Show THE DANCE OF THE pretenders PRET ESDERS it Is getting to bo be dark daye days for the pretenders to the obsolete throne of fran france ce general boulanger who of them all possessed the most picturesque tur esque audacity aud sudA acty city which by the way successes run ran in that nation was a much mere valuable pretension than to be a prince of orleans or the Bonapart oB haa has collapsed too ignominiously minious ly ever to try the pretending experiment again A treacherous chandelier hag has avenged the offended dignity of I 1 its country by falling athwart his cranium with stunning effect in more ways than one count de paris a pretender that has not been near BO so taking with the erratic gaul has su subsided baided to cuba the little due dr leang that made the venture of startling the tile parisians Pari a short time aw with his ilia ostracized ostracised presence is still behind the bars reflecting eding no doubt upon the vanities of this treacherous world in general and the inconveniences of humbug pretensions of royalty in particular ti it if these are not hia his reflections bis his friends have reason to be sorry for they are the true lesson of I 1 ats Is present experiences and if it not properly attended to the entire fruits of liis Is martyrdom will be lost it will be a great sadness when frances pretenders all shuffle off into innocuous desuetude the eccentric republic will have lost half its interest to the news reading ren world since the downfall of the court fool europe liaa has offered the world no other compared to the french pretender skipping about the border lands in his superfluous capacity getting gett dif up big his little dark lantern jobs where none would molest 1113 hi pastime or make him afraid under present indications it is likely to ho bo some time before boulanger turns out any more mani festues fe or the count de paris gives any more royal banquets I 1 or them the little duke d orleans makes any moie mole romantic adventures w roes the border to RO go a soldiering in time f isace thera there ia is no denying the fact any longer that the french atmosphere is broiling growing unwholesome to royal bloo i |