Arizona republican., 1911-10-06
NEWS
FROM PARIS.
Budget o Gossip From
French Capital
ITEMS FULL OF INTEREST.
Associated Press Man Sends
Interesting Stories Deal
ing With a Variety of
Topics That Will Appeal
to All.

PARISH. Pujalet, the administra-
tive expert whom the government
has entrusted with the task of re-
organizing the Louvre museum. has
lost no time in setting about his by
no means easy undertaking.
a very brief examination revealed
to him the appalling manner in which
the nations art treasures were left
unguarded, and his first step was to
Immediately close a number Of rooms
for which no guardians were avail
able These rooms will in the future
be opened to the public only in turn
on one or two days of the week The
museum henceforth will be opened at
II o'clock in the morning instead of
at 9.
To prevent the recurrence of
theft like that of the Mona Lisa
rule has been made that no picture
may be removed from the wall with
out a written order signed by the
curator and which must be left with
the guardian in charge of the room
who keeps it until the picture is re-
turned to its place.
NJ Pujalet decided to furnish the
staff of night watchmen with two
watch dogs, and selected them at the
police kennels at Clarendon. The
animals who combine ferocity with
sagacity. answer to the names of
Jack" and Milford" the first being
of Greenlandish origin and the sec
ond hailing from Belgium. The dogs
will accompany the night watchmen
on their rounds.
The theft OF the Mona Lisa has de
velOped some curious Incidents
Among the horde of sordid beggars
who importune the faithful on the
steps of the old church of St. Eu-
stache in Paris's Central Market
square was a woman of 80 years, de-
Gently dressed in black, who stopped
the passers by, requesting to be taken
to the Louvre.
Il am the 'Joconde,'" she said, land
the person who carried me off has
abandoned me; 1 have no home"
The unfortunate woman was taken
by policemen to the police infirmary,
whose officials communicated with
her family. She had been missing
from her home for two days
The aviator. Latham, has just con-
cluded the trials of n novel mono
plane, the invention of the engineer.
Lavavasseur. Destined for the mill
tary service, it is of exceptional
strength. 1t has a lifting surface of
$50 square feet and scales the sur
prising weight of LOO pounds Its
most vulnerable parts are armored
with aluminium plates which, while
they would not be very effective
against a Lebel bullet and still less
against a shell, nevertheless consti-
tute a certain protection for the en-
CINE. the levers and the aviator.
Baron 'Estournelles de Constant
has finished writing a series of i'm
pressions of the United States His
object has been to make the French
people better acquainted with the
United States. especially with the
south and west. Fifteen chapters have
appeared in lie Temps. Some of them
are on Kansas City. Lincoln, Denver,
Colorado Springs, Salt Lake City,
Seattle. Portland, St. Louis, New Or
leans, Minneapolis. Madison. Wilwau-
kee, Chicago. Urbana, Cincinnati.
Pittsburg. Philadelphia, Baltimore,
Boston. Buffalo, Lake Mohonk, Vas
sar College and New York He has
chapters also upon the states of Cal
ifornia, Arizona and Texas.
Baron d'EstOurnelles looks upon the
Americans, what sort Of folk they are
and what they are doing, through the
eyes of a Frenchman with plenty of
amusing incident and keen criticism
but without an unkind word
Since Prince Victor Napoleon and
Princess of Belgium were married last
year the Bonapartist party has been
unusually active. The princess has
taken an intense personal interest in
the party's plans and is willing to use
a large part of her fortune. A COM
mittee works mysteriously in France
spreading Bonapartist feeling in
the army and among members of par
lament. A fund has been started
which il is designed shall amount to
s2O.OO0.0OO to finance the movement
The French government has given
little heed to the conspiracy except
to keep informed No objection has
been made to the Belgian govern
ment on account of the meetings that
are held in the residence of Prince
and Princess Victor Napoleon at
Brussels
An unusual sight was witnessed
this week at Frontignan. The ponds
of Faux Blanches and the Midi
Canal were covered with fish float
ing about on the surface in a help
less and altogether inexplicable man
ner. The customs officials were the
cause of this phenomenon.
They had seized $1,000 gallons of
"doctored" Spanish wine at the