The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1882-12-20
PARIS AND LONDON.
Mrs. Z. A. COnner's Interesting Lecture
Before the Phoenix Club.
From the Cincinnati Commercial. ]

rFrom the Cincinnati Commercial.
A lecture was delivered before the Ph@-
nix Club, in Cincinnati, last Wednesday
evening, entitled "Impressions Of Paris
and London" " by Mrs Z. A. Conner, who
has recently returned to her home in this
city from a careful and extensive travel In
Europe.
She was greeted by large and intelligent
audience, upon whom, it is quite safe to
assert, the lady made an excellent impress
sion as to matter and manner. Mrs. Con-
ner looked exceedingly well, her dress
being of black velvet, finished with ruch-
ings of lace and simple bunch of red roses
and green leaves at the throat
She used the conversational style in the
delivery, and possesses a clear, expressly g
voice that would readily be adapted to sur
roundings and space.
Mrs. Conner stated that Thackeray had
once recommended everybody that went to
Paris to read their Bibles and mind their
purses. Paris, more than any other, is a
place where the heart is taken out of the
Ten Commandments and the money SCOOP
ed out of the pocket. It is the handsomest
city on the earth. at times as bright and
lovely as a June rose garden. 1t is a walled
city, surrounded by earthwork fOrtihcations,
which are twenty-one miles around and
cost S28, 600, OO0 This elaborate prepara-
ton for fight strikes the American foreigner
strangely, and looks like a blending of the
middle ages with bit of the nineteenth
century. Every born Frenchman looks
forward to one thing, and that is a wal
with Germany to recover the lost provinces
| Of Alsace and Lorraine. Children are edu
| Gated in this faith. Paris is a large city
| If the inhabitants of the State of indiana
were crowded into one city, that would be
| the size of Paris. Mrs. Conner said SHE
| had been most interested in the odds anC
ends of facts, which usually do not get int
print, and these phases had most interested
her friends as well, and she would dc
almost anything to please her friends, ever
to lecture at so much per night
The lady graphically reviewed the gar
dens, works of art, usages, customs, anC
details of everyday life in Paris, greatly Il
| the amusement and interest of her audience
Money is the ruling passion Of France
/ Through all their grace, and art, and po
/ liteness, this shrewd, hard purpose run
| like an iron mine. 1t is indeed an irOl
mine that holds the bouquet Of flowers.
This is the hidden motive of its hft
theaterB, its parks and gardens that are a
beautiful as Paradise; its gorgeous shops
its clean, handsome streets, and is the seore
of the seeming delirium Of gayety in whic
two million of its sons and daughters live
OF all cities Paris is the most costly to
foreigner, as to the actual cost is added in
Vulnerable small percentages, the state
ments being illustrated in a most humorou
style The care and drill which publ
speakers and actors undergo, and the pei
fection they attain would enhance the valu
of American OratOry.
The Partisan has what Lavaler calls ''a
acquired couutenance."
A surprising feature is the amount q
drunkenness everywhere seen, from th
reeling oabman, on his box, TO the vel
dressed citizen and masculine chambermait
A drunken Frenohman is q most disagreel
ble animal.
zola's novels do not seem Overstraine
after one has seen Paris. He pronounc'
drunkenness the ours of Paris Some wa
all of Paris outside lie seems like the p
rade of stage play, and it would see
that the French can never have a stab