Delaware State journal and statesman., 1870-04-19
From the Hoston journal.
PARIS.
French sights and Manners.

Baron Haussmann has destroyed much of
the charm of Paris panoramas by making
every street look like its neighbor. But he
has made them all charming, and you see
nothing incongruous In the inhabiling Of a
Boulevard tree by Dryad, or the disport-
ing Of Satyr in the waters OF the great
fountains. The streets are never hot and
dusty, because great rows OF beautiful shade
trees and the profuson Of fresh water keep
them ip splendid condition, and in most
quarters they are as clean as the floors of
palace all the time. A great army OF street
sweepers is constantly at work. All these
syeepers are Germans, and are uniformed In
/ blue. There are NO rags and sTidences oil
misery. They wear huge wooden shoes,
which add an inch or two to their height,
and swing brooms which reach almost from
side to side OF the street. They are the earli-
est figures on all the avenues 10 the morn
| ing, and from the bydrants they shower the
river water on walks and windows. The
next figures usually seen are the newspaper
merchants, who establish their little stands
| at the corners of the prominent avenues,
| and, imperyious 10 cold or heat, sit all day
long, dispensing their eagerlY-sought wares.
They are mostly the wives of workingmen,
and during any excitement make small for
tunes, so great is the demand of the superb
eial Parisians for sensational reports. The
"kiosks" are light structures, of a Turkish
build, perhaps twelve feet high, and with
their walls covered with gaily painted adver-
tisements. Inside sits venerable dame, or
used.up old soldier, who sells journals also,
and looks with contempt on his neighbor,
who has only table at corner, as an inle-
rior. The newspaper sellers in the kiosks do
an immence trade, and when the Govern
ment iorbids the sale OF some disagreeable
journal en- kiosk, the main circulation oi the
! journal is gone. Many Of these kosks are
rented by bouquet sellers, rosy girls, with
piquant faces, who look ravishing when
their beauty is set off In frame work OF Vio-
lets.
} The people come out early in the day, and
next, about nine O'Clock, come the street
pedders, who are perpetual source of de-
light TO foreigner. Hardly one in ten has
for sale anything of any value, but each has
invented an ingenious method of gaining Q
living. A very common traffic is in live
animals, such as the dainty little dogs ont
sees in carriages at the Bois, or the harei
' which are poaehed in Fountainbleau forest
Nearly every peddler has little cart, will
all his or her merchandise piled artistically
before them, and with an umbrella so ar
) ranged that the smartest shower will o
catch them unpreparei. very common
sight is to see an old gray-haired woman
harnessed to her cart like the dogs in Bel
gium, and wearily dragging the heavl
weight along. Women do much work In tn
!, streets here which in America ia done en-
tirely by men. They drive teams, and ii |
a common sight TO see huge laundry wa
gon, as large as q country Westinghouse
come spanking down the streets with
. young country girl guiding the risky pal
Of stations. She manages the team entirely
and when her eqnipage is caught in the tan
IL of. aha xyb n q n
s. jurgate as well as any man. 1t is Frenc
proyerb that "the only real men in Franc
n are the women" and there is some groun
for the remark.
The carts that come in from the country
- and the styles of dress Of the cartmen an
women are very curious. All draft wagon
are built enormously high, with wheels tai
> er than the tallest man, and with seats ava
up far above the horse's back-so far that
long lash, which can crack as loud as pi
!, tol shot is considered requisite. The enol
- nous and stately Norman horses, with fec
and limbs twice as large as those of our dra
ed animals, are harnessed with sort of VI
couth taste, and decorated with red and blu
lv and green fringes, and foxes tails on Il
- harness. Very pretty and quite imposin
are the long trains of powerful horses, whic
to the sound of tinkling bells, slowly dra
forward the enormous blocks Of stone whic
90 into the walls OF Paris houses one r.
markable feature in the teams of the city
the great number of wagons built in fanta
tic shapes, drawn by blooded horses, at
with livefied footmen behind them. The
* are advertising wagons; and every ne
- commercial house manages to buy or bi
~ one to parade for a short time. Often tht
are driven at break-neck pace throul
crowded thoroughfares; to convince the pu
lie that the new house is full of business
IT, Artillery trains are always rumblil
through the city from point to poir
whether simply to exhibit the empire
strength or TO keep the soldiers occupied
uncertain.
Don't be invidious in criticism when
a say that housemaids are one OF the princiI
A'' curiosities OF Paris streets. As gene
ring rule, may say, they are pretty; item, tas
b. fully dressed; item, bare-headed. Fren
the housemaid does not wear bonnet once j
fhs bia year; in fact, never, except when she g
Iaek to be married, or TO a funeral. You shot
Ars see the regiments Of them that go troop