Of ways and means in Paris there is literally no end, for probably no city in the world is better provided with hotels, rest aurants, and cafes of all sorts; there are also numerous boarding-houses, furnished fiats, houses, and rooms to be let, and 2 deal of special extra accommodation always" provided at times when an ex: ceptional number of visitors is expected On the whole, Paris is a healthy city it is now thoroughly trid elaborately drained, and has an ample water supply from the Seine, the Marne, the Oureq Canal and from artesian wells and springs. i The mean temperature of the city throughout the year is 514 degrees Fahrenheit; the" highest readings of lute years have been 101 degrees in July," 1874, and July, 1881, and the lowest reading—14 degrees, or 46 degrees of frost, in December, 1879. It Will, therefore, be seen that the extremes of heat and cold are greater than they are, for instance, in London. The rainfall is not so large as it is with us; there are about 143 days on which rain falls in Paris, and the average yearly amount of rain is about nineteen and a-half inches.
The city is divided into twenty Arrondisoments, each presided over by a mayor with three or four assistants. It used to be said that the streets of Paris were well Kept, but it now seems to be behind London in this respect. In Paris the morning sweeping of the pavement appears to be the duty of each householder, though carly risers Wit, sometimes see an ancient chiflonier, or chiftsniare, at work first of all; the municipal authorities have, however, taken over this was in consideration of the payment of a tax, ae for the rest of the day the expense has to be'trne by the municipality. 7
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