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UNIVERSAL EXHIBITION PARIS 
 
 1889 
 
 PEACTICAL> GUIDE 
 
UNIVERSAL EXHIBITION PARIS 
 
 1889 
 
 PEACiicji mu 
 
 C. H. BERTELS & FLORENT 
 
 EDITORS 
 
 RUI«: DE L'UNIVHRSITK, 193, PARIS 
 
 1889 
 
NOTE OF THE EDITOR 
 
 The universal Exhibition, for whom who cornes there for the 
 firsttime, is a true chaos in Avhich it is impossible to direct 
 and recognize one's self without a guide. 
 
 What wants the stranger, the visitor ^^'ho cornes to the Exhi- 
 bition, it is a means which permits hirn to see ail without losing 
 uselessly his tirne in the most part vain researclies. 
 
 With our Practical Gftkle,the visitor finds himself literally 
 led by the hand in this labyrintli of galleries and pavillions, we 
 trace hinr not only wliat lie has to see, but still which direction 
 lie inust foUou', Avhich coffees lie lias to choose to refresh himself, 
 which Eating-houses will procure him in the cheajiest manner 
 the best meals. 
 
 To reacli this aim, we hâve divided our itineraries or ex- 
 cursion at the Exhibition, in (laf/.s,oî wliich each one is forinin^- 
 a chapter. May the visitor follow us with confidence, and he 
 will not lune any reason to regret it. 
 
• PREFACE 
 
 WHO WAS GIVING THE IDEA OF THE 
 EXHIBITION ? 
 
 Tlie first idea ofan Exhibition of tlie Centenary belongs, in 
 realitj not to anybody. It was in tlie air since several years. 
 when divers newspapers, in 1883, bethoug-lit them to consecrate 
 several articles to it, and so it became a serious matter. 
 
 The period of incubation (brooding) lasted since 1883 till tbe 
 month of March 1884 ; Avhen they considered the question they 
 preoccupied theni but about a national Exhibition. Afterwards 
 the ambition increased. The ministery, then presided by 
 Mr. Jules Ferry, thought that if they would give to this com- 
 mercial and industrial manifestation an international character, 
 they would impose the peace not only to France, but to the 
 wliolc world, whilst France in 1889 whould show thus that it 
 sees in the date of the Centenar\- but an occasion of pacifie and 
 progressive manifestation. 
 
 It is Mr. Rouvier who was called to sign, inXoveinber 1884, 
 the décision, to appoint a commission charged to examine this 
 question. The Exhibition was then declared universal and inter- 
 national. 
 
 Some political men insinuated that there was some awkward- 
 ness to approach the celel)r<ition of a revolutionary anniversary 
 "to a similar Exhibition, and that the différent powers would not 
 give ear to the appeal of the French government. But they 
 observed them that ail the nations of Europe, safe Russia, are 
 living now,under the |X)Iitical regim,inaugurated by tiie French 
 
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 révolution, and that tliere was not for Europe any incompati- 
 bilité', in conséquence, to celebrate this anniversary witli Franco. 
 
 Nevertheless tlie fall of tlie ]\Iinistery Ferry, tlie disasters 
 of Tonkin, and tlie care of tlie élections, put down again the 
 question. 
 
 The cabinet Brisson did not occupy him Avith it, and it was 
 but at the arrivai of the cabinet Freycinet that Mr. Locroy, 
 api^inted as Minister of the Connnerce, retook and examined 
 this idea of an international Exhibition finding that there was 
 a g-reat duty and a great mission to accomplish. 
 
 Some weeks latcr on he asked of the Chambers, which gran- 
 ted it after a short délibération, the necessary crédit for the 
 gigantic works which so a solenin manifestation \\'anted. 
 
 THE BUDGET OF THE EXHIBITION 
 
 The inquiring (Jlommittee had taken asbasis the amount of the 
 expenses of the Exhibition of 1878, whose amount was of 
 53 millions, but as tho Trocadero had by it alone absorbed an 
 expenseof 13 millions, it tlxed for the expenses of the Exhibi- 
 tion of 1889 the summ of 43 millions. 
 
 This enormous summ is thus divided : 17 millions voted by 
 the State ; 8 millions by the City of Paris, the surplus, namely 
 18 millions, was constituted by a society of guarantee, which, 
 in 5 months, without any publicity, assembled 4 millions more 
 as they were in want of. The society of guarantee counts 
 48 members, among whom the Mssrs Cahen from Antwerp ; 
 Mallet, Pereire,Alljert Christophe, director atthe Créditfoncier, 
 Dietz-AIonnin, Marioni, etc. 
 
GENERAL INFORMATIONS 
 
 Entrance gâtes of the Exhibition 
 
 The entrance fïates of tlie Exhil)ition are in the number of 
 twenty-two. 
 
 Thej inckide for the normal service of the 
 week 31 wickets 
 
 For tlie siipplementarv service (Sundays and 
 eastdays) 8 » 
 
 In ail. . . 39 wickets 
 which are dividod in sections, according' to the enonciation 
 hereafter : 
 
 I. Section of the Invalids. — Gatoofthe foreig-n aftairs, a 
 wicket open from six in the nriorning' to eleven in the nig'ht ; a 
 wicket open from ten in the morning to six in the evening, and 
 supplementary for the service of the Sundays and feastdays, a 
 wicket open from eight in the morning to eight in the evening. 
 
 Gâte of the Invalids : a wicket open from six in the morning 
 till eight in the evening. 
 
 Gâte Latour-Maubourg : one wicket, the same hours. 
 
 Gâte Faljert : half a wicket exceptionally open from six 
 o'clock in the morning to six in the evening. Gâte of Constan- 
 tine : half a wicket open from ten in the morning to six in the 
 eVfening. 
 
 II. Section of the Seine. — Gâte of the Ostréiculture : a 
 Avicket open from six in the morning to eight in the evening, 
 and a wicket open from ten in the morning to six in the niglit. 
 Gâte of Portugal : half a wicket open from ten in tlie mornitig 
 
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 to six in the iiigiit. Gâte of the alinieiitary produces : hait' a 
 Avicket, same hours.Gate of the Pont of Aima (down the river): 
 a wicket open froni six in the morning to eight in the eveninj^, 
 and' in supplenientarj service, a wicket open from eight in the 
 morning till eight in the evening. Gâte of the Pont of St Al- 
 mont (up the river) : a wicket open from six o'clock in the 
 morning- to eight in the evening. 
 
 III. Section Rapp. — Gâte Rapp : two wickets open from 
 six in tlie morning to eleven in the night ; two wickets open 
 tïx)m ten in the morning to six in the night, and in supplemen- 
 tary service two wickets from eiglit in te morning till eight in 
 the night. 
 
 IV. Section of the Ecole-Militaire.— Gâte of la Motte-Piquet : 
 a wicket open from six in the morning to eleven in the night ; 
 a wicket open from ten in the morning to six in the evening. 
 Gâte Suffren (Dupleix) : a wicket open from six in the morning 
 to eleven in the e^ening. Gâte Desaix : one wicket, same hours. 
 
 Y. Section of the Railway. — Gâte of the Railway : one 
 wicket open from six in the morning to eleven in the night ; 
 one wicket open from ten in the morning to six in the evening, 
 and in supplementary service, two wickets open fi'om eight in the 
 morning to eight in the evening. Gâte of the Ponton des Maga- 
 sins du Lou\re ; one wicket open from eight in the morning to 
 eight in the evening. 
 
 Gâte of lena : one wicket open from six in the morning to 
 eleven in the evening ; one wicket open from ten in the morn- 
 ing to six in the evening. Gâte La Bourdonnais : half a wicket 
 open from ien in the morning to six in the evening. 
 
 Section of the Trocadero,. — Gâte of the Trocadero : one 
 wicket oiK?n from six in the morning to eleven in the night ; 
 one A\'ickei o|^n from ten in the morning to six in the evening, 
 and in supplementary service, two wickets open from eight in 
 
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 tlie niorning to eiglit in tlie evening. Gâte Delessert : one wicket 
 open fi'umsix in tlie morning to eiglit in tlie evening. Gâte of 
 Mag'deburg : one wicket, same hours. Gâte of Billy : one 
 wicket, same liours. 
 
 The wickets of tlie weekly service are divided in tliree cate- 
 jiories : tlie iirst (tliose open from six in tlie morning to eleven 
 in the niglit) include a personal of seven excisemea (oiRcers). 
 
 Tlie wickets of the supplementary service are ail ojxm from 
 eiglit in the morning to eiglit in the e^ening and include a jter- 
 sonal of six excisemen. 
 
 The entrance gâtes at the Exhibition are oj^en for the work- 
 men, menof service and gnardians employedhy the exhibitors, 
 from six in tlie morning and for the public from eight in the 
 morning. 
 
 Constables are affected in a iiermanent manner at the service 
 of every wicket. The cliief controller bas to concert him whith 
 the Poliœ Cliief Mt the Exhibition to assure the ro;Li'nlar 
 exécution of the EntrancL'. 
 
 Means of Conveyance 
 
 The means of conveyance which the public lias at liis dis]_x>sal 
 are numerous. 
 
 Hère thcy are ail, witli the necessary indications. 
 
 Omnibus and Tramways 
 
 Pleven lines, of which six new ones, connect divers ix)ints 
 of Paris, it may be by omnibus, or by tram. 
 
 Omnibus lines. A. — Madeleine to Auteuil tlirough the place 
 of Concord, the Avenue Montaigne, the pont of Aima, the 
 Trocadero and Passy. — B. From the Eastern Station to the 
 
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 Trocadeit) (Xotre-Danie-de-Lorette), St-Lazare's Station, fau- 
 bourg St-Honoré. — Y. Fmm Grenelle to the Porte-St-Martin, 
 (rue Montmartre, Palais-Rojal, rue du Bac), tlie Invalids, 
 (Champ de Mars). ~ Z. Froiu Grenelle to tlie Bastille (île St- 
 Louis, rue des Ecoles, Vaugirard). — AD. From the Ecole mi- 
 litaire to the Place de la République, (Temple, Town-Hall), 
 (Hôtel-de- Ville), Pont-Neuf, place Gozlin, rue de l'Université, 
 Ministeries. — AH. From Auteuil to Saint-Sulpice (Grenelle, 
 rue de Babjlone). Then, three new spécial lines : — From the 
 place of the Republique to the Quay d'Orsay : from the Station 
 St-Lazare to the Porte Rapp, from the Palais-Royal to 
 the Ecole militaire. Lines of Tramways. ■ — TD. From the 
 Villette to the Etoile and to the Trocadero (Batignolles, Mont- 
 martre). — TJ. From tlie Louvre to the Muette, quay s, pont 
 de l'Aima, Trocadero, Passy.) TL. From the Bastille to the 
 Gâte Rapp, that is to say to the Pont de l'Aima (boulevard 
 Saint-Germain). — Tj\1. From the Station of Lyon to the Pont 
 de l'Aima, Orléans Station, boulevard Saint-Germain. — TN. 
 From the rue Taitbout to the Muette (Boulevard Haussmann, 
 Etoile, Trocadero). 
 
 Then tree new spécial lines : — From tlie Louvre to the 
 Porte Rapp, from the Bastille to the Quay d'Orsay, from the 
 station of the Trocadero to the Palace of the Trocadero. 
 
 Finally three lines which, passing beneath the Trocadero, go: 
 from the Louvre to Saint-Cloud, from the Louvre to Sèvres ; 
 from the Louvre to Versailles. Thèse lines connect the exterior 
 of Paris with the Exhibition. 
 
 Omnibus-Steamers 
 
 Five lines of steamers are driving to the Exhibition. 
 
 At first, the iwo old services (Charente to the Point du Jour 
 
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 Pont (le Solferino to Aiiteuil : then a third one créât ed especi- 
 allj, and wliich goes from tlie Hôtel de Ville to tlie Pont lena. 
 The rate is of 10 cent, in tlie ^^eek and 20 cent, on Sundajs 
 and holidajs, Finally t'\\'o services created by the Great 
 Magazines du Louvre, and Avliich are composed of 4 steamers 
 richlv adorned, copied of the Row-galleys of the seventeenth 
 century. Thèse two services are reserved to ail the buyers of 
 the Grand Magasins, provided with tickets delivered as primes. 
 
 An office of the Posts and Telegraphs is installed at the Champ 
 de Mars, on the side of the Avenue de la Bourdonnais (to see 
 the table of contents). 
 
 Service of the Raiiways 
 
 TeRMIMS of the GREAT LINES 
 
 Gare St-Lazare, place du Havre, rue de Rome and rue 
 d'Amsterdam. Lines of Normandy and the West Suburbs (Ver- 
 sailles, St-Germain, St-Cloud). 
 
 Gare Montparnasse, boulevard Montparnasse, 44. Lines 
 from Bretagne (Clamart, Meudon, Versailles). 
 
 Eastern Station (gare de l'Est), place and rue de Strasbourg. 
 
 Gare from Paris to Vincennes aud to Brie-Comte-Robert, 
 place de la Bastille (Line of the Suburbs). 
 
 (îare du Nord (Northern Station), place Roubaix, and 18, 
 nie de Dunkerque (Suburb of St-Denis), Enghien, Circus line 
 from Nord to the gare St-Lazare. 
 
 Gare de Lyon, boulevard Diderot, 20. 
 ' Gare d'Orléans, boulevard de l'Hôpital and qua^' d'Austerlitz, 
 
 Raiiways IVom Sceaux and Limours, place Denfert-Roche- 
 reau (Line of the suburbs). 
 
 Raiiways of the State (gare Montparnasse and gare of 
 Orléans. 
 
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 Circus Line in Paris 
 
 Service bet\A'een Par is-St- Lazare and Coureelles-circuit and 
 reciprocallj. 
 
 Departure froni Paris St-L<izare at 4 o'clock 45 and at every 
 half hour in the morning to 9 o'clock in the evening ; from 
 Courcelles from 4 h. 56 in the morning to 8 h. 56 in the 
 evening ail halfhours. 
 
 A regular service of eight trains per hour functions every day 
 between Paris and Auteuil from 6 o'clock in the morning till 
 in the evening. 
 
 A service of circuit tmins, between the Northern and West- 
 ern stations and reciprocall}', takes place at ever}^ hour by 
 Saint-Denis, Epinoy, Enghien, Montmorency, Ermont, Sau- 
 nois, Argenteuil, Colombes, Bois-Colombes and Asnières. De- 
 parture from the Northern station at every hour, from 6 h. 55 in 
 the morning till 10 in the night and from the gare St- Lazare 
 from 7 in the morning till 10 h. 5 in the evening. 
 
 Une of the Great Circuit out of Paris 
 
 Connections between the Western, Northern, East, Vin- 
 cennes, Lyon, Orléans and Limours Railways. 
 
 Paris (East) to Versailles through Pantin, Noisy-le-See, 
 Nogent-sur-Marne, Champigny, Sucy-en-Brie, Villeneuve-St- 
 Georges, Juriso, Choisy-le-Roi and Longjumeau. 
 
 Versailles to Noisy-le-Sec through Saint-Cyr, Marly, Poissy, 
 Argenteuil, le Bourget, Bobigny. 
 
 Post Services for abroad (foreign-lands) 
 
 The 7th collection of letters is the last for letters for foreign 
 lands with ordinary posting; nevertheless exceptional collée^ 
 
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 lions, per^iitting to send off the letters by the mails in the 
 evening fînd place, in ail the offices by nieans ofa suppleinentaiy 
 taxe of 15 cent, uniforme for ail the letters previously postetl, 
 ^^•hat niay te the weight of them. 
 
 However the letters miist be put at the post in ail the annex 
 offices before lîve o'clock in the evening. 
 
 A Post and Telegrap office is installed at the Champ-de-Mars, 
 on the side of the Avenue of La Bourdonnais (to see the table of 
 contents). 
 
 RoUitig Arm-C'hairs. — Theaged persons, the ladies who are wishÎDg 
 to visit the Exhibition in a carriage and without tirinjr will find, 
 rolling arm-chairs, in the parc of the Trocadero, at pont d'Iena, at 
 the porte Rapp, in the gardens of the Champ-de-Mars. Thèse arm- 
 chairs are with oue seat. 
 
 Thedonkeysof the Street of Cal, -o. — Huudred little Egyptiau don- 
 keys, haruessed with velvet, having each one their native leaders, are at 
 the disposai of the walkers (ladies and children). The ofUce of location is 
 at the entrance of the Street du Caire ^ at the right wing of the Central 
 Palace (side of the Avenue Sufîren). The taritïis delivered to the client. 
 
 Inodor Water-Closets. — One counts, in the whole extent of the 
 Exhibition, about thirty of inodor wa ter-close ts. The terms are 15 and 
 25 centimes (thèse last are with lavabos). 
 
 Tobacco. — Besidesof the turkish Pavillion at the left of the Tower 
 (in going up to the Fine- Arts), where they sell excellent cigarettes of 
 Orient, one finds, in the parcs and in tlie Exhibition, several tobacco 
 shops which sell at the same i)rice as the Régie. 
 
 It is absolutely prohibited. under penalty, to smoke in the palace and 
 annex pavillions of the Exhibition. 
 
 Médical sercice. — A central post of assistance is installed at the left 
 
 of the Champ-de-Mars, close by the Tower Eiffel. Three other posts are 
 
 opened ; on the right of tli^^tirmip-de-Mars, close by the station of the 
 
 ** Manutention, at the Palace of the Engines, at the Esplanad of the 
 
 Invalids. 
 
 There is in each of thèse posts a physician in permanence. 
 
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 DAYS AND HOURS 
 
 IN THE MONUMENTS, PALACES, 
 
 NAMES AND SITUATIONS 
 
 Su 11(1 a y II ml a y 
 
 Tiu'sdaj 
 
 Exliiljition of oUl mniiuscriiits 
 St-Gcneva. Plnoo Panthéon. 
 
 luvalids (Hôtel of thc), Esplanade of thc Invalids and 
 Plaoe Yauban 
 
 Conservatory of Napolitan Arts (saloons and jfallories), 
 rue St-Mai-tin, 292 ' . . . 
 
 Manufjictory of Gobelins, Avenue dos Gobelins, 42. 
 
 » of China Sèvres 
 
 of tobacoo. Quay d'Orsay. 63 ... . 
 
 Exhibition of tho Colonies, Palaoe of Indnstry, Gâte 
 
 VIII . 
 
 Muséum of Artillery at the Hôtel of Invalids , . 
 
 Carnavalet, rue de Sévifçné, 23. 
 of the Trooadero : Compared Sculpture of 
 Ethnography . 
 
 Depuytren, Place Ecole de Médecine . 
 
 du Louvre (7 différent muse\ims) . . . . 
 
 du Luxennbourfî (picturos of liviuff artists) . 
 
 Instruments of the Conservatory of Music) . 
 Monotaryr at the Hôtel of Monnaies . 
 
 of the Thcrmes-Clunv, Boul. St-Michel . . 
 
 of Versailles, in tho Castle .... 
 Orfila, Place Ei-olo de Médecine . . 
 and Ijibrary of the Jardin dos Plantes 
 
 Ménagerie of tho wild beasts . . 
 
 » -Oalleries and Collections. 
 Panthéon, Place Panthéon, 5e arroni 
 
 Zoological Gardon of Acclimatation Bois de Boulogne. 
 
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 Tomb of Napoléon Irom 12 to 3. Monday.s, 
 Tuesdays, Thursdays aud Fridays. 
 
 Mondays, Wodnesdays, Fridays with permis- 
 sion. 
 With permission of the Director. 
 In winter till 4. 
 Witb permission of the Dirootor. 
 
 From the lof' May to SO^^h of June, to visit 
 
 the arms and i)I;ins in relief. 
 From Kaster to the 15^^ of August from 12 to n. 
 
 The Aquariuni is ojten every day from 9 to 11 
 and from 1 to 4. The lift functions from U 
 till midnijjfht. 
 
 With writton authorisation of the conscrvator. 
 
 From the Ist October to tho ist April from 10 
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 Ist October — Ist April. 
 
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 With authorisation by tho consorvator. 
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 5th September. 
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 days. 
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 with permission, 
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FIRST DAY 
 
 The Exhibition seen in a straight Une 
 
 The Exhibition is extended over the left bank of the Seine, 
 cliiefly in the Champ de Mars, which it covers on ail parts. 
 
 It occiipies tlie steep banks of the Seine, from tlie Pont 
 d'Iena to tlie pont of the Invalids, the quai d'Orsay and the Es- 
 planade of the In\alids, A\'here are^ connected the most 
 various exhibitions. Finally the Trocadero and its environs are 
 invaded,thoiigh a part onl^- of this palace eould hâve been conse- 
 crated to the very Exhibition. 
 
 Placed nnder the circuit portic of the Trocadero, in the 
 Centre even, in the axis of the pont dTena and the tower 
 Eiffel, let us enibrace at one glance the splendid i)anorania. 
 
 In the iîrst of the perspective, in front of the above mentioned 
 portic, are erected the ^ilded statues of the parts of the world 
 Avliich are hooking- the sunrays ; at our feet we seethegreen 
 declivities of the plat-bands, the sheets of tlie bissins, and we 
 hearthe bubbling of the Cascades. At the bottoni of.thegarden 
 tlie pont d'Iena, covered with vélum and adorned with élégant 
 kiosques and beyond the Tower Eiffel, wliose summit is lost in 
 the clouds, and finally, the Champ-de-Mars, swarming centre 
 of the Exhibition, with, on the riglit, the Palace of the Free 
 Arts, on the left that of the Fine Arts ; at the bottom the gal- 
 leries Rapp and Desaix connected ^^■ith the vast pahice of the 
 divers industries, beliind whicli, quite afar, is erected the 
 j^igantic roof of the Palace of Machines, which makes the admir- 
 ation of the whole world. 
 
 At the centre of eacli of th(î palaces of the Fine-Arts and the 
 Libéral Arts, is erected a great dôme enamelled with ^^'hite 
 
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 tone, blue turquoise, yellow and gold, of an harmonious effect, 
 where the letters R.F. are read in a Ciirtoucli . Eacli dôme is 
 placed on a ^^•all ^^liose layers in bricks alter with otliers 
 of the same tone as cupola, and which is supported by consoles 
 crowned by enamelled vessels. 
 
 After, at the bottom, the central dôme rises, dominating the 
 ^^alleries. 
 
 Around thèse palaces, under the Halls goin^ alon^ the gal- 
 leries, are ranged Eating-houses, and coffees, of which several 
 are larger than thoseoéthe boulevards, and where are serving, 
 in their national dresses, moujicks from Russia, Swissesses 
 recently conie froni Bern and Zurich, Tyrolians, Bruxelloises, 
 who sell gin, aie, faro, lambic, and ail what the exotic visiter 
 may wish for. 
 
 On each side, a vast parallélogramme ^présents the Exhi- 
 Ijition of the City of Paris and hère, there and every where, are 
 pav illions through which we engage the visitors to pass the one 
 after another and of which the principal are : on the right of 
 the tower, the pavillions of the Equator, of Suez, the Railway 
 Station, the exhibitions of Brazil, of the Argentine Republic, of 
 Mexico, Bolivia, Venezuela, and quite on the right the Palace 
 of the Children ; then on the left of the Tower the pavillions of 
 the Manutention, of the Gaz Co, the Cutting of the Diamonds, 
 and many others, from the pretty building of Finland till the 
 rich jjalace of the principalty of Moriaco which is close by the 
 Régie of the Turky tobaccoes, and the two élégant castles 
 wiiere the i>astellists and the water-color painters hâve esta blish- 
 ed their exhibition. Finally, still on the right, but higher up, 
 the gracions turrets of the republic of Nicaragua, the cottages 
 of the Uruguay, the building in which is exposed to the public 
 curiosity a terrestrial glolje at the millionième, and what still ? 
 It is botter for us to proceed by order, and that wc may succès- 
 
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 sively know tliesc iiiuiiurous thin^s, iii Ix^^'iiiniD'»- to pivsent to 
 our visitor, betbi-e Mithdmwiiij^- hiiii ùi the ^cilleries, this irau 
 colossus ^^•hich is the Tower Eiffel. 
 
 The Tower Eiffel 
 
 In orcler to attire the étranger, to create a great attraction 
 \vhicli assured the success of the Exhibition, it wanted something 
 exceptionai, unrivalled, extra ordinarj. An engineer presented 
 him, Mr. Eiffel, aiready known bj his considérable and keen 
 Works. He pi'oposed to j\I. Locroy to erect a tower in iron 
 which, reaching the height of three hundred mètres, would 
 represent, at the industrial sight, the résultant of the modem 
 progresses. Mr. Locroy reflected and accepted. Hardly twenty 
 years ago, ihk pi\)ject would hâve ap[)eared fantastic und impos- 
 sible. The state of the science of the iron constructions was not 
 advanced enough, the security given by the calculations was not 
 yet assured; to-day, they know where they are going, they are 
 able to count the force of the ^^•ind. The résistance ^\•]lich the 
 iron opposes to it. Mr. Eiffel came at the proper time. 
 
