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Show V , Two Ingenious Paupers Caught. Sympathetic spectators gathered one ! afternoon around a young mam who fell down in front of the Louvre in what ap-; peared to be an epileptic seizure. One . of the bystanders stepped forward and proposed to carry the- invalid to a , : chejnist's shop not' far off, and another offered to assist. The one who spoke : first- took up the pfieptic,o -hat,n4 -throwing sixpence into ; it said to the : - crowd, "I am a poor main myself, but if j each one of you did as I do this un- ) fortunate creature would have some- j thing to help to relieve his sufferings." j Impelled by this generous example the ' crowd showered coppers and small silver . , into the hat until over ten shillings was collected. - Great was their astonishment when two constables wsflked up and seized ; both the benevolent originator of the alms collection and the epileptic suffer- j er. The latter, as soon as he opened his eyes and saw the policeman, forgot that be was an invalid and attempted to escape. es-cape. They wese both taken to the lock-rjp, lock-rjp, and were identified as two well " known lazy mendicants, named Carnet - and Desmarets. They had enacted the same dodge successfully in the Rue Saint -Honore during the forenoon, the epileptic epilep-tic and bis colleague on that occasion fleecing the charitable to the extent of j 8s. . The chemist's assistant who re- I lieved the pretended sufferer in the Rue ' Saint Honore happened to pass the Louvre while his second performance was going on. Suspecting a fraud, he told the police. Hence their arrest. j Paris Cor. London Telegraph. |