Eureka Reporter | 1904-04-22 | Page 3 | City Known by Its Odor

CITY KNOWN BY ITS ODOR that of pans Is charcoal of london soot and of moscow cranberries A curious observer writing to the london chronicle says that different cities can be recognized by their smell paris for example he says is light ly pervaded with the odor of burning charcoal and coming from paris to london one Is newly assailed by the appeal of soot cologne has a reputation long un for smells other than that of its famous water and it has been said that in 5 ears ol 01 old a blind man could find his wa about cologne b following his nose moscow has an odd perfume of its own it suggests of becu liar pun genc and it never leaves the nose garlic of course is the basic smell that greets the stranger who lands at calais but the most curious of the smells of place is that of st petersburg the writer declares that he had often wondered what it was having detect ed it even between the sheets of his bed at the most exorbitant hotel on his third visit he was driving in a druschky drosch ky from the station with a young english girl who had never been away from kent before now do you smell anything he asked yes said the girl old boots that is the smell of st petersburg centenarian shoe leather