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Show municipal council altogether 6,000 words. He spent twenty -eight hours over this at leisure moments, anil worked with the naked eye. But he is capped by Sergeant Lethorel, secretary of the oiie Hundred and Twenty-seventh infantry, who announces that he will shortly produce a post-card with a collection of articles amounting to 11,-000 11,-000 words. As an art small writing" has been killed by photography. Microscopic photography was simply invaluable to France during the siege of Paris, when carrier pigeons were daily sent out with 10.000 private letters photographed on a pellicle two inches square rolled up in a quill. There are still, however, plenty of amateurs, some of them distinguished distin-guished and even illustrious. I may mention, for instance, Alphonse Daudet, who has often, out of fun, written original orig-inal newspaper articleB on a leaf of cigarette ci-garette paper. ... ... I I SMALL WRITING. l-.einarkablc liesnlts of a Freneti Kdltor's Offer. A Icauinjr I itris paper, the Eclair, is j oeniifr a o-hl nitiual rrs a prize to tlie nriL-st writer. v. :tho;t; distinction of ria-i ria-i ti.iniihry, wme a corrospondont. It is j not Incrary merit that is wanted, asthe ali.ve annrinr.remont would loud one to suppose. Tlie pi ize-K-ivino-editor merelv iM h i I i w rls i 1 : written on a p-ece of paper Porai.-s have already K n sent m. A l:el-i:tn i - Ktr 1 as a ; ' l 1 e f t f f tit ! tinsr 2. 1st word , on a post -writ. '"lur-I '"lur-I seilies penlieir.an litis o '. i-n.-od hi -i I 1 ntr'tira 1 1 n i cl it n i - 1 w i 1 r i t i ii r ln i I j of .1. Sarcey, tir.d a p, cut of D. patv i iv ' i 1 t i i a ! i.... , i.. . a.-. Liii.'ini.i not. l lmai-me. i I , f c ine 1 w I it i ' s k tl tt t f ui h t I i t r i i t il l 1 1 i 1 1 i I r t in m hi hi on a p ...o.-eui-.t v. rito-n out an oilieial direc-I direc-I tore. Iimui the president and his house-hoid house-hoid down to tiie memlvrs of the Paris |