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YOU XII.
THE PARIS BOURSE.
Pandemonium Truly Reigns in
France’s Big Exchange.
French Brokers Like Bears in
a Pit, Seen Best from Above.
The great financial institution of
France is ihe Paris bourse, It is to
that country what the stock exchange
of New York and the board of trade
of this city are to America. The build¬
ing is well known to people who have
visited Paris. It is a twin brother in
architectural stylo to the Church of
tiie Madeline, which resembles all the
llouian temples copied from the Greek
of the Corinthian order. It is useless
to give a detailed description of this
edifice. Tiie god that they venerate
there is called Plntus, and they still
worship him. The orisons of his
faithful devotees are ca'eulated to in
dneo absolute amazement on the part
of the uninitiated, one who after hav¬
ing passed the speculatrices in the
garden risks hirnself for the first time
in the interior of this noisy quadrila¬
teral.
Tiie deafening noise which strikes
his ears, the incessant movement
which tires his eyes, the dust which
obstructs his breathing, the continued
elbowing which compromises his equi¬
librium, the cigar smoke which fills
Ins nostrils, the incomprehensible
shouts which shock his hearing, all
contribute to plunge him into a pain¬
ful state with premonitory symptoms
of giddiness something akin to sea¬
sickness. For the novice entering for
the first time the Paris bourse is
whirled about by fho most infernal
eddy that even an old sailor could im¬
agine. Elsewhere ihe busiuess man
who shouts loudly to one of his col¬
leagues feels obliged to excuse himself
by a word or polite gesture.
Herd the code of manners requires
no such an apology. One apologizes
for nothing, not even for treading
upon another’s toes. They elbow,
they jostle, they push aside with the
hand, the shoulder, the back; they
force a passage as they can, cost what
it may, and if, perchance, some one
protests, they pretend not to hear. It
is a fight for the quotations, and tiie
most persistent and muscular is likely
to come out best.
The members of the bourse, like
the bears in the .Tardin d’Accliinata
tfiu, are best seen from above.
Noticed front the balcony, the bourse
habitue is interesting to study. If
one has the imprudence to descend
into the pit where he frolics lie can
become dangerous, but from the bal¬
cony, with au opera glass, one can
gaze with impunity upon the infinite
variety of speculators of all sorts and
sizes, who for few or many years
have been wont to seek their daily
bread in the midst of this tumult.
There is one who lias not lost a single
day for 40 years.
Tiie bourse was established in 1794.
The present building dates from 1826.
It is poorly adapted for an exchange.
The hall is surrounded with arcades
and galleries, it is badly ventilated,
and is dark and damp in winter. The
corbeiile, or “basket,” is a circular
space surrounded with a velvet-covered
railing. Around (his stand tiie li¬
censed brokers, called ageuts de
change.
The conlissier is an unlicensed bro¬
ker, but lie does the same kind of
business as the agents de change at
half the commission. Governmental
securities, however, must be trans¬
ferred by official brokers, who many
years ago found that the conlissier
was a means of bringing business to
their shop and so tolerate him. There
are sixty official brokers appointed by
the government under bonds of $50,
000 each. Every broker on appoint¬
ment pays into the treasury of the
Brokers’ association, as a membership
fee, $24,000. The agent de change
can, however, at any time transfer his
membership if it is approved by the
government and the association. A
membership is really worth $400,000,
so he puts up but a small proportion
of its value.
Margins avc supposed to be required
before executing an order, but in
reality the big operators never deposit
any security. When a crash comes
and they are unable to meet their out¬
standing obligations of the day, it is
the broker or the association that pays.
