The Golden Lion

The Paris correspondent of the Pal] Mali Gazette wriies : ïlie restaurant of the Lion d'Or, in (ho Hue du Ileltler, is the yraiide mode of the hour. lia fortune is won suddqnly on the Bourse, tlie winner asks tlio friciuls who rush to felicítate liini to go wiLli hini to dine or sup at the Kestaurant du Lion d'Or. Gambetta went Hiere lo breakfat and was nol able to tind an empty table. The host of the Goldun Lion transponed that heraldic beast lï-oiii the llue do la Grange-üateiiere, where it was huiig lip lirst 160 yeura ago. ísignboüids went out. The golden lion was put away in a stabie loft. The idea ot regi ding and lianging h i iii up again over the door of a tavern, built and decora ted in the Henry II. slyle, occurred to the landlord in the Hue des Naiions at the last Universal Kxhibition. His tavern is just such a one as Gatlierine De Mediéis iniglit have patronized in journeying trom Touraine to Jilois. Dishes, plates, drinking vessols, silver, chairs, tables, linen, etc, were ïnanufactured according to models foiuul at Cluuy, and in M. Double'.s coliection. Stuffed peaeoeks, wiüi tails eroet, stand on the sideboards, and are superbly decorative. Aneient Flanders tapestry, represeuting sylvan landscapes, covers the walïs ot' tavern and porcii, which is in old oak, and richly carved as the stall ot'an Abbot. Daylight is inellowed by tlie amber tint oJ the boltle-eiid window panes, which are set in leaden iraníes, ilenri II. alid his luxurious llahau wife, flat slass baving been in their time bad and dear, nülizod tlie emls of wine bottles in the Windows of their palaces. Butinthcir reign bottles had not the dcep "kick" which is now a source of iniglity proflt to the wino tr.ide. Every kind of 'monde ablc to pay its way is assembleilin the restaurant of the Golden Lion. The private rooms whieh aro arranged in a more modern style, are especially reservud tor the doublé monde, üolland, in spite of its Eastlndian possessions, consumes the poorest of coüee ; all trave Iers complaiu of this, for it is universal ly Rdulterated. Anna Dickinson says she will never marry nntil she can bake a loaf of bread, and tliat she will never bako bread wliile she has her senses. - -- -■- The Jews in Vienna havo advanced in ten years from 8 to 11 per cent. of the population, and thoy receive nearly one-eighth of all the income from houset. -♦--■. A critic says that while Patti sings ballads, pronouncing each word ciearly, her notes are so distinct and round that the hearer i'eels as if he could piek up eaeh one and put it in his pocket. The California magnates are creditcd with an amoimt of wealth wliich would coiufortably support a símil country. Mr. C liarle? Crocker is stated to be Avorth $;U,4i)5,458 ; Mr. Leland Stanford, S:34,(i43,;iU8, and Mrs. Mary F. Ö. Hopkius, $20,280,972. There is a law ia Munich dating from a time anterior to the kings, and iustitut.ed by a count who liad an intense horror oí' beiug buricd alive, which requires that evory person who dies shall bo placed in a liouse tbr the dead, and there slia.ll reinain three days previous to burial. ïo a ring on one of the lingera of the dead isa wire fastened, leading to a bell, so that any movcmcnt of the liand arouses the attendant. In the past hundred ycars two or threo cases of waking in the house have occurred. During the cholera epidemie in 1S55-56, wlieu the house was always l'ull, a lady one night awoke froin lier sleep and rush cd out in the street, frighteniiig so terribly a coadunan, who bclieved her to be a ghost, that he died at oiice. The lady recovered and the coaohmaii took her place ou the bier in the house of the dead. Wlien Itemcnyi was In tho northwest not long siiico, he and his pianist, Mr. Beale, were out walking in Marquette, and in passing a humble looking -house on one of the back streots heard tho sounds of a violin issuing therefrom. Entering tho ilomicilu m question Remenyi lbund the instrument, tlie notes of wliich attracted his attcntion, in the hands of au elderly man who was "sawing out" soine quaint old fashiöued air. liein.enyi requested the privilege of lookin at tlie fiddle, wliich was grauted. Alter cxamining itsscveral parts thoroughly he drew the bow across the Btriugi a few times, and handing it back asked the man where he got it. The owner - a Frenen Canadiau - said tlie violin had boen in his possession over tliirty years; that ho purchased it ft-om a pawubroker in Quebec, Lower Canada. Keineuyi intonned the man he would buy liis violiu if he WOU ld sell it. The Freuchnian said ho would part with tlie instrument lor $10. Bemenyi said he would take it, and handed the man a $óO gieciiback and told hini to keep tho vhole aniount. Kemenyi says that if his journey up Northyielded hini nothing more than the possession of tlio old Frencbman's iiddlo, it would amply pay him for his trip, for he ha j secured a violin that he would bo lotli to Vart with at any price