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es THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, MARCH 9, /1893-TWENTY PAGES. SHIVERING PARIS| = = Some Curious Phases of the Late Phenomenal Winter. FIRES LIGHTED IN THE STREETS ——————— The Pavements Failed to Stand the First Test. AMERICAN HOT PRINKS —_+—___ Special Correspondence of The Evening Star. PARIS, February 16, 1895. OME, GENTLE ( spring. Parisians have had & winter such as they see only once each hundred years. The people of Paris are never prepared for cold weather. They always say: “It will not last. Wait three days io WF more and you will by see the sunshine. It = ‘ y ‘ a : a) is better to stay in Paris‘ than to go to Nice or Cannes.” This winter they were right, but only because it was cold everywhere. Snow fell in Africa, and the lions and tigers went about in rubber boots and ulsters. At Monte Carlo people waded through snowdrifts. But that did not prevent the gentle Par- isiennes finding their beds the only sure snug place, nor that to “faire chapelle’”’ was the best substitute when standing on one’s feet. This latter is equivalently what the ladies do at home in good old furnace- heated America. They stand over the hot- air registers, presenting the spectacle of a balloon about to go up. In Paris the same solace is arrived at by standing with one’s back to the regulation open-grate fire of soft coal, coke or wood, hitching up the skirts in a dignified and ladylike manner. It is true that a great deal of heat is thus lost, and that its radiation is irregular, scme parts receiving more than others. The American plan is better. But then the American plan is better all around. Imagine an apartment without a stove, where each rcom has a yawning open fire- place for the wind to howl down. You pile on soft coal and “briquettes,” but they will never last through half the night. I know an American girl in Paris who will some day be a great singer if she does not catch cold and ruin her voice. Not to catch cold has been her one preoccupation all this long, blue win- ter. Living in a boarding house, as she does, she has had the maids bring up a double supply of coal each night. Then she sets her alarm clock for 3:30 a.m. At this unearthly hour she would get up, rake down the fire and pile on coal again. But the other people on the same floor did not under- stand it, and made all manner of unkind remarks, the least of which was to say that the young lady kept strange hours. She would not have minded this. Her real chagrin came when she caught a bad cold setting in and gut of bed. nm every hand it is the question, “When will the springtime come again?” ‘Paris is only Paris in the spring and autumn. In the summer it is sweltering hot, it smells bad, it is dusty, and every one who is any- one {gs out of town. In a winter like the last it is sudden death to breathe the frozen mist of the open streets. It is now the middle of February, and the city is white with snow and blue with fog. Yet two years ago, on the 8th of March, the horse-chestnut trees were in half ‘leaf. Slipping along the deserted boulevard of a chill morning the astonished Imagination consults the memory. “Can this be the same boulevard on which I used to sit this time a year ago? Then the men had dis- carded their overcoats and the ladies had left their jackets off. The awnings over the cafe terraces were spread.” At present no one sits outside the cafes, @ phenomenon unknown to the oldest in- habitant. Inside the cafes reek with heat and tobacco smoke, these famous cafes of the Paris boulevard. The cold is an extra excuse for every one to idle in them; and those who drank one absinthe now drink two. It is to keep the cold out, just as in summer it is to keep one cool. One of these cafes, the Cafe de la. Paix, has stolen a march upon the others. In Paris the “grog Americain,” a sweet and gummy hot drink, {s one of the great insti- tutions cf the winter. That it never saw America may be imagined. Its base is an ¢dious and spiced up alcohol sirup, com- ing from the liquor trade to the cafes in bottles. Its chief ingredient is rum or ar- Tack, so perfumed that you cannot well dis- tinguish it. However, when a grog Ameri- cain is ordered a certain quantity of the sirup is poured out Into a large tumbler ve times its bulk in added. That fs called Doane ater an American mixed drink. It has all the advantage that it re- quires