Year: 1878

Folly of Patience,


Or the Patience of


Patience as Shown in


Cork Castle-Printing and


Engraving PrOcesses-The In
InferiOrity of French Papers


From our Regular Correspondent


PARIS, July 25th, 1873.


No part of the French mechan
ical department presents a finer
effect than that where a number
immense machines, from the Gel
ebrated Gail mandatory, rise
more than half way to the roof
Of the hall. / will not attempt
to describe these giants Of iron
and steel, but only note peculiar
and picturesque effects produced
by the grouping of SO many vast
pieces Of machinery. A refriger-
ating apparatus attracts much at
tention; the whole process of artif
cial ice making is before the eye
of the observer. Large blocks of
very dense ice are constantly
turned out. 1t is interesting to
note the wonder of the simple
country people on visit to the
Exhibition when they witness this
miracle of science; they can hard
ly believe their eyes as the con
gealed masses are laid out on slabs
of cork. There are just now
many visitors from the rural prov
inces of France, who are quite as
interesting as the exhibits they
have come to look at. | observed
one family in particular standing
for long while before the free
zing machine. They were quite
study in themselves ; the head
of the family was attired in a suit
the cut of which might have been
fashioned fifty years ago, which
the village tailor's art bad made
curiosity Of wrinkles and creases,
of looseness where it should have
been tight, and tightness where ii
should have been loose. His two
sons, one q stalwart young man,
the other an awkward angular
peasant, wore clothes that were
quite the counterpart of those Of
their wsrthy progenitor, their sem.
blance leading one to suppose
that their tailor had strong con
servative views, and had trained
his shears to keep the cut that was
all the go in his youth; with a
lofty disregard for the changes of
tickle fashion, had gone on turning
out redingotes of the style OF
Charles TX for three generations
of peasantry. The female mem
bers of the party displayed their
picturesque local costume high
liuen cap bedecked with ribbons,
a wooden dress of quantity simple
fashion, and pretty apron evi-
identity meant for show and not
use. Thus attired they looked as
neat and pleasing as the men APP
peared ridiculous. They were "a
mazed at the sight of the artificial
ice, and watch the frozen blocks
as they come out Of tne machine,
leaning over the railing to lay
their hands upon them, doubling
their eyes until an additional
sense had clinched the argument,
and convinced them that there
was real ice in the middle OF sum
mer.


What is that distant sign that
has Just caught our eye-Amert-
can Pop corn. The sight OF il
makes the mouth water just as the
sStar Spangled Banner" played
on the Fourth by Gillmores baud
made our eyes slop over. We
must pay a visit to the article fol
the sake OF "Auld Lang Syne,


which with chewing gum, every
American remembers to have beer
the staple nourisEment of III
school boy days. How intensely
patriotic we have become wher
the Atlantic ocean is between il
and home. We denounce our In


stitutions and public men before


we have been abroad, but becom'


devout worshippers of almost ev


erything American when We hsv
had an opportunity to compar
them with things on this side.


have known Americans i'll Parl


SO patriotic as to take a drink 10
no better reason than that the 50
: loon, kept most probably by a
Englishman, had on it the sign


AMERICAN BAR. The America
) Popcorn machine is actively turr


ing out large round balls OF to


compound and lrrge sale is car
/. ried on, most OF the people wh
gather around being eurlOYs
/ sample it, but popcorn. as mant


factnred at the Exposition, seen


to be more sticky and less SAVIOR


than the pop corn we used
n smuggle into school and nibble
. stolen intervals.


:. Let us approach and see VIII
UIthis dense crowd is looking at.


is an exhibit Of the manuiactnl