The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-12-08
.S|NCLA|R'S IDEA SPREADS ID WORLD Aristocracy Travels Much In
 the Gypsy Style STUDENTS UP IN ARMS object to the Appointment of Nancy Professors To Places That Might
 Have Been Filled At
 Home.
BY PAUL VILLIERS.


 The custom of going about the world in gypsy-like caravans started in America by Upton Sinclair, is spreading in the aristocratic world. There has just ar rived at Compiegne the enormous caravan of Princess Senahowsky, which holds her self (and her quarters are extremely com- fortable and luxurious) and a large suite of servants.
 She has wandered half over Europe in this way, going just where her fancy die tates at the moment. Her personal at tendant when she leaves her perambulat- ing home for walks, which she is very fond of, is a huge Cossack, who is deco rated with the medal of the Russo-Japa- nese war.
 The Princess is expected in Paris, and will wander still farther, most probably, before she returns to her home at Mos COW.
 The Paris medical students, who were never noted for very orderly behavior, are once more up in arms against their teach CTS and authorities generally because they consider it unfair that two professors from Nancy have been appointed to posts of lecturers which two Parisians might have filled.
 The two Nancy professors. M. Prenant and M. Nicolas, have in consequence been very badly treated Not only when they attempted to give their lectures were they not listened to, their voices being drowned by cat-cal.s and hooting and the blowing of horns, but they were stormed with showers of tomatoes. potatoes, cabbage stalks, and even eggs, so that they and the other professors who on two succeed ing days sat round to support them looked a pretty sight. and only narrowly escaped being seriously injured. The lectures of course, were never given.
 The police are powerless, all they can do being to prevent demonstrations in the streets In consequence of these disturb ances the dean of the faculty is asking the minister to close the medical school for time. If this measure is carried out it will react severely portion of the students, as there are some eighty who, if they do not pass their examinations this week will have to go in for their two-year period of military service, from which, had they obtained their medical degree, they would be exempt
 American tourists in crowds are visit ing a house in the Rue Notre Dame de Lorette that is haunted For the past six months the concierge of the house has heard melancholy meanings like that of woman in pain, seeming to come from 8 wall behind her bed.
 Mme. Matasse, of the first floor, has also heard f sounds during the period mentioned, and is still more affirma- tive than the concierge. In the be- gining she and her husband laughed at the matter, but now it has become very serious.
 All sorts of suggestions have been made, such as that some practical joker might have placed a phonograph in such a position that it could be heard here, or perhaps dog had got imprisoned in chimney or somewhere from whence it could not escape, but it could not have lived all this time, and, indeed, all efforts to fathom the mystery have been in vain.
 The sounds are so persistent and an- moving that police inspector has been to examine the premises, but he also has found nothing.
 The idea of the after tn eatre supper. which had hitherto been lacking in Paris, has caught on. It was started by Palliard a month or so ago as a special festivity, and so well has it succeeded that the example has been followed by other well known restau- rants in the capital.
 The Care R1che, known 10 all Weatny Americans who come over here, now has nightly suppers after the theatre, and to make them gayer and more at tractive, some of the famous Mont martre singers come and give their "chansons,' these being varied by some remarkable Spanish dancers.
 An action brought by the publishers, Messrs Roof & Co.,, against M. Gustave Simon, the representative of Mile. Adele Hugo, the youngest daughter of Victor Hugo, to decide question of the literary proprietorship of Victor Hugo's works, has brought to light many interesting details concerning Mile. Hugo and her mode of living.
 Mile. Adele Hugo, who inherited all the proceeds of the sale of her fathers works as her portion of the estate, is living in retirement at an asylum in Suresnes. She is now an old woman of 77 years, and she entered this asylum when she was % years old. She enjoys excellent health and walks several times day around the extensive grounds.
 Her one great delight is music. and she loves to go to the Theatre de PAcclma- ton, which makes a speciality of old fashioned operas. She has herself com posed an opera which shows decided mu- sical talent. Her favorite recreation is to drive in the woods about Suresnes