Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-10-23
THE POLICE OF PARIS.

| N.iNJ' ~ esS SeASy Sto scCo SstII
! THE POLICE OF PARIS.
A Force of 5000 Men Found to be Iusuffi-
| cient.
For sometime past the police authori-
ties have found out that the number of con-
stables placed at their disposal for the
preservation of public order in Paris is in
slgnitant for the duties inn osed upon
them. The municipal council, therefore.
resolved to increase the force by 800 men,
| and the government has now formally
sanctl 9ned this step, and has agreed to pay
| half of the expenses out of the funds of
| the state
The police in Paris consists of 5000
men, without counting the inspectors. of
whom there now very many; but, in re-
| ality, only aboutshalf the number MENTION
ed is employed in the work. of watching
the streets. A central brigade of 400 men
devotes itself exclusively to the surveillance
theaters, balls, concerts. race courses and
such like; 800 are employed at the different
! cab stands, In the markets, at the slaugh-
ter-houses, and In duties of a smaller kind.
while large number is utilized for the
duties of clerks in the various police sta
lions scattered through the city. As a
matter of fact, a little more than 5000
men are available for ordinary street
duty.
The city is supposed to be divided in
TO lII4 beats, representing about 900
| miles Of streets, and as three constables
are necessary for each of the twenty-four
hours, 1t will be seen that either many of
the "beats have been neglected or the
men overworked. Even with the addition
OF 3,OOOnew men the police force is re-
garded by It's chief as insufficient for the
growing needs of Paris, and it must be
| admitted that there is much room for i'm
provement In the supervision of the ex-
terror districts, where street robberies and
assaults are not uncommon.-ParisL Leader
Who Napoleon II. Was.
''Who was Napoleon II. ?"
A question often asked and, strange to
say, seldom, if ever, answered Napoleon the
Great, the second, the little. That is the
order. The Second Napoleon was duke of
Reichstandt, son of Napoleon |. and a
daughter of Hapsburg. Losing all hope of
ever leaving a son and heir by his beauti-
full Josephine, he turned to the French sem
ate and secured a divorce. What was
said by him and Eugene to Josephine is
WOuldI,
true as women always are, yielded to his
SCHEMES. Josephine siIenced, and the de-.
cree granted, Napoleon turned to Russia,
to that mixture of madness, terror and
cruelty. the Romanoffs. He would wed a
daughter of that house, which his pro-
pletic mind mad prophesied, would one
day rule Europe. Refused by a child of
the Greek church, he turns to one like him
self, a recreant from the Roman Catholic
The splendid bauble Of the Bourbon crown
In alliance with the Corsican was too much
even for Metternich.
Marie Louise was willing. She, the de-
scendant ofa long line of kings, of Europe's
oldest royal house. was to mingle her blood
with that Of a Corsican advent4rer. The
offspring of the marriage was Napoleon H.,
king of Rome and duke of Reichstadt In
its cradle kings and rulers paid it homage
Why not? In its father dreams it was
world governor, a mighty emperor,
greater than Alexander or Caesar. Once
more east and west, as under Charlie
magne, were to be under one crown, sway
ed by one scepter-the Corsican's magic
wand.
Not only the wide, long west from be-
yond the Pyrenees to the Zuyder Zee, from
Jura to the ocean, but lands lying to the
east, by the Tigris, the Hellespont, the
Ganges and Grontes, the Nile and Eu-
pirates. Where Caesar went and Alexander
he would go. Only few years and there
was no conqueror, no king, only an exile
poor, bitter-minded, broken prisoner;
and Rome king, Reichstadt's duke, had
neither dladem nor scepter, only disease
death. Whether he; was Automatically
done away with or died of disease not I'M
naturally contracted no one will ever know
He, the hero, who in The Bonny Bunch of
Roses promises so many big things, lived
to accomplish nothing. Napoleon III.
got his title. the Third, for the Second
never reigned, by a composition installing
the exclamation points,! !r'-for the
Roman numerals III. Napoleon H. seems
to have inherited much more of the Haps-
burg facial characteristics than those of |
the Bonapartes.