The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1878-11-15

From our Regular Correspondent
HOTEL DU LOUVRE,
PARIS, Oct. %, '7s.
The Catholic Church in France has
just lost the only man of great intellect
ual eminence that she still possessed.
Felix Dupanloup, Bishop of Orleans. died
on Friday, October IL. he was native
of Sayay, and was born at Saint Blk in
1902. After filling various ecclesiastical
Offices at Paris, and attaining to that of
grand oicaire, he was appointed IN 1S41
Professor in the Faculty of Theology;
but his violent language gave rise to
tumultuous scenes which caused the alb
rupt termination of his course of lee
lures. In 1S49 he became Bishop of
Orleans, and held that see till his death,
displaying indefatigable activity and de
votion. Under his superintendent the
little Seminary of Orleans attained a re
markable development, and became a
formidable competitor to secular insti-
tutions of the kind. Although he was
opposed to his dying day by the Ultra
montane party, which prevented his ele-
vation to the Cardinalate, his loss will be
regretted by all catholics, for the French
clergy has not single man to compare
with him as a writer, as an orator, or
even as a man of action, and the French
Academy will be greatly embarrassed to
find priest worthy to succeed him.
In view of the fact that not few of
the American exhibitors have received
the cross of the Legion of Honor, the
following facts, which I find in to days
Figaro, will be of interest: an 1851 after
the London Exhibition, 80 decorations
were distributed, and at the Paris Exhi-
bition of 1856, the number was increased
to ia; after the second London Exhibi-
ton, 127 crosses we're awarded and there
were 230 elections at the subsequent
Exhibition of Paris in 1867 After Wien
na and Philadelphia the numbers we're
respectively 65 and 2S. The concourse
of exhibitors now assembled on the
Champ de Mars is considerably greater
than that of any antecedant Exhibition
and the Government, with characteristic
generosity and good sense, has fixed the
number of elections to be made at 300
There are more than 10000 aspirants to
the distinction. The following decree
has been issued by the Government: On
the occasion of the Universal Exhibition
opened at Paris in rs, the Government
is authorized to confer 3 grand officers
crosses, II commanders crosses, 60 off.
GERS crosses, and 22S chevalier's crosses
of the Legion d. Honneur.'"
An interesting lecture was given at the
Trocadero last week by the eminent
French architect NJ. Paul Sedille, on the
subject ofthe employment ofpolychrome
in architecture. The lecturer urged
that although the climate of Northern
Europe was injurious to fresco, as seer
in the disastrous attempts at Munich
there was no reason why terra-cotta ant
mosaic decorations should not be EN-
ployed, and he strongly recommended
the use of these materials to his audi
ence, which was composed for the mos
part of architects and other artists. Some
magnificent work in that line has beer
done in the ancient chapel of the Ecol
des Beauz Arts, which, having of lat
been magnifcendy restored and con
verted into an historical museum, wa
opened yesterday by the Minister O
Public instruction and N GuiIlaume, tn,
new Director General of Fine Arts. Tn
principal treasure in this ancient chape
is a very fine copy in oils of Niche
Angeles &Last Judgment" painted b.
, Sigalon, of almost the same size as tn
original. Beside this there are a mum
Der of casts taken from the finest statue
, and other sculptures executed by tn
3 great masters of Renaissance; indeed
s the new museum is chiefly one of cast
D Down at the Exposition on the Chaml
de Mars the Japanese appear to be sci
:, ling off their wares with great rapidity
y Already half of the costly bronzes an
I porcelains in that department are tick
e eted @sold", and that in spite of the fac
a that the prices are terrific, from one t
two thousand dollars being asked for tn
choicer pieces. Unlike many of th
: other departments, where one looks il
vain for person to give information a
a to prices or to take an order, the japan
0 ese have a man always at hand to ar
: swer questions and to inscribe the nam
of purchaser. This busines-ike al
; rangement, combined with the fact tbs
!. Chinese and japanese wares especlai
J. the latter, are very fashionable just nov
: has had much to do with the readines
q with which their articles nave Deen Sol
+ The Japanese commissioners ana saae'
q men, black-coated, chlmney-pos na!'e'
o and in all respects having tne asp.o'
y Europeans, are not naii 30 in'efesuIs
y look at as are the Cninese IN tneif Diu
/ pettiooats. baepy green plush trowser
cInmsv .boes and long pig tails. I'll