OUR PARIS LETTER.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume v, Issue 419, 27 July 1880, Page 3

OUR PARIS LETTER.

(FEOM OUB OWN COBBESPOI^KNT.) : , PABIB, May2ff. are on the increase, so that prizes for virtue will become,.yecy.soon as common as virtue itself. However, no premiums are offered to parents having numerous families, r The * Qoyerntnenti allows'drawbacks* pkpor, etc., tOiencourage home production, bnt it accords no bounty for fruitful vines.* a M. Giraud'e Bill.to impose a tax on the idle is only at» yitnprabiiciible once.'proposed by Dumas, pere, who argued that, since a rich person could frJurchase a substitute for himself in the arqiy, so every young man who preferred to lead a life of idleness to learning a trade; or.profession should be compelled .to contribnie a tax pro rata to his nonprod licing powers. < i, i'hje sanitary condition of Paris is not good at present. The death rate weekly ,is, ,1,204, or an increase of some 400 ; however, the commencement of spring, with its varying temperature of 20degs. in twenty-four hours, j$ alrno.st fatal to feeble constitutions. It is rather when the leaves come than when they fall, that is m«st fatal for consumptive individuals. However, emall-pqx rand fevers •areliinusually prevalent. W|a have replaced Home-Minister Lepepe by his secretary. It is only an illjjistirafion. of the, more things* change /the morp they remain^the same. The ; forhier nad a weakness for smoking old pipes on all occasions, and for unnecessarily drawing the Cabinet into hot water. He is a kind of Jonah, thrown overboard. He did not even receive the pity of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, for, in their list of recompenses just is rewarded save sacrificed Cabinet Ministers. The "decrees" await their arrival at maturity—end of June—like a promissory note. If the Jesuits, and other npt then settle by conforming to the Code, eviction follows for a certainty, </ Prince Pierre Napoleon demands why his'fspn, an ex-lieutenant in the French army', be pinitted from the list of Napole«ns, eligible to wear the imperial crown how going ■ a-begging, ? The younsr lieutenant is to marry M'dlle Blanc, the daughter of the ex-g»unbling farnmr of Monaco. He will inherit 300,000,000fr a , -year fortune—the most solid basis lor a Pretender. The duty on diamonds entering France i« 25fr the cwt. —only double the duty for locomotives.

A debtor met his creditor in a swimming bath, and offered to settle the* account in tho water.