The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1882-11-04
OUR FOREIGN LETTER.
lFrom our own Correspondence

PARIS, October 16.-Messrs. Moody
and Sankey are now in Paris. They
held the first of series of services,
which are to last throughout the week,
at the American chapel, in the Rue
de Berri. This afternoon they
preached and sang at Pasteur Ber-
sier's church, in the Avenue de la
Grande Armee. The chapel was COM
pletely thronged, the regular congre-
CATION being supplemented by large
contingent of English-speaking visit
ors, and by members of the French
Protestant community. The platform
was occupied by Mr.. Moody, by the
Rev. Mr.. Hitchcock, the Minister of
the American Chapel, and several of
his Acknowledgment; and by a col
league Of NJ Bersier. The prelimi-
nary services consisted of extempore
prayers by most of the ministers pres
ent, Mr.. Sankey and the choir singing
at intervals hymns, in which the con-
gregatiOn joined from time to time.
The sermon was preached by Mr..
Moody.
Madam Sarah Bernhardt will ap-
pear at the Vaudeville in new
piece written expressly for her by NJ.
Sardon, so soon as the novelty of
'Iete de Linotle," screaming three
act farce, now being played there, be-
gins to wear off. In Fedora" NJ
oardon's drama, all the characters are
Russian, but the action takes place in
Paris. A new tragedy, "Francois l."
by NJ. Parodi, the author of "Rome
Faincne," has been accepted by Mad
am Sarah Bernhardt for her own
theatre, which is for the future to be
dubbed the Theatre Moderne. Mdlle
Abbema is busy painting the elaborate
aIlegorical curtain drop for the reno
waited house.
A man named Dupont, who, having
drawn an unlucky number, had wilful-
ly cut off two fingers of his right hand
in order to escape military service, has
just been condemned to one months
Imprisonment by the Cologne police
court. Nor is this all. Dupont will
have to serve his full time a, well in
what is called here tune Companie de
Discipline" a company to which the
scum Of the army is sent to expatiate
very serious cfenses by the hardest
and most uninteresting of lives. The
unlucky man has thus made very
bad bargain with the state at the out
set of his career, but his fate may pos
sibly have the effect of deterring
would-be shirkers from following his
example.
Spectators, both in England and
France have set their hearts and staked
their money on the construction of the
Channel Tunnel. Those enterprising
persons have no fear of waking up one
morning to find Calais stormed by the
Grenadiers, the Highland and Royal
Irish Regiments, or the French army
regaling itself with bottled beer in the
cofee-room of the Lord Warden Ho-
tel. They look forward to a possible
future when trains may start every ten
minutes between London and Paris,
stopping at the shaft midway in the
silver streak to take in and let out
passengers arriving from ''the ultimate
pole" and departing for everywhere.
The remains of Colonel Froidevaux,
who was killed on Saturday at the
great fire on the Boulevarde de Cha
rome, were inferred to-day. The
procession was headed by two COM
panies of the regiment, behind them
marching the magnificent band of the
Gard Republicaine attired in full uni
form, and playing funeral dirge
Next came a hearse decorated with
tricolored flags, but empty, for the
iremen steadiastly refused to allow the
remains of their favorite officer to be
borne to the grave otherwise than on
their shoulders. Eight men in ''fre
dress" carried the coffin, on which
were placed the smoked and blood
stained uniform of the deceased and
the battered helmet worn at the mo-
ment of his death.