Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-07

ton, but from the TACT that he long since
caught the popular fancy by mis- bizarre, but
perfectly natural, method of furnishing the
water of the fountain. Manikin goes about
on week days without very much clothing,
but during fetes he blooms out gorgeously.
He is only statue, to be sure, but statue
has feelingl And when Louis XIV. took
the city he presented Manikin with beau
tiiul white cockade for his hat. The cock
ade didn't keep his fat form very warm, it
is true, but the Government of Holland
atterward looked into this important matter
and rectifed the oversight by presenting
him with an orange-colored blouse.
King Leopold IL, the reigning sovereign
lust to be outdone by his predecessors, has
Manikin decorated with the tunic Of the
Civil Guard ON all state occasions. 1t is
sad to relate, but Manikin has not borne his
honors well. He has waxed proud and
naughty and supercillious, and when an
ancient dame died and left him a legacy of
1, 900 forms, he turned up his small bronze
nose and snapped his small bronze fingers
and said: "That! A paltry 1000 forinsl I
am already rich in rents, and 1 have eight
costumes, and Louis XIV. has conferred on
me the Gross of st. Louis" ALI of which
is no vain boast on the part of his little
bronze majesty, but quite true and matter
of history. for that matter.
THE ROYAL MARI0NET
They have q amarionette show at Brussels
the Royal Imperial, world famous, incom-
parable, unparalleled marionettes. Have
YOU ever seen an entertainment of this kind?
No? You are lucky. The word marionette
ought to be enough for some sensible people.
But it isn't 1t suggests TO the nominated
all manner of out-of-the-way amusements.
And the amusement IS out of the way-of
amusement.
One pays franc to go in, and would
willingly pay two to 60 out if he could. But
he can't. The doors are locked. This is q
wise precaution on the part of the manage
ment. The audience would otherwise make
for the street. The Royal Imperial Marion
| cites, gigantic monstrosities in the shape of
human beings, are lot of wooden figures,
manipulated by wires in full view of the
spectator, badly painted, clumsilv made and
atrociously dressed. Their movements are
a successive of epileptic jerks and their
songs and dances, words fail me! don't
know what to say. I have never seen or heard
anything in that line bad enough to compare
them with. And vet everybody goes to see
the Royal Imperial Marionettes in Brussels
once. will venture to wager they don't
repeat the visit
THE FIELD OF WATERLOO.
No one leaves Brussels without going to
Waterloo and standing on the famous battle
ground where Napoleon lost his all. OF
course, we walked it. Not in one day, but
in two for it is good long stretch, and
boots that have been wet through are apt to
be stiff. This was our excuse to ourselves
for the jog-trot way in which we covered the
distance.
Why anyone should ever want to 20 to
Waterloo is more of mystery than ever,
Tk t1nh, Laos
anter and decidedly more profitable to take
ones ease in ones inn and read Victor
Hugo's Lies Miserables. He, at all events,
| had the art of extracting sermons from
stones and books from carrot fields. I
| have not.
OF course, there is battlefield, and it is
| doubtless very interesting. There is a
"Chateau de Hougoumont," where King
Jerome had a brush with the English, and
there is the fo-m of Hale Sainte, and the
| ditch where the dead were buried, and an
| altar of the Virgin, and the little Christ
with the toes burned of, and the chateau
where one gets excellent milk for 2 sous a
| glass, and this is the field of Waterloo. If
one didn't know that that little billock was
| Mount st. Jean, one would certainly not look
| twice at it, and the carrot fieldi to the right
and left are much like everyday carrot
| feldsl
NOTHING LEFT BUT THE POEM.
Now there was that house in Brussels
which was just as great fraud; worse, for it
doesn't exist at ALL Doubtless there was a
''sound of revelry by night" and "Bel-
gums chivalry was gathered there" but
there is not brick to tell the story to-day.
| Nothing but the half brick which Mimi
carries about in her knapsack. First, the
+ old ballroom became a brewery and after
having taken to drink, it went rapidly to
the dogs. So few months ago the Burgo-
master ordained it out of existence.
And Waterloo is delusion, too. There is
nothing real there but the relics, which the
| guide digs up before your very eyes. These
| are bullets and bits of old fint-locks, swords
| or even whole cannons. 1t does not take
| away from the reality to know that he
buried them again to be dug up for the
| benefit of the next comers. They are per-
fectly real and come from the manufactory
of "the relics of the battle OF Waterloo" in
the street of the Holy Ghost in Brussels.
LILLIAN SPENCER.