Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1878-09-06
PARIS LETTER.

The Americans who Make More
MONEY Than They Spend In ParIs-
HOW a Frenehman Displays His
ArtIneIal OpIIes-The OmnIbus Sys-
tenn ofthe French MetrOPOIIs-WhaT
Tourists See and Fail 60 See, etc.
American dentists are, Think, about the
only Americans who make money in Paris,
and it is little remarkable that the French
who are so skillful and artistic as surgeons,
and have such exquisite taste in all deli
cate mechanical arts, should have yielded
this field almost exclusively to Americans.
The sign dentist American" may be seen
in small gilt letters on doors in almost
every fashionable quarter of Paris, and
from DIR. Evans who fills the decayed teeth
of half the sOverelgns of Europe, and who
was so intimate with the family of the late
Emperor that lac breakfasIed with them
every Sunday, TO the recently arrived
young praclictidner from Philadelphia or
Boston they are. am t,ld, all making
money; Tor the economical Frenchman
will spend ON his personal appearance what
he would consider rash prOdIgality if ex-
pended for the mere comforts of life. But
/ if Americans excel in the manufacture Of
false teeth the French excel them in false
eyes. The average sale of manufactured
eyes, in Paris alone, intended for the hu-
man head, amounts to four hundred per
week. The French capital appears to have
the monopoly of this strange trade.
Twelve eye manufactures flourish within
the barriers; each of whom furnishes en-
ployment to about twenty workmen. Eng
| lsh and American enamellers have vsinly
tried to compete with the French occulist
artists. ''Do you see, sir" remarked one
of the latter, .'Englishmen have not suf-
fcient taste for this trade; their eyes are
only good enough for stuffed animals.
This oeulist, who is at the head of his pro-
fession, receives his customers in mag
niicent saloon, resplendent with gliding
and mirrors. His servant has but one eye
and if you would Judge of the effect of the
goods, the master rings the bell and tries
the false eye in the socket of the servant.
The charges are forty or fifty francs per
eve, purchased at this well known estsb-
lishment. For the poor, there are second
hand visual organs, which may have been
worn by some Duke or Duchess, and ex-
changed for new one after several months
service.
A feature of Paris life, justly attracting
the attention of the foreigners, is its om-
nibus system. From half-past five in the
morning to twelve O'Clock at night hun
dreds of omnibusss circulate through Par
is. The omnibus company. one of the
richest and most prosperous in France,
pays an annual sum to the Government for
this monopoly which amounts 20 $500, 900.
The Paris omnibuses conveys about one
hundred millions Of passengers per Innum.
Different Offices or Bureaux are established
in the streets, boulevards and squares, to
take up passengers and to transfer, by
Correspondence ticket" those who wish
to deviate from the direct line, and con-
tinue their journey by entering another
omnibus. Thus for the sum of six sous
you may go from one end of Paris to the
other. There is no cheaper way or better
method to form q rapid idea of the extent
and beauty of Paris than to go on top Of
a bus and travel from the Arc de Tri-
umphe to the Bastille, returning by the
left bank of the Seine, especially of an af-
ternoon when the whole city is swarming
with life. Should the excursionist renew
the same drive between eight and ten in
the evening when the streets, bOulevards,
fouburgs and squares are traced in long
lines of light. which appear to link them
together as with golden chains, he will
then have acquired in few hours as cor