OUR PARIS LETTER.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 3, Issue 311, 11 July 1879, Page 2

OUR PARIS LETTER.

Varieties

(from our own correspondent.)

Pakis, May 22. The most notorious wine-bibbers in France are the grave-diggers, ;• The French estimate at 150 years the time necessary-to make themselves a " fixture "in Algeria. .. ■ Parisian chemists sell " Old Tom," gin, and Bourljon whisky:; on the other hand drain-shops vend milk. " ' " ; Mistletoe has a poetical employment i;n England ; in Normaruty, -it is converted into glue, anil cures epilepsy. : ■- ; An elector has petitioned the Chambers _for permission to play the French horn f whenever,he, pleases, as the clergy have the' privilege to ring church bells at all "hours. It is the age of equality. -I The Coinite de Paris is writing a workon Co-operative Societies. ; i rTo.ulouse is famous, for. two products— geese-and poetry.' :. /. ./. I \ Siberia will soon have as many inhabitants'toTthe" square mile as Belgium.—Cardinal de Bernis was once a proofreader in the Didot printing office ; Didot remarked his absence one morning frqm dejeuner, and was informed—" Bernis Iras gone to bed for half an hour to repair his pantaloons." Whenever Louis Philippe heard the re- f port of a musket not far from his cortigK he observed—" Gentlemen, that ought jtp' be for me." Ho was the most shot-!at ; king in his day. . "' " "/" • : The' proposed cemetery for Parisians at Viricenries will "meet the , wants of the city for 150 years. Napoleon 1. asked Laplace why he had not orice named God in his " Revelation of the system of the world." " Sire," replied the astronomer, " I had not want of that hypothesis.'- -■ ■ ■ s== ,- :r -..--..,. _„ Thqjiew headsman for ''the Continent of Franco 'piaala. sa'Rfy" equhl to a bishop's or a General of Divis<ißJi* - ■ 3 ' TheTiew-French-vwb -far- -telegraphing is caller. .. . v ,? ;;. ;.j' I N* Ileekel's.experiments. ~oh, strychnine demonstrate 'that the! the jiijimal— molluscis for less 'jepcacioua ■'•:.:• 7|| ,Tn theWse where'a woman is Sdntenced to iinpnsopinent for Frehbh penitentiarieispreseiye^jtliQvici o^^ '^ c wo . re .. is" handed over to lie) , family on her • In former times-gpats were ( rpared in castles as fopd ;n"' jejf/ a r 'fcicge. This ma} is-now so largely domesticated inTaris. / , Loins XIV. always, desired lp iake pafr in a bermoj), but iiever liked to be made the subject of" one". His wasjvirtually "preached to death." ■ I ; In the, Saint-Lazare prison, devoted to females/motl'ierV are allowed to nurse their children, and the best guardians have proved to be nuns. The paintresses on porcelain at Limoges, if talented, can earn 500f. a month.

The Archbishop of Lyons having ordered prayers to implore Heaven to cause the rain, to cease, a parishioner, M. Ouverot, .protested, alleging it was " interfering with God's work." The united busts of " Faith, Hope and Charity" are sold such in the rue St. Sulpice, the ecclesiastical quarter of the city; in the Faubourg St. Antoine, they are eagerly purchased as " Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity." , , M. Gatnbetta has threatened an action against a sculptor for bringing out his itatue without authorisation. The president of the Chamber is represented.on Falstaffian lines. ! ,! ■ ; . TJl e three fattest men in France j were Jules Janin, Eedru Rollin, iVillemessart, of the Figaro. The latter jhada lift to scornrannicate ? with his and drawing-rooin; '' s -'* '■• s'■■■- j Conrbet, the communist painteri was so voluihinous from dropsy, that a goods truck had to be employed to convey him "home to die. ► J The Gaul often gains a battle by dexterity and cunning,', tlie Briton by force and, perseverance. It was by ruse that the Normans conquered England. • :! ■ Deibler, the laving; been interviewed, Tibed,etc., all the!tenants in the hours , © -totorahe. resided Have given" notice to-qait. He who marries a French lady weds also her family, down to her thirty-first: cousin; hence, why so few .foreigners indulge in such matches. • i Oiympe de Gouges, a now being represented at a theatre, was "the woman of the Clubs," she" 100 political pamphlets, and predicting/Roberpierre would be fatal to the Republic, j she proposed that he should jump into the

Seine with her— a Curtius self-sacrifice. Instead, he sent her to the guillotine. On the scaffold he said, " I have wished to be something, what Bhall I be in. aminute." ' . The valley of the Auge in Normandy is so fertile that if a stick be placed on'a newly 4 -inow;n portion of. a meadow it will be covered \vith grass in the morning. B£M. Bersat recommends to "love tha Revolution, but notthareVolutioniatS." . I . Michelet describes, dogs , . a\ '••those- , can- i didatea to humanity, ■ , f ' M. Gambetta lives on mineral-waters, whey, and cigars. " No man is a hero in the eyes of his valet, " because," remarks Goethe, "a tvalet is only capable of appreciating his equals."

Professor Doendliker of Zurich, agrees with Voltaire and Kopp that, the .story of " William Tell " is a pure myth, borrowed from a Danish fable, and: popularised by Schiller and Rossini." :Tell represents-f-not •«-tnan,.b.ut a peoni§,.,;,, LJ! , 1 ; < , 1 ; i .. it . ; , i<i> - : , i -^ :;6;^.v '^ ci - French iin ? sthe*D'oln"d*sTfl Egypt are trying the efficacy of burning! tapers to "Sai,nt»Jd|tri,e Egyptienne " to; stave off bankruptcy_._ j •Qmthe Bo»le«ard dela Chapelle, a itist iMiertiles-^-" Single tOQjfh e?t#cted; for 2f, or thr)e«(:fpi;'4f|- r T(ire9 persons may! join to benefit* by the reductio"n." ' Coiiite E M'^ogae. 1 "states, in"-Jerusalem business is banished as .pleasure.; Society lives in a permanent atrridsplieYe of; mourning. The'Eussiftn Consul recently wished to his conduct .w&s' voted; monstroua. / .j v • ■ -, - ' Mirabeau's ,fatlier, was . so " punctilions that he changed his wig after every pro - uienadeC-''-■' ■;[ IV »/.'''; ;• ,;.;■;( > ; Louis XL was nicknamed " the man with the pakum tail.",