The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-07-13

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twenty-four restaurants in and
about The grounds. Sunday is one
OF the most popular days in the
week; the number of entries some
times reaching one hundred and
thirty or forty thousand. At break
fast and dinner, everybody (who is
anybody drinks wine, and this is
another grand humbug. The rea.
son given for drinking the wine is
that the water of Paris is bad.
w ell, 1T is not particularly good,
but the ordinary wine is worse and
simply execrable. | believe there
is better wine made to-day in Amer
lea, with some very few exceptions,
than can be found in all France.
Who that visited the Centennial at
Philadelphia swo years ago, can
forget the exhibition of American
wines, equalling everything to be
found in the present Exposition.
am sorry that there are not some of
them here to show them what can
oe done on the other side of the wa
ter. [ recollect that for SIX months
the Pleasant Valley Wine Co. OF
Hammondsport, New York, kept
their champaign on constant exhl-
bition, not only in bottles, but free
70 all comers; and when the last
trial come before the most critical
wine tasters in the world, they came
of with golden llonors. Good wine
is dearer here than it is in London
or New York. Many of the famous
restaurants have faded entirely out
of sight. Tortoni's stillr remains,
but only the shadow of its former
self. The celebrated "Maison
Doree" has long since disappeared,
and the great "Cafe des Trois-
Freres Provencaux," one of the
finest restaurants in Paris in the
golden days of the Empire, is mum.
bered amc NC the things that are
past. There are plenty of celebra.
ted restaurants sill where they
know how to cook and know how
to charge,-the "Cafe Adglais," the
,"Cafe American" and the "Cate
CARDINAL" all on the Boulevards
The most attractive time to sec
til I'm is along towards midnight, af.
ter the theatres and concerts are
ended. Hundreds of little tables
line the sidewalk and elegantly
dressed men and women, seemingly
unconscious of the thousands ot
passers by, are discussing their ice
cream and cakes, or coffee and
cognac. The interior OF the saloons
is brilliantly lighted, and each Of
the small ,ables represents Repub
lie, a kingdom or an empire. I'm
perialists mourn Cor The departed
glory OF the .-mpire, and radicals
predict the future greatness of the
Republic. Monarchists weigh the
chances of the old Bourbon stock
coming in for their legitimate rights,
and Communists curse the whole
batch and swear we shall never see
good times again till the rich are
pulled down to the level of the poor,
society renrganizcd and property
equitably divided. AT times it
seems as though everybody was
going in for free fight. but nobody
fights. A quiet military looking
gentleman walks leisurely along the
street, apparently looking for no.
body in particular, but everybody
in general, and his presence acts
like oil upon the troubled waters; he
speaks to nobody; he carries no
policeman rattle or club, but he
represents a power before which
even kings have trembled, the or
gained force which in his person
represents the majesty of the law.
Fouche was gathered to his fa-
theirs many years ago, but the ter
rible system of "espionnage" of
which he was the father survives
him all over France. There ap-
pears 10 be no such thing anywhere
as personal or business confidence or
trust; every department, public or
priva.e, is surrounded by guards
and checks as though all the peo-
pie were thieves.
If lou 60 to the theatre one man
sells you a ticket, snother man
punches it, third examines it, "a
fourth takes it up, and every fellow
has fellow watching him to see
that he does his duty. The passen-
gers, In every omnibus, are watched
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