Produces No Great Men

T'.ic city of Paris v.-ith its environs boasts nearly one-twelfth of the total population of FVanee, yet. ftocording to the New York Kveniag I'o:;t, it does not escape the charge, which lies ist so many other larg-e cities, of ■ a hu.q-e maw into which the best of the national Hfe is sucked. Only in the slightest degree Ls it Ihe parent of the energy and distinction which it displays on so gre&t a scale. In the politica! field scarcely one of the distinguishea in". "i uic time is i-;iris bom The president of the republic is not, nor is the president of the senate nr of the chamber; not one of the ten cabinet ministers, ceither of the chief justicea nor of the attorneya general of the higher courts reekons Paris as his birthplace, nor does the governor of the bank of Trance. Somewhat similar resolta are obtainecl by scanning the lists of clistinguished scholars, artists, journalists, .soliliers. From the provinces have come a tlisproportionate majority of the men whose success in life makes Taris famous. Such facts are inore striliiiifr in the case of the French capital, whose preponderance over the rest of the country has been BO longestablished, than they would be in a n. -at country, ivlicn the headlong rush to the ties is a comparatively new thing.