The morning news., 1892-03-27
PARIS GOSSIP.
Telegraphers' Cramp-rhe Gamius of
Psris-A Queer Drame.
A.

fARIS, Marcn lo.-Inere Is q prospect
that the governments Of France aud Belgium
will soon cause special and exhaustive ex-
animation TO be made into that nervous
affiiction which, for lack Of better term, we =,
here in France, call nal telegraphiqte.
A distinguished physician of Brussels
who is also an expert in nervous disorders
has philanthropically devoted much time
to study Of the phenomena of the disease
as manifested in the cases of some of the
Belgian government. The malady, this
gentleman finds, generally manifests itself
at the end OF a number of years of continu-
GUS aud arduous telegraphic service In
some particulars it closely resembles the
trouble called writers crampn
But in addition to the difficulty expert
enced with pen and pencil In receiving dis
patches. the victim Of NAL teIegraphique
suffers from an inexplicable. involuntary
contraction and straining of the muscles of
arm, wrist and fingers when using the "keyn
or lever In transmitting kilograms. He ex-
periences, too. a strange, heart -sickening
dread when attempting to form certain
symbols of the arbitrary alphabet. In one
of the cases observed by the Belgian
expert, the patient, a very thorough
telegraph clerk, was, when abruptly
and peremptorily ordered to transmit a
message, utterly unable to do for at least
full five minutes. Yet, thirty minutes
later, the same man was easily and rapidly
manipulating the heaviest wire running
out of Brussels. Another man was found
who, at times, could not for his life cor
rectly form certain letters of the telegraph
alphabet. The physician and expert re-
ferred to have prepared a paper on this
important subject for presentation to the
Academy of Medicine at Brussels.
The French telegraph authorities are be-
ing urged to interest themselves in the sub
ject, and there is hope ahead that an all
ment, so certainly the outgrowth Of modern
industrial exactions and conditions as in
NAL telegrdphiqtte, will, at last, be made
the subject Of q full and scientific investiga-
tion.
PARIsIAN STREET ARABS.
Gavroche is dead, and with him the
strange race of Parisian gamins Of which
Hugo made him the marked illustrious and
especial type. There are to-day many re.
spectacle. we'll preserved and well-to-do
gentlemen of not more than 60 years olage
who have excellent cause to remember the
daredevil output OF tae CUTTERS Of Saint
Antoine, who went ont of existence with
the coup detdt, the incoming of the third
empire, the widening and lighting of the
streets, and the laying of Baron Hauss-
mann's wonderful pavement
It is, perhaps, sad, but certainly true,
that the republic refuses to recognize, as
being in anywise political factor, the lad
with disagreeable cold in his head, revolt in
his brain, and mischief In every fiber of his
being, tor, while the picturesque Gavroche
Ia dead. his exasperating successor is born
and able to be about the city.
The gdnlin de Paris is, howev er. no lon
ger content to be at once an enthusiastic
fool, hero greater, because more real,
than any of the Homeric age; an ardent
lover of his dear Paris, and in the blind. un.
selfish way. one satisfied to see even the
dimmed reflection of the eternal stars in
the filthy mud puddles of his dirty fau-
bourg. No, not that kind of lad at all
The contemporary street arab smokes cigar
cites, quotes the scripture backward, guys
the workingmen, makes life miser-
able to the tradesmen, and openly,
insolently aud persistently insults the deli
cate habitues of the clubs and drawing
rooms. Only in one particular does this
pest bear even vague resemblance to the
bygone child OF misery, who. time and
again. faced streets swept by the driving
rain Of revolutionary bullets, and that is in
his intense delight in excitement; partic-
uiarly of the political sort, or that kind
which is found in annoying the police.
Not long since Count Won Munster
Ledenburg, tine German ambassador TO
France, was called upon to make state
visit. When such functions are in order
the German diplomatic establishment turns
out in great force and gorgeous spiendor.
Among others of the MONSTERS suite who
participate In such functions is a herculean
military attache whose duty 1t is to bear
aloft with grace and dignity drawn sword
On the occasion in question, and immedi-
ately after leaving the embassy building,
the cortege was surrounded by a mob of the
degenerate successors of Gavroche. The
boys maliciously persisted In marching be-
side the carriage and begging the German
giant, who sat upon the box, to join them
in chanting the "Marseiilaise" or whistlng
the Russian hymn. Then they would
shout ''vive Ia France" ana 90
through the performance again and
again. The position had already
become an absurdly annoying one for
the diplomatic gentlemen, when the clatter-
ing Of horses hoofs was heard, and num-
ber of mounted policemen suddenly appeared
and scattered the mischievous little follows
right and left. All the same when the
counts carriage passed. the young rascals
turned In their flight and rent the air with
their cheers for Russia, France and Alsace-
Lorraine. They seriously annoyed the
foreign Office, and exasperated the COM
missarv of police; but, somehow or other.
the Parisians liked them.
THROWING RowDYIsM OUT OF COURT.
So far at least as the court Of assizes Of
the Seine is concerned, decencY, both In the
character and conduct of audiences as
sembliDg there, will hereafter be insisted
upon.
During the trials of the murderers Pran-
zini, Prado and Eyraud, the press of Paris
unavailingly declaimed against the scandal
lous scenes which were enacted under the
very nose OF blind justice 1t was in
those very recent days the regular
thing to find the court room crowded
with blackguard men and abandoned
women, who. more or less under the in
fluence of al sinthe, elbowed, jostled. pinchod
and scratched their way into the hall. The
men we're bad enough in all conscience; but
the women were simply intolerable. Safe
in their seats, and protected from the easy
grasp Of the court officials by the density
Of the crowd, these creatures, fitted ont
with fans, lorgnettes and bonbon boxes
chaffed the police, and exchanged the vilest
argot with the male beasts about them
The saddest feature Of all was that, here
and there, mixed mp with the execrable
mob. aud fighting for room as hercely a.
the veriest yirago Of the tot were women,
who, seen elsewhere, one would have sup
posed qualified 20 constitute the swooteii
aud most refining influences Of happy snd
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