The sun., 1896-08-23
.pARISIAN GOSSIP.
,Ug FRENCH CAPITALISD DULL DUR
Iyg me SUMMER HOLIDAYS.

49,, ,lru.. Ambassador Extraordinary OF
c,,n, has assumed considerable Importance.
M. ,ournnls are full OF tho subject, treating IL
l...,or,inIly rs follows: Tho theatres nre
.S,,. our ,ubic men have nothing TO do; but
have IA Hung Chang" Therein lies Its i'm
portance.
w, must admit that his yellow Excellency
49,, largely repaid us for our contempt. Tho
representative of the Son OF Heaven has clearly
.s,ri,e.,ci the little stock that he takes in the
h.-horlnns ot the West. A curious spectacle
,rdeed is this ctcrnally silent Diplomat, drawn
,hopt In little hand wagon by Chinese SER
..,, imras,ivu In presence OF the explanations
,h,, nre tiycv 20 him by the chiefs of tho diff
,.,.nt bureaus that he visits, smoking the eter-
"a, nine, which a member OF his suite ompties,
ais and rc,ights after each aspiration Of his
nnhIs hiss, When he deigns to rise, two OF his
,..,sr,s hasten to assist him. holding by his
arms his august and fragile person.
A, ,the Grand Hotel, which he entered with q
,,,yd Of noisy and cackling servants, he aroused
the curiosity OF the guests by the number Of
hird. h. brought with him. Among them was .
t,yori,e rarrrt which was constantly repeating
the same phrase, an insult, We are told. 1t may
M that, srcaking for hts master, he expressed
The contempt the latter felt for his hosts.
BEFORE leaving US Ii took last opportunity
,o exhibit TO US his sentiments The special
tain wbicn was to bring him to Havre had ar
,lyed at the railroad station. At the quay the
pretect and official personages, together with
some Journalists, waited to salute his Excel
l.ncy and receive him; but the Viceroy OF the
pc,chili had just begun breakfast The Project
and the officials were Obliged to wait for half an
hour. without any other consolation than that
Of witnessing through the windows the repast
of the lllustriOus Ii. When at last he finished
Ms breakfast. he motioncd to parsonage
Of his suite who piaced his golden spectacles on
his nose, while another took off his cap and re-
placed it by the famous headpiece with the pea
cock feather. Finally they lifted him up, and
brought him out of his compartment. Then he
stretched himself In an armchair and received
with fati .ued air the compliments Of the Pre-
feet to whom, moreover, he did not deign to say
avord. Nevertheless, In leaving US Ii Hung
Chang was good enough for an instant TO break
the silence that no had religiously kept up to
that moment. To a General who asked him IL
the visit he had made to our arsenals interested
him, he replied. quite practically: II will buy
your guns, il they are the best and cheapest"
When can Presidents go travelling except
during the period of vacation? Felix Faure
after having embarked his yellow EIcellency at
HAvre for England. set out on little official
excursion in Normandy and Brittany. That
sacustom which VI. Carnot may have ovcrdone.
perhaps but which he rendered obligatory upon
his successors whether they liked 1t or not.
They call it showing to the people the living
symbol Of the Republic"
Are these trips always successful? There 10 O
strange piece OF testimony on this subject con-
tanned in an article IN the Ecldir by NJ Bergerat,
at present ruralIzing in Brittany.
"On the morning OF the 4th of August '
writes N. Bergerat "st about 8 o'clock. the
three vessels OF the Presidential escort passed
the Isle Of Cezembre at about 500 metres from
mY windows bringing Cnsar and his fortune
They entered the bay. The guns thundered
from the forts. A laborer employed by me. q
creature as ignorant as possible, perfect beast
Of burden, remaining type OF the feudal frog
slencer or Of the good peasant OF the Duo d o
Cbaulnes. was hurryiDg along toward the port.
dragging with him his three boys in their Sun
dag clothes IKE himself. whom he hurried
along with ordinations best understood, per-
laps, By pigs and cows.
so you are going to see the show p said I.
