The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-12-06
GOSSIP FROM PARIS.
A Brave Mau's Widow-A Republics
Gratitude-A Clever Invention.

raQni, widow OF the late Sergt. BOurTaqui,
/ one OF the government tobacco agencies at
his disposition. Why mention 50 trivial an
incident. and introduce 50 inc1nsequent q
parsonage as the widowl Well, partly be-
cause the doing. so goes 60 reinforce the
not altogether ungrateful. aud
also because the old lady possesses a certain
reflected interest. fSergt. BOurraqui,
now long dead and gone, was a veritable
bero, and an honest man: he was one, too
who jOyed his hour of glory. Twice did the
brave old mOuStdche save the French colors
from the defling touch Of tue enc ny
once in the Crimean aud again during the
Italian campaign. At the battle OF Sol
ferino, King Victor Emmanuel who
mad been en- eye witness Of
the splendid courage of the
sergeant in q successful hand to-haud strug-
gle for the possession of the tri-colors,
! sPreng from his horse, and, in the midst of
/ the battlefield, flung his arms ab ut Bour-
raqui. To his dying day the first monarch
Of united Italy declared that never had
! he seen anything to equal the heroic bearing
OF Sergt. Bourraqui at Solferino. Tall,
gaunt and keen-eyed; sword arm work
ing like fail. left hand clutching the
| flagstaff, there, with feet cIamping the solid
earth, stood. fought and cursed the old SOL
der OF the third empire, while all around
him pressed and spurred the frenzied
| Austrian, foot aud horse" Then the king
would quantity conclude his little reminis-
cence by saying, land yet, after all, there
was not enough OF the flag left to hide the
sergeant's blushes when l complimented
/ him."
Any one who cares so to do may enter the
/ Versailles gallery, where they will find this
incident immortalized by the painter, Bel
! LANCER.
The republic, the reader will observe.
does not altogether forget services to the
nation, even though they may have been
rendered under the empire; for has not the
project OF the Seine placed old lady Bour-
raqui in the way Of earning quite 10 francs
a week.
Occasionally an extraordinary story is
| dragged forth from provincial darkness
and held up In the full glare Of the bright
| city. Such case is that of the brothers
| Tourniaire of Saint Valliers, in the Mari
time Alps. Perhaps it is worth the tell
| ing here Young" Tourniaire was, at
the time Of his taking off, 81
years of age; while the elder Tourniaire,
when he accompanied, as he Unexpectedly
did, his brother on the long Journey, re-
Joiced in the fullness Of seventy summers
and winters of peasant life. Both men
were bachelors, who had lived in brotherly
love and kindly friendship up to about the
1
had no klnsfolksl 50 far as kUown. and
each man had an insurance policy on his
life. made out in favor Of the other. Sud-
denly the two men Quarreled and sep
arated, ~ Dung" TOR, as he was called at
Saint Walters. Ten FAINT Tourniaire going
TO Ioulon, where he secured some small
employment about the arsenal at that place.
While working In the great governmental
mandatory OF death in large or small par
GELS, as required, Tourniaire, the younger
appears to have, In some degree at least,
given himself up to study of the science
of explosives. In time, the ''infant" was obs
served alighting at the Saint Walters station.
where he was met by his senior brother.
Good natured neighbors thought they faw
In this fact repproachament between the
lonesome old men, and 30, with kindly eyes
watched them as they turned into the main
street OF the little village A few moments
later there came a sharp defamation, fol-
lowed by the rush Of small boys, shouting
TO their comrades to come and see the fire.
works go offw A few of the older people
came out Of the houses TO look up the cause
Of the noise and furry. At the in
quest. which was held over fow
shreds Of torn humanity, it was de-
veloped that the 'infantn had re.
turned to Saint Walters, in good health
and with heavy dynamite charge, for the
express purpose of sending his brother to
| DADara
subsequently discovered, indicated that the
Infant had not originally intended to per,
manently absent himself from the Toulon
OF saint Nalliers The slight remains of
the brothers were buried in the potter's
field. The state in the absence of other
heirs, Will receive the output OF the insur-
ance policies-the probable cause Of the
fireworks"
|
consideration of the Partisan temperament
for even the outside barbarian to conclude
that were Kaiser William to run for alder
man in this city he would come In at the
end of the poll. The volatile" popuIace
never loses an opportunity to make a scott
OF the ambitious young Hohenzollern. Just
now they are chuckling over the case OF an
English cutter who has had con.
ferred upon him by his imperial
highness the resembling title of Com,
ma lder of the Order of the House of
Hohenzollern." The cutler did not invent
In either iron or steel a weapon which would
render the men beyond the Rhine invinci.
bic In war. He did greater thing. He
evolved from mis- inner cutlership a comhi-
nation knife and fork, 50 cunninglv con-
trlved that Kaiser Wilhelm is spared the
10 him always embarrassing effort of using
at table his left arm, which. as is well
known, Is shorter than the right. There
Iore the Imperial gratitude and the
high sounding title. Therefore, too
it now happens that on the boule-
wards and In the marts, holiday
toys are being brought out, the designs Of
which suggest that the inventors have
found, In this circumstance, much inspira-
ton. One Of the trifles exhibited repre-
sents manikin emperor, 80 placed that he
may be either somewhat suggestively i'm
paled on the tines of fork or guilotined by
a knite-quite at the sweet pleasure of the
possessor of the toy. The patriotism of the
enterprising gentleman who controls this
article is SO intense that he has refused
$4,000 francs for his property.
French women, and particularly those
engaged in literature, the arts or the pro-
fessions, are looking forward with keen in
terest to the appearance In the salon of the
bust Of Nine. la Presidente, executed by
Mime. Leon Bertaux, president of the French
Union Of Women Painters and Sculptors.
Mime. Carnot was SO anxious ia
give substantial evidence of her sym.
patty with the advancement and en-
, couragement OF her sex. that
after giving Nine. Bertaux the commits
, sion, she invited that lady and her husband
to DE her guests at the palace at Fontain-
! bleau, while the artist was engaged on the
! model. As the wife of the French presl-
dent has, probably, more calls on her time
than any other woman in the world this