Bisbee daily review., 1907-05-19
BLIND MEN FORM TRADES UNION
 IN PARIS
Four Delegates Form the Union Received By M. Winter at Home Office to Explain Their Grievances,
Special Cable to Review.)
 By Henri Dubois.

By Henri Dubois.
 PARIS, May 1S.--A blind mans
 rade union has been formed in Paris. Fhe members are the blind employees
 the National Institution TOT the Blind who are dissatisfied with tn ~
 diaries
 Four delegates from the union were received by M Winter at the
 iCme office to explain their griev-
 nces. The sightless deputatlon, iressed in shabby silk hats ana black .oats were led into M Winters room y an attendant, each man hanging
 to the shoulder of the man in
 ront.
 They begged for a small increase
 ! their salaries pointing out that at
 resent they could only hope for a
 laximum salary of S570, while some
 nly received $40 year. Aiter de-
 laring their lopalty to the Republic,
 he blind deputation groped their way
 ut.
 Even queerer than the blind mems
 .nion is the union of lame tramps
 which has been established and duly
 egistered at Mhrseilles. Vhirty-sfx
 srecks of humanity constitute -fhe
 lembership of the Syndicate of Per
 mbulating French Singers and Grip
 les' which has applied to be af-
 iliated to the General Confederation
 f Labor.
 The rules of the association are
 hese:
 Every member of the union must oe of French nationality. Only those afflicted with some visible infirmity eligible to the union.
 Women with visible infirmities may be honorary members of the union.
 No member to sing or declaim mon ologues against the Government of
 he Republic, nor against the puiiUs, lor against any kind of religion
 Amy member passing through a town and hearing of bogus cripple to inform the police.
 Because the bride is legally a boy weddin at Malherbe, Normandy, has been postponed until the red-tape tan gle is straightened out.
 On the eve of the wedding day, the local registrar went to the brides fathers house, and announced unal ne could not marry the couple because they are both boys" He explained that Mile. Deschamps, the bride, nad been registered as a boy, and as a boy she had been officially consid- cred all her life. This year, she would have to do military service as a con- script.
 Although the brides parents swore that she was really and truly d girl nothing could get over the hard fact that she legally belonged to the op- posite sex, and therefore could not be married to a man. Endless and complicated formaIities will have to be gone through before the unhappy "boy-girP' can become Mime. Lenoir
 The sale of a newly born babe for $40 has caused complications between two families at Guimper, Brittany. Mime. Bonan, butchers wife, d wu- man of fifty, bought the infant from Mme. LeSauX, the wife of yaIet, and presented it to her husband as her own offspring. The baby was registered and baptized as Jean Bo- nan, the butcher never suspecting that the baby was not his.
 Next day, the real father called on Bonan and confessed that the little stranger was his child. He feared to be punished for his share in the queer transaction. Little "Jean Bo- nan" will now be restored to his real parents, his name will be erased from the register and his baptism cancelled.
 The sure of Graincourt, in company with many other priests and cures, has now through the Separation Law | to make living. being deprived of | his stipendary. He looked round on | all sides to see what he conld do. He counted up on his fingers the cures of his acquaintance and noted what l they were doing for their daily | bread. He thought of the parish | artist,but as he had no singing voice priest who had become a music-hall that thought had to be dismissed. And so on through them all.
 Suddenly while the cure nas still | an automobile whizzed past. | 4 bright thought struck him at the sight of it. Why not become a re- lairer of automobiles? In his youth he had often helped his father in his village workshop. Why not make use of the knowledge picked up there and | become a mechanician: No sooner said than done. The workshop was OO%A the cure was ready for any mishaps and the work began to pour in.
 The cure found that he liked his york He took such an interest in | that he set to work to find out all he could about the construction of ars and learned so much that he has now been able with the help of some Jld bits of cars which he has bought at diffenent sales to construct one of lis own, with which he goes from vil- age to village.
 M Bertiiion, who has the charge of identifying all criminals and others gho come before the police courts, has in addition to his system of pho .ographic metrique,' just invented an- Jther system of photography which Is used for the Identification of dead bodies. This system will allow of he body being photographed in any position and at various distances, without touching the body at all, and without being obliged to move the he apparatus. The system was used Tor the first time about a week ago 0n the body of woman who had been murdered and taken to the |, norgue It is said that the apparatus yielded surprising results of exacti- -ude and clearness.
 There is a magic flat in the Rue de Ste. Ma guelite district, which compels everyone entering it |, to walk on their hands with their feet In the air. At least, that is the weird oor .ar affrfbfffod f0 if bv the family