Show OUR FREN H LETTER I 18 II Special correspondence of the HERALD PARIS August 10 1883 There was an Irishman who preferred pre-ferred for fighting operations a three pronged fork to a pike with the latter lat-ter he could give one prod white with the former he could inflict three The military authorities at Versailles are at preaeat fxaminiug the invention inven-tion of Captaia Delauney wee it he does not make two ear of corn or grass grow where one grew before claims to make three balls firtd from the Gras rifle do three times more execution than the present single ball The discovery has all the chances of being adopted it gvee more confidence to the soldier and the rifle kicks less Indeed the musket mus-ket is convertfd into a kind uf repetition repeti-tion rifle for short distances But if the enemy possess a real repltition rifle employing also the divisible cartridge of three balls he will h ve nine chances against three before hie adversary H db Leasepa is actively employed on his plans for the second canal He will commence operations in November Novem-ber as soon as he shall have the consent con-sent of the shareholders he claims to have brought bis concession within the high sphere of politics and thinks of demanding the prohibition not only against the cutting ct another canal across the isthmus by a second company but also against a second intermarine ditch through I Egypt The rumor is that the Kbe dive intends making i4 second canal I himself and will unite tenders urbi et 01 bi The dangerous signal keep flying II about the cholera The French are net pleased that all the world does not endorse their theories about the endemic They abuse England less as she turns an adders ear to the tall talk Dr Bouchardat has shown that while in 1832 cholera make 18 302 victims in the capital it subsequently i subse-quently diminished during the five subsequent invasions till in 1873 the last the total deaths was but 804 At this rata ot diminution the epidemic epi-demic ought to leave no trace this time But we have a worse malady typhoid feveras peculiar to Paris as cholera is to India Signor Alexis a Piedmontaiap published in the sixteenth century a book or recipes that still have impor tancein Italy One which in addition addi-tion to curing witbered arms gout enlarged liver and broken legs is also good against cholera namely First I of course catch your bare in the shape of a redcolcred dog strangle him boil him in oil add 100 scorpions scorpi-ons a spoonful of earth worme saffron saf-fron pigs marrow and the thigh not jawbone of an ass Let the mixture cool and then use as an ointment oint-ment where cholera pains are felt Sbakespeare speaks cf spermaceti to an inward bruise Alexis in addition addi-tion recommends cleanliness perfumes per-fumes and oamphor to avoid melancholy mel-ancholy to have no fear red to pit your trust in God Some of his other receipts may be in the spirit of the times For burns pound a swallow in a mortar with honey A decoction of rhubarb and white wine will turn brown hair blonde Toe ashes of a hear mixed with ti portion of bruins fat will re tore the growth of the hair on heads as bald aa a biiliari ball Here is what comes home to every mans I business and bosomto make gold or silver out of copper and mercury Take 9 Salamanders lib of mercury and add goats milk Seal up the jar bury it four weeks in a manure bas then examine and the residue will be i precious metal i A startling society is in course of formationthat for promoting emigration emi-gration to the French colonies Nothing Noth-ing of the kind has ever existed so that the idea takes ones breath away All that is required is adherents to make it a success Excepting officials who must go a Peter the Hermit couia not prevail upon young France to quit bis dominoes and his whist hie game of piquet his absinthe his lotus life of the tales for Algeria or Tunis Why then expect him to turn a Robinson Crusoe in Anam Madagascar or the Congo The Anti Semtlique is a weekly journal published to ebow that the Jews are the cause of all human woe I and that the world will never be right till the race be as extinct aa the dodo All this is not in harmony with the toleration principles of 1789 The approach of the Millennium will be still furtharU appearaHocelerated by the extirpation of the English This taekia reserved for France by the adoption ad-option of letres de mirquc and the uee of electricity instead of coal The Jews and ye English relegated tu limbo France will devote all her energies to Algeria with the view of annexing Africa For the future offirern sftcr their daily work is over will nave tbe right to put aside their uniform and don private pri-vate clothes Up till now that privilege privi-lege was arbitrary and rested on the colonels humor It was considered I that when in citizen costume the wearer might get himself up in an eccentric or unbecoming etyle Then the majority of the officers are far from being rich Its odd that the officers of the regular army should be in such a hurry to quit their red pantaloons pan-taloons and blue tunic when the militia and volunteers are EO eager to strut in the uniform The latter baa been of late so reduced to the last expression ex-pression of plainness as to be put forward as the cause why the noncommissioned non-commissioned officers refuse to reengage reen-gage Several journals deplore the liberty conceded as tending to the destruction of the military spirit of the natioD The two deputies accused of receiving receiv-ing a bribe of 16000 frefor the use of their parliamentary position to float an El Dorado have not yet performed any men culpa The charge is a true bill but the person holding the proofs