The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1889-03-02

PiSNiOuo oh AAheOASt "
iess-favored mortals carrying his train
eI In PROCESSION down the aisles carry.
ing long candles, banners, crosses, etc.
The old archbishop kept up con-
tinual crossing OF his broad breast with
his gloved hands and each row of peO.
pie bowed and crossed themselves as
he passed. During all this time they
were chanting and the choir was sing
ing, which was really sublime. the
tones gradually rising sloft, being
waited along the ceiling, clinging
around the pillars and arches, as It
were, and then dying away i'm the dis
tance. While this was going on a tat
| official i'm gown was acting director
OF the orchestra by rapping on his book
with . silver headed stick, until he
suddenly gave one of the boys a rap
over the head with il 80 hard that it
was heard all through the church.
could hardly restrain my laughter, but
had To OF run the risk of beng fired
out.
When 3 small crowd of Young gen
tlemen pass a good looking girl she Id
occasiona ly greeted with: What a
pretty girl" "What a Dizzy" "W hat
darling;" and the girl either sticks
her nose in the air, looks straight ahead
and strides past as though such thing
as gent did not exist, or turns around
and grins, in which latter case the
crowd all wave their hats and shout,
bon jour-, mademOiselLs i" The French
have al intuition that il quite astOnish-
ing. They almost equal Lexington
girl in sizing up a gent at the first
glance. You are southern gentle
man." said a custom officer to an Amer
lean at the duty building
"Whv, asked he.
"Because your baggage consist of
nothing but pistol, a bottle of whisky,
two decks of cards aud a pocket book =
That is aSmarried gentleman,D said
a FrenchtI34p; "because of the lock
of resignation on his face''-
They usually tell an American here
by his way of sitting with his feet upon
table or on the wall, which, to a
Frenchman. seems to be a most uncOm
Portable position. So much is this posi-
ton characteristic that o card was re-
Gently posted in one of the clubs here,
requesting the American members to
please not sit with their feet on the
window sill, as when several American
gentlemen Sal in the club rooms with
their feet sticking out Of the windows,
passers by on the street think it is a
shoe store and come in to buy goods.
A Boston member finally owned up
that he did it for a joke. A certain
garment that quite number of gentle
men here wear, rather wide, has en-
gendered the saying, (when of them
passes) that, "that gent wants to show
he is able to pay for two pair of mex
pressibles, If he can't wear but one."
The lap dogs the ladies here most
honor with their company, and the run
OF their drawing rooms are the white
Spitz (abOut one third or one-half the
size of Newfoundland) and the little
white poodle. They both have long
white hair, which is barbered in the
most unique styles. Some are shaved
all but two riggs of hair around the
body and ring around each ankle,
while some are completely shaved,
save, perhaps, a heart on one side and
star on the other; others like lions.
The tail is often left in rings about
three inches apart; and, again, it is
close cropped, save bunch at the end,
which is proudly waved alott, the ever
telling barometer of his dogship's JOYS
and sorrows; others are dyed IN diff.
terent colOrs, some red. some blue,
some yellow, etc., and often one dog
sports several colors-his head and
shoulders red, his body blue and his
tail resembling q rsinbow, which,
(when promenading with This mistress)
humanlike, he proudly faunts in the
faces OF less fortunate dogs. seeninglv
saying: ''Just see what u fine tail
have got"
PARIS HUMOR.
Two friends standing on edge of lake.
"Ah! just at this place only four snort
wears ago, the bat sank and LOST my
darling wife and gold headed cane."
Friend.-"How sad"
"Ah," heaving sigh; eyes, indeed;
aud had just bought the cane that
morning"
Yokel, to oldest inhabitant and vii
lage aulhority.-"They tell me, father,
that in your day you have Travelled as
far as Avignon aud even to Lyons;
have you never been to Paris2"
mo, my son; but they say it is a
terrible place; l had a friend who went
there once aud he never came back"
In the wilderness. QLover Oh knees
to girD: "Oh, angel, my heart has
thumped SO much tor you that il has
beaten hole through my best over
coat. Just give one kiss from those
ruby lips aud then -"
Angel -'And what then "
Lover.-'And then another one."
Frlend.-"l hear your son is study.
ing in Paris
Falher.-'He is studying? No; /
am studying where | shall get the
money from to send him"
An ant and a flea Oh the la belle
promenade; along comes dog sport
ing paper collar; says the ant to the
flea: "Get on Ito the dog"
All the little babies here are dressed
mostly in scarlet and in white cashmere,
or flannel dresses, embroidered richly
with silk or trimmed with lace. aud
the small babies all have beautiful
Spanish silk wells falling all over their
little persons, in their nurses arms.
The nurses have kind of turban of
colored ribbon, with great sashes hang
ing from them. The more distinguish
ed the family the longer and broader
the ribbon. 1t is law of French So
ciety that all young ladies must 60 out
on the street, to the opera, theaters,
balls, etc., chaperoned. One sees but
foreign ladies alone on the street, al
though now and then a meek little
French, sweet sixteen Or seventeen,
with but her 6onne (maid) with her.
1t ls comical to see the gentlemen
glance at them slyly and they modestly.
drop their eye or-not.
The EcOle de Medicine (medical COL
iege) is situated on the Boulevard
Saint German, the aristocratic quarter
OF the city, where ministers, embassa.
d0rs aud many of the nobility reside.
The principal amphitheater seats 2,400
persons. The library consists of over
$4,000 volumes. The college also po-
sesses museum of comparative ana
tony called Musee Orfila, after its eel
ebated founder. 10 the medical facul-
ty also belongs the musee Dupuytren,
u valuable pathological, anatomical COL
lection which is established in the re-.
fectory of an old franciscan monastry.
About the greatest humbug is Pasteurs
hydrophobia treatment, by inoculating
the spinal cords of rabbits withthe saliva
al cords of rabbits with the saliva
OF mad dogs and alternating it from
one cord to another down to about the
fourteenth, which is used for the human
vaccination. Take the United States,
for instance. in which counting the
Juveniles and ally, probably ten thou
sand persons are yearly bitten by net