A little dashed from this encounter ihe pilgrim retires to explore the roads which branch off from the main avenues. After a time it is borne in upon him that the truly distinguished have apparently elected to bury themselves in rather snobbish little coteries, so that the cite des morts has its Bloomsburys and Clignan courts as differentiated as such places are in a living capital. Thus Ingres, Doré, Corot, Daubigny, and Daumier are within a whisper of each other, Some streets away is the musicians' quarter, with Bellini, Chopin, Cherubini, Grétry, and Boleldieu jostling each other. Over the way from them is an inferior group in a little compound of their own: Méhul, Gossec, Herald, Pleyel. How, one wonders, have Boieldieu and Grétry managed to avoid these and ensconce themselves among their betters? the faint mists in the air and the dripping trees help to foster a Hans Andersen-like fancy that on certain nights, each other's birthdays From tHe "Nonru-ChrwA Dairy News Or FEBRUARY 23, 1878
The L. & C. Express understands that the Chinese Legation in Paris which has been alluded to in several quarters, is likely to be established very shortly, owing to the interest which the Government at Peking has taken in the forthcoming Exhibition The First Minister Will, it is stated, be the son of Tseng-kuo fan. He is credited with a serious attention to foreign questions, and if he be indeed the Minister-Designate, the Chinese Government could hardly have made a more auspicious selection. The "additions" which are spoken of as having been made to the staff of the Berlin Legation are not such, properly Speaking. but are really the actual staff Which has now arrived from China, the posts having been temporarily filled by certain number who were detached from the Chinese Legation at London.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.