The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-09-16
TOPICS or A WEEK nv PARIS.
Much Needed rain ArouseS Fear Of Typhoid
Mime. HumDert Again In Hmeli Iht.

NINE. HumDert Again In LmelI Ant.
Special Cab,s osspafeA 20 THH SUN
PARIS, Sept. l5.-Long periods OF dryness
In the country this sumper have been send
ing up the prices Of. foodstufS4 in Paris.
particularly butter and meat. Within AZ
teen days butter has gone up % per cent,
and housekeepers are compelled to pay 30
cents a pound for meat which formerly
cost 81 cents, all Of which IL Asorbed TO the
drought. The butchers are overrun with
poor meat, but cannot get the good article,
az the peasants are unable to feed the
animals properly. In some. districts the
peasantA are cutting down Trees and feeding
the leaves TO thu cattle
Last night one Of the newspapers de-
scribed the privationsof mall households In
Paris and quoted merchants as prophecy
ing higher prices unless there were plentiful
rains In q short time and expressing the
fear that the conditions this winter would
be worse. This morning an all day rain
set In, and one OF the big morning papers
oonfronts Parisians with tho news that
typhoid Is epidemic in nine sections Of the
city, and will be worse after the first rains
carry the deflement to the source Of the
water supply; so II will be seen that II 10 not
only In New York that the papers remind
their readers OF the difficulty Of living.
The Mdtfr makes a serious appeal to
P~arisians to pay attention TO this n
TO boil the water, and criticises the admin
istrstion for not providing a better water
supply. The Mdtin cites records showing
that typhoid kills 80 people in every 10000
in Berlin n $40 in every 10000 In Parts
in normal times, and asks what il will do
in epidemics.
The F~renchman's attention to his stomach
Is one thing; his consideration for II IL no
toriously less than his consideration for
his palate. Notwithstanding this Paris is
exercised now over. the gustatory feat
confronting Chief Cabinet Minister ciemen-
oeau, who next month is to go on a Journey
in Var and preside at five banquets in two
days, besides delivering three addresses.
Although the ordeal is still some weeks of
C~lentenceau's stomach is already the head
line feature OF The PARIS newspapers. ~
That remarkable woman, Nine Humbert,
threatens to be as conspicuous out OF Jail
as she was before she was imprisoned for
the famous swindle. Not only does she
talk as big as ever. but Paris listens. She is
logged by journalists in cabs, columns
are devoted to her and her renewed declara-
tons Of the reality Of the Crawford millions
are displayed and discussed. Her theatrical
methods Of gigantic bluh we're resumed
Immediately on her release and are seriously
and infinitely reported. she went 70 the
Continental Hotel and asked for a particular
suite Of elegant chambers, but couldn't
get il and took a twenty franc room else
where with only II francs in her pocket.
The morning after her release ten papers
each claimed to have the only genuine
interview with her, which led to the observa-
ton that she is now discovering mysterious
journalists instead Of wills. To-day she
declares that she is going to London TO find
the Crawfords.
Paris has produced an ingenious land
lord who holds a quarterly lottery among
many Of his tenants. Three winning tick
cts draw a quarters rent free. The result
is that his fat houses are always full.
Part Of the Louvre which is known to
few visitors crept into this weeks news.
The Louvre's roof garden is not used for
entertainments but Ia a genuine garden
and thiSyear produced nectarihes that are
highly commended. 80,
The shooting season always brings poach-
ers, but visitors find it odd to read in the
newspapers about the arrest OF poachers in
a Paris city park. Several who were ar
rested on the Bots de Boulogne had quail,
.woodoock and hares which had been taken
on the Bots de BOuloge. So .'a'l
A thief who was arrested by q beadle
while stealing from a church made the
bland plea 20 the commissary Of police
that the beadle had disturbed him In his
devotions.
Among the efforts made to secure further
honors for lola since the termination of
the Dreyfus c.se vas a request that Zola's
Dust be- placed in the. Tuileries Garden.
The request was refused on the ground
that there was no room for it there.