PARIS.

Southland Times, Issue 1687, 10 January 1873, Page 1 (Supplement)

PARIS.

(feom ovb otrcr cobbespondent.) OCTOBEE 17. The eighth instant was quarter day for tbe small tenants. I never remember so great a number of Sittings— so many 'band-carts loaded with humble penates. Nearly 500 of such tenants were sold out in three wards of the city alone for nonpayment«of rent, and tliere were tbe poor people on the pavement, beside their beds, for a landlord cannot seize t bis article of furniture. The ejected were of course ultimately provided for by the' authorities. House rent is the trying item in the expenses of a Paris residence There is much activity going on in the establishment of district free libraries, and a speculator announces he will open public halls during tbe winter, to be well lighted and well warmed and ventilated, where the public for two sous can secure a seat and table to themselves all tbe time the ball daily remains op«n ; can bring their food, their work, or their newspaper, aud during the evening, the sitne facilities for one sous. He ought to make a fortune. The Morgue at present contains no bodies, and this establishment, under tbe circumstances, presents a more dismalaspect than if its dozen slabß bad each its miserable occupant. Perhaps tbe absence of v remains" may be accounted for by that strange suicide who baa shot himself in Pere La-chaise cemetery, to save the, authorities the trouble of exposing him ; in the Morgue. The theatres are doing a roaring business, to jadge by that infallible test — the incivility of the box openers ; these are women, all pink ribbons and impudence, who make you Stand and deliver your topcoat and umhrelln quite in a highwayman fashion, and insist rather on being paid if you ask what act is being played, or if |§.M. Tuiera be present, iv addition to the liwthodox fee. The Count do Kerm«l has been sentenced, by the Tribunal at Quimper, to transportation for life, for the murder of his brother in April last. The prisoner, is nothing but a vulgar assassin, lull of brutal passions, and jealous of his brother in the esteem of the young housemaid ; he deliberately shot, him .dowu, with a revolver, the three balls lodging in the head. The prisoner is 30 years of age, was dressed in fashionable mourning ; is tall, robust, with terribly long arms and ? Troppman hands ; forehead, very receding lypjiflat, aQ d nose, very aquiline. Owing Ipflffa malformation of the knee, he wears f%S'brthopcdic instrument, and during his exciting statement, tiiis machine kept up '*£&+-crie croc chorus, with his agitation, sentenced, be cried with rage ; and mumbled something about his honor. %;Medieal evidence' was adduced, proving he was as mad as a March hare, and as wise as Solomon ; in addition, his counsel painted him up as a saint. The jury listened to all this, but remembering that the Count shot his brother, found him guilty— with the usual rider. . The Radical journals complain bitterly of the two weights and two measures employed by M. Thiere, who tends five % officers into another regiment, and puts I them 60 days under arrest, for taking a big drink with Gambetta at Grenoble ; whilst tbe military authorities at Rouen waited in a body to salute the Comte de Paris on his recent visit to that city. Nothing new about Bazaine ; some charitable people print, he is suffering from ipjround — he never received — at Grave* lotte. One of the most spicy revelations on bis trial will be a history of his time on that eventful day when the best of the French army waslbeing pounded to death foe, no ostensible 1 purpose. His health is *$&£ "Pip© Heads' song" ha« ended involving -France" in diplomatic "trouble, -The dogguel (has been banished from the licensed singing* palaces. The 1 .publisher, however; -sells the ballad by Wirotind a tobacco pipe. . ft jSfnew form of advertising has appeared ? in flinsj an outfitter constructs » Tan injtbe form of a giant, fashionably dressed; a bootmaker adopts the form of a boot ; a abirtmaker that of a chemise. The idea" draws attention and~laughfcer. .-,,,,. This is ,toe i&pe of -the. kippour or I^J&rand Pardon* of the Jews.' ±*ity they. ■-'^re no! in office, as they would be bound to forgive the trespasses of the Comtnuniats. JFor.2s hours the children of Israel

in Paris will neither eaf ? nor drink, nor 'sinofie— being prohibitett 'tatouch fire-^---to work, to go in i cab. ' Alt sackcloth, ashes, idle hands, and empty stomachs. It is proposed that since dtoyfns abstain from votiug, the concierges should j be authorised to deposit tenants' Totingj papers in the ballot box. " Waiter, inacearoni"— " Very sorry, Monsieur, but it is not in season." It is remarked, that the Sultan presented the Grand Due Nicholas with the order of Osmania aft&r dejeuner ; so the event ceases to be mafVell^B. A grand* mother in a transport of joy, assured her two grand children she had* provided for their future, and presented each of them with the title deed, to a free grave in perpetuity, in the local cemetery. During the battles on the Loire, where Gambetta's admirals were generals, and grocers staff officers, &c, a wounded colonel was carried to the ambulance, and the chief doctor pronounced his leg should be* cut off The Colonel called one of the assistants, who said he was a doctor, and. requested him to operate. "Oh! was the reply, I'm only a doctor of law," " there's not much difference, so set to work," said the Colonel.