The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1873-11-19

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garlic, the tops of vegetables, and several
unnameable plants are most in vogue.
Here every conceivable product of the
vegetable world is represented, while
among the fruits, strawberries still in sea-
son lend their fragrance to the perfumed
air. Such Is an etching of French mar
ket, in which no Just estimate can be
formed until the artistic confusion of the
scene is witnessed, and the ear is filled with
the jargon of the tradcs-people
Here in the dense mass one meets all
grades Of Partisan lfc-a decrepid old
woman in u white cap and wooden shoes
creeps along with her basket beside one
who in the days of the Empire may have
been titled dame, but who is at present
reduced to perform mental service as is not
unfrequently the case since the Commune
the old crone stares in the pale, sad face,
and chuckles that Wdddmo comes also to
market. Here are two women with trays
of cake, which is offered to the public in a
duet in the high sOpranO here a young
girl in a tinsellcd bodice sits in n cart sur
rounded with eggs, while her embarrassed
donkey dozes by the wheel here an old
Turk sells pipes in q sunny corner; there a
group of Alsatians with baskets and brass
ear-hoops; carts slowly making their way
through the crowd a few nuns; piles of
garbage; trightful odors. and in the dis
lance uplifted arms swaying heads, cries
and oaths, the usual COncomitants of
French conversation.
FLOWER MARKETS
are held each Tuesday and Saturday in
every week, and are much frrqucntcd, rs
the ilo'al art in Paris is an economy in
every household. Dinner tables are pro-
fusely decorated with plants and boqucts,
which, with the dessert, are the only orna-
ments of the table during the repast. the
dishes being brought direct prepared from
the kitchen.
The quays of the Seine are crowded and
what with the pyramids of the blossoms
and foliage, the scent of violcs and roses.
bright faces and fresh white caps together
with the flowing Seine glitterng in the sun
| light, and the grand walls of the palace of
| the Louvre as back ground. the scene is
indeed picturesque There is nothing SINH
lar in the world to Il Paris ilower-salc and
well does it merit the admiration of the
many thousand foreigners who yearly visit
| the attractive affair
In the older parts Of Paris and in the de-
graded neighborhood of Montmartre the
markets are wretchcdly managed, and one
meets the lowest class of society. the dcs-
perado and communist. In fact Paris is
still filled with persons who, being driven
to desperation by poverty and jealousy are
found fraternity which every now and
then mantcst' its power, as in the time of
Louis XVI, and Marie Antoincttc, and
again in the dcvastations of the late com.
| A ,,.l,;pb L., 81
notice will illustrate the feeling which is
still ripe among the lower classcs-it hap
pencd that an intoxicated wretch staggered
up before a little palace occupied by pro-
minent French banker, and shaking his
| clenched fist ut the entrance, muttered,
" What right have you, any more than |,
to live in that fine house." The next
moment and he was totally obiyious to
the ills of the world but this last flash of
reason was fair exponent Of the animosi-
ty cherished by the poor of Paris towards
| their more prosperous brethren.
Market hours last from early morning
until twelve at noon when many vino have
been most boisterous in the stalls repair to
MONDAY mass at a ncighborng church or
| to their homes.
THE BouEaE.
At this hour the Bourse opens where a
market begins which far SURPRISES in cX-
element the late traffic in the products of
the earth This, the Exchange of Paris is
a fine building in the Grecian style and or
namented with colorado of siXtysiX Cor
inthian pillars while four statues decorate
the corners. The interior consists of hall
one hundred and twenty five feet in length
and eighty in width, into which at twelve
| o'clock eIV"ds tie tlIuns OF mOncy-seeK-
ers. A space at the end of the hall is rallied
off which the sworn brokers alone are priv
LEGGED TO enter they congrcgatc in the
| center of the hall and make their offers in
loud tones. Other groups, especially near
this railing are occupied in taking notes or
in concluding sales and purchases
the prices being regulated by
the transactions which take place within
the enclosure. The noise, the shouting.
the excited gestures of the spectators and
the eager cupidity of one and all produce a
most novel sensation in the minds of those
accustomed to the quiet transactions of the
London Exchange. Amid the Babel of
voices the only words which are ineligible
are sic prends, jc donne, ic vcnds." and in
truth wider vocabulary would be super
iluous. Vast numbers of strangers occupy
the galleries daily, from which Il prospect
is afforded of the antics below. At three
o'clock the stock exchange terminates,
when the brokers assemble and note the
| prices realized in the most recently conclud-
| ed transactions, and the exchange list for
| the day is then issued and al once printed.
The BOursc of Paris ought not be COM
pared with the Royal Exchange of London.
since the amount of business transacted at
the former is as nothing beside the wealth
of traffic which passes through the latter
still, the place has its points of interest and
is cmnently French in management.
Thus runs IA morning in Paris. The
streets, boulevards and cafes are quite de-
serted, nor is the city agog until after the
second breakfast. BY three o'clock bust
ness is over and the Parisians sally forth to
admire and be admired 1t is then that
Paris appears the Mecca of strangers and
"charms away the wisdom of the wise"
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