Weekly News. — 1892-09-29 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

DISGRACEFUL ORGIES IS PARIS.  Orgies smiliar to those which lately took place at Botivalot's, on the Boulevard do Temple, seem destined to become the fashion in certain fast sets in Paris, unless the public authorities step in and stop them. On Tuesday night, says the Daily Telegraph correspondent in the French capital, a dinner, or, as it is pompously called, a "banquet," was given to over 250 women of the bale publics in a restaurant off the Boulevards. Invitations had been sent out to 300 females by the organiser of the feast, who is a Count. This nobleman had made a bet with an opulent contractor that he would succeed in securing the attendance of at least 200 of these women. He won his wager, for the largest rooms in the restaurant were well filled. All went well while the solids were being de3patched, but during the copious consumption of fluids accompanying the dessert the damsels began to quarrel. Bad words were bandied about, eye-punching and face•tearing followed, and finally the intoxicated disputants flung empty wine bottles and seltzer syphons at each other's heads. A dozen of the guests fell bleeding under the tables, and the others gave themselves up to the wildest folly. The noise was so great that the persons living in the neighbourhood called for the intervention of the police. Eventually the women were all cleared out of the establishment by the waiters, and the landlord was left lamenting his broken crockeryware and hi i stolen plate, for some of the more sober of the disreputable party had confiscated a considerable quantity of silver spoons and forks before vanishing. The owner of the damaged and stolen oroeerty had, however, some consolation in reflecting that he had been paid for the dinners in advance. The damage and loss by thefts are assessed at £2B. Some of the women also robbed one another during the free fights. The departure of the brawling females from the restaurant led to further scenes in the street, which is ordinarily a quiet and respectable one, and is inhabited by peaceful tradespeople. Such scenes as these, adds the correspondent, are new under the Third Republic, and recall the worst days of the Empire, when Parisians were dancing and feasting on the brink of a voloaack  Row boats—Star vessels. A drowning man will grasp at a straw. So will a thirsty one.  _ Is a gun thought to be doing great execution when it hangs Ere ?  It is quite possible to get a plump refusal from a slender girl. "Does your new dress fit you well, Clara?" "Oh, splendidly! 1 can hardly move or breathe In it."  She: "I can sympathise with you. I was married once myself. He: "But you weren't married to a woman."  A very sad case of murder and suicide has Occurred near Paris. It seems that a married couple were in the habit of constantly attendine balls in different parts of the city. There the wife formed the acqaintance of a young fellow, and the association became a liaison. In despair, the wife determined to leave her husband, and induced her lover to travel with her to Laroche. There, in the cemetery, the corpses of the two were found lying on a grave. They had shot each other.