TRUE HUMANITY.
The Constitutionnel some time ago contained the following unosten- tatious article.
" The Philanthropic Society of Paris, known under the name of `The United Brethren,' in its sitting of the 17th of this month, decreed two prizes to virtue. The candidates who obtained them excited a lively interest among the assembly which this meeting had attracted. The one was given to the widow Ligeonnet, keeper of the bas relief of the Monument of the Etoile, for having out of her feeble resources received, fed, and tended a sick man of eighty, whom she still supports : the other to Charles Turquety, who in his humble calling as a barber, which he has exercised in the Faubourg du Route since his twelfth year, supports his mother, his two brothers and a sister, and has even contrived to impose such privations on himself as to give bread to an infirm neighbour."
Most of the English who visit Paris go to the Monument, and will feel the double claim of the poor woman who takes care of its orna- ment ; and those who can employ the barber of the Faubourg du Roule (a very expert operator) will obtain a better sensation than the mere smoothness of chin. We wish ourselves in Paris, because we could give him a double crop daily. [M. GALIGNANI will perhaps be good enough to repeat this.]
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