Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-04-02
PROMISED FREE MEALS TO AL
Caught Henpecked Husbands by Offer
of Free Lodging.
HE URGES TAXATION OF PIANOS
Collector of Cigarette Butts, He Now
Aspires to. Parliament
FORMER TURKISH MINISTER SUED
Secured Possession of the Fortune of
an American woman and she
Asserts that He VIII Not
Give Il BACK.
BY PAUL vILLIERs.


BY PAUL VILLIERS.
PARIS, April Especial to The Bee)-
/ The joke mayor of lie Puy is causing as
much merriment and amusement as did
the antics Of Captain CopeniclI. the fake
/ army officer furnished Germany few
years ago.
lie Puy itself is having merry. time with
its new mayor. who was nominated Just
for joke 1t will be remembered that
in his speeches he promised free meals for
everybody, a lodging house for locked out
husbands, and as little work between, meals
as possible. The program was great sue
cess. The mayor aud the councillors
promptly handed n their designations
This did not worry Louis Rome, fhe new
mayor. who for the present is calmly
carrying on the town business himself.
The new mayor is probably the most in
terviewed man In the country just now
He has been telling the reporters that they
will soon find him in Parliament now that
he has given up his old business Of col
Letting cigarette ends. The newest item
Of his program is the taxation of pianos.
You tax dogs that bark on two notes, 90
he declares why not tax piano which
bowls and groans on about eighty?'
EX-Turkish Minister sued.
An eNminister Of the deposed sultan of
Turkey, who has a house i'm the Champs
Elysees. has had three complaints lodged
against him. the compainaints being an
American lady, jeweler and a commission
agent The lady saws that as there are
divorce proceedings between herself and
husband, she confided her fortune consist
ing Of 100000 worth of securities and $4,000
worth of jewelry. to the pasha. as she
wanted to have II I'm safe keeping; but
she cannot get all the property back The
ex-minister declares that she sold the scrip
TO him while as for the jewery he pledged
it in at her own request
The jewelers. complaint is that he sup-
piled trinkets to the pasha for which he
has not been paid, while the commission
agent says that he lent him $500
The Montmartre has become place
! where foreigners flock thinking that they
sec the Bohemian Montmartre such as was
years ago There is no longer any 30,
e hemian life there Men ready 10 specu,
e late on the curiosity of foreigners have
! opened haunts which did not exist ter
e years ago, and the French call It a Coney
d island. II is far from being a Coney is.
/ land for there one sees atrocities which car
s only come from the brain Of morbid mer
e who want to make money, to astonish the
e rich foreign element and give them tn,
5 emotions of the horrible such as a man il
. Of coffin growing green with fear.
n Would Prevent Hail.
n A French invention for preventing tn,
formation OF hail is described in the las
T. bulletin Of the International Institute o.
e Agriculture. 1t takes the form of rockets
n or ''hail-dispelling petards," which, explod
;, ing at attitudes varying from 1900 to LOO
It feet, break up the hail clouds. Eighty fir
ing stations have been set for the protec
tior Of 5000 acres of land at Limagne.
e Bulldog Kills an Eagle.
" A few days ago at Cerbere France, al
u eagle swooped down on a farm into al
: open barn and was about to carry off
e child, when it was seized by the neck an,
killed by a bulldog
Canon CarrOn Dead.
The death of Canon Carron, superior o
the Great Saint Bernard monastery, vii
remind mOuntaineers Of the many associa
ton of the hospce and it's guardians wit
their sports. Not only has the convent ofte
served as a base Of operations for climb
ers but the monks. themselves. have &C
compished some notable ascents.
NaundOrTf Question Again.
The Naundorff question is again runnin
TO the front, and il VIII be interestin
= see what the result OF this new NOV
le will be. 1t has been raised by a petitio
fIom Charles Louis de Bourbon" VIII
claims to be the grandson Of the peer. Lit
IT, Dauphin, who was believed to have e.
- pired at the temple. This petition has bee
- examined by the senate's committee, whic
- IDEALS with such matters, and its chairman
g Boissy d Anglas who has long been
~ firm believer in the right OF the Naundori
~ to call themselves the descendants OF II
- III fated Louis XVI has drawn up fs
a. Il
- treats extensively with the whole ma
&c te. As the senates committee supports II
-, petition, the question can no longer I
- set aside.
" OF course, this has nothing 20 do wit
any special pretention under this republ
a, can regime. All that the Naundorffs as
is that their claim to call themselv,
- BOurbons may be legally recognized, az
- also that they may be admitted to FrenC
- nationality as a logical consequence
- such recognition, They go no further tina
~ this. nor, on the other hand, is their pr
~ tention, II it is acknowledged. likely
:, create any tremendous transformatiC
- scene in the ranks Of the lingering adhe
'U ents Of monarchy. Charles de Bourbon
has long been resident in Paris. He Is
quiet and amiable man, who keeps ve
y much to himself and certainly has no i'd
=, OF emulating the "Camolets du Roi'
- the way Of causing any bother to the a
=. thcrities.
he Public search for wives.
.se Malta is the chief town Of St. Jean
nd Angely. Some days ago the serenity OF 4
place was disturbed by the crier with ;
set trumpet, making the following announc
,at uCnt:
er. Two young men DESTROYS Of an ear
int marriage place themselves at the disp
in sition Of the girls OF the town Of an a
he to marry. The young men are now at &
his cafe, and viii be pleased TO meet girls q
ey sirous Of marriage, and will give pa
he uculsrs concernlng themselves" The B
1ut lice had 10 chase the girls away so lar
Vas the number which assembled.