CHIFFONS FROM PARIS.

Waikato Times, Volume XXI, Issue 1729, 4 August 1883, Page 6

CHIFFONS FROM PARIS.

(Translated from Le Figaro.) The beggar of the pebiod. A friend of ours met, in the rue Monsiour-le-Prince, an unhappy wretch who said he was in a stato of misery as severe as unmerited. — I am a working carpenter, said he. Pour little children. Nothing in the house to eat. Ah, well, responds our friend, come with me and I will buy you a four-pound loaf. - The carpenter accompaniedJbim for a little, passively, to the baker's. At the door of the shop he stopped. — Then I must carry the loaf home under my arm ? —We 11... yes. The carpenter in an injured tone : —50. . . that's not good enough. . . I would look like a maßon !

AT THE DAL DE li'orAlA. Two gentlemen in evening dress : — What, you here, Gaston 1 fifteen days after the death of your wife to -whom you were so devoted ! — And what more suitable place could I find to assuage my grief ? — Well, it seems to me that. . . — Ah, yes, the cemetery 1 But of course you know that at thi3 hour of the night it is closed I

A Lady giving alms in tho street to a little beggar. • "Look now my little man, -here are two pennies ; one for you and one for your mate. The little arab puts both the coppers in his pocket, and the lady reminding him of what she had said. —Oh l> says he, with an indescribable air. . . it is all the same purse I

Oalino meets on the boulevard a picker up of unconsidered trifles in the shape of cigarends. —My friend, says he to him, I saw a cigar lying on the pavement near the theatre. It is almost entire, and if you make haste you "will probably find it there still. The arab — Thanks my lord. I will call my pjivate hansom and fly to the spot 1

X. . . who lives at Ashieres in a very comfortable villa is one of the most good-natured, and at the same time the weakest of men. — How is it, said an 'old friend of his the other day to him — how is it that you have kept that lazy Bohemian at your house for the last three months abusing your good nature ?' — What could I do, old fellow ; he came one day to dinner. We began talking, and through my neglect probably he lost the last train into town. He has been with us ever since ; I can't turn him out in the road you know I