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Grey River Argus, Volume IX, Issue 712, 11 August 1870, Page 2

At the Church of the Madeleine at Paris one Sunday, one young woman was particularly remarkable, for the energy with which she struck her breast while ackuov ledging her manifold sins and wickedness in the usual words, " Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa." As this edifying young lady was leaving the church, her foot caught iQ jbh'e skirt of her dress- and she had to fall. | At. the same moment a dozen portemannaies fell from her pocket. "Hallo !" said a police offioer, who was standing near, and who ran to help her as she fell, " J have heard of 'the miraculous' multiplication of loaves, but not of purses. Have tho , kind* ness to accompany me to the commissarie of police, in order to r explain the interesting phenomenon." On the way to the police, station the pious young woman threw a hand; ful of snuff into the eyes of the officer with., the remark, '•Remember that you are. only dust." Having given this unpleasant illustration of the proprietary of casting M .dust £0 dust," she bolted round the nearest coi, per, and has. not since been heard of.