no barkeeper to shake it up. Just now it is very | Jar in private ilies to offer at cales, soirees i dances “The new\ American drink! What a_ pleasure! How good it smells! Just the thing for this abominable weather. Are you sure it will not make E me tipsy?” It will. 2 The Cafe de la Paix has set up a real American bar, with German and English barkeepers. It is the largest and the most handsomely decorated concern of the kind in the gay capital, and all the sporting world of lace and ribbons patronize it. It is a strange thing to see fair damsels in expensive furs stand up before the bar and take their medicine like men. In the American bar of the Cafe de la Paix the favorite hot drink seems to be a kind of Tom and Jerry. The jans have no hot drinks of their own ple to real freezing weather, and you ay that the hot American mixed been the special sign of the last } AS) In the real cafes it is the game of domi- noes, hearts and ecarte, with hot black 4 hot red wine or bitters and ab- sinthes for refreshments. It is remarkable ¢ the game of poker creeping up into hing like a popular habit. It is the young men whe take to it, not the old ones. As long as money 1s not displayed too openly or in great quantities the cafe managers welcome all players. You enter, order a drink, coffee by preference, because it lasts the longest, and then ask for the cards and chips. ‘The waiter brings a lush-covered board, about the size of the ittle table top. You play on it. Chips, cards and all are free. No one sees any harm in it. Why should not people play enly and above-board in a reputa- Must they devote themselves ing drunk? on the sidewalk, it is bitter To give you an idea of the general cold. istress it will be only necessary to state a simple fact, which no one in Paris makes account of. In the crowded quarters, such as around the Place of the Bastillé, the city government has kept constantly burn- ing for three weeks great iron braseros filled with red hot coke, They are immense iron pots, punctured with holes for the ob- taining of a good draught, and they hang swinging between poles planted in the street. Each brasero has a guardian con- stantly in attendance on it, to keep it raked down and stoked up, and that this guardian shelters himself in a tent makes the scene none the less picturesque. The object of these fires is simply to permit people who pass to warm themselves from time to time. But there are constantly around them hordes of sans logis, who have no homes but the-lodging houses, and no resources but private charity. To see a great brilliant city like Paris burning fires in the open streets after the fashion of the middle ages is a strange sight. It would not be possible to conceive such an idea in New York or London. Nevertheless they manage to do it here, and that in the most crowded sections. S For those more happily situated fur over- coats are supposed to be indicated. From the high swells with sealskins and sables down to.the most insignificant youth who has invested his little all in one of the bargains, Parisiags seem to be persuading themselves that‘they are Russians living by the frozen Neva. All these magnificent overcoats are of a uniform appearance. There is an immense collar, of whatever fur it may be. The insite lining is either fur or wadding, quilted. But the cloth exterior is always a soft blue or biack, resembling broadcloth. You will walk a half dozen blocks without seeing an ulster or anything that looks rough and ready. The whole Parisian idea of men's dress is to look as ladylike as possible. The rough woolens of the English, which we Ameri- cans delight in also, have no place in France. The thing that has struck me most in these bad weeks has been the abominable condition of the Paris streets. We have always heard so much about these splendid > asphalt and wood pavements. Every returned tourist and every traveling Euro- pean points with Scorn to our own city Streets. Henceforth I shall take all they say with a grain of allowance. Because, however well the Paris streets may be in spring, summer, autumn and the average Parisian winter, they go to pleces’in really se- vere weather, such as Americans have annually. It is publicly estimated that a third of all the road pav- ing of Paris will have to be torn up and relaid this spring. On several recent days of sun the frost has begun to come out of the ground in protected places, and