The age-herald., 1901-12-26

service men," consist in proving about. watching the play, 'spotting'' the win ners and making notes on the, various ''systemss employed.
 If you drop Into the casino for the amiable purpose of 'breaking the bank with the result that you see %our last flve-franc piece raked in by the vigilant croupier, the bank, which cherishes no grudges. will provide you with a first class ticket to any continental city and pay your expenses-that is to say, if your losses have been $4O0 or over. Performing this kindly office costs the bank about $4O,O0O year, and supporting its pension CTS" costs It s25,OOO more The pensioners in question are folk who at one time or another have lost their entire fortunes on the green cloth. Some of them are ai- lowed as much as $7.50 day, notably 6cotchman, now familiar figure on the promenade at Nice, who qualified for his present position by losing over $1,OOo,ooO on the red and black"
 But the Casino Company supports still more pitifM "benevolence' than It's pensioners-the little cemetery about mile from the Casino building, where the banks victims who have taken their lives lie buried. The graves in it are marked only by sticks bearing numbers. and the visito is surprised to find that these do not run above 30. He soon discovers, how ever, the reason for this, which Is that after while the bodies of suicides are taken out of this cemetery and removed to another and much larger one further from the Casino where their friends raise tombstones to them.
 Lord Rosslyn. though the sworn enemy of the bank" has a special i'll feeling against the Prince of Monaco, but by bankrupting the Casino he will deprive that gentleman of an annual income of s4o0, ,oOo, half of which the bank pays him by way of salary and half of which he derives from the stock he owns in the Casino Company.
 The prince, who was 53 years old the other day, has two great hobbies which he rides in conjunction, and both of them are about as far removed from gambling as they we'll could be- one being the study of fish and the other the ocean currents. To the pursuit of these the prince devotes practically all his time. and in both di- rections he has made discoveries which have been of real importance. He keeps a yacht called the Princess Alice, which he built especially for the purposes of in vestigation and which is practically floating laboratory. on which he takes long and frequent voyages.
 All his researches are made with the greatest care and without sparing' ex- pense, and he often has with him whole stan of expert draughtsmen and painters. so that detailed and accurately colored pictures of his specimens can be made as soon as they are captured. He was the guest of Emperor William of Germany recently, and greatly interested that po- tentate in a plan to form an international maritime association for the advance ment of deep sea researches. The asso- ciation is to have it's headquarters at Monte Carlo-that is, of course, unless the Earl of Rosslyn and his colaborers for the public welfare happen to wipe out Monte Carlo.
 e><<%>-<>~$e-$-t$ often the raw material for another. In such cases, the value of the former re- appears in the latter, and thus the orig inal cost of certain materials may be ir- ciuded several times in the gross value.
 The true basis of comparison. therefore and the only trustworthy one afforded by the bulletin. is the capital invested the number of wage-earners and the wages paid It is notable that Mobile, without the proximity of either coal or iron and with no blast furnace in her city limits, manages to range up to within nearly 50 per cent of the capital and wages shown by Birmingham It is enough to enable us to class Mobile as a manufacturing city. whereas by common acceptance she has been regarded as almost purely mer- cantile.
 There is no question, however, that Jefferson County IS far in the lead of the other counties in industry. That county Is the possessor of coal and iron mines, and limestone quarries, and all in such re- lationsfip as to greatly facilitate manu- featuring operations. It is a matter of state pride, this success of Jefferson in the material advancement. The establish ments number 470; capital $22. 3OS 336; wage-earners 107e; wages s4,96o,342. Mo bile County comes next: Establishments 27S; capital $5.6S191s; wage-earners s4762: wages s1,H4115. Montgomery County is third--establshments 212; capital $3,116.- AT: waRe-earners 25lS: wages sS32 O31