Extracts from our Paris Letter.

Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3858, 11 May 1881, Page 2

Extracts from our Paris Letter.

There are 15 wholesale dealers of journals, and 1500 retailers of newspapers in Paris, exclusive of 470 porters, who on their own account, distribute the sheets to the vendors. It is perhaps the safest petite industrie after the selling of baccy - and stamps. A Kiosque is an institution,^ having its permanent clients like a cafe orT restaurant, and who will never purchase their paper elsewhere. Each buyer ordinarily confines his patronage to a single jcmrnal—for him the rest is bat leather and prunella. The multiplicity of journals thus corresponds with the infinity of tastes. Perhaps 3fr a day is the average profit reaped by the tenant of a Kiosque. Those in an important position, and with English and American clients— in the vicinity of the Grand Hotel for example, make from 20fr to 50fr daily. That the authorities are not exclusive is evidenced by the fact that they hare given a Kiosque to the waiting maid of one of Napoleon the Third's mistressesMarguerite Bellenger. The old established jouanals sell well, none being rarely - taken in to vend on speculation • others " are received on account of sale or return. There are individuals who invest in the unsold journals at a great reduction, to send to foreign parts. Baiter merchants and costermongers are extensive buyers always. Each region of j^is .has its special customers for a journal of such and such a hue. The amiable Faubourgs like theirs highly peppered with personalities. :■; .. "