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Evening Star, Issue 6915, 30 May 1885, Page 2 (Supplement)

The fancy ball of the Paris must have been a perpetual feast to the testhetic eye. Evening dress was not allowed. The only visitor who succeeded in entering with the swallow-tail coat was qne who covered it with patches of lining and big stitches of white cotton. He represented tho guest who received his invitation too late, and whose tailor had sent home his coat half finished. There was a missionary, prepared to be eaten by the savages, in fleshings, larded with bacon and with a spit through the body. Academicans were made up with the head of geese and donkeys. The negro of the Boulevard St. Denis was there, with the clock in his stomach. An Irreverent parody on the statue of “ Liberty Enlightening the World” was given by a drunkard with a nose which was lighted up at intervals by means of an electric battery carried in the pocket. In a certain Irish, cathedral to this day are shown three skulls, one little one and two big ones, which the guide describes to visitors as the skull of St. Patrick when he was a child, the skull of St. Patrick grown op, and the skull of St. Patrick as an old W*.