MISCELLANEOUS.

Evening Star, Volume IX, Issue 2696, 7 October 1871, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS.

Paper clothing is made in China and Japan. A coat costs ten, and a whole suit twentyfive cents. The Board of Trade returns for June show an increase in the amount of exports 11 per cent., as coftipared with the same month last year. Many of the ladies trained in the obstetrical college of the Female Medical Society are now settled in practice as skilled midwifes, and succeeded admirably. The London School Board have decided that all girls must learn drawing, but the learning of cooking is left optional. Among the petitions lately laid before M. Tbiers—who has been deluged with all sorts of curious memorials, was the following Monsieur le President: “ Let little children come unto me,” said the Master of all. Emboldened by these words, we venture to come to you and say to you without useless phrases—we are not old enough to make them —‘Give us onr Tu 1 tries garden ; give us our {pile of sand, and our hide-and-seek behind the great trees. Our hoops are growing rusty avaunt the walls, our shovels crack against the pavements, and our little legs are growing paralysed for wan‘ of running.” You have assured the tranquility of the parents; now assure the happinesss of the children: “The Babies of Paris.” It is pleasing to know that this petition was promply granted. Indeed, the world would have held M. Thiers inexcusable had he turned a deaf ear to so touching a plea from the litt’e ones who yearned for the old familiar play ground in the garden of the Tuilleries.