There are many open wine-shops, but these chiefly supply the lower classes there are also crenmeries for the sale of milk, cream and butter. There is really no need to go thirsty in Paris. Yet with all these facilities, drunkenness is comparatively rare; nothing like so frequent as it is in London. We leave our comfortable shady seat outside the cafe, and stroll along until we are forced to stand still, fascinated by the window display of a confectioner; its dainty looking pastries, the beauty of its fruit and cream tartlets, and their variety must be a revelation to anyone who has not before travelled abroad: we have already spoken of the legion of chocolate, and delicious sweetmeat shops. French chocolate, and French fondants are of course world-famous. Then there are the fruit shops, and these in hot weather make one's mouth water: such pears, stich peaches, plums, apricots, along with huge orange-coloured melons, and_refreshing sweetwater grapes from near Fontainebleau.
But Paris is extremely well provided with every kind of shop, and the goods are nearly always tastefully displayed in the windows. The two great shopping places for ladies are the Grand Magasin da Louvre in the Rue de Rivoli, opposite the Louvre, and the Bou Marche m the Rue clu Bac, on the south side of the Seine, between the In-; valides and the ' Luxembourg; and on the Boulevard Haussmann, Les Maga-sins da Printemps.
It is said that nearly 2,500 newspapers and periodicals are pubushed in Paris.
Six railways run into or about Parix: the North railway, station near the Boule-yard de Magenta, and the Rue de la Fayette; the East railway, with two st tions, Gare de lest, near Gare clu Nord, and Gare de Vincennes, on the Place de Bastille; the Western of France railway has also two stations, Gare St. Lazaro, near the Boulevard Haussmann, and Gare Montparnasse, a little south-west of the Luxembourg gardens; the Orleans railway, on south side of Seine, near the Austerlitz Brid and Gare clu Luxembourg near Boulevard St. Michel; the Lyons and Mediterranean railway, with its Gare de Lyon on Boule-yard Diderot, not far from the Seine; and the Chemin de for de Petite Ceinture, a railway which runs right round Paris just inside the fortifications has been built in the Esplanade des Invalides, connecting with the Champ de Mars. "Parisians say that an excellent general view of Paris is to be had from the upper series of seats on the Ceinture r: way, which for a very small cost, takes one round the city in an hour. There are endless omnibuses, many tramway lines, and lastly there are the river steamboats, which have been already mentioned.
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