Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1878-10-31
Communication.
Paris Letter.
Up and Down in the Exhibition.

the final closing Of the Exposition
Universelfe is to be deferred until
the 10th of November has filed
the French exhibitors with well.
nigh delirious joy, and is looked
upon with feeling far removed
from dissatisfaction by the gener
al body Of foreign contributors
to the great bazar. The osten-
sible motive for granting this
enthusiastically welcomed delay
is that it is only just and prop
er that the winners Of the pri-
zes should be able to gain some
Ipecuniary advantage from the
prestige they have won as med
allists or as possessors of di-
Iplomas; but it is not the "lau-
rets" alone who will benefit by
the concession of the twenty
eight days of grace. After the
distribution of prizes the indis-
criminate sale by retail of arti-
cles exhibited in the Champ de
Mars, will, it is understood, be
authorized, and purchasers will
be permitted to take away their
enplettes with them. Thus the
elimination Of the great show
will resemble a great fair more
closely than ever. The glorious
la foire aur janabons and Ia
.foire au1 pains a. epiceS will
be outdone; and the practice
now only surreptitiously in
dulged in of carrying away
some memento of the Exhibi-
tion-be it worth only a couple
of francs-from the Exhibition
itself will be pursued on the
most colossal scale. Looking
at the vast numbers of per-
sons whose ambition to acquire
a souvenir of the Exposition
does not go beyond a pair of
garters or a bottle Of scent,
photograph of ''The Dirty Boy"
or a necktie with a view Of the
Trocadero printed upon it, the
multitude of Partisan shopkeep-
|ers who sell such articles might
reasonably protest against the
understandable competition of
the Champ de Mars; but, as it
happens, the principal boatsquerS
OK the bOuleyards--tbe Rue de
Rivoli and the Rue de la PAX
are exhibitors as well; and it
becomes only question of hay-
ing two set of glass cases full /
of articles de Paris, two sets of
shop assistants, and two tills,
one on the right and the other
on the left bank of the Seine.
The arrangement is likely to
be all the more satisfactory to
the trades-people, as they will
probably charge twenty per
cent. more for the garters or the
bottles of scent which they sell
within the walls of the Exhibi- {
ton Palace than for the analo-
gous articles which they yend {
in their own shops. How the l
English exhibitors will regard
the official concession / am 1
scarcely prepared--not being
behind the scenes Of British ex-
hibitors' interests--to determine.
The manufacturers and factors
of porcelain and pottery will
not, perhaps, be sorry for an adj
ditional four weeks opportuni-
ty to dispose of their beautiful
productions; but, as a rule, Great
Britain is an exhibitor of big
and not of little wares--the ar
ttcle de Londres, in its artistic
knicknack sense, has yet to be
fabricated amongst them--and
it is the wholesale, not the retail
results that they are general
ly accustomed to look when
they try their strength with the
nations in an industrial compe-
ton. They would rather take
an order tor fifty thousand yards
of Huddersfeld serges orS Saltaire
alpaccas, for twenty locomotive
or marine engines, or for a hum
dred and fifty steam ploughs or
threshing machines, than keep
up "fiddling" trade in cakes
of soap, bottles of pickles, blot
ting cases and travelling bags.
| As for the Americans they have
already sold, it is understood,
THE great bulk Of the articles
which they sent to Paris, and
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