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Temuka Leader, Issue 1374, 4 August 1885, Page 3

ITEMS FROM PARIS

According to report the capture fo the Pescadores by Admiral Courbet, entailed the following losses on either side during the operations from the 29th to ths 81st March. The Chinese forces loss between three to four hundred killed and wounded, amongst whom it is stated were several mandarins. The French corps only lost two killed and three wounded. The figures speak for themselves. A curious celebration of a golden wedding has just taken place in Paris. The couple to which this honor was done were an old man known familiarly as Le Peru Beuzevent, who ha# trained most of the blind beggars who frequent the streets of the French capital, and his wife, who is well known on the outer boulevards as a rag-pick<>r. A number of bis former pupils assembled conducted by their poodles in the courtyard to treat their patron to a concer', in which clarionets predominated, and which was f bowed by a banquet. Beuzevent had great experience in teaching his adepts to walk gazing in vacancy and feeling their way in a peculiar manner by which blind beggars can be recognised as far off as they can be seen, A quadruple birth is announced to have recently taken place in Paris. A female consierge, living in the Rue Monge, has been confined of four wellproportioned male iulants. Only tw, instances of similar fecundity are upon record. One related by Pliny in bis notes on natural history, ami the other case in the Maternity Hospital of Paris nine' years ago ; the mother and the four babes are said to he doing well.

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