Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-06-27
IN DEADWOOD COACH
Used by Election Candidate in
Paris Streets.
Special CableSram to The Star.

Special Cablegram to The star.
PARIS. June 2T.-when Buffalo BilIs
wild west show left Paris for America
lot Of the material sold Off. including
the famous Deadwood coach. This remark
able vehicle Maxine Lisbonne, who has
been a colonel under the commune. pur-
chased. To 1t he harnessed four cab horses
and IN 1t Achille Leroy proceeded to pay
his visits to his future colleagues of the
French Academy, he proudly termed
them. Achiile himself was respondent In
the uniform OF Bolivian general. which
seemed to consist chiefly Of gold lace. The
farce kept all Paris amused for a week.
The movements of the election candidate
were given columns in the Paris news
papers and while 1t lasted 1t was the
talk OF the city. 1t lasted till the pre-
feet OF police lost patience on account of
the crowds which followed the party. and
locked them all up. At the next cleo
ton Marius Tournadre came out as a
candidate. On his posters he described him.
self as the "anti-European candidate" a
burlesque of the Chauvinist nationalists.
His meetings were somewhat NOISY affairs,
in which statesmanlike view OF public mat
tiers was conspicuous by It's absence. But
they amused Paris and gave people some
thing to talk about. and tnat is always a
relief to the project of police Paris Is
only dangerous when 1t finds life dull and
slow
The~following story of matrimonial mud
die was first found out exactly a year ago,
but Is still going on. A village swain went
to publish the bans of his marriage, and
discovered that his betrothed had been mar
ried four years. This was the first the
girl herself had heard of 1t. She inquired,
and found that her elder sister had, through
some muddle. been married under her
name. Consequently the elder sister is
legally unmarried, her three children are
lliegitimata and Ia
marry without committing bigamy.
Not Yet Out of the Wood.
The family has already spent a year In
trying to extricate itself from the tangle.
but is not out OF the wood yet At first
1t was proposed that the maiden sister d.
vorce her legal husband. whom she hither-
to called brother-in-law. Then the elder
sister would marry her own husband
again There were, however. certain diff
cuities in the way OF such a solution, and
the family is now trying to induce the
authorities to acknowledge simply that
an error has been made. 1t Is said that
all that can be consented by the authori-
ties Is to annul the previous marriage on
the ground of mistaken Identity. This will
not mean that the lady who was put down
under her sisters name WILL having be-
come herself again, also become fpso facto
the wife of her husband. She will have
to marry once more the man who has been
legally her brother-in-law these four years
On the other hand. the latter's lawful wife,
whom he has called sIster-in-law. will re-
turn TO spinsterhood, and will at last be
able to marry. which doubtless she will do
on the same day as her sister
A landlord In the Avenue Eylau, who
has house adjoining the Samese legation,
building repairs one of his workmen step
ped through the wall, and found himself
in Siamese territory. The legation imme-
diately protested. not. however. through
diplomatic channels. but merely In the
courts. Luckily counsel was Instructed to
claim no compensation for invasion of
Siamese territory. but damages only for
spoilt wall paper and wainscot. The mag
istrate. however. as in duty bound recalled.
when giving his decision. the ancient prin-
ciple Of diplomatic exterritoriality." and
pointed out that defendant undeniably had
committed the oGense Of invading siamese
waived their rights on that count. An ex-
pert has accordingly been appointed to
examine the invaded spot, and to estimate,
not the moral damage" but the material
damage to the wall which Is also a from
tier line
Whereabouts of Rigo.
Is Rigo. the tzigan. dead. as recently re-
ported. or is he. after all. still in the land
OF the living? The widow of his brother
Bernardo. who dwells in Paris. has re-
ceived the following telegram from Gran
VILE In Normandy: Can assure you that
Dancl is very well. Have had intelligence
from New York. Shall write" The dis
patch is signed "Ricciard, which Is the
name OF the third husband of the erewhile
Princess of Chimay, nee Clara Ward who
is staying at Granville. Madame Bernardo
Rigo says that the last time that she saw
her brother-in-law was in the May of 1905
when he was playing at the Pavilion Blue
at Saint Cloud. He went on from there to
Vienna. and she had heard nothing more
of him until she read the announcement of
his death.
Aimey Lotely. convict In Fresnes
prison. sentenced to a years hard labor.
sorrowed to leave his lady love. but was
buoyed up by the belief that she true.
Picking oakum or making list-shoes, he
thought of the cottage where she waited
for him alone. and he behaved exemplarfly
for her sake. Released as soon as the
prison regulations allowed. he went straight
to the cottage to clasp her In his arms. but
found the door locked and the bird flown.
she went months ago" said a charitable
neighbor. and a fair young man went
with her." The ticket-of-leave man walk
ed Immediately back to Fresnes prison.
gave last look at the grim walls behind
which he. at least. had lived in hope. then
went and hanged himself on the nearest
tree.
An underground Paris for pedestrians is
prsphesied for the near future by M. Bien-
venue. the engineer-in-chief of the Met
ropolitan railway here. He states that NJ.
Antones application for permission to
Odeon Theater and the Metropolitan rail-
way Is but one of many similar appli-
cations. Requests from managers OF other
theaters and of large retail shops, he said.
had all been acceded to. and when these
numerous subways are made 1t will be an
easy thing to link up many of them.
Then" adds NJ. Bienvenue. pedestrians
will be able to walk about Paris without
danger from traffic. since they will walk
beneath it,
DIR. Evans House Sold.
Long In the market. the house of the
late DR.. Evans. who assisted the Empress
Eugene to escape from Paris In Septem-
Der. 1870. has been sold. 1t Is in the Ave-
nue. Malakof, and was known as the Paiais
des Souverains. as 1t was at one time In
tended as residence for royal and prince
ly visitors to Paris. The name of the pur-
chaser is not published. The sum paid is
$500. 900.
AS was to be expected, Prof. Dieulafoy's
emphatic protest at the Academy of Medi-