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Show FRE5C11 EXTRA VAGAXCK OF Jehovah was tho first Communist, according to deputy LaogloU, which created at tirjt a sensation in the assembly, as-sembly, and sot the members launhinii for a lull hall' hour afterward. ' 'Communist," 'Com-munist," in the sense thus employed, means an advocate of equal division ol property, not a connection with the Paris Commune. M. Lanirlois, alter astonishing the natives, held an immense im-mense family bible opCD, and above his head, as he stood triumphant in the tribune, pointing to the lsraelitsh law, that every fifty years poods were to be divided in common, and creditors were to run the sponge over accounts with debtors. Abu avons change tout ecla. The speaker proposed lliatUommuntsls should henceforth beeailed "Jchoi-i&te," and the name will stick. Never did a speaker play moro fantastic tricks before be-fore high Heaven: Anjrels niiht be excused for weeping. The event recalls re-calls tho opening paragraph of a late French orator's speech, who, to catch the ear of the chamber, asked the deputies, dep-uties, " How many minutes have elapsed since Jesus Christ was born?" The arithmetical result was intended to coincide with the figures under discussion. discus-sion. In his wild address, M. Lang-lois Lang-lois drank thirteen glasses of water, and several times ran up and down the steps of the tribune. Ho is the enant terrible of the assembly, and represents a beef-catcr guardsman to Gambotta, when that ex-monarch rises to speak. Correspondence of the S. F. Call, |