The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1889-06-18

country, all collected and arranged by
EdOuard Detaille, the great military
painter. An American, Mr.. Riggs, has
the most wonderful collection OF arms
three or four thousand of all countries,
all times-and these he exhibits before
sending them TO America.
Behind the Central Palace are the IN
habited villages. The first is inhabited
bv eight families of Peulhs, Golotts ana
Bambaras from Senegal. These are IN
dustrious and exercise various trades
The Congo village is composed OF seven
families of Alfourous, men, women anu
| children, blacker than the InhaOlIanIs "
| Senegal. Besides this is New Caleoo-
| MAN village-six families and their chieI
then Canaque village, inhabited py
! twelve Pahonins. But the most lnIeT-
! esting is a village of Cochin chinese VIII
! thirty inhabitants. The Cocnln CtiIlio1o
have one great defect-theIr love 1or az
sinthe-but they are exact, honest ana
Industrious. Their paintings are very
| curious-a mixture OF paint, pieces Vi
broken porcelain and tWlgs.
The Annamite Theatre, between the
| Madagascar Exposition and the 1onqulh
Pagoia, will be opened May 2Oth. .,
In AMMAN. as in ancient Greece, an
roles are PLAYED by men, but to the
! thirty Annamite actors the French nave
! added twenty ballet-dancers from Ion
| quin. The theatre is curious construc-
ton, and the decoration OF the most
gaudy character. To build 1t everything
was brought from AMMAN, and Tor paint
| ING. sculpture and general COMMENTATOR
onIy Annamite workmen were employed.
The Algerian Pavilion is made OF
pieces taken from all the editices OF Al
giers before it belonged to France"
The French were naturally somewhat
irritated by the absence OF the repre-
sentatives of other European countries
from their centennial festivities on Sun
day and Monday; but the disappearance
has an amusing side which so quick
Witted people ought not to be SLOW 10
perceive. The hasty departure from
Paris of a set of ornamental gentlemen,
on one excuse and another, in order that
they might not officially recognize the
meeting of the States-General OF France
one hundred years ago, has certainly a
very comical aspect. Republlcanlsm
can we'll afford to smile at this Intellectual
attempt of monarchy to fold It's skirts
about it and preserve itself from con-
tamination, and the United States can
we'll afford to make her sympathy with
France and her recognition OF French
achievement all the more pointed and
generous because OF this withdrawal OF
the other great powers.
There was an interesting ceremony at
Versailles on Sunday, which officially
commemorated the meeting of the
States-General in 1899, an event which
Michelet declared marks the real date
OF the birth of the French people. The
exercises were very simple, and the prin-
cipal feature was the address of President
Garnet, which was pitched in a
thoroughly hopeful key.
The real interest centered in the open
, ing of the Universal Exhibition on Mon
day, when the President of the Republic
, made another speech, visited the various
departments of the Exposition, and de-
clared it formally open. 1t was both
notable and natural that he fingered
longest in the American section, and
that his Warmest words were addressed
to the American Commissioner.
/, This is the third of the great eXpOSl
: tons which have been held in Paris, anC
far exceeds it's predecessors in magnitude
and splendor. The present exposition
: covers an area of 1872 acres-dOuble the
, space covered by the exposition of 1867
The exhibitions of the French colonies
of the several Ministries, and of soCia
economics are located in the garden Ol
the Hotel des Invalldes; agriculture
| viticulture, fisheries, and fruit products
, are displayed at the Quai d'Orsay fruits
: ! and flowers, in open air and In glass
houses, bloom in the Trocadero gardens
J I while the principal buildings are grouped
! in the Champs des Mars, the gigantic
= Eiffel Tower, one thousand. feet high
rising at the gateway. Nearly So, O00,OO(
were authorized to be expended on the
, Exposition, which will contain I'm
t doubtedly the greatest display of materia
t handiwork that the achievements of maj
: ever yet made.