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,of the jewels and so £06993: 9:. 0:0 .29 0:0 9:. 3:. 0:9 0:09;. 9:0 dog. 03%: 1.9 2. , I _ 0.9 X. ‘ 9:. )2. 0:9 ,;. 0;. 9.0 _ 0.0 (c 0’0 oz. ’3' 0'. 6:. {a Q . do a, o? .0, . 0.9 . "O...’..0.00000.....‘ .00. O... 3. . ‘60.: o .t).OO.'¢900.00.00.00.0D.‘O.‘O.OO.OQ.OO.10000...:3 It seemed a mere commonplace in- cidentâ€"the burglary at Professor Champre’s residence in the Rue des Iâ€"â€"-, one of the fashionable quar- ters of Paris. Cleverly planned it might have been, but what of that?‘ In all large cities are not cleverlyâ€"planned burglaries every day, or rather evâ€" ery night. occurrences? To all appearance, indeed, there seemed to be nothing whatever ex- ceptional about this particular bur- glary, and as for. the likelihood of there being any element of sensaâ€" tionalism 'in it, well,4the keenestâ€" nosed of detectives might have smilâ€" ed with amusement at the childish simplicity of the mere suggestion. The facts were these. Professor Champre, one of the great luminaries of the medical world in Paris, went with his newlyâ€"married wife, a wo- man of great beauty and attain! ments, to spend the Christmas holiâ€" days with some friends in Lyons. When he returned, after an absence of a. fortnight, _ he found that his house had been broken into, and that jewels and securities to the value of $50,000 had been taken from the safe. The opening of the safe was in itself a masterpiece of the cracksman’s skill. In the upper part no fewer than sixty holes were bored: the layer of ashes was reâ€" moved, and in the second plate a similar number of holes had been pierced. In addition to the valua- bles mentioned, several oil paintings were missing, and in the Professor’s study, strewn all over the floor, were the ruins of: a collection of rare anatomical preparations ruthlessly destroyed. The Professor at once reported the facts to the police, and also to the insurance office in which he held a policy against burglary for $60,000. “I do not stand to lose much in money,” he said, “but my unique collectibnâ€"ah, it is that I am grievâ€" ed about. That cannot be replaced. It was unique, and now it was deâ€" stroyed! What for? I cannot un- derstand . ’ ’ “Pure malice, I suppose,’: the inâ€" surance man said. ‘TI would like to catch the villain who robbed me of my treasures,” re- turned the Professor. “1 would [lay him-alive!” . But “the villain“ was not to be caught, in spite of the combined efâ€" forts of the police and the detectivos directly employed by the insurance oflice to hunt ’him down. In fact, none of them possessed the slightest clue as to who “the villain” might be that they were looking for. How- ever, they continued looking for him ~â€"here, there and everywhere. Afâ€" ter some months it seemed that a clue would be forthcoming. It had 'bcen ascertained that the bulk of the missing securities had been sold '_in Lyons during the Professor’s visa it there! That was certainly 1‘0â€" Jnarkable; and yet it might have been only an accidentâ€"merely a valâ€" ueless coincidence. ’Ionsieur Pepin, the detective, however, had his own thoughts about that. “What,” said he to himself, 'in a. moment of inspiration, over his cof- fee in the Boulevard Bel-anger, “if -ladame Champrc â€"- ah, good heaâ€" vens! what a sensation it would creâ€" ate! Here is the clue I must fol- low.” And follow it he did, secretly and persistently, till to his boundless dcâ€" light he got to know of a circumâ€" stance which entirely confirmed him in his suspicion that the burglar might prove to be no other than Madame Champre herself! Madame Champre, it appeared, had a cousin, a merchant, for whom she entertained a great liking. At about the time of the soâ€"called bur- glary this merchant was in financial difficulties, was, in fact, on the very verge of bankruptcy; when quite sud- denly, but by what means nobody had been able to ascertain, he comâ€" pletely recovered his position. “Now,” thought Monsieur Pepin, "unless I am a hopeless fool, here is a clear case of two and two make four. Madame Champre, in order to save her favorite, possessed herself securities, sold them in Lyons, and handed over the proceeds to this cousin. The breakâ€" ing into the house and the safeâ€" bahl‘she arranged that, perhaps the cousinâ€"ah, yes, that was his part in the affair. And the oil paintings? If they are not hidden away some- where in the house, then I would exâ€" pect to find them at the cousin’s. For certain, it is all too plain to be doubted: and I will communicate at once with monsieur the Professor. Ha! what a sensation the affaire will create!” So, without more ado, Monsieur Pepin went in search of writing nu- terials, and wrote to the Professor in Paris as follows: “Complete success has at length rewarded my untiring efforts, mon- s-ieur. I have made the most sen- sational discovery. I know who the supposed burglar is! On certain conditions I will bury the secret eternally in my bosom. Perhaps, monsieur, you Will have the goodâ€" ness to has-ten to Lyons to confer with me in the matter. I shall ex- pect you the day after toâ€"morrow.” Monsieur Pepin received no reply to his vaguely insinuating letter; but on the next evening his eyes fell with amazement upon the following immediately communicated letter astounding paragraplr in his paper: TRAGIC DEATH OF PROFESSOR CHAMPRE. As we go to press the sad intelliâ€" gence of the tragic death of Mon- sieur Louis Champre, the famous Parisian Professor of Anatomy, who committed Suicide by throwing himâ€" self out -of a window on the fifth storey of his residence in the Rue des 1â€", at noon toâ€"day. Conjec- ture ‘is busy in the circles of Parisian society, where the, eminently-gifted Professor Was universally esteemed, in suggesting explanations of the desâ€" perate deed, but up to the present the real cause remains an inscru- table mystery. .In view of the high position to which Monsieur Champre had attained in his noble profession, and which he filled with such brilâ€" liant distinction, it is difficult to conceive that he, in the prime of life, and in the'enjoyment of health and fame and fortune, and the society of the charming lady whom he had but recently made his wife, should put an’end to himself. It is easier to believe that the unfortunate Proâ€" fessor was the victim of an aeoi-dcnt, or even of violence. "Inscrutable mystery!” said Mon- sieur Pepin to 'himself, with a grim smile. “Ah! so it is to all the world but one man, but me. Yes, Monsieur Editor, you are right; it is difficult to believe it is a case of suicide; it is easier to attribute it to violence. It was not suicide; it was murder!” Then the selfâ€"confident hunter of criminals lay back ‘in his chair and, closing his eyes, fell to dreaming of what to all probability had taken place in that room on the fifth storey of the residence in, the Rue des Iâ€"â€"â€". And this is what he saw, with a vividness as real almost as if the scene had actually been enacted before his open eyes in broad dayâ€" light. ’l‘he letter led the Professor to susâ€" pect his wife of the theft. Not to expose her before the servants, lest she should prove innocent, he reâ€" quested her to go with him to the top storey of the house. With a frightened look upon her face, now quite colorless, she rose and followâ€" ed him. There he read the letter to her and, choking with emotion, questioned her on the matter. At first she hesitated, but at length, with dowucast eyes and guilty shame she confessed the crime. Stung to madness by her guilt, he raved at her, forcswore her, and declared his intention to’acquaint the police with the facts and have her arrested. She fell upon her knees before him imâ€" ploring him with tears to be merciâ€" ful, but he spurned her from him. Presently, exhausted by his outburst of. passionate resentment and bitter grief, he paused by a window, and leaned out of it to let the fresh breeze cool his heated brain. Then, in 'an instant, it flashed upon the wife’s mind that here was her op- portunity to avert ruin and disâ€" grace. Immediately svhe sprang to the window, and with one determined effort pushed her threatener head- long to the pavement seventy feet below. ' ' Jean Pepin saw all this with his closed eyes vividly. It was his haâ€" bit thus to dream himself present amid the circumstances of the crime he was investigating, to witness it, as by a kind of second sight, enactâ€" ing itself before himâ€"a habit to which he owed a great deal of the success of his career in the detection of crime, and one in which he imâ€" plicitly trusted