The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1877-05-18
The Paris Exhibition of1S1s.

exhibition building is to be permanent
structure, and 1t is already understood
between the municipal authorities and
the ministry of public works that after
| it has served the first of its temporary
purposes, 100000 francs, or about
fs0,000, being the actual cost of its
building material, will be paid into the
national treasury from the CITY funds
on the day it becomes town property.
This pleasing arrangement has given
his cxcellency, the minister of the de-
partment above mentioned, O courage
and peace of mind hitherto unknown to
him when musing upon the momentous
question of the responsibility he had in
Cured, and the astonishing number of
deputies who seem to have springs I'M
der their seats, so suddenly do they
jump up to put parliamentary poscrs on
finance to pcrplcxed statesmen. In
deed, the monetary side of the magnifl-
cent enterprise destined to enchant and
astonish the world looked quite awk-
ward till the civic dignitaries came TO
the minister's rescue. There were ru-
mors that the architect had been abso-
lutely unable to cmancipate himself
from the immemorial usage of his pro-
| fession in going considerably beyond
the estimates fixed for his guidance; and
the minister's valet darkly limited that
his master would have torn his hair
save for prudential reasons, so grave
was his perplexity. However, all the
other items of expenditure being kept
strictly within the limits laid down for
them, supplementary credit of 3,000,-
900 francs will be asked from the legis-
lators at Versailles to complete the
works on the Trocadero with becoming
grandeur; and it is not likely that this
demand will be met with any serious
opposition, especially when the persua-
siye glance of the minister's manner is
taken into account, for his excelency
has quite an exhilarating likeness to NJ.
Offenbach, the most popular of compos-
crs. The additional sum of money
wanted will be well spent; and it is not
much. The original estimate of 50, ,OOO,-
900 francs will be increased to 3S,OOO,-
900 francs, and if all contracts for public
works and big national speculations
came so nearly within the stipulated
cost, it would be a good time for tax
payers. The contractors have also on
their side, however, been pecuniarilv
blessed by the clerk of the weather, and
stopped by the frost for three davs dur
ing the winter. Not only the building
therefore has advanced with unprece-
dented rapidity, but the absence offrost
and snow has been SO advantageous to
the prospects of ornamental gardening
that whole park of tall, shadc-giving
trees will be transplanted to the Troca-
dero, and every yard of available space
in the Champ de Mars will be covered
with rich plots of mold, that all of the
flowers of the garden may bud and bios
som there. Shade was the principal
want of the gardens of the imperial ex-
hibition in 1867 its republican rival has
wisely resolved to remedy that want, to
the joy of people with weak eyes and of
solid structure.
So vast nm influx of visitors is ex-
pected TO see this wonderful show when
il is all ready that the means oflocomo-
ton to he provided for them suggest
rather serious problem. For if wheels,
or some other method of transport at
least equally expeditions, are becoming
day by day more and more necessary to
mankind, they are still more impcra-
lively demanded by womankind. A
lady dressed in any fashion of recent
times can hardly walk about without
tumbing down or getting into ludi-
crous dilemma with her skirts and high
heeled boots. Whenever many nations
and languages are gathered together,
therefore, we arc sure to receive glad
tidings of new conditions of rapid mo-
ton. The Fronch exhibition of 1867
improved the intramural navigation of
the Seine and made cheap river steam
boats popular and pleasant among the
inhabitants of the waterside from
gloomy Charenton TO fish-frying Sures-
mes. The exhibition of 1873 will supply
Paris with as complete system of
ltramways as that which benefits New
York. But even these means of trans
port are considered likely to be so in
sufficient to meet the wants of the crowd
who will be moving constantly about
the streets of Paris thirteen months
hence, that an ingenious Frcnchman has
recently hit upon novel idea for in
creasing them without additional pres
sure on the public resources. lie pro-
poses that all the coach-builders of the
earth shall be invited to give specimens
of their wares in motion, and that they
shall be allowed to ply for hire at tar
ifs to be fixed by themselves as remu-
nerative, and under proper arrange
ments with the existing cab and omni-
bus companies, who have vested rights.
He further suggests that they shall run
exclusively ON the broad highways from
the Place de la Bourse to the Trocadero,
and from the Palais Royal to the Champ
de-Mars, so that they may he seen to
the fullest advantage, and that compo-
tent judges may be able to decide what
is the most convenient sort of eQuipage
known to any nation, either for parade
or common use.
1t is, moreover, here TO be particularly
noted as happy change in the French
mind, or creditable thing to the pro-
Ijectors of this coming worlds fair. that
there Is on all sides resolute desire TO
get some practical good ont of il. The
department Of pisciculture has been
placed under the direction of so eminent
a specialist as Nj. Blanchard, member OF
the institute. He will be assisted in the
labors by NJ. de Bon, commissary gen.
eral of tho navy; by M. Bouchon- Bran
deley, secretary of the College of
France; by NJ. Caulei dc Longchamps,
chief inspector of French fisheries, and
by other competent notables. They
will be much exercised with the hard
question of chcapening oysters by in
crcasing and multiplying their number.
II was recently reported that they had
confidently promised reduction of at
least fifty per cent. in the price of those
sucnulent biyalves by promulgaiing
sound doctrines among the ignorant
coast-folk with respect to the true prn.
ciple of managing oyster beds. Like
wise, when the exhibition of 1873 has
taught us many more agreeable things
than we know us yet, every household
dog days at the cost of about =, seven zen
! pounds weight for farthing. Means
will be shown TO us of protecting our.
selves against adulterated liquors by de,
tective corks; and new bottle has
been invented for fermented drinks
which will NOT hurst nn1pr any circum.