Show FROM FRANCE r t An Interesting Paper From the Gay French Capital LIFE IN PARIS AND MOW IT IS SPBNT 4 Frog GraTe to Cay From Lively to Seiere Spewal aorrapcadonce of the HBRAL PARIs October 28 1883 Hardly have we finished with tbe bakers for selling light hreadonoe a hanging offense like bigamythan Ian I-an outcry is raised against the butchers butch-ers for speculating in bones They give too much bone with the meat charging exorbitantly for both The Prefect de Police has bean called to I the rescue Unce upuii a time when peoDle complained of the want of bread it was suggested they should fall back on pastry A philanthropist counsels the massed to patronize only game But the partridges are said to bave onntrftnfpfi n malnrttr resemblinQ the potato disease and the supply of red bares and oebucks has dimin ished in Germany Even wild boars said never to suffer from tirchino a sare disappearing before the advance ad-vance of civilization like the red man Is Europe destined to become a branch of the Medusa raft There is happily balm in Gilead A good Samaritan in the rue de la Verrevie supplies a fair equare meal for 14 BOtl9 consisting ol a soup a choice of three dishes of meat and a vegetable The latter can be replaced by aglass of Madere and if the client dislikes animal food or disbelieves in fish asa as-a braindeveloping diet he can select two dishes of vegetables instead A lair heel of bread is given To console ones self for the absence of wine you have only to read the latest analysis anal-ysis of the municipal laboratory or visit the Invisibles or animal cali world at the Menus Plaieirs theatre to be reconciled and admit at the same time that man must be fearfully and wonderfully made to resist Each per U4UUVU sources ui assassination The 3d of November is dear to huntsmen being the fete of St Hu bert The duo dAnmale intends celebrating the anniversary as usual with all honors Perhaps M Laissant or General Thibaudin may make It starchamber matter of the meet I do not know why the 3d of November was selected as the eaints anniversary anniver-sary as according to the chronicles and brief abstracts of the time be was born the 5th of March 656 and died 18th of May 727 Even allow ing for old style the difference cannot be reconciled Although at the risk i of adding a motive to those presumed to exist for expelling the Oomte de Pane I mention it as a stage whisper that St Hubert bad for ancestors Gloves I and Endes the first Comte de Paris His father returning home from a long journey was surprised to see the towers of his castle illuminated illumina-ted coming nearer he was informed his duchess had been confined of a ion she herself said it had been sent from heaven as she was like Sarah rather advanced in years The little stranger was called Humbert or Hu bert which being interpreted meant u sovereign judge u as iweive years or age Hubert aved the life of an old man in the debris of a Roman aqueduct he fol lowed biB father to hunt and became a great sportsman cunning as an Indian in tracking game He bunted daily and on one occasion encountered en-countered a hermit bathing a wounded stag ina stream From the acquaintance the hermit taught Hu bert medicine natural history aad I religion The next school Hubert attended was the court of King Thi I erry of fioiason where his majesty wag always as drunk as a pole Next Hubeit came to Paris and through the kindness of Dagobert occupied a shooting box in the thick woods that then covered the present rues St Honore and Reioli the Champs Ely sees and Tuilerieg and called the quarter Louvre from being infested I with wolves Hence en passant the origin of the name Louvre U It was while in thin dhontine box that a I beautiful young lady Floribanne cam to warn him his life was in I danger And the advice came in the I nick of time She was sent by the old man whose life he had saved I Like a gallant knight Hubert proposed pro-posed to marry his guardian angel f He brought a considerable fortune to I her for in these barbaroua days it was th husband not the wife con I ferred the dot On the day of the marriage Floribanne arrived in a I carnage Q drawn by lour beautiful heifers Hubert wore a mantle of I cloth of gold made for him by his mother The bride on getting out of her carriage was about kneeling at the feet of Hubert following the custom cus-tom of the Germans when be raised her up and recognized her to be the I niece of King Pepin At the oathe dral in tbe wood and at Soisaons Hubert threw over the shoulder of his bride A straw then gave her a ring next A farthing and swore never to take another wife The best men then bent the knee drew their swordB and vowed they would die for Floribanne While the wile passed her time ministering fo the poor Hubert led astray by bad company indulged in riotous living and persecuting perse-cuting the monks On Christmas day 695 he wes bunting a white etag whtn an apwifioa waned kim to chang hit life He then renounced the world WM forgiven aia folliM after doing penance lived in the forest for-est on roots wild finite and water and handed ever his possessions to his brother He resided in be forest Ardennes and built a monastery at Andain where the poor flocked to bQ healed ad fed and he wet into the woods fee meet the hnatemem 4o try and convert them He viaittd BOMB and was made a bishop receiving < the diocese cf Liege I He died siofiag tke ptalna of David A eeaiory after his death his remains were renov d bo the Indian monas tery which changed its mme to St Hubert Along the road it was only a e rpet of flowers Up to the revo lution the monastery was bound to I supply the king every year with a certain number of doga of a notable breed in exchange for 300 pounds for lodging pilgrims On the 3d of November the St Hubert mass ia celebrated at Chantilly and ether castles the huntsmen in costume enter the chnrch the dogs are admitted admit-ted into the porch and the horns are introduced with much effect in a portion of the ceremonial music After the