The Irish republic. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1867-18??, 1868-01-25
France.

france.
The bill for the reorganization of the army is still under
consideration in the Corps Legsatf The article obping
every Frenchman the National Guard was adopd
last evening by vote of 10 IL An amendment for the
exemption of the nm from the operation of the article was
introduced but opposed by M Rouher During debate
which preceded the final action of the Corps the BILL NJ
Rouher said "Th article will starte attentive ears abroad
and inspire the army which precedes the National Guards to
the battlefield"
M Fourens the distinguished Psychologist Just been
guilty objectionable piece of inconsistency 1t is
we'll known that years ago he wrote treatise upon the
longevity of human life in which he concusivey proved
that hundred years constituted of existence
and should be attained by every rghtthnkng person. To
assist the effort for the recovery of the art of long living
formerly practced with much success among the ante
diluvians M Fouren laid down nnumerabe precepts the
observance of which should insure success to the faithful dis
cpe These precepts dictated by the authority of
who had laid his finger the very center of life and
discovered in the ndua obongota the vital spot alone alb
solutey essential to existence Who should then know
we'll he how fence in the precious territory thus dis
covered and defend the peneaia of life from the encroac
of death Who fitted to illustrate the theory by
example and give the world eternal precedent of DELHI
crate centegenariansm? But M Flourens has failed in
this natural duty and by an extraordinary breach of fidelity
to principle has chosen to leave the world at sevenyour
years.
Society of Accmaton containing by several of its
members upon the animal and vegetable productions The
essay by NJ de Grandmont extremely curious and treats
of influence of upon the creation of brought
in intimate contact with himself He demonstrates that all
animals submitted to human influence become modified at
first in unimporant detailsfnay in the essential
characteristics of their organization The different degrees
of domestcaon graphically exhibited in the Egyptian
sculptures represented oxen already employed
agricultural labors but with their lower jaws muzzed and
their hind legs clogg Here the donkey not yet disgrace
fully patient resent the blows dealt by the master
Horses do appear the bdS relief of the first Egyptian
dynass Geese early tanned, and conducted in ock
but ducks enjoyed their liberty late the Christian
Such economical hospitality as thatof the Baron james
Rothchd will probably not be rewarded with imperial
The archdukes of Austria invited by the
Baron pass days Frrere for the sake of shooting
in his private preserves NJ Nelaton invited the
Time it is said professionally His attendance not
quired for the huntsmen but for the game An ambulance
system was organized the wounded ducks hares rabbits
were transported the field of battle pavilion pre-
pared in the vicinity where the imperial surgeon reset their
limbs dressed their wounds and put them in perfect
diton for another time. All the operations met with
perfect success.
coming before the Correze Aszes which exceeds
in horror any Satanic device hit to get rid of
born infant woman Marie Brajoiex assisted by her
mother Marianne Fentreine accused of having put
ewborn living infant into soup pot with cabbage and
-four Having boiled the child they to their pigs to
devCur.
singular discovery has just been made at Chagny Saone
Lore by workmen engaged in digging the OF
railway shed. At depth of about nine meters, in sra
of sandy clay and errugnous Oxides remains of pro-
boscidans elephants rhnoceroses etc. were brought to
light comprising several back teeth ana orndaole sk IN
large fragments which, being put together constituted
length of feet The depth at which this found
still higher than the level of the most
siderable foundations of the Dheune and in undsturbed
stratum So far there is nothing absolutely extraordinary
but who would have thought of finding underneath the bed
containing fossils of the tertiary period aqueduct
of the primitive kind, and of human workmanship?
Yet such the case the only instance of the kind
record It explained by M. Tremaux who relates the
circumstance by suppong what indeed to have been
the fact that the tertiary fragments above alluded to- have
been washed the trench by violent nundation, and
thus filled up the aqueduc The latter sabout eighty cent?
meters in depth sixty cenmeters broad at the bottom and
only forty in breadth at the upper surface 1t is not easy
to account this principle of making the conduit
top than the bottom at all events the small dimen
sons of the cavity evidently caused by want of proper
TOOLS
The Liberal opposition in France has for time been
steadily gaining ground It significant fact that at Two
supplementary elections which have just taken place lor This
shows the the empire wanng not only ABROAD
but also at home.
NJ Simonen has published some curious statistics tb
to the production Of coal. He shows that IN Engl d