 And nevertheless how many people hâve prophetized that the 
 tower would never been constructed. How many critics hâve 
 fallen upon this audacious project! It was erected, however, and 
 one perçoives it from ail Paris ; it astonishes and lets in extasy 
 the strangers who come to contemplate it. 
 
 Let us describe it then in ail its détails, since it constitues the 
 >;uccess of the Exhibition. 
 
 It is a pyramid ^^'it]l four Ijend arcs connected two by Uxo at 
 their inferior part by arches of 50 mètres. Thèse arcs are 
 otlique till at a certain height, then, the colossus liaving greatly 
 M idened its feet in order to prop well with buttress,rises straight 
 towards the sky» 
 
 The opening of the feet is of a hundred mètres from axis to 
 
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 axis, and a circumstance to be worth to remark, and which is 
 the resuit of a hazard, the diagonal axis whicli passes through 
 thèse two feet is directed according to the Meridian. 
 
 At sixtj meters above the ground is the first floor. Tliere the 
 posts whicli form the corners, stiil oblique, are connected by a 
 gallery of lifteen mètres of width on everj front, where the visi- 
 tors who ascend find four pavillions richl.y adorned, which are 
 nothing else than Breweries and Eating-houses, more spacious 
 than the handsomest on the Boulevard ; a Flamish brewerj, a 
 Russian Eating-house, an English-American bar and a wine 
 shop, style Louis the XIV*^^ . If you ascend during the times of 
 meals, you will see that this spacious plattbrm can contain about 
 iive thousand guests, who from their table enjoy one of the most 
 curions panorama. 
 
 But let us ascend higher up. Hère we are on the second stair- 
 bed, at a height of 117 meters. A glazed room, quarry, of 
 thirty mètres aside, is opened before us. Let us still ascend. 
 and at the height of 270 mètres, we find a last room fbrming 
 paviilion , crowned with a cupola and measuring sixty mètres of 
 development. There a coffee-room offers us refreshments of -ca- 
 rions kinds, and ail in thrinking a bock, or tasting a glass, we 
 discoAcr the most splendid panorama which it may be possible to 
 fancy. Let us describe it minutely. 
 
 From ail parts the void environs you ; the four sides of the 
 tower, sensibly brought nearer, give to the platform on which 
 you are the appearance of a skiff. The air, the light l'ail upon 
 you from the four cardinal points. In the perspective, the Mont- 
 Valérien bas descended under the horizont, the Trocadero under 
 the Bois de Boulogne, the peninsula of Gennevilliers isextended 
 like a little heap of ground, the numerous windings of the Seine 
 wind their ways in the immense plaine, like on a geographical 
 map. At your left side, the hills of Meudon are ail depressed. 
 
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 At the right Montmartre, whicli seems a vessel entering in the 
 sicle ot' a parisian galère. At your feet the houses are verj 
 l)lainly, because you see the four sides which are holed by the 
 \\-indows, symétrie like points of dice, so well that Paris has an 
 appearance of avast party of biribi played by a giant on a green 
 carpet . 
 
 In short, hundred and twenty Ivilometers are stretched out 
 betbre you ! For a few sous you can look in the telescoi)e-glass, 
 which will j^ermit u$ to see, if the weather is clear, the coasts 
 A\hich dommate Rouen and the hills of the department of the 
 Côte-d'Or. 
 
 This ascension attires you, visitor,and youlady, ^vhodoubted 
 at the tirst sight, so much the colossus is enormous, that there 
 are about 300 mètres until the cupola, where are floating multi- 
 color flags. Do not deprive you of the pleasure to contemplate 
 Paris from such a height. 
 
 For two francs the lifts will bring you to the second tioor, 
 for five francs you will be able to go till the top. 
 
 Thèse lifts are in the numberof four, startingfrom the ground 
 and following the declivity of the jambs Avhich buttress the 
 Tower. They deserve the two flrst platforms, but from the 
 second, that is to say at the height of 117 mètres, Uvo 
 other lifts, tliis time vertical, withdraw you smoothly till the 
 cupola, with an uniform swiftness of a mètre by a second, in 
 such May that the complète ascension will demand about seven 
 minutes. 
 
 Besides, if you hâve good legs, it belongs only to 3^ou , toreach 
 «n foot to the lirst galleries by the stair. The charm of this 
 ascending in spiral will pay you amply of your fatigue. 
 
 Xine hundred and sixty steps lead to the second platform. 
 
 Seventeen hundred eighty twelve steps bring you to the top. 
 
 The total weight of the Tower Eiffel is of seven millions of 
 
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 kilogrammes. The construction lias cost altout six millions. 
 Mr. Eiffel has received from the State one million tive Iiundred 
 thousand francs, taken iipon the fort^'-three millions of the 
 Exhibition, and he enjoys the privilège of the exploitation 
 of the To^^■er for twenty years. 
 
 They hâve calculated that the action of the wind upon this 
 colossal monument is hardly to be appreciated. The fearfiil 
 people can on this regard completely be assured. 
 
 The science has arrived in our days to détermine with an abso- 
 lute précision the pressions of the Avind on a surface : that 
 exercisedon the Tower Eiffel, could be of 400 kilogrammes by 
 square mètre, corres[)onding for the whole monument to more 
 than three millions of kilogrammes. This number is enormous, 
 but \vc are sheltered from ail fear when we know that the 
 strongest tempests observed in Paris haye nover been accompa- 
 nied by a wind superior of 150 kilogrammes by square mètre. 
 The day in which the wind would pull down the Tower, ail 
 monuments of Paris would Ix) destroyed before it. That day 
 has not yet come. 
 
 The tempest can pass, rush at the long pièces of iron, attack 
 them in front or at three quarters, to run parallel to the ground 
 or point from the top to the bottom : the Tower will remain 
 impassible, and if it would be one day necessary to assist to 
 surmount the winds, ail bas been foreseen ; in each one of thèse 
 immense piles is lodged an hydraulic press strong enough to lift 
 up its sides and maintain it upright in spite of ail. 
 
 Put in proportion with ail the famous monuments of Europe 
 and America, the Tower Eiffel overpasscs tliem in the following 
 l)roportions : 
 
 Xotrc-Dame de Paris Q^ mètres 
 
 he Panthéon 70 » 
 
Tlie Invalids 105 mètres 
 
 St-Peter in Rome 132 » 
 
 Cathedral of Strassbiirg 142 » 
 
 Thegreat Pyramidof Egyjit. ... 146 » 
 
 Cathedral of Cologne 150 » 
 
 Monument of Washington Ï69 » 
 
 Tower Eiflfel 3 00 » 
 
 In such way that the monument erected to Washington at 
 Philadelphia, which was before the highest of the globle, is still 
 
 OVerpassed of 13 1 mètres. 
 
 Informations for the Ascension. — Divers Tariffs 
 
 According to the spécifications of the entreprise of the Tower, 
 the privileged has obliged him after statutes, to ascend 
 2.356 persons by hour to the first platform and 750 per hour 
 to the summit. 
 
 The tariff of the ascensions is tixed at 2 francs for the first 
 lloor, 3 francs for the second and 5 francs to the summit. 
 
 Contrary at which passes usually, the priées are lessened for 
 the Sundays : it is one franc until the first platform, 1 fr. 40 c. 
 luitil the second, 2 francs until the summit, but this tariflf is 
 applied but from eleven in the morning till six o'clock in the 
 cvening. 
 
 How is the control made ? Or, to précise more, how do they 
 pa^ the price of ascension ? 
 
 The administration has opened at this purpose 16 wickets. 10 
 on the ground iloor, 4 at the first platform and 2 at the second. 
 
 Tickets are delivered there ; red for the first platform, white 
 for the second and bine for the summit. 
 
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 The person at tlie destination of the first platform gives up liis 
 red ticket at tlie arrivai. Having no more, he cannot aseend 
 higher up but when lie biiys a second one — the white, which 
 serves îjetween the first and the second platform. Finally, to 
 aseend to the summit, he must bny a blue ticket. Total : 5 tr. 
 
 And the pedestrians ? 
 
 Those wo are frightenedor impressioned, haveat their dis[X)- 
 sal two comfortable staircases for the service ofthe first platform. 
 This on the jamb n'' 4 to aseend and that of the number 2 
 to descend. They hâve four of them at their disposition between 
 the first and the second platform, two for the ascension and two 
 for the descent 
 
 One may aseend on foot or by the lift, the pricc is the same, 
 and the tickets too, so well that the tickets once taken, for the 
 topby instance, one may vary its pleasures in making one part of 
 the vvay in one manner and the other in another. 
 
 Some persons hâve criticized the uniformity of the price adop- 
 ted for the two manners of ascension, in saying that the person 
 on foot ought to pay less than this one wlio uses the lifts. But 
 they wished to simplify to avoid the complications of the sale and 
 the control. 
 
 The tower, when it hasreceived its maximum of visitors, can 
 contain of them. namely , 
 
 Eacli one of the Eating-houses of the first lloor. . . 400 
 
 For the four ^ 16C0 
 
 1000 about can move them on each of the 4 exîcrior 
 
 galleries 4000 
 
 Between the Eating-houses there are interior galleries 
 
 able to contain together 400 
 
 Total for the first fioor . . 6400 
 
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 Tliey can be 1500 on the second floor and 500 at the 
 summit, together 2.000 
 
 The asœnding persons, with the serving people can 
 be valued to . . . 2.000 
 
 And you liave, Avhen tlie Tower is hlled with 
 visitors, a total of about 10.000 
 
 Then thousand persons upon thi.s net-work ofiron ! 
 
 Is it not dreadful ? Let us add in finishing that a certain 
 numljer of shops surround the first floor, in the space left free 
 by the Eating-houses. The Figaro has a printing oflîce there 
 very elegantly installed. 
 
 The Fountain under the Tower 
 
 But let us pass the euormous piles of the ToMer, and admire 
 the Fountain which is sheltered tliere, and the picturesque 
 rocks surrounding this lake in miniature in whicb beautiful 
 swans take their sports. 
 
 This Fountain has been ordered to M. Francis of St- Vidal on 
 the proposition of M. Alphand, General Director of the works 
 of the Exhibition tUid its basin measures not less than 24 meters 
 of diameter. Itselfhas 12 meters of diameter at the level of 
 the wather, and nine meters of height above this level. Eleven 
 ligures comi)Ose it, of which six forni the central group and 
 iive are placed around downwards, representing the iive parts 
 of the Avorld. 
 
 p]urope, under the lines of a woman, leaned upon a printing- 
 press to print and a book, seems deeped in profound reflections. 
 "* America isa young woman, energetic and virginal however, 
 characterising tliè youth and the audacies of îlie American 
 people. 
 
 Asia, tlie craddle of the human kind, represents the volupty 
 
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 aiid tlie sensualisni. Her i^^)osture, tlie expi'cssion of lier ligui-j, 
 render Avell the abandoniiient of the passion witli tlie oriental 
 people. 
 
 Africa, represented by a figure of a Avoman in a timid attitude, 
 is well the sjm]x)l of the savage people enshived by the civili- 
 sation. Australia finally is figured by a woman, buttressed on 
 herself, like an animal not yettamed, ready to throw itself on 
 lus prey, without waiting to be attacked. 
 
 The six figures are grouped around a sphère supported by 
 magi. 
 
 At the su|jerior part of the group, springs up the genius of 
 the light, a torch in the right hand, and the wings unfolded, 
 Mhich disengages the veils of the Humanity, represented by a 
 woman seated on the sphère. 
 
 Above Australia, Mercure descends from the clouds, holding 
 in one hand the caduceus and in the other a bag with money, 
 the t^^•o emblems of the eloquency and persuasion. 
 
 Alx)ve Asia and Africa, the Love and the Sleep, in the shade 
 of a floating draperj-. Plnally, between Euroj>e and America, a 
 young girl sym)x)lizes the History. In the armoirie whicli she 
 sustains in the left hand, are inscribed the two dates 1789-1889. 
 
 The central Fountain 
 
 \\e havepassed the Tower Eiffel, and before us is thegarden, 
 a vast French garden, ai two floors of gronnd, with two fine 
 rectilineal flower-beds, richly planted with rare trees and where 
 freshlawns, bloomy hiskets, put their enchantment. Hère we 
 are Ijefore the great central Fountain, work of Mr. Coutan, 
 whicli the author of so many beautil'ul works considers with 
 rightashis master-pece. * 
 
 Emerging from the basin of gushing water, springs out an 
 immense nave, of which the Republic holds the rudder, and 
 
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 which symholizes tlie City ot' Paris. Tlii.s nave boars a statue 
 ot* France winded and brandishing the torcli of civilizàtion. As 
 allegorical figures, Merciire representingihe trade and industry , 
 makes coun ter part to the Muse of arts and sciences. On the 
 sides, a certain number of little genius bear liorns of abundance 
 whence corne ont streams of water which eiïuse them In the 
 basin, where are concealed, in the middleof reecis, great mytho- 
 logical figtires representing the Idleness, the Envy and otjjer 
 vices, which disappear in the présence of France triumphing 
 through peace and work. In tlte last biisin, great mj^iihûlQ- 
 gical figures represent the principal ri vers of P'rance, mountei 
 on sea-monsters which cast water in ail directions and aliment 
 the inferior basin s, drawn up along the great alley, 
 
 Celebrities, emblems skilfully grouped aroupd the principal 
 figure complète the Avhole, with a grandiose artistical effect. 
 In the ovening at the eloctrie light, the impression js chilling. 
 
 the first Walk 
 
 What imports, is that the visiter may understand that the 
 first daf/s walk at the Exhibition, must Ix) before ail a day of 
 récognition. He must find his way before entering in the pro- 
 foundities of the galleries. Some hours passed in the gardehs 
 which occupy the immensity of the accesses of the principal 
 palaces, are on this regard indispensable. 
 
 ThusAve begin, at présentas we hâve let him see thèse two 
 ^'onderworks which lly at the eyes, the Tower and the foun- 
 tain, to return dn his steps to retake with order this walk 
 of récognition which will permit him, thanks tp our watch- 
 fulness, to see ail in a short time. 
 
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 In returning to tlie pont d'Iena, ^ve .see, on tlie right of tlie 
 bridge, on the inferior qnay (up the river), the building in 
 sheet-iron of the Panorama ofthe imlustr»/ ofpctroletim, 
 whose A'isit will be the most curions. 
 
 At the left of the bridge, on the inferior quay equally, the 
 CoUectirc exhibition ofthe applications ofthe petro- 
 Je uni not less interesting. 
 
 In going up the Seine, we see, after the Panorama as said 
 above, tlie vast construction of the naval Exhibition, whose visit 
 we shall put off, and quite at the extremity, the half build on 
 terra hrma one half on piles, anticipating on the river, the 
 Panorama, Company of the General Tramatlantic, 
 vaste circuit building whose walls offer at each side, enormous 
 bills on Avhich the countries served by the Company are indi- 
 cated, with the directions followed by the steamers. 
 
 At the front of the Entrance gâte canvass represents a 
 steamer sailing in ail speed. Very curious Panorama and 
 w'hich we recommend to the visitor. 
 
 In passing through the stair and the Hall of a true transatlantic , 
 the spectator visits successively the principal floors of one of 
 thèse immense steamers. 
 
 Thèse are : the large drawing-room, the dining-room of the 
 firstclass, the smoking-roometc, presented under the prospect 
 of dioramas. Other dioramas represent the Entrance of the 
 principal liarljours of the Company, the arrivai of a steamer at 
 New- York. Then climbing a staircase, the visitor finds him 
 on a true foot-bridge, and from afar appears the road of Havre, 
 the cliffs of Trouville and Honfleur. Finally, the sixtj'-six 
 steamers of the Company are represented, sailing around the 
 Tour aine, now in construction. 
 
 This visit at the transatlantic Panorama is a true passage on 
 the sea whicli has the advantage not to présent any danger. . 
 
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 The History of the human Dwelling 
 
 ït is the moment or never to walk among the suprising resti- 
 tution ot'which M. Garnier, the eminent architect of the Opéra, 
 has made him the promoter. On our left going along the flower- 
 Ixds from the Tower till hère, the constructions of the Historv 
 of the human Dwelling is unfolded to our eyes. 
 
 The human Dwelling in ail countries and in ail times, there 
 is certainly an excellent subject of study. Without doubt the 
 great works do not fail, where conscientious plates enable us to 
 knoA\" exactly in which conditions where living our ancestors, 
 how their dwellings where disposed in the interior. But nothing 
 approaches the démonstration bj the materiality of the fact, and 
 it is struck with this truththat the organisatorsof the Exhibition 
 resolved to erect an improvisated town, including houses of ail 
 countries and ail latitudes. 
 
 Before directing the visiter in this exhibition, lot us give some 
 necessary explanations. 
 
 The prehistorical âges include hère four essential types : 
 
 P The dwellings in the open air,built by pièces of rocks erec- 
 ted vertically to form a wall. 
 
 2° The grottoes,for a great number of our ancestors hâve not 
 had another shelter than the caverns, which made them eall 
 troglodytes. 
 
 3" The lacustre cities, composed with buts on piles. 
 
 4'* The ground dwellings during the e^x^chs of the rendeer, of 
 the polished stone, brassandiron. 
 ,The historical centuries hâve been divided in 5" Subdivisions : 
 
 r* The primitive civilizations ; 
 
 2** The civilizations started from the invasions of the Aryas; 
 
 3<^ The roman civilization in Occident: 
 
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 -lo Tho ix)nmii civilization in Orient ; 
 
 5o Tlie contemiX)rary civilizations of tlie primitive civiliza- 
 tions, but Mhich liave not entered in communication with theni 
 and hâve not exercised any influence on tlie march of tlie liu- 
 manit\-. 
 
 It is, as it can be seen, a kind of architecture which lias not 
 its likelj in the world. 
 
 Hère, almost in Iront of tlie Transatlantic C°, is the prehisto- 
 rical gTotto; on the side, the cottage of the epoch of the rendeer, 
 than the epoch of the polished stone, represented by a cavern, 
 which dominâtes a high stone in ol>elisc. The âge of the brass 
 comes after, then the lacustre cities, so called because ihey were 
 erected on piles, in the middle of the ponds and lakes in order to 
 pre vent the invadingof the vi^ild beasts. One may remark that 
 the lacustre cottage is ma de with trunks of trees eut in two by 
 the carbonisation, l)ecause at this epoch the men were in want 
 of saws to eut the trees and to corne eut of it they employed 
 coals in fire.May one fear in approaching thèse dwellings,though 
 they are inhabited; we say that one sees therein ail figurants 
 dressed like were our Ibrefathers, which offers true restitution of 
 costumes, wliich complètes the architectural restitution. 
 
 Now are coming, in going up to the bridge, then in passing it, 
 until the front of the station; the egyptian dwelling, the syrian; 
 the dwelling of the hebrews, with its truncated door; the etrus- 
 quian house and the liouse of the pelasgians, the hindou palace 
 ^^'ith two élégant towers, the tent and the palace, of the square 
 tower, of Assyria, the gracious phenician house whereyoucan 
 see how thèse dressed them and whom they called with right the 
 English of the old world; the persian dwelling, with the three- 
 fold calotte at the vast and round eritrance; the gallish cottages 
 and grottoes; the gallo-roman dwelling and those of the Huns. 
 
 Finally, higher up, close by the spécimens of the great ar- 
 
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 chitectures of the middle âge. Reviving, roman-italian, tlie cot- 
 tages ofthe savages of Africa, the Peaux-Rouges, the d\vellingof 
 the Aztèques, the arabian minaret, the bizantine house of so a 
 pretty style, the slave cottage, the seandiiiavian cottage, the 
 soudanese, japanese and çhinese dwellings and a small lappic 
 village buried under the snow, of a desolated aspect. 
 
 Our contemporaries the most distant and our oldest ancestors 
 j>ass thus under our eyes, and the care applied b}^ M. Garnier 
 at this unique restitution, is a sure warrant of the exactitude of 
 tlie least détails. Thus, in the egyptian l^ouse, the visiter will 
 tind men whose costumes hâve been drawn after the bas-reliefs 
 on the pictures of the valleys ofthe Nile! One could ript be ippre 
 scrupulous. 
 
 Ail around the Tower 
 
 As our lîrst jouriiey lias to he passed in the gardon well 
 providod for tliat one stops there a long time, let i^s divide o\\v 
 wallv in two parts, at first the exibitions situated on tl)c right 
 ofthe Tower Eiffel, then those situated on the left, ont of the 
 fences, which encircles the Champ-de-Mars on this side. 
 
 On the right of the Tower 
 
 On th(i right ofthe Tower, we haAc : 
 
 In the tirst plan the pavillion of Suez and Panama, the pavil- 
 lions of the Argentine Republic, the Brazil and the Mexican 
 Republic. On the right and at tiie bottom, the handsome Esta- 
 blisment of the Bouillon Duval. 
 
 Tnthe second plan; the pavillions of the Ecpiator, of Chili, 
 of BoliVia, Venezuela, the French Eating-house, the Palace of 
 the children, the pavillion of the Sea, the Japanese house. 
 
 Allow, that there is with what to pass some good moments. 
 
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 Suez and Panama 
 
 Horrid little building in œment, of a hebrew style, which is 
 of little signification. The plans, the sights, the basins, erec- 
 ting of gigantic works of Suez and Panama are exhibited there. 
 
 Tliis pavillion is the first, on the right hand, a little behind 
 of the first foot of the ToA^er. 
 
 Argentine Republic 
 
 Immense pavillion, nearly in the palace, Avhich is situated 
 close by the preceeding. 
 
 The Argentine Republic, Avhich receives annually for 150 
 millions of French products, could but be greatly represented. 
 His exhibition is one of the most complète ofthose which form 
 in a certain way the syndicat of the latin America. 
 
 Out of its natural products, leatlier and avooI, the Argentine 
 Repnblic, Avhich is a brandi of the suburb St-Antoine, whilst 
 10.000 French emigrants work there the wood at the Parisian 
 fashion, exibits curions products of this cab-making. To re- 
 mark the différent types of uniforms of the Argentine army and 
 a plan in relief of Buenos-Ayres. 
 
 Brazil 
 
 Vast pavillion likeM ise, placed just behind this one, but of an 
 elegancy and still more greater richess. The last year a prepa- 
 ratory exhibition, kind of reijetition of that of this day, was 
 organized at Rio, by the senator Diego Yeilho, président of the 
 Central commission cf the universal Exhibition of Paris, and 
 750,000 francs were voted for the exhibiters. 
 
 One of the most smart attractions of the Exhibition, which is 
 one of tlie most remarkable, is the musical indian chorus of the 
 
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 bishoprick of Para, composed ofa hundred and fifty executors, 
 native women of Amazone. 
 
 A splendid green-house 1*8 a sery of this pavillion, and offers 
 vcry fine spécimens of tlie flore of the conntry. 
 
 Mexican Republic 
 
 Laterally to the proceeding pavillions, ahvays on the right, 
 and on a surface of 1,000 mètres, Mexico présents it under a 
 colossal reproduction, ail in iron-sheets, and wliich can be easily 
 dismounted. The shape of this imvillion is unexpected. The 
 fronts of it are in slants, at sixty degrees, and ail is in métal, 
 from the stairs until the walls. 
 
 Very interesting exhibition, offering the most divers products 
 of this country. 
 
 At the left and a little forward, is the French Eating-house, 
 very large but whose priées are rather high. 
 
 Bolivia 
 
 Elégant building on the left and higher up than the Eating- 
 house. Bolivia offers one of the most curions exhibitions ofthe 
 South American States. It is besides a little nation very 
 désirons of jn-ogress. By the organ of his minister at Paris, 
 Mr. Aniceto Arce, it has charged ail the chiefs of district of this 
 country to send each of them to Paris two of their best work- 
 men, wlio will take modelon the Parisian workmen. 
 
 Equator 
 
 Still higher up and on the left of Bolivia, at the foot of the 
 Tower, is a small square })uilding in which the Equator 
 exhibits its products. Tlie Republic of tlie Equator is ricli in 
 
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 balnis, giitta -percha, cacas. Tlience corne tous the hais said 
 Panama, made t'rom tlie leaves of a kind of latanier. 
 
 Venezuela 
 
 We hâve remoted us. Let us corne back on the right and in 
 front and higher up the French Ëating-house, we shall see, 
 placed across, the monumental pavillion of Venezuela, at the 
 white turrets and at the picturesque décorations. 
 
 \'erj rich exhibition. Fine granités, gold-bearings, red 
 copper of Aroa. 
 
 At the left, is erected the pavillion of the Manutention and the 
 Cuslom-house, interesting to visit. 
 
 Chili 
 
 Itt frôiîl, ni the height of the balustrade, is the pavillion of 
 Chili, where one sees sùperb specimeïis of the mining industry 
 of this country , where one finds veins in gold or in the sands , 
 silver and copper in abundance, iron, quicksilver, dead, tin, 
 manganèse and antimoine, loadstone, and precious stones. A 
 simple banà of lawn séparâtes ît from an original and charming 
 construction ^hich is nothing eîse than the Palace of Children. 
 
