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PARISIAN GOSSIP

.(Fbom oub Cobrkbpondent.) Paris, March 30. The " Temps " records the Bale under seizure at the Hotel Dernot of the furniture belonging to a member of the Spanish Bourbon family. The journal In question says this h r.robably the first time on record that the property of a " Royal Highness" has been sold under suoh oirou instances. The result was not rery satisfactory, The furniture scarcely realised <£OoOfr. A drawing-room Quito* ornamented with the fleurs de lye and the golden fleece, only fetohed lOOOfr., and a porcelain vaae, similarly decorated, went for 21fr. The Frenoh inhabitants of Mefz are to be shorn of their pleasures, for voting on the wrong side at the late geueral eleotions. The theatre there had 60 performances m French and 50 m German during the season. Tha number of the French performances is to be reduced to 26. The English colony at Montrenu has deolded to erect, on the occasion of the Queen's Jubilee, a new ohuroh at Glion. When that is completed, nnd including the chapel at Clarene-Vernen, there will be no leas than tire English places of I worship m Montr eon where the English oolony has been steadily expanding for several years past. There are about fifty Mdssonlor's pictures, oils and w&ter-colore, owned m the United . Stateß, and for whioh their ownerß paid something like 3,800,000 franc 3.' The Qcean of Roumania's present to the Kmperor William was an autograph ! poem, beautifully inscribed on parohment and adorned with corn fhwers, m which " Carmen Sylva . " recounted the heroio deeds of the venerable Monarch. The sites of two houses where Joan of Arc lodged m AD. 1429 and 1430 have j been discovered At Oompiegne. The Historical Society of Oompiegne has caused inscriptions recording the circumstance to the fixed on the two houses standing on the sites m question, Baron Hubrier, who was Austrian Ambassador at Paris for several years prior to the war of 1859, is preparing a '< volume of memoirs aa to reminiscenses of his diplomatic career, which ought to be very interesting. Baron Hubner is now 1 the only surviving Plenipotentiary of the Paris Congress of 1856 The consumption of horse flesh as an artlole of food continues to increaie. The special butohera' shops for the sale of that kind of meat m Paris retailed 16,442 horses m 1886; which was an increase of 1502 on the preceding year. At Paris journal borrows from an American paper nn account of a novel experiment with the telephone. The receiver was put to the ear of a dog, which recognising thb voice of its master licked the apparatus, thinking that Iti master was inalde. The pnbllo will be admitted to the drees rehearsal of Lohengrin at the Eden theatre, but on payment of one hundred francs for a seat.* . King Ohrietian of Denmark it is said Intends to ba present at the celebration of Qaeen Victoria's . Jubilee. She is the only Sovereign living wlio was In England at her Majesty's accession to the throne ii 1837. ; The Kmperor of Germany intends sending to the Queen of England as a jubilee gift a magnificent service of 1503 pieces of Saxony porcelaio, of pale yellow. The centre piece will be surmounted by a statuette m whita and gold, representing the Qiean, and decorated with medallions representing all the members of the Royal Family. ThePresß Committee has decided that » fete for the benefit of the sufferers by the recent earthquakes shall ba held at the Oi e"ra on the 23* dof April. It will con* slst of a ball, with dramatic representations by Frenoh artists, interspersed between the dances, and a tombula with one great pn'z*. The price of admission will be 25fr. and 60fr. for each box seat • The Russian peat ant who drove the sledge of Napoleon I fcom Moscow to the German frontier is just dead, at the age of 98. He treasured till his death some forty-frano pieces given him by the Emperor. The brush and basketmakera have just held a meeting to advooate the suppression of the manufacture of articles m their trade by prisoners. They demand of the Government that prisoners may only b% employed In producing articles for State use, and have appointed a committee to draw up a petition to the Government to that effect. There are at this moment (end of March) two men under sentence of death at La Roquette prison m Paris, viz , Bofsel, the murderer of Mine Loyson. the proprietress of a cafe* m the Rue Si Jacques ; and Demougeot who attempted to kill M mc Roun, the tobacooniat m Ibe Rue Bois3y d' Anglais. Eossel passes his lime playing at cards witb his warder, who does not leave him. Demougeot prefers dominoes, and when his attendant is tired of playing, be amuses himself inventing combinations, The former is confident tbat M, Gievy will commute his sentence ; the latter is quite certain of a respite} as Mtno Roun has recovered from her woundf, and he is consequently m excellent spirits. Early m the morning of the 17th of March a triple murder was committed m the Rue Montaigne m the apartment ocoupled by a woman- or the demi mondi. named Regnault, alias Do Monty. Her rooms had been handsomely furnished by a well known man of the world, but due ing hla alsence she received numerous viti':or», One of these assassinated her m the course of the night by cutting her throat, and after murderiug her servant and a ohild of the latter endeavored, although unsuccessfully, to break into a Bnfe containing jewellery (f the value of 200,000fr. The orimi&al succeeded io effecting his escape. A man named Henry Prarzlni, aged 2^, and a native of Leghorn is suspected of being the murderer. He has been traced at Marseilles m a bouse of ill fame. He has been transported a few days ago to Paris where he is put at the disposition of the Juge d' Instruction The prisoner haß had an adventurous career, having lived some years m the Eaut, and mastered several European languages.

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Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1589, 21 June 1887, Page 3

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PARISIAN GOSSIP Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1589, 21 June 1887, Page 3

PARISIAN GOSSIP Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1589, 21 June 1887, Page 3

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