until, as rarely hap- pened, he. found himself indubitably follo‘.'ing'a false scent. He immediately put himself in communication with the authorities, with the result that Madame Chamâ€" pi'e was arrested on the double. charge of theft and murder, and Paris was provided with a fresh sensation, to which the evil tongue of gossip speedily imparted a piquancy of a kind relished by those 'of depraved tastes. When the day of her trial came, Madame Champre, pale and languid, and worn with grief or remorse to a more shadow of her former self, had to beled into court supported on the arms of tw0 Officials. All eyes of the great crowd which throngcd the court room were turn- ed 'upon herâ€"some in pity and won- derlng unbeliei in her guilt; others in more depraved curiosity speculatâ€" ing what sordid revelations would transpire in the Course of the proâ€" ceedings. ‘ In a broken voice, to the charges preferred against ‘ her, she declared hers-elf innocent, upon which counsel rose to state the case for the pro- secution. It was that none of the missing jewels or securities were sold in Paris; but what was more significant was the fact that they Were all sold in Lyâ€" ons during the fortnight of Madame Champre’s visit. to that city: and more significant still~positively con- clusiveâ€"Was the equally well-attested fact that in every instance they were sold by a lady whom certain w1t- i he declared, 1esses present would identify as the significant, accused. _ A . An additional confirmation of this evidence was derived from another fact of the highest valueâ€"the fact that the missing oil paintings were| found concealed under the floor in Madame Champre’s bou-doir in the Rue des Iâ€"â€". That was as far as he Would pro- ceed then with the evidence in sup- port of the first charge. _ Coming to the second, the terrible indictment of having sent her husâ€" band‘ to his death, his case was, in as few words as possible, this: Monsieur Jean Pepin having trac- ed the robbery'to Madame Champre wife to go his" discovery to Dr. Champre. Up- on receipt ‘of that astounding inforâ€" mation the deceased requested his ,with, him to a.» certain room on the top storey of the house, presumably‘to save her the humilia- tion of exposure before the serâ€" vants. There he read Monsieur Pep- in’s letter to her, and demanded an explanation. - Seeing that it. Was useless to deny her guilt she conâ€" fessed to the crime. Naturally, the husband was angry, and no doubt threatened to put her away and to disclose the facts to the police. It now became the wife’s object to deâ€" feat this intention, in order to save herself from such public disgrace. The opportunity presented itself when her husband, in his mingled wrath and grief, turned away and went to the window. He leaned. over it, and â€" “ah, ma-d moment!â€" the wife rushes to' him, and hurls him down to death to save her- self!” But she was seen, if not red- handed in the very deed, she Was seen as she stepped back from the window. At this pronouncement a murmur of sensation ran through the court. Here was a new fact, and of the most startling nature, and it sent a cold shudder through the friends of the accused. Witnesses from Lyons proved the sale there, during the visit of the accused, of all the missing jewels and securities. Three of them were quite positive in their identification of the prisoner with the person from whom they bought a number of the jewels and securities; two others were not quite so sure, but were ra- ther inclined to identify her as the person concerned. A police Official deposed to having searched the house in which the acâ€" cused resided in the Rue des Iâ€"â€"-â€"-, and of having found the missing oil paintings secreted beneath the floor in her boudoir. There were seven of them, none of them very large; and two of them were wrapped in an old opera cloak bearing Madame Champre’s name. " ’l‘ien came the most sensational evidence of the day, that of the ser: vant, Marie Boyer, who saw her mis- tress in ' the act of stepping back from the window in the fifth storey.