Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-12-22
THE PARIS EXHIBITION.
Visitors Will Be Interested in Eccen-
trio Suggestions for Amusing Them.

From the London Chronicle.
To judge by the ingenuity of private in
dividuais who have unfolded exhibition
schemes to NJ. Picard, commissioner gem
erai, the inventive faculty exists in tropi-
cal luxuriance at the present moment
Some of these proposals are practical. 9TH
ers useless and ruinously expensive, others
again wildly impossible NJ. Picard has re-
ceived over 100 from various quarters, and
of the vast majority it may be said that
they are luridly fantastic
One gentleman, who considers himself
an authority on the public taste, PROPOSES
a constant repetition of the 'Marseillaise"
as an effective draw, performed not in the
orthodox manner, but by means of steam
whistles, whose brain-splitting screeching
would instill a love of harmony and Of
the French national anthem into the souls
OF foreign visitors. Intending visitors will
be giad to hear that the gentleman's pro-
posal Is shelyed. Another inventor prom
1ses TO prove beyond a possibility of doubt
that the stars are uninhabited He sun
plements the offer by another which would
nave commended him to inquisitors of the
middle ages, namely, demonstration that
the earth does not revolve around It's axis
An ambitious scheme is that of the bearer
OF an English name, who counsels the
ffench government to erect next wear in
Paris the wall of the New Jerusalem as de-
scribed in the Book of Revelation. Labor.
time and the necessary supply of jewels
are wanting TO this daring project
somewhat biblical too Is the foundation
OF another proposal which advises a re-
production of the Garden of Eden, with the
somewhat homogeneous addition of a va
riety theater in its midst In the case of
the latter there would be little difficulty
but the Garden of Eden would have to be
designed by guesswork, as the surround
lngs of our first father are less familiar
than IS a modern house of entertainment
IL Is Interesting learn he
theater-which, by the way, is not very
happily named-is to be used for the por-
trayal of scenes in the early years of the
worlds history.
Bull fights in the south and the beast fight
at Roubaix have possibly prompted the
suggestion that a new Coliseum, identical
with the one at Rome, should be erected in
Paris for the exhibition. Lions and tigers
| bears and panthers, could here tear each
other to their hearts content, and revive
for the benefit of Partisan holiday makers
the bloody spectacle of a Roman circus.
Glad1atorial shows and the favorite feature
| OF the Roman ColiSeum-lion versus Chris
tian-are not included in its modern coun-
terpart.
Less sanguinary, but sufficiently alarm
ing to those who have not made baIlooning
favorite pastime since childhood is the
proposal to lift carloads of visitors into
the air and to send them down again by
means OF parachutes. As the height from
which the amateur aeronauts will be
| dropped overheard from their balloon is
| put at anything between 800 and 1000
| yards, it may be confidently asserted that
middle-aged ladies inclined to obesity will
not be seen fighting for tickets at the turn
stiles. OF a not dissimilar nature is
project to press the Church of the Sacred
Heart into the service of the exhibition
and to connect it with the main show on
the Seine by means of steered balloons The
latter will ply to and fro above the roofs
of the houses in the same manner as do
omnibuses and trans in the streets The
| Church of the Sacred Heart is a colossal
| building, which for the past twenty years
| has been slowly rising the heights of
| method of transit it is difficult to see how
| the project would enhance the attraction of
| the exhibition.
| A numerous class of proposals embody
| the employment of the Eiffel tower in one
| form or another. An ambitious Individual
| would set off the proportions of the tower
4 by building a mammoth Arc de Triomphe
over it. He does not state the time that
| would elapse before his building would be
| finished or how the money for the labor
| and material would be forthcoming. SINH
lar trifes do not trouble the mind of the
| gentlemen who would erect three new
| Eiffel towers by the side of the present
one, build platform at the summit and
| cap the whole by a fifth tower 600 feet In
| height. The invasion Of the skies. however
| finds a fitting counterpart In the sugges-
/ ton to drive shaft into the ground to the
depth of 5000 feet. the said shaft to be
| provided with restaurants, music halls &C.
| for the benefit of those who prefer takine,
/ their meals in the atmosphere of q coal
mine instead of above ground. The scheme
at any rate. has the merit Of novelty. Sim
more or less ussless and impractical.