Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1883-12-29
THE SIGHTS OF PARIS.
The Magnificenoe and Beauty of the
French Capital

Paris Letter in st. Louis Republican,
The Boulevard des Ita.ienS one of the prin
cipal bouleyards, at night is grand; the stores
all open, the pavement filed with people and
the streets lined with vehicles of all kinds
Take chair, and as soon as you are seated
waiter PUSHES and puts velvet cushion
under your feet, and you have wine and cake
and just gaze in silent admiration at this
gay crowd as they pass and re-
pass. Well l never saw such place in my
life. The carriages and conveyances don't
get out of the way; if they run over you,
they are not punished; you must get out OF
their way. There are immense medallions
in the streets and boulevards. ornamented
with magnificent lamps and clocks, and also
with colossal statues in bronze aud marble.
These medallions are raised little above the
street, and you can get on these, and thus be
protected from the rush. In daytime, and
night, too, it seems to me that all Paris is
rushing to the races.
If you could only see the Champs ElyseeS
Elysian fields at night, all lighted up-three
concert gardens, the fences of festoons and
pyramids of pink and white globes-an
lighted and the gateway, all globes lighted
with gas, and the fountains playing, magni.
fcent statuary towering above the trees,
and the stages ablaze with chrystal and gold
and gas, and pagodas, high up above the
trees. filed with beautiful flowers.
ablaze with light! Here ladies and
gentlemen sit, drink wine and eat
ices grapes peaches, etc. l was up in
one of these places several times, and was
charmed. The ElYsian fields at night are
scene Of enchantment. The Jardin Mabille
is not in existence any more. The Elysian
avenue is broad, beautifully paved with as.
phaltum, brilliantly lighted on each side with
gas. The vehicles going. up and down OIL
either side at night, reminds me of a torch
light procession, and as far as the eye car
reach. The lamps on this avenue look like
string of stars. This magnificent avenue is
fanked with handsome palaces. Here live
the Rothschilds, Munro, the banker, and
many others. This avenue is a fashiona'
bic promenade From 3 to 6 O'Clock
you see numerous carriages, riders
and pedestrians on their way to the Bots dc
Boulogne. At the Champs Elysees" one car
witnesses the characteristic phases of Partisan
life. The "Bois de Boulogne' is beautiful
park, covering an area of 2, $50 acres, bounded
by the Notifications of Paris. There are
beautiful drives, rivers, lakes which are used
for skating in winter and boating in summer.
1t is romantic and charming, and we drive
through the Bots frequently. The garden OF
Tuileries is beautiful, filled with colossal
statuary, magnificent fountains, lakes filled
with black and white swans, and can't tel
you all. There is scarcely square in this
city that is not ornamented with immense
fountains and statuary i'll bronze and mar.
BILE.
spent three days in the palace Of the
Louvre looking at paintings, statuary, jewels
and all kinds of arts. The Palais Royal is
grand palace and it opened into a court
filled with flowers and fountains. At Il
o'clock cannon is fired by the heat of the
sun. This palace is used for handsome
stores fine band of music is in
the garden. I also visited the palace of
Luxembourg and it's lovely fountain. have
been to see the opera-house, the grand,
est in the world. 1t cost SIC, 000, 600. can't
describe it; it is poem in gold, bronze, mar.
BILE of every kind and color, floors of mosaic,
bronze and marble figures, ceilings frescoed,
etc. Isaw "LAfricaine" never saw any
thing mounted so gorgeously on the stage be-
fore and the singing was divine. There were
500 persons on the stage at once. Went to
the Eden theatre, the finest in the world; 600
in the ballet Went to the churches which
are all superb.
visited the tomb of Napoleon I, and did
not think there was anything so handsome in
the world as the tomb and chapel. It is in
the church of the Hotel of Invalids, the home
of the veteran soldiers, magnificent place,
with museum of artillery containing armors
worn by different monarchs of France.
Went into two courts All dignity and
grandeur: carpeted beautifully. Behind the
judge on the wall is a large picture of the
crucifix This is in all the courts Went into
the gallery of Louis TX. of France. Visited
the grave of Adah Menken at Mont Parnasse,
plain shaft of granite, with "Adah Isaac
Menken, born in louisiana, died in Paris"
and on the other side, 'Thou Knowest."
Went to Pere La Chaise, grand cemetery.
Saw the tomb of Heloise and Abelard, the
vault of Rasini, and many others.