American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-07-10
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

THE proprietor of the Paris Figaro,
bankruptin 1888 and 1884, has just paid
his debts with interest, to all the creditors
he can find, and Is advertising for the
Others.
THE French Ministry has had confer
enee with leading Journalists, with view
to revision of the laws regarding the press.
All the Journalists urge the repeal of
special laws and the punishment Of press
ofenses like others by the common law of
the country,
A cosFErToR to Mime. Rachel has APP
pcared in the shape Ola practitioner who
announees he can remove wrinkles by re-
placing the old with new skin little pain
viii be felt and no marks will be visible
No less than twenty three different toilet
waters have been invented patented, ETC.,
since November last in Paris.
ALTHOUGH the late Anthony Radford
Strut, of England, owned property worth
fifteen millions, he said the pail bearers
and mourning coaches must be kept away
from his funeral His friends laid hiIn
away quietly, and there WASN'T the slight
est bit of barbarism in the whole thing,
except, perhaps, a little Grape, which they
thought Anthony wouldn't mind
DIR. PEET is the name of an English
physician who has demonstrated, at the
cost of his life, that one other poison, ace
mite, has no antidote. He swallowed a
draught of this. drug accidentally, and,
though he Immediately took an emefic
and used every precaution to relieve him.
self of the effects, he died In two hours in
the presence of brother physicians.
In the papers of Guizot there have been,
found some additions to his memoirs,
versatien held that year with the Duchess
Of Sagan, the niece Of Talleyrand. Guizot
spoke of the Revolution Of 1913 as not
having produced man, and the Duchess
said she had met in Germany a little
Ponieranian, named Bismarck who would
be talked of some day if he should hve.s<
THERE was an actor married in Paris
the other day whose name was Mons
Jaurequisilesbessad Theresa mouth
full for you. 1t reminds one of the story
of a French Princess, die Princesse de
with frightfully long and unpronouncea-
BILE name. When she went shopping she
used to say To the shopkeeper, in giving
her address: was tHee) born Princesse
de Leon, but, as to my married name, /
never could learn it. Ask my servant
and he will tell you what it is,
S OCCASIONAL reminders of the troubles
through which the Inhabitants of Paris
during the late war;, remarks
thesI,du MdH Gazette, have not been want
ing in the shape of live shells turning up
under the spade of the gardener, or the
mattock of roadman, and it now appears
that the higher part of the Faubourg Saint
Dennis has been for the last four years ex-
posed to destruction from the farmore
dangerous relic of Communist warfare.
A building society having lately under
taken to erect number Of houses on a
piece of ground in which the foundations
of a large barrack were laid in 1869, the
cellars of this building, which were APP
parently filled up with rubbish, were ex-
plored, when it was discovered that many
of these were filled with barrels of mineral
tar 1t appears from an inquiry immedi-
ately set on foot that this depotof no fewer
than 40 barrels of this substance was
made by the Communists few days be-
fore the entrance of the troops, with a
view to interposing girdle of fire be-
tween the avenging Versaillais and the in
surgent Parisians. = -