Show A journey tinder paris furnishes A correspondent of a swedish journal bourna furnishes tarnishes bishes an inte interesting resting account of a au subterranean sterra voyage made through one of the admirably constructed sewers of paris the boat which conveyed the party was reached b by descending a flight of steps to the depth of a about out forty five feet the boat a flat bottomed affair was lighted by four lamps the sewer sewen is an archway fifteen feet high and of equal breadth with a ditch or canal about ten f feet beet wide wherein all the dirt and filth of paris is carried away on the sides are sidewalks which together are about four feet wide the whole is built of beautiful white sandstone and is kept remarkably neat and clean no stench or bad smell was perceptible ce cep tible tibie ble bie the denser portion of the filth is c carried way away through large drains beneath the sidewalks the sidewalks are excellent and exhibited no signs of dampness da while the walls I 1 of the archway are kept whitewashed and are all times as white as the driven snow the structure possesses the properties of an immense speaking tube the workmen being able to converse at the distance of two miles from each other the echo is very stron strong and i lasting the fabric is said to be built afier after after a model of the catacomb of rome aided by all the vastest improvements on sides at about two hundred yards distance for one another i are openings through which the workmen can ascend by means of permanent iron ladders in case cage a sudden rain storm should cause the I 1 water to rise over the sidewalks side bide which is however of rare occurrence the won ron contents tents of the sewer of course flow into the river seine and the current is sufficient to carry the boat used along with considerable I 1 sid erable velocity large reservoirs are cofi constructed ted at interval intervals into luto which the water can be turned for a short time in case it should be necessary to have the canal dry for a short time the whole work was completed in two years besides the main canal there are many minor miner ones constructed under the prin cipal street streets 4 all of which can be made to communicate muni cate with one another These admirable underground works are accessible from the louvre the Tuil tuii lelies and from all the barracks and should the parisians Pari take a notion to streets anany part of the city cuy the imperial government might at short notice and without any person being aware of it transport troops and if there is time to maki make I 1 use user of the reservoirs so can cavalry also be transported the same way there is an end to sho shooting otin I 1 on the soldiers from the windows I 1 anda revolution in paris will soon only be remembered i amod amon the things that have been 1 1 never to occur a again t aln ain through these underground passages a prisoner can easily be taken from the louvre to the seine without attracting trac trae tr any attention and thence sent off by railway which is near at hand this splendid system of sewera sewerage g e was one of the pet schemes of the girst first t napoleon |