIS, June 8, 1S7S.-Noctur-
nal Paris What a vision of sensu-
GUS delights, of brilliancy of gas
light, of glitter of gems, of per-
fumed houris gliding in the mystic
rious romance of witching love
converse beneath the bosky verdure
Of the Champs Elysees, of ices at
Tortoni's, of gay midnight suppers
at Bignon's or the Cafe Anglais |!
Or Of promenades on the Boule-
Yards, an honest, quiet stroll, per-
haps with ones family, and up and
down the new Avenue de l'0pera,
where for the first time night or
two ago the whole street from the
Grand Opera House to the Come
die Francaise was illuminated by
the
" OAN GILO1AlO LAMEO
of the Jablochkoff patent. To
attempt to describe the brilliancy of
these lamps, under whose revealing
steel-blue light the street is so food.
ed with radiance after dark that
reading the finest print is an easy
task, and picking up the smallest
pin lying on the pavement an ac-
ton of facile accomplishment to
any but the blind, would be an eff.
fort almost akin to that of endeav-
oring to pen-paint the glory of the
glittering stars which pour their
efulgence down upon the mighty
rocks and fairy waterfalls of the Yo-
semitic. When these electric lamps
are lit the
SPLENDID GAsELIERs,
which crowd about the facade of
the opera in groups of three, and
which have heretofore rendered this
place the most brilliant in Europe,
are so cast into nothingness that by
comparison they seem like the yell
low, murky oil-lamps of lake
steamboat obscured and half oblite-
rated by the veil of a heavy fog.
And yet if all that Paris had to
offer were its charms of after.dark.
its cafe concerts, its shop-windows
full Of diamonds, its bookstores
with their quasi tempting volumes
English translations of Paul de
Rocks "Pretty Milliner," Boccac-
clos stories, and other jaunty works
leach one labeled, observe, the
"raciest reading extanfO-lying in
close proximity to such serious vol
umes as the history of the Life
and Death Of Queen Henrietta
Marie" an analysis of Russian
Society,"" a record of "Travel in
Greenland" and other such-not
to mention its operas, concerts,
theaters, dinners and gay social
gatherings-the hold which the
BRILLIANT CITY
possesses, even on well balanced
minds, would be much less than it
is. The Paris of the morning is
lovlier farm the summer months,
at least-than the Paris Of the
nightfall. This morning l started
on foot for a bracing walk in the
Champs Elysees before the hour of
the MONDAY breakfast, the French
deieuner u la fourchette. Ny ho-
tel is near the Church of the Made
laine, aud to those who have been
in Paris | need no more than recall
the picture which met my eyes, as
| stood there under the shadow of
the great church and looked down
the majestic Rue Royale, with its
crowd of hurrying carriages and
its leisurely or rapidly going pedes-
trians, the background Of the pic
ture being the hall of the legisla-
tive body across the Seine, with the
palace which Count D'0rsay and
Lady BlessingtOn occupied on its
left, a stretch of aristocratic resi-.
dences of the old nobility on its
right, while the middle distance is
grandly filled by the Place dc la
Ooncorde, with its dashing foun-
tains, its statues of French cities,
its Cleopatra's Needle, and its
peaceful and bloody memories Of
the past. Sights like these have in
them suggestions which calm and
chasten ones thoughts, and bear
with them a caution to the genera
ton of to-day against the possible
wrong Of a hasty Judgment, Yet,
THANK HEAVEN!
however impetuous we in America
may be, tho national bark has good
sense for steersmen, and the great
blood. stain Of the mprder Of a
Marie Antoinette is never likely to
blot our country's esontheop.
My walk lay up along Che Champs
Elysees, and to stroll there in the
early morning when the dew is on
lbe flowers and the sun has only