Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 233, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 October 1911 — A Famous Paris Sign. [ARTICLE]

A Famous Paris Sign.

Paris is a city of curious signboards, one of the most remarkable ones representing a tobacconist’s sign at 55 Rue du Chateau-d’Eau, which has been here ever since 1870. It is riddled with boles made by the bullets of the Prussians, and the-occupant of the shop states that so fair as he is . aware it is the only public relic of the Franco-Prussian war in evidence in the streets of Paris today. “My sign,” be added, "brings me plenty of customers. You have no idea, monsieur, of the number of English and American tourists who pass this way and drop Into my place for a cigar or a box of matches merely in order to have a word with me about my bullet riddled enseigne. I wouldn't part with it for anything.”—Wide I World Magazine. -