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Show our hotel and to get nicely roomed for the next four day is a sured the reader. Our rooms orcrlookecl the famous A venue de !'Opera, and the entire length of it wa s before us, and at the other end was readily seen that inclescribahly go rgeously con ·tructed building, the Grand O pera House. The sweet ancl refreshing sleep that came to this party of traveler during the remainder of that night i..; unnece sar) to describe, but it was eight o'clock the next morning before any one showed a eli position to begin preparati on for the delight ful days th ;lt we re before us. J-laving \' is itecl this city, the most beautiful in the world, twice before, I felt somewhat capab le of leading our party on the first cby that we were to . pend there. Consequently, after breakfast. we began to look upon the present glories and to recall some of the pa t g luric..; and deeds of this cit,. that ha been and is still unc:;mpassecl in beauty, luxury, fashion, and pleasure. If you would ee the heio·ht of refinement and the depth of degradation, the rounds or pleasure and tl1c cen ters of grief, the hom es oi statesmen and the rendezvous of anarchists. the buildings ior wor. hip and the haunts of shame, the priceless palaces of t\rt and the pitiless places oi po,·erty, the achir\'(~ments of 1'-ing-s and the wrecks of Communist.-if you \\oulcl sec tlwsc things in their glory and shame, \'isit Paris, the umi\'aled City of the world Our firc;t walk \\'a..; to the Carden o f the Tuileries, where \\'C found an unceasing flow of humanity in all directions. enjoying the \\'arm sunshine of the morning, and passing away the time in ..;uch a nwnner as was most plea. ing to thelll . These cm· iro ns were full of remini. cent ['age One Hundred Thirteen |