Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 February 1886 — Cleanliness of the French People. [ARTICLE]

Cleanliness of the French People.

The most striking characteristic of | the French people, both in their cities ! and in the country, is their cleanliness and neatness. No particle of dirt is allowed to lie on Any of the streets five minutes before it is swept up. Clean water is flowed into the gutters, and from there thrown over the streets with large brooms by boys and men. The smoothly cementecf streets are, in fact, scrubbed like a Yankee housewife’s, kitchen. Boxes containing the ashes and refuse from the houses are set out upon the curbs every morning, and after the cart into which their contents are emptied has passed there follows a man with a sprinkling-can filled with some disinfectant, which he carefully throws over the empty box: Surely Pans does not seem to offer much of a foothold for cholera.— Cot. Hartford Times. ' • The mortality of chloroform is 1 to 5,860 ; that* of ether, 1 to 16,542; that of nitrous oxide, I to IOO.fiOO.