National Palaces
Place du Panthéon, at the corner of Rue d'Ulm, is the most dismal hovel in the area, which is saying something. Gigantic cracks adorn the facade and also this sign:
Civil buildings and National Palaces.
And this revelation always produces its small effect.

Deprived of tea
A Parisian playwright, Mr. B..., tells us that finding himself last week on train 56, coming from Limoges, he wanted to go to the restaurant car driven by the very natural desire to have his tea. The communication door between the second class carriage in which he was and the aforementioned carriage being closed, he asked a woman on duty who replied verbatim:
-Second class travelers are not entitled to tea.

Obviously this woman was mistaken and had misunderstood an order received because, until further information, we refuse to believe that in this era of "expensive travel, people who do not take the first ones are the object of an such disdain

On the word “candidate” (continued)
Roman law contained a curious provision regarding candidacies.
If the candidate had only promised money without giving any, there was no crime; but, if he gave money, he was condemned to pay annually, until his death, an annuity of 100,000 sesterces (approximately 10,000 francs).

“For a long time,” observes Cicero, “certain candidates have conformed to the first prescriptions of this law and always promise without ever giving anything.” A singular law, isn't it, Mr. Billet?

Gérôme’s centenary
The inhabitants of Vesoul intend to commemorate, on May 11, the centenary of the birth of the most famous of their fellow citizens, the painter and sculptor Gérôme.

Of all the painter's paintings, the best known is the duel leaving a masked ball. But what few people know is that the subject was inspired by a sword encounter which took place between Arsène Houssaye and a journalist named Georges Dumay, after an evening spent at the masked ball at the Opéra-Comique . The adversaries met in the workshop of a mutual friend and injured each other.

As for the most famous statue of Gérôme sculptor, it is a life-size nude dancer, which caused a great stir at the Salon around thirty years ago, because some claimed that Miss Cléo de Mérode had served as a model for the artist.

HE EXPELS A MUTILEE to rent furnished accommodation
We give him a ticket
David R..., of Polish nationality, tenant of a large apartment on Boulevard de la Gare, had sublet two furnished rooms to a nurse and to a war veteran with an 80% pension.

Wanting to have these rooms for the period of the Olympic Games, Mr. R... gave notice to his tenants on the 15th of this year. The expelled disabled person came to ask for asylum at the central post of the 13th arrondissement.

The police commissioner of the Gare district, informed of the fact, intervened and, thanks to him. the mutilated man returned to his room.

The landlord R..., who had neglected to make his declaration to the police headquarters, was issued a fine for illegal accommodation.