Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 January 1883 — The Streets of Paris. [ARTICLE]

The Streets of Paris.

The strange ‘and horrible scenes enacted nightly in some pf the ordinarily

frequented quarters of Paris would make one imagine that the most civilized people of the universe had suddenly become more savage and lawless than the Kuklux Klan of America. It j is not an uncommon thing for a foot passenger returning home from the theater to be stayed in his promenade by a human form flung from an upper window and falling lifeless at his feet Nor is it rare to be accosted by a group of brigands, who pinion their victim belli. d, while the accomplice rifles his pockets. Even in the aristocratic streets it is dangerous to remain out late at night, and the police are becoming less and less able to compete with the dangerous organization of thieves, who usurp the pavement.