 The Palace of the children 
 
 Neithe'r in 1867," nor in 1878 they haveoccupied themabout 
 the -children in organizing the Exhibition. The aged persons had 
 certainly with what to pass their da;^' agreeablj'^ but they 
 neglected completely tlie little ones* 
 
 The Exhibition of 1889 bas been less forgetful.lt bas consecra- 
 ted them a whole palace^ which is^ at tlie s£tme time for them 
 and 'for their parents a bazar and a casin0i^^ liât is not prerenting 
 
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 it to be an architectural curiosity as the visiter may remark it. 
 
 It is M. Emile Ulmann, great price of Rome in 1871 ,who lias 
 createu this splendid palace, and he lias certainlj succeeded in 
 makingof it a wonder of elegancj and ingeniosity. 
 
 Wisliing to make it large, he asked 3000 mètres, to erect 
 his buildings in the middle of an immense garden. Unfortunately, 
 the space was wanting, and he must content him witli te palace 
 which occupies alreadly a very res^jectable place. 
 
 The aspect of the Palace of the children is very characteris- 
 tic.Oiî each sideof the pavillion are erected two high piles cove- 
 red with pointed roofs and surmounted with turnpikes which 
 turn at the wish of the wind. A beautiful harlequin dominâtes 
 the Entrancc of the Centre, and at the front of the twoothers, 
 on the front-roof, a polichinel at the appearance of a good cliild 
 is sitting. And everywhere dancing-jacks, liorses, puppets, toys 
 of colossal dimensions, an entire décoration for children the 
 whole of the most curious sight. 
 
 But the Palace of the children is not reserved for the children 
 only. When they had built ther(3 a théâtre destined to amuse 
 our little minions, M. Afphand comes to say : We hâve not a 
 serions théâtre at the Exhibition. Gi\e us your scène. In such 
 way that this Palace is also called Greîtt Théâtre of the Exhi- 
 bition. 
 
 Enter tliere with your little family and you will certainly not 
 annoy you. There is united ail what concerns the childhood, rai- 
 ments, furniture»-, toys, works for children, hygiène and even 
 therapeutic. Your babies will find there a kermess Avith a shoo- 
 ting for macarons, turnpikes, divers gaines, walles and milk. 
 
 ■'A cow-house with cows, a stable with sheep. In the centre 
 of the Palace is the théâtre, large Hall being able to contain 800 
 persons -seated without counting those who are standing in the 
 covered walks, and at the bottom of this hall a very vast scène, 
 
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 suitable to ail kiiicl of exhibitions : prestidigitators, pantomimes, 
 witli the troup Aléxander, bals for children, directed by Mari- 
 quiia, then clowns, learned animais, varions spectacles, kind of 
 the Follies-Bergéres, are made everj day : two in the afternoon 
 and two in the evening. 
 
 Then on an annex small théâtre, the marionnets of Barnard, 
 the best of the kind of Thomas Holden, giye very sélect repré- 
 sentations. 
 
 Once per week, the Fridays, the Palace of the children y ields 
 the place to the Great Théâtre of the Exhibition, and the Opera- 
 Comique, gives there représentations excessively interesting, 
 beCstùse they constitué a true rétrospective exhibition of opéra 
 coniique music, kind which were appreciated by our ancestors, 
 and which is emineritly national. 
 
 Itis M. t^àràvey, with thé collaboMtiori of M. Daubé, chief 
 of the oréhësti*a, who directs this musical exhibition. 
 
 Eight pièces will be played duHng the cours of the Exhibition. 
 They àt-è the eight greàt successés of the Opera-Comique during 
 thé revolutionary period from 1788 to 1795. 
 
 Hère are the enumeration of them : 
 
 1" The Barbier de Séville, music of Paisiello, represented 
 for the iîrst time in 1788 ; 
 
 2» Raoul de Crêqui, opera-comique of Dalayrac with the 
 words of Monvel, represented for the lirst time in 1789 ; 
 
 3o La Soirée orageuse (the stormy evening) likewise thé 
 music of Dalayrac with the text of Rodet and whose first repré- 
 sentation has found place the 29th of May 1790; 
 
 4<^ Nicodème in tJie nioon, pièce of Cousin Jacques (called 
 Beffroy of Reigny) which was represented in 1791 and even later 
 since it had more than 4000 représentations; 
 
 5<* The VisitandineSy charming opcra-comique, poem of Pi- 
 
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 card, music of Devienne, whose lirst représentation dates from 
 the 7th of July 1792; 
 
 6^ The Party c//'/b^^^^%t6x^ofllennequin, music of Gavaux, 
 Avhich was represented in the middle of the Terror, the 27tii of 
 June 1793, and wliich contains not any roll for the women; 
 
 7o The True Sans-Cidottes, of Rezicourt and C.Lemoinc, 
 represented for the first time onthe 12th of May 1792; 
 
 8'» And finally Madcon Angot, by Maillot, which was ijer- 
 formed in 1795 and the following year, for, this pièce had a 
 considérable succès of which inherited its daughter. 
 
 AVhen the sery will be exhausted, they will begin it again. 
 The exhibition lastening 24 weeks, it happons that each perfor- 
 mance will iind place three times. 
 
 It is at three o'clock in the afternoon, at every Friday, that 
 thèse représentations will find place. 
 
 In the evening, the Palace of the children is iHuminated by the 
 electric light, and by a great luminous balloon, in which one 
 can ascend. 
 
 At the left on the Towèr 
 
 At the left of the Tower we hâve the pavillion Eiffel, the pa vil- 
 lions of the Gas Company and the Téléphone Company, the 
 pavillions of Finland, Sweden and Norwaj-, the Diamonds 
 Cutting, a Russian Ysba, the Eating-house Kuhn, the Britain 
 Commissariat, the Théâtre of the Parisian Follies, the pavillion 
 Toché, and that of the Uegj of the Turkish tobacco. M'ell, 
 somc courage, and forward. 
 
 Pavillion Eiffel 
 
 At the left and forward at the first left foot of the Tower 
 A small pavillion surmounted with cupolas \\hich give to it an 
 asjjeet half-oriental, half quite what you like. We must agrée 
 
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 that M. Eiffel has been less fortunate in the project of his pavil- 
 lion than in that of the tower. 
 
 One sees there the plans of the gigantic construction at the 
 foot of which we are now,the works of soundages, earthworks, 
 massonries, which this erecting was in want of, and thej sell 
 there ail what is in connection at this masterpiecc of the Exhi- 
 bition, a masterpiece of 300 meters. Among others the officiai 
 guide of the Tower which besides would not learn anything to 
 our readers which tliey know not already. 
 
 Pavillion of the Gas C' 
 
 Monumentîil pavillion, having an aspect of a house of tiie 
 town, but wliich is combined in such manner that nobody 
 may ignore that it is the powerfuU Gas C" which exhibits there. 
 In the evening, the roofs, the turrets, the fronts, ail the promi- 
 nences and ail openings, are lighted by transparencies. It is a 
 house ail in fire, very curions to be visited. 
 
 Pavillion of the Téléphones 
 
 On the left and before the preceeding pavillion in wood at 
 belvidere, where ail the telephone-sy stems are exposed. 
 
 Sweden and Norway 
 
 In front and a little higher up, Norway and Sweden hâve each 
 one a pavillion. 
 
 This one of Sweden, between Norway and the Gas Co as the uni- 
 que représentant of this little nation at the uni versai Exhibition. 
 The products and the curiosities of the country are there expo- 
 sed. 
 
 Atthe left,we hâve the cutting of the diamonds,o\œediUv^- 
 
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 \y curions and where one sees working this precious stone, of 
 \^'bicll eaclj facet represents manj s^eats: close by the industrial 
 pavillion of the Tile-Kilns of Clioisy-le-Roi. 
 
 Higher up, on a little eminence, is the paviUionof a well 
 known house in Paris : the Ménagère. 
 
 Finlandese pavillion 
 
 On the left of the pavillion of the téléphones andat thefirst 
 plan you hâve the coquet and important pavillion of Finland, 
 Finland it is known, is a province in the north of Russia, l3or- 
 dering Lapland. Exhibition of the products of this country rich 
 especially in forests, and of which the lishing of the herrings 
 and salmon and the woods of construction are the principal 
 trade. 
 
 Farther on the Eating-hoiise Kuhn, very large and of a 
 very solid construction. One could mean that is a définitive and 
 not provisor}' construction. 
 
 On the left of the Eating-house, the cottage of the British 
 commissariat, on which are floating the english colours. 
 
 Russian Ysba. — Small pavillions 
 
 On the left on tlie foot of theTower the most distant from hère, 
 are erected several other pavillions of less importance. At tirst, 
 a fountain in terra cotta and ceramic enamelled,of M.Peyrussoa 
 proprietor of the Tile-Ivilns of Montchanirs les-Mines (Saône-et- 
 Loire),to whom we owe the reconstruction of the Bastille, avenue 
 of Suflren. In iront, the exhibition of the AUaave- Française 
 and at the left, a Russia Ysba, cottage covered with straw 
 with pièces of wood peeledofftheir barks- They sell there ciga- 
 rettes and refreshments, koustiys and vadka. 
 
 A little farther on, on the left, a small pavillion like a chapel, 
 
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 covered in slates and surniounted with a sory of bell-turrets; it 
 is there that the painter Toché exhibits lus décorative frescoes. 
 Just aside, is erected the pavillion of the Régie of theTurkish 
 to))acco, curions constructions of a very oriental typic style. 
 
 Théâtre of the Parisian-FoUies 
 
 Finally, in descending a little, on the left, in leaving on our 
 right the buildings of the administration and exploitation of the 
 Exhibition, y\e find us before the vast spectacle of the Parisian- 
 Follies, the whole constructed in iron and which is at the sarae 
 time a théâtre an4 a coôee-concert. 
 
 Two artists loved by the public, Scipion and Dàubray, direct 
 the exploitation of it, and there are coming to cooperate and 
 exhibit them ail the comic celebrities, the stars of the song, 
 the opera-dancers, the ballet-dancers, the divas of Boheniia, the 
 Patti of the bock and the international Paulus. 
 
 Wen you will )3e on the iiight of steps, before the entraqce of 
 the Fine-Arts, which is in front of the Seine, you will h^ve on 
 your right tlie Pavillion of Monaco, pretty construction which 
 expresses well thecharacter of this principalty of green carpet. 
 Among the numerous curiosities wliifh are exposed there, you 
 will remark above ail the articles of perfumery and china of the 
 finest style. 
 
 Thenat your left, the splendid building painted in dark green 
 of the exhibition of the Pastels, where you will pass a charming 
 hour among the master-pieces of the pastel artists. 
 
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 SECOND DAY 
 
 It is the pavillion of the Fine- Arts and ail the left si^Ie pf the 
 Champ-de-Mars, whicli will occiipy pur secon4 day'swalk, \isi- 
 tors enter then in the Exhibition by the chief gâte, that ofthe 
 pont dléna, and pass under the Tower Eiffel, tlien go along the 
 lake behind and go to the balustrade which séparâtes on eaxîh 
 side on this side of the triie Champ-de-Mars. 
 
 THE PALACE OF THE FINE'Af^TS 
 
 Let us enter* bj^ the officiai entrances, including three semi- 
 circular arches surrounded with archivaults, in terra cotta and 
 inedals enamelled in the tympans ; the right feet are adorned 
 with arabescs where brightens the paletot the crokeryman. The 
 crowning of the principal entrance is formed of an attique pierced 
 with three niches in which statues syml)olize the Fine-Arts. 
 
 FRENCH SECTION 
 
 Let us penetrate at lîrst in the painting exhibition. The 
 French section counts there 1589 pictures, and drawings, Avaler 
 colours, pastels. In this nundjer are not included the works of 
 the artists who hâve demanded the inscription of thèse without 
 removing. Thèse works remain in the nmseums to \\liich thoy 
 telong to and cooperat(3 to the récompenses in the ssluu' \)ven> 
 gatives than those figurating hère. Aipqng tjiose capvasspStallto 
 Ije admired, an excessive severity ha^ing presided tp tjfpjr 
 atttnission the visiter ought to stop a]x)ve ail befqre the follo- 
 wing : 
 
 The Combat of Aryierlecht, by Pellangé; 
 
 Chaï'lotte Corday, bv Baudrv; 
 
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 The Bitrial, by Jean Beraud; 
 
 The Nivernais PlovgJiing, by Rosa Bonheur; 
 
 The Good Friday, by Bonnat; 
 
 The 18^"^ Brumaire, by Bouchot; 
 
 The Plantation ofthe Calvaire, by Jules Breton; 
 
 The Portrait of the Duchess of Yalomlrroso, by 
 Cabanel; 
 
 The Danre of the Nymphes, by Corot; 
 The Stone-Breakers, by Courbet; 
 
 The Romans in the decay, by Couture; 
 
 The Conventionel, by David; 
 
 The passirig Régiment, by Détaille; 
 
 The Départ lire of Louis the XVIII, by Gros; 
 
 The Voio of Louis XIII, by Ingres; 
 
 The dead Torero, by Manet. 
 
 Finally let us citate the names of Claude Monet, Prudlion, 
 Ribot, Ricard, Schetfer, Delacroix, Millet, Meissonnier, who 
 exhibit not less than twenty canvasses, s^ix portraits of 
 M''^ AMgée- Lebrun, seven pictures by Decampand, a sery of 
 Diaz. 
 
 Sculpture 
 
 FRENCH SECTION 
 
 In the French Section of Sculpture, weshall make remark : 
 
 The busts of Marivaux and Belle y, by Caffieri; 
 LouisXVI, La Fayette, Necker and Napoléon, by 
 Houdon; 
 
 Henry IV, by Bosio; 
 The bas-reliefs by the baron Lemot; 
 A sery of ligures, by Clodion; 
 The Psyché, by Pajou; 
 
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 The Loce, by Chaudet; 
 Eleven figures, hj Rude; 
 
 The moulding of the principal compositions by Carpeaux and 
 Clesinger. Finally, thesparkling sery of the living sculptures : 
 the Dubois, the Guillaume, the Falguière, the Mercier, the 
 Delaplanche, Fremiet, Dalou, Rodin, etc. 
 
 Architecture and Engraving 
 FREXCH SECTION 
 
 The architecture offers remarkable drawingsof Louis, Percier, 
 Fontaine ; the normal school of the Restauration is characterised 
 there by the Hôtel de Ville (Town-Hall) by Lesueur ; the 
 Palace of the Covr des Comptes; the Mhmtry of the 
 Foreiyn affairs, by Bernard and Lacomée. Then comes the 
 sery of the names : Henry La Brousse, Baltard, Duban, Duc, 
 Voudoyer, Abadie. The drawings of Lassus for the Restoratioa 
 ofthe Saint'ChapeU those of Viollet-Leduc for Pierrefonds 
 and Notre-Darae, and nearer us, those of August Magne, 
 Theodor Ballu, Charles Garnier, Vouchemer. 
 
 In the exhibition oi engraving we remark the planks of 
 Berrie, I)uple8sis,Bertout, Debucourt, Sergent, Copia, Desnoyers; 
 the lithographies ofGerault, Ratfet, Dauniier, Gavarni. Finally 
 the acqua-fortisof Paul Huet, d'Aubigny, Corot. 
 
 GALLERIES OF THE INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTS 
 
 In leaving the Fine-Arts, it suffices to cross the gallery Rapp 
 to penetrate immediately in the foreign part of the inda? trial 
 galleries. But mav the visiter not be in a hurrv however and let 
 
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 mix him an instant in the prodigious aiovement ol' the p]ntranco 
 liall, Mhicli follows: laterally on the side of the central garden . 
 tliese g-alleries ^vheve ail the products of the world are gatheœ l 
 together. 
 
 There are the noisj' coftee-houses, whose tables obstruct the 
 jkassage, tlie Greaf Russian. Eatui{j-hmi>iC, nicely decorated, 
 s^^■a^ms like if this hall where the boidevard of the Italians. 
 
 And Avhilst you hâve a miniit of rest , let us give you, upon 
 the foreign sections at the universal Exiiibition, some informations 
 \vliiclnvill Ije the prologue of the visit which we shall undertake 
 toiiether through thèse différent sections. 
 
 'O' 
 
 THE FOREiaN SECTIONS 
 
 Fifteen con^noittees represent Europe at the Exhibition , with the 
 fûjlowing subventions : 
 
 Great-Britain (private committee), no subvention, but a capital 
 
 of g'uarantee united by the exhibiters , . fr. 1,500,000 
 Bolgium (private committee),subvention by the 
 
 Government » 600,000 
 
 Spain (pri^ate committee), subvention by the 
 
 Government » 500,000 
 
 Svvitzerland (officiai committee), subvention by 
 
 the Government » 450,000 
 
 Remania (private commitee), subvention by the 
 
 Government » 200,000 
 
 Norway (officiai committee), subvention by tho 
 
 Government » 140,000 
 
 Denmark (private committee), subvention bN' 
 
 the Government » 140,000 
 
 Portugal (private commitee), subvention by 
 
 the Government » 137,000 
 
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 Coine then Greece and Ser\ia,whpsecoiiiinittee55eoiiiefrom tlie 
 oflicial initiative, like Luxeniburg, whose participation is private 
 and ^\•llicll is in tlie «anie case. 
 
 Russia, Asia, Austria-Hun^aria an4 ^»'etlierl^n4s Ijkewise 
 participate on private initiative, liave net received any subvention 
 hy tlieir governmentj it is a capital of gnarantee assembled, like 
 by Great-Britain, by the exhibiters, wbich bas assured tlie 
 necessary expenses. 
 
 The only European countries wliicli are not represt-nted, are : 
 German)-, Turkey and Monténégro. What concerns America, the 
 results are also satisfactory. The United-States bave received 
 from their government a subvention of 1,2Q0,000 francs, 
 Mexico ^\•hose participation is ofUcial, is also considerably 
 subvenîionned. Finall}' we lial)e scon it, ail the governments of 
 South America wished to bave their palace or their pavillioi^ in 
 the Cliamp-de- Mars, and they haye granted to their cofinnitte^s 
 important summs. 
 
 Three officiai participations ha\e corne from Asia. That of 
 the Japanese which is subventioned with 500,000 francs, and 
 those of Siam and Persia, whose subventions are not det(3rmined. 
 
 China, officially at least, bas abstained it; but a certain of 
 china merchants having demanded by the intermediary of thp 
 China Légation at Paris, a place where they could exhibit the 
 products of their trade, one will see that a pretty large pavillion 
 lias been granted them. 
 
 Finally Africa is represented, not only b^' thp colonies, but 
 still by Egypt, which owes to the private initiative a sun^in 
 guaranted which amount to 120,000 fn^ncs; by the Transvaal, 
 ^^hase participation is not deternïined. 
 
 Let us then penetrate in the fifst sections, tl^e Englisji septioi^, 
 which follows te Fine- Arts. 
 
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 England 
 
 When tlie French govemment addressed to tlie English 
 government the invitation to participate at the Exhibition of 
 Paris, Lord Salisburj replied that Her Majesty the queen 
 thought her obhged to abstain officially for the sake of the revo- 
 lutionary date chosen for this Exhibition. 
 
 But in ail times England was the countrj of private initiati- 
 ves ; the national sympathies affirmed them and Lord Salisbury 
 attenuated his answer in authorising tlie Lord-Maire to accept 
 the Présidence of the English committee of the Exhibition of 
 Paris, which came to be constitued. The 29*^ of February 1887, 
 the notabilities of the trade and industry met at the Mansion- 
 House, a siibscription made in this same meeting produced hun- 
 dred thousand francs. Finally Mr. Bernhard Samuelson presided 
 some time after a great banket to which assisted Mr. Georges 
 Berger, General Director of the Exhibition. 
 
 England occupies at the uni versai Exhibition a place of twelve 
 thousand îive hundred mètres, and it is not too large when one 
 thinks that it lias to represent its three kingdoms and its 
 colonies. Nevertheless with this emplacement, the English 
 exhibiters could form a marvellous exhibition, which makes the 
 admiration of ail the visitors. 
 
 AU the entrance hall making continuation tothe^^allery Rapp 
 belongs to the English Section. The front of the section, very 
 original, is a gallery of arches supported by little slender and 
 graciouscolumns. 
 
 Three large allers are opening tliere, whose gâtes are sur- 
 mounthed with great quantities of flags forming a cartouch 
 which contains the arms of England. 
 
 ^Ve are going to visit one by one thèse three alleys. AU along 
 the section, on the riglit, are the painted papers and oil-cloth, 
 
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 ^vllere oiie niay remark une spécimens of leather paper of the 
 liouse Jeffrey and C" of London. 
 
 In taking tlie first allej, we remaik immediatelj, on the 
 rijiht, the exhibition Pears (Pear's soap). AU the water-closets 
 of the Exhibition are hanged with tiie painted billsof this soap. 
 xU the left superb exhibition of cristallery of the English C^. 
 
 Then cornes the window of the candies of Price, where is a 
 bust of Her Majesty the queen Victoria, in stearin. In front, 
 the class of the chemical products, is represented by several 
 g'iass-cases, among others an exhibition of brimstones and secon- 
 dary products obtained by the kaly, by new proceedings. 
 
 Cornes then the jewehn', with the exhibition of the house 
 Crough (Royal house), by the Scotch jewelry, which présents 
 curions juwels, incrusted with pearls, cairagormes and primes. 
 To remark very original brooches, representing spiders whose 
 eircles of the hodj' ore of white or red stones. 
 
 In continuing, we find a chime machine before which every 
 body is stopping. Built in such manner to be able to play divers 
 airs, it is com[)Osed of a certain number of bells whicli conmience 
 to ring a peal, as soon as the hour lias struck. It is moved by 
 weight and its mecanivsm is one of the most interesting. 
 
 Close by stop before the glass-aise of the clock-making scliool 
 of Clerkcnwell, where are the works of the pupils Avliich show 
 once moro the superiority of the protessionnal tuition of this 
 schooj. In front, there are ladies costumes of a great elegancy 
 and a protty little boy dressed at the scotch tashion. 
 
 Some fine furs and glass-cases of hats where one can remark 
 an original bonnet for ladies, (hats for the opéra) red, granate, 
 iiîid with a high shape, with a bow in the front side. 
 
 Let us pass in the second alley. On the left, one will stop 
 before the glass-case of the LeeSpinningC*' of Manchester, where 
 is exhibited an old English castle, in the style of Tudor, compo- 
 
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 sed ^vith (3(),UÛU bobbiii.s and 80,U00 balls ol' cotton tliread. 
 
 llien one crosses under a high i)avillion with columns, in 
 pafeîtbonds stones, erected by a house of London. 
 
 To see the splendid exhibition of original drawings of tho 
 illusti-ated London News. The class of portable arms and shoo* 
 tiuij.' articles shows well the important r^,nk kept in this fabri- 
 cation by the English armourers ; this fabrication emplo3's, 
 only in England, about 20,000 worknien, of whonfi are more 
 than 2,500 women. The réputation of the English guns is 
 european and incontestable. To cite the Exhibition of Charles 
 Lîincaster, A^'hich keeps al^^'ays the lirst rank. 
 
 At the left, one admires a siiperb vase, in tender past, green 
 and white, representing the earth, receiving from the nature 
 the gifts of the abundance. AU a round the globe are seating 
 four ligures, symbols of the four seasons. 
 
 Above, sixty figures form a procession and reposent the 
 occupations of the seasons. The height of this strange pièce is of 
 3'"30 ; its diameter of 2 mètres, not any other pièce of this 
 dimension has never been made in soft past. 
 
 In continuing, one will see, at the right and left, rich exhibi- 
 tions of china wares. 
 
 In the third alley, on the right, remark the exhibitions of 
 the celebrate Greener, the conqueror at the English compétition 
 for prizes. 
 
 The whole left side of this alley is occupied by the English 
 colonies. One will see there carpets in furs, collections of insects 
 and birds, and glass-cases w]\eve are exhibited fac-similé of gold 
 nuggets, whose biggest is of a value of H, 484 liv. 
 
 The New-Zeland occupies the extremity of this ya^rt of the 
 alley, and one see^ there collections of ores, auriferous quartz, 
 photographies pf tliis large colony. Thebottom offers wall-pain- 
 tings representing scènes of the colonial life. 
 
Denmark 
 
 This exhibition is interesting for the furriery, ono ^vill admire 
 there spleiidid leatliers and sonie fine pièces orjewellery. 
 The danisli coramic is also represented witli originalitj. 
 
