The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1878-12-06
From our Regular Correspondent
HOTEL DU LOUVRE, !
PARIS, Noy. 13, '7S.

while draughts of cold air assail the vi:
itor inside with bitter persistence. Darl
ness shortens the afternoon, the way i
which the fine art galleries are arrange,
making it quite impossible to see tn
pictures well after three. Those VIII
proposed that the Exhibition should b
kept open all the winter could not hav,
taken advantage of the general permits
sion to take away their goods; but man.
of the stalls in the American and British
sections are being rapidly dismantled
The crown jewels, carried off to the Banl
on Thursday evening, were replaced tn,
next day by an order from headquarters
A strong inducement for exhibitors t.
prolong their stay in the Champ de Mar
is the announcement that in the course
of the week the National Lottery Com
mittee will have to expend four millions
and quarter. A portion of this sum
$50, 1000, has been handed over to mana
gers, to be spent in the foreign sections
The French Ministers of War and
Commerce have agreed that the palace
and park erected in the Champ de Mar,
for the Exhibition are to be preserved
The War Minister will retain the gallery
of manual labor and the two large ma
chinery galleries as general warehouses
for the army. This space fifteen acres
in extent. will be called the Field O
Manevure. The Minister of Commerce
will retain the Grand Gallery of Honor
with some of its annexes, the Pavilion o.
the Spanish Ministry of Public Works
and other buildings, and this space viii
be devoted to the establishment of an in
dustrial museum. At meeting of the
lottery managers held on Sunday, un
der the presidency of the Minister o
Agriculture and Commerce, it was de
cided TO raise the number of tickets tt
twelve millions. The lots are to be ex
hibited in the Palais de 7 Industrie, anc
it has been resolved that every prizt
gained shall be delivered free of octro
and customs duties. The Lottery Com
mission has also resolved that the small
prizes shall be divided into twelve groups
each of about the slme aggregate value
while the larger prizes shall form spec
ial category, for which all the ticket
shall compete. In the latter case a duo
decagonal wheel will be used, each fact
being numbered l to II, and this whee
will indicate the winning series, while
six wheeled decagonal apparatus vii
then show the winning number-each o
the six wheels furnishing one digit OF il
The six wheeled apparatus will also b,
used for the minor prizes, and the win
ming number will compete for each o
the twelve series. The drawings will b,
public, and, it is calculated, can in thi
way be got through in eight or ten days
The Chinese, Hindoos, Burmese, Jaw
ans, Moors, Arabs, and other natives O
outlandlsh climes who have been EN-
ployed about the Exhibition are wei
pleased with the attention and gratuitiei
they have received. Most of them were
lodged IN the purlieus of the Ecole Mill
taire, and the Commissioners deputec
some inspectors of police to keep a pa
ternal look out over them to see that they
we're not robbed or molested when they
went out of an evening enjoying them
selves in their own ways. These inspec-
tors must have been led into queel
haunts, and have witnessed strange Gus
toms in their proteges; but let that pass
1t is enough to know that many of the
exotic visitors have evinced such strong
reluctance to return to their own coun-
tries that permanent employment hal
been found for them in Paris. All the
Chinese have been snapped up as cafe
walters, and two or three of the Hindoo.
and Arabs have been hired by the man.
ager of the Hippodrome. One of the
Japanese exhibitors Is going to open {
tea and coffee house on the Boulevards
and the attendants are all to be people
of his country. 1t Will certainly have &
speedy success if the beverages be good
and if care be taken to hire at least one
or two French walters au fait of Partisan
customs. There was a rumor that the
Hungarian restaurant, which, thanks tC
its band of Ziganese, acquired such 6
rapid celebrity, was going to become one
Of the settled attractions of Paris, but
this is not the case. Since the musi-
clans have departed it has been discov-
cred that the wines at this wild looking
place are trifie too dear in price fol
Partisan purses. as well as too strong ir
quality.
Visitors in Paris have been enabled
to witness sight peculiarly French anG
indicating depth of feeling in the ma
tional character which would doubles
astonish the stranger who came only tC
see the exhibition a few DAYS ago. Al
the inhabitants of the city seemed tC
have poured into the cemeteries to visit
according to a custom hundreds of year
old, the tombs of departed relations anC
friends. In some of the great buria
grounds, such as Pero La Chaise, Mon
tonartre, and Mont Parnasse, the crowd
were so great that circulation was ex
tremely difficult. This is an occasion
on which Parisians exhibit a peculiar
form of religion which is as striking a
it is incomprehensible to the foreigner
After the pilgrim has laid boquet o
flowers on the grave Of his relations anC
friends he proceeds to the tomb of al
admired politician or poet, according +
his literary taste, and there pays a trit
ute to the deceased by placing on tn
spot where his remains lie a crown Q
inanaortoles. 1t is perhaps the mos
unpleasant feature of this national cele
bration that it is frequently converte'
into political demonstration. For ez
ample, this year the tombs of " Raspai
and N Theirs were those which mos
attracted the visitors to Pere Ia Chais,
and the inscriptions on some of th
crowns were of an Extensively part
character. Notwithstanding the i'm
mense crowds, however, there wa
nothing of the nature of disorder in th
y inroceedipou