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ENQUIRER - SOT: COLCMBUS, GEORGIA, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1890.
tO PHYLUS, IN A GINGHAM DRESS.
Silks and satins, velvet laces,
Weil accord with pretty faces;
But tho’ only artless (traces
Deck thy beauty, 1 confess
Virtues all thy form embraces,
Phyllis, in thy gingham dress
Oh, my Phyllis! gone the rarest
Least the setting need; sad sparest
Perfume breathe to heaven the fairest
Flowers—fair but spiritless.
To the violet thou comparest,
Phyllis, in thy gingham dress—
Not to eye alone appealing.
Charming sense while yet concealing
Beauteous font of fragrance, stealing
From the emerald wilderness. ,
This is why Love touches, kneeling.
To his lips thy gingham dress
—New York Sup.'
GHOSTS AND SELTZER
1 M. Majesty, manufacturer of seltzer
water in the Marais, had been to a little
supper given by some of his friends of
the Place Royale, and was on bis way
borne shivering in the cold air. St.
Paul’s clock struck 2. “How late it is,”
muttered the good man, and he quick
ened his step: but tho,- sidewalk was
slippery, the streets dark, and, besides,
in that ancient quarter of Paris, which
dates from the time when carriages were
rare, there are numerous turns, angles,
and hitching posts before the doors for the
accommodation of horsemen. All Aiese
impede fast walking, particularly when
one’s legs are a trifle heavy and one’s
eight confused by the toasts of a little
enpper.
At last M. Majesty reached his desti
nation. He paused before a large orna
mental gate, upon which glistened in the
moonlight a newly gilded shield contain
ing a restored ancient coat-of-arms,
which he had adopted as his trademark,
“Hotel Ci-Devant de Nesmond. Majesty
Jenne, Fabricant D’Eau de Seitz.” On
all the siphons of the establishment, on
all the note blanks and on letter heads
fjia venerable arms Of the Nesmonds
thus spread out and shone.
Within the gate was the court yard—
an immense coart yard, airy and tight—
which, when thrown open daring the
day, flooded the whole street with brill
iancy. At the extremity of the court
yard stood a vast building of great an
tiquity, with embellished and ornament
ed black walls, with balconies of round
ed iron and stone balconies with pilas
ters, with very lofty and tremendous
windows, surmounted by pediments and
capitals, which arose in the topmost sto
ries like so many little roofs in the roof,
and lastly, upon the summit of all,
amid the slates, with the round and
coquettish dormer windows of the man
sards enframed with garlands like mir
rors. Added to this were immense stone
steps, eaten and turned green by the
rain, a meager vine clinging to the walls
as black and twisted as the rope which
bung from the pulley away up toward
the garret, and a pronounced air of age
and sadness. Such was the former hotel
of Nesmond.
In broad day the aspect of the mansion
was altogether different. The words
“counting house,” “warerooms," “en
trance to the workshops,” shone out
everywhere in gold letters upon the old
walls, filling them with life—rejuvenat
ing them. The trucks from the railroads
shook the portals, and the clerks came
to the steps with their pens behind their
ears to receive the merchandise. The
court yard was encumbered with boxes,
with baskets, with straw and with bag
ging. in short, the place had all the
look of a manufactory. But at night, in
fhe deep silence, beneath the winter
moon, which, amid the disorder of com
plicated roofs, cast and intermingled
shadows, the ancient residence of the
Nesmonds resumed its lordly appear
ance. The balconies were covered with
lace, the court of honor grew larger and
the irregularly lighted old stairway be
came full of cathedral like recesses, with
empty niches and dimisteps which re
sembled altars.
The night of which we are speaking,
especially M. Majesty, thought his estab
lishment had a singularly grand aspect.
As he passed thrimgh the deserted court
yard the sound of his footsteps made a
deep impression on him. The stairway
seemed immense and terribly difficult to
ascend. It was the effect of his little
sapper, doubtless. Arrived at the first
landing he stopped to take breath and
approached a window. So much for liv
ing in an historical mansion 1 M. Majes
ty was not a poet, oh, no; but, neverthe
less, as he gazed out at the beautiful
aristocratic court yard, over which the
moon spread a sheet of blue light, and
at the noble old edifice, which had just
the air of sleeping, with its roofs stretch
ing away beneath their covering of
snow, he began thinking of the other
world. ■—
“What if the Nesmonds should re
turn?” murmured he.
At that moment the bell rang vio
lently. The gate was thrown open so
quickly, so suddenly, that the lamp was
extinguished, and for several minutes,
in the shadow of the gateway, there was
a confused sound of whispering, and of
vestments rubbing against each other.
People disputed, and hastened to enter.
There were valets, plenty of valets;
coaches with glass windows reflecting
the moonbeams, and sedan chairs bal
anced between two torches, which flared
in the draught at the gate. In no time
the court yard.was jammed. But at the
foot of the steps the confusion ceased.
People descended from the vehicles,
saluted each other, and went in chatting
as if they knew the house. Upon the
steps silks rustled and swords clattered.
Nothing but white headdresses, heavily
loaded with powder; nothing but small,
shrill voices, some without melody, and
light footsteps. All the people seemed
to be old, very old.
There were dull eyes, dim jewels and
ancient brocaded silks shot with chang
ing hues, which the light of the torches
caused to shine with a soft luster, and
above all floated a tiny cloud of powder,
which mounted from the curled head
dresses at each courtly bow, a trifle
pompous because of the swords and
great paniers. Soon the whole house
had the air of being haunted. The
torches shone from window to window,
Bill Moore, a farmer of Atchison,
Kan., wanted to dig a well, so he plowed
a lot of land and planted it in oats. Every
day he watched the oats, observing the
spots that showed the greatest moisture.
