Morning journal and courier., 1886-01-09

Hotel, at the Hotel Continental, at the Gran d Orient Masonic lodge, at the Kriegelstein | Hall, at Mstra's.- Balls everywhere this | week. Grand success also for the lately re- 1 vived subscription nights at the opera and | the Opera Comiqus now held on Saturdays and patronized by the aristocracy and the high gentry, who are at last coming out of
 their shell0. Apropos of balls most inn portant question has lately been agitating the minds of the successors of the "Incredi- bles," the fashionable men of the Directoire who were dubbed "ions" in 1880, sdandiesn in 1850 when Anglomania set foot in France, 'creves" (half dead) under the second em- pire, "gommeux" (sticky) in the beginning of the third republic, and who are at present called "fancheux" (mowers) from the manner in which they carry their sticks. The mo- mentous question was, ''How should gloves
 be worn" For long time it has been the
 fashion for gentlemen to place them inside
 their waistcoats or in the folds of their opera
 hats. But now the fiat has gone forth from
 the monde elegant and every man who re- spects himself IS to be seen wearing his left
 hand glove and carrying the other Some
 bold spirits have tried to appear with both
 gloves on, "but without success says the
 journal which lays down the law in such
 matters. Such are the great problems which
 disturb the brains of that new generation
 which M Paul Deruelide would fain teach to
 live for the revenge. Ohl gallant founder of the League of the Patriots, truly the seed
 which thou sowest is much of it choked by
 thorns.
 The streets of Paris are getting very dan
 gerous for pedestrians. Scarcely day pass
 es without or two persons being run
 over by vehicles. The last time I was there
 l was much struck by the manner in which
 every cabman seemed to aim at me when I
 crossed the street. I have come to the con-
 clusion that with daily practice they are get
 in hiftinrr 1oi,
 have further discovered key to the matter,
 for this little sport costs them only a penny
 day and doubtless breaks the monotony of
 their existence. The penny day is paid to an insurance company, which comes down
 with the cash whenever the coacher is called
 upon to pay for set of broken ribs
 An event which might have been catas- trophe happened in Paris one night last
 week. The Pont Neuf, bridge dating from the time of Henry IT., gave way. With it will have to disappear an old French saying. ''Firm as the Pont Neuf' Apropos of this writer of the Paris Figaro relates a conyer- sation he overheard between two newsboys. and which proves that folks in Paris have l not quite shaken off the late 'tscandal" fe- | yer. One urchin was crying over and over at the top of his voice, ''The great Pont ! Neuf event." but the papers were not | snapped up very rapidly, His young con frere, evidently shrewd judge of his pub | lie and who had turned late ''revelations'' to | account, comes up and with nudge says.
 . ou dutter, why don't you say Pont Neuf 1 scandal" The advice was immediately | taken and pennies flowed in satisfacto- | rily.
 The Sultan of Turkey lately ordered per formance of ''Belisario'' for the entertain ment of the ladies of his harem, who are principally Georgian and Circassian girls who had never seen an opera. The blind l " Bellsario', was superbly sung by basso who groped about the stage, and so tuneful- ly bewailed his hard fate that he touched the hearts of the Saltan's domestic pets, who imagined his blindness to be real, and sought to console him by tossing purses of gold at him while he was on the stage The blind | 'Belisario," at the risk of destroying the il- fusion, managed to secure the gifts
 M Clemenceau is expected to become three months. His supremacy in the new Chamber of Deputies has suggested to wit ty Parisian correspondent of a London paper | the idea of calling the Palais Bourbon Fla Sale Clemenceau." l fancy I could be as witty by changing the English word Parlia- ment into "Parnellment." We are quits.
 Ii all marriages are not made in heaven | some at any rate are arranged in police courts, as was the case in Warrington yester- day. A man was prosecuted before the Mayor for assaulting a woman with whom he had lived, the charge being that he feiled her to the ground with tremendous blow on the forehead For his defense this Briton stated that the woman had been "spreeing with other men and he whacked her for it. 1 and she was now none the worse for the I blow" The Mayor: None the worse, Do you think it was a mark of your affection to strike herr Defendant I did not think I was going to hit her as hard as I did. The Mayor: Why don't you get married and hen you would have right Q prevent other nen interfering with herr Defendant, We1I l liter this is settled we shall live differently The Mayor: Now if you will promise to marry her we will let you off, and if you will bring the certificate to my office showing l hat you have got married I will give you a l wedding present. The defendant thereupon | promised to marry the prosecutrix whom he will soon be able to beat to his hearts con- ent with impunity, and he retired thanking lis worship heartily. The reporter forgot to l ay whether the prosecutrix also thanked his ind worship.
 A Spanish playwright, who has drama ized the famous Caroline question in a play | alled f'Ias Carolinas," now played at the 1 1adrid Variedades Theater, seems to have letter conception of the true importance of he question which so much disturbed the ast days of King Alfonso XII. than most of he Spanish and German diplomatists who we're concerned in it, as you will see from | he plot which is this: Two little girls re- pectively called Hispania and Germania are urieusly quarreling over the possession of ome dolls, and neither party can be ap- eased until some one happily suggests that apa-a Spanish word which stands for father" as we'll as for ''pope'-should olVe the question about the ownership of he dolls. Papa's verdict is that the dolls elong by rights to Hispania, but that Ger lania should be allowed to play with them. = ommon sense and patriotism are, as you