one Boland will not produce them Hence no end of conjectures If a deputy be named in a journal he immediately challenges the editor If the honorable member be a Gam bettist he will select the grounds of 3ambettae once residence at the Ville d Avray for the meet and ia certain to escape after crossing swordsas be was at the commencement commence-ment Paris ia very pleasant to inhabit just now despite tbe muggy weather tempered with typhoons You know no person only country people are to be encountered in the streets the blaze forks have left so that we seem to have more air light and free opace Critics have gone to tbe country too and like St Louis deliver de-liver justice at the foot of an oak as they write on events they have never eeen prcot that man does not lack imagination The masons are completing com-pleting the erection of new houses but not laying he foundation of other convincing proof that business is bad I notice that ladies commence com-mence to patronz3 figured pocket handkerchiefs designs of birds etc this is a revival as fashion like Fortune For-tune is a wheel which turns incessantly incess-antly and brings back the same things To have been is a reaaon to come back as ° for instance French ministers and the animosity againtit England Solomon also has assured us that the thing which bath been is that which shall be Perhaps if one 1 be sad something may b3 sained by wiping the eyes with a parrot other birds are so nica that a lady at the moment to cry might find consolation consola-tion in viewing them M Uchard is the author of the Fiammina and he claims damages against Sardou for stealing biB oS Bnring and rebaptizing it Odette When gypsies abduot children they generally disfigure them the better to disguise them Here the infant was embellished Sardou acts on Moli eres principle to take what suits him wherever he finds it manipulating manipula-ting it after his own manner or style Both authors objected to Justice dividing I di-viding the child and the latter itself put in its voice by asserting II belong r be-long to neither of the litigants my ether is everybody for the idea which forms the base of the play or the novel is humanity lselfJ7 Sainte Beure said the motto of dramatists is Let us rob one another perhaj ain a-in every play all the author can claim is the sauce which ever fait passer le psisson But the sauce counts for much and in French cookery for all In presence of this affair judge of the difficulty that Dumas fits has to contend against in his agitation to I establish the paternity of infants As Launcelot says it is n wise fatner that knows his own child The code will not allow a girl to establish who may bo the putative father of her child Dumas wishes to reform this The recognition of paternity is a very difficult matte only a short time ago Dumas bought a picture that he supposed sup-posed to be painted by Corot when tbe artist was a simple M Trouille bert For a long time Dumas boa sought the woman as the moving factor fac-tor in social economy now he seeks tbe father The farce that Napoleon III underwent at the hands of his handmaiden Marguerite Bellanger will make the hearts of French legislators legis-lators as hard as Pharaohs Jeanne d Arcs history is more than ever in favor Perhaps the country is in danger royalist have succeeded anarchist plots It may not be generally known she was called the Maid despite all Vol taires sarcasms because a jury composed com-posed of matrons and presided over by the Queen of Sicily handed in that verdict It is said the heart of i Joan was found all entire in the abbes when she was burned at Eoaen in 1430 and that a white dove ascended as-cended from the midst of the flames emblem ot her innocence and purity Legend has it that the maid was not burned at all but a criminal worthy of that fate replaced her The finding find-ing of the heart entire after cremation crema-tion occurred in the case of German ices the adopted of Tiberius whose body wail burned alter the custom ot tbe Romans The Manuscript of Metz alleges that Joan wasnot burned but became the wife of the Chevalier de Hermoise by whom she had two sons A millionaire has been killed by a kick from a led horse his fortune goes to his two nieces fctill young and pretty whom he compelled to promise prom-ise they would never marry during big lifetime At the assizes of Bordeaux Bor-deaux a gentleman who gave the moral postman a lift in his drag was surprised tb find after a whiletho cold barrel of a pistol on his neck and the balls rebounding off his skull The thickness of the victims cranium cran-ium the doctors said saved his life A thick skull baa after all Rome advantages ad-vantages Tho lettercarrier will not be guillotined Vaperau the author of tho FrenchMen French-Men of Our Time says when he commenced his biographies he had oaks such as Lamartine Mussel Guizot Theirs Arago Sue Datum Merimee etc For the second edition edi-tion the oaks were succeeded by scrub and now he has but weeds for the coming edition A lady explained that she never congratulated peope on their marriage marri-age till seven years alter the honey ° moon To a shopkeeper What do you ca = en by your notice English spoken here Why that the English speak Engliih when they enter en-ter my shop U 4 The poet Lamote Will aitea aa a of his witness in a case where one friends bad chastised sa gentleman with his cane In reply to the bench be observed I am Bbort8igb I did not see the blows struck I only heard them n The aotresa Sophie Anroad was discovered by a rich admirer tote B tete with a gentleman covered with decorations Dont be jealous said she be is a Knight of Malta executing exe-cuting his vowmaking war to the infideles n |