The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-03-10

of a planet at producing life-snowy
white of hue, but without intelligence
and almost lifeless.
The vegetation of Mars was of the
most brilliant character; the flowers
and plants painted by nature in eX-
quisite and fascinating hues. The in
habitants were represented kwinged
and far superior to those OF this earth,
fitting from point to point or sailing
upon the silver water of the planets in
boats composed wholly of flowers.
Juno was all metallic, a planet of
almost solid metal. Plants and flowers
bloomed on it, but even they were
metallic in their character, with nae
tallic luster, while the inhabitants
were bronze, seemingly generated by
the action of the sun upon the metal.
Vesta was given up entirely TO
maids, a sort of Amazonian kingdom,
the maids growing on the leaves of
immense plants.
Harmonic was music everywhere.
The very land was laden with it; the
vegetation nothing more nor less than
a growth of harps, lutes and musical
instruments.
In Flora, on the other hand, the in
habitants were represented as living
on flowers; in fact, flower beings
themselves, produced by them and
part of them.
In his tour of the heavens, Proteus
was next shown on visit to comet,
which he explored TO discover its hab-
liability. He found people even there,
but such strange people, composed ap-
parently simply of flashes of lightning
bound together by some magnetic in
fluence-electric bodies, without pow
ers of speech.
The Asteroid Iris showed a race of
butterfly beings and even the vegeta-
ton was of butterfly growth.
In Ceres the fruits were animated
with life. The orange, pear and straw
berry were seen promenading around
arm-in-arm. The orange legless and
rolling his round, unwieldly body
along. Avery queer figure was the
banana with his long, thin legs.
The Asteroid Amphetryte was COW
cred with marvellous and beautiful
growth of shells, rivaled by the rain
bow in their hue, the nature living
within these shells like so many
hermit crabs.
The greatest of all the planets, Ju-
piter, was enveloped in dense and
heavy clouds through which the
planets four moons were shining.
Jupiter was represented, as the astron-
omers declare it TO be, in a semi
gaseous condition, its inhabitants, bat
like people, who come out of their
caves only night, remaining hidden
during the day.
Saturn's rings were shown to be
host of small meteoric bodies circulat-
ing around the body OF the planet and
adding to the light given by its eight
moons. The vegetation was of the
cactus order, and the inhabitants not
much unlike the cactus, sometimes
walking erect, again crawling like
beasts upon the ground.
Life in the next planet, Uranus, was
also of a low order, the inhabitants
being beasts rather than men, con-
stantly waging war on each other.
Neptune, the most distant planet, |
was a broad ocean, bordered by huge |
protuberant rocks, upon which rested |
the inhabitants, half beasts, half men.
Few if any tableaux in New Orleans
have been better or more tasty than
the Proteus parade to-day in the |
hight of their brilliant ornamental
ton, rich colors and fantastic scenes.
The procession reached the French
0pera-House about 10 o'clock, where,
in the presence of an audience of 5000 |
persons, tableau was given, repre-
senting the universe. After that the
guests decended to the floor of the
theater, which had been boarded over
and converted into a ballroom for the
occasion, and where dancing was kept
up all night.
The whole city tonight is given up
10 balls. There are more than twenty
in operation, and their number is linn
ted only by the available bathrooms
in the city. The two great ones are
hose of Rex at Carnival Palace or
Artillery Hall, with from
$1,000 to $4,000 persons present. This
arge building, some $50 feet in length,
was handsomely decorated 1t had
been laid off into three large rooms,
up and down stairs, two of which
we're given up to dancing and the
)ther reserved as the thrOne-room for
he King OF the Carnival. Here sat
he King and Queen in state, sur
'ounded by their guards and maids of
lonor. The Queen was Miss Lena
Jackson of this city; the maids of
honor, Misses Sneed of Memphis,
6roadwood, Braughn, Poche, Lom-
1ard, Ogden and Marks The party
wore the royal colors, two being at
ired in robes of gold, two in
purple, two in green and two
n white. After the reception, in
which thousands of persons partici-
,ated, the royal party visited the
lancing hall and opened' the ball with |
| quadrille. Dancing then became