The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-07-14
AMERICAN SCIENCE APPRECIATED.
Alarming Effects Of a Regulation at
sather Exposition.
OUR ARTISTS REWARDED.
Rounds OF Festivities-Feedin
the African Lion.


Lacking one thing no exhibition is per-
feet. That thing is Peace Congress.
gathering like this at the Champ de Mars.
of the shopmen and tradesnen, painters
and stonecutters OF the world, always sug-
gests to q limited but earnest band the
propriety of resolving to abolish war. The
whirr Of machinery, the sight of long lines
of showcases, the touch OF the perspiring
crowds, all combine to awaken them from
their trance of hopelessness. The circulars
are sent out and the Congress duly as
sembles.
PEACE FANTASIES.
So it happens that Lies amis do la paix"
have announced their sittings tor Septem-
Der. Wonderful how Utopians stick to
Their illusions A bloody war is just finished
and another avoided only because three
strong Powers, who might have fought,
found they could save time and money by
robbing fourth, who is weak, and divid-
ing q goodly share Of his territory
between them. You never can be angry
with mild delusion like theirs, but
you cannot help seeing the ridiculous side
Of their proceedings. AS to the shopkeep-
ers whom the peace men adore nothing
pleases them so well. as an army contract
the blaoksmiths would sooner. make tires
for gun carriages--at government prices
than coulters for ploughs, at farmers
rates. What subject is dearer to the painter
than battle piece? Paris, which is, in its
way and its time, bloody-minded city as
well as gay one. laughs over the Friends
of Peace.
JAPANESE SOWING MACHINES.
The Japanese have sown the first crop of
Japanese wheat in their gardens Of the
Trocadero. and people 60 daily to look for
the sprouts. It is to be hoped that the
seeds sown in the Japanese brain by the
Exhibition will prove as fruitful as they
hope the wheat will be.
BARrnoLDI's STATUE.
The staircase which they have been con-
structing in the head OF Bartholdi's great
statue for New York harbor is nearly COM
pleted. The reactionists mockingly express
the hopo of being able to ascertain by its
hou Il 1t.vhk he IL
They cannot, they say, see it by external
demonstrations They will not, however,
get ahead OF Liberty so easily as they think.
Liberty here means the Republic, and that
is becoming more firmly seated every day.
oRAY's COMBINATION TELEPHONE.
The telephone experiments between the
Exposition and Versailles were continued
this week. They have been throughout
brilliantly successful The working of the
Gray combination instrument has proved
that any number of messages can be sent
backward and forward over the same wire.
People here are beginning to think that
American scientists are 'some pumpkins"
THE TRocADIRo AQUARIUM.
Everybody admits that the aquarium on
the Trocadero is very fine place to look at
and very imposing TO walk through, but it
is only now that it begins to show real
signs of piscatorial life. Among the latest
arrivals arc several enormous turtles from
Senegal. They are of truly aldermanic
proportions and make the teeth of the gour-
mands water as they flap about under their
houses. They were long time coming
from Senegal. and it is believed that they
waddled all the way.
L"- ErHSooRApBY.
The photographic congress begins its
sessions here next Monday, when the
human races will receive scientific raking
over Ignatieff has been invited to attend.
This is eminently proper, for he has done
more to unsettle mems minds respecting
the distinctions between races than any
man on the footstool.
TAKE MOTIF.
A troublesome question is now being agi-
tated at the Exhibition namely, whether it
is allowable for journalists to take notes OF
the articles exhibited. The police have ac
tually arrested some correspondents thus
occupied. LISA pity to stop them while they
find something really worth Writing about.