The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-05-11
FRESH GOSSIP Of PARIS.
How a Sculptor Caught the Correct
Pose Of SPANS Infant
King.
The Young Duke Of Orloans' At
tcntione to the Female
Z" Singers.
Discovery of \ Portfolio Which Ii Said
to Have Belonged to Robsspierre-
A French swindlGr.
Especial Correspondence Of The INDEPENDENT.

Especial Correspondence Of THE INDEPENDENT.
PARIS, April 3O.-The Figaro says the lit
tie king OF Spain continues to make people
talk of him. and all that q sovereign Of five
years OF age says or does is naturally Of in
terest to most of us. The sculptor M.
Querol, who Is about to mike a statue Of
his lnfai.s majesty. has hitherto been I'M
able to decide upon a suitable pose. The
other day. while he was studying his royal
model, the band of a regiment that passed
the palace was heard. ut ia the colours;
salute them, sir" said the child king, and
at tho same time. fitting the action to his
words, he raised his little hand to his fore
head. The sculptor found the pose he
wanted. He is going to make a statue Of
the tiny monarch ssluting the flag.
When Alphonse XIII. heard him telling
this to the queen regent, he exclaimed,
''Tell me-, sir, will you make me tall. very
tall. with a long moustache?"
After the posters comes the turn of the
photographers. By order of the procureur
of the republic, M. Clement, commissary of
police to the Judicial commission, has just
issued an order to vendors of photographs
to remove Immediately from their windows
and shop-cases all the photographs of a
NATURAL that is, indecent description.
Any shopkeepers not complying at once
with this order will be vigorously prose-
cuted. There is weeping and crashing of
teeth in the Rue Rivoli. We are becoming
fearfully and wonderfully moral in Paris
in 1891!
Up to the present it has been generally
supposed that the passion which a certain
singer had inspired in the breast of the
young Due d'Orleans was of no moan order,
and one that if not calculated to endu o
for all time. WAS, at any rate. certain to last
for some time. However, this I,isr is .ppa-
rently a wrong one, for if nav Hai Oh has
just arrived in Paris from Rostuti, on the
Don, can be believed, his affection extends
to sundry other members OF the dramatic
profession. According to this intelligence,
about a week since Madame Judic, the
~well-known actress, who is now on tour,
arrived with her company ut ~l.ostoff, COM
ing from Iifiis. BY the same train, and in
company with the mummers, arrived also
no less a person than his royal highness,
the sx-prisoner of Clairvaux. 7 he whole
party, prince, actors, and actresses, took
up their abode at tho Grand hotel,
and. according to report. the brave CON
scrit was being treated quite as one of the
family by the members of the troop. Ev-
cry evening since their arrival the Duo has
honored the performance with his presence,
and he usually brings with him to his stage
box some floral emblem of his appreciation,
which at the fitting moment he throws to
the lady of his choice. All the world of
Rostoff flocks to the theater as much to see
the hope of the French royalists MS to ap-
plaud the acting of his friends, and some of
the sanguine are even looking forward to
seeing the young prince cast for a small
part on an early occasion.
A collector of antiuuities. nj Char1ea
has just presented to the Musee Carnavalet
n portfolio which il stated to have belonged
to Robespierre. 1t would be more correct
to say that it belonged to the Comite de
Salut Pablo. The case is a large ono GOV
e,el in black morocco, divided into four
compartments. 1t was not the private pro-
perty of R%obespierre, but was part of the
material of the office of the committee.
Each member of that body had one, and in
it were placed the letters addressed person
ally to him. This is proved by the lettering
of the portfolio, which is as follows: