Show OUR FRENCH LETTER o e eSpecial e-Special correspondence of the HERALD PARIS August 11883 In winter Parisians live during six months under water which is considered con-sidered superior to London fogs and in Bummer six months in the water at the seaside or a spa The seaside I side migration also presents tbe advantage ad-vantage of allowing au exchange of visits which in the metropolis is next to impoEsiblo iorbuEinese people who I as a rule only meet dinners marriages mar-riages and burials Tbe doctors order their patients to sojourn at the seaside sea-side in order to fiad repose it is but ordinary life plua additional fatigues and diminished comforts Dieppe is a nonchalante town a Bleep hollow for ten months of the year when it rouses up to welcome the happy or tbe idle from France and England who come there for a few days Just now it id very lay It was the favorite holiday retreat of the DachtEee de Berri the mother c f tbe Oomte de Chambord At present is under the patronage of the ComtP3e de Paris whcee residence the Obft teau de Eu is in the vicinity Visitors Visi-tors ought to arrange to view this magnificent qaetie the headquarters of the Orleanist prince In tbe pc ture gallery is to be seen an admirable admira-ble portrait of Queen Viotoriapainted over forty years ago in honor of her visit Beside it bangs the famous 1 picture of Jeanne dArc The Salon i Victoria named after tbe illustrious guest is very beautiful I The Comte de Cbambord who appears to be next to outofdanger I has been called tbe child of a mua I ole because be was born seven months after his fathers assassination and thus gave hopes for preserving I the elder Bourbon branch from dying i lout The Comte de Paris whose father the Duo dOrleans and des I tined to become as popular a sovereign sover-eign as Henri IV was the victim of a carriage accident has still stronger claims to be regarded as a child of a miracle One day woen Louis I Philippe was driving in his carriage I with the queen and the widowed Duchesse dOrleane and her baby the Oomte de Paris a bridge gave way under the vehicle and on the edge of a chasm The King At once seized the baby count the Dauphin in fact and threw him into the apron of a country woman tbe other occupants were commanded by the King not to move lest the vehicle might topple over till the horses were extricated The government has won a tremendous tre-mendous success by the Senate voting the judicial reform bill Tbe minister minis-ter of justice has now tho power to remove and replace all the judges some 700 within tbe course of three months It may be accepted that not a Rhadamanthus holding anti republican views will be retained Tho only wonder is they have been continued so long If royalty or Bonapartism came into power they would as usual make a clean sweep of the bench which appears to be thus political rather than judicial Greater calmness characterizes all foreign questions We are waiting for more light from Madagascar I Tonkin and the Congo Egypt is still the sore point and the cause of the outburst of the old Adam against England whom the French will never forgive for doing what they declined to do But we never pardon those we wrong The Suez canal question is momentarily in the doldrums dol-drums the Chauvinists still accuse England of spreading the cholera rather than lessen her greed for gain forgetting that the gainers might bathe ba-the first to loose M Weil a sort of spasmodic journalist will give odds that Franca will be at war with England Eng-land before Germany M Laisant ought to denounce him as he did Emile de Giradin as a Prussian for thus laboring to p ish England into the AuatroGerman alliance I S Deputy Liieant having charged his I colleagues with having sold their votesWalpole fashion has been compelled com-pelled to swallow the leek an outrage out-rage like that would be tbe end of a public maq elsewhere A Belgian bankrupt confessed he paid two deputies 16000 francs for their influence influ-ence in a shaky business The deputies II dep-uties still unnamed in time censured the businesswhen it broke down but did not return the 16000 francs that was for cabs and anxiety of mind I M Leon Bays article in an English magazine has been translated It deals ostensibly with Suez Even big friends consider tbe production weak rambling and a begging of questions Is the Suez administration to be exclusively ex-clusively French Anglo French or International Thats the nut to crack If the canal is to be exclusively exclu-sively at the beck of M de Lessepp England cannot be blamed for maintaining main-taining an exclusively English protectorate pro-tectorate of Egypt Tunis like plus finding another way tothe meeung I of the waters Following soma knowing folks the first of August ought to be aa carefully care-fully surveyed aa the Ides of March Lammas day whether EO called from bread feast offerings or the custom to offer lambs to tho Archbishep ol York for the cathedral and its inter eats has cot the less the reputation of being fatal for apoplectic peopleand the second ia equally ai dangerous aa the first Prima meat stermtqut tee unda coforttn Hence the