Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-08-14

decorate his windows when his patients
paid him; that they all had money enough
to buy flags and lanterns, but could not
pay their doctors bills. Who would have
thought that negligent patients would sue
coed IN quenching the patriotism out OF a
doctors heart If Paris presented fairy
scene during the day, nothing can describe
the magnlhcence and
GRANDEUR OF THE EVENING.
Every building belonging TO the Govern
ment, or to corporation, was lighted by
several rows of gas, the initials ar. F., y
or the entire words Republique Fran
caise, being conspicuous. The steeples
OF all the churches and towers were one
blaze of gas jets, and with the gas were
mingled different electric lights, so that
the effect was marvellous, and one seemed
really to be in some strange fairy-land.
The majority of the population moved In
the direction of the Champs Elysees and
the Arc de Triomphs, to witness the
magnificent display of fireworks which had
been announced In front OF the Mad
eleine there passed thousand persons in
minute, commencing at Is until 81 o'clock !;
buGiS were tltiloSO stS GICdO d CIOAu
from other directions. Notwithstanding,
it seemed as though everybody remained
at home to illuminate his windows for it
was almost impossible to distinguish a
single one from which lampions, lamps or
lanterns were not suspended, and the
higher up the windows the greater the illu-
mination, as though the people, the real
people, could not sufficiently give ex-
preston to their Joy. There were grand
fireworks in four different directions in
Paris, besides in each reimbursement there
were extra fireworks, the result of volun.
tary contribution, so that the fete in real
ity possessed a marked individual spirit in
which fear or compulsion had no part
whatever. In my own reimbursement the
fireworks were to take place on the ex-
IRENE bank of the Isle st, Louis, Just OPP
posite my window, so that there was
nothing better to do than to stay at home,
which had no reason whatever to regret.
At 9 o'clock the regattas made their ap-
pearance from around the island with great
masts charged with lanterns. 1t was
BEAUTIFUL SIGHT.
Some twenty boats containing each three
hundred colored lights, whose gentle oscil.
lations produced by the motion of the oars,
rendered the scene more picturesque. In
these boats burned green, blue and red
lights which were many times reflected on
the water several bands of music played
the Marseillaise, which the crowd never
wearied of calling for. 1t was when the
Seine was for some distance covered with
these boats and the music was playing that
the fireworks began there were four mag
nifcent pieces, and as the whole was re-
dected in the water the effect was many
times repeated the quays were crowded |
with people who loudly applauded, joining
their abs of admiration to the sound of
rockets, guns, cannons and pistols, for the
whole day long the AIR resounded with the
lannon's echo; added to all this, from nine
o'clock until eleven there fell from all the
in the neighborhood myriads Of
colored stars, which mounted to meet those
in the sky above or fell to disappear in the
river. No window, however small, but
what sent off its fre-rockets. The scene
was so bewildering in it's beauty and brill
ancy that one asked himself if he had not
been transferred to another world, for the
had not been able to conceive
anything so wonderful. At eleven o'clock |
al was calm and the people returned to
their homes. There seemed TO be no head |
aches the next morning, for each one APP
peared as well and as happy as though he
mad not taken part in the grandest fete the |
world has ever seen.
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