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promises to make profitable return. we'll aired
single room may be had at prices varying from
So to $40 year. and the married workman
may have two good rooms, with small room at
tached, fitted up as kitchen, for 1907 per annum,
being little more than is charged in London for q
single room to an unmarried workman. The
building in the Rue Rochechouart is intended for
| five hundred dodgers, and when complete there
| will be wash houses. baths, and large room for
| the use of the dodgers in common. There ia also
another feature in the Paris establishment which is
worthy Of notice. II is not only lodging house,
but il has also several shops in which they their
/ wives can carry trade, that the workman
may become at the time the bourgeois and
cease, by belonging to that class, TO regard ii
with dislike jealousy The Cite Ouvriere, or, as
il is generally called the Cite Napoleon from
the laudable encouragement given to the enter
prise by Louis Napoleon, ia not yet fully inhabited;
there are, however, already two hundred and fifty
inmates and their conduct is spoken of as most
| exemplary.
You will remember that during last summers
session the Chamber, on the proposition of the Pre-
sident, voted large credit for the purpose of ex-
tending the Rue de Rivoli TO the Hotel de Vile.
During the past months the architects of the
government have been drawing their plans and
chalking out the route of the new street. OF course
whole blocks OF buildings STOPPING with the
weight of centuries, three, four live and six
stories high-have been condemned as numbering
the ground. The municipal council of the Seine
has been also for several months engaged in decid
ing upon the proper TO offer for the land and
buildings thus appropriated. The owners and
landlords have on their side been equally busy in
settling on the sums proper to demand. The jury
named by the two parties has just completed its
award, and has decided that the city shall pay to
the individuals dspossessed the sum of y 1896 $50
The city had already offered l43, 800, while the
owners had demanded ss2,l40,35 The award of
the jury therefore twenty two per cent. above
the offer made, and thrty-tw per cent below the
sum demanded. The work 10 progressing fact, and,
upon the various parts of the route where ground
has been broken, quite an army of workmen is EN-
ployed. 1t more with view to keep the la
boring class in work during the rigorous season,
than for any other object, that the President pre-
scented this project to the Assembly.
An order has also been given to the various cabi-
net makers establishments in the Fauburg 81. An
tome for furniture for the Palais de Justice, or
court. house. to the amount Of $50 900. This comes
opportunity, for, as / said in my last, we are at
the threshold of unusually severe season. Ev-
cry thing betokens long and hard winter
The mint of Paris coined, from the lst Of Janu-
airy to the Goth of November of this year the value
of SOL 200, 900 in gold, and S 900 900 in silver
Bcsides this, il has coined for the Swiss Coniede-
racy 100000 in silver.
You will have heard by preceding steamers Of
the drawing of the great lottery on Sunday last
Spite of the numerous pretended claimants of the
master prize of $4,000, believe that the tickets
winning the fourteen first prizes have of them
yet been presented at the office Of the lottery; but
almost every day brings to light some act of de-
Of
disappointment and i'll luck in this wrcched affair.
coach driver wns yesterday found dead in his
bed, sufIocated by the fumes of charcoal. The fol-
lowing words were found scrawled upon piece Of
brown paper:
81 GO! married, and thought myself well settled.
But have not been happy; my wife had the fool
ishness to let herself be courted by domestic in
the same house, and one fine morning she ran off
with him. Left alone, ! turned coachman But
sorrow deyoured me, and / MORALLY tired Of
everything. One day, when was more low than
common, went into an office of the lottery OF the
golden ingots, and bought five tickets From that
moment felt hope spring up again. thought
more of my wife; 1 dreamed of the monster
prize, and was longer down in the mouth. But
since the lottery has been drawn, and have found
that have won nothing, WEAKNESS has took hold OF
me again. think all day Of my wife. That's
why don't want to live. To those who have
known me, adieup
IL is certainly someu hat doubtful. in this ease,
whether it because Tilted by fortune, or Tilted
by wife, that the lonely coachman suffocated him
self; but still, if any lottery decide man to
take his own life, who had only pa rtally pondered
it before, the whole system must be set down
immoral and pernicous, and ought to be once for
all abolished, even for benevolent purposes, and
when under the patronage of the government.
have heard, however, of one instance in which
the blind goddess distributing herfavors in the lot
terry seemed to have taken the banda from her eyes
and bestowed the gift with discretion aforethought
young man, cutters apprentice was in love
with young girl, who, on her side, viewed him
with favorable eye. But her parents had inter
posed their veto, as the young man had nothing
but his two arms to depend upon, and no credit in
the savings bank. He bought fifteen tickets in
the golden ingots, and three days before the draw
ing, his lady-love sent him sixteenth. He had
the good luck TO win two prizes of 200 francs
each, and one with the sixteenth of his guardian
angel. The wedding takes place in three weeks,
as of course the scrupes Of the old people are now
totally removed
The Charipdri has from the first opposed this
achemc, as both bad in principle and bad in its OBJ
ject-that Of transporting five thousand aborers to
California. 1t publishes the following letter, sup
posed to be written by workman, and which
must be the history Of many and many
perience
"MEssRs EpIToRs: The drawing Of the great lot
terry has taken place, and two hundred and TWEEN
ty four ticket holders have been favored by chance
but, for this small number of happy persons how
many have been rendered discontented. am a
workman, gentlemen, and at first took five tickets
only need not say that have gained nothing.
ought to have expected it, Five tickets, al franc
piece, do not cost large sum, and ! felt that
could risk it without endangering my past econo
mics. To tell the truth, only took these five tick
cts conscientious duty; for did not wish TO let
chance, however slight, escape of making my
fortune, especially at 30 little expense. said TO
myself, my tickets once bought will lock them up
in my bureau, and think no more of them till the
day of the drawing arrive. If gain nothing, as ]
probably shall not, tickets drawing, lottery and in
gots will all be forgotten half an hour afterwards
"Thngs went well at the commencement. ]
worked usual, and, when any thing was said in
the shop of this unhappy lottery, iested about it
| like my comrades.
"Ono day, however, the idea occurred to me
that, with even the small chance that my five tick
cts offered, there positive impossibility of
me drawing prize of at least thousand francs.
"chis idea seemed at fret go extravagant, that
| / laughed outright. But it soon returned TO my
mind-I chased it away, but it came back was
| soon beset by it. II was no longer matter of a
| thousand francs. NV ambition was consdera