At 12-1/2, meeting of the Orpheonists and other musical societies.
1 P.M., ordering and march of a procession, and review of
Sappers and Miners.
2 P.M., ascension of grotesque balloons.
2-1/2 P.M., race of velocipedes.
3-1/2 P.M., climbing poles and races in sacks.
5 P.M., performance of music in the _Place de l'Eglise_;
band of the 19th Regiment.
6 P.M., grand dinner in the College Hall, with toasts,
speeches, and concert.
8 P.M., general illumination with Chinese lanterns, &c.
9 P.M., Display of fireworks; procession with torches to
the music of the military band.'
N.B. Every householder is requested to contribute to the gaiety by
illuminating his own house--_By order of the Maire._
How the rather obscure little town of Pont l'Eveque suddenly becomes
important,--how it puts on (as only a French town knows how to do) an
alluring and coquettish appearance; how the people promenade arm and
arm, up the street and down the street, on the dry little _place_, and
under the shrivelled-up trees; how they play at cards and dominoes in
the middle of the road, and crowd to the canvas booths outside the
town--would be a long task to tell. They crowd everywhere--to the
menagerie of wild beasts, to see the 'pelican of the wilderness;' to the
penny peepshows, where they fire six shots for a sou at a plaster cast
of Bismarck; to the lotteries for crockery and bonbons, and to all sorts
of exhibitions 'gratis.
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