OUR PARIS LETTER.

Thames Star, Volume XIII, Issue 4359, 20 December 1882, Page 1

OUR PARIS LETTER.

(FBOM OUH OWN COnBXSPbVtotVT.'f l . Novethber 2. Eli see Reclus, is. an incorrigible Communist and a litterateur of a'high 'pyder; it was owing to his English'aclmirers-that his sentence was relatively mild. The old man is a foe to. matrimony, and has just got off his two handsome daughters by accepting the parole d'honneur of their —partners say, for better for wone. ■ ,Psp* science alone binds the high contracting parties. Reclus believes neither in the registrar nor the parson. However it will be awkward for any little strangers that, may arrive, or for the inheritance of property. These natural unions were common under the Tirst Republic, but will hardly make way under the Third. The French are very proud of- their countryman, Marcel Daprez, having carried eff the blue ribbon at the Electricity ' Exhibition of Munich. That gentleman has solved the question qf electricity as a practical motive power. Hitherto the difficulty was to preserve the power generated, a 8 it became reduced, leaked as it were away, in proportion f'o !the distance it had to be conducted.. ,To secure, a working volume of the power, the wire or cable had to be made proportionately voluminous. M. Daprez has generated electricity by two Gramme machines, at a distance of 36 miles from the exhibition; conducted the force over this distance-by means of ordinary wire, on poles roughly inaugurated, and which sets machines,to work in the building. Only 40 per cent of the force was lost. Niagara, and other " falls; " the flux and reflux of the tides, can now be utilised to drive a'dynamo* electric machine, and so generate the one thing needful. A synopsis has been published of the number of deaths—l3sß, caised by typhus fever during its late outbieak, 4th August to 20th October—it was more severe by 20 per cent for the mile sex, and most mortal between the ages of IS and 35; during the, existence of the' epidemic the wind sat chiefly S.S;W, :and the rain rained every day. Typhus is in any case an endemic in Paris. Cabmen and house porters suffered most—a faet-in 'which many might see the finger of Pr vidence. The Due d' Anmale has commenced his series of shooting parties at'his splendid estate at Chantilly : they are,said to have a political significance. That'does not change the^porthowever. The (take has a staff of six men solely in charge of the pheasants, of which 4000 are-bred annually, and in their early youth, 1000 eggs per day, to say 'nothing, of chopped' meat, arc required for their six meals. A few years ago the~Prince of 'Wales was among the invited.' • An awkward spor> small wounded a beater: The Prince hearing.the yells, went to the man and said, "My friend,'l am a'dbclor; drink this, and'theu keep thai*'' so*'saying lie gave the wounded man h pull from his flask of brandy, and a 100f. banknote. Since, the beaters deplore the'absenee of " the English doctor." It is contemplated to set up telephones in the tobacco shops, and charge three sous for the message. A new play for children called "dynamite" has appeared : it consists in a kind of spring movement, by which a house and its inmates go up, up, up. M. Oustry, the new Prefect of the Seine, was transported to Lambessa for his political views, by Napoleon 111. On the fall of the Empire, Tbiers made him Prefect of Algiers, and when he visited Lambessa on his official tour, the convicts received him with a "hail fellow, well metl" . :