then it has been seen that they sw2ll and force themselves loose, completely breaking up the roadway. Throughout the winter {t has been the practice to melt the snow as soon as it falls by sprinkling salt and other chemi- cals, this being done by the city. The result has been slush without end and no street cleaning. Men refused to work in an atmosphere at once so damp and cold, that seemed to burn the lungs instead of chill the body. Despite the vaunted sewer system the soup-like mass of mixed dirt, water, salt and slush lay thick. There are no street crossings—the Paris streets are so perfect there is usually no need for them. The consequence has been hourly accidents on every street. The horses suffered most, being smooth shod. It is claimed that the salted slush injured their feet. Certainly they found it difficult to navigate. Night after 1ight the wet streets would freeze over, producing what is called the verglas. The smooth- shod horses would simply slip, scarcely being able to advance their vehicles. The cabmen would accept no fares. They had to lead their horses, and horse and man together seemed to be working a treadmill, making wonderful noise on the sonorous wood paving and taking half an hour to advance a single block. No one who had not seen this sight would believe it pos- sible. This was not every day, of course. The great complaint has been that this winter, when it was most cruelly needed, the cab comnanies have not heated the cabs. The companies replied that the po- lice had forbidden them to continue the use of the old style foot warmers, on the ground of their having asphyxtated such numbers of citizens in_ preceding winters. The foot warmer is a flat and very heavy can of zinc, sometimes containing red-hot charcoal (which was objected to), some- times boiling water (whicn was no good at all) and sometimes being heated by a chem- ical combustion (which was always gettin; out of order). “Is your cab heated” “No.” “Well, then, [ll take you.” That was during the earlier part of the winter. But during the past tw: nths it has been: “Is your cab heated?" “No.” “What an accursed governm: Another curious “actuality” has been the rumor, spreading over all Paris among the lower classes, that the end of the world is fixed for next Frid Last week, when the cold was at its height, having endur- ed for two full weeks wit t a let-up, this canard caused popular uneasiness and was the one topic of conversation. “They say that th e destroyed by freez- ing he verybody!" “How can that be “The earth is falling away from the sun!” Something of this may be traceable to the popular reading of Flam- marion’s “End of the World,” now out in a cheap edition, with illustrations. Hut its true start was probably in the reawakened interest of the old prophecies of Phillippe Olivarius. This document is claimed to have been “printed in 1544” and “found again” in 1839, of which latter there is no doubt, for it may be found in the Journal $ Villes et des Campagnes for that year. Even. supposing it to have been concocted in 1839 only, it 1s prodigious. Its guesses have come true in a startling manner. Of Louis Philippe it prophesied: “The Cock will efface the White Flower. A great One, calling himself the King of the Peo- ple, will cause a great commotion, because his crown will be placed on hfs head by the hands of workingmen.” Of the yeur ISTL it said: “Woe to thee, great city! Be- hold the kings armed by the Lord!” But it is with the present times that we are concerned. These are the words of the Prophecy of Orval for “the year 1896:" ris will disappear and never be seen again. Whether or not the end of the world in general will come so goon, it is certain that the particular end of the world for a great many individuals has taken place during this terrible winter in Paris. The sudden deaths have been of three kinds, froin freezing or exhaustion, from conges- tions and from grip. “Congestions” are something we know little of in America. A man may he sitting on the top of an omni- bus and chatting. The next moment he will tall over, gasping. In three hours he may be dead. It ts quicker than the gal- loping pneumonia anu is sald to te not the same thing a: all. The congestion is most frequently in the brain. For instance, last week a young married couplé went to bed faxing @ window partly open by ac ese 4 ead. ‘he next morning they were found The grip has been a real scourge. Per- sonally, every one I know in Paris has had it, even the cafe waiters, poor feliows, who crawl about their work, sniffing and weeping with the “maladie a la mode.” The doctors have written a great deal about the grip, but it is noticeable that they give less medi- cine during the at- tacks than ever be- fore. The “suite” or after-effects are what they most fear. It Is when you are up again and able to crawl about that you are dosed with tonics,which @ppear to do small good. 