The age-herald., 1899-07-30
THE PARIS EXPOSITION AS
 IT APPEARS UP TO DATE
Actual Progress of Affairs as Seen by The Age-Her
 aids Correspondent Abroad.

existed before. A Frenchman has adopted the automobile machinery to the watering cart, and this is the way 1t works: Under the cart there Is a sprinkling apparatus which sends out a fine spray. Back of the spray is a revolving brush which sweeps up the dust after it has been sprinkled. Every ten feet the brush lifts automatical- ly and leaves a pile of dirt, which is to be gathered up later by the cleaners who fol- low. Three hundred of these are being quietly built and will be placed in opera tion as soon as possible The carts, for nothing unsightly is to be permitted on the grounds will be of deep automobile red, trimmed with black. snug little affairs that will be an ornament and an exhibit at the same time.
 Should sightseeing drag there will be sightseeing of another sort. The most ex~ travagant theatrical preparations are being made and the theaters are undergoing the process of decoration. The most elaborate interior is being placed in the structure of Mime. Bernhardts new theatre, and to SUD- ply the money for it the divine Sara is working instead of taking a much-needed holiday. Bernhardt never has any money, and there was danger two months ago that the work would be brought to a stop ow- ing to lack of funds. When this state of affairs was reported to Madame she shrug
 
 to England. She has been flying from place to place there, and is now in France doing a tremendous business transforming. As fast as the money Is earned it is sent home to Paris and is spent upon the decorations that are please the visitors to the exposi- ton next year. If Madame's industry and unusual frugality holds out the magnificent new playhouse will be ready.
 An intelligent Exhibition of wine making will be given by the Bordeaux district France is not a country of prohibitionists and space has been given beyond the dream of the fondest wine taker to the exhibition of the making of wine in all it's processes, from the grape to the bottle It is said that a tiny ship, loaded with new wine will be tossed on a miniature sea to show how cer- tain wines ripen in the ships hold tossing on the Mediterranean. Auvergne. Burgun- dy. Touraine Aniou and champagne are all to be represented. As this years wine crop Is so exceptionally good. the promise is that visitors will be treated to draughts of the best of light new wine while watch ing the process of fermentation. How de- lightful to sip Sauterne while you watch the pale grapes go through the press and receive their curious tubbng. France has suffered so greatly from the wines of Cali fornia that it will make much of this pub lie opportunity of displaying the purity Of us pTOuuClo.
 Strange that surgery should find place here! Yet surgery has become such fad and antiseptics such a study that one IS rather prepared to learn that there Will De a surgeons congress in Paris from May un- til October, 1900. The most ultra and eX- treme of legitimate surgical operations Will be shown Berlin NJ D. who removes disbursements and cuts sears will be here to give demonstrations. The tiniest scar upon the forehead can be removed as well as the long white disfigurement or neck The most novel feature of the congress will lie in the fact that patients can come and be operated upon They will receive hospital care and doctors attendance free of charge, providing their trouble Is Of nature to allow of their getting well and exhibiting themselves before visitors leave Paris.
 The anti-cruelty associations of all kinds are to hold a congress here in 1900, and the meetings may, from present plans, be