mass the clergyman comes to the entrance gate and blesses the assembly The haunch of the first deer killed ie i sent to him with a dozen of wine and baskets of grapes The meeting of the chambers will nave for result to localize the political politi-cal thunder and lightning in which the friends and foes of the cabinet in dulge The country is calm and in no way affected by press fulminations or dynamite discourses It is in the chambers then that the latest news on the Chinese and Madagascar ques tions must be sought Serious people are more occupied with the continued stagnation of business A spurt for I the better set in a fortnight ago but hat flicker bad finished in a relapse What is called the real property crisis or the building trade paralysis is an intermittent malady the result of a plethora in high industry rather than of any diminution of national riches France has plenty of money only she is coy in investing it in foreign loans or in El Doradd speculations Burnt dogs dread the fire and scalded oats hot water It is at this moment complaint com-plaint is made that the Bourse building build-ing does not sufficiently protect its iiaouues item exposure to me weatner After affording facilities to men to ruin themselves the Bourse administration adminis-tration might at least protect the worshipers of the almighty dollar culte from catching a cold in the head Public and private charity has settled down to business the harvest is truly great and the laborers not few but wanting the instruments for work Cheap kitchens and economic stove inventors may count with cer tainty on being rewarded by a Men Lyon prizs A great affliction has fallen on the Parisian owing to the break up of the weather he can no longer sip his coffee in full air But he would find compensation by tak ing a run into the lovely woods round the city on the occasional queens weather days The autumnal tints are very rich this season rainbows of color meet the eye with charming effect at each glinting in the trees Sudden deaths are rather frequent vital statistics however how such are peculiar to September possibly because it is a noted gastronomic lL 11 WUULU sna lJIvee is puBisaeu for his excesses Two bases associated with hardships one old lady dropped dead in an omnibus before paying her fare and a gentleman the same in a drapers shop before he bad tune to make a purchase which was not polite Employees whensent out to obtain i change for large notes run BO quickly to execute the errand that two this week are concluded to be running till A waiter only three days engaged en-gaged at a cafe was sent up stairs to receive 20000 francs to pay a bill he slipped out by a side door and the places that knew him know him no more A boy 15 years of age blew his brains out with a revolver he left no memoirs as suicides generally do Three respectable householders assert hey saw two nights ago six robbers a profitable profession nowclearing a citizen out on one of the bridges and then threw him into Jbe Seine they ran to tell the police but on returning the water was there but the bark it was tone The Theatre Bonnes has scored a great success in Madame Boniface a three act operetta muiio by M La come < Madame keeps a bonbon shop being I handsome she has many admirers ad-mirers i this makes her husband jealous jeal-ous i and he sends her on a visit to the country but an officer managed to t i replace the coachman and he drives i madame to bis mansion and shows i her to win a bet tb his companion com-panion She is indignant but to escape i disguises herself She encounters en-counters < her husband and obtains proofs i he is paying independent attentions at-tentions to a young lady Explanations Explana-tions I eueue and reconciliation Madame Ma-dame i Theo returning from her American tour and improved save I in i her bad habit of ohevrotant her voice sang well The music is elegant ele-gant graceful sparkling aud distinguished distin-guished i The Aavergrac ballad will be I ground on every barrel organ before be-fore J a month At the Gymnase Antour du Marriage a five act comedy com-edy > has fallen flat It has no plot and i seems to consist of an exhibition of < wardrobes At the grand ooeia Mdlle Isaac is a permanent success Her singing as Marguerite in Faust was perfect The pepnlar Sunday concerts < have just opened but the bill 1 of fare is only a lever de rideau The first ladies university in Paris has been inaugurated Many joke at M n the iaeritata bi t Mtfc temDI ought to visit th < fcorbo rit aid note the Bvmber fjovic girls that voluntarily i vol-untarily follow the free carie lBMoc schoolmiatrewee quarterly exam ination at the Hotel do Ville for ob taining a diploma like Baron Both childs daughters and who are rich in this world goftds Education properly directed makes no one prig and the highly informed are even modest The mod popular soldier in France Marshal Oanrobert not excepted is General Faidherbe He and Chanzy were the generals during the invasion Faidberbe is now paralyzed and nailed to a bath chair His many admirers will be glad to learn his daughter Mathildo is to be married a good match at the end of the month to a young lieutenant She fulfils to p3rfection the first duty of woman which according to a French philospher is eirejolk Beer is strongly urged as the best food for wetnurdea and Holland and Bavaria are indicated as proofs of earns In Munich each inhabitant drinks three quarts daily of King Leo polds tap Formerly the French bishops had the right to nominate the midwives they assembled the women of thei congregations and requested them to elect such candidates as would be characterized by intelligence and I j above all by discretion Now any young woman can become a sage femme if qualified for admission to the hospital college Lille has another walking skeleton the man can so contract his diaphragm diaph-ragm as to drive the air completely out of his chest so that not more than one inch of space rests between his breast and his backbones j |