Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1878-08-22

OUR PARIS LETTER.

OUR PARIS LETTER.
THE EXHIBITION, IT'S PROGRESS, IT
| RESTAURANTS AND ITS MUsIC--THI
CAPTIVE BALLOON AwARDs--THI
TELEPHONE AND PHONoGRAPH-
| COMFORTS FOR NEWSPAPER MEN
MARBLE ExHIBITS-THE CANADIAl
| TROPHY-THE GREAT ELEVATOR II
| FROCADERO.
From our Regular Correspondent.
PARIS, July 3lst, 1873.
In spite of the tropical heat OF the
past week, the number OF visitors to
the exhibition has not materially di.
minished and yet is intolerably ho
in the galleries Of the Champ dt
Mars, and the sun burns down mer
cilessly on the promeneurs out OF
doors. Still there are shady hooks
here and there. If there is the, least
breeze stirring, it is to be felt ON the
Trocadiro terraces, where the flowers
and grass are kept fresh by a system
of incessant watering, and where tht
fountains and cascade held to COO
the air.
Since it has been impossible eo in
stall q military band in the exhibition
grounds, several of the restaurants
have set up music of their own. One
band plays at the British bar, and an.
other at the Spanish cape. Several
small buffets for the sale of cakes and
iced drinks are newly opened, and
the visitors, including ladies' and
children, are now well supplied in this
respect; they may also buy Turkish
sweetmeats, Algerian fruit, Russian
games, English buns, Partisan gauf-
frcs, and Persian scraps in various
places.
The captive balloon in the Place du
Carronsel is now visible from all parts
of Paris, its herge bulk towering; over
the buildings Of the Lawvre and
Iinleries. The public is to be per-
mitted to make ascepts next week,
the price being fixed for 20 fir. each
person. in the meantime the b H.
loon has been up twice, to height
of | 300 feet; the second time Mime.
Goddard and Nine. Cortois were oI
the party.
The exciting moment for the exhih-
itors is arrived, the jurors are finish
ing their work, and the question of
prizes, and especially of the grand
prizes of honor, Is burning one.
OF course nobody knows anything
of what is going on in the jury room,
nor in the juryman's breast but there
are certain rumors and some not of
a pleasant kind. These do not, how
ever, refer to any of the American
exhibitors. Yesterday some very in
teresting experiments, with the tele-
phone and phonograph combined,
were made in the telegraphic section,
before the jury. The mouths Of the
two instruments we're placed together
and the words engraved upon the
Photographic cylinders were soon
heard distinctly in the telephone re-
ception room at Versailles, and vice
versa. After this the interlooutor at
Versailles sang an original song
through the telephone, which was
taken down in the phonograph at the
Champ de Mars, and It was sung and
repeated by this instrument. amidst
general applause. These are among
the first experiments which have been
made with the two instruments to-
gether, and it is evident that they
may be very usefally applied.
If you have duly obtained a press
pass to the exhibition adorned with
your photograph, and with official
signatures, which render it dOubly
valuable to posterity, then you have
the right to claim admittance to the
Press pavilion. 1t is situated near
the post office, and had q telegraph
Office of its own; but this has practi-
cally broken down, and the journal
lists use now the same wires and letter
boxes other men. The value of the
pavilion is in affording cool and
quiet retreat to write, aRdssore sup
piled with ne xspapers. Here are all
the principal papers in the world and
through the care of some Polish gen.
tlemen connected with tho Partisan
press, the pavilion is especially rich
in Sclavonic papers. The pavilion
has many studios and budoirs, in ad-
dition to the great reading-room; and
ladies and music, it is said, are not
to be excluded from it. 1t is hoped,
that some rooms will be pre-
served for solitude and quiet, or the
benefits of all its other alvan
tages will be lost to the working bees
Of journalism, for whom it was in
tended.