Middletown transcript., 1878-09-28

custom many Of the nuGgGzins shut up
and those who continue open do sc
more from habit than from the ex
pectatiOn Of selling anything. Doe
anyone suppose that the male and fe
male employees Of these closed estab.
lishments utilize their holiday by going
to church or sitting at home reading
good books? They will rather pour
on to the Boulevards, to the gardens,
and to the Great ExpOsition-to fill
the cabs, cafes, circuses, and concert
gardens; to chatter and laugh and
gestieulate, to eat, and drink, and be
merry; to dance, and go to the play
at night.
l was not consulted when Paris was
built or when the Frenchman, that
combination of a monkey and a
tiger" was formed and fashioned; !
describe only what I see, and this is
Sunday in Paris as / have found it.
No one need expect to see such Sum
day prevalent in New York or Phila-
delphia, or any American town. But
the difference I think cannot be wholly
accounted for on the score of religion
or irreligiOn. Our observance of the
Sabbath may be susceptible of mOdif-
cation in tolerant liberal sense, but
there is more than one good reason
why the Continental Sunday" as typ
ically presented in Paris is a thing to
be deprecated in the United States.
In the first place, the decent classes
among US are quiet people, with COM
Portable homes, from which they rarely
stir on the Sabbath whereas the Par
isians as class have no homes at all
that can be called comfortable, and
are an excessively noisy, restless, and
inconsequential race, who can only
find happiness, like children, out of
doors. In the second, and much more
important place, we drink stronger
liquors than are drank in Paris, and
the classes among US who are, not de-
cent are in the habit of getting drunk
and fighting after the manner of wild
beasts, when they get chance, and
our places of public resort are not
as in Paris, made to supple
ment contracted uncomfortable homes,
but are merely places where the larg-
est number of sots can get tipsy in the
shortest space of time. And Sunday
in America, with all the public houses,
all the theatres, all the music halls,
thrown unrestrictedly open, from morn
ing till night, would exhibit the most
horrible satarnalia that eye ever be-
held, that the ear ever heard, or the
,eart ever sickened at.
The Exhibition authorities have de-
'ided not to publish the list of awards
Until the 21st day of October, the day
ixed for their distribution. It is
that the Exhibition will be
prolonged twenty days, and that dur
ng the. last ten days each exhibitor
will have the privilege of dispOsing of
lis goods; this latter question will be
Iecided on Saturday, the 7th inst. The
Ielay in making known the prizes is
ausing great dissatisfaction, for it is
ften source of loss to the exhibitors,
ven from pecuniary point of view.
n fact, a great part of the benefit
which medal is likely to confer. is
ost if the exhibitor cannot put on his
how case the magic words, gold med
l." "silver medal" or some minor
onor. The matter is still further ag-
ravated by the fact that large mum.
er of exhibitors know that they have
Dtained prizes, but as their informa.
on is unofficial they are unable to
AXE use of it. From what I hear of
le number of copies which have to be
ade of the various lists, added to the
-overbial complications and delays
French Bureaucratic Organization,
will be impossible for definite lists
be prepared before the 18th of this
onth, at the earliest.
Since writing the above I have seen
announced in the morning journals
at the American and English exhib-
,rs will at once be officially informed
the decision of the jury. Te article
ds that his Royal Highness, the
-ince of Wales, and the English
'mmission are opposed to the con-
luance of the Exhibition beyond
It. S1st, as the exhibitors from Great
itain are anxious to return with
sir goods and representatives to
cir ordinary business premises. This
u be very cheering intelligence to
, American exhibitors, who are one
d all, homsick and anxious to return
the new world where one man is as
ID as another, etc. sao
There were 121, $50 visitors to the
yesterday, of which, 1865
d free tickets. The number of those
o visited the horse show was 7,4S8.
e visitors to the Exhibition in the
nth of August were 2,363,699.
Dan Rice says he can get along
h cross wife, q fault-fnding moth
n-law, or a bowling dog, better
n with the old ladv from tho oo,,r