Extracts from our Paris Letter.

Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3603, 14 July 1880, Page 2

Extracts from our Paris Letter.

Tbe legislators have returned to their M posts, and attest the perfect tranquilitnsjfl and prosperity of the country. The^ revenue receipts confirm all this by their continually surpassing expenditure. The question of the religious orders, which includes the Jesuits, excites but secondary attention : the nation is resolute that they ; must submit to the cods* and that the Government will fearlessly apply the law. The religieux have till the close of June to conform to the law, and the episcopacr to reflect, are they wise, in the interests of religion and their stipends, to identify the Church with the recalcitrants. John Lemoine, the able and popular editor of the Journal dcs Debuts, who is also senator and academician, honors diplomacy in being selected to represent the Republic at Brussels: he can be spared to enjoy the laurels he has 10 I brilliantly won, as tbe Republic has passed I out of his militant stage. ■ ' \ Greenacreism still flourishes; a ne'er- | do-well ex-sailor, aged 20, Me*nescloux, inveigled " little iconise," in her fifth year, 1 into bis bedroom, and after violating, strangled her. Expecting his parents home, he placed the body under the mattress, and slept on it till morning. When his parents had left for work, he heated the stove red hot, cut up the corpse into 45 fragments, and was in the; act of getting rid of them by boiling down and burning, when the mother of the childall were tenants of the same House, attracted by the odour, arrived, with a police officer, and caught him in. the midst of hii diabolical work. The head was extracted from the store, and the little hands were diaoorered in his coat pocket. The father, who has seven children, is.in hospital nulergoing treatment for asthma. Sabearip. tions are pouring in for the family •, on* dashingly dressed "lady" arrived: fie consoled with the poor mother, asked' to 1 be allowed to present mourning to the' family, and watching' her opportunity, decamped with the contents of a drawer containing the subscriptions. Thepretty actress Mile. Granier, was unable to settle her carriage maker's bill of 3,000 fit.: one ' of her admirers sold his horse—all h* possessed, for half the sn*; *u4 gave it to the creditor, who still prosecuted' for the balance. ,'. ' . >T :. The undertaker's men kivrt ftsjtjajir salaries increased: 1 ex«iub.j»refeet. 2 briefless barristers, 1 aftisV aod: 2 chemists have availed themaelfW of the occasion, by joining the g»Jld#> ■■. ■ A leading proscribed of iht eitM»detat of December 1871. Km b^ granted a free gra»e in Pe*re La Cfaaiaeotmefctty: the Chamber will coasidw tk» PttitMM of the victims of the dou» «f«#sSran indemnity.' _ „.,-"/ ,\, ■■;.';.*; ■ A very mixed marriage:, ■ Alfxjuide i Dumas, fils is a Catholic and married to ' * a Russian princess, who is of the Gffek. Church. Their daughter, aged 19, is about being married to au Israelite. The old practice, changed by OUivfor when in office, of addressing the prelates " Monsieur," not " Monsignenr," has been reverted to. "[« . ■ ' " Piano>keys " is the newest name for rather strongly developed teeth. Pere Didon, when on mission duty, created a sensation by his preaching in a village Church. "Next Sunday," said the parish priest "I will restore traoquility by my own sermon." Epitaph over the grave of; a mother-in* law and son-inlaw: "Death alone has been able to uuite them."