New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-08-07


ctte went to Mexico, together they were besleged
at Metz, together they were imprisoned at Cassel
awaiting the hour of the trial at the Trianon. where
the old Marechal of France convicted OF hlgh
treason Willettc never consented to believe In
the charges made against his chief with whom
he obtained permission to be incarceratcd at YER
saics and later on, at the prison of the Island
Of ST. Marguerite. After the Marshals escape
from the island, Wilette was arrested for alleged
completely in the evasion, and after serving SELL
tence Of six months in the fort ST. Nicholas he was
released to find that his military career had been
brought to close by the removal OF his name
from the active list Of the army Poverty stricken
and deserted by his friends. LieutenaEt-Colonel
Willctte endeavored to exc out livelihood by
writing for the papers on military subjects until
the time when he reached the age giving him right
to home at the Invaldes. There he has lived for
the last twelve years, his only consolation being
the Justly deserved artistic success Of his son.
wel-knOwn young painter Not an eye was dry
when the humble coffin Of the brave soldier was
borne by eight nvaldes in uniform into the chapel
where Napoleon l. lies buried; for the Lieutenant
Colonel had become the idol of all these old SOL
diers who are the living remnants of so many
different classes Of the French Army.
The Parisans will amuse themselves. notwith-
standing the morose humor Of the Project of Police.
who is disposed to treat every high-spirted youth
who throws paper confetti into ladys face, or
tickles her ear with a peacock's feather without
asking her consent, as if he were an unmuzzled
dog. The paper confetti-little bits Of thin paper
the size Of wafers-made their first appearance
at the last Carnival, and were then accepted as
very amusing innovation. Ladies themselves.
standing on balconies, threw them at the crowd.
1t was only when they were picked up from the
cutters with the dust with which they there
mixed, and thrown again, that the pelted people
lost their temper, and declared that the game was
no longer funny At the Gingerbread Fair, which
soon followed, the throwing of waters and dust
at every woman who showed herself on the
Place du Trone' became such a nuisance that the
proprietors of wild beasts theatres wheels.
two-headcd calves and monsrosites in wax
signed q memorial to the Project, asking him TO
put down the objectionable practice which
gricvously intcrferei with their business. VI.
Loze ordered the police to arrest all persons caught
in the act Of throwing confetti. But the Paris
youth We're not to be easily batiled. The
waters had excited their taste for teasing. and
50 they brought out at the Neuilly Fair the Pea
cock feather, which PierrOt" introduced long
ago at Carnival time. AT first the ladies thought
that the flies at Neuilly were exceedingly wicked.
but they soon found that feathers were the cause
of irritation The annoyance became such that
the showmcn again protested. The Project again
interfercd lie made ii an offence 10 tickle a
fellow creature with feather, even at fair.
At the National Fete, however, confetti and
feathers reappcared, and were so gayly used that
no little fighting was the consequence. The
Parisians, usually SO good-tcmpered when they
are trying 10 amuse themselves. must have been
decidedly quarrelsome July IA, to Judge from
the hospital record The blame has been chiefly
laid upon confetti, feathers and petards" These
last are an invention more diaboic than the
American hrCcracker They have sufficient
explosive power to 10 considerable mischief in
a crowd The Paris gamn is never so happy
as when he has his pocket full of "pctards, F"
and one OF his chief delights on the National Fete
is to place them lighted on the side of the pave
ment and watch the effect upon the petticoate1
portion Of the public The police find it easier
TO catch a stray dog than one OF these boys
This wear the number Of paintings. etchings and
statues which have been seized by mercless credi-
tors, right in the midst Of the Salon des Champs
Flysces and the Salon du Champ de Mans, is
quite abnormal, indeed. sixty instances where the
artist has seen his property seized for debt are Oh
record. Among them are some truly superb works
Of art. the authors of which Will pay heavy
penalty for allowing themselves 10 become in
dchtcd for the tribunals will order a sale at pub
lie auction Of their choicest chcfs-d oeuvrr, which
will be knocked down ~ the highest bidder with
out any consideration Whatsoever for the feelings
Of the unfortunate artists, and merely with view
Of prohting the harpics in whose clutches they
are now Writing.
From time immemorial. some forty of the pub
lie ma rkct women here have been allowed 70 keep
open air stalls for the sale of soup in the streets
surrounding the IIallcs. where they dispense
succucnt mixture from midnight until midday
at one and two cents per basin. During the win
Ter months and periods Of chilly weather the
soup stalls do highly lucrative business and
some OF the lucky propretrsscs are said TO b.
quite we'll of Needless TO say that their clients
are mainly an aggomcration Of the rlfrah and
tho very drccs of society. The lowest outcast
can, as a rule beg borrow steal the small sum of
one sou. and armed with this. he is naturally
prone to spend it on basin of temptngly odorifer
Gus soup about the composition of which he IL
not inclined TO display any great amount of I'M
due curiosity so many complaints have reached
fine police authorities as 10 the behavior of the
bad characters among this Heterogeneous crowd
that orders were recently given for them TO he
Dispersed and by some mistake, the constables also
cleared away Il number OF the soup vendors them
selvcs The hubbub which ensued was indie
scrbahlc but it proved so effective that directions
wpr, at once given for the forty ladies TO be left
unmolestel in the pursuit Of their lucrative calling.
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