Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1880-11-21
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Gay Sights I'm the Famous Paris
Drive-La Belle Russo.

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Gay Sights I'm the Famous Paris
Drive-La Belle Russo.
What queer things one sees on the Bots
de Boulogne. An African came along
dressed like a Prince, and with diamonds on
his shirt front and fingers that would buy a
kingdom. He refined up to the sidewalk to
throw a gold piece to one Of those poor de-
formities who haunt the streets of Paris.
Then came a flashy barouche. 1t held
two men and two women; they had evil
IDENTIFY dined and drank much wine. They
we're laughing loudly and betting. One of
them, a SNOWY brunette, lost. Her CON-
panion, a man about town, demanded she
should pay; and, shocking to relate, with
out hesitation she caught up her dress of
green brocade and whipped off a jeweled
garter, midst ordinations and jeers, and
threw it to him. He clasped the affair of
gilt and brilliancy around his neck like q
dog collar.
A Chinese Mandarin came along in a
hired carriage. His dress and bearing pro-
claimed his rank. Suddenly a cocotte
leaned from a voiture and threw a rose in
his face with a meaning smile. He drew
himself up with the insulted dignity of an
Emperor, and / am sure he would have
had the woman's head cut off if he could.
> Some one cried I" La Belle Russe,' and
in a moment every head was turned even
the coachmen forgot their poker-like dig
nifty and had eyes, the consequence of
which was that the carriages got in a tangle
that brought almost to q stand the vehicle
containing the object of the sensation.
Like everybody else, l craned my neck and
saw a handsome carriage, the body of
which was the color of and shone like Jet.
1t was lined with black satin, and sparingly
trimmed with gold. The footman and
coachman wore black ~liveries, with yellow
vests, gloves and pompons. The horses were
noble animals of unspotted black full of
fire and spirit, they champed and fretted
at the delay, and the clauking of the silver
harness seemed to excite them the more.
The pole of the carriage, instead of passing
between them as is common, was fastened
on a level with their backs, and attached
by metal arms to their collars, so that they
really pulled from the neck. This pole,
like all the harness, was of gold, and the
numerous trappings, %curiously cut,
matched. Anything more effective or
snowy could hardly be devised, and the in
cessant clanking and tinkling can be i'm
agined.
Inside, half reclining on the luxurious
leopard skins piled up beneath her, sat a
woman, who bore with calm disdain the
gaze OF the multitude. She looked about
30. and she looked as if she had never been
a girl, but always a mature, q superbly
beautiful woman. She was tall, and of q
figure formed of lines of beauty yet hardly
voluptuous, yet not in the least spirituelle.
Her face-faultless in tue large eyes, dark
and sombre as death, in the black Iashes
that swept her colorless cheek, in the
smooth, low forehead, the straight nose,
meant for a poet to write of or a painter to
perpetuate. Neither happiness nor ANNA
ton shown in her countenance, which was
as intelligent as beautiful pride, though,
was stamped upon every feature. "Suf-
fclent unto myself" must be her ~favorite
motto. Her dress showed she knew and
understood her beauty, and was not indif-
ferent TO it or its effect. Every detail
spoke OF wealth, of care, of perfect taste,
from the satin bottines of her small feet to
the handkerchief, decked with royal lace,
in her little hand.
Her toilet was as if the sun and black
night had met to b~eautify her. The sweep
ing robe of gold satin that enveloped her
from head to foot made her look as though
wrapt in a cloud Of sunset, that jealousy
tried to hide, while it exposed her perfect
figure. 1t was not spoiled with furbelows
or paltry trimmings, but flowed away in
rich shimmering waves and folds, and was
clasped at the warm white throat by a sim
| ola nrn1n1anf q finar pnS ont ~ ~.
and with diamond eyes. In her ears she
wore serpents of topaz coiled as if about to
spring and round her neck the form OF
one undulating and writhing III the light,
it seemed, Of the two precious stones. Over
the dusky hair was simply a tnrban of
golden tissue will long floating ends that
gave her an Oriental look.
The carriages were disentangled. She
rolled on. Who-who," exclaimed your
correspondent with enthusiasm, is that
wonderful woman ?" I fancied there was
slight touch of malice in the voice of my
informant as she said
The Russian Camille and once upon a
time nothing bnt a peasant girl who picked
up fagotS in the woods near Viatka. l dare
say she has noble blood in her veins, for
those Russians are very shocking, you
know! But one day the fagot business
WAS put 10 I'LL emu py ntf DeinS picked up
herself by a young nobleman, who took
her to St. Petersburg. 1t seems she has
naturally a high order Of mind, and set
about educating herself with great success.
She was brought here af,erward by Il
French Duke, who now supports her estab-
lishment but she looks so unhappy, in
spite of her diamonds and Injuries, that I
believe she feels she was born for some
thing better, and it wouldn't surprise me
al any day if she either ran a knife into
herself or went into a convent" What a
story l-[Paris Correspondence Chicago
Tribune,