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Cromwell Argus, Volume I, Issue 7, 22 December 1869, Page 7

A great noise was heard a few days ago in one of the most elegant houses in the Rue de Puvoli, and soon afterwards the people who were attracted to the doorway saw a well-di'essed man rushing : down stairs with an indefinable bundle of things in one hand and a bottle in the other. He threw down the bundle in the middle of the courtyard, and poured upon it the contents of the bottle, to which he sel fire, causing the whole to blaze furiously. Several women were then heard crying and sobbing upstairs in the most pitifu manner. It transpired afterwards thai the gentleman has a wife and three daughters, who evinc6 an inexhaustible and immoderate love for false chignons They possesed already twenty of these arti ficial ornaments, and were going to pur cluiss four more—larger and thicker, ir accordance with the very best fashionwhen the angry husband and father, tirec of being continually called upon to satisfy such an extraordinary tasto for chignons seized the whole stock, gota litre of pe troleum and set the ffilse hair blazing ii the court, to the amazement of all present The Crown-Princess of Prussia, who i Lieut.-Colonel of the Second Regiment c Hussars, is reported to have woi'n the co: tuine of the regiment, and to have ridde between her father-in-law and her hu band at a review which took place r 1 rentlv n*< Hlettin. ,