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Show Cemetery's Strange Utei. According to the teports submitted hy keepers of Pere Lachalse, the famous fa-mous Parisian cemetery Is utilized for many other objects besides tho burial place ot well-to-do families. It Is a resort re-sort of thieves who steal the bronze and brass work, which they take bit hy btt from the tombs and hide In their pockets. It Is also a hunting ground for collectors of curios, who, aimed with hooked sticks, break the windows of the little chapels over tho tombs and abstract small vases of sll- vpp nnrt nthpr urprlnufl metals. Women, too, make a practice of stealing wreaths of Imitation pearls, which they place under their dress and afterwards sell to dealers as their own make. Tho cemetery Is likewise tho resort of sentimental lovers. When those seen kissing aro very young, the kePilers take their unnies and communicate with their parents. Thus la many a schoolgirl's romance nipped in tho bud. Young and handsome women, dressed In tho deeped widow's weeds, aro sometimes seen weeping ut tho tombs of people In no way related to them. This Is with an cyo to tho coming of a male consoler, who eventually event-ually departs with tho supposed widow wid-ow on his arm. For theso reasons and others it Is thought advlsablo to lncieaso the numbor of keepers. |