Show fah fars the charge for a bed in the esteep ing cara from balsa to calais is about li franka and from t paris for some occult reason 7 franls more uy one of thosa extraordinary arrangements range ments that ran exist only in counti iea where nobody trusts anybody and everybody in suspected by everybody else even the unfortunate traveler who has hired a bod at is not allowed to turn into it till 1130 he reason assigned being that at the french frontier the email baggage roust be examined and if people were allowed to turn in before the examination 00 oo place there is no baying what amount of tobacco and laces and the rest of it might not be secreted in or under the bed by the tourist or by the servants of the sleeping car company when however the conventional ceremonial of that you have nothing to declare baa been gone through and your dressing bag has been de laced by hieroglyphics in white chalk then the operation of bed making in ho Wagon lils any one who has watched it will bo disposed to exclaim with SIa cbeth sleep no more in a small and sometimes filthy den narrow cun hiona and hard pillows of hoar antiquity aro perfunctorily covered with a shabby rug and a sheet and under a coverick cover ioK of a similar char actor the traveler who baa paid more than a pound or extraordinary indulgence la invited to betake to plumber 1 lie happens to iivo a rave ing companion aliey can procure the luxury auch as it ie of privacy one of them on hie principle must needs sleep on the upper shelf is an experience several degrees more painful than lying on the lower on if the number of passengers pae be not equal to alie number of beda they will be able by bribing the person in charge to pet a four bed compartment adil ahna both will avoid the torture of being suspended from the ceiling As a rule these vacant compartments are had by tipping the dirty official in charge of them and thus perhaps for 25 cents apiece two people can escure the of mia ery we have described one of the main inducements to many people who have recourse to a wagon lit is the belief that at any rate in the morning they will be able to have a good atah and will thus emerge from the train alie simulation of a civilized being instead of an unwashed unkempt savage ilor ninn throws a fuller light on this pleasing anticipation aa some of our correspondents point out the lavatory arrangements in the sleeping cars between balse and calais and tiet neen baags and paris are abominable beyond description and cannot be turned to the account by anyone of the moat ordinary fastidiousness |