The Russellville Democrat., 1881-10-27
Cute French BeSgar..

The Glo5e's Paris correspondent. writ
 ing on the beggars of Paris, says: Those
 who have lived al Seuilly will remember
 having seen little eo-czrt drawn about
 the streets by 8 donky, and containing a
 woman born without arms or legs. There was nothing but q human trunk. The resources Miss Blftin was able 10 com mgnd were totally denied this unf1rtu nate creature, whose handsome and reg ular features caused her tO be surnamed the Belle Eztropiee" She was the daughter of 8 rag picker in the laval quarter and her parents had leased her out to 8 troupe of wandering shoEElen, who exhibited her all over the country as g shenomenon. She quarrelled with her lessees, and whsn she became old enough 10 assert her legal independence she started out on her own account, and managed G. make 8 good deal Of money. Like many Of her c0lles gues, she had her
 round. or bezt, when she was residing in
 Paris, and she went from house 10 house, calling on those who were accustomed to besfew some trifie on her. Her talk ings during the season varied from los to l5s a day, and she was able 10 afford to give a lad Is Cd day 10 drive her donkey and pick up the money thrown down 10
 her. She has left her usual haunts for the time being, and public rumor asserts that she forms one of the great attrac- tions ol a cirCus now travelling in the country in England There is also the blind man Donadisu, who has sat for the last fifteen years, even through the seize, on his chair, from eight in the morning til six at night, in front Of the omnibus station on the Place Clichy. By the side of this man is the sham blind began, named Thomassin, whose case was recent ly brought under public notice by the oficiOusness ofthe police. Thomassin had wandered about the streets for over twenty five years, hiring children of seven and eight t0 lead him about Every one thought he was blind but Thomas son the beggEr was quite a different man in appearance from Thomassin the rent fer, RAs lived at batlgn0IIes-M VI oneeau. He was supposed by his uelghbors to be a very rich man, although all kinds of reasons were given for his continued absence from home during the day. He was identified by one of his neighb0rs while he was at work in the disguise of a blind began, in @ distant quarter Of Paris. in a direction diametrically op- posed from that where he lived Infor- nation was given to the police, and Thomassin was arrested and punished severely. although nothing could deprive him Of the money he had saved or the property he had acquired during the five and twenty years he had extorted money from the public, who gave ID c0nsidera- ton of an infrmity he did not possess. { Every kind of rusz is put into practice by those who find that the public can he deceived, ard that man can live by his wits. without having to exert his physi- cal force. Paris, like London, possesses it's artists md professors, who work for the cheprliers d' 'iF,i,pfrit and can similafe with start ing effectiveness the most hide ous deformities and the most gepulsive wounds The man who goes round with a wooden leR all day long and dances at the Barrier ball in tAe evening with sane understandings though one leg may De somewhat cramped from being tucked up for go many h0nrS-is nos myth. i He really exists, and one is tempted Co