‘ "I head the Professor tell Madame to go with him upstairs, that he had something very unpleasant ,to say} I" was in the next room at the time, dusting the things. Madame went with him. When I heard the door shut I crept up the stairs to hear What it wasâ€"the unpleasant thing the Professor was going - to say. He was reading Something about the affairâ€"the burglary; then he stopped, and asked Madame if shel knew who it was the letter meant. Madame did not answer.‘ I did not hear her speak. Then the Profesâ€" sor said, as if he was angry and sorry at the same time, ‘Listen, Adele, I will tell you who the bur- glar was.’ I did not hear any more, because one of them came towards the door, and I ran away quietly not to be seen there if they should look out. In ten minutes or so I -, crept up there again. The standing half open now, and I saw Madame stepping back from the win- dow, very much upset. She saw me, and looked frightened. and cried out: ‘Oh, Marie, the Professor has thrown himself out of the window!’ ” “And did you believe her?” asked counsel. - The ,irl shrugged her expressively. .. “You did not beliéve her?” "I had my doubts.” “You had? Tell me why?” “Because she looked so frightened when she saw me.” "You mean that she looked ty?” The witness nodded. “You thought from her look and manner that she had done something very wrong, and that she was. afraid whether you had seen her do it?” “Yes, so I‘thought.” With that, as the complement of all- that had preceded, Madame Champre’s friends, in common with the crowd, felt that all u as lost. The best that the most sanguine of them dared feebly to hope for was a verdict of manslaughter. The prisoner herself was a touchâ€" ing picture of blank despair, and might well have drawn tears of pity from the stoniest bosom. Her counsel urged a pathetic plea in defence of her, but what weight could pathos have against the evi- dence he was powerless to rebut? None knew how little better than he himself. The judge was not, as we say in this country, a “hangingjudge.” On the contrary, although in his time he had sent' several to the guillo- tine, he bore a reputation for un- usual leniency -â€"â€" "the prisoner’s friend” he was called. Yet on this |occasion his summing up was disâ€" tinctly severe, and at the finish of it what slender ‘chances- had remained to the accused were completely dis- pellcd. He expressed his grief to'sec a woâ€" man of the prisoner’s standing in such an ignominous position; but with greater warmth and at greater length he declared the abhorence iwliich they must all in common feel ‘for the unspeakable baseness of the crimes charged against her. The levidence the defence had [been unable Ito rebut, and he was bound to say that that evidence appeared to him shoulders guil- ler. Let the jury weigh it well, and demands of justice. The jury filled suppressed excitement, chamber. In I . " "" ’ """' "“ l . ' ' " ' . ‘ " , _ men Who held the destiny of their fellow-creature in their hands turned: They had found her guilty! All eyes turned to where she stood visibly struggling with some great emotionâ€"What, they little dreamed. “I am innocentâ€"that is all I can say," when she was at liberty to speak. "I cannot prove my innoâ€" cence, yet I swear to you before the great God above that I am innocent of these terrible charges. I loved my husband With all my heart. I Was proud to be his Wife. I would have died for him. I . . . I swear to you I am innocent." Touching, and with the ring of sinIerity in it, but as against the unrefuted eviâ€" dence, how powerless! . Then the judge spoke, and Ma- dame Champre heard the death sentâ€" ence passed upon her. For a mo- ment her lip quivered, and it seemed that she would speak; but she clenchâ€" ed her teeth and stood looking be~ fore her with a rigid stare, like one who has just emerged from a great struggle and whose features are yet set. - The judge motioned to the warders to take her away, and she turned to go. But at that moment her counâ€" sel sprang to his feet, and astound- ed the court by crying out, in a voice full of emotion: “Stay! I will not, I cannot, permit the sacrifice!” Then, addressing the judge, he said: “Sir, pardon this irregularity, but I cannot maintain silence and see that noble woman go to a death she no more deserves than you or ]. I declare before you that Madame Champre is innoeent, and that if she will but_speak, if she will but put the court in possession of a. certain document, her innocence will be, esâ€" tablis-hed absolutely. ,I