Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1889-10-17
PARIS AND ITS WICKED PEOPLE.
A salty Analyzation by an American News
paper Correspondent.

As Gouverneur Morris, our Minister
here under Washington, wrote OF these
Parisians, calling them the mostabom-
Unable populace on the globe, so they
are to-day. Among them are the vilest
cutthroats of the human race, opera
tors in crimes of cruelty prolonged,
such as the decoying OF street women
to retired places and there numbering
them as the last ecstasy Of a debauch,
for which one recently suffered on the
guilIotine.
| was passing through a narrow
street parallel to the Rue Royale near
midnight a street much frequented, as
il leads by shorter cut from the
Champs Elvsees to the Madeleine, but
dimly lighted, when | was accosted by
one of those stunted, lean scoundrels
who typify the present size of the dis
appearing Partisan race, asking me
for aims. | walked on, holding my
head. The follow followed and Kissed
some term, the meaning Of which
could only infer from the viper ac-
centuaton done with the tongue
against the teeth, as a snake empties
its venom bag. He had not needed
the aims, but needed the refusal, so as
to get of that peculiar insult to a
stranger.
Their women cheat, too, and are
educated to do so by their tradesman
husbands. Where else will a wife sit
by and aid to sell to strangers the
vilest photographs in theworld, taking
up the sale of them when the husband
is purposely called aside so that his
wife's anomalous influence may fall, as
it were, accidentally into the scale?
They tell me that such things are seen
every day
As to the restaurant food of Paris, it
is in the main only slightly better than
French wine at the same places, which
is made from every sort of trash be-
tween vinegar and water stepped in
raisins and the commonest Portuguese
wines doctored or used to fortify the
claret water of Paris
Nevertheless, this is the most attrac-
tive nation in Europe. Why?
Because they live by an art which is
more euticing than character, We
avoid Germany, and till of late En-
gland. because they are cold and up
aud down. The French fatter, CO.
quetto, cheat, and lay for the yagraut
nature in man and woman-tHat va
grancy that IS the easiest to tempt
when it is in independent circum-
stances. They believe man is rascal
and cater to this rascality. The Salon,
the Exposition, too, were full of nudity,
like the shops of the Rue Riyoli; the
French play nudity as their trump
card, and it draws They have tempt
ing women, no Joseph ia the whole
nation; light, fine wine, and mirrors.
They keep more giu-mills to the block
than any people on the globe. They
cheat each other like monkeys and
strangers like wolves. No wonder
so many Of their fables are upon Rey-
nord. He and they are images of each
other.
It's said that the Repuhicof France
will fall through its corruption. The
opposition bank upon this corruption
and upon the expulsion of the yirtuous
Orleans Princes rs capital to overturE
the Republic by popular suffrage. If
! We're King OF France and wanted to
reform the country | would hang ten
French tradesmen every day and set
up court for strangers and customers
to obtain the restitution Of Yesterdays
cheatings,--Gsorge .4Jred Townsend,
Hk boston Gf8ga