The age-herald., 1899-07-23

three stories, each story being given over to some attraction. There will be a dance hall, a vaudeville theater, beer gardens and restaurants so that the visitor will have no need to leave the building from early morning until late at night, and all the while this immense structure will be turn ing round and round, at the rate of about three miles an hour. Architects who have examined the plans are satisfied that there will be no danger of collapse, and that the continued revolutions will be attended by no disagreeable sensations.
 Already arrangements have been made for the construction of M. Besancon's ar- tistic balloon that will have seating ca
 pacity of more than one hundred persons, not including brass band, and that will be held captive at an elevation of more than two thousand feet. This balloon will be the handsomest specimen of its kind launched into space, as it is to be decor ated with twelve allegorical figures repre- senting the months of the year. As the di- ameter of the balloon will be 33 metres and the circumserence 103 metres, each figure will measure about seventy-five feet. In this balloon those who are looking for new sensations will be carried to a point hun dreds of feet higher than captive balloon ever went before. and from this point of vantage they may watch the carrying on of photographic and meteorological experi- ments to the accompaniment of a brass band.
 The big wheel of Paris, which is forty five metres higher than the wheel at Earls Court London, has been completed for some time, and it will undoubtedly be one of the great attractions of the exposition It is not only wheel, like the Ferris Wheel of Chicago, but it is a series of wheels and contains many features that were lacking in the American invention For instance there are numerous cafes and restaurants, @ casino and a concert and dance hall similar to those that will be seen in other parts of the grounds. In fact the new wheel is an illustration of how great a ''big wheel" may be.
 Hair lifting experiences appear to be in order at the Paris exposition, and not the least of these will be the gigantic umbrella that has been invented by R. E. Sherman, of Chicago This invention, which resem- bles an umbrella in its form is steel structure over $50 feet in height. To each rib of the umbrella car capable of seating fifty people will be attached, and these cars
 will be lifted from the earth to a point even
 with the top of the structure where they will be suspended in midair long enough to give a magnificent bird's-eye view of the
 grounds and the city beyond.
 Another "clou," as the great features of the exposition are called will be the mareorama which has been invented by M Hugo 6'Alesi This will consist of a large ocean steamer in which the passengers will make a voyage from Marseilles to Con- stantinople: that is to say nn imaginary voyage, since the vessel will not move for ward at all, the illustration of sailing be- ing produced by a mechanical arrangement that will give to it every motion of pitch ing and rolling. In fact the illustration Is carried out so perfectly that actual sea sickness will result In the case of passen- gers who are subject to this i'll.
 The vessel will be surrounded by foaming and boiling water, which will be thrown against the sides of the ship in regular swells, while at the same time. on all sides