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Show AN 818,000 "SURPRISE". During the Paris exposition the paintings of Garmier, the French master, mas-ter, were the admiration of the critics of the world, anil pre-eminent of nil his work wn9 bis masterpiece "The Surprise". Sur-prise". Such a rige, indeed, did it have that Europe actually became crazed, and "The Surprise" was on the tongue of every man, .woman and child. It is a painting of vast interest and beauty, and the subject is a familiar famil-iar one. It is the old storv of an erring wife caught by her husband. She is in the chamber of her lover, surprised , while wholly disrobed by her lord and the gcu d'arnies. Like Eve before Adam after tasting of the fatal fruit, she throws up a naked arm to her eyes and the hot blushes of shame. A littfe to the left her lover, in the hands of the officers, turns a delimit iaet upuu me man no lias iiijureu. i lie painting tells its own storv. It is powerfully power-fully executed, full of light and shade and" that warmth peculiar to nearly all interiors of the Fftmch school. ' The painting is' Valued at eighteen thousand dollars and is now being hung at the Council saloon, 13 Com menial street, and will be ready for exhibition this evening. Mr. Walter Hubbard extends a general invitation to the public to come and view it. |