 Belgium 
 
 Belgiiim is a country in friendly relations with France and 
 the bands Avliich imite it to it are not only platonic, since his 
 gênerai trade is counted by a total of qne milliard twelve 
 millions, ^vhat makes of it, after Eng-land, its most serions client , 
 like France is for it the most ^\'orthy consommator. Ho\\ever, 
 AS'hen the government invited lielginm to participate officially 
 at the Exhibition, the prince of Chimay, «linister of the foreign 
 ofîairs, ansAvered that as Belgium is a neuter country, ought in 
 ail circumstances imitate the attitude of the guarant powers of its 
 neutrality, and thèse powers having refused their officiai concours, 
 Belgium ought likewise présent a refusai. But at the same time, 
 the prince of Chimay declared him ready to aid with ail his 
 strength to the formation of tlie commitees destined to supply the 
 governniental action, and the count of Oultremont, a sincère 
 friend of France, provoked the meeting of the Belgian syndical 
 chambers who voted six hundred tliousand francs subside to the 
 l'xhibiters and elected as gênerai commissar, M. Carlier, deputy 
 o^ Mons. The date of 1789containsnothing which may shock 
 Belgium, issued itself of a révolution, and M. Carlier, conn'ng 
 a little later to plant the l^elgian fiag on the place granted at 
 tl^ Chanip-de-Mars and wherein we enter now, pronounced at 
 this occasion the sympathie following words : 
 
 We shall go to Paris in ail confidence, we shall not fear 
 anything neither for our persons, nor for our flag, too happy to 
 
a.ssociate the Belgian colours to tlie Froiicli ai*uiii-s, Mhich are 
 the rainbow of the Progress. 
 
 Belgium occupies, in totality, at the Exhibition, a spot of 
 eight thousand hundred and tifteen mètres. The principal section 
 in which we enter, nieasures 3606. 
 
 'i'he cotton industrj being one of the most important of this 
 country, occupies a conséquent place in the section of the 
 indnstrial products. So onecan remark threads and cotton tissues, 
 unbleached calico and wliitened, cottonnets,Yelvet cotton. Ghent, 
 ^vhicll is the most important market of the cotton industrj of 
 Belgium, counts cotton millsof 120,000, 75,000, 45,000 spindles, 
 Sucli a number tells us moi'e than a long enumeration. 
 
 The fabrication of wool-stufFs is not less important in Belgium. 
 Brussels lias acquired a réputation for that of the tartans and 
 shawls ; Verviers, Dinant, Tournai manutacture the mérinos, 
 the cashmere and other tissues. The class 32 is very remark- 
 able. 
 
 In The class 35 accessories of raiment, we shall stop the visiter 
 belbre the exhibition of M. Gustave Day, which offer a very 
 fine exhibition of linen, shirts, necklaces, collars, ruffles. This 
 manufacturer, wliose house is situated at Brussels, at the 
 numbers 65 (';) and 05 (c) ofthe Cologne street, knows liow to 
 gi^e to ail Miiicli comes from his house, a stamp of good taste 
 which, joined toilie quality of tissue, recommends him to the 
 persons désirons to hâve for a mean price, elegancy and solidity. 
 
 The class 38 (the portable and luxury arms), cannot be 
 other wise but interesting. Belgium, and Liège especially, being 
 reputed in the whole world for this industrv. The manufactory 
 of a.rms, in the countrj' of Liège, remounts in fact at the end of 
 the XVP^ century. But it is onl}- since its independence that 
 Jielgiuni lias really given to the industry of arms sucli a great 
 essor. In not -àny part ihey work at such a low price than in 
 
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 Liège. Nowhere they produce, with an eqnal perfection, 
 models of so varions arms, comprising an illimited yariety of 
 types, whicli by tlie gradation of their priées, satisfy to ail 
 Avants, tastesand clients. On this regard, A\e recommend to the 
 visitors to remark among ail, the exhibition of MM. Laport 
 and C of Liège, who make their speciality of fancy arms, of 
 Trade and exportation. The anns ^vearing the stamp of this 
 house, can be declared without rivalry, what concerns the 
 exécution, and however their priées are considerably inferior to 
 those of the armourers of London and Paris, who, besides, the 
 most part manufacture arms at Liège ^^hich ihej sell then at 
 very high priées as products of their own industry, MM. Laport 
 and C^ whose manufactory is 18, quay St- Léonard, at Liège, 
 hâve establislied at Rio-Janeiro, 88, rue des Ouvriers, and at 
 Delotas Rio-Grande (^outh) factories whose importance of exix)r- 
 tation is considérable. 
 
 The class 34 présents magnificent embroideries and tapestries 
 surely worth to be remarked. Fine laces, light guipures, to 
 spider's webs like, till several exhibitions. 
 
 But in this class we shall especially stop the visiter before the 
 exhibition Smits and C", m^inufacturers of Alost, who exhibit a 
 variety of tresses and laces, deserving to attire the attention; 
 tresses with laces, tresses cashmere, tresses to cord for tailors, 
 silk laces for staj-s and in ail other kinds. In short a true exhi- 
 bition of this important speciality. It is besides the house Smits 
 and C, reA\'arded with a golden medal at the Great Concours at 
 Brussels in 1888, who imported this industry in Belgium. The 
 extent of the afFairs is such, that the house lias establislied 
 agents for the sale of the laces and tresses at Paris, London, 
 Berlin, Hamburg, Constantinople, Bucarest, Milan, Turin, 
 Xaples, Barcelone and Madrid. 
 
 The Class 60 (coach-making, etc.), on the left in going 
 
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 likewisc iiiidei' tho Entrance, ofFers intoresting spécimens of 
 the Belgian coach-making, wliicli was Ibrmerly very celebrate. 
 It is known that Napoléon the First let corne from Brussels the 
 superb coach of his coronation which is at présent at London in 
 the muséum Tussaud. In this class, we beg the visiter to grant 
 an instant attention to tlie exhibition of the iron-works Dejean. 
 If the useful inventions must berewarded, M. Francis Dejean 
 will be it never enough, for in inventing the iron-works which 
 bear his name he has rendered to ail those who employ horses, 
 the most signalized services. Examine with us thèse iron-works 
 Dejean. They consist in stamped horse-slioes having at their 
 inferior part a groove in which is placed a band in gutta-percha 
 making a prominence on the shoe, which breaks the çhocks on 
 the pavement. This shoe, hollow on ail its turn, js naturally less 
 heavy than the ordinary horse-shoe and impedes less consequently 
 the allure of the horse. 
 
 Qne can easily see the immense advantage of the liorse-shoes 
 Dejean, wliose résistance is undoubtedly superior to that of the 
 plain horse-slioe, being given that the rubbings of the iron on 
 the pavement does no more exist, by means of the fixity of the 
 prop. The wear and tear of the shoe is considerably lessened, 
 and a house ^\'hich Ibrmerly spent a summ relatively consi- 
 dérable to buy the horse-shoes, has now but few expepses for the 
 same object, thanks to thèse marvellous shoes which, like ail 
 that represents a real improvepient, hâve rapidly ^>cqiiired a 
 great réputation, which they can amply justify. With the shoes 
 Dejean,no mojjp slidings to be feared in tho ascents an4 descents. 
 At the time of frozed ice, fhey replace yictoriously tbe iron 
 shoes for the ice, which costs too much and are very quickly 
 worn out. Thence, the horse, sure of its step, takes confidence 
 and marches with précision. The men of sport commence to 
 understand it, the expérience of it js made, and already, at 
 
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 Paris, a large number of race horses are provided with the iron- 
 shoes Dejean, which avoid the shocks and slidings. 
 
 With the ordinary iron shoes with frost-nails, how many 
 dangers and inconveniences ? At first the horse, not sure of its 
 legs, feeling it at each' moment at the point to sllde, takes soon 
 the use of a normal position, which tires in producing the con- 
 tusions of the lieels, the bleims and seims, etc. Ask your 
 veterinary,submit him the shoe Dejean, and you will see what he 
 will say to you. Wlien one is in présence of such a useful 
 invention, the duty obliges us to speak of it, to make it known 
 to the public. 
 
 The employement of the Gutta- Percha in the horse-shoe is 
 quite récent. They are the Americans who the first hâve in- 
 Acnted this application. At présent, the vélocipèdes, to speak 
 ])ut of thèse objects, hâve their wheel provided with a cushions 
 in gutta-percha, which softens the march, avoids the jolts, to 
 ])revent the tear and wear, ail that was is not to be wished 
 for the cavalier as much as for the tricycle ? M. Francis Dejean 
 lias he inspired him of this aim? We ignore it. and we hâve not 
 to occupy us with it. We insist only to make observe that the 
 invention of the horse-shoes Dejean constitues an enormous im- 
 provement, and that it is not astonishing that tlie public makes 
 them a good réception. 
 
 The horse-shoes Dejean, patented in ail countries, are employed 
 in Belgium by the greatest part of the ofticers, and the Chief of 
 the Cabinet ofthe Ministery of war has himself recommended it. 
 Besides, the most comi)etent among tlie Belgian veterinaries 
 bave propagated its employnient, though they hâve not any 
 })QïfBÛt by it, l)nt only l)eeause this System putsthe horse under 
 shelter of ail accidents which resuit by an iniperfect horse-shoe. 
 Finally more tlian a thousand testimonjals bave been delivered 
 to the inventer and ail come from persons eminently comi)etent. 
 
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 such as the Professors of the farriery, oftlie veterinary scliool 
 in Br:iissels, and tliose oftlie cavalryof Saumur,\vithout counting 
 numeroiis men of the sport, who employ only the horse-shoes 
 Dejean. 
 
 The horse-shoe Dejean, constituted in an anonyme society has 
 its social seat in JBrussels, 16, rue des Mégissiers. 
 
 In theclass 40 (toys-trade), some exhibitions deserve the in- 
 terest. 
 
 The visiter will stop certainly before that of a most serions 
 house of Brussels. A la Ménagère, ^\hose shops are 3, Vieux- 
 Mareho-aux-(rrains in l^russels, and which exhibits large bird- 
 eages remarkable of elegancy and lightness. The bird-cages are 
 the speciality of this house, like the utensilsof household in 
 iron furnitures. What more gracions than thèse cottages in 
 which légions of birds can take their gambols? Of course the 
 levers maist stop there. 
 
 In the class 19, of the ceramics, to remark very beautiful pro- 
 ducts the most part coming from LaLouvière. The industry of 
 the tannery is likewise one of the principal of Belgium. A 
 thonsand of tanneries occupie there about 35.000 workmen. To 
 remark above ail in this class (class 47) the exhibition of M. Van 
 de Putte-Crick, who exhibits tanned and curries leathers for 
 vamps which rivalise, so mnch at the point of the priée as of 
 the quality, with the similar products in England and France. 
 The leathers of vamps are besides the speciality of M. Van de 
 Putte-Crick, whose house is in Brussels, 42, rue Brogniez. 
 
 It is on the left hand, in starting from the hall, where are 
 exhibited the products of the exploitation of the Belgian mines 
 (class 41). The importance of the mining industry of this coun- 
 try is a garantee of the particular interest of this class. Thus the 
 anonyme society of the Coal-mines of Sacré-Madame, at Dampremy 
 exhibits there a sery of first materials and of the agglomération 
 of pitcoals, before which the industrials will certainly stop. 
 
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 Dutchland. 
 
 At the extremity of tlie Eulgian section, iii turniii;^' on tlie 
 rig'Iit we corne in the Dntch section, occuj)yinj^- it .surface of 
 940 meters. 
 
 Imitating- tlie great powers, Dutchland refu-sed the officiai 
 invitation of the French government, but it has pro\oked the 
 nomination of a connuission coniposed of important ]^)ersonages, 
 and the 3*^ of February 1887, in a meeting presided by M.\\'est- 
 heim, a societj of guarantee has be^n constituted. The most 
 important houses of the kingdom hâve inscribed them, subsides 
 hâve beenvoted, and Dutchland finds it worthily represented at 
 the universal Exhibition. Some exhibitions ofjewellerj, tapes- 
 tries, ofthe royal manufactory, turkey carpets of De venter, the 
 ceramic of Delft and fine earthen wares, such are the tliings 
 which one can remark willingly in this hall. The manufactory 
 of arms of Delft présents agun, a musket of cavalry, several 
 models of swords actually in service. 
 
 Austria-Hungaria. 
 
 The remembrances of the French Révolution are too bitter for 
 the house of Austria, for that the date could hâve sniiled to the 
 Austrian goAernment. This in fact, arîswered by a brief refusai 
 to the French invitation, quite in declaring it entirely dispo- 
 sed to solicitate those of its nations mIio wished to take part at 
 the Exhibition. 
 
 It was absolutely correct, but it was on tlie point to resuit 
 fer Austria a dangerous situation. The Tchèques, the Itohemians, 
 the Slaves of the South saw there an opportunity to planton 
 eachoftheir private exhibitions the flag oftheir national group. 
 Fortunatelv the direction ofthe Exhibition avoided the shock 
 
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 in provoking in Paris the création of an Austro-Hungarian 
 committee under the protection of the count Hoyos. 
 
 Tlie section Austria-Hungaria, which occupiés not léss than 
 2800 square mètres, is placed aside, eut of the other foreign 
 sections, enclosed in the French section of the divers industries, 
 and to enter therein in coming from that of Dutchland you must 
 cross the hall which cuts longitudinally the central wing, and 
 Avhere you can sit down a few minutes if you wish it. Itisa 
 long rectangular hall, decorated in frontons, in steamers of 
 acornsatthe Austrian colours, and the whole is of a severe aspéfct 
 which suits to the temper of this sympathie nation. 
 
 TheclaSs 36 is represented there by diversai'ticlesof gàt-merits, 
 cristals of Bohemià, earthenwares and especially of je\V'èlleriës 
 (iccupy several exhibitions. The pipes are in légions, àhd offér 
 a great variety of shàpes and sculptures. One will certainly stop 
 before the fine carpëts, like before the slio\\s reserved to Viën- 
 na's articles, morocctfs toys shops, boiok-bindings withoùt for- 
 getting splendid brass-works. 
 
 Some shooting-arms, well estahlished, but of a litUe heavy 
 aspect. 
 
 The Entrance of Honor. 
 
 Austria-Hungaria ends the sery of the foreign sections of this 
 partof the palace. The other s are on the other wing and ^Ve 
 shall not see them to-day. But shall pass the visiter through the 
 galleries of the French section which occupy nearly entirely tlie 
 vast extent of the Central palace. 
 
 P'ourteen galleries, seven on each side of the great dôme (cen- 
 tral) contain the divers industries of France. In order to em- 
 bracc the immensity of this section, let us gain again the hall 
 Mhich you ha^e crossed a little before to corne to the Jtdstfian 
 
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 section and go a long it until \ve are under the great dome,where 
 we are going to stop an instant. 
 
 Since tlie entrance until the bottoni of the palace, is extented 
 the entrance hall of honor, thirty meters A\ide, and which leads 
 directly to the Palace of the Engines. Before crossing this 
 boiling vein admire this dôme, which is simplj marvellous. 
 
 Twelve large w ail pictures decorateit half-arched,representing 
 France receiving ail people of the world at the Exhibition. 
 France is in the front of the gâte and each pannel figures a nation, 
 in that it is charateristic. A large balconj, at the third part 
 of the height, permits to enjoj the sight of the Chami)-de- 
 Mars, which from there is very handsome. 
 
 Under this dôme are exhibited the products of the manufac- 
 tures of the State, Gobelins and Sevrés. Advance slowly in the 
 Hall, where is concentrated the life of the Exhibition. On each 
 sideof you are the galleries where you will enter by and by 
 and each of the gales which give access there by the hall, 
 ofFers this originality to represent typically the corresponding 
 gallery. 
 
 So, the second gâte on your right, which opens on the gallery 
 ofthe enamels, is decorated with gracious enamels. On the sides 
 of the arch, two figures of women, in mosaic, are detached in 
 gold, and at the top an artistic -vase is erected. Then, on the 
 corners two enamelled grifibns. 
 
 A little farther, on your left, is the gâte of the Exhibition of 
 the city of Lyon. The arms of the second city of France, a lion 
 holding a sword, surmounted with indent turrets offer them at 
 the front. Farther on, on the same side, the gallery of the 
 arms présent a monumental gâte, with a treble entrance, a cen- 
 tral fronton on which is painted a cavalier, in armoiir, lielm and 
 hautbert caracolating at the treble galop the s\\ord in hand,on a 
 black steed ; at the sides of the three entrances, four [)edestal.s 
 
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 assemble the piled arms. On the aprons, trophées, cartouches, 
 briefly, an assemblage ot war. 
 
 Just in f l'ont, behold the gâte of the watch and clock manutac- 
 tiires, not less Iseautiful. Above the centre is a clock. On each 
 side a large clock. At the top is an hour-glass, surmounted 
 Avith a smaller clock. The whole represents a kind of beffroy, 
 of a curious efFect. 
 
 LoA\er on, you are before the door of the brasses of art, deco- 
 rated with imitations of brass. 
 
 l\vo low-reliefs represent a roman scène ; still lower, on the 
 left, that of the exploitation of theforests, on each side of which 
 two high pièces of trees are erected, and higher up furs, roes, 
 deers. Finally on your right still, the gâte of the Exhibition of 
 the mines, bizarrely constructed in iron, columns formed of den- 
 tings in joint iron, iron roUs forming arches. They are the For- 
 ges of Pompey, (Meurthe-and-Moselle), which hâve thissingular 
 entrance. 
 
 In front, and to finish this descri[)tion of gâtes, yoii hâve that 
 of the gallery of the artillery adorned with décorative cannons 
 and at the fronton spring out points of obuses. 
 
 In this hall where is roUing a hnmmingcrowd,like an ant-hill 
 in rimiour, private exhibitions are established. We liave hère, 
 before us, by example that of the Society of metals, interesting 
 exhibition of products of copper, dominated by a kind of canopy 
 in copper, composed of four high columns covered by a dôme, 
 surmounted itself by a bail on which glitters a sun . 
 
 To remark the maquetof the erpiestrian statue of Ktienne Mar- 
 cel, whicli lias been latelj^ erected on the quay of the Hotel-de- 
 ville, in the garden joining to this monument. 
 
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 The French Section (left side) 
 
 A\'c say let't side, but it is in turning the back to the lower 
 Eiffel tliiit we take that left. In reality it is on the riglit for tlie 
 visitor since lie linds liim at présent at the bottoni of the hall, in 
 front of the last ji-allerj, whose cannons forming; columns decorate 
 the monumental gâte, we pray him to begin by thèse his visit 
 with us, in order not to lose a precious time in mounting again 
 until the central dôme to commence by the first gallery. 
 
 \\'e sliall proceed hy order, class by class, in order to see ail 
 in the best conditions. 
 
 Class 41. — E,rp'()it(ltlon ()f tJte ttihies. — Artillc/'t/. 
 — BliiKling.s. — AU is enormous in this class. — Artillery 
 in ail kinds and models, blindings enormous of thickness, chim- 
 neys of steamers of ail dimensions, and of which some ones 
 are colossal. The edge tool manufactures, the sheet-iron works, 
 the steels are represented in this gallery, which is one- of the 
 most curious to visit. 
 
 To be remarked several smithed pièces. The steel Bessemer 
 is substituted in part to the iron in thèse pièces, shafts of machi- 
 nes, manivels, connecting-rods, rods of pistons, the axle-trees 
 straight and cranked of locomotives, are ail built in steel lies- 
 semer. 
 
 Class 47. — Hîdcs and leathers. — Letusgo out of this 
 great gallery where is kept the coach-making, which we shall 
 examine by and by, and let us penetrate in the second of the 
 galleries Mhich we hâve to see. 
 
 llere are at first the varnished leathers of ail colours, of which 
 the genious of the exhibiters lias made rose-windows,very agree- 
 able to the eye. 
 
 Then the hides and leathers raw, less a'-^reeable to the smell. 
 Hasten us to (juit this class \\ hich interests but the specialists. 
 
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 Class 45. — Chewîstry and pJiarmaœutir prodads. 
 
 — In going ont from tlie domain of the hongrery and tannery 
 we penetrate in that of the chemistry and apothicarery, as it is 
 said in jesting the art to drug the people. 
 
 This exhibition containsthe completest collection ofpharmaceu- 
 tic products : salts, Tarnish, soaps, stearins, oils, essences and 
 minerais, colours, giitta-percha. To remark the shops of the 
 specialists Vicat, Bravais, L. T. Diver, RigoUot et Géraudel. 
 
 Class 43. — Shoot ing and Fishing. — Andnowweare 
 in the class of the products of shooting and tishing. A first 
 salon, contains but furs and feathers employed it may be in 
 overcoats, cloaks, caps, bonnets, or used in car pets and cove- 
 rings, represent those of shooting. 
 
 Another more specially reserved to the naturalists, is adorned 
 with stuffed animais. 
 
 Then come the spunges, corals, until wales, representing 
 the products of tishing. 
 
 Class 42. — Exploitations and forestral imhist ries. 
 
 — Now, we are among the worked woods : Products of the 
 beach-trees, oak-trees, fir-trecs and pine-trees of divers essences. 
 
 Then the cork-tree, represented by the pyramids and whole 
 trees, the woods unbarked and the patchwork woods, the wain- 
 scoting, ^^•ooden shoe-making, flic barket-making, the basket- 
 making, cooperage, etc. 
 
 To be remarked an enorm trunk of mahogany, high almost 
 5 mètres. 
 
 Class 38. — Portahie arms. — We iind us again in the 
 Officiai Entrance hall. Let us pass in the gallery, whose gâte is 
 so splendidly decorated. 
 
 Plere are ex];)Osed the products of the gansmiths, sword-catlers, 
 manufacturers of swords, ofadornments ol ihe military equip- 
 ments, and the thousiuids of utcnsils indispensable tothc hunters. 
 
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 To be remarked the exhibition Lefaucheux, wliose réputation i.s 
 made. 
 
 Class 39. — Objer/s of campnient. — We foUow and 
 we enter in the class of campment, which is of course not one of 
 the less curions. 
 
 The industry of the travelling: and campment objects has been 
 during a long time the monopol of the English, the travelling 
 people by excellence. Eut since the Railways hâve taken a so 
 prodigious development, the voyages hâve entered in the taste 
 of other people. and France has not remained behind on this 
 matter . 
 
 In this class are assembled ail the objects of campment and 
 travelling : tents, portable beds, kitchen utensils, attirails of 
 Idéologues, naturaliste, etc. 
 
 Class 31. — ThrecuU and tissuos of ffar and hemp. 
 
 — And hère we are amongthe linen-cloth, batists, damassées, 
 we are dazzled-by the most marvellous collection of linen for the 
 lable and toilet which may be seen. At which table of a prince, 
 tliese table-cloth are they destined ? Which necks of queens this 
 fine guipures will they cover ? Our great Magazines of linen 
 liave bought ail thèse fine things and after the Ilxhibition it will 
 1)0 with them that one can contemplate thom and acquire. 
 
 Class 46, — WhifeicasJdiuj and Dijcing. — Pi'intcd 
 dresses. — This class, which occupies but a large room, but 
 occupied hère and there by numerous shops, contains very inte- 
 resting spécimens of dyeing ofwhitening stutfs, printings, prin- 
 t(.'d furnitures, etc. 
 
 (Vvss 44. — Afjriciiltiiral Proditcts non alinientarjf. 
 
 — This class includes the oils of ail kinds, the wax, tlie 
 wool, the dyeing woods,the hemi), the flax, the résine, the silk in 
 ail its States, in grains, cocons, spiddles, one sees there hop plants, 
 Uiistles and a ^ory curions collection of grains. 
 
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 Class 30. — TJireacls and rotton fissucs. — We go ont 
 still to pass in the following gallery, of tlie cotton tissnes : 
 mai^nificent exhibition ,*splendid cnrtains, embroidered, braided 
 in colonr like to décorative pans. Some one are trne pietnres. 
 Rouenneries ricli in models, spnrkling of colours. Articles of 
 Kpinal, Ronen, Remiremont, and of the large mamifactures of 
 Roubaix, Amiens, Saint-Dié, Bar-le-Duc, etc. 
 
 Class 32. — TJircads and woollen. tissnes. — This class 
 contains, for the wool ail what can be fancied of the most tînish- 
 ed, the prettiest in stuffs for dresses and costumes ; popelines 
 and armours, eashmeers ofcharming colours, lightshawls, ama- 
 zones, molletons. 
 
 Useless to say that it is overfiUed by our élégants who admire 
 the exhibitions of Roubaix and Saint- Etienne, bnd look at the 
 choice already made by the Great ^lagazins of and which will 
 form the fashion for the next season. 
 
 For the carded wool, this class offers the tinest collection of 
 stuffs, raiments for men, for the manufacturers the most fanions 
 hâve sent there their products. 
 
 One finds represented there : Elbeuf, Louviers, Sedan, Moza- 
 met, Tourcoing, Beauvais for their draperies : Amboise for the 
 travelling coverings ; Chàteaudun for its coverings for beds, 
 Orléans for its light shawls. There Vienne, Castres, La Bastide, 
 Lisieux, Vire, Carcassonne, Lodève, for their linen drapery and 
 light articles. 
 
