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Show LIFE IN PARIS IS GROWING DEARER Special Cable to The Tribune. PAItlF. Oct. 1-. On all ImmlR one nears complalnti; that life tn Paris Is growing dally dearer. Perhaps It Is not only that prices aro uolng up, but that people are becoming more exlravAgnnt. For Instance, the slate has. decided to abolish the ."i-ecntlmes cigar, black and gnarled and strong, which the cabmen used to puff with obvlou-i Fatlsfacllon lo themselves, if not to their fures. Tt Is true that It is to replace it by a slimmer and sleeker cigar at the same price, and no doubt of the same quality of tobacco: but It Is probable tint the new 5-ccntlmes cigar will prove, like Its predecessor, a drug on tho market, the fact being that no ono smokes G-con times clsrurs now. The cabby, after dinner in his little restaurant, calls for a I lava tut, which may cost him anything from 50 centimes upward. Yet. not so many years ago, there were only two or three places In Paris where cigars costing more than CO centimes each could be bought loono-Now loono-Now there lo not tho smallest ohop in the poorest quarter where the passor-by cannot purchase an oxpenslvo Havana. |