St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-09-10


letters. The most heroic figure in all
literature is BaIZac trying to put the
finishing touch upon his works whilst
death stares him in the face, and even
lola. whom most people hate and whom
Frenchmen deSpise, has manifested a
singular perseverance in CDR. Pascal"
work which he has just finished after
twenty-five We RS of almost continuous
toll upon it.
BACKWARD.
In PARIS as in London the people flock
to the music nails. A time was when
the music hall, or cafe-chantant, was
the resort only of the canaille; now all
sorts and conditions of people crowd It's
seats. The craze seems TO have caught
London worse than Paris. Over fifty
music halls are well frequented every
night. Men holding the highest posi-
tions-professional men. parliamenta-
rians and even cabinet ministers-may
be seen strOlliDg in to while away an
empty hour.
Music, morals and manners are all
bad in these places of amusement.
There is not even the falntcst appeal to
the aesthetic sense; to stir the sensual
nature seems TO be the sole object of
these gracelesS institutions. 1t is pity
that Paris, possessing as 1t does; the
best theater In the world, should have
followed the pattern set by London with
regard to music halls.
lola seeks TO Justify his erratic liter
ature on the principle Speak out say
everything, so that all may be known,
and all may be cured" but no, one
essays to make even shadow Of de-
Tense for the degradation of music and
the deterioration of humanity which
take place in these halls. Since lord
Clancarty, an Irish peer, married Bell
Billion, a music hall singer, things have
been going from bad to worse in Lon
don, and IL is thousand pities that the
Frank should have allowed his taste
to be vitiated by the Saxon to the detri-
ment of his own splendid drama.
KNIGHTED OR KNOUTED. r.
The recent mad disturbances in Paris
owing to the idiOtic conduct of the po-
lice, who. in their wild fury, beat wom-
Ell, Knocked down old men, trampled
upon children, provoked the light
hearted students Of the Latin quarter,
and then ran heller SHELTER, have given
rise TO wrong CONGRATULATIONS. PariSianS
are singularly conspicuous for their
chivalIy and honor. Their leading men
OF letters need not the Forty Immor-
tails" to give them an enduring fame,
their women require no cosmetics to
make them fair, and their citizens no
Legion of Honor" to make them hon.
orable. Gracefully repOseful under Or
dnary conditions, in certain circum
stances Parish ms become excited, or
Impatient. or contradictory. An army
anecdote will help to illustrate what l
mean. In the palmy days of the second
empire young Russian, who was raised
to the rank OF 9Orporal in the army of
France. appeared in an undress cap at
a revi6W before the emperor and Eu-
genie. A sergeant noticed the cor
poraPs bluDder IN his headgear, and the
following is substantially accurate
account of what occurred.
u say. what do you mean by wearing
that cap? You ought to be ashamed or
yourself. I'll report you"
The corporal flushed and said moth
Ing, but the sergeant did. He FASTENED
to his superior.
Lieutenant he said, 'tCOrporaI
Chose is here in cap"
The dickens you say. Give him ten
days arrest"
And with that the lieutenant clattered
off to the captain.
Captain he cried, Corporal Chose
is here in CAPT"
AIN cap? laundering guns, Re-
duce him to the ranks.'
And the captain galloped up to the
colonel.
Colonel" he bawled, Corporal
Chose is here in capn'
"TorpsdOes and dynamite In cap?
Have him drummed out of the army
Aud the colonel drove his spurs in his
horse ana pranced over to where the
marshal was.
"Excellency." he CRASHED, there is a
corporal back there in cap.''
''Ah? Very good. Have him shot.'
And the marshal wheeled to the gilt
tering tribune where the emperor was.
Sire" he began, There is corpo-
rail-
But the emperor. occupied with affairs
of state, and concluding,as was natural. 4
that some one had distinguished him
self. cut the marshal short: 81
decorate him." he murmured. and /
turned away.
RAPID CHANCES.
Paris Is one Of the easiest cities in
Europe 10 get quick insight into its
beauties. Its groves and its gardens, its
royal palace and its priucely parks. its
architectural masterpieces and its mar
tial monuments are all SO designedly
connected that stranger who goes into
the gardens of the Louvre feels strange
no longer. Paris seems to command
anything. 1t can show monuments
thousands Of years old and it can EMU
late the best style of modern architect
ure; 1t proves that industry does not
ruin art, and that warlike preparations
are not necessarily inconsistent with the
highest literature; it lives for the pres
ent, and possesses the most funereal
cemetery in the world; its vices are the
most refined and its virtues the most ey-
allied. Talking of its antiquities, let me
mention two. In the middle of tile
Place de la Concorde is the obelisk of
Luxor, first set up $500 years ago before
the temple of Thebes by Rameses III.
In the Egyptian gallery of the Louvre
there is a fragment of the "Iliadn 5000
years old.
If Paris has its palais de i industrie,
1t has also its palais de Louvre. In
these gorgeous galleries there are 1000
paintings, less conspicuous for their
number than Tor their artistic excel
lence. There are twenty-one pictures
by Rubens in one gallery alone. Michael
Angelo. Da Vinci. Raphael, Titan,
Veroneee, MurillO, are all we'll rep
resented.
Parisians have the faculty of forget
ting the past, and of being heedsess of
the future; In other w0FGs, Mey are