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Show A Deputy'. Kccentrlcitj. M. Thivrier, a workingman, elected as such to the present Chamber of deputies in France, wears all the timo iu public tho blouse which is the badge of a laborer la-borer in that country. M. Thivrier began be-gan work in the coal mines at Comuien-toy, Comuien-toy, France, when twelve years old, and for twenty years remained in them, han-"jlUng han-"jlUng the pick. Afterward he became a vinegrower and dealer in wines. He is a Socialist, but not a communist, "for, having," as a French paper puts it, "acquired "ac-quired his capital by his own hard work, he canuot easily understand how that capital should belong to all the world." Through all his career he has stuck to his workingnian's blouse, and it was largely upon the strength of that peculiarity pecu-liarity that ho was elected a deputy. He is said to be a man of unusual intelligence intelli-gence ami a good speakor. When he came to Paris to take his Beat his blouse, which he wore not only at the chamber but at receptions and all other functions which he attended, made him at onco famous. Paris Letter. |