Show ari a the he sixteenth century borne curious documents just found in tho the i archives of tile paris prefecture of police 0 lae t throw an all and t live libbro light on tile lai planner ariner in in which tile the street of paris veto guarded during thoi night light in tho the sixteenth century to begin with there were rules to tile the effect that each house should have only ofie one door ind and should be regularly inhabited this being tho case it was a comparatively easy task to order that dwellers in the different dil ferent goubes should in turn keep an eye on w N liat aliat was going on ipa their respective st streets they were not compelled to tramp up and down the pavement like the modell model n policeman art the ibe authorities w were ere satisfied if they looked through their windows an and watched all that that was goibe on oil wow below if tile sli slightest cry wore were raised thoy they opened their windows and rang their bells until their neighbors followed suit the alarm spread from arop street to street and soon all the bells in ralis paris were ring ringing ing the windows werd elit fit up an and d the inhabitants armed to the teeth sallied forth barring the road to tile the malefactors who were almost always arrested I 1 need hardly explain that tho the paris of those days was lUi lili in iii comparison with aliat it is noi now bat what an uncomfortable way they had bad of keeping beeping the he peace in tho the S sixteenth i century the remedy was positively worse than the disease for it was hard that the inhabitants a ants of one street should te be awakened out of their first sleep because the dwellers in a remote avenue imagined that something wrong was going on one would fancy that in some quarter or another some noise at least must have been made every night tho the slumbers of the parisians Pari generally must aften have been woefully curtailed cui tailed not ui to speak of tho the volunteer watchman tor for whom I 1 all night sittings were a stern re reality allty journal |