New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-08-08
SUNDAY EDITION.
AUGUST 8, 1886.
PARTISAN PORTRAITS.
bOULANGER THE IDOL-PASTEUR OUT OP
FAVOR-LESSEPS'S DODGE.

BOULANGER THE IDOL-PASTEUR OUT OP
FAVOR-LESSEPSS DODGE.
lyRoM THE REGULAR CORRESPONDENT or THE rrmcxx
Th..:. PARIS. Jelly f3.
the greatest prominence in the wndo wa of shops
where the photographs OF celebrities are on sale.
NJ de Lesseps AZ a Grand FrancaIs was sIightlv
relegated to the background. But remark today
that General Hanger is in advance of Pa.teur and
very much more forward than the great savant
who processes to cure rabies. The General ia given
full front and in profile. wearing his full-dress uni
form and plumed cooked bat. lie Is handsome
man Of forty-two with q good deal Of resolution
and shrewdness expressed in his face aud Also
must say il i-vul9arity of mind. The Duo dAu.
male when Commander OF tho 7th Army Corps, At
Besarcon. in sending private notes Of the officers
serving under him SAID of BouIangsr hen colonel
He is good soldier and intelligent but of vulgar
manners. and self assertive that il 10 tcuit to
be on intimate relations with him" The attacks
made on General Boulangsr by tho Roy alists and
his duel with Baron Lareinty have made him
popular. At least in Paris, and az I have said
brought his image most TO the front in the print
shop windows. The Opportunists womb make be-
lleve that they see in him future dictator II he
saw his way to being ole do not think he would
De withheld by Republican scruplcs. But military
government is out OF tho question and there 10
order by the creation of one. General Boulangsr
will have his hour of public favor inst AZ NM 10
Lesseps ana Pasteur have had their spell Of popu-
laritv. and his photograph then no withdra wn from
the full glare of publicity to way for that Of
q new idol.
The Pa,teur boom 10 visiblv on the wans Sub
scriptions for the Institute do not pour in. lido
not think th' second million Of francs for which
he asks will be completed He has already
obtained 100000 fr.. or $4,000. There 10
no falling oil. however. in the number of persons
who apply to hun to be inoculat,d. Where ono
greatly sess that he no longer ranks as the Grand
Frenchman " IS ia tho newspapers. As the public
are tired of hearing about him. tho accounts Of his
fresh "cures" are squeezed into short paragraphs
His last report the Institute failed to excite pub
lie interest Plsteur admits 10 1t that out of $50
persons inoculated by him. twelve have died OF
rabies Having watched long and carefully what
has gone on at his laboratory between 10 and IL
every day since last November do not shrink
from pronouncing most of til cases ia which life
has been preserved as frivolous. Where curesn
have been wrought imagination much than
Pasteur helped the vital energies to react against
the bites depressed state of mind is in itself an
ally 10 no master what disease or morbid fermeuk
VT ereas 4 hopeful conduccs moro than nedi-
cine to preserve health or react against inala ~.
just now rotllarkaDl0 case OF ueatn frOU uydro-
phobia 10 being discussed. and observe IN the
newspaper articles on the subject tendency to
throw cold water on the noculations with tanned
virus Savoyard gentleman farmer. one ".
Bouvier who lived near Grenobs. on May-dsy
some loIts and dogs worrying cat in village.
Being OF q humane disposition nc intsrfered and
the cat on being liberated from the dogs spraug Il
him and bit his hand His wife. rabies being now
the brain of the world. became Ill from terror
hearing OF the occurrence and persuaded him u
20 to Paris to he inoculated by Pasteur. Tie Az
rived Oh the 3D. and on 4th, 9th. 6tn. ana 9TH VA
treated ~ the Rue dUlm Early on the morning
of the sth he received q telegram that Madame
Bowler was dangerously iii and wrote to Pasteur
to say that he WAS obliged to discontinue the IN
| Ocuations to hasten home On last Monday. July
-, be complained OF violent headachea CONSTRUCTED
| throat aud oppressed lungs Soon after he was
seized with spasms and taken. bound. D. the Greno
BILE hospital. where on the 2lst he died 10 state OF
high delirum The head physician. Doctor iiermil
certItes by hydrophobia VI. BOWER WAS only thirty
and man of strong build and fresh complex ion
with that glow of heath which living a good deal
in tho Open air gives to velltcd mountaineers. Bat
"a his wife for some weeks almost at deaths
door and torneuted with ths idea that he was not
saved because he had not had the full complement
Of iuocul.tlons. he fell into state OF nervous de
preston 1t nav he that he died of meningitis and
not of asy poison which the cats bite night have
thrown INTO his blood. Pasreur has asked Docto.
Hermit to preserve for him some of the spinal cord
of the dead man.
The hounds and horses of the Due d'Aumae srs
70 oe DEougnt 10 the nAInlcr dt Nnaut.IIS uckb
Monday The announced sale shows that the Dues
hopes about the political prospects OF his family
not very bright. am told he is out OF cOncst with
| his stud aud kennel tor being some degree tho
cause OF his proscr ptiou. His hunting parties At
Chantly for inviting there and
entertaining III snowy manner the different Royal
| and Imperial visitors to Paris within the last
| thirteen years The Empress Elizabeth OF Austria
hunted there IN eight different seasons These par
ties were n more efficient means for enabling the
| Orleans family To make Roadway AGAINST the Re-
| public than all the Journalism they disposed o.
| TGey tended to make people imagine that under
| the Comte de Paris. France would have allies
against Germany ana play a more brilliant part 10
European diplomacy than she can Possibly do
| under the bourgeois Grsvv. The Royalist Journals
state that the of Chantilly mas hired q cha
team in Belgium not far from the country residence
of his nephew the King OF the Bslglans and ia
proximity with the old hunting seat OF the Guises.
where he was when he received nOtic alton that .
decree for his expulsion had been signed by tive
President.
~ do Lesseps. between the unwillingness Of the
Parliamentary Comm ttee to authorize the issue OF
n gigantic lottery loan and the sheer imposs blty
| ton of large prizes, has hit upon a very artiul
dodge. IL Is practically lottery. but tie Govern
ment will shut ITS eyes to the fractI0n 4 involves
| Of the law. Bonds nominally Of l.0o0ir. or 200
each to be ssned 1T +50fr or $40. If liberal
at 423fr $s5. The three per cent inter.
under per cent On the psid-up capital Every
two months there will I've % ain numb r. Of prize
bonds drawn and paid ot At par IN other words.
the bOndhOldr,s have chance of their capital o-
ing than doubled within few months or .
certainty within forty-twO years; unless the
company coapses.