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THE POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY.

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The French railway guards and conductors deserve to be complimented for their melodious calls of the names of the stations.

The omnibus conductors in London ordinarily call out in the key of B flat; but at busy places and hours they speak in a higher key. At Charing Cross I heard them call:

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The paper boys call:

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The calls of three paper boys I heard on one day at Charing Cross formed the dominant seventh chord:

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Some of the cries of venders in the streets are quite beautiful and touching, like the following I heard and noted down of a boy in Long Acre: