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Show PARIS FLOODS AND RELIEF. It appears from the cable sorvicc that tho floods that were about to ruin Paris havo subsided. The river Seine has retreated to its usual channel, and while the Avalcr is high it is no longer dangerous. dan-gerous. It is stated also that relief is pouring in for the suffering city at a magnificent and unprecedented rate, aud everything that humanity, civilization, civiliza-tion, and science can suggest will be done by v-'uy of relief. It appears that Paris is much subject to inundation. Gauges of tho flood of the Seino at Paris wero begun in 1732, since which time there havo boon forty-six forty-six floods, counting tho recent onc. Of these floods, thirt3--onc were "ordin-ar3" "ordin-ar3" twelve "extraordinary" and three "exceptional." In tho 100 years preceding 1732, there wore fivo devastating devas-tating inundations of this city, that of 1G58 being tho worst on' record until the present one. Sinco 1S54 there has been it regular system along the Seino of forecasting floods, so that tho authorities au-thorities of Paris knew some days before be-fore the floods camo down, what they had to expect. Tho uppor Seino is divided di-vided into four natural sections, sonic of the streams in which aro classified as of a torrential character, and tho occurrence o floods at Paris is due, as a rule, to tho concentration of rainfall in the mountains whoro theso streams rise. Wo note these data in a special article ar-ticle on the floods of Paris in the New-York New-York Evening Post, which notes that from the earliest time floodts havo been frequent and occasionally of a devastating devas-tating character. v It is as comforting as any reflection can be, following such a great disaster as has rccontly overtaken tho city of Paris, to know thnt oven applianco of science, of mechanics, of hydraulics, is easily available for tho relief of Paris. Money and labor will be unstinted in clearing away the ravages aud repairing repair-ing destructive effects of the flood. Contributions from all tho world aro pouring in at a tremendous rate, and so,-while Paris has been much afflicted, it will bo much relieved, and everything every-thing that can possibly bo dono for relief re-lief and rehabilitation is immediately at hnnd ready for utilization, for preservation, pres-ervation, nnd for reconstruction, and it is reasonable to expect, in tho least possible time, that all signs of tho ravages rav-ages of the flood will havo been obliterated, oblit-erated, and Paris will bo onco.morc tho same gay, careless city for which she has been famed the world around. |