The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-08-07
LETTER FROM PARIS.
Victory i'm the Elections
The Peace COngress-The European
Powers Scheming and PlOttfng-The
Present and the Future-WOnderfui
Display OF Paper-Its Manufacture and
Merits-Other Interesting Exhibits.

Display of Paper-Its Manufacture and
Merits-Other Interesting Exhibits.
Correspondence of the Sunday Sentinel.l
HOTEL DE LATHENEE PARIS, July, 10
The elections on Sunday last form the
crownlng triumph for the republic. or the
% vacancies for the chamber of deputies to
be filed up, two were to replace deceased
republican members, which has been done.
The 20 represent those elections which had
been broken by the chamber on account OF
the most unblushing violence, frauds and
corruptions, by the detestable de Broglie ad-
ministration. OF these 20 seats, the repub-
licans have won 16, proof that the country
has either rallied to the present form of gov
eminent in the most astonishing manner,
or that the official pressure at the
October elections was tremendous. In both
causes the explanation is to be found. The
elections just held were as free as air, and
evidently this untrammeled liberty of vot-
ing is the most efficacious of ramparts
against the monarchcial election. In the case
of the four seats not won, the republicans
polled substantial minorities; they have Sc
cured footing for the first time inside their
opponents citadels. The country thus con-
tinues to ratify the sagacity, liberalism and
conservative programme of the powers that
be-
The congress is considered by the French
to have secured the peace of EuroI for five
years, till pacific powers have time to look
around them, note new positions, and make
due preparations for the coming Arranged
don. The congress has shown Russia it
neither loves her nor her PaY-Slavism
by bringing forward Austria and
Greece. There was no reason, since
morality has been ignored, why in the parti
ton of Turkey, England ought not to have
her share of the spoils; in this sense her
Asiatic move is bold. The Mediterranean
has been transformed not into French or
Russian, but an English lake, and the COM
ing struggle between the car and the EN-
press of India will have Armenia, not
Afghanistan, for a theater. The French
totally overlook that national morality now
adays rests on bayonets. This fact ought to
moderate their objections to England pre-
ferring the mystical number one to the
mystical principles ofinternational law, etc.,
ETC.. that the Salisbury circular dazzled be-
fore us, an ignis fatuus that not the less
pleased while it deluded. England does
not seize or occupy Egypt; she transfers
WOOlwich arsenal to Cyprus, and commands
Suez. What an excellent depot for
desire to secure payment Of inter
est on their loans to Tur-
key. the French had never a profound
interest in that empire. All nations have
their peculiar decaiogue respecting meum ct
tuum, and very few but desire an equivalent
for work and labor done. France received
Nice and Savoy for her war for an idea"
mn did ho indi0pontlxy
Napoleon III. schemed with that other
schemer, Bismarck, to annex Belgium be-
hind the back of his faithful ally" Eng
land. The French cid not display historical
indignation at this lnfamy. Nay, more;
when Emile de Girardin, the prince Of
journalists" bounded on the second empire
to seize the Rhenish provinces, and so secure
France the boundaries God intended for
her" the nation renamed NOW, but had to
pay dear for his whistling. This explains
why the French, wiser in their generation,
laugh at his newest eccentricity, European
coalition, Germany included, to wipe out
England from the map of the world. Despite
all teachings and Preeepts philosophical,
moral or evangelical, while the struggle for life
endures the tritons will ever devour the
minnows, and the weakest will go to the
wall. We have all a Naboth's vineyard In
the minds eve
The persons who nowadays commit their
impressions Of travel to stones or the bark of
trees must be very limited Without going
back as far as the deluge, to the age of papy-
rus, of dry leaves, of wax and leaden tablets,
of Assyrian cylindrical bricks, of parchment,
etc. let the visitor content himself with
paper prepared from every ligneous plant
known. There is no part of the gallery of
machines so patronized as that in the French
section, where rotten rags are converted into
pulp, dr1ed pressed in plates, and then
wound round bobbin as paper, like spool
of cotton; it is deservedly by the mile
that newspapers ought to order their webs.
The French claim for their countryman
Robert Il EssoHe, the merit of man ufacturing
paper without end. The English and French
display OF white aud colored papers is ex-
cellent in point OF solidity, equality OF pulp,
tenacity aud grain. The English cream laid
is unrivalled and Holland has specimens
that would make the hearts of hiliosphiles
jump for JOY The silky paper of Japan is
much in repute as exhibited in envelopes,
and is worthy of any paper factory. The
collection of valentines attracts the French,
who can produce nothing so good for the
price. The coloring, however, is not always
happy. The French show of fantastic letter
paper is very fine; perhaps the delivery is
too elaborate. In this respect Vienna is less
a sinner and therefore her exhibits of floral
Ornamentation are very pretty. American
has all the good qualities of English paper
and is remarkable for its suppleness, resist
ance and brilliancy; many do not altogether
admire its yellow tlnge. In the matter OF steel
pens England is foremost, and in the infinite
variety of pen and pencil holders America
has no rival. One can easily understand how
Young America takes to writing from the
cradle, and why there was nothing astonish-
ing at the centennial to observe History
of My Promenades and the Impressions of
My Life" by pupil aged seven years. In
the LEAD OF pencils England appears first on
the list. and runs France very close in the
matter of inks of all coiors and for all pur-
poses; the English bottles stand sadly in
want of an artistic reformation-not in the
fantastic sense. China and Japan exhibit
specimens of solid, indelible and perfumed
ink of excellent quality, but for serviceable
INK America must be awarded the laurels
The ice making machine has ever admir-
ing crowds Few believe till they touch