New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-07-28

in all questions concerning personal honor and
private life Of the members of the order has the
effect Of rendering the Partisan bar one Of the
most remarkably woll-conducted and honorable
bodies Of men to be found anywhere In the world.
and how much its DEGREES are feared may De
gathered from the fact that the eminent divorce
lawyer, Eugene Carrie, The bosom friend OF
Ciemenceau blew his brains out not long ago
for no other reason than that brother lawyer
had announced his intention Of complaining to
the Council that Carrie had ruined his domestic
happiness and his home.
SOME INTERESTING VAGABONDS.
One needs the pen of Dickens to portray some
of the queer and quaint Characters who have
been taken in the meshes Of the dragnet which
the police have been using to much purpose In
the various parks, groves, vacant lots and stone
ouarries in and about the capital. In the Bots de
Vincennes for instance, among the thirty or forty
men and women who constituted the result OF
a days "battue," and who most Of them were
badly wanted by the police. was an Individual
of the name Of Parfet, who had once been
prominent member Of the Partisan bar but who
had fallen from grace In connection with some
breach of trust that mad landed him in the peni-
tertiary for a term of years. Since his liberation
he has been turning his very con siderable judicial
knowledge to the advantage OF the criminals and
vagabonds who are his habtual associates and
among whom he passed for man Of great parts.
In winter his office and residence were in one OF
the qiarries at Montreull. while in summer he
made his headquarters in tiny cabin perched IN
the branches Of one Of the biggest trees OF the
Bo.s de Vincennes.
Another queer character captured in the Bos
de Roulogne is an old who was formerly
captain Of the French navy. who owes his present
condition to the fact that he is almost completely
nDecile. and that he has neither frlends nor Iei-
atiyes 10 look after him This old man. VINO mas
a distinguished war record, NUMBER OF uecold-
tons and who naval ate-de-camp 10 Pres.-
dent Theirs. has not slept under roof, so far as
the police discover, for more than tnree
years
Nor should mention be omitted Of the woman
arrested with some thirty other vasapondS
in the neghborhood o. the Buttes-Chau-
mont who is now authentcaly proved 70 nave
spent ten or fifteen years Of her life on the Gold
Coast Of Africa the wife Of one OF the native
kings A. her charms deteriorated so. TOO did
the treatment to which she was subjected by her
dusky husband and his other wives, until she was
finally compelled to seek safety IN hisnt sue
ceeGing in escaping to one OF the french coast
settlements. , 49,.
Not only are the police disturbing all these
colonies Of Migrants and criminals that FORM tne
theme OF so many 81 Eugene sue hoNe's' ~.
they are also falling foul Of the "megoters.
namely the poor who frequent the paNements IN
front OF restaurants and cafes N search OF enus
II cigars and cigarettes. which they collec, ana
sell every morning At their sO-caled exchange on
the Place Maubert The Government. IL appears,
considers that the state monopoly OF tobacco -
injuriously affected by thesn private sales. ana
has accordingly given the police Instructions 10
stop them much L. the CONSERVATION as well as
Indignation Of the poor 'megotiers
PROFESSIONALS vs.. AMATEURS
What renders this severity on the part OF the
polce toward the vagrant and mendcant class
appcar more harsh and ill-tmed is the fact that
not only the Partisan students. but also people OF
wealth rank and fashion are organizing them
selves into troupes If street singers and street
musicians on the plea Of charity. they SET cur
every morning and invade the courtyards % the
various private houses. where they slhs anu pay
unmindful Of the dscomiorts OF having NAYS
shaken i'm their faces by the servants ana or the
rival performances OF youns laaies prar[ls' ni
the more strange Is the fact That many OF tne.'
street minstrels who after eacn song or meiony
send round the hat in true protesSohai s'yie 10, to'
slve. and coppers. have in many instances Nv
cried servants with them 10 carry their instIu-
ments and music The idea originates with Nile:
EugGnie Buffet but has been extensively copied
by all sorts ~ wellto-do people in search OF nov
ety and has developed into the fashionable RAD
Of the hour. ...
the trance mediums have already arrested TWO
score Of the most prominent. and express their
intention Of wiping them OF the race OF ,he
earth This action does rot meet win popular
annroval Nowhere else in the world have for
tine-tellers played SO important role as IN
Paris and II is well known that not only the
First and Third Napoeons' Out also hhss
-har,os Y and Louis Philippe. well as the
princes and prncesses Of their family did not
dlsdain TO seek counsel of Nine lie Normand
and other equally famous clairVoyants ana !.
,vos onlv the other day that the Due de ia
R0chefoucauld- Doudeauville was endeayorlng 70
ontain an Injunction TO prevent well-known
fortune-teller from using in her prospectus lac
titles ~ letters which his father had addressed
TO the woman.