Certainly; l don't want TO miss it said be.
lam not rich and of be went with his limp
l. - 'NSHb NHSo, 'So'.Hk III pOE piC4ltS.
an not richly said he. What did he mean by
Gch remark on such an occasion, and what
Tfangs meaning was there in It? 1t was his
wife who enlightened me on this subject. at my
request. He is going there for five francs
nid she.
What fve francsY
You are a journalist. sir. and you ought to
know that perfectly well. 1t is a custom. 1t
Achance that We don't always get. II the
young ones are placed in good positions, each
ooe Of them will be able to pick mp his white
psee, and counting the old mans. we can have
oas twenty-five francs in tho evening and a
500 supper without the trouble of working
Ahoh,shed looked at the poor woman. who
SHHIeriy incapable of any joking; but could
;5Iy av,{ eetieye my ears. She actually imagined
Snhe Chief Of State was a man who from
uarrafe threw one-hundred- cent pieces to
.ssfoSd. That was her idea of President Of
sssSL ssspSSSc s ana she added: If he didn't do that
hbetrerat sought in vain to modify the IDEAS
S,s ~,sta n the evening he questioned him. Tho
daSt tppeated gst .a atocether out Of humor; We
i1sISs ihstSe Old times by Jug full; but II had
sTS..- -theh with an angry gesture he began
s.,. s'H W. Neither IS he very polite, this Pres-
,bnn.T That Is the use Of firing off guns. That
,ss Gs NOW little he cares about people"
S. iativsa,,6Se M GsrSeTa. at a;ssd for an explanation
M @Eeherous tran Napoleon, but he has hi m Sc 4
WEssented BY his servant" Tho black coat of
'AuteNas the cause of the poor mans error
no,tI tta' while the President is travelling other
ersho. are LhVe.!!ng statues This exercise
sass. W nave charm for our generation be-
g,sss neIer before was there discovered such a
ms,bln un3er o. great men to immnrtalZe in
dSsSe anu anu II. broAZe as has been discovered
yry y"f tne past fifteen years. After all, 1t 10 a
nS,,l innocent amuscment There Is even n
bmnoL ~ ~ vsc6 - nothing consoles obscur!ty
reach Of all. h'''' D'"eeH ""h'h INC
kis kT 5s en- hc!pat!on 0t woman having made of
tuyn ,ccp'I progress, II Is only natural that tho
sta " woman should come to be glorihed,
hotp,tss,, ts,s'esh who IN her day achieved a little
could ~ ~ que 70 the facility with which she
PauIvay ~ Vt'se, who was brought out by
btsnca ett'athe curing the latter days of his ex-
atd - Tue ,udy who has Just now been glorI-
i;ss Nine. DesLnrdes- Valmore WAS born in
Of A ds.ttu'ed Az u'ed ~ 500. She was the daughter
Iurslgher without fortune. She had hard
Tnn,'u LeF toNtH. At IL years Of age she left
q Hcb MN her mother to Join in (Iuadeloupe
ltarnsd 1EtVI' W hen she arrived there she
GilerwarJ' "a death ana his ruin. and shortly
turned ~ srhe lost her mother. She re-
p.ayeS +" france and became an actresss,
tedgced az a. ne Theatre Feydeau. was
her mI., atH abandoned, ana 10 complete
narIisIi ic7. rtc lost her voice AT last sh a
She hsd "a FpDi man, the tragedian Talmore.
tQt ihs S.t.I1ei.. and might have boen happy;
iortntog".S "S"I 't weeping remains Her mi
tAcerIty d" p'IrI her With clcgiac poems whose
lppreriss, VI hceht presented n charm highly
hn w"'' III pcriud when sentimentai- i
main,d H. 'I'L" greatly priced. She re-
Irony npvrr ,".a.."' md, as II TO prove that