Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-06-22

cen T, along when hunufedS OF tiny steamers
and huge bargeS are moving. On the ESpla
LaCe Of the lLvalldeS an unrOmautic and pro
sale al imal show " is established, and here,
four days in the week, Ole may see thousands
| IF blue blouSed tanners, burly of frame and
led OF face, IOaliTg in SteniOrian voices as
LEY point out The merits of the stock. Merry
h-eh are these French farmers, with no non
St nse whatsoever in their composition. They
lake a Stern plide in the products of their ua-
tive con munes, but look with a certain leaf
HIEsy Tt9n fd ri the abSSorber the magen
comparatively small return.
Approaching the Champ de Mars by the
AVeL lie kapp OF by the Seine bank, the visitor
comes presently 10 a long sei les oil seIlicircular
buildings, gracefully arranged in the euur.
nous spaces near the rivers shores. These
are annt XeS deN Oted to agriculture and hOrti-
culture, and are extremely pretty, now that
the flowers and tropical plants are rejoicing in
The bllillabt summer sunshine. The Champ
&c Mars is transformed. The Mill airy school,
has disappeared as by magic, The dreary
troops were sometimes drawn up in review,
over which the Communist cavalry-mechan-
les mounted On omnibus -horses-were wont to
gal op, and in which-Oh, more sOmbre mem
| DRY !-tleIches were dug to bury the Commu-
nists who were slaughtered by the regular
troops-these sandy wastes have been changed
a mass Of artificial rock, beneath which is a
grotto. Trees and Towering shrubs have been
brought from dozen climates, and planted in
soil hich Itself came from far-Off section
OF France. Broad avenues lead up to The
facade of the palace, the two dOmes at right
ard left being the only things which mar Che
artistic effect. This palace, which is longeI
hi Machinery Hall and the Main Building of
he hil2 delphia Fair would have been if Joined
tOs ether, ana is of enormous width, has three
sections. That on the right, as one enters from
The bridge over The Seine, is devoted to foreign
M tons; that on the left, to France. Between
the two ends a monster art-gallery, cut i'm
two in the middle by a vast courtyard, in the
center OF which star DIS a pavilion erected by
the Gil Of Paris. Between The foreign section
ard the art-galery Is an avenue known as the
Intern; ito. al Street, and it is the faV rite
p Omehade in the Champ de Mars. Frunling
on this avenue are the houses of the English
c. mmisSiOa-a dainty, Oldfashioned collage
in which the Prince and Princess of Wales
81 m, times hold receptions; and second pa
vliOr, ere' ted expressly to show The utility of
the cele brated "DOultOn ware" for extet iOr
| &c Grafton Then in regular order thereafter
q rankeu specimens of national architecture.
Or fantastic Offices IL tended to heighten the
gei eral fleet. Canada and the United States
err by too g ca i"nlicity; the American IA
de p, city and that Is all that can he said
or it. But u at Is not so in the case of Itaiy
And Spain, ant China, Russia, Japan, Switz +.
! M, and Varl u OGn countries The Italian
portal is miA v OF beauty in terarOtta.
will pOlisl ed stone pillars. vita arches stud led
with medailioi.s u BoecacciO, Petrarch, IaS O.
A.lOsiO, Da Vinei, Celini, and the sad. sWe I
fice Of SayonarOia. The Chinese Commission