, 1879-05-25

It is the beginning OF new era. The great "otA
OF tie world. though not completed, WILL III ~
turc be carried on proportionately slower. ~"
fortunes will be more difficult to acquire oul
owners OF good real estate, ETC., will rave tne!'
capital increased. Thus more inequality Will u
the outset exist; for It wall not be easy iof ncM
cotners to put themselves on the level OF the oo
capitalists. Even during the last seven years
people who invested 10 the Government funds
IN France have made more money than the mos
cnterpr1sinE ind careful merchants. Inc pel
cents there have risen in that time from 81 francs
to ~ francs, OF more than SO per cent or pG.
cent per annum; and this increase, along VILE
the regular interest, would be equivalent to
or u per cent. But, under the new order @ o.
things, the great fortunes which are generally
attributable to war-loans, new enterprises ana
oscillations OF the stock-market, are no longer
attainable. Every one must work more and
LONGER. It was SO in Holland In the Seventeenth
Century,. where, Descartes says, everybody was
engaged In trade The rate OF interest there
was from ? to 8 per ccut. But those who
have money care less about saving, because
the interest is not tempting; and they invest IN
furniture and articles for outward show. Prices
OF manufactured goods naturally come down,
representing as they must the interest OF capt-
tai; cheaper houses are built,-nud esen now, IN
Paris, the lne-iusurance companies are building
such. But, In addition to this, the people be-
come more exacting toward the Government,
ana want moro public works undertaken. Inc
period from 1850 to 1879 the French writer
thinks altogether abnormal, aud owing to the
great industrial transformation. It would seem,
however, that there is too much foreboding in
the ABOVE, for there is certain revival in some
European countries,-not much, to tell the
truth, however.
The Paris police adopted an ingenious plan
lately to lind out how certain firm Wns being
lnysteriOuslv robbed, One day large box, or
rather case. was sent to the store and brought
into the back office. It vas marked "Explo-
sivc Materials" Air-holcs had been bored In it !:
and from this position the detective-for one was
inslde-could overlook the store. He saw about
that one OF the clerks went to the door to watch,
aud the other to the till, from which be took
some money. The officer, on coming out OF his
hidtng-p place, confronted the robbers. and they
had to confess.
, Ladies' fashions are becoming more aud more
sensational, aud 1t seems to be contest be-
tween the various centres Of high life as to
which will turn out the most striking novelty.
In England, they are having dresses made out
OF an indefinite number OF pockethandkcr-
chiefs; 10 Paris, the ladies are selecting the
fashions OF past ages; and in Vienna, there fs
the Boccaccio style OF wearing dif1erent-colored
stocking on each foot, The foulard surrah will
be greatly used with Indian cashmere for trim
mlngs, and its bright shades will set the latter
OIL to great advantage. It will be interesting
to American ladies to hear that there is u pros
pect OF ostrich-feathers becoming home
product. I find in Cape~of- Good-Hope paper
that applications have been received there for
ostrichcs to be sent to Georgia and Florida.
ostrich feather; and, now that they can be
oleached and dyed any color, there will soon
be nothing to prevent the average shop-gfrl
from resembling the Court-beauties of oluen
times, nnd coming out with such magnificent
head-drcsses that the chignon will have to be
further improved, or dropped altogether.
lind In tile same African paper remark of
q Zulu, which is too characteristic not to be re-