Paris assumes a holiday aspect. Thousands of people made excursions to the suburbs of the city, and particularly to the Bois de Boulogne, to see something of the preparations for the defence. Boys and girls from boarding-schools, under care of their teachers, were among those who watched gangs of men digging wide and deep trenches, while trees that obstructed the ground in the vicinity were being cut down. The daily crop of Paris newspapers is becoming beautifully less. The _Temps_ published its last Paris issue on Friday and has transferred its headquarters to Bordeaux. M. Georges Clemenceau's _Homme Libre_ has ceased to appear. So also have the _Gil Blas_ and _Autorite_. The _Daily Mail_ has migrated to Bordeaux. Most of the newspapers that remain are published on a single sheet. The veteran _Journal des Debats_ announces that for one hundred and twenty-five years it has appeared in Paris, being interrupted only at rare and brief intervals when provisional governments, resulting from violence, by brute force prevented publication. _Le Journal des Debats_ will continue to be printed and published in Paris "so long as it is materially possible to do so." M. Arthur Meyer, editor and proprietor of _Le Gaulois_, announces that he will "remain in Paris in 1914 as he did in 1870." He will continue to edit and publish the _Gaulois_ in Paris, having around him "a small family of editors and reporters, who replace my own family, now, Alas! far away!" The _Echo de Paris_ continues to publish each day an edition of four pages. So also does _Le Figaro_. The _Matin_ and _Liberte_ appear on single sheets. [Photograph: Photo. by Paul Thompson. Workmen erecting a barricade in Paris.] The European edition of the _New York Herald_ appears every day on its nice white glazed _papier de luxe_, in a four-page edition Sundays, and on a single sheet on week days. The _Paris Herald_, as it is familiarly called, is printed half in English and half in French. The war has not frightened away the venerable "Old Philadelphia Lady," who daily continues, as she has done since Christmas eve, 1899, to put the following question: TO THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD:-- I am anxious to find out the way to figure the temperature from Centigrade to Fahrenheit and vice-versa. In other words, I want to know, whenever I see the temperature designated on Centigrade thermometer, how to find out what it would be on Fahrenheit's thermometer. OLD PHILADELPHIA LADY. Paris, December 24, 1899. _Monday, September 7_. Thirty-sixth day of the war. Hot September weather, with brisk east wind. Temperature at five P.M. 24 degrees centigrade.