old custom II of bleeding at this period It is on a par with the doctor who entering a fever hospital saw a patient eating a raw herring Having Jaanwd the patient recovered ha noted down Urrw herring capital far expelling fever U And poor Ischiathat lets of beauty the first lion to visit and the last to quit by every traveler to Naples What more lovely trip than the steam round the island clad in its semitropical semi-tropical verdure under the bluest of afcia and mtrnest of sunshine In France we dance on volcanoes occasionally oc-casionally in southern Italy the inhabitants in-habitants reside on them No moro exquthite more extensive panorama can be obtained than from the summa sum-ma ol Mount Epomeo or its hermitage hermit-age of St Nicholas It is a fitting headstone for the fresh common grava of Casamicoiola Summer is perpetual Iscbis the valley are miracles of vegetation simulated by he lukewarm character of the subsoil The fish in the neighborhood of the isle are superior to those caught in the surrounding bay Its white wine ia nectar its fruits nmbrcsta No wonder poets peopled it with gods and dryades The name of the island i has been tba subject of much contention whether aa Inarima or Pitbeou a3 The Romans Ro-mans considered it to be inhabited by monkeys Pliny is of opinion the name is due to ita potsry factories Moderns interpret it as meaning open firs The first people woo occupied toe island were driven away by earth quaket later a colony of Syracuseans arrived but had to quit owing to volcanic eruptions The town of Ischia i < i about 17 miles from Naples and built on a basaltic rock 630 feet high The or sUe was erected by Alpbqnse I of Aragon who captured L II < L the island and compeii all the women wo-men and girls to wed his soldiers Besides its numerous vegetable and mineral product jus Ischia is most famous for its mineral springs containing con-taining as they do soda potash iodine etc and efficacious against female deeiily rheunatam liver and kidney disorder The temperature tempera-ture of the water is about 158 lb and each spring is crowded like a pool of Bethesda from all tho dwellers beyond be-yond Mesopotamia Ischia was the seat of the exploits of Typhon whom Juno in a fit of jealousy created by striking the earth with her hand He had 100 heads and he breathed flames from his 100 mouths His wars frightened gods aid men The upper part of his body was covered with feathers his thighs and finger ends with coiling serpents He was so tall that bis head touched the skies and he so frigutened the deities when he looked in on them that tvi y fled to Egypt His stepfather Jupiter Ju-piter flung a thunder bolt at him that only scotched then he eiezed Jt pittr cut oQ his arms and leg and imprisoned him in a den Mercury and Pan came to the rescue restored the god his members who then pursued pur-sued Typhon with thunderbolts till he killed him He was buried under Mcunt Etna Venus happened to be in the vicinity of lacbia when Ty pbon endeavored to catch her dhe would have been captured only hereon her-eon was yachting on the backs of two fishes and took his mother up beside him Typhon is rumored to have conquered con-quered Egypt where he was held responsible for excessive heats and draughts The red RES peculiar to Egypt was his favorite animal Tho Egyptians offered sacrifices to Ty phoii but if be did not hear their prayers they covered him with abuse assaulted every rednhaired person they met and were only ap paaaed by throwing a red see over a precipice The next official take of France cl f course for colonzition purposes as down on the roster is Obock on the coast of Eastern Africa The native kings are concluded to be kindly disposed and rips for liberty equality equal-ity and fraternityaa they kill Italian but only rob French travellers At tne Versailles aaaizas two ruffians ruffi-ans were condemned to deaththat is to be reprieved by M Grevy one was a man who cut up a child bo had by his own daughter and the other a young prisoner who mortally stabbed a model galer France is to adapt the German plan of a special hospital ship < < < l11 < L n < painted wnuo iu follow the fleet An American merchant from New Orleans arrived in Paris last week after a wash and brush up in his hotel ho-tel he left his family to buy cigars promised to be back to dinner Five days elapsed no news till at last be was discovered in the St Anne lunatic luna-tic asylum in tho dangerous ward The unfortunate man ccud not speak French and had a twitch in his face that worked his features into a kind of savage snapping grin He was found at Bt Owen the wildest outskirts out-skirts Pariehailing a return hearse he was soon surrounded by small boys the more he spoke the more he grinned and the more the lade yelled especially as he shook his sticks he is a crippleat them It was thus a policeman found him and conveyed him to the asylum as dangeroup He was only restored the bosom of his family on condition they would undertake un-dertake to keep an eye on him A young lady described as beautiful beauti-ful and of good family I advertises she will marry any man who will pay her papas debts |