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Show CLEANINGS FROM FRANCE. The sender of a newspaper through the French postotlieo is now allowed lo mark in pencil or in ink any particular par-ticular article or paragraph. The Taris winter climate is not so genial as that of Salt Lake. Large quantities o!" enow fell on the lirst toreedaysof December, ai:d the cold w;is intense. The Americans and llussians are the best skaters in I'aris, and two or three members of the Washington club are especially distinguished on the Boi.s de. Boulogne skating park. M. Alfonso K'.rr shows by comparison compari-son of fatal accidents or mishaps among the useful classes and executions execu-tions of criminals, that the profession of assassin is, of all known professions, the least dangerous and the least unheal un-heal th v. If the taxation of Paris was distributed dis-tributed equally over tne population, every man, woman and child in the city would pay half a franc, or five-pence five-pence steriine, every day. The total eity expenditures of all kinds rftich the enormous sum of 12,250, X0. Alter the six great powers and Spain and Turkey there is no nation or kingdom in Europe the revenue and expenditure of which nolab'.y surpass those of the city ol Paris. Paris girls are not permitted to enjoy themselves alone at public places, for they must always be accompanied accom-panied by their mothers. Nor can American girls go about with the freedom they do at home. A few have tried it, and all of them have had to sutler bitter humiliations, if not made the objects ol biispicion. Another d.tEeuhy to be encountered is the choice ol the coaipany, for wherever there is any pleasure mere the lead-( lead-( ing members of the demi mon-le are sure to be found. The price of admis-sion admis-sion makes no sort of dirJerence to . ihem, since they are tetter able to pay it than the generality of honest women, and tiling has yet succeeded suc-ceeded here from which toey were strictly excluded. Whenever the attempt has been made the enterprise has been a commercial faiiurr. Tne . reason is not chtneult to find, tor . owing to ihe backwardness of French niris and lo the care with which they are guarded by jea.oua mammas, young men can find no pleasure m their society. It is supremely embarrassing em-barrassing and stupid. Keal pleasure ;;:s found in paj-t.es with Eng.ish and 'I American girls; that pleasure is un-j un-j known in Paris. Many ot tne cafOs of j Far:? nave tr:ed to exclude the J-tjo' ' w-.tw', but only one has succeeded. |