Vermont Phœnix

LABORERS' CITIES.—A new French journal, Le Pays, gives some account of a philanthropic scheme conceived, and about to be executed, by M. Chabert, in the interest of the laboring classes—which extends, in some useful respects, the principle of the English model lodging-house. His project is to erect in each of the arrondissements of Paris what he calls "Laborers' Cities." Clean and airy lodgings are to be provided for the tenants, at a price below that of their present tainted abodes; consisting of a kitchen, bed chamber, and sitting-room, heated by stoves in winter which are to be ventilators in summer. A common wash-house will be established for each "city"—and bathing-houses, the tickets for which will be so distributed among the tenants as to allow a certain number of baths per month to each inhabitant.—London Athenæum.