The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1878-06-28
Iarrespondenre
OUR PARIS LETTER
The Cost OF the ExhibitiOn--The Number
Of Visitors Observation-Disclosures
ConeertS-Exhibits from Egypt-Con-
venienees for COrrespOndents-Din-
Rers-AmuSements etc., etc.
From our Regular COrreSpondent.I


The total cash cost of the Exhibition
IS put down at forty-five million francs.
contributed by the State and the Munic.
ipality Of Paris. Exhibition tickets for
halfa million francs, have been sold, and
up to the present, the receipts have been
over one million; the general revenue
has increased and so have the city ociyois,
so that it is anticipated by August next
the Palace viii have paid its way by di-
rect and indirect the augmentated taxes
revenue. Were it not for the rain, the
Exhibition would look very splendid it
registers its over 100000 daily visitors
already, and the popular pilgrimages
have not yet commenced. The music
ians have been tuning their fddles and
rosining their bows, preparatory to tax
ing possession of the grand concert hall
of the Trocadero. The buildings still
smell of plaster and paint, but possess all
'the wild freshness of morning" being
neither tarnished by the sun nor soiled
by the dust. The ventilation is not vet
in working order, after gusts from the
floor, the visitor experiences blasts from
the roof Seats are being plentifully
provided, and so are cheap refreshment
stalls. The bureapIistes of the latter, as
any passer by can observe, have to
partake of their meals under peculiar
difficulties-custom breeds habits in us
however but this is no reason why less
robust minds should be tested. The
"pilo;s" are an excellent institution, the
only rocks they do not dread, are the
bu6tts and the trinkhdlles. Our Amcri-
cans complain of the want of soda water
fountains, and the Germans for the facil-
tiles for Schnapps However, if they
wander into class 70, they viii readily
find the Museum of the wine of France,
and be allowed to smile around with
hundreds of proprietors of Vineyards
the wealthiest possessing the most esteem
ed Vintages. If in a political state of
mind, the visitors ought to note the
Bacchian fact, that the most productive
seasons have been during the reign of
the Republic.
In the Egyption pavilion, marvel
lous specimen of the old folks at home
can be viewed. It is the model of
dwelling house in the time of Abraham
it is said to be so real, that were Isaac to
ever visit the Promised Land ofthe Tro-
cadero and provided with franc ticket,
he might enter the house in question
and find it just as if he had only left it.
Mariette Bey, the celebrated archeolog-
list, has set up the tabernacle, from finds
of ancient architecture. Diamonds and
pictures, are catalogued as carefully as
Durham oxes and Dishley rams, so with
Mariette Bey, he has the pedigree of all
building stones discovered in the land of
Pharoahs,and he concludes the Egyptian
architecture was in Us decline, in the
true of Father Abraham. In the ike
manner, Mariette Bey supplied sketches
of the agricultural, trade, commereeand
line arts of the ancient Egyptians nor
are their pastimes neglected; bobbing,
not for eels, but crocodiles ana hippo
potamuses, was plucky and common
amusement and often the hnesman was
taken, when he failed TO take. A "bite"
was then a serious matter. Isaak Walton
makes no allusion to this manly sport.
The Syndicate of the Paris Press, has
opened its cosmopolitan salons, built by
the Exhibition Commissioners, and ap-
parently fitted up by means of "loan
collections" from the exhibitors some Of
the objects cannot be returned in a COM
ple,e state, such as specimen boxes of
cigars, wines that would seduce Maho-
met, and brandies that would convert
tribes of Indians 10 any, or all forms OF
Christianity. The salons are well furn-
ished with journals and the conversation
rooms are most agreeable lounges. Itis
here that most press men add their post
scripts 70 their correspondence. Only
Bohemians are admitted.
The rue des Nations will be made
veritable street, by having asphaltrm
side walks, and SO preserve weak ankles,
and relieving uncut corns.
Vestiaries are required, and also smok-
ing divans, in the park of course, and
close to the state tobacco factory, where
lovers of the weed can indulge their
passion, from cigar made in their pres
ence-at one sous, up to 5 francs each.
The Cruzot steam hammer, capable Of
welding England and Russia, could be
employed to punish those numerous
swindlers, who at the Rebelasian quarter
of an hour discover they have forgotten
their purse, or indulge in fallen sickness,
when surprised it contains only the
humbIest specimes Of some foreign coin
age, whose value would puzzle wall
street broker, and drive q mummy to
commit suicide. The cOilegians have
been marched to the Exhibition like
sorrows they come in battalious it is
understood that young ladies' from
boarding schools will be doubly surveyed
The Society for the Prevention Of
Cruelty to Animals" has as tall, and its
Chamber of Horrors, where drawing ex-
pose with a realism that Emile Lola
might envy, the fate that awaits wander
ing dogs, and that once was inflicted on
bigamists hanging. The process is kin
to what occasionally takes place in the
Egyptian structures in New York, "The
Toombs," when a wonderful piece Of
work, is placed on the drop.
In the official dinners given to forein-
ers BY notation, the French pay a mark
ed compliment to their guests, by serv-
ing the invited with the chief dishes Of
their own country. Now why are min
isterial dinners in France always Sue
cesses-they are contracted for, like the
supply Of Goals, and the contractor has
a staff Of corks that cannot be surpassed.
Fifteen francs a head is the ordinary
tariif for the materials. The decorations
etc. are like mans love-a thing apart.
The Exhibition mas created pro hac
rice quite a second Partisan season re-
sembling the London Season, which
goes from the end of April to the end OF
June. The signal has been given in Of
fetal regions. The Elysee led the way,
the Ministers and Ambassadors have fol-
lowed, and now Paris is dancing every
night somewhere or other. Ladies will
probably make the same observation that
/ have relative to the prevailing fashion
in female attire-the dress has becomes
sort of body glove, the apotheosis offsm-
inlne geography. The corsage is more
than indiscreet, while the dress from the
waist downwards reveals the natural