Boys Play Skittles With Skulls

1905

Numerous bones and skulls hare been recently dug up near the Conservatoire des Arts et Metiers, and boys of the locality are playing skittles with them.

This will soon be stopped, as the human debris is to be carefully collected by the workmen who are excavating in the district.

The skulls and bones come from the old graveyard of the Abbey of St. Martin-des-Champs, which existed where the Commercial Conservatoire now stands. There was also another cemetery, that of St. Nicolas, in the same district, and it was built over in the eighteenth century. — Paris correspondence, London Telegraph.


Japanese Live By Rule

Their Diet and Habits Regulated Strictly Through a Thousand Years

An army officer, discussing recently with friends the surprising immunity from sickness of the Japanese troops as manifested in the present war, said that, while the first cause was doubtless the diet prescribed, the real reason was to be found in the way the dietary is adhered to.

The Anglo-Saxon fighting man might be told what to eat and what to eschew, but centuries of personal liberty in eating and drinking and the ordering of his daily regimen to suit himself had given him a certain independence. With the gallant little yellow man, however, the adherence to the instructions they receive on such matters was slave-like.

Their minutest personal actions had been regulated through a thousand years of feudal strife and dependence, which, taken with their peculiar temperament, had made them submissive to a degree unknown among the freer races, or races which, if not freer, had freer institutions, in which minute details of life were not so closely regulated.

Parisian Lawyers

1901

Their Life Very Different From That of American Attorneys

Lawyers in France, according to a Rochester gentleman, who has just returned from a three years' sojourn in Paris, do not have such an easy time as they do in this country, says the Rochester Union and Advertiser.

There, far from encouraging the bright young men of the land to enter into the legal profession, it would seem that that they are discouraged and every obstacle thrown in their path, the result generally being that it is only a rich man who can be a lawyer.

"Under the regulations at present in force," says this Rochester gentleman, "barristers, after they have kept their terms, and passed a sort of three years' novitiate, during which they have the title of advocate, but have no voice in the deliberations of the council of discipline, and are not inscribed on the rolls, can plead during the three years' probation, but it is a sort of empty privilege in nine cases out of ten."

When an eminent barrister in France employs a junior it is generally some one inscribed on the rolls; should he employ the probationer, the honor thus accorded him must suffice. He does not pay him. But he must live, and here is where the problem comes in, which is usually more easily solved by the American or English young lawyer than it is by his Parisian brother.

In the first place, there is the outlay for his gown, or beretta, which comes close to 80 francs, unless he prefers to hire it at the rate of 10 cents per day. Then he must engage some one to teach him deportment, for this is an essential qualification in this land, where King Etiquette rules with an iron hand. The services of a professor of the conservatory must also be called in to train his voice, unless nature has been kind to him in that respect. But these expenses are mere incidents. He must, above all, not live in small chambers and rent dingy offices. Poverty is a poor key to open the pockets of his clients.