OUR PARIS LETTER.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXV, Issue 2837, 18 September 1890, Page 4

OUR PARIS LETTER.

(I'lili.M Ol'll P.VUIS (' )l!!lKKI"ONIlK.vr ) Pakis. .lime lit). Jt eommetieoM to rain books cm tin , inimiiii'iicu of European war. (Julonci Hennobert publisher no loss than three; volume.* on the suhj et prool that, the lon;,' pfitdinir oollisimi must hit di-lnnt. ; a hope, in which cveiyonc with a ln-.-iil t,o lose, devniitiy wishes. Arni-ehaiii<ts mid after diuuer rlarel drinkers, are tutting up the naviiu i.f Europe, and apportioning victories and defeat*, following the number i>l keel", omitting volume of ship, weight of metal, rapidity of firing, ijni jknc.H-i of .sniling, and like true laud-lul-beis, excluding tho trod Hazard, mid play of .seamenship, l!.e latter just necessary at. present, us in the days of wooden walls and propelling canvass. The Cointe E. du Kerarty, exhaustively (jxtiiniiioH, what In; designates Uioagrioultural crisis in tho United States, ami of the fiiiluru of Mr Blaiiid's I'tni.Amirictni panacea, to prevent tho ruin of landed proprietors and tenants on lease. He draws attention to the thousands of dollars annually expended by tho Agricultural Bureau, at Washington, in bringing out agronomic reports and statistics, tho greator part of which are purchased by tho grocers of Washington, at ■') cents per lb. Since Franco, 1.0 writes, has had tho egotistical foresight to close her frontiers against American pork, that which has wounded Jonathan's pulse and pride, and which ho will not forgive, lie has fallen back on vexatious reprisals against tho foreigner. However, .Jonathan maliciously retorts on Franco ; "our pork that you havo excluded, alleyitig it lo be unhealthy, has been awarded first houoiiM at the ISS9 Champ de Mars Exhibition. " The Count," maintains, "that tho American farmerisapfroaehing ruin; that the Bonanza wheat farina aro things of tho past, and that McKinloynm is th>) grave-digger for American industry." It is to bo hoped matters are not so black. In ISSB Paris consumed in tons, l(i'i,000 of butchers' meat and 187,000 of pork. In 1887, 17,000 horses were slaughtered, yielding 3,7-6 tons of meat; 43 mules, iU tons of meat, and "2-H asses, that piodiiced 12,000 tons of flush. The fillet sells at lDsons a lb ; intemediary qualities, at 10 to l.'Jsous, and coarser morsels at I to (nous, and all the year round. Not more than one-third of the horse, &c, flesh is sold directly, the rest being worked up into sausages. ft may bo taken for granted that Oermaoy and England, before dealing with Zanzibar, duly examined what concrete or Hinterland claims France had upon the Sultanate. France demands (l.iiimges not the less- - . By her East African possessions, (treat Britain now possesses the Nile from start to finish. Khartoum will, in a short time, he aa English as Alexandria and Cairo, and Berber nt Sunkiin. If England surreudered her rights on Madagascar to Franco, that would not bo unacceptable. I'ufc li'ngfhnd, who utili/os missionaries in territorial aggrandizement., us freely and as vigorously as Franco herself - while not endowing them out of the national tiixeu -docs not like 1.0 let t!r;in go; still less, to close the lmt.ivo markets i to her trud'-'i's. Strictly .speaking, iu MiidagiiHoiir they me lln> American.';- -but Anglo-Saxons nil the emne, who chiefly own tho missions and handle the commerce of tho inland. Kiiyl.iml of course keeps her blind oyo upon tho splendid Sail Diego Bay, and its scientific mm inuitt by tho French - so near al-m to hn - colony of Mauritiip. Perhaps it is the apprehension, tha*. Fru-ico mialit nUu convert Bizcrta Bay into a Toulouse, w'lich prevents England renouncing her commercial grip ou Tunisia.

If England succeeds in bartering l'orl.ti» gueso Delagonßiiy, for the Atij, r l"-'VmcHie.in u.iiiniH—7") fi'iiin'S millions —v.ilin: nf tlio Hfizuiuof 1,1,0 loi:»l railway by Portii-rul, l>i;tt inijfht liuiililu compensation bnsinuss I.'i bu truiiMiiclod, in j\i.'<lii[_MsriM', versus l-'i-uncli Newfodinlliiiwl. Tile ISiUii-iioso in I'iirii (In nut. ti cnnfes.', tliiit. tli'jir culuniul fpvor lias biinicd itx:lF out , tliiit tlici'o in no liuisfL'i' iiny iluin iiul for Si-rpn Pinto pipe-", top-huts, or nuuk-ties, Ninuu tlie (jitriiiiiii sphero of infliienun b;is been extended to tlie ZimbL-nei. Thut bit, they suy, is worse tlian Lord SalisJiury'rt fiiinou.s ntniirht. frnm tin: shodldcr blow —hie twciity-fmu , bourn' notice for bom to relinquish tlieir Shepherd kind's bisUirtral rights ovur No Man's Land.

M. l\ Teliiliitelicff, while .vlmittiiig that tho railway from the Caspian to .Bokhara, with ultimate intention to c.\tfciid to T.-i<:hkrnr-8:i;i mih.s-U c-nly partly ..stratenetieal, the Governmental line, intended to run from tho eastern hide of the Our.il Mountain- , , at Llatonsl, t<. Wladivost.uk, iiliinir the frontier of Suiilherri Siberia, will he essentially military. It will he. -1 ,:;7-» mile* in ien-th, mid Hli'iit-'gical b'-lween irkont.sk iiitd Whiliviwtok, f..r thai. portion ..f Ihe frontier in open between China, and Mussia, and mini he |.n.le<:t.d from Cele-lial invasion. 11. is tho uiily purl, nf llm line not pi'oti.'itlcd by mnuntainn, ami inuludi'N llm rani, plains ol' Maiidjoin i.i, rxlimliiiu' for 11)110 miles, Irnm I'ekiu to the liussiaii Diovinee i>F Ihe Am...,!■. Jiussin ln>pes u> liHVi) thin Silieii in linn eompleteclbefcre the. Hwiiriiiiii).' pcipulittimi of China ein b ■ Heieiitiliviilly rlrillod and disciplined by lOuropcaii ollie.er.«. l< il easy to develop niilitriry spirit in |.ho t'l'n i il> ': \\\ any nisi! the experiment onyht to be taken in Jiand at onep.

In the liqueur (Jhnrtrcurc, the geniine elixir only being prepared dy the Monks at Tonrvoirie, tiiere are three kinds, green, yellow, and white. Some of the plants employed in the manufacture of the cordial aie, mint, hyssop, angelica, a.rnie;i Mowers, balsam and thyme ; to these are added cloves, earraway seed, aloes, Tonka beans, cinnamon, dried I'iiiion peel, alcohol and white sugar. In tin! greun Chartreuse, there are IS ingredicnls, in the yellow 14, and in the white 1-1. No sugar is employed for the green, earraway seed in large quantity is used for the yellow, while ciuuatnon predominates in the white-

Near Avignon there is a town that cannot find among its iuhabiluuts any candidates deairou3 of tilling either the orh'ce of Mayor or of councillor. Judge what .Paris had to do in 17110; her Electoral Assembly consisted of 013 electors. The hitter were u'losen by the votes of 01,000 citizen.", only one-third of whom went to the poll. The Assembly had n session, extending from November, 1700, to Juno, 1701, and it had to elect 30 judges, i>4 tirljuiiilit, one bishop of Paris, and all his ulurgy.