 Ail is interesting therein, and the large houses of confections 
 of Paris hâve hurried them to make their choice among this 
 exhibition. 
 
 Class 53. — W/.' and silk tissues. — Let us go ont in 
 the officiai hall and enter in the next gallery, Avhose gâte is 
 adorned with the armoiries of Lyon. It is hère the exhibition of 
 this second city of France, without rivalrj' for the f^ibrication of 
 the silk stufFs. 
 
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 Lyon produces annually for about 500 millions on which the 
 importations amount to 400 millions. A^'hat more marvellous 
 than thèse tissues, from the Lyon manufactures? A walk in 
 this rich class is an enchantment for tlie eyes, and if you are in 
 a liurry, visltor, beware you weil to let enter tliereinyour lady, 
 for certainly she ^^•ell no more corne out of it. 
 
 Class 35. — Rosier s lusiness, merceries, accessories 
 ofthe raiments, — After the silk, we find us in the hosier's 
 business. 
 
 An Exhibition very various, shawls, stockings, gioves, 
 buttons, showed off with much art; fans among which are true 
 master-pieces. Then sticks, umbrellas, wonders of elegancy, 
 acquired for the most part by the great linen-drapors 
 magazines. 
 
 Finally merceries, morning-gowns which would give an 
 Qïiwy never to see the ladies but undressed, and petticoats 
 which are true poems, stays, braces, and garters, \\orth3- ^^ 
 a young bride. 
 
 Then stillshirts, necklaces and neckerchiefs for ladies. 
 
 Class 34. — Laces, tidles. — Still a new galierj- in 
 which we penetrate, among the ladies hair-dresses, and the 
 bright laces. This class lias irj'esistible attractions for the 
 ladies quite not disdaignedby the gentlemen. 
 
 In the lace-making, ornaments for churches embroideries, 
 tapestrie», applications of the needles ladies-works, dresses 
 ofthe Court to make lose the head to the wise^t young ladies 
 even. 
 
 Then the laces, guipures, embroideries on tulle, etc. 
 
 Class 36. — Gcirments for hoth sexes. — It is hère the 
 sanctuary ofthe dresses, there are some therein m liich would 
 render mad the less prideful women. 
 
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 Tlien artificial llo\\ers, wliicli oiie would gather so mucl 
 
 tliej are well done, flo^ers and feathers, etc. 
 
 At last tlie miments l'or men, livrées, uiiiforms, liatter- 
 works of ail kinds, since tlie melon until the silk hat, whicli 
 is a true muséum, since tlie Yokohama of 15 cent, uutil tlie 
 Panama of 1500 francs. Finally the shoes for both sexes 
 in which one remarks shoes, which without doubt, hâve been 
 placed there by forgetfulness, for they would hâve been better 
 at their place in the pavillion of the navigation, in the part 
 l'eserved to the small boats . 
 
 Class 37. — Jeicellerj/. — Going again out, Ave enter this 
 time in the last gallerj, ^vhere we fîiid at first the splendid 
 shows of the jewelleries. 
 
 At lirst the jewellery of imitation, the mourning jewellery 
 and fancy jeweller3% gold-bottomed, in steel and steel pearls. 
 Then the jewellery in gold, the true pearls, the rubis, the 
 emeralds, the jewels of art. AllAvindows coiild be cited. 
 
 Class 40. — Totjs^ ii-on-toys. — The toys form an in- 
 dustry almost exclusively parisian. 
 
 Tlius the class in wliich we enter effers no^^' especially 
 shops of parisian manufactuvers. 
 
 Toys, dancing-jacks. guignols, amusements for the children. 
 It is hère the true paradise of the children ! With what joy 
 the cliildren are crossing this enchanted gallery. They will 
 romain dazzled before thesuperb toys, the delicious puppets, 
 which exhibits Mr. Fernand Martin (n° 48) wliose manufacture, 
 situated at the number 90 of the boulevard of Menilmontant, 
 puts each year in circulation heaps of toys To remark too 
 the variety of articles of Paris which présents thi^ house. 
 
 With admiration the joyful babies will fix their large eyes 
 opened upon the speaking puppets, the mechanic toys, exhi- 
 
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 bited by Mr J. Steiner, iiiventor of the famous doll not to be 
 broken as the Parisiaii uses to say. 
 
 In 1878 Mr. Steiner, whosc manufacture is rue d'Avron,60, 
 obtaincd a silver medal ; if the suffrage of tlie balties can assure 
 him a second one, -he will obtain it certjiinly. 
 
 In this interesting class, let us also recommend to the visiter 
 to stop before the instalment of Messrs Noyon frères of 
 Cherbourg, (n° 89) who présent articles absoluteiy out of 
 rivah'3', so much by tlieir modest price than by their elegancy 
 and their solidity. 
 
 The house Fiachat and Cocher, of Lyon, présents likewise 
 (n" 95) in a vast room and of a décoration full of taste, an 
 exhibition which certainl}^ M'ill attire the attention. The 
 visiter, besides will stop therenaturally, the réputation of tliis 
 lyonnaise house being made since a long time. 
 
 To remark too the installation Choumer et Collet, who 
 obtained a silver medal in 1878. 
 
 This house, whose manufacture is 74, rue de Turenne, re- 
 commends itself among ail for the toys, and what it 
 exhibits (n<» 40, 41, 42)deserves certainly to be signaliized. 
 
 We hâve finished our walk of theside of the divei's industries. 
 Hère we are again at the entrance of Austria-Hungaria. 
 Let us cross the hall, on the right hand, towards the avenue de 
 la Bourdonnais in order to enter into the gallery of the Coach- 
 making, which goes alcng the others perpendicularly . 
 
 Class 60.— Coach-making, tricijdes, hicycles, leathcr- 
 "tdorks. — Thewalls of this class are hanged wiih [)roduets-of 
 class 21 (carpets and tapestries), what occasions some damage 
 to the Coach-making, whose very beautilul collection would 
 resort more on a plain îjottoni. 
 
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 Splendid Broulighams ; the two wheeîed dog-carts for mail 
 coach of a true elegancy. Hunting breaks, chariots mounted 
 on axles with guttaperclia and steel Bessemer. In a word, 
 exhibition wliich interests the connaissors. 
 
 The bicycles occupie the inferior part of the gallery and 
 offer ail types possible of tricycles, bicycles, etc. 
 
 The leather works présent a considérable qnantity of har- 
 nesses (classic and fancy). 
 
 Before leaving thèse sides, we wish to show to the visiter 
 ail what is contained therein. Si), we pray him to leave the 
 galleries, to gain the alley wliich follows, along the avenue 
 de la Bourdonnais, the palace of the divers industries and that 
 of the Fine Arts, and wherein numerous exhibitions are to be 
 visited. 
 
 It is at hrst the instalments under llie penthouse, where are 
 placed the important annexes of the Belgian section, and which 
 deserves a quarter of an hour of examination. 
 
 Then cornes a sery of particular exhibitions which we are 
 going to enumerate. 
 
 Pavllliou of the Forges of l'Horme. — The tirst, in 
 directing us to the upper part of the Champ de Mars (on the 
 side of the Tower Eiffel. In this industrial pavillion are exibited 
 the machines and manufactured products of this important esta- 
 blishment. 
 
 Pavillïon of the Expei-iences of the Gas. — Comes 
 after a large building were are installed gas pipes and where 
 the expérimentation of the motors find place, apparels of heating 
 and hghtning of gas, etc. Brief, ail that, which goes with the 
 gas, is exhibited in the class 27, which we shall visit later on. 
 
 Pavillion of the Diamoncls of the Cape. — At the 
 preceeding pavillion is joined this one, whose visit will be the 
 most curions. There will be seen the exploitation of the grounds 
 
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 of diamonds close to Yaal, on the frontier of the River Orange 
 Cape of Good-Hope) and the work of the diamond. Since twenty 
 3Tars that they hâve dis;covered the diainond at tlie Cape, thi.s 
 exploitation has become the wealth of the country. 
 , Pavillion Sohrcf/ et C^. — Pretty pavillion in hhie stones 
 of Belgium, of which one will admire the cntrance fi:ate and 
 where the house Solvay et C'^ of Bru.ssels exhibits its i)ix)(!nct8. 
 
 Belgian Coramissariat. — Another pretty paviHion, 
 likewise in bine stone, witli élégant columns. 
 
 Close by, is the élégant pavillion of the Socwf// of Mines 
 of Mariemont. 
 
 Let us ah\-ays follow, in passing the tend of the palace of the 
 Fine Arts, and where we shall meet tlie pavillion of the E.rlii- 
 Jntion of tlie ancient enil)roide)'ie>i,ç>i\\ very artistic i-etros- 
 pective interest, tlien that ofthe Forges of the Norfli of 
 France. 
 
 Pavillion of the Press 
 
 Finally the élégant pavillion of the Press whicli we make 
 reniark qnite particularly to the visiter. Bi.iild M'itli wooden 
 pans i)y Mr. Vandoyer, it includes atthe ground-tioor,;! recepiion 
 room, a eommittee room, a reading-room and correspondence 
 room, and a fourth Aviiere are the téléphones. At the lirst flœr 
 two private rooms and the Library. Two joining pavillions 
 are the complément of it ; on the right this of the Posts amt 
 Telegraphs ; on the left an Eating-house reserved to the jour- 
 nalists. The exterior décoration of this pavillion is of a very 
 fine aspect ; the porch is decorated with pans in earthenwares 
 executed by the liouse (1. Mostreux, after the drawings of Mr. 
 Lionel Royer. 
 
 To finish this sery of pavillions, hère is in continning our 
 
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 route, the building of tlie Exhibition of the Aqimrellistes , 
 marvellous under ail points. 
 
 Tlie visitor will be able to finisli tliere agreeably his second 
 dav of walk at the uni versai Exhibition. 
 
 THIRD DAY 
 
 For our third day of walk, we shall visit the whole Palace of 
 the Libéral Arts, as well as the right side of the Palace of the 
 divers industries (French Section), wliich will afford several 
 liours, for it is certainl}' as curions as the other,which we hâve 
 just nowcrossed. 
 
 But before we engage jou to visit the pavillions of the City 
 of Paris, Avhicli is on the right and on tlie left of tlie garden, 
 and where you will find exhibited ail what constitutes the admi- 
 nistrations, the institutions and the servicesof the Great City. 
 
 Corne back now towards the Tower Eiffel, without leaving, 
 the terrace, and direct yourself towards the Palace of the Libéra 
 Arts. But before to enter in it, there are three pavillons to see, 
 those of the Republic of Nicaragua, of Lota and of San- Salvador. 
 
 PALACE OF THE LIBERAL ARTS 
 
 The Palace of the Libéral Arts is composed of two large 
 naves, having each one 87 mètres in lengtli on 50 mètres of 
 widtli, joined by a gigantic donie of 32 mètres of diameter at the 
 base and 56 mètres of height at the top point. A circuit gallery 
 of 15'metres of width,witli the ground-floor and first floor com- 
 plète the édifice. At the first tloor, a l)alcony in j)rominenco on 
 the gallery is above the circuit of the nave. 
 
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 The surface of the palace is of 33.000 square mètres about 
 and essentialiy occupied l)y the exhibiters of the j^^roup 11, 
 which includes the eleven foUowing classes. 
 
 Class 6. — Education of tlie child. — Klementary tuition. 
 Tuition of the adults. 
 
 Class 7. — Org-anisation and material oftlie secondary tui- 
 tion. 
 
 Class 8. — Organisation, methods and material of the supe- 
 rior tuition. 
 
 Class 9. — Printing and librar}'. 
 
 Class 10. — Stationery, bookbinding, material of the arts of 
 painting and drawing. 
 
 Class 11. — Usual application of the arts of drawing and 
 plastique. 
 
 Class 12. — Proof-sheets and apparatus of photographj^ 
 
 Class 13. — Instruments of music. 
 
 Class 14.— Physic and surgery. Compared veterinary phj-sic. 
 
 Class 15. — Instruments of précision. 
 
 Class 16. — Maps and apparatus of geograph}^ and cosmogra- 
 grapl ly-topograpl ly . 
 
 Exliibition of the ^linistry of Interior. 
 
 In entering, we are in the professional tuition, which occu- 
 pies a wliole gallery. The professional tuition takes more 
 and more importance in our démocratie society, essentialiy 
 industrial. 
 
 The professional schools are numerous in France, ând in this 
 gallery are exhibited the works, books, given td the pupils, 
 sincethose oî tiie national schools of arts and métiers of Chàlons^ 
 Angers, Aix until the schools of less importance, and wherein tlie 
 young pupils exercise them at the handling oftlie tools. 
 
 In the class 10, which comcs next, is exhibited the paper- 
 making, the book-binding, the material of the arts of painting 
 
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 and d^a^^•ing. A spécial exhibition, but whicli lias not less its 
 interestinii side. 
 
 I^et us Ibliow tlie latéral iii'alleries, on eacli side, belbre to exa- 
 mine tlie centre, we see, in beginning on tlieriglit, tlie class 16, 
 of geograpliy and cosmograpliy, wliere one can see ail tlie pro- 
 ceedinj^'s einploved in tlie schools ot'our dnys to make "well 
 compreliend to tlie pupils tlie mardi of tlie sun and planètes. 
 Leliind, ahvays on tlie same side, is the class 15, of tlie instru- 
 ments of précision. Ail wliat contain tlie cabinets of pliysics, of 
 our collèges is assembled tliere : apparatus of bydrostatic, optic, 
 machines destined to the expérience of gravity and beat, pneu- 
 nicitic machines, etc. 
 
 Aside, in going up, is the class 14, of pliysic and surgery, 
 afterhaving passed a hall, the visiter arrives in the section of 
 the Liberal-Arts, of Netlierlands, interesting in ail regards, 
 Holland interested mucli in ail what concerns the tuition, one 
 can reniark the beautiful spécimens of said Dutcli papers, on 
 Avhich are printed so rich éditions. 
 
 Then comesBelgium, with a very important exhibition, whicli 
 includes almost ail classes. A\\)rks of the professional tuition 
 and the éducation of the cliild, material of the arts and })ainting, 
 ail things in Avhich Ijolgium lias acquired a deserved réputation. 
 The class 13, of the instruments of music, is particularly inte- 
 l'esting. 
 
 Let us cite in first line the house BERDEN, of Brussels, 
 Royal manufacture of pianos. It dates froml825; its 
 réputation is niade, its instruments are too Avell known by the 
 musical people, thus they bave obtained the highest rewards in 
 ail international exhibitions. 
 
 Auditions Avill be given duringall the duration of the Exhibi- 
 tion on the upright pianos lioudoir wliose sonority is really re- 
 markabk'. Messrs the exportators for the colonies Mill tind a 
 real ad^antage in treating directly \vitli this house. 
 
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 In imssing the class 14, reserved to the printing prodocts, we 
 stop at the installation of M. Ch. Claessen, printer-editor 
 at Liège, brandi printing in Paris, rue des Saints-Pères, 30, 
 whicli is remarkable by its well cared publisliingsconcerning 
 the architecture and the archeology. This house, founded in 
 1858, lias, with a good right, obtained the highest rewards, at 
 the Exhibitions of Paris, Vienna, Philadelphia, Antwerj), Bar- 
 celona, Melbourne, Brussels, London, etc. Its installation will 
 attract certainly the attention of ail persons occupying them 
 especially with industrial and dec<^ative arts. 
 
 After Belgium, cornes Switzerland, very important toc. The 
 helvetian Confédération is it not in fact at the foreposts of the 
 progress for ail what concerns the éducation and the teaching ? 
 Not inany part is the instruction more developedand at this title 
 the exhibition which it présents deserves to fix the attention of 
 si^ecial })eople. 
 
 One remarks, by example, works of children froni 5 to 12 
 years executed in the elementary schools. One would doubt of 
 the authenticity of this infant origin, so much thèse little works 
 are nicely done. 
 
 In the class 13, Switzerland is likewise brilliant. One ignores 
 not in fact that Geneva has the speciality of org-ans and nuisic 
 Ijoxes, and one can remark thèse boxes like harmoniphone mu- 
 sicswith batteries which are the most curions. 
 
 Let us turn on the right, and cross longitudinally the wing- 
 of the Palace, to enter into the latéral gallery of the opposite 
 side.W^e shall find the exhibition of the Ministry of Interior con- 
 cerning the prisons, the j)enitentiaries, etc. Tlien ccntinuing 
 always we shall find farther on the followingof this gallery^ 
 Avhere is repeatud the class 16, of geographv and cosmogra- 
 l'I'V. 
 
 And now, we hâve seenthe ground-floor, let us arrive at the 
 
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 part tliemost important ofthe Libéral Arts, and which keeps 
 the wliole centre of tlie Palace, we wish to speak of 
 
 The Rétrospective Exhibition ôf the Work. 
 
 llje rétrospective History of the Work and Sciences is perhaps 
 the part of the Exhibition which niakes the most honour to the 
 inspirators of tliis great industrial manifestation. The preceeding 
 exhibitions had made only af)art of it very moderato at the eco- 
 nomical questions, social or simply scientiiic. That of 1889 lias 
 not forgotten is was not only a gênerai exhibition of works of 
 man, but also the anniversary of an epoch of régénération. 
 
 The pavillion of the rétrospective History of the Work and 
 Sciences prescrits an origihality qiiite piarticulàr in its whole, its 
 construction and ornamentation. The architect, Mr. Paul Sédille, 
 chief ofthe service of installations, charged with thedifficilt task 
 to erect this construction at the iilterior of the Palace of the Li- 
 béral Arts, has put the différent parties of it in harmony with 
 the gênerai forms of the enveloping construction. 
 
 From ail paiis of the dôme of the Palace, under the nave, 
 élégant portics circumscribe two square yards at the open air, 
 whilst under the dôme thèse portics enrol them to form a 
 kiiid of rotonde, reserving at liis interior a circular yard which 
 take the shape of the cupola. At the first floor a platform 
 surrounded witli balustrades exists on the wliole part of the por- 
 tics, making so conmiunicate the two wings to the central part. 
 This platform, which is on the Siime plan with the balconies of 
 the Palace, is connected there by four fc>ot-bridges. Ail the con- 
 struction is in wood of iîr-trees. Its décoration isof a simple stylo 
 and absolutely original. On a grcen bottom^ ^liose tonality is 
 harmonious by black and wliite rehauts, bronze and gold,detacii 
 
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 rhem ot' the decor-ative massives of a délicate drawiii^, )x)i'ro\v(.'d 
 from the ornamental flore. 
 
 On ail the ci rcumference ol' the portics, a large frieze of in- 
 scription remembei^, under the form of concised phrases, the 
 dates of the great inventions, the names of the celebrate inven- 
 tors or the initiators of the most remarkable discoverings. 
 
 On the fronts of the entrance pavillions, décorative pans, 
 jiainted by M. Ch. Toché, represent types of différent races, 
 historical and allegorical scene>*, having connection with the in- 
 \ entions which hâve the most powerfiilly contributed to the im- 
 provements of the sciences, letters and arts, across the âges, or 
 finally re[)roductions of works and constructions the keenest of 
 which the humanity is honoured. 
 
 Cartouches in staff of various shapes, hanged by little cords 
 
 •'"against the fermettes of the i)ortics, lion heads, garlands in leaves, 
 
 iTiasts adorned with flowers, complète the décoration of the 
 
 whole, with which comes in harmony the décoration of détail 
 
 wliich we shall see in every section. 
 
 Retrosj)ectie exhibition of the sciences. — The rétrospective 
 history includes the four following divisions: 
 
 1** Anthropologie and etnographic sciences ; 
 
 2° Libéral Arts; 
 
 3® Arts and professions ; 
 
 4*^ Means of transjx)rt . 
 
 Its organisation was the work of a Committee having as prési- 
 dent M. Jules Simon, and as vice-presidcnt MM.Jurien delà Gra- 
 vière and de Quatrefages. 
 
 We enter at/ lirst in the rétrospective history of the anthro- 
 pological sciences. On each side of the entrance are two décora- 
 tive pans ; on the right a woman ofthc fîrst epochs of the huma- 
 nity, dressod of a hide and carrying a child. Under it is the 
 inscription : Epoque magdalénienne. On the left, a nian, 
 
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 holding an axe of stone, witli tbis inscription : Age de pierre 
 (âge of istone). At the front of the entrance the words : Anthro- 
 pologie, anatomie, physiologie, ethnographie historique. Then 
 the names of the learnedmen who created thèse sciences: Biiftbn, 
 Lamarck, Cuvier, GeoftVoy-Saint-Hilaire, Broca, Blumenbach, 
 De Baer, Camper, Retzius, Darwin. 
 
 The anthTOpology and etnography are presented under a more 
 curions than scientific aspect, in order not to frighten the visitor 
 little in acquaintance with thèse questions. Rocks, truncs of trees, 
 figures and scarecrow, arms and prehistorical objects show to 
 our eyes the history of man, which the modem science com- 
 mences hardly to unveil. 
 
 The second section of the libéral arts, gives somewhat the 
 panorama of the immense route which had to cross the libéral 
 arts to arrive to the prosperity of our days. From 1 789 to 
 1889, what a distance crossed! It is almost dreadful. The teacji- 
 ing, the printing, the instruments of précision, are^exposed there 
 in their successive transformations. The élégant form and the 
 quality of the matter gave formerly to the more modest articles 
 of work an artistic style which one will certainly admire. In 
 our days the industrial progress makes a little too muçh , forgets 
 the art, but the society finds there its benefit. 
 
 After you will arrive at the pavillion of the interior circle. 
 under the dôme, of which you will remark the brilliant orna- 
 mentation, figure the tw-elve signs of the Zodiac. 
 
 This pavillion contains the Ketrospective exhibition of the 
 théâtres, eminently curions and for which they bave reproduced 
 ail the documents, costumes, objects and sights which possess 
 the collectioners or the nuiseums. Under the dôme, in the centre 
 of the pavillion, floats an inflated balloon at tlie natural air. But 
 this Ijelongs to the section of the aerostation which we shallsee 
 at the first floor. 
 
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 Rétrospective exhi?jition of the Work. — Finallj we arrive at 
 tlie History of work, which is divided in two sections : jMeans of 
 trans|)orts and Arts and Professions. 
 
 Tlie tirst section wliere we are enterin^^ tliat of the means of 
 transport, is evidently reduced; for a complète exhibition of the 
 means of transport, it would be necessîiry to liave the wliole 
 })a]ace. Inscriptions nm in frieze : «Tho publics Works, or^anised 
 by Sully, Richelieu, Colljert. — Application of the hélix to the 
 navigation of vapor. ~ Invention of the tubular Wilev by 
 Marc Seguin, » etc. — And the numerous essays of the modem 
 inventions are sho\^'ed you, you assist at the commencementofall 
 iiTeat and mar-sellous machines u[)on which the use lias tired us, 
 A\hich [)ermit us at présent to cix)ss in so a liitletimesoenormous 
 distances. Then the signais of the Raihvays, whicli nover cease 
 to be transfoi'med, for the greatest l)enefit and the security of the 
 travellers. In short, an exhibition which one cannot cite but 
 briefly but which deserves to be considered in ail its détails. 
 
 Then cornes the section of Arts and professions, where we 
 see how was executed the power-loom, which lias iinmorta- 
 lised the name of Jacqu.art, and tliat of the spin-machine of the 
 flax, which must engrave the name of Philippe^ of Girard 
 in the memoin^ of men. One tbllows tliere the transformations of 
 the steel until tliat of Ressemer, whose discovering impressed a 
 new im})ulse to the industry. Then the invention of the piano, 
 the disco\ering of the photography by Niepce and its perfec- 
 tionement b\- Daguerre, etc. In a word a true rétrospective 
 muséum which establishes and shows the continuity of the 
 progress since 1789. 
 
 r^t us go up at the fîrst floor. On each side a rectiline stair- 
 case leads us there. 
 
 The whole of the gallery in which we arrive, forms the 
 bottom of the Palais (in turning the back to the Seine), is occu- 
 
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 l)ied by tlie foreign sections, whiçh hâve there their LilH3rAl 
 Sections. At the left, tlie United-States, which ha\^ there a 
 whole serv of pianos. In the centre, still Switzerland likewise 
 with music. It is kno\vn that tlie Helvetian Confédération is 
 renowned for the organs and the music lx)xes, Geneva above ail 
 lias this specialitv. To reniark a great numljer of boxes, which 
 l)la3' 80 well skipping and rnstic airs, and harmoniphones with 
 Itatteries which are verj noisy; at the bottom (always on this 
 extremity gallery), England ofFers a very complète and curions 
 exhibition, whereare likewise pianos, in nut wood like they are 
 done there. Several are splendid. Finally, in front of the centre, 
 where isSwitzerland, the section 13, of the music instruments, 
 is represented by beautiful organs, worthy to figurate in a 
 cathedral, andAvhich play at certain moments of the day,under 
 the impulsion of true artist.>5. Turning on the left, after P^ngland, 
 whose extension is still on a part of the longitudinal gallery, 
 we find Spain, Avith a ver^^ complète exhibition, then we arrive 
 at the class of the Elementary tuition, which interesses ail 
 those who hâve young children. Plans of schools, methods of 
 tuition, writing models, books destined for theyouth occupy this 
 part, to wîiich succeeds the class 7, of the secondary tuition, 
 where are fine maps, herbals material and very démonstrative 
 représentations of the geometry, etc. Then finally comes the 
 class 8, of the superior tuition, whei'e are ail the methods and 
 ail iiroceedings employed in the superior PYench schools, and 
 whose extent goes till the extremity. of the gallery-. 
 
