The Newtown bee. (Newtown, Conn.) 1877-current, 1895-10-04

we're. inside the church, and your car
liza do tslat MAS here-a 10 minutes Wig
orous search will find it, generally.
some of our party during the day got
entirely from their carriages
and had to hire a cab to get back to their
hpt pie but then We saw Paris Z.
A city man, who built summerlhome
id the country and took into the country
some ct his bright city ideas, made his
house exactly alike in its front and rear.
When asked the reason Of this novel
style in architecture, heo replied: sThat
is. the mayI foolmy .chickens3 they look
up.at the house, and they think they are
on the front lawn, when they ARD really |
Ia The. back yard. y In our Whirl through
Paris that. day the order in which we
saw thing gat %. confused, iwhethen We
were on the front Of the gardens Of the
Tuileries.o or on. the rear of them could |
not begiate,telk, and you do notecare to
have me- Well, there was the Grand
Opera house, or national academy oil
music, and. dancing, easily the finest.
theatre inesths world. The people of
Paris are an Rxeitable smulsituae; their
excitementImnat be kept up, their pas
sion for amusement must be fed. The
Government has found that it pays to
lay out great sums Of money in provid-
ing diversions for the populace; It pays,
because this is cheaper than auelling
| REVOLUTIONS and, riot, and the turbulent
palsionlIof Rthel plJple will break out
either in applauding plays or hurting
4 briakbats. tIhseefQEad tlles government
of France gave an immense sum to help
in the building OF this gorgeous play
house. Its erection lasted from 1861 to
1876; it required 673,295 days. work ;;
and stcsdsa1 Ia 900 pounds sterling; ur
/ 200, 900 dollars, nearly. It covers 3-4
acres of ground Its front Is decorated
by -allegorical groups representa- music,
poetry, drama and dancing. On the
summit Of the pediment, behind the
fgreat dbfha III Ap6l1oa fafaihR ialoft His
Tyre is seen against the sky, and forms
!, Eabheaealminssing point of the marvellous
ledi6ea.. Hhe vast auditoriunao has seats
for 2,156 persons. :
Well, Paris is grand city-the ere is nc
doubt about that; but my short stay
,there, cor yinced cme thatsit is
i 30. 49,. GRAND IN IT'S VICE, TOO. tna
1t reeks withlfoulness, il saturates witt
} SIM IN the wild days ,1of the French
Revolution the passionate popul lace ise
up Reason as their god; it seems to, mn
now,that a large part Of the populac.
had set up Lust as the. incarnation o
| + their good. O the horrors Of that fifi
. and the infinitely worse horrors of tn
| Death that follows, when men corrup
: the pure imag &c of their Maker BY sayin,
: TO their lowest passions: I'VE viii max
! fYou5 gods: = Come now and reign owe
t Aus."--2hsc tl-9 si>,E $40 90 III; ~
| ave passed. through Monceau Park
J which isthe. Fifth avenue of Paris
There the money kings and aristocrati
families ofithe city livea Our go ducto
j pointed us ito the house where Whitelay
) Reid resided when he was minister t
France under the administratio q
d President Harrison. "A servant was POI
fshing the brass railing along the side Q
: the front steps, and it looked. Liz man
other houses that:tIg have seen. W
Americans have no reason to feel ashan
tfed of the way that Mr. Reid ,eohd4cte
: himself while representing our nation ii
! !, France. France and America hays eve
: 4ained the hand of. mutual. respect an
!. Friendship, and Americas noblemen q.
: ways find warn. welcome ON the banks O
2 4Etheiseine. Whitelaw. Reid, believesh
q the. embargo removed that had been iai
j nn AMERICAN pork, and thus increase
Il Dur exports MANY millions Of dollars
!. we owe, Mr. Reid. q deb. Of gratitude 70
a that --i- 2sisis. ts,...i] = :. =
: E'"of course. we were ali curious to in
]. Lspeet the Eiffel i.toWer, and. see how j
d hwasi shat France. agot SO high in, ith
! world. Wen, that is the one' thing Tia
: Efvery boy il America would say it h
d asw3that toWer and u must follpw 'th
7 Eboyq the,man that planned that. stFutthr
! had ga big.head. y I do not know, wha
: the. general sentImenf .is or whether. Il
, lhas been fully settled, whose. heAd'.wa
( the bigger, the designer OF, the Eiffs
/ foweH Of the promoter OF the FeTri
5wheel..9. a think they both better call 4
leVen and shake hands. There.the towe
II reaTsS Itself in an the Great Pyramid 0
i FGheops is 543. feet high, the dome Of
Il Peters. at Rome AS feet high, the IsteepI