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SPRING PLACE. MURRAY COUNTY, GA. MARCH 2, 1893,
An agent tie change cannot fail. At
(he time of the crash of the Union
(jeiieralc in 1882 the agents He change
borrowed 82,000,000 franc* to pay
their differences. The company is
always ready to assist one of their
namber pecuniary or otherwise. The
sessions of the stock brokers or agotits
fid change are held every day f; om
12.30 to 3 p. n\, excepting ’Sundays
and holidays. The exchange is occu¬
pied by tiie merchandise brokers from
3 to 5 o’clock. The grain merchants
formerly held their exchange in front
of the Church of St. Germain 1’Aux
errois, but have lately gone in with the
other merchandise dealers. — [Chicago
Times.
Tact and “Bad Breaks.”
Eli Perkins says: Tact i 3 llio right
thing at tho right time. When a
young collegiate stepped on a young
lady’s fool in a Harvard street car the
beautiful girl was offended, but when
Unit collegiate bowed sweetly and sjid
modestly:
“Beg ten thousand pardon*, Miss;
your foot is so small I couldn’t see it,”
why, she could have kissed him.
How different was it with Reuben
Bradshaw, who had never been off of
tho old Litchfield farm. One day ho
met an old flame, Lucy Bradbury, in
Hartford. lie had not seen her for
fifteen years.
“Well,” said Reuben, taking Lucy
warmly bv the hand, “you are still
Lucy Bradbury, are you?”
“Fes,” she replied, “still Lucy
Bradbury.”
“It isn’t your fault, I know,” he
rejoined, meaning to say something
complimentary. “That is,” ho added,
nervously, feeling that he lmd not ex¬
pressed himself exactly in the way he
had intended, “I mean that you are
not to blame, you know. You couldn’t
help it—er—that is, it was the fault
of the young men. They, you know,”
iiVweut’on, breaking out in a profuse
perspiration, “couldn’t be expected
—li’in! ha—-to—cr—well, I must bo
going. Ever so glad to have met
you.”— [St. Louis Republic.
The Yankees of South America,
“The Chilians are the Yankees of
South America,” said Victor P. Hurt.
“They are alert, progressive, ingeni¬
ous, and give tho almighty dollar as
hot a chase as any people ou earth.
The women are remarkably beautiful,
and the men as tine a lot of fellows as
can be found on the earili. They arc,
for (ho most pa it, tall, broad-should¬
ered, stipple as Hindoos aud brave as
lions. It is peculiarly fortunate that
the United States did not become em¬
broiled in a war with Chili. Of
course, such a contest could have but
one result, but it would not have been
the walkover the people of this coun¬
try supposed. The Chilians are not
only a brave and warlike people, but
their mountainous country affords
every advantage for defence. It is
full of Tliertnoplysen passes, where a
handful of men could hold a mighty
army at bay. It oilers abundant sites
for fortifications as impregnable as
Gibraltar and Quebec.
“All this talk about the Chilians
disliking tiie American people is the
veriest nonsense. They regard the
United States as tiie grandest country
and the Americans as the greatest
people on earth. We should cultivate
the Chilians. They are a deserving
people, and the glory of South Amer¬
ica depends chiefly upon them.”—[St.
Louis Globe Democrat.
The Langs of a Plant.
One of tho prettiest microscopical
studies is the examination of the lungs
of a plant. Most people do not know
a plant has lungs, but it has, and its
lungs are in its leaves. Examined
through a high power microscope,
every leaf will show thousands upon
thousands of openings, infinitely small
of course, but each provided with fips,
which, in many species, are continu¬
ally opening and closing. These open¬
ings lead to tiny cavities in the body
of the leaf, and by the opening anil
closing of tho cavity air is continally
passing in and out, so that the respira¬
tion is continually going on. The sap
of the plant is thus purified, juBt as the
blood of an animal is cleared of im¬
purities by passing through the lungs,
and tho average sized tree will, there¬
fore, in tho course of a day, do as
much brcathing'as a man.— [Yankee
Blade
“TELL T TRUTH.”
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Southern Stone & Monumental Co.,
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Marble ant! Granite
Statuary, Monuments, Headstones, Crosses and
Building Stone.
