Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1889-05-18
TIE PARIS EXHIBITION.

Maohlenery Hall.
The rising spectre OF revolution, not
outstanding the picture II leaves on
he retina OF the French reactlonist, Is
shadow thing compared TO the
Exposition Centenairie. They have
10Th grown side by side, they came in
Is view simultaneously, but while
Boulanglsm has developed with a pace
easily followed, the exposition has ma
lerialized as il under the maglcian's
wand. Little more than year ago a
lew fiimsy skeletons OF buildings were
up. EifTel was working with almost
savage earnestness on the arches
IF his tower, while all Paris was dis
posed 10 regard him, charitably, as one
zone awry in mechanical art. Nj. Al
lert Wolf, the first chronicler and
critic OF the time, had condemned the
undertaking. IL was FOOLS project,
40 said, intended to render the Paris
school of science ridiculous. He dem
oEstrated, with great mathematical
skill, the fate Of decentralization which
awaited the mOnstrOsity, and being Il
public analyst Of unimpeached ability,
ais words had precisely the same effect
Is those Of the clinical expert whose
diagnosis eXtingulshes the last linger-
ing hope at the patients bedside. Alarm
spread among the workmen. Their
wages had TO be- increased 10 dispcl
heir fears. Melancholy crowds
gathered on the opposite bank Of the
seine every pleasant Sunday, What
moment might not the big iron pile
come tumbling % the gronEd9 Three
quarters Of Il million 81 dollars were GO
ing from the peoples pocket into III
where the atchemist % reconyert this
| gold from certain RUM
Next To France, Great Britain will
occupy the greatest amount u space.
IN the variety and novelty 81 her cX-
libits she will surpass all. Au,tr0. tluu-
gary, disposed to initiate England rath.
| sr than Germany, because ~ fraternity
81 interest ia the east, has gtllped down
her theOcFatic objections, and will make
grand display. Italy Modified by
| the surprising moderation 0t what wAs
expected to prove the very tartar Of
French cabinets. has decided 10 take
advantage 81 the chance 10 display her
Industrial advancement All the ultra
montana countries have plgroR-hOled
heir grievances against the young re-
public and its thriving mAtcriallsn.
and are working hand In hand 10 celc-
/ 1ratc what IL. In ths vision Oi the sups,r-
sanctim0uiOua the infant anniversary
ii agnOsticlsm How striking that the
Non who have so long npplaRdrd ~
! reraAchst 81 the rnhbls, who banlshr,i
iod from the school textbooks, and
who Invited BY their autAgouisu 10 the
| church, thg unC1apromialHg Falntty III
the Catholic world, should lind thsm.
selves al tho hnad ~ the state In this
season ~ external peace and seeming
1eueyUIeHce, VI FlOluel and ths clar
1aFc been rrconctlei 10 thr furmar's
apology and seIf,ruproach Tor tho
'ttyr In Poiugun jueidout Russia got
her big loan ostt Of the stockings ~ tbs
French tptr9anla,s, and thg obicrtlpu-
| ~ the MuscOYIt0 ruler have vanished.
Germany alone. Of the European powers,
Hill remain uUruprescutsd.
Meanwhile the slu.bUJ. 900 Joint s,tb.
sIdy OF tho nation and the Ctty was be-
ing freely spent. III thu Ehamp tlr
Mars, architectural wonders began Ia
appear, ns II borne thtther Ia tho night,
after tho very agreeable BChcgur ol
transportation peculiar TO Arabian
tales. How I.amartiuv dlslikrd thI.
spot Yet could We have anticipated
It's present site, the pain Uf the pnsl
would have seemed less severe, tDt
here, whore anarchy raised ils rpd Aza
century ago. the republic IL now
erecting tts two biggest monuments
the Pninis Dies Machines and ElHrvr
shaft. The m0uruiul contemplation Of
tnc inttcr was many months ago ~.
plhccd by sanguiuc smiles. PsopIs
now come IN hoFdrs to pay npan
muuthcd reverence to H. Nj Wolf
has retractrd, completely. abjoctty. ~
has done more lnmpooned those y Id
he'd him. By their assumption NJ know
ledge, intU his error. VI. Etfrel IA nd
judged great: his tower Ia great. Yot
could already hide tho Washington
monoltth IL t. The top Is out Of sigh
on misty days. In fair weather tn,
huge prOtruding dUrrirS.bcnra lonL
not 70 lnrgc as walking sticks: the
busy artisans resemble nothing /,
| A"f' thAFtfttthkh#ttttf' lltltFt H WftHH
microscope; you sec form; slowly yot
discern motion but the spcCies3 MOI
knowing the form was man, YOU roul,
readily believe il Is 10 b. nm insect
was that some smokers match thni
Just went out2 Al, no; that was ii,
big blast forge which twtnkles In n,
'abor5 like one of the spinning planets
q persistent effort OF the eve To- plerc.
the latttced work Is followed by odd ~
tcct4 The eight hundred feet 1,
height 81 iron gir,lcrs. bars. plates ant
bolts, topple slowly over the Jon,
bridge to whore you stand; you shu
your eyes against the fall. rub the fIIu
away, aud look once more. only 10 NJ,
TINS dancing dervish make moct
salnam 70 the Hotel Dies Invalidcs d
your left Descending from thes,
lllusory attitudes, IN search OF rest. IN,
eye Is sure 70 dwell ut length on tn,
spreading panorama beneath, the towe
arch' higher than the twin stecptes q
Notre Dame; the Machine Palace Il
perspective, It's central terrace anf
dome square 10 view, AS II set IN
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