Notes from Paris.

Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3539, 29 April 1880, Page 2

Notes from Paris.

Students seem to be suffering from an endemic of rebellion: Anger's College had no sooner been restored to order by the military, than an outbreak occurred at Avignon^School, then at fiennes, and now at Montpellier.

Suicides are making up for lost time: the head book-keeper at the War Office, born to the service as the Baron Grog for diplomacy, shot himself dead when called upon to produce his books. He speculated in the funds, lost his piivat&ibrtune, and then borrowed 120,000fr. from his official cash box.

' A baker invited his mother to meet him at a certain part of the Seine, as he intended to destroy himself, and wished her to recognise his body,, as he objected being exposed in the morgue. When she arrived, he shot himself and fell into the river.

The Duchess de M—— is not only a lady of quality, but weighing 16 stones, of " quantity " also.

" What kind of a conscience hare you ? " asked a chaplain of a convict'in tlu> •'"tailprison. "Itis as good as new. for I have never used it," was the reply. VENUS the bright in undent, (lavs, Was Goddess of Love's fev«r,' But now her charms end all in smoke . At the shop of C. JVloLiver. Her radiant fragrance iill^ th<y air And conquests great achieve(r), The smoke don't rile papas ov mas, • When purchased off McLivor.