The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-07-06
ELI PERKINS IN PARIS
The Real Estate Boom Is Unknown In
the Gay City.
Americans Who Make Frenohmen
Laugh. but American Jokes Not
Appreciated Bronze vs..
Stone Monuments.


There Is no boom. Real estate agents
do not come to MS In Paris will options
on suburban property, writes Eli Perkins
to the Chicago Inter Ocean. There is but
two real estate men in Paris, and h are
as quiet as pall-bearers. One OF them
told me to-day that he had rented a good
many Hats at from $40 to 500 a month,
but he had never sold a house. There are
not a dozen signs OF For Sale" to he seen
on houses in all Paris, IN ! have seen
but SIX houses being built. Paris Is lin
ished and Is now going to decay. The
city is not as beautiful as il was twenty
years ago. and every wear takes from its
splendor.
mn NJ b. H.. r.;,- f.,
=. ~ ua'. y living Jus,
opposi'e '"e III Tacoma anu sea'.ie' ana
tnat real estate there Is Drisk. lie says
that having exhausted Oregon for suburbs,
they are going TO bore through 5000 miles
and locate choice corner lots i'm France.
While they are building houses In Taco.
,n. ,,an.;,. -,
,na,e r ~, s'.Nens "re .cariIg '"e'h
now" pere' mat Is Tue uiherehce de-
tween a new ana an old country
i have seen but one drunken man in
Paris in two weeks, and two gendarmes
marched him straight IN the noIice sta.
,ion and locked him nm II WAS 90 ,n,s-
III -. ~. !. "" o"""
81" .'o"u oi'owe
'he poor man through the streets. ohe
cause Tor ms temperance Is The fact that
the average French laboring men can't
afford to get drunk. II takes about a bot
tie and N half of ordinary wine tn Get n
man Jr,,L ami ~, 60 IN 80
an - -
man cauno' ger ngh'nne uruhk OH frehch
WINE. Nhen a frenchman wants a great
spree he puts absinthe in his wine or
brandy, which gives him sweet visions
| and then NUTS him IN sleen.
Rut wine dr;nkino IL d;mi,;sb;n, Tn
fact more Munich heer IL DRINK in p,r;s
| than wine. Twenty wears AGO the peonie
sat i'm rows four dcen IN lie houicvnrJ
=eyen;nos' all dr;nLipo vine sn,olinu
| cigarettes and SHINING coffee. Nnw the
hear n,no Is eyoryu,hero T...n,,, 80,
loads nf beer arr;ye from M"n;nIS oynrr
dnv' When Paris s,-,rrendernJ 10 The Ger.
,nons 4, Ia s,,rra,JaraJ 90 Ean.,a -
Niunich heor is Thin. II Is in,,nssihia 80
get drunk ON II. n il really n nrnhib;,ian
drink After n man has dr,nL sov.rai
gallons he goes home stmniJIy soher lie
don't ,at dr,,nL he uo,s FIJI anJ son,is o..
n cab 10 take II horns He dnn,, 0ah, ,nd
| discnss The tariff ouos,ion H. s;,nnIs
lnses his iden,;,Y and ohi;y;nn sn,s in"p's
Twenty wears have ,nade saJ havoc
with Vars,iIIes rho h.a,,,fni ,r.as
nlan,ed Inv Iouis XIV. lave ,rnu,n
scraggy. iIbe snlendid Louis wv nal.
ace and the porpeous Fountains which
hankr,nted The tr,as,,ry Of Fr,nce 90
build are crumbling away J'he Made,
Ieine and The Arc dc Trion,nbe will s,and
5Oo wears. Inn, The opIv nnnnm,,onts H.,
will stand forever are The hrnnze columns
of Vendome and July. The snbinx has
lost lis nose The co,iscnm has 49,
natchs,i mn tho nalaco ~ The C,asars h as
gone 10 decay, the obelisk i'm Central
mark aud The GheIisk az Tuxor In pr.
are cr,mbi;ny' Inn, ,bere stands j.; ~ Rn az
the bronze column OF Troinn. There IL
the picture of Remus and Romulus' AIex-
nnder and the Caesars. and The history 90
Rome. written nm thai hronze column viii
%outliye the pyramids.
THE Paris colnInn ~ Vo,,,o,,. u,,s
modeled after tba hrnpzn Traian no,,, wne
i'm Rome.
:" Tn nrnc,i,, 40 Clam, 4, 4.
foolish IN use stone The Pa ,bnnon 20
Athens and the Forum Of Rome ara In
r,,ins. The Traian Column sill stands
Grants monument should he ~ hron1a
a bronze column with The history ~ IN.
Ran,hi;o frn'n c.n ~. - - wy
nravad me- !, 1n 4, s 1r ram en-,
no,iaiiinns in has ra,;af - I'll ,ha -
dents and Grant and his corns cnmn,anI.
ors In soI;J h,,n,o shn,,ld ho an..a.al
the DccIaration 81 Observation-Disclosures md
Iincoln,s nrncIamatinn ~ freo,io, ~
s.OOO.GCo slaves, Lee, il he n snccinct his.
tory ~ the RenubIic nm 10 ian AMI 10 in
hrn,1e. IL will live "a mnui,iion y.arS' 70 =,
s,onn 20 ynars Viii III !, yuJr III
In, No,hian Ill Vn ,r"n ,,.o
aho,,, carly Ro,na w.ra :, m.,' m"J WI
hronze monuments and her coins ~"
In Iondnn s;x years 400 tho hn,s ,soa
IN MONT to The marble sia,,ta - o"oan
Vpon 60 =. - s"ee"
"IE W,ns,ar ,hatc ba ne H., G,,o.,
Anna hefnre III. dro,ncd IN e. x.anu
nosar, "'
D. o,o., n,.,;f ,ho,
In bransa sho.a n,,Li hav. s,;,, %nn,
he.,,;frI "a Tho hron,o s,a,,,,a 1870
wv -, va..a;Ia" nn saiuis,, ~ ,o"is
pr;n,a AIhor, in uvda p,rn y"
Ia, An,ar;o, ',,t mn no 80, .,..h,.
monnnants '"' ""''e
Tn.iay mo, NJ pr;cais. an. h,,,o.,.,