The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-12-09

there we're 100000 horses in Paris, and that
there are now 10000; sc, 600 will be enough for
the army, consequently 10000 can be eaten
The amount of meat on each horse averages 500
pounds; consequently we have &,0OO, 600 pounds
of fresh horse flesh, quantity which will last
us for more than three months at the present
rate of meat consumption. These figures are,
think, very much exaggerated. | should say
that there are not more than 10000 horses now
in Paris.
The Petites Voit,,res (Cab) Company has 5000.
and offered to sell them to the Government a
few days ago, but that proposal was declined.
AS regards salt meat the Government keep
secret the amount. 1t cannot, however, be very
great, becaus. it is on y derived from animals
which have been killed since the siege CON-
meneed. The stock of flour, we are told, is
practically unlimited and, as no attempt is
made to prevent its waste in pastry and fancy
cakes, presume that the statement is correct.
The health of Paris is far from satisfactory, and
when the winter weather regularly sets in there
will be much sickness. No one is absolutely
starving, but many are without sufficient nour-
isbment.
The Governments give orders for ten centimes
worth of bread to all who are in want, and these
orders are accepted as money by oil the bakers.
In each ACCOMPLISHMENT there are also what are
called centineS ecOnonliqueS, where a mess of
soup made from vegetables and small guam
tity of meat can be bought for five centimes.
Very little however, has been done to distri-
butte warm clothing among the poor, and when
ii is considered that above 1000 persons have
come into Paris from the neighboring villages,
most of whom are dependent upon public or
private charity, it 10 evident that, even if there
is no sbsolute want, there must be much
suffering.
DOGBERRY AND vERGES.
Anything more dreary than the Boulevards
now in the evening it is difficult to imagine.
Only one street lamp in three is lighted, and the
cafes, which close at 1890, are put on half
allowance of gas. To mend matters, every one
who likes is allowed to put up shed on the
sidewalk to sell his goods, or to collect crowd
by playing dirge on fiddle. The conse-
quence is that the circulation is rendered almost
impossible. / suggested to high authority
that the police ought at least to interfere to
make these peripatetic musicians 'move on"
but he told me that, were they to do so, they
would be accused of being "Corsicans and Re-
actionaries." These police are themselves most
ludicrous objects; they walk about in pairs, ar
rayed in pea-jackets with large hoods; and
when it is wet they have umbrellas. Their
business appears to be never to interfere with
the rights of their fellow-citizens to do what
they please; and SO helpless do they look, that
! believe if q child were to attack them, they
would appeal to the passers-by for protection.
EATING WILD BEASTS.
/ see that one journalist in calculating the
amount of meat left in Paris, includes the
animals of the Jardn des Plantes, so that one
NAV have chance of getting tiger steak, or
clubbing with ones friends for round of rhi-
noceros, unless the government seize upon the
beasts for the public use. 1t is a little odd they
should have been allowed to live SO long. The
government can scarcely think them more valu-
able than the Palace of st. Cloud and, now that
monkeys and dogs are considered by epicures
rather as delicaces, il is difficult to see what
food can be found for them which might not be
eaten by human beings There is young
American lady here the belle of an ambulance
| Gas this seems odd expression, let me explain
that the doctors, on strictly hygienic principles,
| encourage pretty and welldressed young ladies
! to enliven the wards and administer small doses
| of Irritation to patients), who is just now in the
depths of despair about her dog-a splendid
Siberian wolf-hornd, valued at sf100 in hard
coin of sentiment. The authorities have found
| him out, and declare dog which eats two and
half francs worth of food day cannot be
allowed to live in besieged town. The wild
beasts must, therefore, be in considerable
!