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Show HOW PARIS PAYS HER BILLS Tbe government of the city of Paris ia sustained by indirect taxation, there being little or no tax levied on real estate except for paying and repairing re-pairing and keeping the streets in order. The housekeeper and the tenant pay the taxes, such as they aro, but the greater portion of the revenue of the city comes from indirect in-direct taxation. Everything that is brought into Paris in the shape ol food or for domeBtio purposes must pay ao octroi, or entrance duty, at the gates of tbe city, or il by water, at the boats before it is landed. The receipts from thia source this year amount lo 200,000,000 francs, or about $40,000,000, market dues, $3,000,000; slaughter -houses, $SO0,O00; renta of etaoda on the publio ways, $100,000; duea on burials, $140,000; sales of lands in cemeteriea, $150,000; taxes for paying lighting, etc., $2,500,000; doe tar, $110,000; sale of night soil, $150,000 total receipts, about $47,-OOO.0O0. $47,-OOO.0O0. without any direot tax upon real estate. Tue city of Paris never baa any floating debt to fund, but always has a balance to add to tbe Binking fund, after expending about $5,000,000 per aocum for public improvements aud the ornamentation of the city. It is the best governed cily in the world, aud has no ringa or cliques lo depleie itd treasury. Paris Lcltcr to the Baltimore American. |