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Show THE FIGHTIS'G BISHOFOFPARIS Monseigneur Bauer, who is commonly com-monly known iu Paris as "the fighting bishop," is a Hungarian by birth, aim as accomplished a horseman as most other sons of that horse-loving country. coun-try. The bishop who,althougli called Bishop of Sumatia, openly avows that he has never beheld, and hopes never to behold his See, which he describes, vaguely as situated in part thus iitjiJtl-ium iitjiJtl-ium is ono of the least tight-laced ecclesiastics ec-clesiastics that in any country it has been my fortuue to encounter. I should say that theologically he is a Volt linan, and socially or aesthetically a cosmopolitan. He is never so happy as when careering along a stoncy road, his rems tightly grasped, his hands down and with a seat in thu saddle which would be noticed even at Newmarket. New-market. Behind him may be seen what he calls "his staff," consisting of some half-dozen young ecclesiastics and two or three correspondents of the Fngiish press. Vith a hat jike that of lKn Basilio in the "Barber of Seville," and closc-fitling closc-fitling violet and black tunic, he shows on tho Ikld i'f action very differently from Bishop Leonidas Polk, the "lighting "light-ing bi-hop of the Confederate States" during the civil war. But in one respect res-pect he is filter to take part in the blooxly game of war than the Protestant Protest-ant pHate of Louisiana. Moneign-eur Moneign-eur Bauer is always ready to administer adminis-ter ab-n!u;iou to the wounded or dying upon the slioi'lest notice. "Mon his.'' slid he gra.- ing the hand of a dyiug Mobile, "you are about to die; do you desire absolution? If so. squetze my hand." A slight pressure of the dying man's fingers convened assent. "A'o-olve te iu nimiue f and it: Ma-r'.c." Ma-r'.c." b-'k.au the Bishop ; the remaining remain-ing xoitl wire drowned as a caisson hurried ly. |