Mexico weekly ledger., 1878-08-29

ADMrRE-eHAwLsA AND LAcEs-FRENcH |
FURNIruRE--A sTRIKE-ONE THOUs. !
AND DOLLARS A DAY FOR BOARD!
From our Regular Correspondent.
PARIS, August 9th, 1878.
The growing on the part of the
exhibitors has diminished since the
number of prizes have been doubled
by simply reducing the gold and sill
vcr medals one-half in size. Only
tmp eompctitors thus exist for
ctlsmpioa honor. International ex-
rewards are thus condemned
TO be about as awe-respecting as
French baron, o GeI man count, or q
diploma obtained from q university
where the burssr regulates the exam
nations. Scandinavia. has sent quite
q cloud Of nlghtingales to. warble at
the Irocaders, which they do well;
and above all, cheaply. TIE men
wear white caps, and are to be found
isolated in all quarters of Paris; 80
far resembling the male nightingale,
whose characteristic is, according TO
naturalists, to rove The Scandina-
vians have this in common with the
Saxon race; they take their pleasure
sadly. The Ethnographlcal Society's
meetings are much followed, and the
opening speech by Senator Carnot,
son of Napoleon's ''organizer of VIC
tories" treated more of brains than
of skulls. He thinks moderns are be-
hind Confucius in the art OF governing
people, whose maxim was, ''love
them" but ::even in China, they
| we're only the philosophers who
| s.lamedl this doctrine, the Hebrews
he said inculcated, ''love your neigh
bors''--provided they were not your
|Snferiors nor impure. Christianity,
said Garnet, inculcstes love for hui
manity without exceptaon, and prsc
Itices 1t. The French were sorely
tried. when studying the skulls o
"Canagues" and waxdgures of thei'
lowners, rs fit and proper persons II
be endowed with Roussean's right
of man, aud Lamartine's Universe
suffrage vote; they are the aborigi
nails of New Caledonia, who they
ihaye lust massacred and eaten SOM
isoldiers and &C communists in training
tn cease to do evil. and learning to O.
well.
| II il npoasible to DO justice, ese'
cursoriiy, to t!.e many spetihiehs
senlp;urc exalbisei ia the vaflon
.ections of the exhibilion, and 1t ma
be added, too, that it would be ell
ltirely uninterestiug to do 20. 10 I'll
majority Of people, statusry, at oes
10 q sealed book. 1t creates no sci
sation when it il visibly before then
and it would certainly create less,
lit were possible, when simply d
tscrloed by the feeble power Of . r
!. portsr. Nevertheless it is the gran
set, most ancient, and most durab
of tho arts. The works which delig
the critic Of to-day and are belier'
70 mark the golden age. Of stasaa
date their origin many centuries b
fore the Christian era. The 4
beauty Of the human form hss ne'
beeu 90 accurately described as
. the Greek sculptors. The nytho
-tgy of the country gave to their
u forts an elevation and purity
thought which In these days csaz
be conveyed TO similar subjects be
II ever skiilfuily manipulated. He'
the tendency of sculpture has bs
to moderate, the severity OF the
Gent school and to create another
which clothes should not be who
\ disregarded. The toga impo
,. itself on the thoughts and conscien
of artists. Were it q booted war;
with a cooked hat that had to he
picted he wss found clad in the G
= of Roman senator. An absurt
% so conspicuous could not long c
ltinue. A new school sprsng up.
aim was to call spade q spade.
1S eop boots and o cooked hat were v
ted the deciples Of that school v
ready To supply them. Nay, IL Ach
Il hinself, In addition to his one ma
sxK nj defect, had also had q pinple
ion the top of his nose, they would
REQ alighted upon it with enthusi'
liz 'a;s Excess Of any kind naturally L
MI TO reaction, and . reaction
r,i- place. But various theories still
ed. main. The pursuit and the res
1is- contend for their seperats ideas,
.s;c the able men on either side prove
.ver easy it is for both to be right.
tive The French statuary. by its
~ , hers and the variety Of ito styles
.uh;ects. In considered the best.
The anest shawls are still mad
;: of yore, in the beautiful vslie
- Cashmere, the oriental Eden. '
- in shut by the precipitous moun
II from oil surrounding coantries.
Cashmerian 10 in4nstrious. INTEL
~ and lively. 1t 10 only i'm Cash
that production 10 erganased on
~ ciples nearly akin TO the econo
diGai plan of Europe. The shAH II