The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-10-26


about the Exhibition. Ingenious
inventions they are, and to multi
tudes that saunter the hours away
at the Champ de Mars almost mar
vels from another world, In the
United States section we have Edi-
sons phonograph and the telephone
now known everywhere, our clever
little Typewriter, and the marvel
lous automatic machine that takes
a length OF metal, closes its Jaws on
1t, and splts out a perfect cork
screw. Yes, EdlSon's phonograph
Il have an English friend who
calls it "Edison's fraud of tangible
echo"-works every day ana amuses
the thousands. 1t was not thus in
the early days of the Exhibition.
Just the time that this tangible
echo" was first displayed in the
United States section has slipped
any mind, but, before, many strange
remarks were made concerning its
whereabouts, as everybody knew
that the surprising little instrument
was daily drawing crowds st the
Hall in which it was displayed, on
the Boulevard des 'Capucines. The
Engishmen insisted that it was a
piece of Yankee shreH dness not to
show the Instrument and its work
lngs at the Exhibition while crowds
were iockiDg to see it in the city,
and paying two or three francs for
the opportunity. But it came, all
in good time, and still the city
show goes on the same. In the
Italian court there is a curious little
box. It is more curious when you
learn that it is a stenographic ma
chine. You talk to the girl who
operates it and she records what
you say afterthe typewriter fashion.
Ali is done by sound. l spent a
good fifteen minutes the other after
noon talking English to the opera
tor, who is an Italian, and does not
speak my language. After I had
finished she repeated what | had
said with tolerable accuracy. A
typewriter and music-coInposer Is
exhibited in the Russian section.
CT is not one of the Beethoven or
even Ohenbach genus)
Germany has no industrial exhib-
it here. At the last moment she
sent some pictures, which are admi-
rably hung. Many think the Ger
man hall is the best arranged of all
the halls in the fine arts division
Certain it is that some of the French
are abominably put up. The Aus
tria art section is noble one, and
worthy of any writer's best efforts.
The choice that was made in Sc
lection exceIIs that Of every other
nation. The mantle Of art is made
to cover a multitude of sins (new
proverb) France knows it 4; and the
French art department. is spoiled by
having bad pictures hung at the side
OF good ones. Putting new wine
into Old bottles was never half so
disastrous as hanging nude study
IN which there is nothing objection
able alongside some of the terrible
canvasses that disgrace the walls in
the French Beau-Arts, claiming the
same protection.
The exhibition of horses closed
yesterday. / have never seen finer
than those displayed. The Russian
creatures were magnificent, OF
which ten are from the stud of the
Grand Duke Nicholas. The Hun
garian entries were also greatly ad-
nired The Normandy working
horses were generally accorded the
first place in that class. The Eng
ish b!ooded stock was thoroughly
admired as it always is and always
viii be, as long as England has
such a marvellous turf as that OF
which it boasts today.
This letter is like the chronicle of
a Partisan journalist | hope be-
cause | have touched many subjects,
myself to no single one,
hat it will make an acceptable chip
n the mosaic o # correspondence
hat the journalists send out every
night from our Pavilion of the Press.
Ofthis curious place, what is to be
seen in it, how the newspaper men
work, and the strange writer's from
many lands, ! will write you in the
.atare. In doing it, l will tell no
.ales out of school nor tattle of many