The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1878-08-17
Correspondence Of the Democratic Adpocate.
PARIS, July 3lst, 1878.

PARIS, july 3lst, 1873.
In spite of the tropical heat of the past
week, the number of visitors to the Exhi-
bition has not materially diminished; and
yet it is intolerably hot in the galleries of
the Champ de Mars, and the sun burns
down mercilessly on the promcne1rs out of
doors. Still, there are shady hooks here
and there. If there is the least breeze
stirring, it is to be felt on the Trocadero
terraces, where the flowers and grass are
kept fresh by a system of incessant water
ing, and where the fountains and cascade
help to cool the air
Since it has been found impossible to
install military band in the Exhibition
grounds, several of the restaurants have
set up music of their own. One band
plays at the British bar, and another at
the Spanish cafe. Several small Bullets
for the sale of cakes aud iced drinks are
newly opened, aud the visitors, including
ladies and children, are now well supplied
in this respect; they may also buy Turkish
sweetmeats, Algerian fruit, Russian kumes,
English buns, Partisan gauffres, and Per-
sian scraps in various places.
The captive balloon in the Place de
Carrousel is now visible from all parts of
Paris, its huge bulk towering over the
buildings of the Louvre and Tuilleries
The public is to be permitted to make as
cents next week, the price being fixed at
20 fir. for each pe=son. In the meantime
the balloon has been up twice, to height
of 1900 feet; the second time Nine. God
dard and Nine. Dartois, were of the party.
The exciting moment for the exhibitors
is arrived, the jurors are finishing their
work, and the question of prizes, and es-
pecially Of the grand prizes of homer, is a
burning one. OF course nobody knows
anything of what is going on in the jury
room, nor in the juryman's breast; but
there are certain rumors and some not of
pleasant kind. These do not however re-
fer to any of the American exhibitors.
Yesterday some very interesting expert
ments, with the telephone and phonograph
combined, were made in the telegraphic
section, before the jury. The mouth of
the two instruments were placed together,
and the words engraved upon the phono-
graphic cylinders were soon heard distinct
ly in the telephone reception room at Yer
sailles, and Uice uersd. After this the in-
terloeutor at Versailles sang an original
song through the telephone, which was
taken down in the phonograph at the Champ
de Mars, and it was sung and repeated by
this instrument, amidst general applause.
These are among the first experiments
which have been made with the two in
struments together, and it is evident that
they may be very usefully applied.
If you have duly obtained a press pass
to the Exhibition adorned with your pho
tograph, and with official signatures, which
render it doubly valuable to posterity, then
you have the right to claim admittance to
the Press Pavilion. 1t is situated near
the postoffice, and had a telegraph Office
of its own; but this has practically broken
down; and the journalists use now the same
wires and letter-boxes as other men. The
value of the pavilion is in affordinga cool
and quiet retreat to write, and one sup
piled with all the newspapers. Here are
all the principal papers in the world, and
!
connected with the Partisan press, the pa
vilion is especially rich in Slavonic papers.
The pavilion has many studies and bou-
doirs, in addition to the great reading room;
and ladies and music are, it is said, not TO
be excluded from it. IL hoped, however,
that some rooms viii be preserved for sol
itude and quiet, or the benefit of all its
other advantages viii be lost to the work
ing bees of journalism, for whom it was
designed
France, Italy and Relgium, contain the
chief centres Of production of marble-work
In consequence of the increased facilities
for transport, and the decrease in customs
duties, this branch of industry has -four
ished ndincreased considerably in France
since 1870 Paris in this, as in so many
other industries, is the chief seat of the
trade The marbles are brought from the
north, also from Marseilles, the Pyrenees,
the West, and from Jura. The great
works at the Louvre, the Tuilleries, and
the New Opera House have brought the
employment of marble decorations in luxu-
rious habitations into general favour.
Working in marble is divided into four
distinct branches-namely, buildings, de-
corations, clockmaking, and monuments.
Each of these branches is well represented
| in class is; but the merit of the French
manufacture is especially noticeable in the
marble decorations, the execution of which
will bear comparison with the work of the
| Renaissance, or the time of Louis XIV.
The art of ornamental sculpture employs
comparatively large staff of artists aud
workmeu. Thus, the models executed in
potter's clay are cast by the moulders and
the ornaments are stamped either in stat
uary, pasteboard, millboard, staff, or plaster
The Canadian trophy is one of the great
sights of the Exhibition, and comes prom
inently before the notice of American
tourists, because it is close to the Ameri-
can refreshment department. Solid pc
trolcum is among the riches shown in the
Canadian section; and, as the sightseer
makes his way towards the trophy he comes
upon a great gilded mass raised in the air,
apparently without any sufficient means of
support, which, nevertheless, testi6es to
the riches of Canada, by an inscription
setting out that it represents in bulk the
amount of gold gathered in Canada up to
the end of the year 1877, namely, 1852
600 ounces in British Columbia, 21l 900
in New Scotland, $4,000 in other provin-
ces, making a total amount of 4,l73,000
ounces, worth s6S 100000.
Tbs elevator in the Trocadero is at last
finished, and will be placed at the dispo-
sal Of the visitors within two or three days
Even those who know the building well,
and have watched the progress of the ele-
vator, are astounded by its enormous pro-
portions. The tower in which it is cree
ted rises to the height of 2s3 feet above
the surface of the hill on which it stands,
and to 800 feet above the level of the
Seine. The piston by which it is worked
descends into well, which passes through
the old quarry below to the depth of l6 feet
below the level of the sea- The counter
poises, each of which is composed of
mass of iron 60 feet long and weighs 10
tons, work in two other wells. The triple
wire cable is eight inches wide and 10
inches thick, and IS formed Of S89 wires
four-ffths of an inch in diameter The
resistance Of each cable is calculated at