BILL NYE IN PARIS.

Inangahua Times, Volume X, Issue 1511, 18 February 1885, Page 2

BILL NYE IN PARIS.

I There may be more beautiful sights,, perhaps, than the. quiet heauty of * the French capital sleeping in the r moonlight on the Seine, but Ido not a remember at this moment what they " s are. Looking down from the mighty fortifications to where nearly 2,000, 000 warm-hearted, hotheaded, loy*l and yet rebellious, peaceful and still belligerent people am slumbering, what memories of blood and riot and ruin come trooping np in the brain of the beholder. Again the air seems filled with the wild roar and rush of the riotous canaille, the beautiful boulevards run red with French blecfl, and the glorious architecture of forgotten cant v lies crumbles and yields tothe mad tide of revolution and revenge. From the early days of the infant Paris, known as Lutetia P&risorum, when the French capital was simply an outfitting point, dewn to the days when she dicated to the world in the matter of national debts and overskirts', we trace the wonderful cantor of the great city. Again we seeC«sar rebuilding the city. In fancy we see him being altont with his coat off and his red suspenders flashing in the warm southern s»n. His noble* head is thrown back preodly, and across the horizon of his pantaltoons there is a dash of paje light that shows where he sat down in the mortar-bed near where the Pavilion de Saltpetre now stands Rapidly the eye sweeps down the Seine frern the Louvre, along the Tuileries, the' Roe BivoM and the Bne Folderot to where the glistening mass of the Vendeme de Charlotte Bussee raises, its pale facades. In the foreground stands the Hotel des Invalides, an imposing pile, crowned with a gilded dome 101 metrefts hisjh. Immediately under it stand* tim .^ucqMagus of Napoleon I. This surcoiiuagus was first used by Napoleon. He was proud and exclusive;

•boat bis sarcophagi, refusing to use « HWntfUaTKl sateophagns, no matter how cheaply he could proeare it Moving towards the backhand, we come suddenly upon *• bourse, the impOeiug coup d'etat, the Palais doijfoitniZlrtr the Bon-Boa aud the Chimps d# Dofunny. Farther on rests the Grand Boulevard de Parleyvoo, silent and abandoned, while down ' the river farther, and still beyond the Palais de Livery Stable stand* the historic Rue de Crazy Woman's C '* eK - „, * 4U How fresh in memory still rests the picture of Paree, and what a pleasure it is again and again to bring back its tender outlines. Imperfect though thij pen picture may be, I know it will be read with much pleasure by those who see it, and if there should, at first bftrab, appear to he a vagueness, and, «3 it were, »n incompleteness ia the description, I hope the gentle r»ader will' bear in mind that Tie Siting. Wyoming, is about tb« nearest I over got to Par«-e, and with a broken leg and the long, damp walk that stretches ou4 between myself and France, I am afraid that I may be del ayed i n reach - iHg there this fell. My next letter will be from Rome, For a erippfle I intend to see as taucU in Europe this feH as possible.