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PALACE OF THE TROCADERO.
A View and Description OF This Imposing
BaildiuK mt tho Paris Exposition.

A View and Description Of This Imposing
,,BaDdiuK nj tho Paris Exposition.
Through The courtesy of Demorest's
Maoazine We are enabled to furnish q
handsome engraving . OF the great
Trocade. Palace, which is to remain q
permanent memorial of the Paris Expo
sition. :: The following description of
this magnificent structure is given by a
correspondents lis
It is circular in form, and it has two
stages OF covered arcaded galleries on
the outside. Its towers are 230 feet
high, and as they stand on about the
highest hill in Paris, this gives their
SUBMITS q very great elevation. They
bum electric lights during the Exposi-
hon, and the north star will have to
look to its laurels within all that part Of
the valley of the Seine. Niagara may
feel less. apprehension in regard to the
Trocadero cascade, though this is very
fine. The water raised from the Seine
falls FIRST into great basin at the foot
of the building, and on the summit OF
the hill. Thence it tumbles down the
slope, afrstin one bound of twenty feet,
aand afterward by shorter leaps from step
to step pdown broad staircase of stone
built on the model of the cascade at st.
Cloud. Finally it makes it's way into q
lower, basin of Jura marble, measur
ing 1854 feet by 23C, where it finds COM
parative repose.. Some; $1,000 cubic
yards or water day are raised for this
fountain alone. Sos.much for the out
side of the building. Within, it seats
g, ,0O6 peopia. lin .itSconoert hall, which
is said to be the greatest circular struc-
ture in the world. .,:Hhas q diameter OF
164 feet, q circumference Of about 500,
and height OF 1851 The orchestra
holds 400 musicians. but it may be en-
larged so as to seat 1, 200. The organ,
forty feet high is supplied with air by
steam machinery. The hall is divided,
much as an ordinary theatre, into
pit, boxes and amphitheatre, and its
amphitheatre alone will Seat 1000 per-
sons. The senicircular galleries branch
ing out from this central hall are at
present devoted to a retrospective e1hi-
bition of the wonders of every epoch and
country, from prehistoric times to the
! date of the French Revolution.
The Trocadero grounds are by far the
finest in the whole Exhibition. They
slope down to the river from the
summit Of the hin, are beautifully laid
out and planted, and are ornarnented
with buildings further illustrative of the
national styles. The main walks cut
them INTO four great parts, two lying on
s the river bank, two above, Immediately
to the right and left Of the Trocadero
fountain. In one of the former parts
are the outlying buildings OF China,
Persia, Tunis, Norway, Sweden, Morocco
and Japan. '. 3. .'.t-
In another section of the garden on
the river-bank are the departments of
civil engineering, and the administra-
ton OF waters, forests and meteorology.
Here salsois the building Of Algeria. In
the remaining sections Of the grounds to
the right and left Of the cascades are
restaurants and an aquarium, the last
another of the curiosities of the. E1hibi.
ton. Nisbuilt on colossal scale in rockI
work, and has superfces Of about 3d.
0O0,square feet. Its two entrances lea
to q ball Of stalactites, having the crys-
tai tanks for the fish at the sides. and
this hall in its turn communicates with
two galleries similarity fitted up. Tue
entire structure contains about 130 tanks
The Aquarium is subterranean, and has
o garden on it's rocky roof. The ap-
proach to the Trocadero building is by
way of the Pont de Jena, which has
been covered bya broad level viaduct
some three times the width Of the origi-
nal bridge. Along this bridge railway
lines have been constructed, 30 that visi-
tors are conveyed from the Champ de
Mars to the summit of the Troca adero by
the horse-cars.