Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1882-02-12

Gossip From Franc -Tarions EteTns OF
Interest.
From our Regular Correspond Mt ]


litical and financial excitement, the
questions involved being Of a purely do
| mestic nature, but Of the gravest i'm
portance Gambetta'S power in the
State and his reputation as 4 leader are
hanging on the uncertain fate of his
proposition for Constitutional revision,
which the enormous speculatiOuS thai
have fiourished for the | st five or six
years are now tumbling like d row Of
bricks and involving the strongest
houses. Gambetta took office at a mo
ment most unfavorable and with I'M
necessary bravado installed = chua
Cabinet of the most radical type in the
actual direction Of affairs. He opened
the new year with the demand that the
Senate should no longer be allowed to
control the electing of its own life MEM
bers-ene-fourth of its whole number
hut that both houses should vote for
them separately, and for The remainder,
who are elected by A cumhr0us machine,
more complicated and less expressive Of
the opular will than even our Electoral
College, he demands that every five
hundred electors shall choose a delegate
to the Senatorial College ana thus insure
an approximate accord with the pop
ular will.
\ number OF our city papers are
drawing the attention Of the police to
the sad fact that a numher Of those
b%0&S2ries q f6n1Ha6 area nuisance and 4
public scandal. These establishments
mostly abound in the Latin and other
student quarters. where the customers
are waited upon by women Of the most
depraved class. whose rouged cheeks
and tin-ry serve nevertheless to attract
the Young and inexperienced of the
IN lie customers But the damsels not
only draw custom, but are also instrU-
an unlimited supply Of beer, absinthc,
etc. Indeed, if some Of the papers are
to be believed, the waitere ses in sew
eral houses are required to drink or af-
feet to drink an average of so glasses of
beer, 20 ahsinthe, and Is liqeuors each
b fore the establishment closes, at >
o'clock in the morning. They are
tnI &,>f nv hn - IL
the inevitable consequence is that most
Of the waiteres es are intoX ated before
and scenes cnsue which it is
needless to dwell upon. OF course the
health of these unfortunate women
must be affected by the l:fe they lead,
and the youths who frequent these
5r0sse5its are uften ruined
This season has been ed one for
Ii. artist world. The death Of Michael |
Pascal, the we'll known sculptor, is now |
The deceased mad a special |
~ for religious subjects, and his name
$ associated with the restoration of the |
olintc Niidptiic Va ANotic bdlIic Niiu Inc |
churches Of Veze!ay, Bordeaux, Saint
Iprmain. L. Auxcrr0is, and Pau. He |
was pupil of David Dangers, and
lmong his best remembered works may
re mentioned his Eendredi Saint and |
md hil Charteau en- Prieri. His last
production was Chevalier for the
Hotel de Viller. Pascal was sixty
} ght We IS of age.
While Wagner is to have grand
estival in England and his works are to
'e heard in Italian, English and German,
lis chances Of ever becoming popular
II France appears more distant than
yer. A representation of LOheng1'in
vas arranged to take place in this city.
The performers were named and the
'pera was to have been given in Ger
mar; but Prince Hohenlohe sends
rOrd to G.. rmany that it will be I'M
possible to perform the work, as there
; an ''organized opposition" against it,
nd that the performance, if it did take
lace, would be merely a dumb show,
s the uproar and noise would prevent
he work from being heard. Those who
re interested in the works of Wagner
will remember how Tannh0else1.. one Of {