The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1878-05-03

Grounds Reciprocal Courtesy OF
France and Germany-CompletiOn of
the United States eS'Annex-Etc., Etc.
From Regular Correspondent
HoTRL DU LoUvRE,PARIs, April LIS.
Somebody has said that Americans
make the best Frenchmen of all the for
eigners who flock here from all parts Of
the globe; end from what l have seen Of
our beloved countrymen abroad, am
inclined to believe that such is really the
fact. The English are always English
and promenade in London styles on the
Rue de RiuOli, affect nothing but dog
carts and drags on the Boulevards and
in the Bois de Boulogne, and, when they
condeScend to learn French,neyer speak
it without tue peculiar nasal cockney
twang of Piccadilly. The Russians, Of
whom there are always a large colony
here, are intensly Russo in everything,
and spend more money on diamonds,
champagne, and questionable women,
than all the other foreigners put togeth-
er. The Germans, ofwhom we have also
great many here, are, as rule, of an
economical turn of mind; patronize
cheap restaurants and third-class hotels,
and assimilate with nothing as readily as
beer. They are the least popular of all
the foreigners here, for Paris has not yet
forgotten 1871. But an American has
not been a week in Paris before he wakes
his moustache, buys a plug hat of the
latest Partisan style at Chantas, sports
lavender kids and a whale-bone cane
with an ivory leg for a handle, wears
narrow trowsers, a tightly-ftting cheviot
sack-coat, and patent-leather boots, and
says "aw Plauisir'" and "paydon mon
sieur" every five minutes.
During the last fortnight, every train
from Calais and Havre has brought a
swarm of Americans to Paris, most OF
whom intend to remain here during the
coming exhibition. Go to any of the
first-class hotels, the Splendide, the
Louvre, the Grand Hotel, or Hotel de 7
Athenec, for instance, and you will find
crowds of them. Bignons, ON the Boul-
evard des Italiens, and the Cafe Riche,
on the BOulerard des Capucines, seem to
possess peculiar attractions for young and
flush" America, who may be seen here
at luncheon and dinner every day.
Bignons is the head quarters of Mr. James
Gordon Bennett, proprietor of the New
York Herald, who takes his meals there,
and always sits at the same little round
table, in company with three or four
friends. The Irois Freres, in the Palais
Royal and Vefours, vie with Bignons and
the Cafe Richie in point of excellence,
elegance and comfort, but are chiefly
patronized by Englishmen and native
Parisians, Americans preferring Bignons.
1t was G HI Butler, that delightful Bo-
hemian, believe, who remarked that "a
breakfast at Bignons is a poem, and q
dinner at the Cafe Richie liberal edu-
cation" and those of my countrymen
who are surfeited with our dyspeptic
way of preparing viands intended for
human digestion would appreciate the
force Of this remark
1t is yet too early to derive much
pleasure from visit to the exposition
grounds, where everything is still in con-
fusion; but from day to day. order is
evolved from chaos, and by the first of
May, everything, with the exception OF
the United States Division, will be in
apple-pie order, and our Commissioners
are doing all they can to make, at least a
respectable show at the opening. Among
recent distinguished American arrivals
are Mr. and Mrs R III Dana, (Mr Dana is
a grandson of the poet Dana, and his
wife daughter of the poet Longtellow)
and Mr. Slaughter, our minister at st
Petersburg, who is here on a brief pre-
liminary visit, making arrangements for
a longer stay during the exhibition. Mr.
Russell, the N Y Herald correspondent,
who accompanied ex-President Grant on
his trip on the U s Steamer Vandaiia,
is also here; and Mr. Bayard Taylor, our
new minister to Berlin, and Samuel
Clemens, better known as MARK Twain, y
are expected to arrive in the course of a
few days.
The Wheelock engine, built in Wor-
cester, Mass, which is to propel the ma
chinery in the American section, is now
being erected, and will be ready for its
trial test in a few days. Though infer
ior in size to many of the engines in the
French, English, and German depart
ments, it compares favorably with them
in workmanship and finish, and l was
told by the engineer in charge that it
works almost noiseless.
Strange to say, Krupp, the famous gun
manufacturer Of Essen, in Rhenish
Prussia, has, so far, none of his cannon
placed in position: perhaps this is point
of delicacy, however, because Paris saw,
and felt rather too much Of the Krupp
cannon in 1871. The monster gun
which he had on exhibition in Philadel-
phia in 1876 has been purchased by the
Russian Government, and now forms an
important and formidable part of the
armament of the fort Cronstadt, in the
Baltic Sea.
The recent order issued by the Art
Committee of the French Commission,
that no paintings commemorating scenes
from the late Franco-German war would
be allowed at the exhibition, has given
rise to considerable dissatisfaction among
some of the leading French artists, who
had painted battle scenes with the ex-
press purpose of exhibiting them to the
world at the Champ de Mars this sum-
mer. But this order was made impera-
lively necessary by the action of the
Emperor Of Germany in prohibiting
German artists from contributing pic
lures of the Siege of Paris battle of Sedan,
and similar scenes by no means soothing
or complimentary to the French. So
that the Art Gallery at the great Inter
national Exposition of 1873 will be neu-
tral ground, where both nations may
meet without stumbling over anything
that would rip up wounds that have
scarcely healed yet, and give vent to
many @saere" and "D0nnerueitter!' ~
from both Gauls and Teutons.
Mr. Petit, the French Architect who
superintends the erection of the Ameri-
can Annex, has very nearly completed
his part of his work: the front or facade
having been placed in position. The
canvas screens, which it has been found
necessary to stretch across the roof, are
also in place, and will bear favorable