Vol. I.—No. 48. | Published by HARPER & BROTHERS, New York. | Price Four Cents. |
Tuesday, September 28, 1880. | Copyright, 1880, by Harper & Brothers. | $1.50 per Year, in Advance. |
In one corner of the Bois de Boulogne is a pretty zoological gardenknown as the Jardin d'Acclimatation. The Bois de Boulogne is thepleasure-ground of Paris, and is one of the most beautiful parks in theworld. It comprises about twenty-five hundred acres of majestic forestsand open grassy meadows, through which flow picturesque streams,tumbling over rocky cliffs in glistening cascades, or spreading out intobroad tranquil lakes, upon which float numbers of gay pleasure-boatsfilled on sunny summer afternoons with crowds of happy children.
But the place where the children are happiest is the Jardind'Acclimatation. There are no savage beasts here to frighten the littleones with