If the communist type has changed, so has the criminal. The modern French burglars and adventurers hungrily watching for opportunities have learnt the lesson of keeping up appearances. However hard up they may be, at times, they maintain an agreeable xterior. The Seine Assize jurors required to try Jules Huignard, a man who smashed a boulevard jeweller's window with a hammer and took Frs. 500,000 worth of jewellery while his accomplices that the new girth was lighter than covered him with volleys from their the other, whereupon the careless-: revolvers, found themselves conness of trainer and jockey was fronted in the dock by a nice-look-eloquently denounced by the sports-i ing young man of 27, clean-shaven men who had seen the cup of and neatly groomed. No one hap-happiness dashed from their lips; pening to meet him in the street but the breaking of the girth was! could have imagined that he was denied, and one really does not' a professional criminal with several know how to account for the lost called the pattern revolution. Un-4 oz., unless it happened by the convictions against him. He spoke intervention of Nature. Mr. Cohn, /in a low voice, flushed from time over whose first explosion of dis-!to. time, and looked and behaved appointment it would be well to like a well-brought-up son of a draw a veil, declares that the! most respectable family. He h: scales were wrong and that the'the picturesque role in the affair, needle was slightly bent and there-' and he was unlucky enough to be fore did not indicate the exact the only one of the five bandits to weight on the dial- He applied to be caught- His share was Frs. 16,- the Stewards for permission to 000 and a couple of diamonds. His have the scales tested by an expert, and as this suggestion has been rejected he considers' he has been treated in an unfair and un sportsmanlike way and threatens to sell off all his horses and give up racing in France. Thus are international incidents created. France is delighted over the downfall of Mr. Lloyd George, but does she fully realize what an enemy four accomplices, now believed to be in South America, are no doubt planning to come back to France when the period of prosecution has expired, and live like gentlemen. The bulk of the profit seems to have gone to the receivers who sold the stolen jewellery. When we find hardened villains masquerading under the disguise of timid young men, considerable circumspection in making chance acquaintances seems more than ever necessary A very sensible decision has been taken for the sale of a national white elephant. When Mme.
iers, widow of the French state-man, died, it was found that in her will, dated 1887, she had left her pearl necklace, a pendant, a sapphire and ruby chatelaine and other jewellery to the Louvre Museum, probably under tha impression that these treasures had some artistic or sentimental value Successive curators of the Louvre have allowed these articles to be exhibited in the same gallery with the Crown jewels bat have never considered them as suitable for the Louvre, and now, after many years, a scheme for utilizing them has been agreed upon. With the consent of the executors, the Thiers jewels are to be sold and tha money divided between the Louvre museum funds and the foundations created under Mme. Thiers's will. Mme Thiers's jewels, though cldfashioned, contain some valuable stones, which, when reset, should fetch quite a considerable sum of money, but as the law cannot wink at such a departure from the desires of Mme. Thiers, a special Act of Parliament will be required, and a Bill has been laid on the table of the Chamber of Deputies for this purpose.
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