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Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3942, 17 August 1881, Page 2

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(from oue own cohbespondent.) varieties. A Cuaious Mabket.—On the square Saint Martin's behind the Conservation dcs Arts ,et Meljiers, is the bird market, held on Sunday mornings, and where the feathered tribe of all kinds and countries may be purchased. Besides birds may be found monkeys, dogs, lizards; White mice, and other domestic pets. Prices Vary from week to week, and ifi^ey are not influenced by political complications as other markets-the money market, for example-firmness or depression of rates is produced by fine or bad weather, whioh attracts or repels buyers. In general, it may be said that ordinary hen parrots sell for 12fr or 15fr a pair; those called inseparables, from 20fr to 22fr; Mada- [ gascars, the most rare, 45fr to 56fr. ; Cock birds of the same kind are worth from 25fr to 30fr each; rare sorts, from sOfr to BOfr. For 6fr or 7fr may be bought a pair~of larks or a couple of starlings; goldfinches cost bnly' rfrom 4fr to 6fr. Common canaries sell from 3fr to 4fr the pair; Dutch canaries, 25fr, and even 40fr. There may be found French nightingales, JOfr to 12fr; Japanese, 18fr to 20fr ; grey cardinals, 18/r to 20fr; red, 25ir to 3Ofr. Japanese linnets and yellow sparrows, 18fr to 20fr; white, 20fr to 25fr. Senegal birds cost 6fr each, and capuchius of the same countrj 3rr to 4t'r the pair. Japanese cafmaures sell for 50f'r ; mules, good singers', 12fr to lofr; and prairie birds, 25fr to 30fr. Among the animals are monkeys, at 45fr to b'Ofr: onistitU3, 7Ofr to 8Ofr; English terriers, two and three months old, lOOfr • six months, pure breed, 200fr to 300fr • fifteen months, 200fr to sOOfr; King Charles spaniels, from three to six months, are worth 200fr ; from six months to one year, 3OOfr to 40Qfr. There are white mice for 50c; white rats, lfr 50c to 2fr; snakes and green lizards, 2fr to 4fr | frogs, 25ejto 40c; gold and silver fish', 25c to 50c ; and fresh water mussels, from. 2oc to lfr per dozen. THINGS AND OTHERS. Captain Raymoud, who played an important part at Antibes in the disembarkation of Napoleon in the Gulf of Juan in 1814, and was the .last, survivor of the Grenadier Battaliou which followed thY Emperor to Elbi, has just died here, aged 96. The deceased officer, who bad for a long time filled the p.pstof AdjutantMajor of the Inralides, was amongst the men who summoned the fortress .'••■■ of Antibes to surrender, and "having been " taken prisoner, narrowly escaped with hia ' life. ..• v. ■; ■ •■',

During the year 1880 the French EaiU '*" way Companies delivered 139 millions of tickets; 11 millions for first class paa. ■ sengers, 42 millions for second class, and 86 millions for the third class. There has been only one passenger killed for each seven millions, one wounded for each three hundred and fifty thousand, including the victims of their own imprudence. Out of twenty passengers killed iii 1880, fire only were killed by the action of the railway, twelve by their awkwardness, and three ! committed suioide. The Paris Municipal Laboratory, recently established, has already analysed??? great number of articles ot food, tfi§ following being some ot' the results ac, quired:—Of twelve sataplel^f-milk, ofi© ~ was pure and eleven adulterated] of nine of jam, ono pure and eight adulterated * the proportion of beer and eider-found genuine was ahout one sample in throe ; but of wines only three samples were genuine iv 133. Alphonse Kara formerly wrote :—" If I poison my grocer, I shaft be condemned to bard labor for life • if my t^rpcer poisons me, he gets off with a small fine." The same inconsistency 3tilJ subsists. General Breard, the negotiator of the Tunisian Convention, is one of the most distinguished officers in the French army* Now in his fifty-fourth year, he has takeu part in the Algerian, Crimean, Italian,* and Mexican campaigns, having especially distinguished himself at .Noisseville, one of the battles of the seige of M©tz Having been appointed second in com-' mand at St. Cyr School, shortly after the conclusion of the Franco-German War he became General of Brigade in 1876* and was in command of the troops tit Lyons when General Farre proposed him to the Ministerial Council as delegates |Straordmary and Plenipotentiary to th© '