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Show The Gsmelle. . There is a kind of tin mug called the gamelle, in which the French soldier receives re-ceives his rations, and which he carries on his knapsack. The form is a little peculiar, so as to distinguish it from other ordinary tin mugs. A simple im-1 plement which, carried on the backs of French soldiers, has marched so often to victory, and of late to defeat, has at last received its reward iu ita glorification. When the young Duke of Orleans came before the court, and exclaimed: "I ask for nothing but a gamelle," meaning nothing but the treatment of a common soldier, the publio readily seized upon the emblem. ' Scarcely three days had elapsed before a great jeweler of the Rue de la Paix had hundreds of "tin mugs" in silver, gold and jewels as pins and badges, which old immediately as the "tin mug of Or-' Or-' leans," and were worn all over Paris. A popular florist designed a vase in the shape of the "tin mug," and presented the first specimen to the prince, who sent it to his bride, Margaret de Chartres, filled with roses and lilies of the valley. In the meanwhile all Paris is sporting the soldier's tin mug in the tri-colnr, and the young duke has left a fashionable ornament or-nament to remember him by. New York Ledger. |