Paris herself again in 1878-9 . eAvenue Suffren. It turned up again, in conjunction with a wax- 222 PARIS HERSELF AC ATX. work show and a spotted girl, at Nancy, in Lorraine, in July1870 ; and after that period I am sorry to say that I lost all traceof Vaucansons duck. The bird fell, I fear, on evil days. Was itfated, I wonder, to be looted by Hans Picklehaube of the Pome-ranian Landwehr; and did that warrior, after an ineffectual attemptto wring its neck and roast it, discover that it was, after all, a kindof clock in feathers, and so, with his national fondness for hor-logeric, pop it into h
Paris herself again in 1878-9 . eAvenue Suffren. It turned up again, in conjunction with a wax- 222 PARIS HERSELF AC ATX. work show and a spotted girl, at Nancy, in Lorraine, in July1870 ; and after that period I am sorry to say that I lost all traceof Vaucansons duck. The bird fell, I fear, on evil days. Was itfated, I wonder, to be looted by Hans Picklehaube of the Pome-ranian Landwehr; and did that warrior, after an ineffectual attemptto wring its neck and roast it, discover that it was, after all, a kindof clock in feathers, and so, with his national fondness for hor-logeric, pop it into his knapsack, and take it home to Pommern,where, perchance, it is yet quacking ? So this is my apology for speculating as to what will eventually be-come of the glass cases, the kiosques, the chalets, and the pavilions,which line the corridors and vestibules, or are scattered over the parkof the Exposition, and above all, what will become of that agglomera-tion of bizarre edifices known as the Eue des Nations. The cloud- v\3>. IN THE RUE DES NATIONS (BY CHAM). As all the nations of the world occupy the same street, a great reductionin the postal rate may be looked for. capped towers of the Palace of the Trocadero, its towering cupolaand curvilinear arcades, are not, it would seem, destined to dis-solve, and, like the baseless fabric of a vision, leave not a wrack
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