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THE CENSUS IN FRANCE.

—o A Paris correspondent writes:— Preneh people don’t take their census seriously nnd in .you'd faith ns the Knglish seem to do. People of nil classes are very indignant at being numbered, especially at sue!) J‘ic'cjikmit intervals, and in avenge themselves they give all sorts- of odd answers. Aye, for instance, is often given with glaringly obvious inner, in.icy, such as 11.0 years. .Tire most respectable, of householders will give as hie..• profession “Anarchist”

')! t, aim so oil. And (he v. itns, v. ...lit* C. ‘fiehdly threat:*: Mg puM.vmeut, ;;i the Jakes am! accept t cii. !-a : is ro joke, however, about t.!;o pres ■ pectus tax. Not even the proposal income tax lias roused more discussion than this lax. 11 was .first proposed some two years ago to levy upon the flyleaf anti pamphlet advertisements with which J’aiisiaus' have Ion" heen pestered as they walk abroad and the streets in consequence daily littered. Some people took up cudgels for the tradesmen w ho advertised, others for the poor devils who gained a scanty pittance by distributing. Others declared that the pnhlie who out of pity .'took the 1 papers and from fear of containiuatr ing germs instantly threw them to the ground were alone to blame, and that such people must ho prosecuted. A tradesman who recently brought an action against the distributors because they littered the pavement before his shop and so kept off customers lost his case on the ground that the general public were in fault for making the litter. But everyone urged that some step must be 'taken to ston the nuisance.

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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 81, 25 May 1911, Page 4

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THE CENSUS IN FRANCE. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 81, 25 May 1911, Page 4

THE CENSUS IN FRANCE. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 81, 25 May 1911, Page 4

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