New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-07-30
AMONG PARIS RAG-PICKERS.

From Letter IN The London Gto5e
Great precautions are being taken by the
sanitary authorizes to prevent the cholera from being
introduced into France The harbor-master at every
port has had instructions to submit every suspected yes
sci to quarantine and every guarantee mas Deen gwen
those who are anxious for the public health II the
cholera can only be imported the Parsans have
apprchend but the fell disease is OF spontaneous
generation fostered by bad drainage and by the odor
arising Hs aST w
the densely populated quarters OF me Guy
the smell in the streets at night Is beco%ing WORSE
the Notifications the northern side are half suoeated
The lodging are 70 be vigorously visited aud dis
infected by order OF the Project Of Police but nothing
likely to be done to introduce proper sanitary measures
in the Industrial quarters. such rs the Route de la
Reyolte where the men employed IN the sugar rennees
mngle with the ragpickers hudded together In nuts.
aud surrounded the bones etc, which make up
the midnight harvest OF the c6onnfer Few have visited
tue celebrated dssomno which hangs IKE some eprons
sore against the walls OF clean and smart grocery store
kept by woman who wears slk gown in her shop ola
Sunday afternoon, a1d has the custom OF all her neigh
bors
No would think that such clean, neat estab-
shment as this grocery shop could adon the DARK ais
mal-Ooking 6urette where the rag-picker spends his
money in drinking aud gambling.
The walls covered With roughly executed sketches
bald OF the rsg.pickers. He had been all round the
world IN man-2was ana naa served she Soashs
swept the main and neither asked Tor nor gave quarter
and Covered WITH and often
had looked death In the face He was the hero OF his
kin from which he had often drunk and hung above
surrounded by wreath OF ninOreAes pur-
chased by subscription Robesplerre painted IN col
fort stares at the company along with Victor
Hugo. NJ. Theirs. and the Pope, beside the
death OF Louis XVI and the legend OF the wandering
Jew The sketches are rough and grotesqu but there
nothing unsighty indecent and the artist who has
drawn Napoleon In great coat and cooked nat mas not
been offended the counter manifestation made Dy
rival who has Rvon vent To his antlB0naparIlst
ideas Thinning cap OF liberty and scrawling Viye Ia
Commune" Underneath It. Among the customers OF the
dss0nOir is female ragpcker said to have been one
Of the fashionable beauties who astonished the citizens
of Paris with their splendor and magnifceDce when
Charles Y. sat on the throne or the BourbOns.
She tells those who listen to her how she
lived. and age and misfortune R have oy
OF July. When the battle was raging In the
OF Paris dozen years she was busy among
combatans. She had no nag. no preferences; ana
der and the gold lace aud epauettes OF the officer were
by her long lean claws from the dying Her wicker
basket brought home again and again filed with
spoil, with bloodstaned sbreds OF clothing and with
spent bullets She is OF those who wallow In the
Route de la R6volte or lie bsskng In the sun
the dirty roadway Her brilliant toilets have been
food the gutter, eating the dry cruss which have
thrown into the street. waiting for the broken
viotuas distributed to the poor at early morn NJ the
doors OF restaurants where she was once ali bonored
guest
A MUTUAL UNDERsTANDING-M. Reynard de
I-ss-ps n Francois ardnt tOo: Enchanted to make
concessions valuable 10 colleague so oDnging Ana
as for security British Lion; security Thank 20,
nossoo! When do make advance, I'll look after the
security mysen"-lPuDch
ANOTHER MORAL LESSON GONE WRONGl-
Irafe raudparent Whose youthful descendant has Just
framel Now George. what should you do III you had
little boy and he had done this very wicked, dreadful
thingi" Young Hopeful: "send for the glacier and
make about IT, 70 be sure (Exlt grahdpapa
I'm AN al ma dIQnllel alenCpl-IJutV.