 Tlie second transveri«al gallery belongs to the class 10, of the 
 paper manufactui-ing and lxx)kbinding. As the ]x)okbinding, it is 
 a true artistic exjjansion of ail the lichess to which lias accus- 
 îomed us the modem bibliophily. Those who like to cover 
 splendidly their l)ooks ^^•ill find there wliat to admire and t<> 
 clioose. 
 
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 The second longitudinal gallerv ofjens on the class 9, of tlio 
 library and printin^-. As for the library, ail Frendi editors hâve 
 kept in honour to figure there, and we must confess that one 
 cannot imagine more varions and richer* .showing-rooms. To 
 remark principall}' the window of the Library Chari^entier, 
 which shows ail the works of this celebrated house, and which 
 lias assembled the most renowned french writers of this epoch : 
 aniong otliers Zola, Daudet, Concourt. The printing, which 
 cornes after, shows that tliere still the French hâve no other 
 rivais than the English. Tlie beauty of the character, the fineness 
 of the printing,the originality of the conceptions, are alhed in the 
 French printing, and this exhibition, which gives a verj complète 
 sight of the unheard proceedings whicli they employ in our 
 da^'s, can but interest the connaissors, which unhappily, are 
 not numerous, for the crowd goes in préférence at the class 1], 
 which is after, and which Itelongs to the drawing and plastic, 
 Mnd esfK3ciaîly to the class 12, of the photography, where 
 jwrtraits, sights, proofs, plaques au gélatino-bromure, clichés, 
 instantly and other apparatus, occupie the showing-i'ooms, 
 useless to make remark that ail the photogra[)hs of renown 
 hgure there with their s^iecial proceedings, photographies at the 
 charcoals, enlarging, i)ix)ots obtained by the electric light or 
 magnesia, and even curions cssays of photography in colour, the 
 non resolved problem until this dny. 
 
 At the continuation of this class, Portugal bas a vor\- small 
 i*oom which is not in want of interest. 
 
 P'our foot-bridges, two on each side, ix3rinit to conie to the 
 galleries of the centre. The retrosi)ectiye exhibition is repeated 
 îbefe, and in tlie centre, alx)ve fhe exhibition of the theatms 
 })lanes the balloon of which we bave six)ken, whilst around the 
 • ircular pavillion are ail the rigging which copstitutes theexîiibi- 
 rion of aérostat ion 
 
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 Let us descend agaiii and leave the palace of tlie Libéral arts 
 10 enter in tiie gallery Desaix, of tliirtj mètres of width, 
 îuul which is occupied for tlie class 13 by the musical instruments. 
 Tliert' are but pianos, organs,oroliestrions,a dreadful cacophon}' 
 wliich enchants the children, but would make desi)erately bark 
 the dogs if one had not the bad grâce to interdict them the 
 outrance of the p]xhibition. In the pianos, there are really true 
 artistic pièces, and the art, put asid^, the houses Ple3'el, Erard 
 and some others well known, enchant the ears by tlie suavity of 
 harmou}' of the instruments Avhieh they exhibit. 
 
 Unfortunately ail tins harmony is lost in the enormous noise 
 produced by so many melodioUs machines or not. The brass 
 instruments burst, the organs roar, the pianos mourn, and the 
 Aiolines mew, without counting the orchestrions, Avhich 
 commence to acclimata them in France, which is not a recom- 
 mendation, and of which some ones are monuments. 
 
 Concerts are given by some houses on regular hours, and it 
 is then agreeable to cross the gailery Desaix 
 
 The two extremities of tins gailery are occupied by two 
 annexes of the foreign sections : on the right Russia, on the left 
 Italy. 
 
 Foreign industrial section (right side) 
 
 Now we are going to pass through ail foreign sections which 
 are of this side of the divers industries. There are : S^min, 
 Portugal, Remania, Norway, Ital}', Switzerland, the _United- 
 States, Russia, the Argentine Republic, the Republic of Saint- 
 Marin, Greece, Servia, Japan, Siam and Persia. Let us com- 
 mence by Spain, which is Ijefore us a littk' on tiie right. 
 
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 Spain 
 
 The Spanisli Government having' refused to participate 
 officially at the universal Exhibition, the Cortès voted a summ 
 of 500,000 pesetas to assist the commercial chamljers to 
 assure to the industrials the means to figure honorably thei*e. 
 
 The place occupied hy Spain is of 1250 mètres, included there- 
 in the I.iljeral Arts. The décoration of this section is entirely 
 taste. Tajjestries and cartouches of Hvely colours adorn the 
 ^valls : one feels one's self on the Spanish land. The showing 
 rooms offer a most enclianting sight. It is at first the class 18, 
 of perfumery , with rich glasses inclosing bottles of fine essences. 
 The class 17 (of the furnitures) is represented by furniture 
 objects sculpted, ^vorked very curiously. Remarka])le too the 
 class 35, with several rooms where are exhibited the so fine 
 muslins, the splendid laces of which the Spanisli industry bas 
 the speciality. 
 
 To remark too the arms and jewelry. 
 
 Portugal 
 
 After Sjiain, Portugal. This country bas but a modest jmrt 
 in the French transactions. France sends there 29 millions of 
 goods, and it reçoives 78 millions. It bas followed the examiile 
 of Spain, and Ijelievednot toowe reçoive favorably the French 
 invitation. But thanks to theprivate committees and the French 
 commercial chamber, Portugal occupies at the Champ-de-Mars 
 a place equal to that in 1878. 
 
 To remark in this section the class of the tissues, that of tlie 
 cefamic, represented by tlie earthen-vessels of a great curiosity. 
 Large sho\\'-rooms of perfumer>', excel there in soaps. 
 
 The class 42 of the exploitation of the forests, offers a rare 
 collection of ^^•ood essences. 
 
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 Remania 
 
 x\fter liaving' i)as.sed tho littlo entraiice hall Miiicli follow 
 r^ortug-al, Ave ilnd us in front of the entrance of the Ronianiau 
 section, which is very interesting. On every side of the entrance 
 we remark Uxo handsome Windows where are exhiliited magni- 
 licent romanian ladies dresses. In the middle of the section is a 
 superb exhil)ition of furs. To cite yet very handsome leather^ 
 and t issues. 
 
 Luxemburg 
 
 In continuing, we are in the Luxemburg, small section of 
 320 mètres only, but which is far not to offer anv interest. One 
 will remark among other earthen-wares of a very fine work. 
 
 Norway 
 
 Sweden has no section, and is represented atthe Exhibition by 
 the Cottage which we hâve already visited on the left of the 
 Tower Eiffel. The effort was too great. This little country did 
 not wish to tempt it. In re venge, Norway is splendid. Besides 
 this section, in whicii we enter, it has a pavillion close by the 
 preceeding and a second one on the esplanad of the Invalids. 
 
 A very interesting section. Sèmerai rooms represent cottages 
 of Norwajs and tlie shows are made with the best taste. To note 
 spécimens of furnished inhabitations and disposed like those of 
 the country; fine terra-cotta of Christiania, rich fiirs of Bmndt. 
 Tlie elass of the exploitation of the forests is represented by the 
 products of the manufactures of wooden pasteboards and wooden 
 })asts, exliibited in sculpted wooden constructions which liave no 
 other imi)erfection but this one to be a little massive. 
 
 Finally the visiter will remark tlu; exhibition of tho nail- 
 manufactories of Christiania, whose sign-l)oard is a statuary 
 
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 gTOup rei)resoiitin;^ a black-smith in tho [loint to sliofi a liorse 
 (bronze imitation). 
 
 United States 
 
 Tho United-States occupy at tho Exhibition of Paris a total 
 place of five thousand mètres. The commercial connections 
 b(3t\veen them and Franco are large, whilst tliis one sends for 
 six hundred sixty-five millions of products, and receives from it 
 six hundred thirtj-iîve, what constitutes a total numbiT of busi- 
 ness of one milliard three hundred millions. 
 
 Thus the United-States ought to be represented well at this 
 great Exhibition, it is to which the Exhibiters hâve made the 
 greatest efforts like the(.'ommittee of theSection,whose président 
 is the General Franklin. 
 
 The Section of the United-States occupies by it alone as mueh 
 room as Norway, Luxeniburg, Servia, Portugal and Spain 
 together. It is a long gallery, of a simple décoration. In ente- 
 ring, one remarks at the left the Graphophone Sunnner Tainter 
 which assembles always a crowd of curions people. Then, on 
 each side, exhibitions of writing-machines. The caligraph (the 
 Worded type Writer G", the Hannnond tj'pe W^iting. 
 
 P'arther oh, the Exhibition Allen and Ginter, the cigarets 
 Richmond Gem where a cannon in cigarets, a map in tol)acco, 
 etc., stop the curiosity. 
 
 Then the coach-building,magnifiant carriages of Healy and C". 
 
 To remark, in continuing, at the left, the curious jx^trified 
 woods imitating the marble, und the mosaïc (Arizona-Petritied 
 Wood Drake Company. 
 
 In front,one can reniark tine arms amung others those of th(i 
 Winchester-Rei)eating arms Company (New-Haven). 
 
 In continuing, one crosses a passage which cuts in two the 
 Section, and at the four corners of \Ahich are splendid exhibitions 
 
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 of jewels and cristal Meriden Britanniac, David ToUamore and C«, 
 Gorham and C», Triffimy and C^ 
 
 Let us cite finallj : a glass-case where are superb sticks with 
 golden pannels, several glass-cases of perfumery, C. A. Mann 
 and Co, Colgate and C<*, Lundboys of New-York, a curions exhi- 
 bition of lamps of the Hochester Lamp Company (New- York), 
 and in front automatical arm-chairs of a yery ingenuous and new 
 System. 
 
 In the entrance hall which is the continuation, are, at the left 
 of the entrance, an enormous and admirable meerschaum pipe ; 
 representing an oxhead, a the right, a window with pij:)es 
 representing the 22 présidents of the United-States, since A\^as- 
 hingtonuntil Harrisson. In the centre of the Entrance hall, i.s 
 a Venus of Mille of the weight of 900 kilogrammes moulded in 
 chocolaté in the manufacture of Henry Maillard of New- York. 
 One may remark that greedy visitors or those who doubted 
 that it is true chocolaté, hâve scratched the pedestal of tliis 
 extraordinary statue. 
 
 Italy 
 
 We lind us again in the gallery Desaix, and turning on the 
 right, we enter into fuU Italy. 
 
 The Italian government would hâve had bad grâce to invoke 
 in favour of the officiai abstention the excuse of the date of 1789. 
 So ^Ir. Crispi, refusing the participation of the government, 
 spoke in a disturned way : not any political reason has guided 
 us, said he ; we determined only so by econonn'cal reasons, the 
 necessary expense for an officiai représentation is still higher 
 than in 1878, and the chamber insists constantly on the écono- 
 mies to realise by the government ; besides, numbers of nations 
 do not participate officially at the manifestation. Nevertheless we 
 
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 shall apix-ai' la. a ^ood rank, we liope it, tbr ^^•c shall grant ail 
 [io.ssible iacilities to tlie industrials and artists who should like to 
 partjcipate in it. 
 
 Une could liave put this question, if to exhibit the products 
 of a nation to an Ivxhibition made by a neiglibourin^ country, 
 it was very logical to choose the moment even in whicli tiiis 
 came to take the initiative to shut its frontiers. But, in spite 
 of the known facts, Rome, Florence, Turin, Milan, etc., hâve 
 constituted initiative connnittees and voted subsides: the chambers 
 ot'counnerce hâve appointed delegates, and tbr to constate but 
 the définitive resuit, one saw, the 8^'^ of october 1887, Mr. Villa, 
 président of the initiative committee,accompanied by the prince 
 Sciarro, Messrs Branca and Luzzati, visit at the Champ-de-Mars 
 th(^ emplacement whose concession they hâve asked for and to 
 plant tliere the italian flag in front of the French, at the cries : 
 Long life to France and Italy ! 
 
 The Italian Section is certainly of the linest. 
 
 Let us cite at random the class 37,of je\veller3',represented by 
 curions shows of jewels in mosaïc and glasses of ^^enice, and 
 Florence. The class 20 enamels and mosaïcs, ofters mosaïcs and 
 roman glasses of Gai la nd, very curions. 
 
 Let us cite stillthe porcelan of the mamifactory Ginori, Vene- 
 tian cristal manufactories of Sahiati, vases of Candiani \vhose 
 past in glass contains the gold and silver of which it seems 
 incrusted. Finally superb furnitures incrusted A\itli industrial 
 spécial ity of Milan. 
 
 Switzerland 
 
 Âfter Italy, the Swiss confédération, Avhich is announced by a 
 îypic entrance, in the shape of a cottage. Switzerland, which 
 lias preceeded France in the way of Liberty-, lias not hesitated to 
 accept the officiai participation. AU the countrieshave voted sub- 
 
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 sidies, and tliisso bnsv and quiet nation, occupies at the Exhibi- 
 tion a total space of four thousand five liundred mètres. 
 
 Switzerland cornes in tlie fourth place of the gênerai relatijjns 
 with France Tliis last sends it for 287 millions of goods and 
 receivesof it 348 millions. 
 
 Ail would be to cite in this section. 
 
 Let us specially remark : class 77. Vevy interesting exhibi- 
 tion ofjewellerj. This industrj is aboveall ofGeneva. Rich 
 Windows of jewels, admirable sets of diamonds, corals, etc , 
 imitations of precious stones which would deceive the best con- 
 naissors. The blue stone of the Alps, which is only worked 
 there, are showed there in collars and bracelets. 
 
 In the class 27 (heating and lighting) beautiful stores in ear- 
 thenwares (porcelan),kind majolique and which are true master- 
 pieces. 
 
 But the principal saloon of this section is that of the class 26 
 of the watch and clock-making. The swiss industry by excellence 
 is and will always be the watchmaking, as well as the concur- 
 rence of America may be disastrous. Switzerland counts several 
 watchmaking scliools ; at Bienne, La Chaux-de-P'onds, Fleurier, 
 Geneva, etc. Thèse schools exhibit detached pièces, little spécial 
 tools made b}^ the scholars. To remark the rich chronometers 
 for navy and post, with an indication of the march. In the 
 class 34 (laces, tulles, etc.) ; we remark above ail the embroide- 
 ries,muslins, blends,curtains and screams which wear the stamps 
 of the countries of St.-Gall and Appenzell. 
 
 A small annex of the section is to )3e fbund under the Entrance 
 hall, where we are again. It is ornamented with alpestrian 
 pictures of very original efFect. 
 
 Russja 
 
 We are at the entmnce of the russian section, which is exten- 
 
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 deJ at tlie sido of the Eiitrance hall, making pendant to the 
 Austrian section wliich Ave hn\e seen in the otlier wing of tlie 
 Palace of the (hvers industries. 
 
 TheRussian f^ovornment, no more than the other jjreceeding 
 States, lias consented to send a genei-al officiai commissaire, and 
 the Czar would hâve pronounced himself for the ahstention, in 
 giving for objection the date of the convocation of the Etats- 
 Généraux, date, which effectively, represents for Russia but 
 tliat of the political progress which lie ambitions not for his 
 own States. 
 
 But in Russia like everjwhere else, they hâve separated tiie 
 ix)litical act of the célébration of the centenary, from the econo- 
 mical act, that is to say of tlie openingofan Exhibition destined 
 to pass in review the realised progresses since a centur}- ; and 
 onr diplomaticiil représentants like our consuls having activel}' 
 employed them to assist them, private committees were formed. 
 
 'Y\\(i jcmrnal of St. Peterslm/rg, organ of the ministry 
 of the foreign afîairs, publishes regularlj- an advise to the Rus- 
 sian exhibiters of the committee established by the authorisation 
 of the Ministry of the Interior to organise the participation of 
 the industry ; and the Russian connnerce at the universal Exhi- 
 bition. The participation of Russia, as much private, bas then 
 l)een openly ass'isted by the Ministry. 
 
 The number of business of France witli Russia is not very 
 considérable. This one sends annually 185 millions only to tiie 
 French connnerce. 
 
 The Russian section meiisures nineteen hundred mètres. In 
 ail regards a very beautiful exhibition. 
 
 Let us cite the Ijeautiful bronzes of the Caucase, original cera- 
 mics of tone and form, Russian leatherg with an agreeablesmell. 
 But it is the class of peltr}-, which is the richest without con- 
 testation. (3n<^ inay remark there^furs and overcoats of 10,600 
 
francs, simple funed collars uhich value 4,000 francs, and a 
 wliole serj' of national costumes, of wliicli some ones are splen- 
 didlv adorned, representinj^ true richesses. 
 
 A corner reserved to tlie coacli-making represents charming 
 sledj2res and of thèse spécial kinds of carriages belonging to Rus- 
 sia and which they call egmsts because they can serve only for 
 one person at once. 
 
 French Section (right side) 
 
 Before finishing our visit to the foreign sections, let us avail 
 ourselves of our présent situation to visit the right side of the 
 Palace of divers Industries (french section) which counts seven 
 galleries, even as the opposite side. Let us proceed regularly. 
 
 Class 24. — Jewelle/'i/. — The first class wliere Ave are 
 now is that of the Jewellery, rich in ail, and admirably orna- 
 mented. 
 
 The jeAA'ellei'v is one of tlie practical wonders of industrial 
 Parisian art. The value of the métal cornes but at the second 
 ord«r. 
 
 In this exhibition which includes a quantity of precious 
 ol)jects and surtouts incomparable for table, ail is in the work, 
 :nid surely Me must agrée that the moder ncistîling of the artists 
 do not make a bad figure after Benvenuto Celhni and his émules. 
 Magnificent shows of cristaliery and ciseled services. 
 
 Class 20. — Mosaïc. — After the jewellery, we pass in the 
 dominion of the earthenwares and biscuits. The earthenwares 
 of shelves offer astonishing pièces. 
 
 Then the ceramic pavements, enamellings, paintings of 
 earthenwares, witiiout forgetting suixîrb chimeneys which are 
 true master- pièces. 
 
 Ail the artistic illustrations were désirons to Ije represented. 
 
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 Suwe must admire nll witliout to make a clioice. Little statues, 
 bas-reliets, and rusl ic pit^ces. large vases kind of Bernard Pal- 
 liss}', a marvellou.s ^vhite service in earthenwares of Limo^'es, 
 M s{)lendid surtout of bliie earllienware ; enaniels old style of 
 Limoges, on eai'thenware and china; great imitation vases of 
 old china, and other.s Avith liandlos and the feet in bra^s ; the col- 
 lection of earthenw are from the manulUcture of (iien, and fin;illy 
 tJKî splendid exhibition of the great deposit of the rue Drouot, a 
 récapitulation of the splendeurs ofthis class. There is bricfly 
 w'hat we hâve to point ont. 
 
 A part of the second gallery, in which we enter in leaving 
 on our right Russia, beiongs still to the class 20, but the class 19 
 comes at fir.st (crisials, glass^s and church-windows) offering 
 very cui'iousthings, like bottles of 15 litei's, glasses of460 liters, 
 thermometer pipes of 2 m. 50of height, on 90 centimeters 
 of diameter.Superb looking-glasses on ail sides, without speaking- 
 ofthose of Saint-Gobain who^e dimensions are enormous. To 
 cite two very large looking-glasses, the one uni)olished, the 
 ot lier polished, and which measurenot lass than 8 m. 20 of 
 height on 4 m. 75 of width. 
 
 Inconn)arablecristals, lustres, gigantic vases, niake of this 
 class a true wonder. 
 
 The class 20 continues then till the extremity, 
 
 Class 17. — Furnitures. — The third gallery is entirely 
 consecratedtothe furnitures, libraries, high credences, billiards, 
 it is a true muséum of furnitures. 
 
 We ought to enumerate ail to be impartial. 
 
 Jn ail regards, the exhibition of furnitures of the Grajids 
 Magasins du.. Boa Marc/w is interesting. 
 
 In visiting the corner of the gallery, at the n" ICG of this 
 class, the renowned magazins offerte the attention of the visitor 
 a coquette installation, a small drawing-room where are exhi- 
 
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 bited the prettiest models of a parisian furniture. Is it necesstiry 
 to saj that this incomparable liouse défies any other hy themodi- 
 city of its priœs? Truly, alltliese marvellous things are at the 
 reach ot* the less profligate purses. Canapés, sofas, little fur- 
 nitnres of art, the cheapness and the good taste are there united, 
 and not an3^body will cross this gallery without stopping there 
 some instants. 
 
 At the four corners of the middle of this class, which cuts tlie 
 gallery, in passing, it seems bosides that the grand magazinsof 
 Paris kept in honor to unité them. 
 
 I^t us enunierate the Exhibition of the Patronage of tlie 
 children of the cabinets-makers. 
 
 Class 18. — Tapestrj- and Decorator \s works. — The fourth 
 gallery is atleast, as interesting.The parisian industry is without 
 concurrent, in the upholsterer works, and ne ver the décoration 
 ^yas so cultivated as in our days, even in the most splendid time 
 of the last century. AU large houses of Paris are represented 
 hère. 
 
 Class 21. — Carpets and tapestries. — The tapestries gal- 
 lery reserved to the carpets could but to be richly adorned. 
 So, there are stufFs, like you are dreaming them often, but like 
 scarcely you can find such. 
 
 The tissues of the furnitures offer a unheard variety. The 
 oil-cloth, the linoléum and the gotfered leathers are presented 
 under ail their transformations. 
 
 Class 26. — Clock and watch-making. — Hère we are at an 
 entrance,so excentriciilly decorated in beffreys, of the gallery of 
 the watches and clocks. How many movements in this class ! 
 They are more in a hurry there than elsewhere, as if one would 
 fear to corne too iate. 
 
 There are but regulators, alarmers,^\ atches and chronometers, 
 ail is curions there and worthyof attention. To notice; on the 
 
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 left, in entering, the exhibition in which are exhibited thc works 
 of the wateh-making school of Besanç^on; like the splendid col- 
 lective exhibition of the same town. 
 
 But let us go quickly ont of this class, for we see hère too well 
 how the time passes quickly. 
 
 Class 29. — Morocco leather. Hère we are at the niorocco \s 
 articles, toys, brushes, sheaths, etc. 
 
 The morocco articles are still one of the parisian industries 
 which give only products of a very fine taste. Thus how many 
 pretty things among thèse brittle things ! How many splendid 
 work-boxes, how many spkndid book-bindings, how many little 
 brittle things. 
 
 For him who likes to give nice présents, there is only the 
 difficulty of choosing. 
 
 Class 28 — Perfumery. — The perfumery is dépendent and 
 is announced by delicious effluvias. There is on the sIioav ail the 
 protector povvders of the skin, ail pommades, ail lotions, ail 
 known and unknown cosmestics. The ornamentation of this hall 
 is agreeable. One would believe one 's self in a vast saloon of a 
 copurchic hair-dresser of the }x>ulevard des Italiens. 
 
 Zim, Piolet and ail the jierfumers at fashion hâve there their 
 exhibitions which charm the eyes in balming y ou the smell. 
 
 Class 22. — Painted papers. Still an industry quite pari- 
 sian, that which is represonted hère. How many pretty things 
 one makes, in our days, with thèse painted papers who Mould 
 seem devoted to tlie banality. There are very fresh tajjestries, 
 very new ones and in harmon_A- of colours and drawings ^ith 
 thèse new stuffsof lurniture which are soresearched since several 
 vears. 
 
 Class 25. — Bronze works. Let us pass in the next gal- 
 lery, of the bronze of art, castings of art and nierais, whicli in- 
 closes ail the place of the gai 1er y. 
 
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 It is there snrely one of the most interesting classes and tlie 
 richestoftlie Exhibition, at The double point of the art and stuff. 
 It is a true muséum of small statues, lustres, torchères, suspen- 
 sions, clocks, garnitures of chimneys, supports, divers objects 
 in iron, in copper, in tin, in lead and galvanoplasty, with what 
 to îidorn two hundred palaces. 
 
 How many charming objects sollicita te the regards and excite 
 your admiration! Ever y thing ought to bo noted. 
 
 Clvss 41. — Exploitation of the mines. — Finally, we arrive 
 to the seventli gallerv, which décorâtes such an excentricentrance 
 in whlch the iron and the nielting efforce them to take form 
 o:" art. ilerr continues the class of the exploitation of the mines, 
 Avhich we hâve already seen in the other part of the palace and 
 in the corresponding to this one, but instead of artillery and 
 chimneys of steamers, we remark superb constructions in cop- 
 per, tin and nickel, platine and silver, like the products of mel- 
 tings and flattening-mills. 
 
