The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1900-04-19
The Paris Exposition

Poor Cronie, the owner of 5000 acres
of land, the general who supports body
servants and staff of military officials,
though resident where the mighty
Napoleon, the French Emperor lived
reipned and died, will probably be
compelled by ,stress of circumstances
to abandon his contemplated visit to
Paris and the exposition. So with
those noble Frenchmen who salute the
Transvaa1 general.
At the exposition France has $4,000
exhibitors; United States, 1854; Bel
gium, $500; Germany, 1000; Italy,
1000; Russia, ], 500; Scandinavia, 1 400;
Austria, 1000; Great Britain, 600;
British Colonies, 900. Thus the Amer
lean chantic1ier, as usua1,s leaps to the
highest pinnacle, fops his wings and
crows all over the continental and
British crowd, and occupies place
next to the tri-co1or and President
Loubet.
The exposition theatre will hold
twelve or fifteen thousand persons.
One of the great attractions of the
Paris exposition is the ''G1obc Celeste"
The Globe Celeste consists of an i'm
mense sphere forty-six meters or
about one hundred and fifty-three
feet in diameter. It is supported
by four ornamental pillars of solid
masonry which tower one hundred and
thirty-three feet from the ground; from
pillar to pillar and around the entire
equator of the globe extends terrace,
while to the pole rises, in an ob1ique
circle. a curious and beautiful
staircase made to represent the
zodiac. By these helps one can
go to heaven, so to speak, that is,
ascend into the. heavens, perambulate
the Iexterior of the celestial sphere
from east to west and north to south,
and behold the consultations in their
places, stars of all magnitudes, comets
and nebu1ae, and study the mytholo-
gica1 figures that are proper to each.
It were as if one might take his stand
on the outer verge of the universe
and look through a luminous med1-
um on the moving bri1liants Of
the celestial sphere. The interior
of this immense globe is reached by
elevators; once assembled the spectator
finds himself in the center of a second
sphere, thirty-fve meters, or one humid
4 n4a4s md
an the center of this is globe twenty
six feet III diameter representing the
earth, this earth moves on an axis.
Sit on any point of the globe you wish,
a point representing Paris, London,
New York, Kenosha, Cairo, Cape
Town, Sidney, Calcutta, and looking
through an artificial armament, the
space between the two great spheres,
and you shall see the suu, moon and
planets represented by means of cleo
trio bulbs of greater or less intensity
and of various co1ors and dimensions,
and in all their different phases and
ec1ipses, and every movement proper
tionately exact, just as they might
appear by day or at night at
any given time, or point on the
earth's surface. The whole, the pro-
duct of a splendid imagination, uni
que and beautiful bit of architec-
ture, comp1icate and perfect
mechanism. One can go over the
earth, and fly ''from star to star,
far as the universe spreads her
flaming wal1s,' by simply going
to Paris. But some of us are
tied by the foot to the shore of Lake
Michigan, and must content ourselves
by wedding the lawn and watching
the kids.