The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-10-29
SOME NOTED PARIsIANs.
Scraps Picked Up Here and There
About the World.

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eager, rushing, tumbling, incoherent and
agitated takers | ever heard were Blanche
Roosevelt and De Blowitz, the Paris cores
pondent of the London Tunes. Miss Roose-
velt is otherwise known as Blanche Tucker,
and is also the Countess Mancnetta. She
is New York girl, and she has improved
immensely in appearance since she left tle
| clty SIX years ago. i was surprised and
delighted when saw her in Paris, for she
had become magnificent looking woman
with fresh color and perfectly developed
| f1gure, and with the same old-time blue
eyes,
De Blowitz is small. fat, runs largely to
whiskers, is not ashamed of the fact that
the London Times pays him S25, 900 year,
and is of an exceedingly excitable tempera-
| menU.
One day in Paris Miss Roosevelt had just
received a long and exceedingly compli-
mentary letter from Sardou concerning her
collaboration with him on her new play,
and she. had come around to the hotel to
tell about it. De Blowitz, who was god
| father to the collaboration scheme-or at
| least, who thought he was-was dancing
| attendance upon Miss Roosevelt and dapc-
| ing around her in the literal sense of the
| term. In the corridor of the Grand hotel
| they met an excellenza who had left Servia
| for sufficient reasons, and who was thrown
into such a transport of agitation at the re-
| port that De Blowtz and Miss Roosevelt
| turned upon him, that all three of them
stood on their toes and talked at such a
gasping, suffering and tumbling rate that
| the people stood still ssand looked at them
even in France. By the time | reached
| them they were speaking four or five Ian
guages apiece and his excellenza, the Ser
Wan minister, was violently kissing Miss
! Roosevelt's hands by way of expressing his
N,.Ia 4.
| made him inarticulate, while the countess
| kept up running fire with De Blowitz,
who was dancing around frantically be-
hind her, trying in vain to catch her ear.
After they had left, | wondered how
| many thousand years 1t would be in Amer
| ica before literary man like Sardou could
become such prominent local figure as to
| throw people into transports of excitement
| simply by reason of a new scheme of COLA
| boration.
The Marquis of Harrington, who was
great deal in Paris IN company with a
duchess whose name Is more or less famil-
| lar to English scaudal-mongers, is about as
| far removed from masher in appearance
as anyone l ever saw. His fad this year Is
trousers Of tremendous width. They flop
| around his legs like skirts on a Vermont
scarecrow in gale Of wind. He and the
| duchess stopped in the same hotel with me
once-a small family hotel in the Rue Gra-
| mont--and, during the four or five days
that they were there, the noble marquis
did not distinguish himself by uutering a
| single word beyond his cultural "ercore,
garcon, when he wanted more SOUP fish,
coffee or wine During all the rest of the time
he sat very far down in his chair with his
| whiskers touZled about his wrinkled face,
| and gazed foggily and sleepily at the duch-
ess. She talked with the waiter most of the
time in the very worst French ever heard,
occasionally regaling the marquis with
references to the mugginess of the weather
and the tepidity of the wine.
| 1t was not the Due less of Montrose, by
the way. / saw that aged and overdressed
| parsonage at the opera and at various
| race tracks, and she was more, much
more than my fancy had painted her. She
was almost universally referred TO in Lon
don, even among nice people, as the Duchess
| OF Pimlico-abouta as an insulting an appella-
| ton as one can readily fancy, when the
character Of Pimlico is considered
| / crossed on the steamer with two very
rich and modest young Englishmen who
were coming TO the states. They went to
| Niagara first. and, when they returned to
I New York found them sitting In blank
and speechless CONSERVATION in Delmonico's
| They unfolded their tale of woe to me-
Their schoolmate and cousin had married
| the Duchess of Montrose that morning, and
the news had just been telegraphed to them.
1t is no wonder they were shocked. for, of
all the CHASTITY looking monstrosities, the
Duchess of Montrose Is easily at the head
The Baroness Burdette-Coutts is sufficiently
funny to look at. but no one ever thinks of
guying her in London despite her youthful
| makeup, for her fame for benevolence is as
| solid as the financial standing of her bank
| One often sees an exhibition of paternal
feeling on the part Of a king in Europe.
| was in Dresden once when the King of
| Saxony returned to his palace after an OK
| tended trip to the north. His heavy beefy
and loyal subjects gathered under his win
dow to the extent of about sxty-five or
seventy, and, by the aid of a government
| band Of about two hundred superb musi-
clans, gave his majesty reception-a well
come home. For long while the small
populace and the large band rent space by
| the vigorous use of their lungs to no effect
Then the side doors of the palace were
thrown open, and his majesty strolled for b
in a generals uniform, and beamed upon his
people. Upon this, the crowd grew almost
frantic with delight, while his majesty
posed there, with one hand on his hip and
the other on the hilt Of his sword looking
toward the setting sun. IL was beautiful
picture OF commonplace and rather silly
looking little man on parade In gorgeous at
tire. He stood there bathing in the sea of
admiration for long while, and then per-
maps ueUecUlDR JldJ Jile CuoofS were grow
ing fainter through fatigue or lack OF ma
terial. he withdrew with great tact into the
palace again after smilling like a father
would on the assembled hosts Of Saxony IL
was funny to observe his air OF greatness.
There was absolutely nothing to back 1t up.
Won Moltko and Won Blumenthal stand
back in the ranks Of the German generals
now as Waldersee looms up. But, ,tGe world
will not forget the two Wonderful old
marshals who have given way to their moro
youthful rival. IL was Won Moltko who
picked Waldersoo out more than twenty-five
years ago to succeed him. There was never
any secret about this In Berlin, and il is
nonsense 10 assert that the emperor intended
to slight Won Moltke by putting younger
man ahead OF him. The Old commander of
the German army will be 30 very soon
now, and he has certainly earned his retire
ment. young" Waldersee would be called
old IN America, though IL is considered that
he is Just about entering his early manhood
ia tho army Of the Kaiser's empire. Fifty
years is mere bagatelle over there.
BLAKELY HALL.