 Finally exhibitions of \ery varions iron- works. 
 
 Class 27. — - Appareils of heating and lightning. — The 
 remainders of the gallery is occupied by the heating-apparatus 
 and the différent Systems of lightning known and unkno^yn ; 
 lightning with the oil, gas, little motors, heating with the 
 steam, water, gas; calorifères, moving-stoves, movable or not, 
 monumental chimneys, etc. How many lustres ! How many 
 lamps, new and ingenious Systems ? It is splendid, but dazzling. 
 
 At the class 27 is joined an annex, on the other side of the 
 palace, towards the avenue de La Bourdonnais, ' where are 
 experimented the gas apparatus. 
 
 Greece 
 
 Let us go out again in the entrance hall, and enter into the 
 perystil in passing the Brewery-Eating-Jiouse of Switzerland, 
 
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 Paris and tlie establishment Heineken, then let us cross again the 
 gallery Desaix, nntil its extremity. Wlien we sliali hâve passed 
 the entrance of S})ain, in turning at the left, we enter in tlie 
 little section of the Repubiic of San Marin, and tlien in a gallery 
 which will bring: us quite straight to tlie Greek section. 
 
 The Kingdom of Greece has not hesitated an instant to accejjt 
 tlie officiai invitation, and it is a distingui^hed eiigineer, 
 Mr. Vlasto, who has been ai)pointed as gênerai commiswiire. The 
 Greek section where, we go in measures fi^•e hundred twenty 
 iive mètres. 
 
 To remark the tissues of silk and cotton and. the collection of 
 ores of this country. 
 
 Servia 
 
 The kingdom of Servia makes the continuation of Portugal. 
 The lately events of which it has been the théâtre hâve not 
 hindered its participation at the universal Exhibition. A national 
 commission, under the presidence of an ancient niinister of the 
 public Works, M. Goudowitch, lias occupied it actively and an 
 active and sympathie man above ail, the distinguished agricul- 
 turist M. Miloche Hadji-Popovitch, delegated by the Servian 
 (jovernment, ma de ail his efforts tliat Servia might he worthily 
 rcpresented. 
 
 This section, which measures but 400 square mètres, is full of 
 curions things. Let us name the exhibition of arms of the techni- 
 cal military establishments of the kingdom, of Kragouyevatse, 
 the tapestries of Pirote, entirely made by hand, and of a very 
 moderate priée, handsome national dresses, grains, superb 
 plums, mai7X', and the rich collection of the minerais of the 
 country : ( opper, Coals, Quieksilver, etc. In a corner of the 
 room is hanging a splendid lustre in smithed iron. 
 
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 Japan 
 
 We arrive at Japan. Our walk will redouble of intsrest, 
 the exotism of this singular country l3eing well made to astonish 
 the friends of wonders. 
 
 The empire of Japan is never in contradiction in thèse cir- 
 cumstances. It is impossible to be more opened to the progress, 
 and to compreliend Ijetter its true interests. Its participation 
 is officiai. Tokio is speciallj distinguished by the activity 
 employed in regard of this exhibition. The count Ho'urada (it 
 is known that Japaii has assumed its nobiliary titles to ours), 
 minister of agriculture and commerce, the viée-counl Tatiaka, 
 minister of Japan at Paris, and Mr. Okoski, consul of Japan at 
 Lyon, are members of the commission appointed by the'govern- 
 mentof Japan, which lias taken at its charge the expenses of 
 ti-ansiJort ôf the objects destined to figure at the exhibition. 
 
 The Japanese section is \ery A^ast and cohtiiiues after the 
 entrance hall, until the Persan section. A\'hat to say of it ? 
 AMiat to cite ? 'AU is unheard there, sujjerb, unlikely. Yedo 
 has sent silk tissues, admirable ^ases with flowers, cliina-vases, 
 burn-perfumers ^^•llich are true jewels, boxes with perfumes in 
 gold and siher which would enchant thé goldsmith, cups, glas- 
 ses, furnitnres, in lakes, in bronze, screams orîginally painted. 
 Kioto exhibits tea-caddies in silvcn* recovered,enamelled without 
 equals. 
 
 Lct us cite stili libraries in nacre, sweat-meat Ijoxes, umbrel- 
 las, baskets in bamboo, artificial fiowers, ail that marked at 
 the coin of the Japanese genius which is the most strange 
 which exists. 
 
 Let us nos forget the articles of campment ; travelling-bags 
 in leather, which they call liemezigaviU and tools, and pup- 
 I)ets,and pantins, i^irticular industry in which the Japanese excel. 
 
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 Finally the party reserved to tlie Libéral arts, and which is 
 curious at ail regards. It is kiiowii that the Japanese, eagcr 
 of sciences, interest tliem much in the questions of tuition. Tlic 
 empire-possesses not less than 25,000 schools! A pretty number 
 for a country which lias only connnenced to 0[)en it to the pro- 
 gress. 
 
 Orient — Persia 
 
 We are in the whole Orient, and hère is the Persian section. 
 Everywhere are floating the white Paviilions with the red 
 moon. The décoration of this Hall remembers that of the buil- 
 dings of Téhéran, and everywhere on the walls, tapestries with 
 living colours. 
 
 We hasten us to penetrate more forward in the Oriental 
 town,and it is why we invite the visiter to go out of the Palace, 
 at theleft, towards the avenue Suffren, where he will find hini 
 in the pentre of Egypt, in a street erected entirely after one of 
 those of the country of Mahomet. 
 
 A Street of Cairo 
 
 It was famous in Paris much before the opening of the Exhibi- 
 tion, this picturesque street. When one comes out of the Palace 
 of the divers Industries, a littlo giddy pâte and aching of a blus- 
 tering décoration, the eyes rest theni thore instantly. ÙXot any 
 art has carricd at the same degree of perfection as the arabian 
 art the elegancy and the grâce qf the Unes, it appoars that the 
 idéal of the happy life has consisted for it to the indolence in a 
 cool place with exquisit und iight shapcs around it, it pénétrâtes 
 you with what I don 't know of languishness. 
 
 Itis without rivalry in what theycallofits nanie the Arabes, 
 in the subtile geometrical conibinations. It is [jroi^erly thu 
 
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 genius of this race, whicli lias never kiiown our vénération for 
 tlie natures will, this street of Cairo is scru[)iilous!ly exact. 
 
 It is nnder the direction of Mr. Delort of Cléon, gênerai com- 
 missaire, thatthe Works hâve been imdertaken. Mr. de Cléon 
 lias a long time dwelled in Egjpt. Diiring liis long sojonrn at 
 the shores of the Nile, lie has gathered, at the course of impor- 
 tant démolitions wliich hedirected,a considérable quantitj of 
 materials : worked wooden-works, doors, moucharabis, wliich 
 lie could wonderfuUy employ at the érection of this new street 
 of Cairo. 
 
 The whole street comprises, on the two sides, 3000 mètres of 
 surface. It is the union of several parties of mosquées and of 
 twenty five houses of Cairo, taken amongst the most characte- 
 ristic, since a very distant eix)ch until the last century. 
 
 The architectural principle has hardly changed across the 
 time. It is always a ground-floor, with a low door, a floor in 
 corbel, whose Windows are marked by moucharabis, and a 
 terrace with ridges eut in the sky. 
 
 The moucharabis are ingenious wooden frames advancing on 
 the balcony in front of the street whicli let i)enetrate in the lod- 
 gings but a lialf light and wliich permit to the woman to see 
 without being seen. 
 
 As for the minaret which lias 20 mètres and is erected at 
 the extremit^', it is the copy, less a floor, of the minaret of 
 Kaïd-Bey, a master-piece of the XA^ century renowned by the 
 richess of its détails. The porcelans, which forin inscription 
 above of one of the doors are to te remarked. 
 
 In this street which gives you to think that you are sudden 
 errand in some marvellous corner of Orient, are me rehauts, con- 
 stituting a whole bazaar, which gives to this E]g3ptian section 
 the Appellation of Egyptian l^azaar. On the side of the mosquée, 
 is a perfumer selling oriental pcrfiunes ; a doudourmajy of Con- 
 
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 stantinople wlio sells moallebi (piled iip with milk and almonds); 
 a. coffee-house at tlie tottom of whicli they scrape tlie tarbouek, 
 w liilst the Arabian musicians niade a tremeiidous noise. Hère 
 is still a pastry-cook selling roatloukoum, a mercliant whose 
 coppers are sparkling-, exhibited in a logg"ia. AU tlie products of 
 the conntry where rises the sun are showed, and every one can 
 buv tliem. 
 
 At the side of the chib where are coniinj^- to read and rest the 
 E^yptians, opens finally the shop front clear sighted and the 
 canteen of the donkey-drivers. 
 
 The donkeys of Cairo. 
 
 Eh well ! donkey drivers ! Or rather onnnars, dressed with 
 gaudourahs, and wlio drive donkeys from Egypt, of tliesc h"ttle 
 gvey white donkeys at the lively alhire and eye. 'J'hey are at 
 tl)e number of liundred, and carr}- in the whole Exhibition 
 chiWren and ladies. The stables are behind, and atove them is 
 extented a vast dormitory where are slceping tbe donkey 
 drivers. One could not imagin anything more pictui-escpic. 
 
 Morocco. 
 
 It is necessary howe\er to leave this so wonderful Orient. 
 Let ns go up again on liie right, in îlie direction of tiie Seine, in 
 order to cross llie [avilhoiis wliich 'dve rangod there, uiitil tlie 
 extremity of the Palace of the Lil)eral Arts. 
 
 Besidcs we shall not yet leave the favourcd countriesof the 
 sun.''Here is Morocco, with acconipaniement of bazaarand nmsic. 
 It is the sanie art thanthis wliich we havc jnst adniired, but 
 decayed in barbary. 
 
 riie round donies of the mosquées, are direct ly placed over the 
 
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 square halls. But we remark nevertheless tlie ogival arches ol't lie 
 souk, which are very gracious. 
 
 This marocan section offers, with the agrlcultural and alimen- 
 atary products of the countrj : olives, cotton, corn, avooI, arti- 
 cles curiously embroidered in leatlier. 
 
 To cite, a pretty collection of arms, for it is known that the 
 Marocans are daniaskeeners at the first degree, and that theyput 
 their pride to possess splendid arms. 
 
 Continue to descend, and you will find on your left always, at 
 first a Russian house, iiihabited by some tair merchants of 
 refreshments, than an Eating-houseof Remania, where you can 
 taste the cooking- of Bucarest. 
 
 Chinese Pavillion. 
 
 China is not brilliant at the Exhibition. 
 
 They believed that it would even not exhibit.Celestial-Empire 
 had refused. But a certain noniber of china mercliants havc, at 
 the last moment, demanded that one reserved them a place, and 
 the very modest pavillion which you see has been built. 
 
 If the pavillion offers nothing- of very characteristic, in re- 
 turn the objects which are exhibited tliere are worthy of a 
 visit. If it were but for to see nearer men of this singular 
 country. 
 
 One will remark there the fine furnitures in lake, cleverly 
 incrusted, very rich screens, lanterns very original and very 
 nice mirrors without counting the teas of ail kinds, but which 
 are of a very liigh price. 
 
 Indian Pavillon. 
 
 Farther on, is the Indian Palace, which wc shall meet. 
 A^ast and remarkable construction in tliat it isthe exact repro- 
 
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 duction of an édifice of Old India. You will find tliere tlio ara- 
 bianart, but modified in tlie middle in which tlie musulman 
 invasion lias transplanted it, ail along- are running moulded 
 ornementations representing- stags and other l)easts,and on small 
 bands wliich are sculpted which mark tlie floors, éléphants and 
 tigers are playinji^ in the middle of rivulets. 
 
 This exhibition is an true bazar. \^'hat is to be seen there 
 is, on the whole, not verj remarkable, in the middle of the 
 palace is a very original iiidian coffeedious(\ Let us cite among 
 the exposed objects, the damaskeen arms adorned with precious 
 stones, worked in artby the armourers of Cachemire, Lahore, 
 Singapore, Cevlan, and those less precious made with excellent 
 Indian steel at Mooughyr, Kudura, Viziavagram. 
 
 Other Pavillions 
 
 lu eontinuing always we meet still the Pavillion of Haïti, Ics,^ 
 considérable tlian those of Guatemala, ParagMiay, of the Domi- 
 nican Republic and this very large of Uruguay, where are exhi- 
 bited, without great originality, the products of the Central and 
 South America. 
 
 FOURTH DAY 
 
 It is by the visit of an industrial wonder, thaï mo sliall begin 
 oiir fourtli day. Till now we hâve made you penetrate in the 
 Exhibition by the Champ- de-Mars, in order to show you by a 
 logical order ail, but to-day, please, enter into the gallery of La 
 Motte-Picquet, in front of the Ecole Militaire, where a gâte will 
 give you access in this wonderfull place of whicli we spoke, and 
 which is but the 
 
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 Palace of the Machines. 
 
 Two things are gigantic, in this Exliibition without précè- 
 dent : the Tower Eiffel and the Palace of the Engines. We hâve 
 already presented y ou one, let us hast en to familiarise you 
 Avith the other. 
 
 This iron Palace and of steam, whose first idea belongs to 
 M. Dutert, one of the lauréats oftheGreat Concoursof theExhibi- 
 tions,contains alarge central nave of 115 mètres of width on 430 
 mètres of length and 48 of heigiit, two latéral gaileries of 
 15 mètres of ^idth, t\^o vast tribunes and a large entrance hall. 
 
 Admired bv tlie en^ineers and people of this profession» this 
 colossal building astonishes everybody by its audacity and the 
 immensity of its dimensions. 
 
 A surface of 50.000 square mètres is covered without any 
 intermediary support. There are neither piles, nor columns, 
 nothing else to bear the wood-work, but the posts of the ferms, 
 at the number of eighteen intermediaries and two at each extre- 
 mity, restingon mère articultated rotules. 
 
 The room of the Pas-Perdus at the Station St- Lazare, which 
 isnevertheless a nice pièce, is but an entrance hall corn pnred to 
 this immense, nave, of such an astonishing lightness. 
 
 But let us take it by the détails, the only way to make it 
 known. The metallic building of the Palace, made after the 
 plans of MM. Dutert, architect, and Contamin, chief-engineer of 
 the control of the metallic constructions, is composed of twenty 
 fermes of 115 meters of extent, united the one to the others 
 under the roofs, at the number of hundred per bay of joists. 
 
 Thèse ^hole gigantic weiglis the enormous weight of seven 
 millions 785.000 kilogrammes. 
 
 The glass covering is in dalles of glass of Saint-Gobain. AU 
 along the bays joists are painted in relief the armoiries of the 
 
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 chief-towns of the departments, of tlie principal towns of the 
 frencli colonies and foreign capitals. In the niiddle, the arms of 
 the city of Paris. Then, Marseilles, Lyon, Lille, liordeaux, M'as- 
 hington, London, St-Petersburg, Vienna, Pékin, Roma, Copen- 
 hague, Téhéran, Mexico, La Haye, Athènes, Lisbonn, Brussels, 
 Tokio, Buenos-Ajres, Siam, Stockliolm, Tanger, Rio de Ja- 
 neiro, Le Caire, Belgrade, Bucharest, Luxemburg, etc. 
 
 The pile towards the avenue ofSuffren isdecorated, at the 
 centre of the tribune, with glasses representing the battle of 
 Bouvines.The archivault ofFers the arms of the i)rincipal countries 
 participating atthe exhibition, the United-States, Great Britain, 
 Belgium, Switzerland, Russia, Mexico, Austria, Italj, Nether- 
 lands, Brazil, Xorwa}' , the Argentine Republic, Greece, Maroc, 
 Egypt. The glasses rest on an arch full in stuffs, ornamented 
 by a great décorative rinceau accompanied with work tools. 
 
 This décorative arcad is shouldered by two reniarkable 
 groups, ofseven mètres ofheight, the Yapor and the Electricity, 
 executed by MM. Chapu and Barrias. 
 
 Deserved by two large staircases, the first floor forms a 
 splendid promenoir, wliere the visiter enjoys a Mhole siglit 
 ot this palace of machines. The principal entrance hall (interior) 
 corresponds with the Palace of tiie divers industries, and is 
 likewise curions at many iK)ints, covered by a cui)ola bearing on 
 pendentifs, the ceiling is decorated with glass remembering the 
 principal productions of the agriculture : thetlax, the homp, tlie 
 corn, the maize. The pendentifs represent the.arts, the sciences, 
 thc^ letters, the trade. Finally the bottom of the cupohi is 
 ornamented by groups of children holding the attri butes ol the 
 principal corps of state, and the six Windows lightening the 
 entrance hall, are decorated with allegorical figures, repr-t^sen- 
 ting the jeweilery, the Cftbinet-makiug, the ^\m ^vorks, tl)e 
 
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 To remark tlie double .slaircase, in siiiithened iroii and bronze, 
 a true master-piece of art, adorned Avitli two figures in bronze, 
 executed by MM. Cordonnier and Bartbelemy and bearing- 
 each onea group of twenty lamps in a state of incandescence, 
 whicli in tlie evening, project on this part of the palace fairj- 
 lights. 
 
 The building of the Palace of machines lias cost the sum of 
 soven nallions 513,000 francs. And when one thinks that this 
 unique monument in the whorld, so much by its élégance truly 
 artistic than by its keenness of its opening of 115 mètres, must 
 disappear in six months, at the end of the Exhibition, one wishes 
 that a solution intercomes permetting to keep it to the public 
 admiration. 
 
 The yard of the motor's force 
 
 Before to cross this dédale of machines, which ^vhistle, spit 
 the vapour, hum and roar in unisson, you wish Avithout doubt to 
 know which force makes mo^e thèse thousands of conn(3cting 
 rods and excentriques. Tt is there, behind the Palace, in front 
 of the Avenue de la Motte- Piquet, that is situated what they call 
 the yard of motor's force. Powerful generators are established 
 there. The total qùantity of steam furnished to the exhibiters 
 constructors is of 496,000 kilogrammes per hour, actioning ail 
 the motor's machines installed by thèse exhibiters, and which 
 are in the number of 31, spending a total"force of 2000 horses. 
 
 Across the Palace of the Machines 
 
 Let us begin in ontering b}^ the wing which is on the side of 
 the avenue of La Bourbonnais and let us examine at first, in 
 ioUowing the central alley and penetrating among the machines, 
 ail what is on the right on this alley.We find at lîrst the 
 
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 Exhibition ut" En^^laiid, wliicli lias uiider tlie Entrancu hall, a 
 fmc sery of coaches, where we remark the coaches and the 
 harnesses of the house Moreau and C^ of London, like an 
 exhibition of tricycles of a house ef liirminghaiii. 
 
 The English machines hâve a prett^' large réputation and 
 certainly there are among those exhibited hère which deser\e 
 the attention, but not any is prominent nor fix the curiosity. 
 
 Let us note the bore-machines, with beams of Robinson and 
 Son, of Rochedale, who lias likewise, on the Esplanad of the 
 Invalids, apavillion which \ve shall notice later on. 
 
 Then corne the United-States, nearly entirely occupied b}' the 
 famous Edison, who exhibits there lus material and his machines 
 (motors), destined to the production of the electric light. Edison 
 niade build a monumental kiosque ornamented with painted linen 
 repre.senting divers electric scènes. So you can see the lamp 
 Edison lighting the palaces of the whole world, and behind, a 
 gothic représentation of the commercial development ofthis lamp 
 in the United-States. A vast barrack-[)avillion is Ijesides built 
 behind. To remark apowerful dynamo of a curions construction, 
 This exhibition Edison is one of the attractions of the Palace of 
 the Machines, and what attracts the crowd, is above ail the 
 marvellous improved phonograph, which every body like to try. 
 
 Belgium comes next, and contains an important place, this little 
 industrial country isalwaysin lirst line in thèse great manifesta- 
 tions of work and activity of the nations. 
 
 Let us name some of the fine exhibitions ofthis section : 
 
 In front, longing the edge of the jjasssage, is the paper- 
 manufacture : De IS'aeyer and C", superb machine which permits 
 to manufacture paj)er ofmore than 2m.50of width. It is the 
 linest which is hère and it constitutes one of the greatest curiosities 
 of the Palace of the Machines. The visiter secs it at A\ork 
 (under his eyes), assistsatthe mauulacturingofthe paper which 
 
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 verv few people can flatter them to know. A l(3gion of worknieii 
 and workwomen archieve to ghe to this highly curious exhibi- 
 tion an exceptional character; whicli explains its great success. 
 
 But let us go at the bottom of tlie section. We sliall iind there 
 another paper machine, of the paper manufacture Dautreband 
 and Thii-y, ofHuy, butthat one does not function, which dinii- 
 nishes much its interest. Then, a little less at the bottom, we 
 hâve a verj fine turn of the liouse Fétu, Defixe and C°, of 
 Liège (and class 48) a superb machine of extraction, exhibited 
 by the anonyme society of Marcinelle and Couillet. Not far from 
 tliere roars an enormous blast engine, of the force of 250 horses, 
 coming from the workshops of Cockerill, which exhibits still, on 
 the right, a large compresser. On tlie left of this engine, one 
 remarks a reproduction at the scale of a curious lift built at La 
 Louvière for the transport of the ores. 
 
 Hère is tlie verj' important exhibition ot the anonyme society 
 of the Forges, usines and bronze, of Gilly (M. Aimé 
 Robert, administrator délégué). Excavators, pestle hammers, 
 crânes, locomotives, for manufactures and harbours, engines of 
 flattening-mills, the vast workshops of this society build ail 
 kinds of engines, and their speciality is the construction of 
 engines to fabricate the ovoïd cannon-balls, and of those to 
 polish the mirrors, whithout forgetting the articulated joints 
 and the pièces of big forge, what may be their dimensions, very 
 interesting exhil)ition to be remarked. 
 
 In continuing, let us still note (class 55), numerous lX)^^•er- 
 lôbms, four of them, exhibited by MM. V® Snoeck, ofEnsival, 
 and which works under your eyes. Farther on (class 50) fine 
 apparatus for mills, of which three of the house Goutet, of 
 Louvain. At the bottom, on the left, mechanicçil kneading trough 
 ft house ûf Brussels, 
 
 Finftlly, iu çomingf Hok tp tbe centre of the swctipi), Is thô 
 
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 exhibition of the society of the Phénix, and on the left of the 
 paper manufacture De Nayer, a splendid spin-machiiio of 
 }>L Celestin Martin, of Verviers. 
 
 After Belgium, Switzerland,with an exhibition hkewise very 
 important. Atfirst, in front, the exhibition of the swiss society 
 of Winterthur, six spin-engines of Jacob Richter and C<*, of 
 Wintertliur of wliich 5 work.Theii (class 55) l)efore the prc^cee- 
 din^, an embroidery engine,working' likewii^^e, and very curions, 
 of the ho use Wisendanger (canton of St-Gallj. 
 
 Freneh Section. — It would be too long- to name liere 
 the tliousands of enpnes ; to cite, at random, some exhil)itions to 
 remark at first. 
 
 In the first phice, the exhibition of tlie alsacian society of 
 the mechanic construction. Belfort, Mulhouse, Graffenstaden, very 
 fine and ver}' considérable (class 53). Then that of the house 
 Grauddemange and Coulanghon, of Paris. At the bottom, on the 
 same side (class 55) those of the society of metallic construction ' 
 of Anzin and of the Establishments de Quiliacq. 
 
 But l)efore passing on the other M'ing, ahvays on the right, 
 under the gallery of 30 mètres, which contains the material of^ 
 things, among others, a serj- of wagons exhibited b}' tlie State 
 and the Great C^*'^ of the Freneh Railways. Beliind, at the 
 Ijottoni, the Swiss society for the construction of locomotives, 
 exhiljits a beautifull locomotive, in front of which is a wagon of 
 lirst class providcd with galleries on the circuit, like it if. donc 
 in Switzerland, and which cornes from the worksho[)s of the 
 industrial society of Xeuhausen (close by Shaffiiouse). On the left 
 ancrât the bottom an italian engine, built at Turin, and upon 
 which you will read the name with which it is baptised : 
 Gioranna dArco. In front, the Freneh C° of ta material of 
 the Railwa^'s présent a well built wagon. 
 
 Belgium at is the extremity of this gallery, and at the lett. 
 
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 It exliil)its waii'ons Avhicli aro to remark. The class 01 continues 
 (^ntsidc, lu^liiiid ilie transversjil wing ol'tlie Palace. 
 
 Anonyme Franco-Belgian Society of Cocks and Electric iights 
 Apparatus 
 
 00, Rue Veeweyde, Ancferlecht-Brussels 
 
 GAS-LAMPS EZMOS AND VARIOUS GAS-BURNERS 
 
 The want of a at the same time powerful and economical 
 light is a problem whose solution did not permit any delay. 
 