Finally he selected a spot and sank a
welL At twenty-four feet he had a fine
stream of water. It is said to be the
best'well in the county.
mounting and descending the Winding
stairways until even the dormer windows N
of the mansards had their sparks of fete
and life. The entire Hotel of Nesmond
<«ras illuminated as if the setting sun
had flooded it with its brilliancy.
“Great Jove!, they’ll burn the house
down!” cried M. Majesty. And. recov
ering from his stupor, he strove to shake
the heaviness out of his legs and de
scended quickly to the court yard, where
the servants had just kindled a rousing
fire. M. Majesty approached and re
monstrated with them. The senrants
made no reply, and continued to talk in
low tones among themselves without the
least vapor escaping from their lips in
the icy gloom of the night. M. Majesty
was uneasy, but one thing reassured
him, and that.was that this great fire
which flamed so high and so steadily
was a most singular fire—a flame devoid
of heat which sparkled but did not bum.
His fears having been tranquilized, the
good man descended the steps and en
tered his warerooms.
These warerooms, which were on the
ground floor, must formerly have bedh
magnificent reception salons. Particles
of tarnished gold yet glittered at all
the angles. Mythological paintings
adorned the ceiling, surrounded the mir-
rors.and floated over the doors in vague
colors, somewhat soiled, like souvenirs
of departed years. Unfortunately there
were neither curtains nor furniture.
Nothing but baskets, great boxes filled
with siphons, with pewter heads, and
the dried branches of an old lilac
busk which still hung in inky black
ness behind the windows. M. Ma
jesty on entering found his ware-
rooms full of light and company. He.
bowed politely, but nobody paid the
least attention to him. The women, in
their satin cloaks, on the arms of their
cavaliers, continued their ceremonial
affectations. They promenaded, chatted
and separated. Trhly, all the ,olS mar
quises seemed to be perfectly at home.
A little figure paused, all' in a tremble,
in front of a painted wall. “That’s me
exactly! Look at my portrait!” and she
gazed smilingly upon a Diana pn a panel,
slender and pink, with a crescent on her
forehead.
“Nesmond, do come here and look at
your arms!” And everybody laughed as
they saw the arms of the Nesmonds
stamped upon some bagging with the.
name of Majesty underneath.
“Ah! ha! Majesty! Tk?y still have
majesties then in France?” And there
were endless gayeties, little fife like
bursts of laughter, uplifted fingers and
affected speeches.
Suddenly some one cried out: “Here’s
champagne! Here’s champagne!”
“No, it isn’t!”
“Yes, it is—it’s champagne! Come,
countess, let’s have a bumper.”
It was M. Majesty’s seltzer water they
had mistaken for champagne. They
found it a trifle fiat, but they drank it
all the same, and as these poor ghosts
were not strong in the head little by lit
tle the weak seltzer water animated
them, excited them and put them in a
frame of mind for dancing.
Minuets were organized. Four good
violins that Nesmond had brought in
his train began one of Rameau’s airs,
simple and melancholy in its vivacity.
It was a sight to see all these old women
turn and salute their partners gravely,
keeping time with tho music. Their at
tire seemed to grow young again, and so
did the gold embroidered waistcoats,
the brocaded coats and the shoes with
diamond buckles. The panels them
selves appealed to revive on hearing the
ancient melodies. The old mirror, in
closed in the wall for 200 years, recog
nized them also, and scratched as it was
and blackened at the corners lighted up
softly and sent back to the dancers their
images somewhat dimly, as if melted by
regret by all these elegancies. M.
Majesty felt himself out of place. He
got behind a box and looked on.
Little by little, however, the day
broke. Through the glass doors of the
warerooms the good man saw the court
yard grow lighter, then the tops of the
windows, then all one side of the salon.
As the brightness increased the figures
faded and were confounded together:
Soon M. Majesty saw only two violinists
lingering in a comer and evaporating as
the light t ouched them. In the court
yard he-could still see, but very vaguely,
the shape of a sedan chair, a powdered
head adorned with emeralds, and the
last sparks of a torch thrown by the
servants upon the flagstones, which min
gled with the light of the wheel lanterns
of a track at that instant coming through
the open gate with a tremendous clatter.
—Alphonse Dandet in Chicago Mail.
The Latitude of a Place.
That the latitude of a place is not con
stant has long been suspected, but it was
only at the end of 1889 that systematic
observations, carried out at some of the
observatories of Central Europe, clearly
established the fact by eliminating all
chances of error in instruments and ob
servers. Professor Helmert reported in
No. 2.963 of the Astronomische Na-
chrichten that the latitudes of Berlin
and Potsdam, which had shown no per
ceptible variation during the first six
months of 1889, in the third quarter of
that year increased at first and then
diminished, the movement continuing
till January, 1890.
In Berlin and Potsdam this decrease
amounted to from five to six inches, and
this variation was confirmed by observa
tions at Prague and Strasburg, the re
sults at the first three observatories
agreeing to within one-tenth of a second.
According to The Scottish Geographical
Magazine the subject is to be discussed
at the meeting of the commission for in
ternational geodesy, to be held in Frei
burg, when, it is to be hoped, arrange
ments will be made for a strict examina
tion of this phenomenon.
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