Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 February 1880 — Some French Statistics. [ARTICLE]

Some French Statistics.

Paris contains 74,740 buildings, containing 337,587 sets of rooms used for business and 684 052 for habitation. The rental of the former is estimated at 218,000,000 francs; that of the latter at 32,000,000 francs. In the Thirteenth and Twentieth arrondissements ninetenths of the tenements are below 300 francs rental. The population of the city at the end of 1876 was 1,988,806. The Prefect of Police of Paris commands an army of nearly 50,000 men. He disposes of an annual budget of 20,000,000 francs. He is assisted by the Chief of the Municipal Police and a force of nearly 8,000, including 33 peace officers, 25 inspectors, 100 brigadiers, 700 sub-brigadiers, and 7,000 policemen, and to them must be added an unknown number of detectives. The budget of the municipal police amounts to 14,000,000 froncs; that of the Central administration to 1,500,000 francs, and that of the Paris commissariat at 1,300,000 francs.

The President of the French republic receives 600,000 francs, or $120,000, a year and as much again for traveling and household expense s. It must, however, be remembered that the President has very heavy expenses. Every ordinary meal that is served in the Elysee is prepared for fourteen prrsons in the eventuality of the daily visits which the President receives from provincial functionaries. Then, twice a month, there is a dinner laid for sixty-five persons, which is contracted for by the cook at the rate of 7,000 franco. The bimonthly dinners alone thus cost 168,000 francs a vear.