Our Paris Letter.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2566, 5 April 1887, Page 2

Our Paris Letter.

There are a great many people willing to earn their bread by the sweat, of their brow, but cannot, not having the opportunity to do so. At present there is a big agitation in France, between the cheap and the dear bread interests. '' Spare the loaf of the poor man; havo pity on his distress," says the free traders. " Save the farmers who are ruined by foreign competition," retort the protectionists, Those were the two toxts on which the changes were rung, at a mass meeting held on Sunday, at the winter 'circus, and while mortals elsewhere were being hypnotised under the sixthly, and lastly of-charity sermons. ■■ Aswasto' be expected,-.--they wore neither the Freetraders nor 'Protectionists, who carried the day at the 'Sabbath gathering in question, but the Anarchists,.,who, though.never invited ■at any. ..'public meoiing,,arc sure to come, and rule tho roost.;'. As yet they do not invade the churches, or; crowd the ministerial recoptions.' 'M. Devertu. demanded, that as the :: State-mu6t raise tho wind somehow,;'tax neither ■loaves nor boef-stehks", "ml 'seize all tho land and factories, and divide them in common: thus there will be no : Government, hence, no "necessity for taxes; then Jock shall,pipe,, and Gill shall dance. Ex-Minister Eouvier replied, that State society already existed—in tho centra of Africa, inhabited by savages. "Vivoles sauvages and their Champs Elyoees 1" exclaimed tho Anarchists, ■; • '

A lady, who declined to* givo' hor name, gathering her jupons, as if for a Sappho plunge, jumped into the tribune;' for her all the calamities, fiscal and others, wore"due to.the deputies snoring in their'seats, instead of attending to the business of the country. The uproar became so great, that no one was permitted either to read or speak. Stentor, I believe, must have been the first Anarchist. The President, who was a deputy, bolted. A gamin, agod 17, landed ' somersault-like into the empty chair, drew to him tho oratorical glass, and cavole of water, poured some brandy from .a. life-preserver, bottle into the tumbler and made himself at home over an " American grog," while his admirers choroused "Wewill dance around the scaffold." A spectator suggested to tho boy-chairman, to use his pocket-handkerchief, if he' had

one. K f ''fret the bloated bourgeois -who made that remark give mo his," was; the reply. The Anarchists were now masters, the gas was turned off but it was still daylight. The fire-men arrived to clear the building, but the Anarchists declared, .'.'Weare'here, and we"will remain," like Macrnah'om. Ultimately' after voting a resolution condemning a bank, they retired, chanting their Usual doxology'_" Vive : la•%minune t " r ;.u^eriipei3ed. with - the. •ipckstep,.Ca«? ' ■:■ At Eaincy,' a'pretty Parisian suburb, ten children-ielUthrough. the ice—all.! •schoolmate's. Six 'were drowned. They, belonged to as many families. The six little coffins were placed in as many hearses, the cordons of the palls being held by delegates from the neighboring schools; the teachers preceded the hearses, these being in turn preceded by some companies of boy soldiers, muskets reversed, their Mors shrilling forth a few bars from Chopin's dead march. The local authorities were fully represented. After tho, funeral service, the six coffins wero placed in a temporary vault, pending the, erection,, by special subscription,, of a common tomb. Six teachers advanced, oach placing a crown'of white roses on a coffin; then came a

delegation of twelve girls, all in white, and draped in long tulle veils, with bluo ribbon trimmings; they deposited

six bouquets of violets and six of white lilac. The weeping' crowd retired leaving six mothers to pray and cry

round the prematura gravo; ; For a good index exprgatomis rely on the-Colonel ■ of. the 12th Light Dragoons.,. A.M. Harmant wrote a

novel on military manners of. tbo prosent day. The Colonel in question concluded it was an attack on his

regiment, as well as his prodocessor, tho Due dedmrtres, deprived of his command for political reasons, being ait Orleanist Prince, ec. he issued an order of tho day, denouncing the novel as having.been written by a dirty blackguard, directing all copies found to be burned on the dung heao in the barrack yard, and every soldier found reading it to be severely punished. A 'few journals object to Mary Queen of Scots being canonized before Mary Antoinette. The latter's martyrdom was for the causo of monarchal government at large; besides, all the preliminaries for her beatification have since many years been complied with, Perhaps Leon. XIII, after helping Bismarck in his election tumbles, might canonizo the.unfortunate queen. It would please, the Royalists, and the Republicans would offor ho objection, as they seem "to immortalize their martyrs, by orocting statues to their memory. Baudin, for example, has several.

Paris manufactures annually 88,0.00 gallons of: wine from [raisins, so that, any housewife might prepare her own " claret" a3 sho doos ale, or gooseberry wine,' 'The capital largely prepares cider from American apples, It is proposed to put a prohibitive duty on these, as on American .pork and broadstufi's, This is' not' a proof of " Liberty enlightening the world.''..'-. Butter at 17s, or over four dollarsa pound! Lot the agricultural interest breathe hopefully: that, ; price'' was'

realized afewdays ago,-attho auction.in'g of the exhibits of tho Agricultural Show. A butter dealer, who has made it a.speciality. to. always purchase the blue ribboned butter, was opposed this year, and. the rivals run' up the bidding to 48 francs the kilog. Oolloctors of curios ought to nolo that a banner, captured from tho. Black Flags, is in the market. The blood stains on it aro attested to be the: vital fluid of some Annamites. The General of tho Chinese Em-

bassy was lately insulted by a' rough. The Court, condemned the latter to ten days imprisonment.' Unable to beg him off, Tchong-Ki-Kong sent him a present of a French book on Chinese politeness, Magistrate to witness: " You promise to swear the truth, the whole truth, &c. ?" " I do, Monsieur." "Well, what do you know of the accused ?" " Nothing at all, Monsieur."