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Show PRODUCES HO GREAT MEN. I'urlt Draws on (l)p rrn,l Vfoilortt tot Most or Hur flulUo NoUbM, Tho city of Paris with its environs bousts nearly bno-twolfth of tho total population of Franco, yet, according to tho Now York Evening Post, it docs not cscapo tho' chsrgp, which lies against so many other largo cltie s, of being a hugo maw" into which tho bost nf tho national llfo is sucked. Only i a tho slightest drgrep; js t tho parent of tho energy und distinction which it dlnplayson o preat n, tcalo. In tho political flclfl scarcely ono of tho distinguished mm of tie tlroo la Paris born. Tho prorjdonv rf tho rcpubllo Is not, nor Is thrj president of tho sonata son-ata or of the chamber; not ono of tho ton cabinet ministers,' neither ot tho chief justices nor of tho attorneys goneral of tho higher courts reckons reck-ons I'arh P Ills birthplace, nor doea tho governor qt thobanU, of Franco. Homo what blinllar" 'results ro obtained ob-tained by bcannlng tho lists of dlstln-jfu'.i.hcd dlstln-jfu'.i.hcd scholars, artists, journalists, soldiers. Front tho province's havo romo it dli.proportionato majority of ! tho men whoio success In llfo makes Paris famous. Siteh factii uro moro 'i il lug In tho ca'.o of tho French capital, cap-ital, whoso propopderanco over tho rest of tho country has been so long entabllshcd, than they would bo In a J newer country, whoro ths headlong ' rush to tho cities Is a comparatively now thing. .' v |