Morning journal and courier., 1883-11-07

one of them hanging in the window of {
 shop tn Rue Drouot Her exce1lsncy Mile
 Marie de Ia Conception, (then follows dog
 en or more Spanish sounding family names
 which the lady bore), Princess of the Holy
 Empire, died at Paris the 2Sth of August 1882, in the full communion of the church The Prince Louis Pignatelli Aragona Ante mas, her brother, her sisters in-law, hel | nephews, nieces, cousins, and all the other members Of her family are grieved to inform you of the cruel loss they have just experi enced, and invite you to be present at the funeral services Thursday, the 31st inst, a; | noon precisely, at the Church of Saint Fer l dinand. Pray for her." This invitation is ! printed upon 8 sheet of heavily bordered mourning paper.
 All large cities being full of sudden transi- l ttons, so from funeral processions and Pere Lachaise to the Sale de vente Drouot will I not be oat of keeping. Many Americans who come to Paris neglect to visit these great l auction rooms of the Rue Drouct. Here one can find almost everything and sometimes very cheap. The wide stone staircase and roomy corridors and great rooms, each num- bered Sale l, Sale 2, and so on, give an idea | of business carried on upon large scaie Here the entire furnishings of almost pala. | tial establishments are brought frcm time to time to be sold under the hammer and here also the contents of the humblest domiciles find place and sale. Crowds of the poor | SE Gi6SS SQG UT JUG H61l-tC-OS LuIuuR Olk- ferent rooms where the auctions are going on, many to buy, and some, like myself to look on. The most beautiful little things are often found at this great auction house in the rue Drouot. As I stepped in the other day the following announcement caught my eye in passing through the vestibule 'Sale, after the departure of Madame C. M, of beautiful modern furniture. Dining room set in black walnut. Bedroom sets Of Lou is XV. and XVI. Ancient pieces in sculp- tured wood pieces in silver and ebony, man tie and fireplace ornaments, artistic bronzes, glass, carpets, curtains, hangings, lamps, porcelains, faiences." !" Now that the cable gives almost all the items of interest the very day of their oc- currence, there isn't much to put into letters but odds and ends. except at the risk of tell ing what every body has heard a fortnight
 before. At the present moment several of the French ministers gre in Normandy, among them Mr. Jules Ferry, president Of the cabinet, and they are being received with considerable flourish of trumpets. At Rou en the following proclamation is posted up by order of the mayor:
 s'My Dear Fellow Citizens Monsieur the president of the cabinet minister of public instruction and of the fine arts, will arrive at our city tomorrow, Saturday, at 2 o'clock.
 The municipality will make every effort to
 worthily receive its visitors and to thank them for the solicitude which the govern
 ment of the republic shows for the city of Rouen. You will certainly wish to manifest your attachment to our institutions by dis
 playing the national flag. Vive Ia Republic" :"
 This visit is made for the furtherance of certain public improvements principally in connection with the navigation Of the river Seine.
 It is told in Paris paper of yesterday, and apropos to the King Alphonso fuss of q few days ago, that when Victor Emmanuel Is-S- rsn f1.n1 AT,,o idea of making him present of some Uhlau regiment or other. Victor Emmanuel didn't care much for the honor. He asked himself what reception would be given him by the Milanese, the Liyournese aua the Vsnetians to whom the men dressed in the same uni form had so often given copious cudgellings, so he sought and found the following reason to decline the offer: The King of Italy. said he, cannot accept courtesy which he is not in position to return. As the military rules in the Italian army do not permit the giving Of ranks to foreigners, the king can- not himself accept one in a foreign army. And thus it is that he WAS never Uhlan col onel.
 Just below the above in the same French paper Is the story of priest in the arron- dissement of Lendenary who received, last week, the confession of several young men and young girls. After giving these young people sharp talking to he imposed upon
  canons; 8 singular penance ss you will see. Believing, without doubt, that these unfor tunste sinners would never find tears enough to weep away their faults, the good cure sent them to work in his field planted with on- ions and assigned to each one an area propor- tional to his sins.
 Some say that Bismarck is getting to find that his policy in Alsace and Lorraine will never succeed that the inhabitants who have stayed in their old homes, though Q people endowed with a tranquil and enduring pa tience, will never relax an iots from their pa- triotism for France.
 An item of day or two ago says of Prince Bismarck that he is not only chancellor, but distiller on large scale, and sends out an average of 90, 900 litres of brandy a month, to say nothing of what he takes in.
 French papers are full of China and Ton quin, but so are the New York papers as we'll The ''Blaek Flag Proclamation" issued by Lin-Yang-Fu, commander of the Black Flags, on May 8, 1885, and in the papers here of two or three days ago, seems euri- osity in that sort of literature.
 To-day Is the opening of the salon of ''The Incoherent Arts at the Galerie Vlvi- enne in the Rue ViVienns. It i5 said to be quite an extensive affair, more so than in previous years, and to be very funny. The catalogue counts up to 2s4 exhibits. It is a sort Of burlesque on the graver and more orthodox exhibitions. All sorts of absurdi- ties and whimsicalities abound for instance, one painting of the decidedly realistic school is a marine view and ship sailing through the water is followed by fishes, and these are genuine dried herrings glued to the can vas
 The profits of the exhibition era to be given to the poor of the city.
 To-day has been the first gloriously beauti- ful day for fortnight. The programme of the music by the band of the 1O3d regiment at the garden of the Palais Royal this after noen was as follows:
 l. Belfort allegro. Fischer 2. Le Droit du seigneur. Patry 8. La Rsine de Chypre. Halsvy {. La File du Regiment. .Donizetti 5. Polka K
 What wonder the Parisians think New York triste compared with Paris, where exquisite ,n,,sio "a so oo,o,oon M