The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1870-03-25
ABOUT PARIS.
Extracts from q Letter by Rev. Mat.
thew Hale Smith.

thew Hale Smith.
There is but ten hours ride between
the city of London and the city of Pa
ris, and vet there are not two cities on
the face of the eartn that differ more in
manners and characteristics. The first
thing that strikes you after leaving
London is the attempt to get out OF
England. All is hurry and confusion,
and the principal object seems to be to
make your voyage as uncomfortable as
possible. You may have sailed around
the globe sailed for years-and escap-
ed seasickness; yet, in crossing the
channel, you will surely yield to old
Neptune. The vessels are small, din
gy little sloops, and to each passenger
is appropriated small tub; and al
though you may not see the use of it
when you start, you certainly will be-
fore you complete the voyage.
The first thing that strikes you very
forcibly upon entering France, is that
you are in the paradise of women, for
it is here that women have equal rights
with the rest of mankind. Here she
has the privilegS-of doing all her owu
work and the mems too. When you
get in the city, the first thing you see
is the police, for they are all over; they
know when you came there, how long
you are going to stay, where you came
from, how tall you are, and can guess
very nearly how old you are; have
keys to your trunks, know all about
your correspondence, and i'm fact know
all about you. ~,
The world may say what they like
about the power of Napoleon, but while
Twas there saw him review an army
of oyer half o million, 1t took him
nearly all day to do it. Now l have
heard our men cheer when they see
any one they like, but have never
heard men cheer as those French SOL
diers do for Napoleon, for he is plucky.
They know he is daring man, and
they will stand by him as long as he
stands by them. - -
Paris (and I don't think ever saw it
in any other city, is the care that pa
rents take of their children. They have
their amusements as well as the older
ones. They have their concerts, their
theatres, their booths, and everything
tending to amuse them and whatever
you may say of Paris it is the paradise
of children. They are thought some
thing of. A remarkable fact in Paris
is, that the Emperor keeps nothing to
himself. He has twenty palaces, but
only occupies one of them, and only
part of that, the rest being thrown open
to the entire public. He has miles and
miles of garden, yet he only reserves a
small strip for himself in front of the
Tuilleries. When Louis Philip was on
the throne he had private park right
in the centre of the city reserved eXclu-
sively for himself, but when Louis Ma
poleOn ascended the throne all barriers
were thrown DOWNFALL was open to
the people; the peasant had equal
rights with the mobiles.
They don't have any milk in Paris
except what they get from goats, and
they tell mel don't know how true
it is-that the goats know the custo-
mers, and know exactly how much
each one ought to have. In the morn
ing they go around to each family,
knock at the door till some one comes,
and stand still till some one has milk
ed them; and when they have taken
as much as they ought to have, the
goat kicks over the dish and runs away.
will not vouch for the truth of this.
The common hour of breakfast is II
m. They dine about or 0 p. m. /
suppose if they have any supper they
have it the next day.
The omnibus system of Paris is pro-
bably the most perfect in the world
There every one is seated, and even the
Empress herself could not get in an
omnibus if it was full and when they
are full sign is put up on the outside
with the word Complete OH it, and
no more are taken in. An American
said he had been everywhere in Paris
but to Complete" and he had not
been able to get there yet.
Everybody goes to Paris. Now if
you want to go to place where you
don't know anything about the Ian
guage, and want to get cheated, go to
Paris. If you want to go to a place
where there are an endless variety of
amusements, go to Paris. If you want
to go to place where you must not
look at what you eat, but shut your
eyes and choke it down, go to Paris
but if you want to see great and learn