The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1878-06-07
HOTEL DU LOUVRE,
PARIS. Nav 16. 1873
From our Regular Correspondent

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| HOTEL DU LOUVRE
PARIS, May 16, 1878.
The visitor tired with sightseeing can
do no better than to spend an hour or
two in the Sale Euangilique, just opposite
the Frocadivo entrance to the Exhibi-
ton. This building accommodates about
six hundreds persons, and has been erect
ed by the united efforts of the British
Evangelical Alliance" and the Rev r
w McCsll's mission" it is patronized
by English, Americans, Frenchmen, and
Italians, and two prayer meetings are
held daily, one Tin English) in the fore
noon, and another, in the french or ital-
ian language, in the evening. Yesterday
afternoon, heard an excellent sermon
in Italian by Father Gavazzi, of Rome,
and the day before, the Rev Mr. Hitch
cock, an American minister, spoke to a
large congregation of his countrymen.
Among those who regularly attend the
meetings here are Lord Shaftesburg,
Lord Kinnourd, Mr. Cowper Temple,
Sir II Verney, Mr. Waddington, the new
Minister of Foreign affairs, and many
other people of distinction. The sue
cess of this enterprise is chiefly due to
the Rev NJ Mccall, who came here about
six weeks ago with view TO evangelis-
tic efforts, or what we would at home call
revival" among the workingmen of
Paris, and, to that end, has established
% stations" in the most populous quar-
ters of the city, accommodating 1900
persons, and his meetings have an aver
age weekly attendance Of 5000 adults
and between 1000 and 5000 children. He
has been awarded the medal of the SOci-
etc Rationale de J. Encouragement an
BEN in recognition of the moral rather
than the strictly religious aspect of his
laburs and af,er the close of the exhi-
ton, he will remove the new building to
suitable quarter of the city as perm
ament station. On each side of the hall
is kiosk one erected by the Monthly
Tract Society, the other by the Crystal
Palace Bible Stand, of London. The
latter is under the charge of Mr. ] Alex
ander, who occupied the same post at
the 1867 Exhibition, when upwards of
100000 separate Gospels, in % Ian
guages. were distributed, and who in the
war of 1870 distributed 100000 Gospels
to the soldiers ON both sides, the En-
press Augusta securing him special IA
cilities as regards the German troupe
This Kiosk on the Exhibition opening
day gave away 1900 Gospels to persons
of all ranks, from Senators downwards,
and many applicants had to be refused.
Arabs, Chinese, and others have been
supplied in their own languages, the
separate Gospels being gratuitous, while
Bibles are sold for a franc, and Tesla
ments for 25 centimes each. All these
three buildings are in the Swiss chalet
style.
The delightful weather is beginning 10
tell, and the grounds look lovely. The
ruts in the walks and avenues, caused by
the heavy carting, have been smOOthed
over all the plants and shrubbery are
in position and get along splendidly, and
the large fresh water aquarium has been
thrown open for inspection. There is
no scarsity of seatsi which are placed
everywhere and are of the most odd and
fantastic patterns and the bronze statue
of Fame, away up on the topmost pin
nacle of the Trocadero palace, can be
seen from all parts of the ground, and
looks as graceful and light as Its name.
At the Hungarian Csarda or restaurant,
the weird music of the Tyiganes or gyp-
sizes is attracting crowds Of visitors, and
as the winds are excellent and the prices
reasonable, this is fovorite resort.
These Tziganes have sharp eye for ma
tionality they can tell, at glance, a
party Of Frenchmen from a party Of
Italians, and find no difficulty whatever
distinguishing between a groupe of
Americans and one of Englishmen.
This morning when entered, in COM
pany with four Of our honorary" com
missioners (Which are as thick here as
the leaves of Vallambrosa) and one of
the Secretaries of the American legation,
they struck up the @Star Spangled Ban
ner,' and played it excellent half an
hour later, Mr. Tesserene de Bort came,
and they gave him the Marseillaise. III
q party Of Russians enter the door, they
give them God save the Gar )" and hail
the approach of Englishmen with @Gode
save the Queen" A friend told me that
while he was lunching there a day or
two ago, three diamond merchants from
Teheran, Persia, enteredand were strick- |
en- dumb almost by hearing the well
known Ito them) "Fam-Esm' march Of
the Shah. 1t seems there is nothing
that they cannot play; and their nation
al polkas and polonaises are simply be- |
witching. For I for one may get bottle
of good Hungarian wine, and listen to
all this music all this length of time;
a plate of cold spiced beef, called BrkaH
although there is no pork in it at all
costs ten sous; but the genuine and no
mistake about-it Tokai is expensive, and
costs 2 fr. (about forty cents) glass.
Twas fortunate enough to be present