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Show Women ami Their X)oga la Paris. Women here, as in London, have an lnsatiabl; mania for carrying or leading by chain pug dogs of a!l degrees of ugliness. ugli-ness. One afternoon, during a shower of r-'i.in, ono was seen walking along tho Qnai JemmaiKS, where a number of workmen had just tiuished discharging a cargo of coal from a barge. Tho lady held in one hand an umbrella, with which she carefully protected from the least drop of wet en ugly littlo clog with a gorgeous blue ribbon round its neck. By her side trotted her daughter, n littlo girl about 3 years old, her shoes not so , waterproof as they might have been, who, deprived of the protection of the umbrella monopolized by tho dog, was j rapidly getting drenched. i As she was about to cross the bridge i which spans tho canal ono of the coal I heavers went up to her and said, "Allow I me, madam, to relieve you of j'our dog, ' so that you may cany your girl to tho ! other side." The woman accepted the ' offer, but when tha party arrived at tho i other end of the bridge the coal heaver . threw tho pug into tho canal, telling its j mistress at the same, time, "That's a It s- son to you not to shelter a dog while. : your child is getting wet." The woman screamed and soon a crowd i collected, to whom she pathetically nar-' rated the assassination of her pet. Two j policemen at her instigation took the ! coal heaver to the station, but the super- j intendent declined to formulate any j charge against him. All she could do, j he told her, was to bring a civil action i for -ho value of her dog. She left the j fetation "apparently much dissatisfied i with the decision." Paris Cor. London Telegraph. j |