Morning journal and courier., 1893-01-16

Most of the track is below the level of the streets. There are only, however Ave tunnels, and the longest is not more than three-ouarters of a mile. Elsewhere the road is higher than the streets This Pa risisn chernin de fer is far more pleasant to travel on than the gloomy underground railways of London. and spite of the fact that there is no third-class. trsyeling upon 1t is reasonably cheap. The lowest fare Is six cents, but you can go two or three miles for that sum, and for eleven cents you can cover the full length of the line. Outside the city there is another circulsr railway. This is the Chemin de fer ds Grsnde Ceinture. The nearest it comes to the Notifications Is at Bobigny, where it is within two miles, and it is st its greatest distance at St. German, where it is seven miles away.
 For getting sbout in the city itself the arrangements are varied enough, but they are very slow ss 6 rule, snd some of them are distressingly old-fsshioned. This is hardly the age of electricity in Paris. There are few streets lighted by this means, and you have to search with great diligence to ind an electric car. The onlc- vehicles offering you any approach to rapid transit are the steam trans. But these also are few. and thus, if you are too economical to 'cao II, you are entirely at the mercy Of vehicles which travel only & little faster than healthy man could easily walk But the ticket system which obtains herS Is highly commendsble. You get your number in the order in which you arrive at the station where the bus or tram is to stop. Perhsps you are B weak little vo- msn. Before the vehicle comes along a nozsn or two men msy have taken tickets. but II you weTe the first you have the hrst right to seat, and this is sll attended 10 20 carefully and quietly that there is no chance for cheating and TO occasion for crowding
 If the notice "complete" is put up be- fore your number is reached you will, of course, be little disappointed But how 1t will delight you, upon rtheotiop- to find trsms and busses which sometimes do get to be absolutely full! In American cities there Is always room for one more, even when the last man 10 jump on Is still hang. ing by the bell rore. But here it is % msny-the number which can be comfort ably socommOdated--and not one more ApropOs of the sign ''complets" and of what it means. there Is good story of an Irirhmsn-probsbly An American Irish mau-who in recounting his Parisian pere- grinstions, said he hsd been to every place about the city bu. Complete. and bejsbers, though he'd tried a huBdred times to get a bus that was going there, he had never succeeded. He had often jumped upon the platform of suoh busses, but had sl ways been ordered of
 In Paris you will waste your time if you look for blonde haired girl every time you see gray horse, for French girls are mostly of the brunette type, whereas gray horses are in the greatest profusion here, especially in public conveyarces. There are forty lines of trans in this city, and nearly as many bus lines, and from long and close observation We are driven 10 the conclusion that, taking the service through and through, the animals of that color which are engaged in it are about three four;hs of the whole number. Paris Is great on style, and this is its style in horse hair.
 Speaking of style in Psrisisn bus horses reminds us, however, that the horses en- gagged in the enormous cab service of this city are utterly without style. There are exceptions, of course, but taken ss a class these animals are A sorry set, the least pleasing to the eye of anything you zee in all this buey city. They gre SO numerous, too, that they form leading feature in every thoroughfare. Paris has ten thou sand more csbs than London can beast, though London is twice the size of Paris But the rate st which you csu hire these Paris cabs, forty cents an hour, and less thAn that for a single journey, is eminent ly satisfactory, as also. barring the one feature of 2 Tunty looking horse. is the general appearance of ths vehicle itself.
 And heIe We note, ss another striking instance of the Parisian love of style, that generally there will be match between the cab and the driver. If the cab is fin ished in dark shade csbby's hat will be black. If the body of the cab is finished hallway up in lighter shsde-ssy old gold, ss many of them sre-then cabby's hat will be white, with an old gold band on 1t; and often you will notice-as the last straw which the most exactiDg fancy could desire-that this captivating French Jehu will bs so mindful of artistic effects as to have a border of the same shade on the carriage robe he wraps about him. This is decidedly Psrisian, and Is & fair sample of Paris life in all it's varied aspects. H. T.