Morning journal and courier., 1886-05-08

it's three predecessors in magni6cence. The
 Queen has consented to open it in person and
 grand procession of royalties. all alive, will
 take place in the gardens. Lord Tennyson,
 the poet laureate, has written an ode for the
 occasion. This has been set to music by Sir
 Arthur Sullivan and will be performed after
 the prayers and speechifying. Albani is to
 sing "Home, Sweet Home," and the whole
 ceremony will be most imposing. The price
 of admission will be ten dollars. After four
 o'clock the general public will be admitted
 for one shilling to have 8 sniff at the air still
 reeking with royalty. Along the gardens
 stands are to be erected especially for colo
 nists, in order that they may all be sure to
 have sight at the Queen as she passes to the
 Albert Hall, where the opening ceremony is
 to take place. So if Her Majesty is too old
 to go through her colonies she will be able to
 go through her colonists. The Prince of
 Wales will take prominent part in the pro
 cee6ings. He has shown a most lively inter
 est in these, exhibitions from the first. The
 idea of getting up one which should be of
 immediate interest to the colonies really orig
 mated with him. It was notion that struck
 him when he visited the Paris Exhibition of
 1878. Through the courtesy of Sir Philip
 CunliH- Owen, the indefatigable director, I
 was enable last Wednesday to visit the vari-
 ous courts, which, though incomplete, all
 ready give promise of rich show. Some of
 the trophies, illustrative of animal life in the
 colonies, are worthy of the highest admira-
 tion. The most striking is a representation
 of tiger hunt in an Indian jungle, truly
 thrilling sight, got up, as 1t is, in realistic
 style. This bit will be the center of attrac- tion to young Britain. Endowed as he is with love of sport in any shape, this is some thing he will gloat over, for the scene is ren- dered with tragic power. This trophy and an Australian scene are alone enough to draw all London to the exhibition, and alone worth the money. This gigantic underta I
 
 I hope, be crowned with the success it so l richly deserves, and onght to tighten still l faster the bonds that exist between the colo | nies and the mother country.
 The Parlsians welcoming another great pianist. As soon as Liszt had left them to go to England Rubinstein made his appear ance. But this is of a different stamp. He will have none of their lioniZing He plays to crowded rooms full of the pub ] lie, but he absolutely shuns the drawing rooms of the great and will not allow him self to be feted. Born serf, Rubinstein looks upon the privacy of his life as his l greatest conquest next to his well-earned l fame a musician, and the interviewer who l would break through 1t would have to be 5 very clever. He is not to be the | Bois de Boulogne, where Paris expects to see | everyb body wko is any body; he is not to be l seen on the boulevards glancing with satis- | faction at portraits of himself in shop win | dows; but stunning the gaze of the curious, l he takes his daily exercise up and down his | room like the Russian bear in his cage at the l Geological gardens Only few old friends l are favored with his visits; for the brilliant | society that others court he has a pet aver sion. But with all his shyness and modesty, he has a just sense of his talent. One of the | ways in which this shows itself is in his re- fusal to figure by the side of other perform ! CTS. Like the nightingale, he will be heard | alone or not at all. He politely refused the \ other day request from the King of Saxony that he should take part with the best musi- | clans of Dresden in concert at the court. His Majesty did not resent tho refusal but l being truly anxious to hear Rubinstein play, just went to three concerts that the great l pianist gave to the public. Like Liszt, he l has made and spent many fortunes, He was very fond of the gambling table as a young man, but since his marriage some years ago he has quite thrown over these youthful fol- lies He is making between four and five hundred pounds sterling night by his con certs in Paris to which the public go. But he gives others to which the public may not go. Only artists admitted, and from them he will take no money. At these lat
 ter concerts he plays, it is said, as the gene ral public never hears him play, though he
 is pianist who at all times throws an i'm
 mense amount of fire and energy into his
 playing. In feet he uses his physical forces
 as hard as coal beaver, to judge by the per spiration that trickles down his head and
 neck. In fact he is not unlike Beethoven,
 whom he is never tired of Interpreting, and
 whom he looks upon the Jupiter of the
 musical Olympus. Rnbinstein is fond of re-
 minding his warmest admirers that this cen
 tury has produced only one pianst-Liszt.
 Rubinstein will arrive in London in a fort night. Verdi, too is in Paris on the lookout
 for an Othello, an Iago, and Desdemona, who shall do justice to his new opera of ''Othello" when it comes out. He, too, is hidden away ill modest hotel and sternly refuses to listen to the voice of that charmeP, Mrs. Lion Hunter, F'charm she never so wise I iy."
 M Edouard Drumont, editor of the Monde, l has created a great sensation in Paris this l week by publishing book, Ia France Juive, 1 with the view of proving that the Jews will l be the ruin of France. 'tThe Jews of | France" he says, "are converting generous | and kindly people into a set of money grab | bers who will soon be too sad and too surly l to smile." It is fact that in politics, jour 1 nalism and society, even in arts and science, | the Jews are found everywhere occupying | tho chief places They marry into the | great Catholic houses, exchanging their new | gold for the oldest titles, while at the | same time they run the great popular | movements. The French, who always go | in for extreme measures, suggest that when | a Rothschild goes to a restaurant he should | be charged thousand francs for it. | The English are content with sending tracts | to the Jews through the agency or the evangslistic missions-with what effect I | am not prepared to say. M. Drumont has l had already to fight duel with 8 Jew, | which has left him an invalid. As the | Jews are not now the fighting race they l used to be in the days of Josuah, M. Dru- l mont will probably be left alone in future. | This writer, who is aware of the religious | hatred preached in France just now by | certain party, has chosen his time wrongly | to add fuel to the fire
 M. Disderi, an inhabitant of lovely Nice, has discovered the way to extinguish pau perism. He has brought to the notice of | the President of the republic and all the | members of Parliament plan for making l every French man and woman an annuitant l at the age of sixty-fve. He would have a 1 tax of one franc levied on every | body above the age of twenty and contin- l ued to the age of sixty five.
 Ladies, now what do you think of the definition of ''Love's language given the other day by my compatriot, N. Edouard Pailleron, the witty member of the French academy: ''Bsfore-grand words during-soft words; after-high words" MAX O'RRLL.
 Boston Story.
 From the Boston Evening Record.l