Our Paris Letter.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2095, 21 September 1875, Page 2

Our Paris Letter.

• (BY OUR OWN rCOBBESPONDBNT.) : > J ...7 ?f Pabis, June. 2d..' EzAotions of Pfto]iioa. Charles Nodier someWhere observes, "■that of all animals, bats, flies, and ladies are those that lose mo?t ; time-o^er the toilettes." Perhaps "there is come justification'for this petty malice at'th# present time, when an Elegante is a kind of perfected chrysalis undergbing iejetit trih*formations in : the tweity-rour hours. Judge. /At nine in the morning; therS is the toilette fora canter in the Bois with high hat and dark blue riding habit; at eleven o'clock the family dejeuner, where charming deshabille is necessary ;/,att>ne the tisiting costume to call on friends, to go shopping, to burn-a cierge afc:sotre-Dame-des-Victoires, or to canvass for the sale of some lottery tickets—for when maidens sue men give like gods—or to look in at some exhibition, or to put in an appearance at; the heure de pessii in the \B6is j at? six dinner toilette, nti small affair ; and for the evening a cbstume'according to the place to be patronised; from vine to eleven,is now the favorite hour for a promenade in the Bois; so it is also the occasion for displaying mantillas; dolmans, and cashmeres, with ;i all the accompaniments of marabQut fringe, lace and ribbon bans. And to think tfiere

are thousands lead this butterfly life, seeking that contentment and happiness which seem to retire the more they are approached. The poor ought to pray to be spared the woes of the rich.

Death of a Notable. Dr. Demarquay's death has been very *surtl<| notiped ; perhaps ij* the gdin^of "politicalarid religious 1 strife there-ii eno time left for rendering honor where horioKisfdfte. . He *$$ the most;popular and able surgeon during the siege, and by his inventive and organising talents contributed to make the ambulance service a reality. He was only sixty years of a!ge, young for a professional man stepping into Nekton's practice.- He was a self-made man, and was a scrivener during the night, to enable him to attend medical lectures during the day. It is said he was th"c inventor of twenty-two new surgical instruments. In his operations he was very successful, and looked success, which was much for a patient. During the siege he amputated both legs of a sailor shattered by a shell; some two

years afterwards a robust pensioner called on him, having two wooden legs with-the following words cut on them: " honor and gratitude to surgeon Deraarquay." Cremation Undesirable.

Two singular cases of cremation-have occurred; Jeanne Deveze, a servant girl, was found, roasted on. her master's furnace, in a village near Bagneres; tte post-mortem examination proved that n*crime had. Been committed, but;de.6eased

laboured under religious mania, and desired, as she. often times said,.to imitate the legend of Saute-Colotribe, who threw herself on a furnace, when in the act-of making bread, and -whose soul evolved in the form of a dove, and alighted on the spire oT a church in Rome. On the day of "the suicide, Jean "Deveze lit "the furnace, and the people in the house were awakened ; by the hissing of something like a huge; tiryingpan; when they alriTed the poor girl was completely roasted. ; A few days previously she distributed all her clothes among the hoor, alleging ihe was " leaving." file second case is where two bakers, brothers, called upon a confrere to obtain .his signature to iome document; refusing, they seized him, and plunged him into his own oven; assistance came before he was quite dead. The subject of fire naturally brings St John's day on the tapis. It was formerly the custom under th« early Kings of .France i to burn live cats and foxes on that decaision.asa warning to the others to "firedaddje" in time. On the present'occasion it was impossible to light any fire out of doors, the rain came down all day in a steady pour, a perpetual thump, thump, thump, like the ghost in Don'Giovanni. Some interesting Items for Ladies, Mine. Bres, who has taken outierdiplo- , ma to practise medicine, has been engaged as harem physician by the Sultan, at a I salary of lO.OOOfr. a year; with the privilege to board ouiiide the palace; That

