Year: 1878

PARIS. July 6, 1878.


The great inpouring of visitors continues
We fatter ourselves that we live in the gay
est city under the sun, but then gayety
may become oppressive from sheer mo-
notony. Mark the man or woman who has
been here month conscientiously
doing the sights daily and nightly,
and giving three days each week to
the Exposition. 1t would be unjust to say
of such that melancholy had marked them
also, but they wear jaded look, and they
would possibly resent n suggestion that
there was anything interesting within the
walls Of Paris which they had not seen.
They will go away quietly but they will
be succeeded by others who will
march about brimful of cheer. To the
chronic Parisian, native or adopted,
these human waves of enthusiasm
so refreshing as the waves at Trouville.
They expect you to catch their enthusiastic
manner, and will ask you to pilot them
about from the Tuleries to Versailles, as if
life could have no greater pleasure. 1t is
too much, and one may be pardoned for a
malignant delight at noting the sense of
freshness wear out Of them, until you see
them take carriage for the railroad depot as
limp and weary looking as the batch that
went before.


EXIT THE SHAH.


His Persian Majesty has departed, and I
Judge was thoroughly tired of the brilliancy
of Paris. They did not make such strenu-
Gus efforts to astonish him as on his first
visit, having discovered accurately the
value of impressng him. 1t was scarcely
worth the powder. After all the attentions
lavished on him it was found that he could
not be swinded any the more readily, but,
on the other hand, was prepared to take all
the money he could get tor concessions"
and then concede as little as possible. SO
they wisely concluded to give him chance
OF spending his own money this time.


The pERsIANs PARTING sBor.


A man who went about with diamonds
sparkling on him was no small attraction in
its way, but he has contrived to leave many
pleasant memories behind him. Among
these is one that Paris is laughing over.
1t was his farewell message to VI. Vanhym-
beck, the landlord of the Grand Hotel.
To him he forwarded present of n superb
Cashmere shawl, and told his messenger to
"the shawl was for his wife, or for any other
lady in case he got no wife" NJ. Vanhym-
beck was so numerically quizzed over this
that he became invisible at his office all this
week.


EDIsoNIAS SCIENTIFIC WONDERS.


The experiment of combination of the
telephone with the phonograph, which
took place before the jurors at the Exhibi-
ton, astounded them all. After convers-
ing for some minutes with the Bell and the
Edison telephones between Versailles and
the Exhibition, telephone was placed ut
the mouth of n phonograph, which trans
mitted TO Versailles the words pricked off
half an hour before on the cylinder at
Paris. Then the interlocutor at Versailles
sung in the telephone, and by the aid of
another telephone the song was inscribed
on the phonograph at Paris and repeated
several times to the astonishment and ad-
miration of the jurors.


THE GLORIOUS FOURTH


The Fourth of July was duly celebrated
here. The proceedings OF the day began
with a sorenade given by Gilmore's Band
in front of the HERALD office. Then took
place the iete at the Pre- Catalan, at which
about FIVE hundred persons were present
In the afternoon there were games for the
young folks and then iSusic by the inde-
fatgable Gilmore and his men. They played
oil the favorite national airs, and then "La
Marseillaise," in honor of Senator Kranz,