The Paris Omnibus Company is a Trealthy corporation. The company possesses t£tytwo depots, the buildings are valued, at £1,320,000, and its 12,442 horses ara rated at £580,000. Thors are thirty-four lines for tho omnibuses and fourteen for street railroads. Each horse travels on an average ten mile* daily, and the conductors and drivers are on duty fourteen hours eyery day. The “North British Advertiser of -nd Julv gravely informs its Scottish readers that wild horses are so plentiful in the Australian bush that they are shot down like rabbits and kangaroos, and that on» man shot 3000 horses in two years. . , , The total number of volunteer* m England and Scotland, provided for in the army esUmate* for 1830-81. was 245,543— EnglttCdj. 199,949: Scotland, 45,699.
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Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2374, 11 November 1881, Page 3
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124Page 3 Advertisements Column 1 Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2374, 11 November 1881, Page 3
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