ought* to: follow suit; a qualified doctoress j would be more than amusing for his j ladies, and equivalent to a mechanical nightingale, which His Highness ranks as the next wonder after the Pyramids. >• A. young woman a few days ago attended ttie execution of a murderer; on seemg 1 his head fall in the "salad basket," she fainted away, and when restored, was found to have completely lost 'the faculty of\,.»pee,ch. , ..„_._ ..... : ..,,., „..„. „.,. - ; , -. y I » i,.s^t,,'¥mo€;nni9Sy,3.aringlthe. > marriage, ceremony the bride's front tee^h ! fell out, which so frightened the bridegroom, a worthy tailor, that he made the signet the cfoisv andr rushed off! like ian arrow. He has nofc been; heard'o^ilic©: 5 '%.;■? . itfisbeiiaaeous. ,\ <0 :, I The Prussians will die with'envy of the \ of the French; one of theirs, Dr "Yon Kalckstein, claims for Germany. th&hon,or j of niaking 3ihe' StieW, Canal, qr.dinarilyl-at- ' tributed hitherto> to " Xesseps ana his'j country men's capital. ■.It <> appea.^._tliat j M. cLessejjsrbefore undertaking iki}. great | work, performed for a short time the duties.of consul for PrussiaLafr;Alexandria, hence the connectionbetween Monmouth „-m a nd Ma.cedpn. • ;. '; .-■■ !! m>- Ih the Government School of Mines, in iTthe Marne,. the pupils took umbrage at iome decreed punitioh, and proceeded to acts of open rebellion, by barricading the premises from the inside ; refusing _all dvertures'-ibr -tlie'^mi'litttry were called? out, and the commanding officer: has surrounding the building, and intends to starve the insurgents" into' stib.-; mission. .The " psychological moment!' has, not yet arrived. /;.".,'. '; !'.' -.-i Burtng the liei«n of Terror, an Italia^ Tidlinist. named Poppb, was arrested pa on suspicion; examined, he stated he was a fiddler.. „" W.ha^4id ( ..y ; oWv,d,Ox'iat. .-ihe fiddle." What do you at present? " " I play -thejfiddlejrpii-j^What^iniyGtf mike for the nation in case it-takes youstojts bosom ? " f> I will play the fiddle." He i w^i»clq;uittea.be^;^o',« s.oioiJo^f. ■■■■ 8 t>The -recent centenary in honor of Boi|dieu," '•. was celebrated during ■ cbntihued rain. ":liet tis hope,' my: deary/said an j nnctuou^citizen:tdi-his wife as they'enjb^ed a ;^ally; 'ui^tjreHa, " ihat. ; tre '^l\ Hiye.'fiSer we?it^er f,or^the4'exfqent,en%^*: J.'.^A. philp3opWi\'ljimehty that iisL.rwife tyrannizes over, hiipi, for hardly, has h!e become,,habituated: to-h^s chepise^ -tUari ■he insists on his changing it. , IfMagistratetOfftplßejf,: B'jypurluprofißS. »ipn;?.' •. , r ,";Artiste.. '' a " Your,. f age.s;-. - V ; Tw(?nly4wo." * i' rtTsher, you-can, now awear the lady to. tell the truth and

nothing but the! truth. :,; .^ At the last boisterous sitting of the fAsseriib ly, ?fhe t iPf esident ordered the re porters not to take notes. A noisy deputy instantly became calm, and on being asked why, replied, " What is the use of mafcirig interruptions, when they will hot be' reported ? " , „ , ; The /reports, frbin Toulouse are very painful; 'nothing but " heaps " of : dead bodjes are being found, for the terrible inundation^a.rri^ed sujideply. ■_: and in; -the pigh't.' !Pe|iiaps~ it' may be-no exaggeratiipu to estimate the deaths at_<J,ooo after til. The houseless are already set >down -at 20,000, but no; person has attempted to estimate the loss of property, for it is the manufacturing portion of the . cityiiiKstt ih'as been swept,'away; by ?the overflowing of. th« ' Garonne, France entire is.occupied collecting aid to relieve the terrible distress, and foremost among . the contrijbutbrs. are. the English and American residents in Paris, Some thieves have been: arrested, as they 'were at work, during t the agonizjng period of, the catastrophe; : they have been handed over to drum head Court Martial.