Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1878-10-03
correspondence Of tn. ooid Hin DAILY News

PARIS. Sept. q, 1878.
The irrevocabls tendency OF civiliza-
ton Is from the East to West. We have
heard that axiom before. The move
ment IL from sunrissto sunset ; so that.
when I" all earthly things shall come to
gloom" and "ths sun himself shall
de-" as the poet Campbell gloomily
sings. il will be in the rsmotest Of o.
cidsnts that fashion will expire. The
Palais Royal has only experienced the
application OF u universal law. FASH
ionabls civilization spreading westward,
spreading to innumerable new boule-
wards. spreading to the Pare M~onossuI.
overrunning the Champs Elysess, and
threatening to overlap the Bots dc Bou'
losns. has contemptuously pronounced
the Palais Royal to DO situated. As things
20, out OF the world. It Is no longer u
place to dine. to promenade, to iirt. OF
even to conspire in. II Is too far away.
1t is, fashionably considered. at Pekin.
The great restaurateurs, Velour eK-
cepted, have deserted the apoeints OF the
Palais Royal for the western bouls.
wards.
Are. socially and intellectually. only the
shadows OF their former selves; and
finally the edihcs has-tsmporarily per.
chancs-lost the slight political impor'
lance which under the Second Empire II
possessed. The side OF the vast quad.
ransle facing the Rue st. Honors 10. as
most people know. q magnificent palace.
erst the town residence Of the Dukes OF
Orleans. Thithsr did the profigats
cynic Philippe Egalite turn sad eyes o.
| the death tumbril bore him through q
hooting mob, past the old splendid
home OF his forefathers. to where the
guillotine awaited him in the Place de
Ia Rsvolution-now the Place Of Con-
cord. And in July. 1880. from the win
dows OF that sslf.same Palais Royal.
did the son Of Esalite look wistfully.
half fearfully. half hopefully on an.
other mob. pouring. yelling aud trium-
| plant, from the Louvre, which they had
Just sacked-screeching the Marseil.
laise, roaring "vive 10 Charts!'' "vive
Ia Republique!" "vivs Laiaystts!''
"vive Louis PhilippsT" The last cry
o the day; and
LOUIS PHILIPPE, Duke OF ORLEANS.
Went forth from the palais Royal q citi.
zen king. Eighteen years afterwards
the mob came back to his house TO turn
ii out OF windows. The Palais Royal
had. however. enjoyed full twenty years
Of splendor. Even before the rs-estab.
lishment Of the Empire ii had boon the
residence Of old Jerome Bonaparte. IL
King Of westphalia, the uncle Of Napo-
leon I. and the consort Of the ill.used
Miss Paterson OF Baltimore. and whom
his Imperial nephew. not knowing very
well what to do with, made ut last Gov.
srnor Of the lnvalidss. The old gentle.
man was q Waterloo man; II wal bis
corps that had opened the battle on that
fatal wet morning. and he had not be-
haved badly In the fight. by the Paris.
ians hs was generally, In virtue Of an
a~trociously twisted conundrum, called
"rOncls Tom." since. II was argued.
Napoleon I. being "le Grand Homme,'
aud Napoleon III. ''le Petit Homme.'
old Jerome must necessarily stand In the
relation Of ''Uncle Tom. or 't'homme''
to the latter. His son. Napoleon Jerome.
kept high state at the Palais Royal. gave
good dinners and bad cigars. and
MATCHED VAIN INTRIoUEs
There against his cousin and bensfac-
tor. until the Empire tumbled to pieces
like a pack OF c~ards-cards marked by
gamblers who had lost their cunning
and could nc longer "sauir k COUP"
Very dresry must be the saloons Of the
Palais Royal now. Very dark and dis
NAL must DO the empty stables and
coach.houses in the courtyard adjoin-
ing the Galerie d'0rlsans. The ghost
OF the Napolsonic era is . very woe.bs-
gone one. and Bonapartism for the mo.
ment seems to exercise less influence
over the minds Of the multitude than ct
any former time during this century.
Still it must be admitted that the second
Empire. while II lasted. did things very
handsomely indeed. The pieces In its
repertoires were got up regardless Of eI.
penses and It's pourboires were unstinted.
Dissstablished politically. ostracised by
the fashionable world. the Palais Royal
might ostensibly run the risk Of sinking
to the level Of q tenth.rate neighbor.
hood. II is not only the great eating
house and coffee-house keepers who
have quilted 1t for the boulevards. To
u great extent Ii has suffered abandon
ment at the hands Of
CHEAP TArLoRs,
| Who have discovered that q coin de
rue" or corner OF q populous street, 10
a necessity in carrying on the business
OF a slop.shop palace on a large scale.
There yet remain slop.shops in the
Palais Royal; but they are few in num-
Der and subdued In aspect. Their dun.
mics look dusty, clammily pallid. and
generally detected. from their obvious
inability TO cope with the pretsntious
lay.fgures Of the "coin de rue" slop
palaces: the boys in Glsngarry jackets,
knickerbocken. purple hose. and pre-
posterously rough faces; the aristocratic
coachmen with buff great-coats reaching
down to their feet. white nsckcloths,
bushy black whisksrs. and gold.lacsd
hats with monstrous coekades; the dash
ing Amazons. with Tyrolsse hats and
golden and coral.handled whips, and
who never forget to lift q corner Of their
habits to a sufficient attitude to assure
the spectator that they are provided
with undergarments OF channels leather
with black feet. The artistic exuber.
ances are beyond the poor old Palais
Royal. The Palais Royal. built in de-
liberats imitation OF tho Piazza San
Marco. and presenting . really noble
albeit imperfect copy. must always bear
a pleasantly dim resemblance TO It's
PEERLESS VENETIAN ORIGINAL.
Unfortunately the ineurablo mania OF
the French for the over ornamsntation