appei'il to you, Madame, to acquit yourself." "I cannot acquit myself,” she re- turned, with a froWn of displeasure. "Then I must,” said her counâ€" sel. . let the prisoner be searched, thud a decument, a letter, a confession, Will be found upon her which will completely exonerate her.” '_ . ' She- struggled- hard to retain the mysterious document and tried to destroy it, but a warder wrenchediit just- in time from her hands, -“and passed it'bn to the judge. was read aloud, amid breathless silâ€" ence on the part of the amazed au- ditors, an intense sensation prevailâ€" cd. "I have just received a letter,” it door was . to be conclusive against the prison- ‘not suffer sentiment to override the retired to consult toâ€" gether, and the hum of voices, full of . the of the theatre and Into the cafe ad- an. as a human being consumes r twenty minutes the joining. The ran, “from the detective, Jean Pepâ€" in, of Lyons, from which it is clear that he has discovered the real auâ€" thor of the burglary at my residence in December, who is none other than myself. Pressed for large sums of moneyâ€"never mind by whom or for what purposeâ€"I conceived the idea of the pretended burglary in order to meet my secret liabilities. The jewâ€" els and securities I sold through an agentâ€"never mind whoâ€"during our stay in Lyons; the oil paintings I concealed under the floor inyour boudoir, and broke open the safe, and so forth, to give color to the ial'fair. From the sale of the jewols 'and papers I received 4945.000, and lfrom the insurance office I received 25,150,000 in payment of my claim. The amount of my secret liabilities was over $185,000, but with those two sums and what I had besides I ,was able to meet them. But now I lam discovered and ruined. I canâ€" not face tho shame of exposure. Forâ€" give me, my dear wife. I will not try to" make excuses for myself. I deâ€" scrve the fate that has overtaken me. But do not-expose my shame; for your ()Wn sake let it not be known that I was a thief and a per- jnrcr. Goodâ€"bye, my dear wife. I must put an end to myself. Your unworthy husband, Louis Champre.” “Madame,” said the judge, in a changed tone; “why. did you not tell us of this confess-ion? Is it possible gthat to shield your unhappy husâ€" band’s good name, you would have braved death?" “Yes,” was the quiet answer. _”I‘fis goo-d nameâ€"to preserve it as the world knew it, that I would have died to do.” And so it came to pass that, against her will, madame Champre’s innocence was established, and the mystery of the burglary in the Rue des Iâ€"~â€" unveiled to the world. â€" London Titâ€"Bits. â€"-â€"-â€"â€"\# SOME ANIMAL illEBRIATES MOST UNUSUAL INSTANCES OF INTEMPEIRANCE. Baboon on a Rampageâ€"A Tipsy Eagle Captured in Scotland. Instances have been recorded of domestic animals and farmyard in- habitants exhibiting reprehensible cravings for strong drink, but it is not perhaps generally known that this sad habit has also at times afflicted other animals generally cre- dited with being quite exempt from such depraved tastes. One very remarkable case was that of a drunken baboon. The animal was a member of a menagerie per- forming at a certain theatre, and one afternoon by some means or other the animal got loose and invaded the stage. The keepers tried to catch the animal, but ~this only seemed to' make the creature angry, and it rushed at its pursuers, seizing them with its great hands and throwing them about as if they Were children. Finally it dashed through the door birmcn fled for his when it ' humor. branches of used, after having been previously ilife, and tlie'baboon leapt upon the reâ€" counter, Where it proceeded to drinlr whiskey, beer, brandy, and other liquors. It then hurled the bottlex at the mirrors, and at length rushed back into the theatre with bottles. under both arms and others grasped in each hand. These missiles, .af- ter emptying the contents, the apt hurled in every direction, smashing. several windows. It further. do stroyed a number of costumes by tearing them to bits, and for half an hour the animal raged. thus without hindrance, in a. very evident state of intoxication, until finally the keeper and his assistants succeeded in. chaining it up. ‘ On one occasion a tipsy eagle was captured in the north ofSCotland. It had alighted upon'a barrel of whisky, and sampled some of the. contents until it became DECIDEDLY FUDDLED. When some one tried to capture it the bird made a comical show of drunken resistance, but was soon overcome. - Not long since a hedgehog in Glas- gow set a shocking example to his steadier companions. Some beer was accidentally spilled on the floor; the hedgehog. immediately found room for the greater part of I-the liquor, and then, after staggering about for a few minutes in a drunkensstate, fell lifeless to the floors A- iSQl‘qe- what- similar instance was ithe .