New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-07-20
NOTES FROM PARIS.
THE CHOLERA-SOME WOULD-BE ROYAL
TIES


Paris July A.
The Board OF Health has been doing all that
could be reasonably expected to keep OF cholera.
line of quarantine stations has been created
along the Pyrenean border between Hendayc and
Port Vedres and the cholera microbe is being
studied By commission of French doctors sent
to Spain. They accept the bacillus discovered
by DR.. Koch the source of the cholera pestilence
and they have got TO know many of the conditions
which favor its evolution or the contrary. AS
all the sewage of the laundry establishments Of
Paris runs into the Seine, that river must in
cholera times swarm with bacilli. The water
taken from it to freshen the streets becomes
source Of infection. 1t is remarkable that there
IS no record Of cholera at Versailles riverless
city and girdled round with forests having
sandy soil The drinking water is supplied from
the ram caught on purpose on tableand. at a
snort distance, seven miles in length and five in
breadth. This plateau is all furrowed with open
zlg-zag drains converging at tanks. The over
How Of the latter is carried to reservoirs where
the fluid is stored. There is no wholesomer
drinking-water anywhere the plateau is so free
from every kind Of pollution. 1t is covered with
short grass and kept free from cattle The grass
is carefully attended to and tOp-dressed. when il
needs dressing, with pure vegetable mould.
The Comtesse dc Paris has paid, this week. Q
flying visit to this city on her way to Marienbad
staying for sixteen hours at the house of the
Due dc Charities As she expects, when with
Orleanist relatives, friends, hangers-on or
partisans SIZE treated Queen Of France.
She is rather eXactng in matters of etiquette, and
though retaining the hoydensh manners Of her
eirlhood, is a lady Of a naughty temper-in which
she is quite unlike her amiable husband, who, she
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plenty of obscure Greek texts to make plain.
TNe Due de Charities, his brother, went TO meet
her at Calais, and she was received with much
Difference as though she were actually on the
throne by Senator Bocher and the Marquis de
Beauvoir They awaited her at the Northern
Railway. The Countess travelled in the club
train and got here at midnight Next day there
was a party of twenty invited to ugeet her at
luncheon Ii was in great degree family party,
there being at il the Dues dc NemOurs and
d'Aumae, her unces the Due de Pentievre,
brother Of the DuchesSe de Charities and son Of
the Prince de Joinvlle, and, of course, the Duo
aud Duchesse de Charities and their children;
also Prince John and the Princess Margaret, the
betrothed of the Due d. Orleans. who is, hear, in
no haste TO get married The lnfanta Eulalla
is Orleans by marriage. She was also present.
The other guests were the ladies, gentlemen and
secre aries Of the Royal persOnages, with tie
Marquis and Marquise d Harcourt, NJ Herve, an
academlcal journalist VI. Bocher and Colonel
Parnval, the Due d Orleanss mentor.
The Due de Chartres at whose house the
deeuner came off, lives in the beautiful mansion
near the Cours de Ia Refine, which ne bought oil
the late Prince Demidoh. 1t is kept up 10
handsome style, though without oSteAo@IloIE
The Duchesse de Charities has disposition maxi
l. .l.r- and IL rDl
vanity, uneasy ambition or asperity. She takes
the world as she finds it, is a born painter ana
botanist and consoles herself when things do nos
20 as She might desire with iower-palntlng. The
Duc de Charities has a manner much more con-
Genial to the French than the Comte de Paris;
and is soldierly, lively, aiiabe, open and would
lie rash and impetu0us if he let inclination always
sway him. The glory Of his house Is his library,
which is one of the most choice in France, though
not on a par with the Due d Anmales.
The trip of Prince Antonio de Montpensier to
London with his two infant children has been a
puzzle to many of those who know him. What
could he be doing there with the bantings aud
without his wife? He is not the sort of father
who is devoted to calow offspring. The object
of the trip has been simply 70 insure tie lives OF
the two infant princes for high sums, in num-
Ter of London insurance Offices. Under the VIII
of the late DIc dc Montpensier, Antonio who Is
rather wild. was disinherlted, and the portion la
was to have had was divided between his two
sons and any further children that may be born
/ 70 him and the Infanta Eulaiia. Should these
present and possible e-atees die in their minority
/ the fortune is to 20 TO the Comtesse dc Parls
and her children \ good deal Of the money
left them is in English securities. Antonio wants
to make them wards OF chancery. and to OBTAIN
/ suitable allowance for their maintenance, out OF
/ which he could pay some Of tue insurance money.
/ Queen Isabella and the Duchess de Mohtpehs1er
/ haze agreed to add TO the fund, but the former
stimulates that in the event OF the infants dying
! uuoer axe. their mother is 10 participate III tle
! fund for which they are being Insured. The late
! King Afonso's life heavily insured ana MS
| wites share of the money was something enol-
/ nous The Emperor Napoleon also was Insured iOr
/ enormous sums, into which the Empress Eugene
came IL would he astonishing II the MOntpensler
| children were strong, the lnlanta Eulaila oeins
| extremely delicate, and the children OF the quo
and Duchess de MOntpenser. OF whom ANTONIO IS
me Youngest having been subject to the febrle dis
cases which carried away seven OF them, four OF
$50, bnd reached ma ioritv +. {.