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Show THE CHIFFONIER. j A Ruined Institution In tho Ureal City or J'tirls. The chiffoniers of Paris have lost! their tradc-at least it has become so totally modified tiiat they no longer j pnr-.ae it in its ancient 'form. The wa:.te ami dirt tr-m every hwe i:-ed to be poured out into the street bt Tore tie.' front door each cvenimr at nine or bm oYloeU. an. I the chJtb.nier, with his lantern and hi-, hook in Ins hands 2nd lnsba-'Uet on his back, arrived at onee and r;:ked the heaps over, to see v:v.... he culd t'in.l in them. Hut it beetle be-etle fni-bhlU-u. s:.yS 1 Hack wood's M--aine. either to throw the refuse :do the street or to briny it out at r,i;-!it. 11 was prescribed that it should be can-ied down in the early morniny in a box-, which is placed, full, at the door, and is emptied bef.ae nine o'clock-in tiii du-,t carls, which yo round each day. The chiiionicrs, therefore, have no h-nyer I he oppori unity of piekiny over the dirt, for it h:;s ceased to oil',-r -.'If in au accessible for::i: they h. :v. for the. most part, lo carry on Iheir tra le after the refuse is discharged from the carts at the depots, and. consequently, con-sequently, have almost disappeared from the streets. They cannot be re-yarded re-yarded as a loss, for they were, o! necessity, dirty and bad smcHiny. am; looked, as they prowled about with their dull lanterns in the dark, like .-peelers of miserable cvilness. lint. ; all the same, they were thoronyhlv! typical of old Paris. ' |