Mexico weekly ledger., 1878-01-17

radiating from the Arc de PEtOile-
and then give carte blanche to the
upholsterers, decorators, and art
of every description in the
of ''fxings." This done, try
to live in the place for a time, and
when you find it bores you too much
hurry back to San Francisco, so as
to be spending money at both ends
of the wire, and leave your wife in
charge, with general instructions to
lay out as much as she can. This is
exactly what Mr.. Mackay seems to
have done.
A big, simple minded man-quite
able, if the fancy took him, to do a
days work in his own mine-he tried
Paris for q time, and went around,
only to find that it was boring him to
death. lie did not know the lam
guage, he did not know the ways,
and he soon saw, L suppose, that you
can do the tomb of Napoleon OF the
top of the Arch as well for one franc
as for a thousand. He came back
like aphilanthropist, leaving the whole
establishment, which he could not en-
Joy Just as it stood, in the hope that
it might somehow tend to make 9TH
ers happy, His wife, thoroughly
lady-like person-they are both young
done her best to carry out his
presumed instructions. She does not
apparently want to outshine Others,
but she cannot help it, having posi-
no motive TO count the cost in
whatever she does. The inevitable
consequence of her patronage Is that
her tradespeople, the dressmakers in
in particular, lose all their French
custom. They form such extravagant
ideas Of prices that the wealthiest
have to fly. They charge
more to cover the loss, and it is be-
go on adding cipher to cipher
on the items, until shame visits even
their consciences and taxes the bill.
1t is taxed by anybody else.
at each of the opera houses
ret rid of a few thousands, but they
arc as q mere fly bite to the general
sum. Winter fetes, however, come
to their aid, and do the poor
absent millionaire many q good turn.
number of these were given last
and the visit of General Grant
las Just been made the occasion of
another, which opens the series for
he present year. 1t was the very
biggest thing that has been seen in
Paris since the days when the empire
danced so merrily on that crust of
glory that held the earthquake ruin
Of Sedan. The house is Il splendid
example of what may be done in
emulation of the ieats Of Aladdin's
gchii by modern means. | really do
not think the genii could have i'm
proved on the feat, except on get
ting through his work IN a night.
This vas not finished quite SO quick
Iy. Mr.. Mackay rubbed his dollar
and ordered a palace, and it was
ready in 4 surprisingly short time.
ALI, but the taste! Yoacan buy taste
IN Paris, dear madame, rs you can
buy anything else-it is included in
The bill. l would defy you to find
richer wood carving, finer parqueterie,
more beautifully varied combinations
Of white and gold, of silk and satin
all hues, than are to be see in the
lining-rooms, drawing-rooms, boud-
)irs of this house. Everything is, at
east, in double, and there are some
lines four Or five rooms appropriat-
ID to the same uses, but in different
You may smoke In Constantinople
lbove stairs in q perfect divan; in
Pompeii below, where the walls, the
the lamps, the flooring, are i'm
emulation of the style of a
villa. The cigar box is deck
ID with oyster shells, with pearls in
he rough inside; the bedrooms
hey are veritably rooms of state-are
,ilken nests, in blue, in rose, in Hea-
zen knows what beside, that a unfit
hem for their Uses by keeping the
Eyes wide open in a perpetual stare
IF establishment at the cunning of the
land of man. The costlicst Indian
apparently are not worn in this
they are simply hung, in lieu
IF paper, on the walls. But this is
the house in its normal state.
For tae recent dinner and reception
n honor of General Grant they added
decorations. They built a place in
;he garden for the band, some five-
lnd-twenty of the best performers OF
lance music in Paris. They built a
'alse facade in the cour that looked
'ather more imposing than the real
,ne, and filed the intervening space
With shrubs and fresh flowers from
Nice, at, / should say, something
ike half a guinea a bud. The fow-
ne came in cart-loads; they strewed