Extracts from our Paris Letter.

Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3525, 13 April 1880, Page 2

Extracts from our Paris Letter.

The Barrier Police complain that the - fair sex are the greatest smugglers, and who entail a staff of female searchers at * great expense ; the corset, crinoline, and . cuignon, are favorite hiding places for contreband articles; doable>crowned boa*. netg and fronts contain lace, and the inside of dead poultry is stuffed with tissues; heads of cabbage and rolls of batter disguise coffee, while soles of shoes per* form the duty of snuff-boxes. Thiers relate* the story that when he was eight years old, his mother one dark November night covered him up in shawls, and deposited him in a basket slung over the side of an ass; the latter, and alone, passed through the customs gate of Marseilles unobserved, when an officer ran with his searching spear to drive it into the basket to feel what were the contents, , then the mother screamed to not hurt the child. Thus was saved the late President of the Republic.

Judge, to prisoner, on the third o January: What, up again, and and so early!' "Yes, mo* jug9 t I wished to express my compliments to you on the flew Year?' *

Between Friends: "Mile. B. wears no longer low-bodied dresses." "No*, she understands the necessity of throwing % veil orer the past."