The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1878-09-06
Correspondents
OUR PARISL LETTER
How the Exhibitors are TO be Provided
FOr-Diillculty in Reaching the Expo
SitiOn-The Educational EXhibitS-The
Lions Share-The History of Silk
Manufacture &c.
IYrom our Regular Corre,rondent.j


HOTEL DU LOUVRE, /
PARIS, Aug. 16, 1878.
The entries to the Exhibition are again
surprising the 100000 daily; the visitors
are chiefly of the artizan class and from
all quarters; they have the air of thorough
satisfaction; the want of cabs, owing to
the strike among the drivers, is serious
inconvenience for many; if wise they
will secure a place in the first char a.
banO that passes, as for a seat in an ON
nibus, such is impossible, unless at the
termlnii of the lines. With a friend L
obtained on Monday capital seat in a
laundry cart to the Trocadero, the gam
ms en- route, honoring us with the mill
tary salute, which we returned with the
rigidity of Pommeraninan soldiers, In
France, always enter into the fun Of a
thing. The sum total of receipts under
the head of tickets, for the two months
ending June 30th, is 81 million francs;
or an excess of ! of million over the
same period, as compared with 1867,
Those exhibitors and their name cannot
be legion, who will not receive reward
or honorable mention. will be supplied
with certificate apart from that they
already possess of having paid the smart
official expenses connected with their
installation, to the effect, that they were
admitted to compete. With this docu
ment, and a good frame maker, border
with models of all the medals, of all the
Worlds Fairs, if hung up at Dr;eOnian
height in shop, ought to produce the
same effect on customers, as the real
vouchers of victory. Frame makers are
very talented in France; one was recent
ly decorated with the Legion of Honor.
distinction many OF the painters for
whom he makes frames has not been
fortunate enough to achieve.
The educational section of the Exhibi-
ton devoted to France, is one of the
most interesting in the whole building;
it is in the parallel alley with the rue
des Nations. There is no more profitable
spot to study; the exhibits force you to
stop and examine them, and the intelli-
gence must be very dull, that does not
derive profit from an excursion here
Education, from the professional point
Of view, appears to have reached its per
iecl stage, if education ever can be per
feet, and is peculiarly worthy the atten
ton of English specialists. Since 1851,
when England was shocked at her back
wardness in industrial &c, education
until now, she has made great progress;
but she has only to measure herself with
France to say nothing Of other cOun-
tries to realize what she has yet to at
tain. There appears to be Il want OF
order and method in her plans of pro-
fessional education, and no nation has
greater necessity for such education, or
could derive greater profit from it, than
England What sustains English indus
try, is the admirable temperament OF
the English workman, his iron muscles,
his patience, regularity, automatic pre-
cision, and heroic self-abnegation; he
seems to have been formed for putting
in motion wheels and pulleys; he seems
to be stranger alike to eaRui and fatigue
in the workshop as in the field, two
English are equal to three or four French
workman. English industry has had
the good luck to derive profit from all
the connections of the continent; prolt-
aires, patricians, and soyereigns, alike
fly to England for safety; she has received
this in turn, the flower of all parties, and
the excellent artisans of all trades, from
Europe; the ruin of Antwerp by the
Duke of Parma, sent TO her slaves, the
lubricants of silk, damask, tatieta &c, the
destruction Ofthe Armada, and the mar
atime ruin of Spain, opened up to her
all the seas; the revocation of Edict oi
Nantes, secured her the cream of French
industrial talent and the senseless reign;
of subsequent monarchies, kept up the
supply. England had thus gained, and
If She has lost America, it was only after
making the States a second England
and maintaining a trade with the sepa
rated colony, superior to all her present
colonies put together.
The display of silks-the Lyons court
is one of the most luxurious in the Ex
bibition: it is a series Of splendid Won
ders. pleasing and dazzling the eyes. Il
was from the Italian Republics that Ly'
ons became acquainted with the art o.
silk making; Louis NJ did all in his
mower to secure the monopoly Of sill
making for Tours. The primary matter:
for silk weaving came all from Italy even
as late as the time of Francis !, and i
was only in $40, that Lyons secured the
right ofcentralizing the manufacture and
sale of silk, and this pre- eminence she
still suttains. Henry " by the impetus
he gave to cultivation Of the mulberry
was enabled TO secure supply of raw
s;ly in France; he converted the Iuler
les garden into mulberry nursery. and
sonf the Young trees to the valley OF the
Phone However the grand silk tissue;
. the PATTERNS that Titan and Paul We
ronese have familiarized US with-al
, were imported from Italy. In lo9o
Ivons had GOOOO silk workers; to day the
nHmber is only $1,000, although the in
dustry is now vastly superior: o.....
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