Paris, Nov. 27.
Count de Martel, who for many \years has been French Minister at} Peking, has been appointed Ambassador to Japan.—Reuter, editions of the newspapers is the remark of the "Quotidien:" have come to regard Clemenceau as immortal."—Reuter.
One Passion—France BML Georges Clemencea tremier of France, jan octogenarian, had seen every~ thing, done everything, experienced every sensation,"and had no illu sions left, and no passion for anything save France.
So far from being outworn man, he wi to the very end, full (lof force and fire, possessed of volcanic energy and almost superhuman vitality and endurance.
Honoured and cateemed as he is to-day as a great European figure, his caustic and bitter tongue left him few personal friends. His housekeeper Clothude, and his sister were probably the only two persons who understood him thoroughly. The Intter lady is her brother's feminine counterpart, and they got on very. well together.
Whatever love the old man had to bestow on animate objects was sivan to his dog Bif, to whom he talked as to a human being, and to his donkey Léonie, whom he liked to point out to visitors as a creature in many respects superior to the great statesmen of Earope and
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.