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Show 4 Foreign Street Can. Cannes ins B0 Jtfert car system, properly speaking; trial U, lber are cirsbutno tracks. The cars are omewiiaf sfrslfar-o.thoeoln Amcr-Ian Amcr-Ian cities. lBcir wheels .are as snail aud the car steps n.'u As low, aad there U the same facility fur nreaklng one's neck getting on and olTthe front platform. They differ from the English platform In having no room ou top, thereby proving an exception to Daniel Webster's motto. They recognize the man who smoke and have a seat both on the front and reaf nlatfomi forhlm to use. Moet of tho cars have three horses hitched abreast and the man who sits on the front platform as the car goes down the hill at full speed gets a sensation similar to what he would receive If he rode in the chariot at a clrcuschariot race. The cars all have curtains to 'heir Trlndows. Tne hue from Cannes to Cannet, two miles no.th, Las 6ne feature that Is probably unique. To management man-agement provides each day a number num-ber of dally tapers, which are for the; use of patrons. Tlie papers are each fas.cueiTto a slice somewhat longer than thu paper Is, and when a person is through reading It he hangs it up on hooks for that ur-nose ur-nose In the roof of the car. where It is out of everybody's way and yet handy for the next man who wants to read the day's news. In Nice they have real street cars with real tracks. You can ride all over tbe city for a Iwnny, and besides be-sides that thu conductor Invariably lifts his hat to you nu J begs pardon for a&fclcg yon for the fare. He then hands ycit s colored ticket, again lifts his bat, and tropes you will excuse him for troubling you about such trlviil matters. tree JYcis. |