The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1878-10-19

satisfaction proves their own superiority.
Leaving the genuine impressions OF these
sight-seers out of the question as beyond the
reach of anything save guess-work, we come
to the spectators who are chiefly struck by
the magnitude of the thing to be seen. They
have been oppressed by their self-imposed
task of pleasure, and having no method in
their holiday occupation, have contessedly
derived from it little but vague sense OF its
importance. There has been so much to see
that they have seen nothing. 1t would,they
say, and say truthfully, take weeks to "do"
the Exhibition thoroughly; so they have
not known how to spend few days there
with intelligent enjoyment. With them 1T
is not exactly a case of "no eyes" or of eyes
wilfully blind; they honestly desire to see,
but do not know where to begin to look.
Others, still without the charmed circle of
those who have acquired the art of "seeing"
have failed because they have limited two
carefully their horizon. Interested in the
pictures, they have forgotten the furniture;
paying attention to the Characteristic produc-
tions of the furniture makers, they have
missed taking comprehensive view of the
still more characteristic structures in which
they are placed Struck by the merely curl
Gus, they have lost sight of the beautiful, or,
on the other hand, they have looked only
where they could admire.
1t would be difficult to explain the cata-
logue of EXhibition-goers to length as great
as that of the more familiar Exhibition cata-
logue. The ways of seeing are as many as
the sights to be seen. As a rule, it may be
said that he who takes most into an EXhibi-
tion takes most out Of it, just as he who
brings most information to bear upon book
derives most from its pages. 1t is certain
that the art of profitable sightseeing is one
well worthy of cultivation, since the result
of proficiency in it is to increase indefinitely
the means and opportunity Of education.
Not only are we enabled by its aid to effect
the oft-laughed-at combination and pleas
ure; our very pleasures are elevated and
intensified by the mental advancement
which they are thus made to imply. If the
series of Exhibitions fnaugurated in 1851.
and eliminating for the time being in 1878,
| had done nothing else, they would have ac-
complisheda a great work in training the myri-
ads who have visited them to make profit
able use Of their powers of general observa-
| ton which so often lie dormant, while other
faculties are actively employed in the mon
| otonous routine of life. That the crowds
who now throng the building opposite the
! Frocadero and study its huge mass of con-
tents, are better fitted than their predeces-
sors of twenty seven years ago to derive
mental improvement from their study, can
scarcely be doubted. They have much to
learn before they can gain the full benefit
from a gigantic opportunity such as this
but they have also learned much, and have
done so in no small degree, by the aid of the
movement set on foot in the various capitals
of Europe. To those who have been taught
how to use an Exhibition properly, there
will be new value in every examination
of the shop windows of a foreign city, or, in
deed, of their native town. And, what is
| still more valuable, they will never miss the
possible interest of daily life because they
employ "no eyes" on the observation of the
objects which line their path.
A very peculiar case is just now exciting
indignation against the Paris legal institu-
tions. The circumstances are as follows: A
Young man called Maillard left New York
where his family is settled, to draw in the
conscripton, and having drawn a good
number, he went to Uavre and embarked.
Just, however, as the steamer was about to
leave police agent went on board and ar
rested him. After having been kept eleven
days in the poice-oflice and two days in
prison, where he had to put on the prison
dress, he was taken to Paris handcuied. II
was only after having been for eight days in
durance vile that the examining judge in
formed him that he was accused of having
embezzled $4,000 francs. In Paris Maillard
was confronted with the victim of the rob.
berry, and it was discovered that the police
had arrested the wrong Maillard. 1t is al.
most incredible, but it is fact, that the in.
nocent man, instead of being at once dis
charged, was kept in prison for two days al
ter the mistake had been discovered. AtthC
time Alphonse Clement Maillard was arrest
ed he had all his papers clearly showing
he was not the man wanted by the police
He has now sailed for New York, having
received by way reconsideration a certifcat,
to the effect that having been arrested by
mistake he was Immediately released.