Morning journal and courier., 1883-12-01
CORRESPONDENCE.
Paris-The Electric RaIiroad-The Latis Quarter-Lfterary MaIters-A Ship wreck on the Sefne-SOmeth1ng About Churches, Etc., Etc.

QHarter-Lfterary HIatters-A Ship wreck on the Sefne-sOmeth1ng About Churches, Etc., Etc.
 PARIS, Nov. 14. To the Editor Of the JOURNAL COURIER:
 I tried this afternoon about six o'clock to get ride on the run by electricity, but | only made out to get look at it, for those | who rode to-day all had invitations, and the general public could only gaze and wait till ! later. The car that I saw was quite an ordi- l nary built car, and in no way noticeable ex- cept moving along with visible means of locomotion, and intended to carry fifty persons, twenty inside, six upon tEe platform l and twenty four on top. On the boulevard Haussmann, just back of the Grand Opera, | there seemed to be some obstruction in the running gear and there was stop for few moments, and the croakers in the crowd be- gan to express their 1T told you so's," but soon the ear started on again smoothly and rapidly at about the same speed es If drawn by good span of horses. It WAS funny to see the crowd run with the car when it start ed, for they all wanted to how 1t went, and they couldn't unless they ran with 1t. 1 ran with the rest, and the boulevard looked as if there was fire somewhere in the neigh
 borhood by the way everybody was rushing.
 A great amount of skepticism and lncr edulity
 has been expressed in regard to the new cleo
 trical inventions and a writer In yesterdays
 Figaro says: ''To those who do not quite
 believe in the marvellous effects of the Faure
 invention, which will certainly be classed
 among the most splendid of this century, 1
 repeat: Go and visit the electric hall on the
 boulevard Montmartre Study. rs4ect and
 compare the results that have been achieved
 up to this date. Go and see the cars circula-
 tirg in the streets. Get into them and take
 a ride without any horses and then say wheth-
 CT the results obtained are not surprising.
 An invited company of about three hun
 dred visited the postoffice, now at the Car
 rousal while the new postoffice ls being built,
 to see the working of the electric lights.
 The Metropolitan Electric company have
 charge of the lighting of the buildings for
 the rest of the time the postoffioe remains at
 the Carrousel.
 ''Nust we believe that the old Latin Quar-
 ter is dead :" says some one, and led to say
 1t by the fact that an announcement was
 made thst there would be meeting or the
 students of the Latin Quarter to consider the
 best way to give & calithumpian demonstra-
 ton upon the date of MT. Camescasse's re-
 tirement from his position as prefect of po-
 lice, and the meeting hadn't quorum and 1t
 all fell out by the way. Still the few that
 were there did vote that on the day that Mir.
 Camescasse retires all the students shall meet
 at the Place de la Sorbonue and each holding
 q Venetian lantern at the end of his cane
 They shall form a procession In single file
 and shall march through the whole Latin
 Quarter. On Sunday afternoon last, at the
 amphitheatre of the Sorbonne, the Philotech-
 nic association held a meeting to formally
 open the winter session of the evening schools
 which are conducted under it's auspices.
 There were short addresses by the president
 of the association and others. This associa-
 ton was founded in 1S48. and has done an
 sA
 furnishes. There are at present sections in
 nineteen different quarters of the city where this association provides instruction upon subjects connected with commerce, the in dustries arts. sciences and literature. In the circular distributed at the meeting while admitting the fact that the existence of the association is definitely assured, it is urged that it's needs grow with its development and an appeal Is made for endowments and dona- tions, and especially from those who now have means and are of the vast number who have received the benefits of the association in the thirty five years of it's laborious and perseVering work.
 The programme of the classes Of the Sor- | bonne proper I think is not out yet, but must be in day t~o. I have been on the lookout for it to see about the lecture hours of certain Professor Beljame, whose | lectures I want to attend.
 The lectures at the Law school, opposite l
 
 now in fall course. Almost every thing that | begins at this season of the year seems to be | put eff till after All Saints day, for the | French mothers wish to have their at | home for that day, which they maks nearly | as much of as we do of Christmas, and the | Monday after All Saints day there is great | rush of students for Paris.
 The Law school is good place to drop in | and hear French. There are eight or nine different lectures every day, but the delivery | Of some of the professors is most exaspera- ting to foreigner. It seems reasonable to me that the proof of clear French enuncia- tion is in its being readily understood by 1 foreigner who has a fair kno Tledge of French, and find some of the public speakers that I hear pronounce so clearly and distinctly that 1 can follow almost every word, while the delivery of others is such that while they do not speak as fast perhaps, yet nearly the whole of what they say is lost. It is this way with some of .he speakers whom I have heard at the Law school, but there are others who can be readily understood, one can mako choice.
 The great number of placard announce nents of lectures in the different colleges are somewhat bewiidering to one who is Inclined to do little something in the way of study, | and since there are only few hours between daylight and dark, and those few seem to fairly melt away.
 The Faculty of Protestant Theology of the University of France, their buildings being 1 at 93 Boulevard Arago, offer rather varied Some of the general subjects are as follows: Lutheran Dogma, Reform Dogma Ecclesiastical History, Practical The ology, History of Philosophy, Hebraic Lan- guage, Philology of the New Testament, German Language, Encyclopedia of Theo- logical Science, History of the Church since the Middle of the Eighteenth Century, etc.
 The Faculty of the Sciences offer full but which I cannot at this mo- ment quote. The special school, st Rue de LiEle has Tn it's schedule Arabic both the vulgar and the literal, Persian, Turkish, Ma lay, Javanese, Armenian, modern Greek, Chinese, Japanese, Annam1te, Russian, Hin 1oostani, Roumenia, etc.
 The programmes of the art schools I have | not interested myself so much to examins | put apropos to the art subject it is said in ] one of the papers to-day that 6 priest trav- ding through Switzerland has discovered | md bought at very low price painting 3y Rabens representing Esther before Ahasuerus and one of the first compositions ] ,f the great painter. From the artistic to l ! he extremely commonplace, read in the | ( Iame column that the probable and expect ( ,d diminution in the duties upon petraIe- nm will reduce the price of kerosene oil { ,ne- half, which is certainly an item of [ nore importance to the masses than the g discovery of 8 Rubens, for the price of Z zerosene is now fourteen cents litre. not l quite quart, about four times the price t n the United States, and very poor people t amt afford to sit up late and burn lamps {
 Shipwrecks are rather interesting to me I md there was quite dramatic one yester- | lay right here in the center of Paris. A team tug was towing boat loaded with | timber joists up the Seine, when just by g he quay Megisserie the connecting zepe g suddenly broke The boat ia tow was car ! jed by the current back down the stream l
 ,E kEa ,.SIa ~R ! Sery, and struck the stone work in aucS a I way and with such force as to cut it al- I most in two. The owner of the boat, his ' wife and two children and two sailors were [ able to get on top of the piles of i wood which the water had not covered and I were taken of in few moments into the [ ug which immediately sent assistance to the 6 hipwrecked boats people. Int, scene was l by an anxious crowd who appre-