Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 August 1894 — Paris’ City of the Death [ARTICLE]

Paris’ City of the Death

Some forty or fifty years ago the catacombs of Paris were the objects of daily visits, and the sight was one which every visitor to Paris felt c&iled upon to see. Accidents, however, frequently took place, and at present no one enters the catacombs except at certain periods of the year, when the engineers have to make a formal report us to their condition. Tho ventilation is effected by means of numerous holer communicating with the upper air. The names of visitors are called ever before they go down and agam when tliev come up. The general aipect of the place is not so solemn qs might be imagined. It suggests rather a vast wins cellar, in which the cases inclose bones instead of bottles. Thu relics of 4,000,00 ) persons now re pos t there. This subterranean city contains streets and passages like the city above.