Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-02-21

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LATEST WORK ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS OF a M
VARIABLE SCENE IN LEEDS.
Special Cattle Letter to The Evening Star
PARIS, Feb. 21.-Singularly enough Paris to-
day is talking about two very insigni6cant pso-
pie. A man and q woman, neither Of whom has
done anything to excite the attention of the
world. are at this moment, whatever they may
be tomorrow, the center of Parisian gossip.
One is no greater individual than the cashier of
the Cafe de Ii Paix, Nine. Maisch by name
one OF those Franco-Prussian citoyens who
came in before the war and has gradually risen
from low,iife mediocrity to iow-life afiuence.
Mme Maisch has a husband and likewise a
daughter. Tho husband is in a moderate and
not yet conspicuous position, while the daugh-
ter, tender shrub of seventeen, is reputed
beautiful, now that her mother has become
famous, and has had no more violent duties to
perform than reading French novelties in the
seclusion OF her own chamber and waiting
patiently until her parents had accumulated
sufficient dot to make it an object for some
Frenchman to marry her.
And that is the reason Nine. Maisch 10 f.
nous today.
To add to the thrifty efforts Of herself and
husband she one afternoon invested in
q lottery. The ticket was concealed in
some safe place and life with her re-
sumed its normal condition Of telling the
restaurateurs' customers their indebtedness
for meals, invariably falling into the ordinary
French habit of making the mistake on the
right side OF the house. But yesterday the
list Of winners in the lottery was published,
and 10! the madame's name led all the rest. and
she came IN for $50, 600. So it 10 that Madame
Maisch is the conspicuous figure of the hour.
LITERARY BAnSuM.
But the other figure has attained his fame by
less profitable and less worthy incidents. He
is literary doctor. He has recently taken to
authorship. He early learned to cure, and
now he is learning to kill, and his first novel
was put upon the stands q few days since. But
no sooner has it tested its unpopularity and
been ingloriously concealed beneath the more
salable books than some incOnspicuous agita-
tor, dwelling in some out-of-the-way place
along the southern borders of France, plunged
into Paris with an injunction and a damage
suit, and a variety of other legal papers aimed
apparently attn suppression of this doctors
novel, but probably with the object of giving
it wider fame.
And what do you think he asks the injunc-
ton on2
He claims that the doctor is divulging pro-
fessional secrets in his work. He attended the
compliments wife for some extraordinary
variety OF ailments, that the complainant de-
seribes in full to the intense delight of the
Partisan public. And then he went on and
wrote this novel and put all the circumstances
OF this peculiar ailment in its pages. There
fore, after publishing everywhere his own
story of his wife's condition, he prays the court
that the novel, which otherwise never would
have been read. should be suppressed.
OF course new edition of the work has been
published and everybody is buying it. The
doctor Indignantly resents the imputation upon
his professional conduct and probably he and
the complainant get properly inebriated nightly
from the profits OF the scheme.
LETTERS OF noUssAYE.
Another book which need not depend upon
clientele is the collection of letters of Arsene
Houssaye, which has just been completed, and
MS last volumes OF his confession are now given
70 Tile public. Alexandra Dumas has written
the preface. Houssaye was born about the close
Of the Napoleonic war. He is now tall, args,
well-built man, with white hair and full patri-
archal beard and manners that differ from
the stereotyped relic of courtly DAYS.
There is none of that strained urbanity that is
associated with the grande monarche or with
the students Of the ''old school," He is rather
Q compound Of humor and agreeable ease. He
lives in a noticeable mansion on the Avenue
Friedland which he built for himself, and he
has also q country residence at Bruyere near
LaOn. He has lately recovered from a severe
attack OF bronchitis and is about setting to
work on new novel, which he intends to call
Les Gems qui 3 Amusent."
VISIT OF EUGENE.
With the lack Of delicacy for which an oppo-
sition paper is often guilty tho presence of the
ex-Emprees Eugene has been made the occa-
sion of certain publication, calling attention to
the fact that the celebrated diamond necklace
which Ishmail Pasha presented to her upon the
opening Of the Suez canal is now on exhibition
at a jewelers. shop in Madrid, marked with the
price of E15,0O0. OF course this canno. be
mentioned without the corresponding philoso-
ply that would naturally occur to one, and
thus the ex-empress Is again made to suffer the
agOnies of history revived and reminded of
what she was and what she is.
MUSICAL ENTHUSIASM AT LEEDS,
LONDON, Feb. 21.-Leeds woke up on Tues
DAY and aim ost paralyzed the inhabitants by a
pBeeiie which does not often occur among our
cold, phlegmatic people. In fact, it resembles
more the enthusiasm which one expects from
the art.loving people of the continent espe-
cially the Latin races, than the conduct of
staid nation Of Shopkeepers. The reason for
this almost unique spectacle was a concert
given on behalf of the servants orphan fund
In that manufacturing city. The list Of the
performers included such well-known and ex-
ceedingly popular performers as Madame
Nordica, Edward Lloyd and Charles Santley,
the two kings of the ballad concert room.
The enthusiasm they evoked by their work
was SO great that the delighted audience ap-
plauded them to the echo, but the townspeopie
had arranged another pleasant surprise for
them. For on being conducted to the carriages
which were waiting to convey them to their
hotels, the artists found the streets occupied by
a crowd bent upon bearing them in triumphal
procession to their temporary home. In
front was the chief constable OF the city, with
body of mounted police. They were followed
by torch bearers, whose flaming iambeaux cast
q lurid and fantastic glare over the unaceus-
toned scene. Then came a band of music,
which played a selection Of old English airs,
and then long array Of other
torch bearers, who surrounded the car
riages in which the mayor and the
artists were seated. The end Of the procession
was brought up by another crew of torch
bearers and more policemen. Thousands of
the citizens followed in the walker bursting out
into cheers at intervals. and undoubtedly glad
dening the hearts of the performers by their
unexpected ovation.
When the vocalists were taken to their hotel
they were serenaded by the band. which re-
manned for some time in front of the windows.
Altogether Leeds. which is celebrated as being
a music-loving center, has excelled herself by
those outbursts Of enthusiasm and tributes at
the shrine Of Enterpe.
/; M SPEEDING THROUGH OHIO,
Many Hon0rs Paid to the Sherman Funeral