New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1878-09-11
OUR PARIS LETTER.

dated and an equal number of sight
seers, officials &C., to witness as many |
monarchs- not retired from business
as Candide encountered at his famous
Venetian supper party, OF that Napo-
leon had packed in the pit of a Saxon
theatre. It is too late to build a gigan-
tic shanty, so that the palace Of Indus |
try, or the to be canvass-covered race
course at Lougchamp may be selected.
The coming fete promises to outherod
Herodin brilliancy;no discordant notes
will likely be heard, as almost all the
exhibitors, have secured a shred of
blue ribbon. The lottery scheme ap-
pears to be enjoying the sleep Of the
just; likely the commissioners on rehec-
ton, object to games Of shance, for
raising the wind, especially when
France is able to pay for her glory, and
the more SO when cosmopolitan visitors
arrive again at the rate of 100000 al
day.
The industrial and agricultural por-
lions of the French display fill the
mind with sense of the inexhaustible
fertility of her soil, the unsurpassed
fancy and skill of her workmen, and
the power Of the lively and indomitable
race by which sheis peopled to evince
all the energy and enterprise which we
are accustomed to consider peculiarly
the qualities of Englismen. No wise
man feels Jealousy at the manifestations
of the ability Of our sister Republic.
The most important events in the
commercial history of the world, the
discovery of America, which brought
ruin upon the other peoples prosperosu
III ancient times, passed over France
alone without injuring her. With one
coast upon the Atlantic and another up
on the Mediterranean, France is almost
unassailable by such revolutions. Mar
settles had been great port before the
Romans had a navy. When Havre,
Nantes, and St. Nazare, grew into i'm
portance, the advantage was equally to
France, Venice decayed and Amster-
dam increased, but France, holding
both ends Of the thread, prospered be-
fore and after the discovery of the
Genvese. When wine and corn were
the Typical constituents of wealth,
no country could be 80 rich as that
which possessed the smiling plains of
Champagne, Normandy and Bordeaux.
When coal and iron were discovered to
be equally important for country s
greatness, the political insight of the
third Napoleon secured for France free
access to the coal-felds of England and
Belgium. The high prices of coal in
1873 made it profitable to work the
cOal.measureS which Northern France
herself contained.
The immense variety OF products
shown in the Exhibition are the pro.
ducts Of land which is 5000 miles in
girth, and has an area, since the loss of
Alsace- Lorraine. Of 2O4,096 square
miles. 1t is a country watered by
rivers, which are proverb for their
wealth of waters. and shaded by the
historic forests Of Ardennes, Fontaine'
bleau, the Vosges, and Uampiegne, in
all of which the oak, the beech. the
pine, the elm, and the edible chestnut
flourish, while the cork-tree grows iI
the South. The manufactures which
fill the galleries of the Champ de Mari
have grown up in the course of centu
ries of civilization, in constant ricissi
tudes and struggles for existence
which taxed to the utmost the powers
of al inventive race. No leading in
dustry can be mentioned which doe
not owe much to France.
The captive-balloon is great sue
cess, except on windy days, when III
assertions are allowed, another limo
Walton is, the floating restaurant; So
lon steamboat that leaves Paris in tn
morning for St. Ger1nain, and return
in the afternoon: the single journe
lasts 80 hours. The speculation is i
the hands of the French restaurateul
ut the Exhibition. The tourist ca
breakfast on board and return to Par
by rail. or rail to- st. Ger1nain end din
on board during the return journe,
with electric lights at mast hea,
Severed sights arc pointed out alor
the Seine, the most vagabond of rive
in it's course; there is the out-fall
the city sewer, and the heights Of S
Cloud, the spot where Billoir plac,
the remains Of his cut-up mistress, Il
Grenonillere, q democratic bathing f
both sexes, and thenew prison of Ma
terre, IN the land Of rosters to sugge
to the fair sex, that if virtue be ev
rewarded, vice shall never be left Il
plnisled-if the police can help it.
The Trocadero building referred
in one of my former letters is consi
cred Il marvel of economical constru
ton under most difficult circumsta
ces, being based on the hollow site
an old quarry, with materials mt
carefully selected for durability a
good effect. The aconstical aTrans
ments are curious. Behind the gra
organ is large conque, or reflect