Coping, Iron Fencing, IAwii Furniture, Etc.
1116 MARKET ST r : t : CHATTANOOGA TENN.
F. R. Bates General Agent, Trim, Georgia.
W. WOODRUFF. ESTABLISHED W. E. QlBQlNa
1865.
W. W. WOODRUFF & CO.
176 & 178 Gay Street, KNOXVILLE, TENN.
HARDWARE.
Cutlery, Mule Shoes, Axes, &o., Nalls, Locks, Hinges, Tools, Horse and
&o.
AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS.
Genuine Oliver Chilled Plows, Syracuse Hillside Plows,
Brown’s Double Shovel Plows, Cider Mills, Straw Cut¬
ters, Cradle Lawn Mowers, Snaths, Corn Shelters, Hay Forks, Scythes,
and Barbed Wire, &c M Ac.
CONTRACTORS’ SUPPLIES.
Mattocks, Dynamite, Sorapers. Blasting Powder, Sledge Steel, Iron,Shovels, Picks,
smith Tools, Wheelbarrows, and Drill Hammers, Black¬
&c.
AMMUNITION, SPORTING GOODS.
Shot Parkers Guns, Shot Winchester Guns, Remington, and Colt’s Baker Rifles, and English Loaded
Fishing Rods, &c. co Fish Hooks and Lines,
SPECIALTIES.
Sash, Circular Doors Saws, and Blinds, Rubber and Leather Belting,
Window Glass, Fire-proof Safes, Wire
Screen Doors and Window Frames, Paper Bags, &c.
EVERYTHING ON WHEELS.
tain Buggies, Hacks, Phaetons, Carriages, Spring Wagons, Moun¬
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Send for Catalogue and prices.
Special attention given to orders by mall. Wa respect¬
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176 & 178 Gay Street, KNOXVILLE, TENN.
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Taste in Animals.
Many experiments have been made in
irder to find out what and where the
srgan of taste Is in the lower creation;
but it is easier to say where it is not.
Crayfish aud worms seem to have very
decided preferences in the" matter of
food, though no special taste organ has
yet been found. Lobsters like decaying
food; the crab is more dainty in its diet.
Snails and slugs show a decided prefer
ence for certain kinds of food, as garden
lovers know to their cost; peas and cab¬
bages, dahlias and sunflowers are great
favorites; but they will not touch the
white mustard. Some prefer animal
food, especially if rather high. Spiders
have only a slight sense of taste; flies
soaked in paraffine seem quite palatable
to them; though one species, the dia
dema, is somewhat more particular, and
refuses to touch alcohol in any form
whatever.
The antennal of insects do net appear
to contain any organ of taste, for wasps
and ants quite readily took [pto their
mouths poisonous and unpleasant food,
even swallowing enough to make them¬
selves ill, while some bees and cock¬
roaches fell a prey to the temptation of
alum, Epsom salts, and other nauseous
foods place^ in their way, These sub¬
stances. were not, however, swallowed,
but were soon spat out, the creatures
spluttering angrily, as if disgusted with
the taste. The proboscis of the fly and
the tongue of bees and ants are furnished
with numerous delicate hairs set in
minute pits; these are perhaysconnected
with the organ of taste; but, though tho
exact locality of this sense in insects is
uncertain, we know that groups of cells
in the tongue of animals, called taste
bulbs, form,[in part, the ends of the
organ of taste.
$1.00 a Year in Advance.
NO. 52.
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DAIT0N, GEORGIA.
SELLING OUT AT COST.
Will sell all kinds of Furniture, consisting of Bed Room Stilts,
Parlor Suits, Rocking Chairs, Bedsteads, Spring and Sofas, In fact
everything kept in a flrst-class Fnrnitnre House at cost. We are
offering Goods at cost In order to reduce onr stock by the first of
the year,expecting to make some changes in our business.
CARPETS
Cheaper than ever, although they are advancing every day.
Cherokee Furniture Co.
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