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Buenos Ayres: Offices of the Immigration Department. FIVE LECTU ON SHAKESPEARE. By Ber- hard . ‘Translated by Julla Franklin, r! Henry Holt & Co. Washington: V New ¥ H. Lowdermilk & Co. THE STRANGE DISAPPEARANCE OF EUGENE COMSTOC By Mrs. Mary Rv P. Hatch. New York: W. Dillingham.“ Washingtos Brentano's. HIPPOLYTE and GOLDEN BEAK. Two, Storte: By George Bassett. ‘llustrated. New Yor) Harper & Brother. Washington: Woodward Lothrop. BEYOND THE DREAMS OF AVARICH. A Novel. By Walter Besant. Tilustrated. New York: Harper & Brothers. Washington: Woodward & Lothrop. A SCIENTIFIC SOLUTION OF THE MONEY QUES- TION. By Arthur Kitson. Boston: The Arena Publishing Co. Washington: Woodward & Lo- throp. PHYSIOGRAPHIO PROCESSES. By John W. Pow- ell, late Director of the United States Geological Survey. New York: American Book Company. THD REBELZION OF 1895. A Complete History of the Insurrection Azainst the Republic of Hawall. Honolulu: The Hawaiian Star. A SON OF HAGAR. By Hall Caine. Illustrated by Albert Hencke. New York: R. F. Fenno é& Co. Washington: Woodward & Lothrop. THE ADVENTURES OF JONES. By Hayden Car ruth. Illustrated. New York: Harper & Brother. ‘Washington: Woodward & Lothrop. A FARM-HOUSE COBWEB. A Novel. By Emory J. Haynes. New York: Harper & Brother. Washington: Woodward & Lothrop. MEN BORN EQUAL. A Novel. By Marry Perry Robinson, New York: Harper & Brother. Washington: Woodward & Lothrop. CHRONICLES OF BREAK 0’ DAY. By B. Ever- ett Howe. Boston: Arena Publishing Co. Wash- ington: Woodward & Lothrop. THE PANGLIMA MUDA. A Romance of Malaya. By Rounsevello Wildman. San Francisco: Over- Monthly Publishing Co. EDUCATION IN ALASKA, 1891-92, By Sheldon Jackson, D.D., General Agent. Washington: Government Printing Office. AMERICAN LITERATURE. By Mildred Cabell Watkins. — Literature New York: American Book Company. UNCLE SAM’S CHURCH: His Creed, Bible and Hymn-Book. By John Bell Bouton. "Cambridge: University Press. . HIS EGYPTIAN WIFE, An Anglo-Fgyptian Ro- mance, By Hilton Hill, New York: Home Book Company. LIBERIA. Rulletin No. 6, Issued by the American Colonization Society. Washington: The Coloniza- thon Socte THE PG N YTTSVILLE EVENING CHRONICLE ALMA- 1 Pottsville, Pa.: The Standard Pub- THE SUPREMACY OF THE SPIRITUAL. By Ed- ran Randall’ Knowles. "Washington: Woodward Lothro) LY NEWS ALMANAC AND POLITICAL EGISTER, 1895. Chicago: The Chicago Daily JACK O'DOON. A Novel. New York: Henry Holt & Co. Wasbington: W. H. Lowdermilk & Co. A WOMAN OF IMPULSE. By Justin Huntly Mc- Carthy. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. HOW TO GOVERN CHICAGO. By a Practical Re- former. Chicago: Chas. H. Kerr & Co. THE NEW YORK TRIBUNE ALMANAG, 1895. New York: The Tribune Association. HONDURAS. Bulletin No. 57, Bureau of American Republics. PARAGUAY. Bulletin No. 54, Bureau of American Republics. — Written for The Evening Star. Not Lost. ‘Nos Morta Ne Sont Pas Perdus"—Btudes de la Nature.—St. Pierre. Ab, no! Our dead, they are not lost, Death's river only they have crossed ‘To realms sublime. On those serene, ¢elestial strands ‘They beckon us With spirit hands, To guide us o'er the trackiess tide, Who linger on the mortal side A little time. Not lost! but saved forevermore ‘With loved ones who had gone before; And beings pure, Weary and weak, the burden great, ‘Their eager spirits could not wait, They before Ife’s stormy path What strife and tears the journey hath— Hard to endure. ‘Then far beyond death's turbid stream ‘They saw a light, whose heavenly beam Was hope and joy. With faith that river they did brave And vanish on its soundless wave. We know they reached the other shore, Where hurtful things shall nevermore ‘Their peace destroy. We should not weep, for never there Shall sorrow come, or tears, or care, Or death's fell shade. Ne’er, ne'er that glorious realm within Shall come the blight of mortal sin. No tempest