‘ wast: with a pet canary which -was given a. little brandy and water to. sip after an illness; it tasted one drop, and immediately set to and finished the lot. For several mjnptes it seemed to be trying to discover why the perch swayed to such an unusual extent, but after wrestling ineffec- tively with the problem for some time, gave it up and died. A wine merchant of Villette was some time ago annoyed by thefts from his,‘ cellar, accompanied by senseless destruction. He also no- ticed that his horse was aiiiicted with a queer kind of staggers,‘ but. did not think of connecting the two phenomena. One night, however, hearing a noise in his cellar, wiich was under the stable, he went to in-- vestigate, armed with a lantern and a revolver. There lay the horse or its'side, kicking away in sheer good At every kick a‘,lb;:1_i'1'eljliead went or a few bottles of'ehoice wine flowed over the cellarfloor. The an- imal was unable to get up, and i! was only by the aid of some member; of the nearest fire brigade that in IIOISTED OUT OF THE CELLAR A veterinary surgeon who Was call- ed pronounced the cause of its alilic tion to be a too sedulous devotim to intoxicating liquors. It turnet out that the horse had acquired a taste for liquor through the groon having on one occasion given if wine to drink whendt was over- worked. I‘laving acquired the taste the depraved creature had got intf the habit .of wandering downstairi. when thirsty, and successfully get: ting back again to the stable. 0: the occasion of the discovery, how- ever, the animal had imbide sc freely that he had at last fallen over hopelessly intoxicatcz. To the Indians of Cherokee tlu great Fish Festival is one of Ulf principal events of the year, and f0] a month before the day set apart for the festivities, the preparations are begun by damming up a hole in a selected creek to trap fish for the feast. When the day arrives hun- dreds of men assemble, armed wit]: bows and a1‘1'0\".'s,aii(l make for the hole, which is siizu'ilj." alive with fish ‘of various sorts, when they have a grand slaughter. Sometimes, how ever, the fish are too lively and dart about too quickly to give the In- dianr; any time to take aim, and then they resort to a process known as “buckeying.” This gets its nanu from the fact that the leaves and the buckeye tree are crushed between stones so as to al- low the sap to be easily dissolved by the \‘ater. This has the effect of in- toxicating the fish, which ' Alf-IE THEN EASILY CAUGHT. Ixiunagers of mcmigcrics and em- ploycs at the various zoological gar- dens know that elephants under their charge are prepared to go on a wild “orgie” whenever opportunity of- fers; their taste for intoxicants be- ing cultivated by the whisky which is officially given them when they are ill or low, the quantity varying from five to ten gallons, according to the requirements of the case. In Africa the negrncs make use of a weakness for drink to capture monkeys, who are extremely fond of a certain kind of beer brewed by the natives. The men place quanti~ ties of the liquor within easy reach of the monkeys, and wait until their victims are utterly befuddled. In this state they are unable to recog- nize the difference between negro and ape. When a negro takes thc hand of one of them and leads him off a second monkey takes the bane of the first, and so on, and it is no uncommon sight for a single negrc to be seen carrying off a, string of staggering monkeys. W THE SMITH FAMILY. Representatives of the Smith fa. mily have applied for space for Va building at the World’s Fair at St. Louis, to be the headquarters of the members of that great family when visiting the Exposition. 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