The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-03-01
USEFUL ARIsrocRATs IN FRANCE.
Titled Persons Who Are Earning a
Living by Honest work.


Paris, Feb 5.-Spurious nobemen have
been recently good deal before the mag
istrates. A search after real nobemen who
have stopped to win a livelihood by honest
work VIII at least have the interest OF
novelty. Any number Of aristocrats and
of the Oldest houses In France now toll as
wage earners, and with cheerful philos-
ophy greatly to their honor.
A Marquis de Beaumanolr labors in car
rying grst to mill at Guerande, near
Nantes. The Cab Company of Paris en-
ploys a Vcomte de St. Megrin as driv-
er. This title reminds one OF the firtations
Of Henrietta Stuart, Duchess of Orleans.
A Comte de st. Pol is a clerk of the Gas
Company at a salary Of IS a month. The
Comics de st. Pol were mixed uD in the
faction fights Of Burguudians and Armag-
macs. A DE Crequi-what recOllecttons or
the court and camps at st. Denis, now the
Whitechapel of Paris. A Comte dante
roche Is glad to serve his country as a
gendarme In the department of the Lot.
He is amiable and has CHEEKY temper.
When he comes into the fortune of a
wealthy great-aunt he intends TO revise
his motto. II now stands: MY Faith, my
Lady, my King" Hereafter, in remember
ance Of hard times. 1t will be: Better to
Lock than to be Locked up" An omnibus
conductor on the Batignolles-Odeon line
Is Marquis de Poligny. A Duke OF Alcan-
tara, descended from Dom Duarte of Por-
tugaI, sells scented soap in a bazaar at
Marseiles. Jean de Retz, who comes In
line direct from the uncle and guardian OF
Giles de Retz or de Rais-the Blue beard
of the story-is a grayedigger in La Ven-
dee. A Vicomte de Moustiers-cousin of the
Duke of Aosta-is custom house search
err. He has as his colleague" the Baron
d Aubinas. My concierge, to go to no fur
ther is first cousin once removed of brill
liant ex-foreign minister.
My man servant, Emile Is an authentic
marquis and head of one Of the oldest FAM
flies in Brittany. Emile Is his nom de
guerre. The real name is Gaspard. 1t re-
qured twelve hundred years of monarchy
and one century Of revolutionary up
heaval to make this valet. Emile is grand
son of a vice admiral who lost heavily 10
| years ago in Turks" and, trying to
recoup in the union gernerale, found him.
self with nothing but his pension in his
old age. His only son got rid OF herl-
| tage and of his wife's dowry in other spec
/ ulations, md died in poverty. The widow
4 soon followed him to the grave. Three
/ sons were reared at a Christian Brothers
school in Brittany and as fast as they grew
/ up went as oonscripts to sea. All their
1 high relatives could do to help them was
/ to keep them on Mediterranean stations
/ and in the private service of the captains
/ under whom they were placed. My man
servant is now %. He was six years
sailor In that time what did he not learn
1 to do in the way of being handy and gen.
/ orally useful2 He can cook as well as an
/ Italian, sew, cut out, mend, darn, wash,
/ iron, and has the light and agile foot OF a
/ French seaman. The sailor on this side of
the channel is not a bit like Jack. He is
a nimble, neat being. smallish, and looks
/ best fitted for opera comique seamanship.
1 Nevertheless he IS a good man at sea.
| and on land he has in some respects the
advantage of your nautical compatriot.
i Emile hopes soon to be a clerk in a bank.
Meanwhile he does what he can. The
rough life on board a man-of-war, varied
/ by a domestic life in the houses of port
Il officials has tempered land breezes to this
/ shorn nobeman. He has an open, ingenu-
/ Gus countenance.
If only some American heiress-but
| forget Emile is married. On being re-
4 leased from service he fell in with a dis
| tressed widow who had an orphan hang
/ ing TO her skirt and another in her arms.
! Sailorlike, he became so enthusiastic about
/ her as to serve actes respectueuses on an
/ uncle to be free to marry her. This left
/ him without relative, and made him the
i father of a ready-made family. Talk of
/ women's rights after that l came on
/ Emile the other day at work with knit
/ ting needles and soft WOOL He was max
4 ing a pair of warm CATERS for the Sec
/ ond stepchild. What with sentiment Bre-
/ ton obstinacy, and a vein of romantic gem
erosity, he is satisfied with his choice, and
l IS a providence to the two children.