Morning journal and courier., 1884-01-25

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 Holiday Traders-At the Churches
 Madame Hammond's Request-OR-nded ed
 Students-Sarnh BernhardL's TrOubles-
 Works Of Art-An Old Landmark.
 PARIS, Jan. 8. To the Editor of the JOURNAL COURIER
 The fashion of trimming hats with stuffed birds has been disapproved of by many on account of it's cruelty in necessitating the wholesale slaughter of the little creatures of bright plumage. This fashion led to an odd incident, or rather accident, the other day, in front of one of the fashionable stores of Paris. A lady wearing bonnet ornamented by one of these little birds was gazing into the win dow of the store at the beautiful articles dis played, when 8 cat spied the bird upon her bonnet. Deceived by its naturalness, the cat sprang to the lady's shoulder and tiercely seized upon the bird The lady, terrified by the unexpected attack, fell screaming to the sidewalk, the cat then made it's escape and the lady was helped to her feet and it was found that she had received no special inju- ries except 8 thorough fright and the Gespolia- tion of the bird.
 I read not long ago that stuffed kittens were to be worn upon muffs and that cat establishments were being started, but haven't seen any kittens worn and hope the fashion hasn't taken.
 The holiday booths and stands which have been in full tide of trade for fortnight and more are beginning to disappear. All the principal boulevards and wide streets have been lined with them and the mystery is how any profit is made, for the number of them is endless. This old custom of giving the poor people chance to make 8 little money at Christmas and New Years by setting up booth on the sidewalk is dear to the common people of Paris and would not be easily re- linquished by them, and indeed the gains of St Sylvestre's day help many poor family comfortably through the rest of the winter. The most amusing place that l chanced upon was the sidewalk around the central market. Here there were no booths erected, but lively traffic was carried on in wares of every con- ceivable description. from old brass candle sticks, andirons, fire tongs and hatchets to second hand millinery, carpets, oil paintings and religious relics all spread out on th9 sidewalk, and a hundred clamoring voices descanLing upon the merits of the respective wares
 From the market to the temple is but a step for St. Eustace. The musty and dingy old church where the St. Cecelia's day con- cert takes place every year is almost in the
  seems to live out of doors these last few days, the churches are nevertheless more ] than usually frequented and the number of beggars at the doors is doublefold.
 At the Pantheon, church of St. Genevieve, the services of the Neuvaine, the nine day series of services in honor of St. Genevieve, the patron saint of Paris, are largely attend ed. At the close of every evening service there is apilgrimage to the tomb of the saint, which is in the large right hand chapel. The decorations of dark blue velvet and silk with trimmings of gold and white, instead of evergreens as in our own churches at this season, and they have very rich and strik ing effect The Adeste Fideles has been very finely sung at the Pantheon several times during the Christmas season as male solo and chorus. At St. Paul-Saint Louis, rue St. Antoine the feature of congregational singing has attracted my attention and inter- ested me very much. At this church the old Gregorian chants are we'll rendered, and the afternoon that was there the people of the conereqation gang on all sides of me with 8 great deal of spirit and much regretted I was so rusty in Latin that could not join in
 Madame Hammond, 8 good woman of Paris doubtless devout worshiper in one of these old churches in her lifetime has just left an unusual but most admirable bequest. She has wiIled more than hundred and fifty thousand francs to the hospital of PHotel Dleus WHICH IS Just across rom the catnenrRL of Notre Dame. The interest of this money is to be distributed the first of January every year to the sick who are in the hospital at that time, but subject to the coalition that they shall have been in the hospital over two months. The first distribution of the money takes place about this time. The recipients will be informed of the sum that is coming to them and the money will be given them upon the day of their discharge from the hos pital. The joy of the poor sick people can be imagined It must certainly accelerate their recovery.
 It was a relief to many friends when the excitement among the Paris students over the insulting article in the Cri du PeupIe caImed down at last with the decision of the committee that the editors were only amend ble to the bar of public contempt, and the matter was laid over without any bloodshed. No wonder the students were exasperated by | the scurrilous attack upon them by the Ori du Peuple the anarchist sheet of the work | ingmen's faction, recently started in Paris, | but they certainly carried their demonstration | to absurd lengths by their challenges to the offending editors to fight it out in duel, and which the editors sensibly refused to aceApt The taking of the law into her own hands | by Sarah Bernhardt and welding the horse- whip over the shoulders of her tradueer Marie Coolmbier was 8 matter of little special com ment by the Paris papers compared with what one would suppose by the four or five columns in the New York Herald The Herald contained five or six times as much upon the subject as the Figaro, published here on the l spot. The reviewers say that nobody would l have read the book written by Marie Colon