The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-10-05

usual glass of soda water in our drug stores is about four times as much as you receive here in dish, and the usual res taurant portion at home would make twenty portions as served in Paris
 Yankee Shoes and Hats.
 You can get the chief makes of Amerl- can hats in Paris, but they cost fully as much as they do in the United States. was asked 25 francs or 8 for derby today.
 This year many Panama hats are be- ing worn, and I do not see why an im- portation of such goods from the Phil ippine Islands would not pay. The Fill pinos make as good hats as South Amer lea, and they sell them at much less cost. I bought a hat in Manila for 8 which would cost $25 here in Paris, and the ordinary $2.50 hat sold there would be worth three times as much here. Mems Panama hats trimmed with eagle feathers are now especially popular with fashionable ladies of Paris. A good hat of this kind is worth $16.
 The American lamp is beginning to make its way into Europe. as are also our gas stoves and ranges. There are plenty of American shoes, both real and imita- ton. in Paris. Those made by the French are nothing like so good as the import ed article. nor will they sell as well. One man tells me that he handles about 1000 pairs of American shoes every year, and that his sales are steadily increasing. He says they are excellent shoes when tl'e makers are conscientious.
 Yankee Paper on the Prince of Wales Bed Room.
 I met a curious American on the top of the Eiffel tower yesterday afternoon. He came from Portland. Ore, but of late years has been representing one of our companies which manufacture burlap aI.1 wall coverings. He tells me that this is one of the live articles of the Ameri- can invasion, and that 1t is steadily pusH ing its way into the palaces of the rich on this side of the water. His firm sold over 300,0O0 yards in Europe last year. The most of this went to England. and a part of it is now on the walls of the Prince of Wales bed room. Another roll or so was used in the decoration of Bal moral Castle, Queen Victoria's favorite palace in Scotlanl, and other rolls dec- crate the mansions of lords and dukes galore. The young Oregonian has al- ready established agencies in Norway and Sweden. Denmark, Germany an Italy. and he is now making arrange ments to paper the French republic.
 American Paper Needed.
 It would seem to me that we might sell more writing paper and pulp paper to France than we are now doing. The paper used here Is of two kinds-very good and very poor. For business letters the French use. a cheaper grade than that used in the United States. but for so- cial correspondence they have the best.
 The newspapers are printed on the cheapest of wood pulp. with the excep- ton of the expensive journals, such as The Figaro. There are twenty-six hum dred journals and periodicals published in Paris alone. and of these large mum ber are dailies. The newspapers are much smaller than ours, but some of them, such as the Petit Journal and Le Matin, have enormous circulations. The Petit Journal claims the largest circula- tion in the world. The papers sell froE, 1 to 4 cents. or from centimes to % centimcs each. They are cried on the streets. and also sold in little galvanized iron news stands on the outer edges of the street in all parts of the city. The kiosks belong to the Government, and the newsdealers pay rent for them. They make their money by the commissions they receive on the sales of the papers. The usual rate Is two-fifths of a cent per copy for one-cent paper, and threc- fifths of cent for papers that sell iron,