NEWS FROM PARIS.

Gisborne Times, Volume X, Issue 1025, 19 October 1903, Page 3

NEWS FROM PARIS.

Paris, Sept. 20

The life of the Humberts in prison! i in. strange contrast with the splendor of their days of prosperity,—is interesting the boulevards more than the crisis in Turkey. AH Paris is devouring the details of Mine. HUmbelt’s routine, which is to rise at 5.30 a.m., and go to bed at 8 p.m., While her principal diet consists oi beans. it is estimated th'at she can earn lour hundred dollars during her five years of. confinement, while Frederick can earn S9OO, making $1,300 as a nest-egg before their liberation. A report comes from ClermontFerrand that during the manoeuvres advantage was taken by troops in firing volleys of blank cartridges to send real bullets whistling about the earS of unpopular officers. One instance is specially cited, jvherc the Colonel of the Ninetysecond Regiment, surrounded by his ollieers, narrowly escaped being killed while on a little eminence close .to the line of fire* Investigations were made, and the matter is being bushed up, the officers giving out stereotyped denials, only admitting that several rifles were loaded by mistake .with ball cartridge instead of blank, It is well known tnat during the iwar of 1870 French soldiers took this means frequently, to disembarrass thetoselves of unpopular martinets, and similar instances are not wantinn- during the Napoleonic wars. The battle of Ohampigny was reproduced this we'ck at this lustorie town, twenty kilometres from Paris, troops being quartered by residents in the fashion prevailing during actual warfare.; , . Jay, the Socialist shoemaker of .Clermont-Ferrand, who refused to earrv a rifle when the time came to do Iris 28 days as a reservist, has compromised .with his conscience after 60 days in prison, and by. shouldering a gun lias prevented a C 1890, Marius Parant was condemned to death by a council of war, and finally ten years’ imprisonment, for striking ■i superior officer. Yesterday Parant was sentenced to six days in prison for carrying a concealed weapon. “ Six days in prison,’ laugncci Parant, “to a man who has been condemned to death is like being sent to the seashore for an outing,