The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-10-26
OUR PARIS LETTER.

ing to its close. Everything on the
Champ de Mars is in midsummer
pertection,-the exhibits were com
pleted long ago, each display is
carefully in its place, and the myriad
wonders of this industrial world
never shown more conspicious'v
than they do today with but two
bief months more of life left.
Since the first Of September the
average daily attendance has been
above one hundred thousand. This
sudden increase from two-thirds
that number is much remarked, bat
1t is a part Of the history Of every
international fair that as it's last
, days approach, the visitors multiply
We had dry and fearfully hot
summer; the days are now cool,
and the whitening, blistering heat of
the low-roofcd Exhibition halls is
changed by an air pleasantly fresh
and invigorating. The Partisan,
back from the sea shore and the
waters, who up to now has been
content TO read his Figaro in the
morning for his quota of Exhibition
news, appears on the scene.
You may pick Paris ont as she
loiters along in the galleries ad-
miring everything, finding fault
with nothing, and absolutely sub
line in her selfsatisfaction and per-
haps pardonable pride. The scores
from the provinces still continue to
arrive. They are warned, like the
foreigners, that it vii! not be many
weeks before this grand Exhibition
viii be a thing Of the past. Those
who have been putting off coming
find now that to procrasIin2te longer
means To miss the fair. The Amer
leans seem to be the only people
who came early, remained late, and
who have practically completed
their pilgrimage. The statistics of
steamship traffic show that some
thing like twenty-five thousand
crossed the ocean during the past
summer, from the United States to
Europe. AS for the English there
are many here now, but compared
with the influx of June and early
summer, only a few. One remarks
many Austrians and HungarIans. /
do not think | have seen more of
these people here at any one time
than find to-day. They have a
good Court in the Exposition and
are interesting people, though thor
oughly different from the Parisians,
in manner, life and action. To the
French they ali pass for Prussians,
or Germ ans, and we all know that
our FrencIman has not yet forgot
ton the little unpleasantness that
eliminated by--well, never mind,
we will say, by the establishment Of
the third Republic. But let US be
lieve that the wound Of Sedan is
being healed. The German mill
tary officials have accepted an IN
vitation to be present at the com
ing manpuvrcs of the French army,
and the Fronchmen have accepted
a similar invitation from the Ger
mans.
We had this week, at the Grand
Festival Hall of the Trocadero, the
first Of the three Russian concerts.
The principal performers were
Mich. Rublnstein, the pianist, and
the brothers Wienawiski, one of
whom is celebrated the world over
as a great viollnist. The Grand
Duke Constantine attended and
was supposed, by his presence, to
give eclat TO the occasion. The au-
dlence was not large. In this re-
spect the Russian concert was quite
similar to the former entertainments
given in the Trocadero Sale deS
FtteS. None have been great sue
cesses financially. The orchestra
Of the Milan La Scala, probably the
greatest operate stage in the world,
made some money. 1t gave us
wonderful music. The musical So
cieties from Turin drew fairly good
houses. Their concerts were or
chestral, similar to the La Scala,
bat not so good. GiImore's Amer
lean band, owing to mlsfortunes
was an absolute failure, and the
English concerts were nearly as
bad. The Spanish mandolinists,