Year: 1878

ious to show the world that it car


eclipse the glory of the Empire.


No representation yet given K
the public can give even a remote
idea of the grandeur of some Of The
Exposition buildings, the magnif


cent structure on the Trocad el'l
being exceptionally grand and in


posing. In the main building OF
the Champ de Mars, the portion
erected by municipality of Paris
will be exceedingly beautiful and
costly; much remains to be done


at the time Of the opening there
will be many departments incom.
plete but from present appearances
I should judge that the exhibition
is likely to be wonderful success
There is only one thing that can
initiate against it and that is the
same thing that killed the Exbibi


tion at Vienna, namely the desire OF
the people to fleece all the rest OF
the world. Everything seems to
have taken a sudden and terrible
rise; every man or woman who has
a couple of rooms to let expects to
make q fortune in the next six
months and then retire from busi-
ness Thousands of people are
pouring in here from every portion
of the world. On the Champs
Elysees of an afternoon you can see
every variety Of costume from the
| pig-tail of Chinaman to furs of u
Laplander: Just now spring is
ended and summer is about to be-
gin and all of the lovely out door
gardens with their brilliant and at
tractive entertainments are nightly
thronged with thousands upon
thousands who appear To think
that life was made for nothing but
pleasure. Go where you will, how
ever, the guardhouse and the bar.
rack stare you in the face behind
which dwells the power which keeps
all in peace and order. Soldiers
meet you at every turn, policemen
guard every corner, the velvet
glove scarcely hides the iron hand
beneath it. They are. wise men
who govern France now, aye and
good men toe, they know that
authority is only respectable as
long as it has the power behind it
to enforce it's decree.


The Champ-de-Mars spot selected
for the site Of the Great Exposition
is rich in the grandest associations
that cluster around the kingdom:
the Empire and the Republic.
Away back in the twilight Of time
tradition informs US that the Druids
here held their sacrifcial rites:
and later still the Romans had
here erected a temple to their war.
god; the foundation Of which was
nearly on the site of the present
Ecole-Militaire. 1t was here that
Attila encamped with his savage
Huns, and from the brow Of the
hill looked down on the infant city,
then on the little island in the mid
die of the Seine, whose destruction
he meditated and whose capture he
anxiously hoped. Here magnif-
cent review was held on the oc


casion of the marriage of Henry Of
Navarro with the sister Of King
Charles the Ninth, and on the night
of the terrible massacre Of Saint
Bartholomew in 1872 it was here
that a little band of Huguenots, TN
der Jean Pierre Lescure, made their
last desperate stand, and fought
till the blood of the last Zero red
dened the angry waters OF the
Seine. When the revolution opened
the Champ-de-Mars was a favorite
meeting place for the multitude.
It was in front of the Ecole- Mill
taire that the unfortunate Louis
| the Sixteenth took the oath to the
| new Constitutions same con-
stitution by which a few months
after he was condemned to the
scafold. On that occasion Talley-
rand offciated as bishop OF Autun,
assisted by four hundred priests,
and over 100000 persons witnessed
the ceremony. In 1870 over sixty
thousand Parisians gave their grat
uitous labor for several weeks IN
leveing the grassy slopes and rails
ing the embankments that formed
the Champ-de-Mars. Here the First
Napoleon took the oath to another
constitution which was scattered to