Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1878-09-20

think, cannot be wholly accounted for Un
the score of religion or irreligiOn. Our
observance Of the Sabbath may be suscePti-
BILE Of Modification in q tolerant liberal
sense, but there is more than one good reA-
son why the Continental Sunday, as tyPie-
ally presented in Paris is thing to oe
deprecated in the United States. In the
first place the decent classes among us are
ouiet people. with comfortable homes from
which they rarely stir on the Sabbath;
whereas the Parisians as class have no
homes at all that can be called comfortable,
and are an excessively noisy, restless, and
ineonsequential race, who can only find
bappiness like children, out Of doors. In
the second and mnch more important place.
we drink stronger liquors than are drunk in
Paris, and the classes among us who are
not decent are in the habit of getting drunk
and fighting after the manner of wild
beasts, when they get chance, and our
places Of public resort are not usually, as
in Paris, made to supplement contracted
uncomfortable homes, but are merely
places where the largest number Of sots
can get tipsy in the shortest space of time.
And Sunday in America with all the pub
lie houses, all the theatres, all the music
halls, thrown unrestrictedly open from
morning till night, would exhibit the most
horrible satarnalia that eye ever beheld,
that.the ear ever heard, or the heart ever
sickened at.
The Exhibition authorities have decided
not to publish the list Of awards. until
the 21st OF Oct.-the day fixed for their
distribution. 1t is probable,that the Ex-
hibitiOn will be prolonged twenty days.
and that during the last ten days each ex-
hibitor viii have the privilege of disposing
Of his goods, this latter question will be
decided on Saturday the 18th inst. The de-
lay in making known the prizes is causing
great dissatisfaction, for it is often source
of loss to the exhibitors, even from pc
cuniary point Of view. In fact, a great
part of the benefit which medal is likely
to confer, is lost if the exhibitor cannot
put on his show case the magic words,
gold medal, or silver medal, or some other
minor honor. The matter is still further
aggravated by the fact that large num-
Der Of exhibitors know that they have OBJ
tained prizes, but as their information is
unofficial they are unable to make use of
it. From what hear of the number Of
copies which haye to be made of the vari
Gus lists, added TO the proverbial co.npli-
cations and delays of French Bureaucratic
organizations it will be impossible for def
mite lists to be prepared before the 18th Of
this month, at the earliest,
Since writing the above l have seen it
announced in the morning journals that
the American and English exhibitors will
at once be officially informed of the deci-
sion of the jury. The article adds that
his Royal Highness, the Prince of Wales,
and the English Commission are opposed
to the continuance of the Exhibition be-
yond Oct. 81, as the exhibitors from Great
Britain are anxious to return with their
goods and representatives to their ordinary
business premises. This will be very
cheering intelligence to the American ex-
hibitors who are one and all homesick and
anxious to return to the new world where
one man is as good as another, etc.
There were 121, $40 visitors to the Ex-
hibition yesterday, of which 1905 held
free tickets. The number of those who
visited the horse show was 7,498. The visi-
tors to the Exhibition in the month of
August were 1858, ,699.
PARIS, Sept. 4, 1873.