Phenix Gazette

Statistics of Paris. --From the papers of Count Chabrol, Paris contains 65 public and 124 enclosed fountains. If the city was 5 times larger than it is, the canal of L'Ourcq would furnish a supply. The boats carrying goods upon the Seine are supposed to be 150 in number. The highest streets are D'Eufer and De Trapade. The greatest mortality prevails in March and April, the least in August and July. The greatest number of births is in March and January. The births of males are more numerous than those of the other sex. The average deaths in the hospitals are one in seven. The number of persons drowned annually varies from 270 to 310, and half of these are suicides. All burials are conducted by Undertakers, and the expense of burying one of the lowest class of inhabitants is about $7.75. Scarcely one fourth of the population is buried at the expense of their friends. On an average every man woman and child consumes per annum, 125 bottles of wine! and 14 bottles of brandy! besides what is drank outside the walls in the tippling shops established there to escape the octroi. Each person consumes on the same calculation 400 lbs worth of bread annually. The commerce of Paris is immense. It exports of itself 50 millions francs per annum. The annual profit on the watches and clocks made in Paris is three and a half millions of francs. Forty thousand horses are brought to and sold every year in Paris. The average value of each horse is about $35. The annual consumption of paper is 346,000 reams. The taxes are heavy. Mr. Cooper the novelist ist, undertook at the instance of LaFayette to vindicate the cheapness of republican institutions. He found in Paris sufficient for his purpose by way of contrast. The indirect taxes are about four millions and a half per annum. Every person in Paris pays at least about $22.50 per annum in the shape of taxes. The travel to and from Paris is immense. 20,000 people go and come every week by the diligences and mail poste. We could add many more interesting facts about this great depot of the world, if time permitted.