there, no cheerless night, But shines an orb whose golden light Will never fade. Our selfish sorrows take away, © God! until the heavenly day Succeeds the night. Although their forms no more we see, Oft lingering near us they may be, And this should tears and grief remove; Death makes no breach in hope and love, ‘Though he doth amite, ‘And though no sound our ears may reach, ‘There comes a spiritual speech From that far shore. It bids us hope and toll in faith, And to the doubting soul it saith: ‘*Soon shall ye reach the heavenly plain, And see your loved and lost again, But lost no more."” —DE WITT 0. SPRAGUB. Times Have Changed. From the Chicago Tribune. Mrs. Hagelemore—‘But we surely ought to give our own daughter a wedding pres- ent, Hiram.” Mr. Hagglemore—“Certainly, my dear, certainly. When we were married your father presented us a receipted bill of $6.57 for gate hinges. I shall make Araminta a wedding present of $27.31 for extra gas.” REAL WHALEBONE A RARITY, fhe Piiable Substance Has Almost Disappenred and Defies Imitation. From the New York Herald. A little thread and needle shop in 6th avenue has recently displayed in one of the show windows a large slab of a now exceedingly rare substance. It is labeled with the words, “Real whalebone.” It is only a short time ago; as~history runs—twenty, perhaps not more than ten years—that a display of “whalebone” in a shop which makes a specialty of thread and needles, corset covers and minor arti- cles for a woman’s toilet would have been regarded as an absurdity. “Real whalebone, forsooth!” my lady would have said. “Well, why not? Where else should we look for whalebone but in just such a shop as this?” And, indeed, it was true. No one thought of false whale- |.bone then, if they thought of the substance at all. How the times have changed! Whalebone has almost disappeared from commerce. Not because substitute has been found for it, for that is not the case; not because the women folks have no longer any occasion to use pliable corsets, for as long as they will wear such wretch- ed things they will prefer whalebone. The scarcity of whalebone ts due to sev- eral contributing causes. Since the advent of petroleum whaling for oll is no longer profitable, and the original whalers cruised both for bone and oil. The substances were secured from two different species of whales. The whalers sought oil first and hunted for bone on the “outside.” Now there fs no incentive to seek oil at all, and a whaling voyage for bone alone is not a particularly profitable business, even though the price of the substance, owing re scarcity of supply, has gone up forty ‘old. In_ addition to the meagerness of the profit the right, or bone-producing whales, have become very timid of late. They used to be found in great abundance off the southern shores of Greenland and Alaska. The advent of the bomb harpoon has made them timid, and they@are more difficult to locate than formerly. That this is true it is only necessary to state that several whaling ships last year cap- tured but one for their entire season's take of whales, while some were entirely unrewarded. A catch of five whales yields a handsome profit for the venture by any one ship, and it is said that one will pay expenses. And while the whales are seeking colder water and higher latitudes men of an in- ventive turn throughout the world are busy racking their brains for some substitute for the whalebone. As yet they have not found it, although they have tried celluloid, finely split rattan, various metals numerous other substances. Nothing as yet hit upon possesses at once the lightness of weight, elasticity and tenacity of the real article. Unless the men witk ideas succeed in finding the substitute no one can foretell what future generations of gentleman drivers will do for a good whip, and alas! what will womankind not suffer for a com- fortable corset? —+-e+_____. A Miscount. From Le Petit Meridicnal. Doctor—“Why, my dear sir, I see fo empty wine bottles standing there, ant yet I only gave you permission to drink one botth ‘Ah! doctor, I am afraid I made Patient—" @ mistaxe in countin; ——-o+____ An Elevating Tonic. From the Indianapolis Journal. “It is queer,” said the philosophical boarder, “how whisky will make a man have so good an opinion of himself. “Nothing queer about it,” dissented the Cheerful Idiot, “it makes a man rate him- self at his full value, that is all.”