Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1878-07-18
From our regular Correspondent.

the imperfect filthy ink with which it
was printed In quality of paper and
typography the French papers are far in
ferior to ours. Certainly not in Paris,
and it may be presumed, not ia France,
is there a newspaper that in material and
mechanism will compare with hundreds
that are printed in the cities and towns of
the United States. The same inferiority
may be seen in the French circulars and
business cards, which look like those un-
canny dirty little scraps that some trades
men, with a false theory of economy,
print for themselves with rubber stamps.
The number of newspapers published
in Paris is very large, but few of them
are of much use or interest to the stranger.
All the numerous parties, shad es of par
ties, and cliques, have, as with US, their
special organ. The Legitimists have the
Union, the Orleanists the Soliel, the Cath
olics the UntUes. The BOnapartists daily
burn incense to the empire in three Jour-
mails, L'Ordre, which is the organ of the
ex-Prime Minister, Mr.. Rouher; the
Pays, edited by the duelist NJ. Paul de
Cassagnac, and the GGulOis, a paper large
ly devoted to dramatic and Partisan news,
Republican and Radical organs are too
numerous to mentioh.# Perh aps the best
paperin France, both in style, matter ana
management is lie Temps, which has on
it's staff some of the most distinguished
scholars and EitterdteurS of modern times.
M. Sarcey is its dramatic critic, and his
articles which are published each Mon
day, are the dietG from which there it no
appeal. The political writer's of the LIE
Temps contend with those of the Journal
des DebGtS in their influence upon Euro
pean politics. During the recent war the
al ticles of the latter paper were tele-
graphed and discussed in every European
capital, and if any decision shall be ar
rived at by the present Congress at Ber-
lin. it will no doubt be influenced and
shaped by those writer's who WELD
weapon more powerful than the sword
for the columns of the DebatS. The organ
of M. Gambetta is the RepubIiqase FrancGise,
but there are many other journals of pret-
ty much the same shade. The Radical
organs are the Btere Public, the RGppel, the
M0rsetlIGise and number of other jour-
mails that soon succumb to the censorship
of the government, through the fines i'm
posed for seditious language. The paper
that is most read by the stranger who
comes to Paris to see life, to enjoy him
self, and who wants to know what is go
ing on in society, whether high or half
toned, who is interested in literay novel
ties, and in the sayings and doings and
ways of the world that live in the cafes,
is undoubtedly the Figaro. Ihave men
TONED, above, only a few of the leading
Papers here are usually sold in little news
stands that look like Gentry boxes. The
veil of the newsboy is seldom heard, ex-
cept about the gates of the Exposition,
when the iaded visitor comes out in the
afternoon; and then the news boy here
is man or woman, not boy as on our
side the Atlantic. Boys appear to be very
scarce in France. The gamtn so graph
ically described by Victor Hugo no longer
swarms in the foubourgs. Statistics tell
| us that the population of France is de-
creasing, and the scarcity of young chill
dren in this country is so marked that
Americans seldom omitto speak of it with
surprise. Few families have more than
two children, which is perhaps double the
usual number, and many families have
no children. have met but one family
in France who had as many as five. AS
the father mentioned the number he evi-
IDENTIFY expected me to be overwhelmed
with surprise, and as it seemed to me that
he had done comparatively we'll, did moi
wound his vanity be telling him thai
twice that number was not uncommon fol
the teeming shores of the new world
The effect of this condition of things OF
the future military strength of France
it is not difficult to foretell. The popu
lations of other European powers arr
slowly but steadily increasing; and, al
though France loses less than any from
the drain of emigration she is certainl!
falling off in population. Silent unavert
able causes are at work to this end.
European military necessity which tn
traditional waf-like attitude of Franc
has chiefly produced, is inimical to thos
fecund energies that are prolific only il
an atmosphere of peace. The reaction
has, with a stern retribution, been frs
felt by this nation, the chief offender.
Frenchmen are patriotic in their val
way. They are ambitious to maintain an
transmit their heritage of military glor
unimpaired to the future. They woul
! be proud to add new trophies to their co
! umns of Vendeome and arches of Tr
umph. They are courageous in war an
not afraid of blOod-letting; but, in antas
y onism with their narrow patriotism, an
public courage, is their personal selfsl
ness and prudence. The way they ave
the orphan and widow dilemma, involve
E in war, is by avoidance of marriage. ]
+ the conceit of the individual Frenchma
this is shrewd and provident; but, from
national point of view, it is fatally shoI
D sighted. 1t is that false economy that W
" illustrate in America by the nauseo
metaphor of the spigot and bung.
a French statesmen pirate about eras
or peace and next week. a grand fete of i
a ternationaE amenity is to be given b
ff6e the grim warlike wrinkles of centuri
or cannot be effaced by festivals and rhetori
''This people worship me with their liz
DuJ GIlSII llcdEb lS AdI lLOuA mt ia SD
ice of epigrams like ttthe Republic is peace
Il In spite OF the Exposition and fetes Ii
he -hRe the one proposed-France has no poll
by but to maintain her place in the arm
bb' camp that insane thirst for ggotre has ma
. of Europe. c. A. S
The Lancet advises its readers to S
pend if not abandon the practice of usi
,ste ,sts face powder, paints, and washes of
rth tha simnIest hOme-maTle flescriDtione
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