Morning journal and courier., 1893-04-17

which means @ butchers shop whsre horse, mule and donkey meat is sold. There can be no mistakiug this place. for 1t has c horss's head hung out for a sign as all such shops haye-while the butch CTS ahop aeross the way proolAins Its su- perior grade by displaying a cows head. There are nearly two hundred horse meat shops In Paris, and the consumption of this sort of food last year was, horses 21 ,2sl, donkeys 275, mules s1. A local economist has estimated tha! horse flesh is the staple food in one out of every three of the households of Paris. This Is deci- dedly tough-this way of living, we mean, not necessarily the horse flesh. That, I am sure, could hardly bs any tougher than some of the American beef we have eIperimented upon, and besides, the gen. tlsmsn with us, who has tasted this Pari- sian staple, pronounces 1t very good.
 We are also introduced at Ivry to & rag piokers' cite. We shudder as we glance st the riokety, one story houses, with their dirt noors, skirting a yard in which the piektngs of the previous night are hung out to dry; and when we remember that 1t was only few nights before that 6 Paris rag picker, In rummaging through the city refuse, came upon the body of a woman cut up into twelve pieces, we shudder still more. Another thing to which our stten- tion Is called reininds us how very wise 1t was in William Shakespeare to not take much stock In names, for, as if in mock cry of Its poor surroundings, one of the streets of Ivry is called Rue du Chateau dee Rentiers, which means, in plain Eng Hsh, the street of the castle of those who live on their means.
 A large sugar refinery, and S factory which turns out fsvorite brand of choco- late, are prominent features in this qusr- ter, and when you learn thst the thou sands of men employed in these places are turned out to support tkeir families on the beggsrly pittance of three or four francs a day, you scarcely wonder that Psrisian workmen have to live on horse fesh, or that they become furious now and then against capital and ofhcialism. But the grestest of all the curiosities at Ivry is a mammoth apartment house, the biggest in the world, so far ss our present informa- ton extends. It was built in 1889 by a philsnthropist, but the aspect 1t wears to- day affords 6 striking instance of philsn- thropy gone to seed. There gre ten buildings connected with each other. The height Is six stories, the capacity ten thou sand people, and it is stated sn actual fact that in 1875 that number of Jews, sxiled from Russia, were actually sheltered In this tenement st the expense Of Baron Rothschild.
 But Its present population does not ex- ceed two thousand, snd the owners, it is said, have long abandoned all hope of keeping it clean or In decent repair. In their attitude toward philanthropy. the workmsn of Paris are not so complacent As their confrsres in London They re- gard 1t as an sffront, rather than a kind ness, and are more likely to resent than to be grateful for it. This enterprise st Ivry has been dreadfuliy abused. But there 1t stands, digri6ed by the ehsrmingly sug- gestive name of Cite Jeanne d'Arc, and with all its 6ilApidstion and dirt it Is As notable in its way. and As much of & Psri- sian curiosity, as any of the other things we have described. E. T.
 The great domestic standby, Dr. Bulls Cough Syrup. Is now recognized to be 8 family necessity. Resp 1t handy.