Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-08

convincing air Of quiet and repo.e. But
Just across the narrow street is the little
market square, and ct corner of that 10
that church that is neighbor to the Roman
arch, and that narrow street, and that bill
lizard table of market place, and that
church re able, on bet, to turn out more
noise to the cubic yard at the wrong time
than any other similar combination in the
earth or out of it.
GreAt Place for Noise.
In the street you have the skull-bursting
thunder of the passing hack, a volume OF
sound not producible by six hacks anywhere
else; on the hack is a lunatic with whip,
which he cracks to notify the public to get
out of his way. This crack is as keen and
sharp and penetrating and ear-splitting as q
pistol shot at close range, and the lunatic
delivers it in volleys, not single shots. You
think you will not be able to live till he
gets by, and when he does get by he only
leaves q vacancy for the bandit who sells
Le Pitt Journal to fill with his strange and
awful veil. He arrives with the early morn.
ing and the market people, and there is q
dog that arrives at about the same time and
barks steadily at nothing till he dies, and
they fetch another dog just like him. The
bark of this breed is the twin of the whip
volley, and stabs like knife.
By and by, what Is left of you the church
bell gets There are many bells and appar.
emily 5000 or 1000 town clocks, and As they
are all five minutes esapart-probably by law
there are no intervals Some of them are
striking all the time-at least, after you go
to bed they are. There is one clock that
strikes the hour, and then strikes it over
again to see if it was right. Then for even
ings and Sundays there is q chime-a chime
that starts in pleasantly and musically, then
suddenly breaks into q frantic roar. and
boom, and crash of warning sounds that
makes you think Paris is up and the revolu-
tion come again. And vet, as have said,
one sleeps here-sleeps like she dead. Once
be gets his grip on his sleep, neither hack,
nor whip, nor news fend, nor dog, nor bell
cyclone, nor all Of them together can
wrench it loose or mar its deep and tranquil
continuity. Yes, there is indeed something
in this air that is death to insomnia.
The Style of Entertainment
The buildings Of the Cercle and the Villa
des Fleurs are huge in size, and each has q
theater in it, and q great restaurant, also
cenyeniences for gambling and general and
variegated entertainment They stand in
ornamental grounds of great extent and
beauty. The multitudes Of fashionable
folk sit at refreshment tables in the open
air, afternoons, and listen to the music, and
it is there they mainly 60 to break the Sab
bath. To get the privilege Of entering these
grounds and buildings you buy . ticket for
a few francs, which is good for the whole
season. You are then free to 60 and come
at all hours, attend the plays and concerts
free, except on special occasions, gamble,
buy refreshments, and make yourself SYM
metrically comfortable.
Nothing could be handler than those two |
little theaters. The curtain doesn't rise un- |
til $50; then between the acts one can idle |
for half an hour in the other departments |
of the building, damaging his appetite in |
the restaurants or his pockekbook in the |
baccarat room. The singers and actors are |
from Paris, and their performance is beyond |
praise.
was never in fashionable gambling hell
until came here. bad read several mill
ions of descriptions of such places, but the
reality was new to me. I very much wanted
to see this animal, especially the now his
toric game of baccarat, and this was good
place, for AK ranks next to Monte Carlo
for high play and plenty of it. But the
result was whist I might have expected
the interest of the looker-on perishes with
the novelty of the spectacle; that is to sac,
in q few minutes. A permanent and in
tense interest is acquired in baccarat, or in
any other game, but you have to buy it.
You don't get it by standing around look
ng on. --.---
A Flexible Oar in Baccarat.
The baccarat table is covered with green
10th and is marked off in divisions with
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