| Show GOSSIP FROM THE boulevards some astonishing ailments and their cure by faith A story of a woman with a lizard in her breast has greatly excited par asians this and has caused all sorts of curious and interesting discoveries co veries to bo made some by eminent medical men and others by nerve fiends A certain madsoe lemaitre Lem altre went to professor Ric helot surgeon at tha cochin hospital and explained to him that a lizard was devouring her interior she even gave the species and size of alio voracious monster but when questioned as to how he got there the good lady could not tell the doctor being a wise man put ame mme Lc maitre to sleep and having made a slight wound in her side sent an attendant to buy a live lizard this done he waited tor his patient to regain consciousness her first words were did you find him doctor the doctor replied by showing her the lep for which he had just paid two francs on tho boulevard are you sure it did not leave any eggs in alde 0 me asked the sufferer dont be ii fraid its a male replied the doctor ame mme lemaitre wanted to keep her lizard so she entrusted it to the care of a relation until she could leav the hospital this relation runs a cr emerie and he made business pretty brisk by exposing the lizard in his shop window but now the new spa pars have got hold of the story and spoiled the advertisement and ably also the cure of dr Ric helot the day after the publication of this story another woman went to one of the paris hospitals and explained that sho had swallowed a watch spring when she was ten years old and that it had just run down and was causing her most awful agony the comans womans manner was so convincing that the doctor on duty examined her with pie X rays finding nothing uni un i usual he hurriedly opened his watch 3 tore out the spring and was just in time to show it to his patient as she regained consciousness but this story had a serious sida it caused dr Dieu lafoy an eminent professor of hotel dieu to make a communication to the academic de medicine with regard to the large number of people who are operated upon for appendicitis when they havo some slight affection of the intestines which does not necessitate an operas alon at all tha professor said tha these cases are very frequent and that in a large percentage of them all the patient got for his lost time and spent money was a scar in some place where he could not show it an unsettling return M jean marle le Flold ec a native of brittany wa in martinique at the time of the mont acle eruption four years ago and ho showed no sign of life from that time on his relatives obtained a judgment allowing them to divide his property this done they settled down to live a quiet and happy life picture their surprise when the other day their almost forgotten relative walked in at lunch time and asked permission to join them when fac family got through welcoming him M le his story he escaped from martinique on a schooner bound for melbourne nearly died on the voyage and was nursed back to life by the australian doctors from melbourne he got to manila and thence to japan where he arrived during the war he got across to manchuria and was of great service to the russians carrying dispatches and leading food convoys into port arthur whilst it was besieged by alie japanese at the end of the war he was quite rich and decided to return to friends and relatives in france on arriving at his native town of bantes he was informed of the departure of his family and it was only after a very long search that he located them at malson laffitte just outside paris being wealthy M le has decided to let his relatives keep the property they divided after his disappearance pe arance clever thief undone y famile giraudin who calls himself a clerk in a mousy changers office is a very clever thief and has also been a successful one but hemet he met his match the other day la a portly old damo whom he had misfortune the to meet la a railway carriage seeing that the lady was getting out ot the train with considerable difficulty giraudin ran up and assisted her when she was safely on the platform ho native courtesy and proceeded on his way ho had not gone fifty yards when in looking for her ticket the eld lady discovered the absence of her purse with all her lung power she shouted stop thief and everyone on the platform ran to see what was ahe matter foremost among them was giraudin but his bluff did not take the old lady pointed at him with her umbrella crying there he is arrest him giraudin was seized by two stalwart sergeants de ville and taken to the nearest commissariat where thy police were about to search him when ho voluntarily produced a purse which the plaintiff promptly recognized as hers on the contrary persisted that it was his ah the miserable being the liar ejaculated the old dame in an advanced state of commotion he says its his replied the com miss alre and it is for you to prove the contrary eaby replied the agitated old plaintiff mopping her face energetically getic ally the while in one of the pockets of that purse jand a medal of saint lourdes there are also francs in gold plus a 50 centime piece with the head of napoleon III oo 00 it curiously enough tho emperors nose has a hole in it thac Is perfectly accurate said the commiss airo as he returned her the purse too surprised s to say a word giraudin was sent to the depot A comedy of errors being desirous of getting married a young working girl of saint sainte E alenne applied to the dairie mairie tor the necessary papers a few days ago having hunted through a register the clerk told her gruffly that sha had better wait till her husband died before she tred to marry another stunned by the eccentricity of this reply the maiden applied to the malre of her native commune to explain how the register could announce her marriage without her ever being married his reply cleared up the mystery but it put the young ladys sister in doubt as to whether she was married or not having been called upon ito supply the elder sister with her birth certificate a couple of years ago so that she might marry ho searched the register and finding no entry he wrote the following letter 1 cant find trace ot your birth in the village it Is probable that your father declared you on a sunday morning when my predecessor was at the cafe the maire must have forgotten to inscribe you on the register I 1 send you the birth certificate of your sister it will have the same effect it is I 1 that tell you so fear nothing the elder sister was accordingly married in the name of her sister after a long judicial argument the maire has been pardoned his carelessness the elder sister has been ired legally married and the civil estate 0 the lunger bister is thoroughly reestablished manchester chronicle |
