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Show Cosmopolitan Taxlcab Driver. A Chinaman and a Japanese are oow driving tailcans In Paris, while the ranks of the drivers also Include German-speaking Alsatians, Italian-Speaking Italian-Speaking southerners, Spanish-speaking Rasqoes, and a number of chauffeurs chauf-feurs with a good knowledge of English Eng-lish who are either sons of English people settled In France or have flatted flatt-ed England or America. It Is not unusual un-usual to ace on tbe box of the Paris taxlcab tbe typical Algerian or Tunisian Tun-isian with coffee-colored tint and slender slen-der hands, and there are several coal-black coal-black negroes from Africa and almond-eyed Orientals from Indo-Chlna. The Chinexe cabman has been driving his taxlcab there for two years. He was born In Peking, and Is looking forward to the day when under the enlightened rulo of the young Chinese Republic he may start a motor garage gar-age In Lis native city. |