A Frenchwoman's Funeral

The Paris correspondent of the London Telegraph, writing of a funeral recently held in an interior town of France, says the dead wonian had been in easy circuinstances and had long been beset by the odd ambition to be buried in pomp and spleudor and with the aoconipaniment of a large crowd. With this end in view she beqneathed to her principal tenant, a steady going greengrocer, the greater part of her fortune, consisting of about $15,000, on the express coudition that she should be interred in state, the hearse being drawn by six horses caparisoned in the trappings of woe, with all the usual adjuncts to match. 2vot content with this precaution. the worthy dame, when she perceived that her end was uigh, left legacies not only to a variety of charitable institutions, but also to the fireBien of the place, to the local band and to the gymnai-tic clubs of the district. All these societies were, of course, represeuted with becoming gratitude at the obsequies, which iu scrupnlons accorduuce with the wishes of the deceased benefactress of the lucky greengrocer and the charitable and other institutious, were on a magnificeut and, indeed, colossal scale, seeing that up■ward of 6,000 persons belonging to all classes of society followed her mortal remains to their last resting place.