Paris herself again in 1878-9 . AT THE ASSOMMOIR. Easier Sunday. That Deluge of Schoolboys and School-girls of which I recently ventured to anti-cipate the advent has come; but theinundation has not been by any means ofan overwhelming nature. It is a windyDeluge, a half-frozen Deluge. Thesmall infantry are marching about withblue noses and chattering teeth; andtheir papas and mammas, for all theirwoollen cache-nez and their fur-linedmantles, are shivering. A treacherouslybright sun is shining, but in the shadeit is as cold as an old-fashioned Christ-mas. The Bulletin de VObservatoire isgo
Paris herself again in 1878-9 . AT THE ASSOMMOIR. Easier Sunday. That Deluge of Schoolboys and School-girls of which I recently ventured to anti-cipate the advent has come; but theinundation has not been by any means ofan overwhelming nature. It is a windyDeluge, a half-frozen Deluge. Thesmall infantry are marching about withblue noses and chattering teeth; andtheir papas and mammas, for all theirwoollen cache-nez and their fur-linedmantles, are shivering. A treacherouslybright sun is shining, but in the shadeit is as cold as an old-fashioned Christ-mas. The Bulletin de VObservatoire isgood enough to inform us that the barome-trical pressure in the Mediterranean re-mains very feeble, and that a fresh fall 298 TARIS HERSELF AGAIN. of eight minutes is telegraphed from Sicily. Northern windscontinue to predominate in Western Europe; and in Denmarka centre is in course of depression, whence we ma}r expect aseries of north-west gales in the Channel. Frosts have been fre-quent in the North and the centre of France. Snow h
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