The daily gazette., 1880-12-15
OUR PARIS LITTER
FRENCH HORsEs-A PARIS MAnKRT-
TEE BUTCHER SHOPS.

FRENCH HORsEe-A PARIS Market
TEE BUTCHER SHOPS.
sp, sial correspondence OF the Gazette.
PARIS, Nov. 20, 1880.
There are many sights in Paris that
will attract the attention of the Ameri.
can visitor, and not few from which
he may get some profitable hints
though upon the whole, as have said,
we are far ahead Of them in matters OF
general utility and comfort.
The horses here are as near perfec-
tien as possible in the adaptation to
their general uses, and are kept in the
finest condition and thorough train
ed. In England we saw some very
fine full bloods and hunters, and in
Hyde Park, London, the most splendid
eQuippages. But the horses, with al
their Rarniture of silver and gold har-
ness, are large and heavy footed COM
pared with the silky delicacy and grace
full movements of the Paris horses.
For the saddle, the full bred Barbary
stock is almost exclusively used. For
carriages, the Arabs are crossed with
a heavier breed, and for drays, trans,
diligences and all heavy draughts, the
powerful Norman horse is exclusively
used. There is also fashion in color.
The saddle horses are spotted, grey
and roam the carriage horses are
nearly all black, while the draught
horses are grcy and white, This Nor
man breed is used for agricultural pur-
poses in the Provinces, and though
slow on foot, are patient, decile and
easily kept IN condition.
The "Ecole des Beaux Arts"
whittier accompany Nan to school
every morning, (according to French
custom, which never permits an un-
married lady to be seen upon the street
without an escort) there is large mar
KIT, to which the country people come
in great numbers on Tuesdays and
Saturdays. Perhaps / should say
country s1on,sn, as l have never yet
seen man with produce from the
country.
Sometimes the women bring their
young children with their butter,
chickens, eggs and vegetables, and
leave them in their big covered carts,
while they sell their produce in the
market. The carts are very large, with
enormous wheels, and are open at the
sides something like our hay wagons.
There is generally q mat, woven OF
straw, for lining of the carts, which
not only keeps out the dampness and
onlA II ht.f ha .fA
springless vehicle. These carts, with
the young children boxed up in them,
and the patient white horse nibbllng
at his oats in the bag fastened to his
nose, stand all day in the streets, while
the mistress sells her things in the
market house.
The butcher shops, often repulsive to
sensitive temperaments, as they are in
our cities, are here amongst the most at
tracuve objects. They are generally To-
Gated on the corners of the streets, and
the meat 10 arranged so artistically that
passers are constantly stopping before
them, as at the windows OF the picture
stores. Beef, mutton and veal are sold
at the same shop. Pork is sold from
shop by ITSELF and venison, which Is
about as common as any. meat, is sold
by the poulterers'. All meats and poul-
try are well fatted ,and veal is not killed
before it attans an age of three months
at least, oftener six months, when IL
weighs from two 10 four hundred
pounds.
The shop fronts are arranged so that
the carcases may be hung in the form
Of a V, with the point inward toward
the centre of the shop. First, outside
the whole sides of bullocks with The
back outward, converging to the point
are hung with sheep dressed whole, backs
outward, also, while at the point is the
whole veal turned back inward, present.
ing the inside so incrusted with creamy
fat that we notice nothing beside. All
around this are delicately traced vines
and flowers, as finely marked as by an
artists pencil. The same tracery of
vines ard flowers, in different forms,
mark the beef and the mutton, while
the whole display is garnished with cut
meats in beautifully cut white paper
such as florists use for their rare flowers.