A Visit To Waterloo

Jule Claretie, the administrator of the Comedie Francaisé, paid a visit, shortly hefore his arrival in London, to the battlefild of Waterloo, says the London Daily News. It was seventyeight years ago that the battle was fought. yet M. Claretie was still able to glean something in the locality from actual eye witnesses of that ruighty historie event. In the Httle wine-shop called the "Belle Alliance," where Wellington and Blncher, according to an inseription, met and saluted after their victory, he found two old womon engaged in darning stockings. They appeared to take very little notice of strangers, but, on being questioned, the eider of the two deelared that she was over ninety years of age. "I was twelve years old," she sak!, "at the time of the battle. I was living wiüi my parents at Plancenoit. We took reiuge, all of us, on the Friday in the woods with thecattle. It was on Sunday they fought. It was just after my first communion, and on the day of St. Uonnat. a saint in whose honor there is a pilgrimage in the neighborhood. 'lii'ii all was over we went out and saw dcad bodies everywhere. At night after the battle there was a storm. The bodies 'beeame swollen through the rain, and there were fears of a pestilence. They were buried in heaps, with dry branches between each layer, and then the branches were set fire to, or quicklime was poured in the tronches."