Omaha daily bee., 1889-05-26
THEPRIDE q FRANCE
Paris and It's Charming Environs
In Springtime.
THAT PALACE ULYSSES eA IL.
Chevreuls Library Presented to the
National Museum.
CABBlES KICKING VIGOROUSLY.
The Dread Guillotine Gets In It's
Bloody Work.
>sBlEs KICKING VIGOROUSLY.
EXECUTION OF A MURDERER.
Smaller Crowds Turn Out Than When
Pranzini and Prado Had Their
Due Upon the
ScaTolu,
The Gossip Of the Day.

lCopnriO,t 1889 by James Gordon Bennett
PARIS, May 25.-TNew York Herald Cable
Special to THE Bee. Just now In the
midst of what an eminent writer described
an English summer to be, "three fine days
and thunder Storm" we have had both and
are hoping for more especially tho thunder
storm part of it, as the air is so heavily
charged with electricity that nothing else
can save us from asphyxation.
This condition Of the atmosphere drives
pleasure-seekers from the hot, crowded
boulevards; and the huge, open air resorts,
from the Champs Ulysses to the smiling
suburbs and epvirons, like Meudon, St.
Cloud, Suresnes and hosts of pleasant spots
along the banks of the Seine, which have
never looked more attractive than now, when,
just before the summer dust soils the yer-
durc, these charming places are most lovely.
The lilac and chestnut blossoms. the bril-
liant green leaves and the grass all combine
in a mystic beauty hard to match anywhere
in the world.
One of the best means of easily viewing
the charms is to take fashionable ex-
cursion by the new well-appointed English
coach which starts daily from the Herald
Office on the avenue de pOpera, to the Hotel
Reservoir at Versailles, and thence back;
passing st. Cloud, Lamarche and Vaucres-
son on the down journey, returning via Gas.
cade Precatelan.
The second ball at the Palace Ulysses was
the most brilliant social attraction of the
season. Six thousand invitations were is
sued, but the arrangements for receiving
and entertaing the guests were so complete
that at no time was the palace over-crowded.
Dancing was kept up until daylight.
The library and manuscripts of the late
centennarian, Chevreul, have been presented,
by his grandchildren, to the Natural History
Museum. The library contains between
eight and ten thousand volumes. Tho major
portion of the works on natural science,
chemistry, and alchemy, of which there ars
q large number, are enhanced by Chevreul's
marginal notes.
The Paris Jehus are kicking because they
are not allowed to fleece foreigners as un-
mercfully as they have been in tile habit Of
doing and are thus deprived of the revenue
they expected during the exhibition. In an
interview, yesterday, with a veteran cabby,
who has welded the whip for thirty years,
ne mentioned the exact sum he would re-
ceive if working by the hour for
twelve consecutive hours. These men
are lucky il they can count
as clear profits the small sums they receive
as pourboires in the course of a days work.
1t is not therefore surprising that a cabby
sometimes refuses to run by the hour and in
sists on taking his fare by the course.
The guillotine does its dread work with
greater frequency and regularity under Car
not who is determined not to follow M.
Grevy's example, and virtually abolish capi-
tai punishment by system of wholesale par
dons. The latest example occurred in the
gray dawn of last Thursday, when Geomey,
a soldier. was executed for the murder of an
old woman named Roux in January last.
Only small gathering of horror. seekers met
in the Place Roquette-nothing comparable
to the mob which surrounded the scaffold
when Prauzini and Prado met their fate.
The great doors of the grim prison were
opened and the usual sad procession emerged.
Geomey twice kissed the crucifx held to his
lips by the chaplain just before reaching the
foot of the guiiotine.