Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1889-04-19
THE PARIS EXHIBITION.
The Countries That Are to Be
Represented at the Great Fair
The Famous Elffel Tower and
MaChienery Hall.


Exposition Centenairie. They have
both grown side by side, they came in
10 view simultaneously, but while
Boulang SIN has developed with a pace
easily followed, the exposition has una
terialized as il under the magician
wand. Little more than year ago q
few fimsy skeletons OF buildings were
up. EiiTei was working with almost
savage eaTnestness on the arches
of his tower, while all Paris was dis
posed 10 regard him, charitably, as one
g me awry in mechanical art. Nj. AL
bert Wolf, the first chronicler and
critic of the time, had condemned the
undertaking. 1t was fools project,
he said, intended TO render the Paris
school OF science ridiculous. He dem
onstratol, with great mathematical
Skill, the fate Of self-annihilation which
awaited the monstrosity, and being a
public analyst OF unimpeached Hbility.
his words had precisely the same eject
rs those OF the clinical expert whose
diaon isis eXtinguishcs the last linger-
ing hope at the patients bedside. Alarm
spread among the workmen. Their
wages had TO be increased TO dispel
their fears. Melancholy crowds
gathered on the opposite bank OF the
Seine ever pleasant Sunday. What
moment might not the big iron pile
come tumbiing TO the ground? Three
quarters OF a million of dollars were go
Ing from the peoples pocket into it,
whore the alchemist to reconvert this
gold from certain ruin?
Next to France, Great Britain will
occupy the greatest amount OF space.
In the variety and novelty Of her eX-
/ its she will surpass all. Austro-Hun-
gary, disposed TO initiate England rath-
or than Germany, bee tuse Of fraternity
OF interest in the east, has gulped down
her theOcratic objections, and will make
a giaGd display. Italy, Modified by
the surprising moderation of what was
expected to prove the very tartar OF
French cabinets, has decided TO take
advant ge OF the chance TO display her
industrial advancement. All the ultra
montana countries have pigeon-holed
their grievances against the young re-
public and its thriving materialism,
and are working hand in hand u cele-
brate what is, in the vision OF the super
sanctimonious the infant anniversary
of agnosticism. How striking that the
men who have SO long applauded la
reCanche! of the rabble, who banished
God from the school textbooks, and
who invited by their antagonism TO the
church, the uncompromising enmity OF
the Catholic world, should find them
selves at the head of the state in this
season OF external peace and seeming
benevolence! NJ. Floquet and the ear
have been reconcllei in the formers
apology and self-reproach for the
give la Polognen incident; Russia got
her big loan olt Of the stockings OF the
French bOurgeOsSie, and the objections
of the Muscovite ruler have vanished.
Germany alone, of the European powers.
will remain unrepresented
Meanwhile the $4,000, 900 joint sub
sidy OF the nation ana the city wa be-
ing freely spent In the Champ do
Mars, architectural wonders began TO
appear, Ms if borne thther in the night,
after the very agreeable scheme OF
transportation peculiar to Arabian
tales. How Lamartine disliked this
spot! Yet could we have anticipated
its present site, the pain OF the past
would have seemed less severe, for
hero, where anarchy raised its red flag
"a century ago, the republic is now
erecting its two biggest monuments -
the Palais des Machines and Eifels
shaft The mournful contemplation Of
the latter was many months ago re-
placed by s;nguine smiles. People
now come in hOrdcs to pay open
mOuthed reverence TO it. Al. Wolff
has retracted, completely, abjecily. He
has done more -lampooned those who
led him, by their assumption of know
Ledge, into his error. NJ. Eifel is adj
judged great; his tower is great. You
monolith it il. The top is out of sight
on misty days. In fair weather tho
huge protruding derrick beams look
not SO large as walking sticks; the
busy artisans resemble nothing 40
much as animalculB under a weak
microscope; you see form; slowly you
discern motion-but the specics? Not
knowing the form was man. you could
readily believe il is TO be an insect
Was that some smokers match that
lust went out? All, no; that was the
b blast forge which twinliles in its
labor5 like one of the spinning planets.
A persistent effort of the eye TO pierce
the latticed work is followed by odd eff
fects. The eight hundred feet IN
height of iron girders, bars, plates and
bolts, topple slowly over the Jena
Bridge TO where you stand; you shut
your eyes against the fill, rub the film
away, and look once more, only 10 see
this dancing dervish make mock
saaam TO h Hotel deS Invalides on
your left. Descending from tho se
illusory attitudes. in search of rest, the
eve is sure 10 dwell at length on the
spreading panorama benelth; the tower
arch. higher than the twin steeples Of
Notre Dame; the Machine Palace in
perspective, its central terrace and
dome square TO view, az II set in a
/ monmouth terra-cotta frame; on either
side, extending toward you, tho two
arms OF the main building. terminal
ing in dome-topped fronts, in the
mosaic caps of which are emblazoned,
SO that one can never dismiss
the impression they will make, mum.
erous "R. F." (Republique Fran.