The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1878-04-19

Wheelock, Of Worcester, Mass, which
Compares very hvorabiy in finish, if no
in size, with the giant Corliss engine tha
furnished the motive power in Maehin
cry Hall at our Philadelphia Exhibition
A shaft from this engine will pas
through the Agricultural annex for the
purpose of showing the agricultural
machinery exhibited there in motion
, The greatest attraction in this section
however, viii be magnificent display
prepared by the Agricultural Depart
ment at Washington, Of cereal and Other
agricultural products from all the State:
and Territories of the Union, artistically
arranged to form terrace, which viii
be surmounted by the coatof arms O
the United States.
A large number of American publish
ers and newspaper proprietors, following
out the idea originated by Messrs Long
mans, of London, Wiley, of New York
Lea, of Philadelphia, and Prang, of Bos
ton, are now completing arrangements
through their representatives here, for 8
special and very complete exhibit, which
will include specimens of nearly all the
more important periodical and other
publications that have made their ap
pearance in the United States since We
became an independent nation; and the
old idea of q universal exhibition oi
newspapers will be very nearly, if not
quite, carried out this year, all the Pow
ers, even to the King of Siam, have made
preparations to show the public the state
of the Press in their respective countries
and it is to be hoped that we will not be
backward in coming forward on this &C.
casion, but give our full quota in quality
no less than in quantity.
AS the opening of the exhibition ap-
proaches, it becomes question of not a
little importance whether sufficient
means have been provided to transport
visitors TO the Champ de Mars easily and
without fatigue. At Philadelphia, rail.
ways, street cars, steamboats, and omni-
buses conveyed as many as N5,0OO
persons in a single day to Fairmount
Park; but 1 am very much afraid that
Partisan means of rapid transit will be
found inadequate. The Parisians are in
the habit of waiting patiently for their
turn for hours together (this they call
to faire quene, or form a pigtail'), and
have wholesome respect for omnibus
conductors and, in fact, for all persons
in uniform. The idea that car or ON
nibus can be entered in a free and-easy
style as one enters a cafe or the theatre,
has never entered their heads; but
strangers, and especially strangers from
our side of the water. are less civilized"
and will hardly submit without a MUIR
muir to waiting three hours at an omni-
bus bureau, as the Parisians have done
from time immemorable on race days.
1t is true that new tramway lines are
being constructed, and railway station
adjoins the exposition grounds at the
Porte de Grenelle; but the railway route
is very circuitous, and 1 am afraid that
the tramways, or car lines, will prove
insufficient. Nous nerOus!
General Grant, who is now in Rome,
will return to Marseilles about the mid
die of April, and has signifed his inten-
ton to be present at the opening cere-
monies on the Ist of May, next. Among
the celebrities who will be on hand ON
that occasion are the Khedive of Egypt,
the Prince of Wales. King Christian the
IXth, of Denmark, King George OF
Greece, Gf there will be any greece left
by that time), the Duke of Edinburgh,
and King Humbert of Italy under whose
patronage an International Exhibition
will be held at Milan next year.
LOUIS.