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Title: Paris herself again in 1878-9
Year: 1879 (1870s)
Authors: Sala, George Augustus, 1828-1895
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Publisher: London : Remington and Co.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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, externally of the well-known Walk-up kind. A platform, ar.^ht of steps, a stout lady, with corkscrew ringlets and in a flamingyellow dress, sitting at the pay-table, which was covered withcrimson baize, and flanked by a huge looking-glass—cracked, ofcourse. To the right and the left of the entrance, pictures—dimensions colossal, vehicle oil. Style, Grand Smudge. Nameof artist, presumably, Bapin de la Daube. Subjects on one side,the Cuirassiers of Beichshoffen demolishing the Prussians, andthe Interior of an Eastern Harem. On the other side, Venusrising from the Sea, and the Destruction of Herculaneum. Butwhat was there inside ? Two youthful gredins were distributing-printed circulars among the crowd, aiid bawling as though theirlungs were of brass ; but their utterances were inarticulate to me.The lady with the corkscrew ringlets and the yellow dress wasvehemently ringing a huge bell of dustman calibre, as though shewere the President of a National Assembly of Lunatics, and ever
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Thi Perform inc Rats. GINGERBREAD FAIR. 315 and anon she would utter a shriek of volubility, of which Icould make nothing save that it ended with Messieurs et Mes-dames. There were some written placards, however, on the canvas wallsof the show, which were more communicative as to the attributesof Le Capharnahum ou Ton lit. On one bill the exhibition waspronounced to be gai, surprenant, triste, affectueux et affreux— on en mangerait (one could eat it), another placard enthusias-tically announced. Elsewhere the bills broke out in Italian, Perfar ridere tutti. Again a plunge was made into English, To bieor not to bie, whath his the kestion. Then another, in down-right French vernacular, Le public est prie de rester calme, etmrtout inodore. The public could not be calm : they were franticwith excitement. Nor were they altogether inodorous ; for theperfumes of garlic and bad tobacco were overpowering. I got holdof one of the printed circulars at last, and learned that the Ca-pharnahum ou

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