A WIRE-PULLER The Palace of Industry--where, with a fine sense of the fitness of the name, the Parisians amuse themselves--was in a blaze of electric light and fashion.

The occasion was the Concours Hippique, an ultra-equine fete, where the lovers of the friend of man, and such persons as are fitted by an ungenerous fate with limbs suitable to horsey clothes, meet and bow.

In France, as in a neighboring land (less sunny), horsiness is the last refuge of the diminutive.

It is your small man who is ever the horsiest in his outward appearance, just as it is your very plain young person who is keenest at the Sunday-school class.
When a Frenchman is horsey he never runs the risk of being mistaken for a groom or a jockey, as do his turfy compeers in England.

His costume is so exaggeratedly suggestive of the stable and the horse as to leave no doubt whatever that he is an amateur of the most pronounced type.