The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1878-11-02
PARIS LETTER.
(From our Regular correspondent
pAnIs- Oct Ilh. Is
| canno, help ,uspccting that the cl ami.

maid attached lu the Hotel Meublc when, I
am now residing, WAS IN carly j m 9 hcayy
lmaou. Most Ircuchmrn hay q sc,,,.d at
one Jim, or another with The "a ,lo,. snd the
attendant hr -,N feet high and wears full
musIacbc-who mahc,lhc l. eds and fixes up
the apartments generally IA, my hotel has an
mms,"tah. martial air about him He
bring up tb, of ay og and the newspaper,
every morning WIN uu,arying military pune
iuali'y, ana f''r'' e. with salute, worthy in
its stili courtesy of Corporal Trim, his modest
weekly graluu 6, hear him at the end OF the
corridor in Ahich my apartment is situated
wh''tl'hg s he cleans my boots, and utterlng
Il Kissing sound as he brushes my coat, both
beng distinctly evident Of military habits
ana ne manner in Nhicn he always anathc
me- Disc, the always tardy washerwoman Is yet
| A0re strangely suggestive of the Long sword
iSa,!dle, bride, o. of the bold Dragon. He is
wl,hal patient, willing good -humored fellow,
r, who works chccrlNIy early and late tolls I'm
I murmuringly up and down stairs under the
weight Of parcels in the way Of luggage that
would alright a German "hausknccht' and
4 well nigh take the wind out Of Turkish "ham-
mal," and leads uncomplainngly that which
but for an occasional popping round the cor
ncr 10 a ncshop in the Rue du Faubourg
Nominate, and The nocturnal putting Of his
cigarette al tlc hotel door when things are
quiet when the 'patronne' is satiatcd with
scolding and the guests are weary Of ringing
! the bcl-would bc Il dogs life.
The chanhcrmaid whom | fancy to have
. been a DRAGON has only one fault, and that
may not be all his own perhaps. | 90 out to
breakfast ut twelve and between twelve and
one y. NJ. my domicilr should properly be fix
ed up" by Bnplistc But, alas! how can Bap
/ tiStc fix il up when, from twenty minutes past
| twelve to ten minutes past one, he and his col
leagues Paul and Louis and Antoine have been
increasingly occupied in conveying up stairs
/ the luggage of travellers who have just arriv
ed and carrying down stairs the impcdimenta
of travellers who are going away?
These many weeks past the hotel has been
turning away from its portals, for lack of space,
al least fifty guests a day From all quarters
Of the globe, and from all countries and cities
mates, At the railway stations they engage
cabs by the hour, and wander about from hotel
to hotel seeking for beds in Paris which Is so
fond Of Boosting Of her hospitality to strang-
crs, but which am afraid is even Il stoncr-
hearted stcp-mothcr than De Quincy found
oxford street But still, there are travellers
who-thcir desire being satisfied or their mon
ey exhausted, probably the latter,-lcavc Paris
the hospiable, IN which case other travellers,
with desires 10 satisfy and money to spend-it
will not last long, my friends Instantaneous
ly spring like lions on their prey, IN the vacat
cd apartments 1t is these continuous depart
urcs that force Bapistc, my chambermaid-
dragoon, to be by times unpunctual in fixing
up" my habltation,
What am to do? have letter to write
to-day, and | cannot write while Baptiste is |
pottcring about with brooms and watcr-cans.
| must spare time to go to the Exhibition.
| am not quite certain whether the EXhbi- |
tion itself is mott mean, of course in the
forcnoon-onc Of the most tranquil places in
Paris. In parts it is noisy; but it has its Sc
qucstered hooks, its retired corners, into which
YOU can quietly creep and wander up and
down, far from The maddcning crowd, far from
the roaring looms Of the machinery depart
mcnt, the horrible .jangling of the section de
voted to the Swiss bells far from the over
restaurants and the babbing "brasscr-
Ics' such haven Of repose | find in the
cry, which is not rejoice to say in motion
! always feel the more soOthcd and placid
when wander up and down IN this particular
shed, because know absolutely nothing about
agricultural machinery | am not an agricul-
turiSt am not Il mechanic You did not
send me here To be tcchnological or, indeed,
illogical" from any point of view, else
would have read mp "agrculture' and ma
rhncry" in the Encyclopedia Britannica"
and combined the two" as the gentleman did
in the celebrated case Of Chinese metaphysics.
You only told me to gossip, and that is what
have been trying to do since the beginning
IF August could gossip To considerable
extent about steam ploughs, the thrcshing
the hemp and mangold wurzcl cut
crs; the patent mowers and dibblcrs, and so
forth; only | should be sure to make some IA
tai mistake about wheels, or cogs or pinions,
and should at once expose myself To the ami.
of those who love To sit in the seat
Dr the Scorncr.
Here, however, slowed away in corner
where It's merits have had no very great chance
Of being recognized Is they should be, is a
machine about which do know something,
and which is to my thinking of equal interest
10 foreigners and to Americans. This is the
patent steam tea and coffee filter of Mr. Robert
EIzcnsbcrgcr, the manager of the Midland
Grand Hotel, -. Pancras, Iondon-an invcn-
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