Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 July 1891 — The Typical Modern City. [ARTICLE]

The Typical Modern City.

The Century for July. Paris is the typical modern city. Ln the work of transforming the abyrinthine tangle of narrow, dark, wd foul medieval alleys into broad modern thoroughfares, and of providing those appointments and conveniences that distinguish the welljrdered city of our day from the oldtime cities which had grown up formless and organless by centuries of accretion—in this brilliant nineteenth century task of reconstructing cities ,n their physical characters, dealing with them as organic entities, and endeavoring to give such form to the visible body as will best accommodate the expanding life within, Paris has been the.unrivaled leader. Berlin and Vienna have accomplished magnificent results in city-making, ina great British towns —Glasgow, Birmingham, Manchester, ond others—have in a less ambitious way wrought no less useful reforms; but Paris was the pioneer. French pub'ic authorities, architects and engineers were the first to conceive effectually the ideas of symmetry and spaciousness, of order and convenience, of wholesomeness and cleanliness in urban arrangements.

f SoKu IBv*ao after the guests bad gone, “I don’t think Mrs. Brown is accustomed to good society/’ ‘‘Why not?’’ “Why, she didn't say a single word while Mrs. Jones was singing.’’ A controversy upon the cruelty of firing horses has received an interesting contribution from Bombay. Horses and bullocks are fired there, but the practice is extended to the firing of babies as a cure for stomach ache. In a certain village, the writer says, it was difficult to find a man, woman or child whose stomach was not scarred by fire marks.