Among the unexpected results of] the American legionaries' visit to Paris was an increase of business!
accessories for motor-cars, This} scarcely could have been anticipated. The visitors did not bring their own jears and they had no need to burden themselves with tyres or headlights lor boxes of tools. Nobody in Pari realised that the motor-horn and the shooter possess, in the United] States, a utility of which Europe has no conception. These instruments} apparently are indispensable for the public expression of American pleasure or approval, and, at the gala held in the great hall of the Trocadero, they were used with an effect that greatly surprised French spectators. A large shop in the centre of Paris is naid to heve sold more horns to Americans in one week, than it usually sells month, Another surprise provided by the legionaries took the form of a fine buffalo, a present intended to indicate good wishes towards Frapee. The! donors were not quite sure whether this animal would be welcomed by the President of the Republic, but they felt that it must be given to} some prominent personage, and their choice ultimately fell on M. Delsol, the President of the Paris Municipal] Council. For a few bring moments, M. Delsol thought of keeping the buffalo at the Hotel de Ville, just] as the civic authorities of Rom Ihave a she-wolf at the Capitol as reminder of the origin of the Eternal City. After consideration, however, 'M. Delsol abandoned this poetic idea and decided to turn the] Ps lo over to the Jardin des Plantes," Another original present, for the benefit of French ex-soldiers, was an enormous trunk, weighing tons, of a Californian redwood tree, 2,000 years old.
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