, 1881-11-12
A PARIS SCANDAL.

4 PARIS SCANDAL.
Paris correspondence: Everything nowa-
days is nut into shares. - 1t is not IL, the
least difficult to start a joint-stock ll'nltett
liability company. If Il mai, were to bnya
horse and publish q prospectus to tile elect
that, as said horse could earn 30 francs day,
wlicl, makes 1900 francs 4 year, soo,ooo
francs thus invested would net to the share
holders over ) per cent on their money,
wherefore he invites public SUBSCRIPTIONS tn
600 600 shares. within week every DIT OF
scrip would be taken up, except 80 ,o0o shares,
which lie reserves 10 himself as founder, anu
within week the Gosos would leArn' a'ld'
rs their individual Investments are SO trli1lnS
that their individual losses are insignificant
probably not complain that II. Alercadet mas
appropriated the horse to Ills personal use
rs President Of the Council Of Adminlst1a-
titn. No one has, SO far, tried this scheme,
but another was tried not long ago, and with
serious chances Of SUCCESS too, as the
record Of the third Chamber OF the Seine
tribunal shows. It was to be called the
General Society OF Horned Cattle" aid its
$4,000 shares might be at a premium now II
All untowar(l accident had not paralyzed the
enterprise ut its inception. anu sent "; \. "
fore that particular fraction of the French
bench Of which it is the special mission to
pronounce in suits for judicial separation.
N. AIS plan was simple a1'd practical; ne
dispatched agents tU Ausiral!:t and oonth
A1eriea to purchase at low figures ~. tile
COWS and oxen in the, market, then shipped
them 10 .iayre AMI Bordeaux, and then. III 4
short time, as he proved by comparison OF
the prices abroad anu in France. thus would
lnonopolixc the entlre cattle trade OF the Con-
riuent. The profits promised to be enormous,
sud with full detalls Of thu operation, were.
set forth in one at those cltyerly-worded
prospectuses which long previous experience
had taught him always teMpt the puol!c
The printer, who was to furnish :n ooV proois re
oil the Monday, sent round for ''copy >, On
the preceding Friday, with note
stating respectfully bur firmly that he could not
fulfill his enlargement if tEere was any tnrther
He could not ut first tind what he whnte: bnt
then, remembering that he ha'l reai it over 70
bis wife sesrensa for M =, inf i & f. t
thought he did, rs. uniuckfy, be neslected 10
read what was written IN the sheet Of paper In
scrbed with. on the iirst page ''soeiete aeneF-
IL" Not to lose tl1nc, thd copy WIS Immediately
given out. and rs soon as prirtcu- nnu without
t wns sent Il, IN administration nf publ.aty,
| which wus intrtsste,l with its distribution Frrt-
uua,cIy. there somebody did rend It, und a.
| Though the envelopes were really. thnnEht prn-
dent to ASK N. AS opinion before sending 10
the 1,ost-o -olIice. II. A. WAS dressing for dinner
! party when the envelope was handed to him.
tut he did not go to that bunquet, nor
| nlaLan1e either, hut to her mothers lnnnsio1l,
where sne has resnaned ever since In strict
| secIusion. not thinking 1t prudent 10 aR9r;e-
vate ner case by any other act after such Il iet-
| tcr us the following: My Dhrlng: While my
canalIe Of husband Is busy in gulling the
cogos who stupid enough 10 take h!S STOCK.
ni,l thinking of thee. and writing to thee TN
paper NJ his new company. 10 sny bow !ore
| thee and to sny how all these swtnuteS GsTust
| me- Tomorrow morning ut II O'Clock shall
| expect tlicc 1T the usual place. rear up this
letter. RI1d love me ever! SOPHIE u.
u. y. got his separation without tiiifcnlty:
Nine. AS solicitor u3riseu her not to DEFEND
the action which she was sure to lose. whereas
in letting II 70 l.y default her husbpud might
hush ,,p the scandal fur bis own sake SHE did
50, but IL u. A. has }'een silent, either the
cnnlpositOr or the clerk ht the publicity
agency. or suinc scribe In the at1orne. s olhce
has tn.e1l communicative. ami sn tho sthry SoI
out. to the bankers infuit chn2 2rin: his co1abi-
nation necessarily fills through. nnd although
he knows tho extent OF his cnnjugA' mlshnp. he
has no idea whatever concerning lis author-
The7e was no address OIL the letter, 90 that ne
cannot say who ia thn man. anu the trtetius ot
| Nine. H.. whose character has always been I'LL"
| i1npeachahle. r:Htest that there Is no man IN
realty: that sue wrote the letter nnd lett it lh-
trntiOuaily OH her desk, SO thar s!to might get
RID Or him not caring the l.hst If her reputation
| did suFer-sslc has her own private fortuHc--
| provided '.shc were relieved Of the incunlis OF
his presence. It 's not 11ilikely tfat :t'ct h IS
| the case. knew similar at Florence in 1s.f.
in which the pnrtics concerned were Il banker
nn1 his wife, when tho lady. from Antlpnthy for
her husband took intinst trouble t! urousr s'1s-
ricitsn and give cause for accusations entirely
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