New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-11-19
TOPICS IN PARIS.
FESTIVITIES AND FUNERALS = PRINCESS
MATHILDES QUEER LAwsUIT-WOES
OF THE MCYCLISTS-GAMBLlM
AND PJ-BILC BILLIARD TABLES.

80. g.. had xve been I'm throes Of the Partisan
season instead of az its outset. There mas peeh
no end Of grand marriages. magnihcent rune
ais queer lawsuits the Feast of ST. Crispin' All
Saints Day. the close Of the fiat racing season.
s. and last, but not least the Day OF ST. Hubert
St Crispin is the patron saint OF bootmaHers'
cobblers and tanners, who combined 10 ceie-
brate the festival by high mass In the ancient
Church Of ST. Medard. which stands in the
midst Of the quarter Of Paris principally a1ected
by knights of the awl and by the leather IN
dustry in general. In happy contrast to FORMER
years. All Saints Day was favored with re-
markably fine weather. and thus became real
fete day to the Parisans. The churches' III
many instances beautifully decorated, were
crowded at both morning and afternoon SER
vices, and Of the numbers that visited the ceih-
eteries an idea may be gained from the fact
that, whereas last year barely 100000 people
visited the graves of the dead this year nearly
half a million attended to that pious duty. IL
Is singularly appropriate that this Jour des
Morris should be just the particular day IN the
year which the undertakers' mutes and other
officials connected with the great funeral en-
terprise known as the Pompes Funebres should
have adopted as their annual festival, which
they celebrated, as usual by the banquet pop
ularly known as 1.-The banquet of the sour
herring" owing to its date conciding with the
arrival of the sour herrings in the Paris mar
kets. The banquet followed by ball. at
which, II we are to believe the reports OF GER
tain Of the Partisan papers. the ladies wore
crepe sashes and were offered bouquets and
wreaths Of immortelles in lieu of the usual
floral tributes. The celebration of ST. Huberto
Day has greatly fallen off since the Due
d'Aumale abolished the hunt at Chantilly, at
the time of his Punishment and the st. Huberts
Mass, with its attendance Of the huntsmen and
pioueurs in full livery. and the blessing of the
baying hounds at the church door by the
officiating priest can only be seen in any of
its old-time splendor at the chateaus OF the
great Jewish bankers and fnanciers which sur
round Paris, and who5c proprietors deem it
necessary to adopt this peculiar aristocratic
survival Of feudal customs along with the fam
lily portraits which they have purchased from
the original proprietors Of the castle.
The funeral of Princess Marguerite of Orleans
had the effect of bringing together the whole
of the Faubourg St German, as we'll as Of all
that portion Of Partisan society that wishes to
sbe considered as pertaining thereto There
must have been at least two or three thousand
people who attended the obsequies, crowdng
sthe grand courtyard and salons of that mag
nificent palace, the Hotel Lambert and also
the ancient church of ST. Louis-en-lIle. The
walls Of this church were entirely concealed by
black draperies bearing the arms of the Car
toryskis who formerly reigned as Grand Dukes
of Lithuana, and are to this day the principal
survivors of Polish royalty. Among the
wreaths round the bier l noticed in particular
one from the Princess Of Wales Of violets and
tea roses. with card bearing this legend in
the handwriting of the Princess: I'm loving
remembrance of faithful and devoted friend
and cousin. Alexandra" Lord Dufferin, the
British Ambassador, brought magnificent
wreath from Queen Victoria. while the Portu-
guese Ambassador laid a similar offering from
his King and Queen at the foot Of the cata-
falQue. At the close Of the religious ceremony
the coffin was placed in the crypt Of the church,
where it is to remain until arrangements have
been made for its transfer to the CzartorysM
Castle Of Sienawa, in Austrian Poland fer in
terment in the family vault. The Princess was
tall. slight. and supremey elegant: her features
were delicately chiselled, her eyes blue and ex-
pressive, while her hair was pale gold. She Is
greatly regretted here, especially among the
poor and feature of her obseques IVES the
remarkably sympathetic attitude Of the crowd
which lined the streets through which the
funeral procession passed, and which was COM
posed for the most part Of people belonging to
the humber walks Of life.
Many houses of the Faubourg will be thrown
into mourning by the death OF the Marquis
de Turenne. whose funeral took place on the day
following that Of the Princess Marguerite, and
one of whose had recently been mentioned
by the newspapers here as likely to become the
husband Of Mrs Deacon. The Hozer the
French Liber dOro. or Peerage, is called here.
was we'll represented at the funeral. imperialists
and royalsts uniting to render last tribute
to the fine old sailor
Another notable death was that Of a man
belonging to an entirely different class Of So
ciety. He used to go by the name Of Father
Prospectus" and for quarter Of century had
earned his living by frequenting those particular
Of the capital where the largest
number Of trade prospectuses and handbis are
distributed. He seemed to know by intuition
Just the streets and the days wi ere they were |
to be found in largest quantities, and was
wont to collect enough to yield him an income |
Of franc a day.
Princess Mathilde Bonaparte has just been
figuring defendant in a rather amusing law
suit, in which the principal point at issue was |
a COW. 1t seems that during the past summer |
the Princess had staying with her at st. Graten |
the grandchildren Of the Comte Benedett for
merly French Ambassador at Berlin. and that |
as the little boys required large allowance |
Of milk the Princess purchased a Breton COW.
which guaranteed to yield ten ltres Of
milk day. The Breton did not fulfil
the expectations to her capacity and the
Princess thereupon returned the animal to the
seller. and got from him instead a more ex-
pensive cow Of the Picardy breed. At the
close Of the season the Princess was astonshed
to receive a demand for payment for both
cows. and as she declined to pay for the Breton
animal she was sued, the decision Of the court
being. Of course, granted in her favor after
in which the traditional wit and
Of some Of our leading lawyers found
full scope.
The Xoollen stocking of France 10 which ref |