The record-union., 1899-07-28
Items From Paris.

The Eiffel tower has received its first
coat of paint, with view to beautify-
ing it for the Paris Exposition of 1900.
This preliminary adornment has taken
no less than fifty tons of paint and two
whole months labor of sixty workmen.
The sale Of the Stein collection of
eighteenth-century objects of art took
place in Paris last week and enormous
prices were paid for all the best lots.
Two vases of pink Sevres china realized
S7,40O although the cover of one of
them had been restored. A pair of
Louis XVI. upright candlesticks fetched
$6,600. and 81, 700 was paid for a Louis
XVI. clock. y
The Parisians are far from satisfied
with their new fiacres automobiles.
They are prepared to put up with the
peculiarly hideous yellow, the author
tiles have elected to paint them, also
to forgive their strong family resem-
blance to the old-fashioned diligence.
but what cannot be overlooked, and
what is most annoying to person in
hurry, is to find that the new con-
veyances may not be chartered on the
spot, but must be bespoken at least
half a day in advance. It is true that
once inside, the fare travels very
rapidly, but the difficulty seems to be to
get inside, and, after all, this is an i'm
portant preliminary.
Some ingenious person, with (evident-
ly) a turn for literary discoveries, has
been commenting on the important role
played by the letter Y in the Dreyfus
affair, and points out that though it
has always been looked upon as a quite
inoffensive sign, 1t is now proved to be
nothing but a wolf in sleeps clothing.
Is it not part and parcel of Dreyfus
himself? And has it not always been
inseparably connected with Esterhazy,
Henry, Mile. Pays, Commandant Ra-
vary? Then, again, It was never alb
sent from the catchword of the Zola
trial: "Allons-y," not to mention M.
Freycinet, Judge Freystaetter, and last
ly, M. Charles Dupuy, who has been
acquainted with the affair ever since
it's commencement.
They are determined in Paris to go
one better than any one else, at least
in the matter of the burial of dead pets.
A limited company, under the title of
'The Dogs Cemetery" with a capital
of no less than $4,000, is az the pres
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Paris. The multi-colored prospectuses
with which the walls and boardings of
the French capital have .keen decorated
within the last few days assert that
people should support the undertaking
on two grounds-hygienic and senti-
mental. If the shareholders of the
new company should expect to be paid
interest on their shares it is clear that
the cost of a dogs funeral will need
to be calculated in consequence. Then
the Government will step in and de-
clare that, to conduct things with due
decorum, the presence of several lordly
officials is absolutely necessary; that
duction of a veterinary's certificate,
clearly stating the cause of death; and
that, unless notice of the decease be
given to the proper person appointed
to receive it and the fee paid within a
stipulated time, the dogs master is lfa-
BILE to be imprisoned without the op-
tion of fine. If all these things do
not come to pass, should the dogs cem-
terry ever become an accomplished fact
it will be strange.
The "Annuaire de la Venerie Fran
caise" contains descriptive account
of the 800 packs of hounds existing in
France and the names and addresses
of men and women who hunt. The
"Annuaire" throws curious light on
French methods of hunting. The
French go about the business in much