This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1895 edition. Excerpt: ...other things, watches that the number of passengers is correctly recorded on the register. The inside passengers and those who stand on the platform are entitled to transfer-tickets free, those on the top can obtain them by paying fifteen centimes extra. These tickets are called correspondences and ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1895 edition. Excerpt: ...other things, watches that the number of passengers is correctly recorded on the register. The inside passengers and those who stand on the platform are entitled to transfer-tickets free, those on the top can obtain them by paying fifteen centimes extra. These tickets are called correspondences and give the right to take a second line. To do this, you get out at the proper station, and when your omnibus comes you give up your ticket along with your number at the door of the omnibus. The man who drives the omnibus or tram-car is called the cocher, the man who takes the fares is the conducteur, and the man who stands at the station to oversee what goes on is called, as we have seen above, the controleur.. Most of the omnibuses and tram-cars in Paris are still drawn by horses. But there are a few tram lines which go by steam, electricity or compressed air. The electricity is supplied by means of accumulators and not through conducting wires. Indeed there are no wires visible in Paris, not even the telephone wires; all are under ground A certain Englishman not very well up in French, came home from France and complained that there was a place in Paris that he had not been able to visit. He saw a number of omnibuses and tramcars evidently going to a place called Complet; but in spite of all his efforts, the conductors would never allow him to get on. He called to them in vain; they paid no heed to him; and that is why he never saw Complet. J, . There are farms in Lower Canada, on the banks of the St Lawrence below Quebec, which are only ninety yards--or, as the habitant says, an acre and a half--wide, and a league and a half long. They are of this peculiar shape because everybody wishes to have on his own farm all the sorts of land which exist..
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