Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1883-05-02
A TRIP ABROAD.
Lyons and Nice, and How They
Appear to a Person at First
Sight.
Interesting Reading for Those
Contemplating a Jaunt
Through the Old World.
Special Correspondence Public Ledger.

no 4lOOdQclOt MulJu 1OAmSU Al
important feature in the grand exhi.
bition Of 1873, Is we'll worth a visit, as
it has imposing dimensions, and is
beautifully embellished with artistic
statuary. Yesterday afternoon we at
tended a grand concert in the Sale
des Fetes of the Trocadero, which has
seating capacity of 5000, and on this
occasion every seat was occupied.
The National Guard Band, of seventy
pieces, together With an immense or
gan, furnished the instrumental
music. The solo parts were filed by
solo singers from the Grand and other
Partisan greenhouses, aud the chorus
was made up OF the members of various
local musical societies The whole
formed a combination of rare excel
lence and the performance was more
enjoyable than any musical entertain
ment we have attended on this side Of
the Atlantic.
This morning l visited the large
markets and the Halle au Blee. At
the market an auctioneer was selling
pieces Of beef to the clearinghouse
keepers aud others who were called
together by his bawling voice, The
people were eating their breakfasts,
consisting Of cabbage soup, which was
served hot from the market stalls.
They stood up in rows and swallowed
the hot cheap stuff as though they
were half iamished. The heads and
wings of fowls were gathered up in
little lunches and sold for a few cen
times to the poor customers, who
would no doubt make quite a savory
soup by the addition of handful Of
vegetables. Fresh fish were swim
ming in the market tanks and were
scooped up as selected by purchasers.
The Halle au Blee" or grain masket
is one great dome l40 feet in diane
ter and 100 feet in height, the whole
being supported on Is arches. The
brokers were selling corn, and a per-
SON standing in the middle could hear
perfect Babel of voices, all the sound
being DETECTED to one point. After
the merchants had left the building,
our guide posted US in the exact CEN
ter while he took his station near the
wall. Then he whispered in the soft
est manner, his words being distinctly
audible, and when four persons stood
near the wall on opposite sides, the
voices of all were concentrated to the
center, sounding as though the speak.
ers actually stood beside the listeners,
while they were really 20 feet distant.
The illusion was as complete and the
effect as surprising as that within the
whispering gallery of the dome of St.
Paups, London.
Just opposite 1.-THE Halle" stands
the old church of st. Eustace, where
we were told the best sacred music in
Paris could be heard. We were for
tunate enough to be just in time to
listen to the vesper services which
we're rendered in most excellent style,
the voices harmsnizing well, and the
grand organ peSling forth its melo-
dious notes, forming altogether an i'm,
pressiYe and memorable service.
PARIS, April 3.
We got up early this morning and
packed a light trunk, leaving our
heavy ones at the Hotel Continental, ,"
as every pound of baggage is charged
for extra on the Italian railroads. All
the servants were waiting for their
little tips" as we left our rooms and
took a voiture for the railway station.
Our train started for Lyons at 9 am,
and we were congratulating ourselves
on having whole FIRST class car, when
just as the train was
starting a stufy j. B. with his
ancient and well favored dame
strobe in upon our seclusion, turning
our gladness into misery. for they were
bound to keep their window wide open.
which made strong draft upon us all
day. In these little pinched up Euro
pean cars there is no refuge il you get
bad company unless you abandon the
train and in this instance we were like
the rabbits who were visited by a
neighboring porcupine. Soon after
a young Frenchman also entered our
compartment and he persisted in
hanging his body half out of the win.
dow, cutting off our prospect entirely
and so altogether we we're in q very
uncomfortable box. The road passes
through lovely country, the gardens
being we'll cultivated, and the fruit
trees in full blossom, an air of thrift
pervading this section Of LA Belle
Francois, We soon reached the for,
est of "Fontainebleau" containinl
10000 acres, through which our roaC
passed. Though a famous locality il
is undressing to the passing travel,
er, as the trees are small, and the
grounds are not kept in first rate con
dition. As our train moves south
ward we soon reach the region devoted
TO the culture of grapes. Extensiv,
vineyards adorn the hillsides alont
the railway; in many places the slopinl
banks being terraced to afford NOR
room tor the vines. Many picturesuu
towers are passed, some Of which hay
J very interesting historical antecedent
that we should delight to investigat
> if We had the leisure to do so. Gu
train arrived at Lyons at 6 pm, ius
e in time for table d'hote" dinner a
4 the Grand Hotel de Lyon" DuriD
D the evening we took walk throug
) tie city calling at several stores, wher
snowy goods we're displayed in
tempting manner. Lyons has popu
latiOn Of about $4,000 inhabitantl
3 The city is the centre of large sill
manufacturing district, but we foun
that the goods made here could b
bought as chesply at retail in Paris
Lyons, April 3D..
We were called early this morninl
n and after partaking Of a light breakfa
e we're driven hurriedly to the den,
: only to find that the train was a Ia
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