The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-12-24

and no factory whistles, but there is very much fog-horn and whip snapping. Street cars. fire engines, omnibuses, horseless carriages, ambulances and some bicycles have for-horns of very ing size, and the blowing is incessant. Other bicycles, cabs with pneumatic wheels, and certain classes of delivery wagons have COW bells or sleigh bells, This is regulated by law, and no alarm bells are permitted. The bicycles do not carry lamps but Chinese lanterns, and all vehicles must have light by night, Many of the principal streets forming arteries of traffic are paved on one side with granite blocks and on the other with macadam, wood or asphalt; on these streets wagons must stick to the granite and carriages to the smoother surface. In most of the fine streets of the western quarter no wag- ons are permitted at all; mo vehicles without springs" is the wording of the law
 Newsboys flourish only in America In London they are men, in Paris men and women-women in the kiosks, men on the sidewalks. The men yell, and the women don't Boys that ought to be newsboys are generally mischieVous gamins and when over the age or SIX teen, thieves and cut-throats. Some times they learn trades after they have stopped playing truant from school, but not generally; the apprentices are mostly country born. The way you can tell gamin from a boy who isn't gamin in Paris is by the uniform of black alpaca thing, half apron and half gown. All decent children in Paris wear these things and the garment is the same for boy as for girl; you can't tell them apart at first glance. Paris childhood seems like huge char ity school in consequence.
 Paris cows are mostly kept in shops in the little side streets of the older quarters. They have an excuhsion to the country for two weeks once year. otherwise they never leave their stalls. Paris milk is best when it has lots of spring water in it, which is mostly the case. It costs from ten to twenty cents a quart, according to the mixture. It is said to be prolific cause of con- sumption unless judiciously diluted or SIPTlllZSu. dliSldllS, iOWCNCi, oo hOl use much milk-half pint head day About three-fifths of 1t come from the country, and when it gets to Paris | it is something like buttermilk, al- | though not so good This is because it is transported not by rail but by two- wheeled carts, which have pleasant rocking motion Besides the seventy | five hundred cows in Paris, there are | thirty-eight she-asses and fifty-tWo goats, the milk of which is more expen- sive. The goats are driven in small herds from door to door In the residence quarters by goatherds, who play on a pipe They milk the goats at your doorstep to assure you that 1t is pure
 A large majority of the babies of the wealthy people and a good proportion of all Parisian children derive suste- nance wholly from wet-nurses. This is a branch of the government service. | There are scores of other peculiar l things about Paris, and it takes more 1 than a day or two to observe them all, 1 but perhaps the most curious is the fact that of the 2,55o000 people living in
 Paris only thrty-seven per cent. are | 1dilSldiS, lilS Wpuiu HUI pV '1Ae'ioS 'A the foreign population was large, but it isn't Foreigners from only per cent. of the total, against II per cent in Ber- lin, P per cent. in Vienna, the same in
 London, 24 per cent. in St. Petersburg, and very much higher percentage even than that in New York and Chi cago. Of the 200, 900 foreign students of | Paris, 10000 are Belgians, 32,000 Ger mans, 25,o0o Italians, 1900 English 1S,- OO0 Swiss, and 5000 Russians. The na- tive-born French, aside from Parisians,
 are from the provinces, and form 55 per
 cent of the whole. The Parisian of
 Paris exists in only two, or perhaps
 three, types-the boulevardier, the
 bourgeois du Maras, and the voyou;
 and only the first is infallibly recogni-
 gable Most of the bureaucrats are
 bourgeoisie du Marais. This peculiarly
 of Paris perhaps throws some light on
 the question why.it is always center
 of revolution. The provincial who stays
 at home is good, easy man, faithful tc the traditions of his native place. The
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