 This préoccupation has given' place to the création, in the 
 indus-try of gas, to the intensive lamps. 
 
 The lamp EzmOS represents in ail of thèse Systems the most 
 complète and rational solution of this prol)lem. 
 
 This auto modératrice lamp possesses a constant equilibrium 
 of alimentation, what ma}', be the conditions. 
 
 The quality of the furnished light permits to rivalise with 
 advantage with Electric-light. It realises the strongest power of 
 light which the gas is able to give. 
 
 The lamp Kzmos is of a simple and rol)U8t construction, and 
 does not demand any spécial entertaining. 
 
 This System after the expérience and the compared essays has 
 taken thefirst place in Belgium, where it produces the complète 
 transformation of the light of the principal public establisments 
 and magazins : the Railway stations, the administrations of the 
 Posts and Telegraphs, the communal houses of the suburljs of 
 Brussels hâve adopted the System Ezmos. 
 
 This System rendors the greatest services in the DraAving and 
 Painting Académies. The grands Magasins of the Bourse, at 
 Brussels, the important G° Delhaize, at tliè hundred Branches, 
 etc., and aquantity ofother estal>lisinentsof the most important 
 
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 use tliis lamp wliicli, besicles, is carriod now at the last dcj2:rce 
 oï perioction. 
 
 Thoug'h the use ofthe intensive lamps is inJicated by a consi- 
 dérable numbcr o[ applications, it experiments nevertheless somo 
 difficulties to be generalised; on account ol" tliat thèse Systems do 
 not answer to the divided conditions ot the lij^ht. 
 
 The gas furnishes only an economical light when it is in a 
 sufficient quantity. 
 
 A small gas-burner burning liardl}^ more than a ordinary 
 burner, but witli a more lightening power and adapting it to the 
 existing apparels, this ^\ as to be obtained. 
 
 This^^ant is now obtained by the burner Gaso-Multiplex which 
 burns not more than 125 litres of gas, ail in furnishing a light 
 double of that obtained by the papillons. 
 
 The solution is ne\Y, and quite in tiie scnsc ut* the progressive 
 amélioration ofthe gênerai conditions ofthe light. 
 
 The burner Gaso-Multiplex lights horizontally and not up and 
 down, like the intensive lamps.Theflame of a remarkable lîxity 
 and glance, isupright,inthe form ofatulip. 
 
 This burner finds its ajjplication everywhere the round bur- 
 ners or the papillons are in use,it is placed directly on the pipes, 
 flights of stairs, lustres, etc. 
 
 The Gaso-Multiplex is she smallcst economical burner which 
 one knows.Its construction is of a simplicity sucli as it dispenses 
 ofall caro. 
 
 The gas being no more ^\■arm and arriving froiu up and dow n,- 
 not any deposit, nor any obstruction could be produeed. 
 
 I^oderate price ofthe apparatus, Economy of gas 100 p; c. 
 
 Lot us cross to arrive on the otber side, not without stop- 
 phig at firstbèfore tliis scatfold rolliug on rails; for the entertain* 
 
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 ment and tlie visit of tlie mciallic platforms, on tlie Icft, conti- 
 nuation of tlie Bel^'Jan part of the material of Railways, with a 
 beautiful locomotive of tlie Grand-Central- Belge, workshops of 
 Louvain. 
 
 Hère we are on tlie otlier side of the vast Palace of the angi- 
 nes, and our walk will continue the re. Hère (cl. 51), the engines, 
 productions of the gas,the refractory products and thegasretorts. 
 In the ûvsst line, the Exhibition of the Company of gas coun- 
 ters. 
 
 But Ave cannot allenunierate.Let us cite : The splendid boilers 
 of the Coopérative General Society of inexplosible boilers, whose 
 siège is at Paris (cl. 52), the Exhibition of Creuset, wliich offers 
 but one superb engine Corliss (cl. &2); that of the C° ofFives- 
 Lille, with a powerful engine for sugar ^Aith a treble efFect (cl. 
 50), ^y\nc\i is close by that of the house Brasseur, of Lille. 
 
 A little farther on, the General Electric C", Lecouteux et 
 Garnier, exhibits vertical motors for gas. 
 
 In going totlie bottom,]it us name the coalmines of the North 
 of i^as-de-Calais,Avliicli exhibit the mine products of their différent 
 mines (cl. 48}. 
 
 Let us corne a little forw ard to remark (cl. 48) the paper 
 manufactory d'Essonne, Icss considérable ihant that of He 
 Xaeyer, but ncverthidess very intercsting (cl. 48) in front oï the 
 ï>ection of the l.'iii te J- States. 
 
 At the bottom aiid towards the extremity (ni front of the 
 (M)gli^h section), the C" of the mines d'Anzin bas a curions exhi- 
 bition : Great pano[tlies coiitain the tools,coverings, équipements 
 of minors. and s[)ecinieiis o{' dwelliiigs and mine exploitations are 
 cxpo^red. 
 
 To be im[;artial. let us cite in groups the exhibitions \\Iiich 
 the visitor a\ ill fiiid by himself and wliich are remarkable : 
 Breakage and wiies (Fives-Lille, cl. 50); Douane, Jobin et 
 
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 G" (Pari.s, cl. 59); JBoulet et Go (Paris, cl. 57); Ghaligny aiid 
 G" (Paris, cl. 57); AMiidsor (Rouen, cl. 52); General Society of 
 Gonstruction of Pantin (cl. 62); French Society of agriculture 
 material (cl. 50); Forges de THorme (cl. 48); Society Gail (Paris, 
 cl. 58). 
 
 Outside of tlie left wing side avenue de la Bourdonnais, are 
 several industrial pavillions whicli Ave niust also cite : In Ijegin- 
 ning by tlie extremity, at tlie corner of the Palace of tlie Engi- 
 nes, towards tlie eating-liouse Duval : Pavillion Goldenberg ; 
 Pavillion of the Society of the Asphaltes; Pavillion of the Forges 
 of St-Denis (very vast and very interessing); Pavillion de Mont- 
 chemin-les-Mines (Saône-et-Loire); Pavillion of the Union chau- 
 fournicre de France (very vast too and to be visited). 
 
 Interior yard of thirty mètres 
 
 Formi ng countcrpart to the gallery of the Material of the 
 Railways, on the other/part of the left wing of the Palace 
 of the'engincs (side of the Palace of divers industries), is what 
 one calls the interior Yard of thirt>' mètres. 
 
 In this yard are the foUowing pavillions: Station of the Society 
 of the transmission of the force by the electricity ; Station of 
 the international syndicat of the electricians; Station of the 
 Society Granmio. 
 
 FIFTH DAY 
 
 ¥br our fifth day, if you like, to pass in review : The Tix)* 
 cadero at first, then the vast galleries of the agriculture, more 
 curions to visit that you seem to believe it. 
 
 Lot us then b^gin by the Trocadero, Avhich comprises, besidcs 
 
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 of tlie Palace, a truc peniKinent exliibition, thc Pavillions of tho 
 Ri vers aud Forcsts and Public Boards, the arboriculture, tlie 
 horticulture, and .several oîlier attractions. 
 
 Palace of the Trocadero. 
 
 Thc Paliice of the Trocadero, ^^■hich was the wonder and 
 success of the Exhibition of 1878, is The work of the skilfnl 
 architects Davioud and Bonrdais. Bnilt on an eminence and 
 dominatin^ thc Avhole Exhiltition.it isas architecture n fortnnatc 
 mixture of ail styles. 
 
 The central part comprises thc larg'c Hall of the feasts 
 which is composed of tM'o floors to mIucIi one lias acc^ss bj 
 two large staircases and sixteen small which take their opening 
 on the central column, the terrace of the second floor nanied : 
 Terrace of the statues; is snrrounded like a girdle by thirty 
 allegorjcal statues, which complète the whole and the décoration 
 of this monument. On the top appears tiic statue of the 
 Renommée, l)y Mercic. 
 
 The large hall for ihc feasts can contain 15UU [lersons. It is 
 one ofthe largest which exist; it lias 61 m. 58 of diameter and its 
 colossal cupola lias 5 mcters more in diameter than that of î^îiint- 
 Peter of Rome. It is deconited very simply, in gold on a rcd 
 l)ottom. 
 
 The gallerics of the Trocadero, ^ast annexes of the central 
 palace, built in the shapeof a horse shoe, are divided in three 
 equal parties, b}' three pavillions surmounted with cupolas. 
 
 As for the grcat cascade placed under the central party ofthe 
 palace, it is composed of eight ba.><ins super|iosed and disposed 
 in their whole like the great cascade ofSaint-Cloud. The last 
 basin, which lias 60 meters of width, is decorated at the four 
 corners ity four larp- tigur-es of animais : the Ox, by Caïn. 
 
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 tlic Horfcie, liy 13ouillarcl ; ilic Rhinocéros, Iiy Jacquemart and 
 tlie Ele[)liant, l>y Fremiet. 
 
 Muséums of the Trocadero. 
 
 Mu^ouni of comparée! Sculpture, — This mua'nm,oryaiii.'<ed hy 
 Sommerard, occupies the ny:ht win^^' of the Palace. It i.s open l'or 
 the public every day, save the Mondaj's, from 11 to 4. 
 
 It présents mouldings in plaster of the most remarknble monu- 
 ments of the French sculpture of the tenth to the eightecnth 
 century, moulds, after the spécimens of the schools of antiquity, 
 of the middle âge etc. and collections of photographies. The 
 objects exhibited are accompanied by etikets indicating the âge, 
 the origin and the material of the original. 
 
 Muséum of Kthnograpliy. The muséum of Ethnography occu- 
 pies tlic rooms of the first floor situated behind the rotond of 
 the hall of the feasts. It is open the Sundays and Thursdays, 
 Irom 12 to 4 or 5, (Staircasc nearly in face of the muséum of 
 sculpture. The collections occupie fivc rooms and includc types 
 of divers parts of the world, costumes, utensils, inhabitations, 
 etc. The objects bear likewise etikets. 
 
 Pavillion of the Rivers and Forests. 
 
 The i'avillion of the Rivers- and Forests occupies a surface 
 of 43 meters on 37, and its élévation is of 20 meters. It has cost 
 110,000 francs and it is the State which has made the expenses. 
 Undertalven hy M^ Lecoeur, the plans havc bcen made by 
 ^^\,Leblanc, architect, under the direction of M^ De Gayffier, 
 conservator of the Forests at Melun, who ^^■as already charged 
 witli the Org;niisation of tlioFoi'.-^^t Exhibition in 1867 and 
 1S7S. 
 
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 Tliere v^eve employed for this work ] 800 ciil)ic mètres of aaoocI 
 entirelj taken in the forest of Fontainebleau. 
 
 It is also in this forest, at the carrefour of the cross of Tou- 
 louse, that was built of ail pièces this pavillion. 
 
 What is more curions, tliat in Avhich this construction differs 
 hasolutely of thèse cotta^^es built until this day, it is the exte- 
 rior décoration ^vhich is made exclusively in rustic, that is to 
 say, in wooden pans of the bark peeled off. Ail is in wood, even 
 the roofs, Avhich are made by thousands of planks of eut ont oak. 
 
 The great gallery at the bottom, around ^A'hich is a prome- 
 noir, formed by trees and pannels very divers, on hides, is 
 entirely polychrome, thanks to the divers colours which arc ail 
 very fine. 
 
 Fromfar, thecolumns, with their coverings formed by oaks, 
 beeches, whole maples, not the bark peeled off, resemble to the 
 marble. 
 
 By the appareils, thechoice of the proportions and the mo- 
 tives of ornamentation, M^ Souc, the skilful constructor, lias 
 arrived to a very astonishing and unknown effect. 
 
 At certain places, for better to ressort the dillerences, tlioy 
 placed pannels the one near the other, of sound aa ood and others 
 attacked by parasit insects. Impossible to push farther on the 
 l>as.sion of the natural. 
 
 The visiter will lind in this pavillion ail tiie products of the 
 Frencli industry, spécimens of ail kinds of woods and A\orks 
 connected with the rivers and forests. Tliis exhibition can but 
 interest it, P'rance being one of the lare countries "which posscss 
 so Aarious essences. 
 
 Pavillion of the Public works 
 
 This pavillion is jH-ndant to that of the Kivei's and Forests, on 
 
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 tlie otlier sitle of tlie great alley of the Trocadero. It is an élégant 
 construction with two belveders, of the most original eifect. 
 
 At the ground floor are exliibited plans and niodels of ^ery 
 cin-ious Morks. 
 
 Arboriculture, Horticulture 
 
 Tlie gardens of the Trocadero and a part of those of the 
 Champ de Mars are conseci'ated to this Exhibition more im- 
 [K)rtant tiian attracting. 
 
 Unhappily, it wants to te sought a little everywhere, for 
 it serves directlj to the ornamentation of the parcs, and there is 
 not a Hower-bed, not a little tree, not even a lawn which makes 
 no part of it. About fitfy green-hou?es and sheltered ^^•aIl fruit- 
 trees complète the Exhibition. 
 
 The horticulture comprises several classes ; Green-houses and 
 material of horticulture. Flowers and plants of ornament, pot- 
 lierbs ; fruits and fruit trees, grains and plants of foi'estiei'y 
 cssoncos; plants of Greenhousos. 
 
 The Aquarium 
 
 The aquarium of the Ti'ocadei*o occupies a superficy of 
 2800 meti'es. On the ground it Ibrms a labyrinth composed by 
 heaping up of rocks, of the best effect. 
 
 It is in thèse rocks forming basins where are the fislies whieh 
 one sees at the open air and in the interior lakes. 
 
 Thèse troughs of a capacity of25 mètres each, are disposed 
 on^concentric ranks of underground galleries, presenting to the 
 visiter mirroi's through which h(^ can see.the lishes 'take tiieir 
 gaml)ols. 
 
 Eacii is surmounted by an etiket which bears the name ot 
 its inhabitants. 
 
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 Voyage in the Centre of the earth 
 
 By the Stime ç^nte at wliicli one hm\ access in 1878 at the 
 nquai'iuin, on our let't, is opened a dark hole in the massives of 
 iloM-ers : it is the Tower Eiftel upside down. One descends 
 tliere by the nieans of a cage representing the benne of a mine 
 l)it. The deseent in this hell is but illnsory, but one feels 
 tlie sensation of a real descent, by means of light trépidation of 
 îlie cage, and one makes pass there successively under the eyes 
 of the visitor large pictures to decoivo the eye, underground 
 cuts wliich show the (h'ains of Paris, a gallery of catacombs, an 
 excavation of tho old careers of Paris, tlie sedinientary lays 
 wdiose stratification Avill sIioaa' the geological history of tlie 
 rerrestrial globe, finaljy a gallery of coal and iron mines, 
 metallic vei ns, careers of rock sait in i'uU activity of organisation 
 and exploitation. 
 
 GALLERIES OF THE AGRICULTURE 
 
 It is there ail what ofïers the Trocadero and if one is desiring 
 to visit it with care, a good part of our day will be passed there. 
 
 Nevertheless, let us leave thèse gardens, and come again \o 
 rhe Champ-de-Mars, in passing the foot-bridges thrown over the 
 (piay, let us tu m on the left after liaving passed the bridge 
 lena, and let us go so until the panorama of the Transatlantic 
 (J**. There begin the galleriesof the agriculture, which we ai'c 
 going to pass through. 
 
 Tliese galleries occupy, since the quay d'Orsay until the 
 Ksplanad *of the hn^ilids on the counter-alle}', a surface of 
 thirty thousand mètres ; a double sery of halls connects thèse 
 two points. It is by the first galleries, on the right, that ^^(' 
 ;ii'e <>Y)ins' to commence. 
 
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 Galieries on the rig-ht. — French Section 
 
 lu eiitering' oiie is iii the class 19, amonjj; aj^riciiltural nia- 
 ehiiie!?, harrows, t^einh, thrasli machines etc, then oiic eiiters 
 almost immediately in the class 75 (viticulture) of mIucIi une 
 will admire the une ornamentation. 
 
 At the joints of the roof are painted j^-reen vines laden witii 
 .urapes, clinilu'n^- at treillis, and to augnient the illusion and 
 charni, artilicial grapes are hang-ing hère and thero. Nothing 
 more gracious as this gallerv in ^^'hich are exhi])ited the ma- 
 chines of the viticultors. 
 
 The galler}' finishes there, and in leaving it one arrives 
 before a building covered with straw, which is an Hnngarian 
 Eating-house. (At the lel\. the Palace of the alinientary Products 
 which we M'ill visit by and by.) 
 
 One enters in the next gallerj, where one iînds again the 
 class 19. Fine thrash -machines, sow-machines, chaff-cutters, 
 Jiari'ows, etc. In leaving, stop an instant I»efore the enorinous 
 beam which you Avillsee betweenthis gallerv and the next, and 
 whicii nieasnres not less tlian 6 mètres of diamcter in its largest 
 width. (On the left you bave the annex of Spain, which we 
 sliall visit. 
 
 Foreign Sections 
 
 IJNrrED-SrATKs. — Tiu^ next gallery is that of the United- 
 States. A'erj important Exhibition. Super)) machines, mowing- 
 machines, raek-macliincs, embcllished by painting and orna- 
 ments like saloon- machines. 
 
 SwrrzERLAND cornes next (next gallery). Fine ploughs bearing 
 the seals of Baie and of the constructors of Vaud. 
 
 Then Homania ; little important exhibition but Miiich shows 
 the goud will of this country in which the agricuhural pi'n» 
 ('i'dics ai'P Ii;ii'(II\- iiiî i'()(hic('(l. 
 
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 Denmariv. Sniall l'ooiii Avell filled and interestini;'. 
 
 AusTRiA-HuN'GARiA, of wliicli WG shall see by and by an 
 annex. To romark 2 trunks of gigantic trees, of the niost 
 magnilîcent ^^•ood. 
 
 NoRwAY : Pretty cottages as kiosques of shows. Une y\\\\ 
 remark picturesque p^^ramids of little casks of anchovies, and 
 the exhibition of the Brewery of Christiania, to which are joined 
 curions sights of photographies Connecting with the industry 
 of this house. 
 
 Conies then Belghm. Very important exhibition, full of 
 interest. In the centre of the section is erected a true monu- 
 ment : a statue of the Renommée, standing on a socle liaving at 
 the foui' corners roman warriors and on eacli front a medal of 
 Caesîir, with the tamous devise of the great emperor : Vciii, 
 rkli, rici. It is the house Tinchant, wliich covers the expenses 
 of tins monumental ornament. 
 
 GREAT MANUFACTORY OF CIGARS of the HOUSE 
 TINCHANT FRÈRES, José Tinchant y Gonzales. - 
 Ernest Tinchant, 11, 13, 15 and 17, rue Breydei at Ant- 
 A\'erp, the most important of Belgium as much by the number 
 of workmen which it employs as by the celebrity of which 
 enjoy its products on ail the markets where the introduction 
 of the tobacco is permitted. 
 
 Thecigars-industry, which lias for origin Havanah, but sixty 
 years ago, hass developed it in ail parts of the w^orld. Every- 
 where, they manufacture the cigars ; but it is, as they say, 
 incontestable, that it is from Havanah that corne the best ; which 
 appears quite natural, Avhilst it is the country which furnishes 
 the best tabacco, the most clever A\'orkmen ; it is there that the 
 manufacturers, by their continuai relations with the planters. 
 initiate them better to the divers qualifies of the tobacco and 
 
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 learn to appreciate tlie diftërent g-roiiiids of tlie .■>ame di5>tirjt aiul 
 to distinîi,nisli them. 
 
 It is also there and only tliere, tliat Tlie tobacco, Avitli ils 
 propriety to al)Sorb ail tho émanations m hich surround it, is 
 impreg'nated by tlie perfume of the cedar box whicli incloses the 
 ciii:ars. This dn^lity of essence produces an arôme sui gêner is 
 which is the distinctive character of a cigar manufactured at 
 Ilavanali, if it would even be composed by very common tobacco. 
 
 The uni versai réputation of thecigar of HaYanah,seems rhen 
 justitied andone ought no to l)e astonished if the préjudice Mhich 
 does not admit any comparison between a havanah cigar and 
 this one manufactured elsewhero ^^•irh the same leaves, may l)e 
 so mueh sooted in the mind of the smokers. 
 
 However, it ^^•ants much that ail the cigars manufactured at 
 llavanah are good. AU the conaissors, are at the contrary, in 
 one accord concerning the deçà}- the more to more accentuated of 
 the tobacco of Havanah and déclare that the true puro which 
 lias its excellent aix)ma, unités an agreeable taste and a regular 
 combustion, bocomes tlie more to more rare and dearer. 
 
 This decay of the havanah tobacco is explained by the 
 oxhausting of the privileged grounds wliich made the réputa- 
 tion of this so researched leave. Successive harvests hâve so 
 much impoverished thèse grounds, that the i)lanter who finds but 
 his benefit in the high price grauted to the leaves wide enough 
 to serve as dress to the cigars, does not hesitate to bave 
 recours to i)eruvian manure to fertilise his iields. He 
 obtaiils the exubérant végétation, but -it is at the expansé of 
 the aromatic qualtiy of the leave. That is ho\v the tobaccos of 
 good qualifies are rare, and consoquently, very dear, whilst 
 the médiocre and common qualities are for two third i)arts in 
 tue gathering of the tobacco in the island of Cuba and are 
 pmployed ^t tlie mauufpcture for tbe greatest part in the cigai-s 
 
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 ol' llavjinali wliicli lill ail (lie inarkets ol' the continent, l)iit 
 chit'ily tln)8C3 (jf London and Hamburii'. 
 
 Tlie gourmets of cigars would lia\ e reason to alarni tlnnn ol* 
 tliis deeay oftabacco without the brilliant SUCCess obtained 
 in 1873 by José Tinchant y Gonzales, ojic ofthc chicfs 
 r>/7//^' //^;/^sY' Tinchant frères. 
 
 It is lie Avo for the lirst time, introduced in one of the An- 
 tilles, close by the island of Cuba, the seed of the tol)acco of 
 Havanah « Vuelta Abajo ». 
 
 'J'his ossaj' upon a ground still ^ irginal, led to the discovering 
 (jf a tobacco of a soft tissue, with an exquisit taste, of a perfect 
 combustion, rare qualifies in tlie cigars of Havanah, and its 
 alliance with the aroniatic Vuelta AbajO reveals the cigar 
 « VENI, VIDI, VICI ». 
 
 The tobacco of the plantations of José Tinchant y Gon- 
 
 zales are not in the connnerce, they are exclusiAoly dcsiincd 
 
 to the Great Manufactory of Tinchant frères at 
 Antwerp. 
 
 To cite in the distillery: the exhibition of the Antwerp 
 collectivity; two belfreys at campaniles with clocks, ornamented 
 ^\ith the arms of Antwerp. Then also that of some inembers of 
 the l 'nited Syndicat (Brewers). A troi)hy represents a colossal 
 (Jambrinus, on a socle with eight pans, with casks and little 
 colunms. It is of a very gay aspect. 
 
 Close l)y,it is the window of M. Charles Wolfs wliich attracts 
 you,and you contemplate likely the pretty pots of jellies, mar- 
 midads and sirops, which exhibits tliis élever manufacturer. You 
 ean trust in th6 deliaiteness of thèse products for its ccjfnserves 
 are of guaranteed fruits, thèse jellies are absolutely \A\\\y. 'ihe 
 jury of the Créât International Concours of Brussels in 1888 bas 
 judged that, Mliilsl il bas reeompensed with a sihei- medal 
 
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 -M.Charles Wolfs,^^■ll<»s(J lionsc. is :>6,i-U(j(l(' rEtuve,îitBrus.sols. 
 
 Admire tliis shopofswcetsand chocolaté! It iy tliehouseMeyers 
 Courtois etC'*^ wliicli exhilùrs irai tlie teniptation oftlie visirm-s, 
 Is it not criiol l.o mako n.s ondui'e tlie supplicia of Tantale ! Tlie 
 IiouseMeyer S Courtois etC'^ wliose addivss is rueMolenbeek 31 
 at Lael;eii-lez-Brus.s('Is, deserves a rcnown amoug te j^'ourmets ot' 
 sweots, liis chocolaté and his conserves' rivalise withthe hosi si- 
 milar products of tho pci^try-cooks of Paris. 
 
 Knglani) : very little {^allerj, which le<ids to a foot-hridge 
 thrown over tho Boulevard of la Tonr Maiibray, ])rid;i:o in 
 wood and iron pennitting- to pass from one «-allcry to thc uther 
 without leaving the Exhibition. 
 
 Let us cross it and we shall corne again in tlie english section, 
 where^ve remark biscnits-ltaking very inj^onious. The biscuits 
 ;ire niade before tlie public, which can g*ive hini an account of 
 Uie excelh^nct^ of proceedin^'S of fabrication. 
 
 Finallj we arrive on the Esplanad of tiie Invalids. and w»* 
 iioite the visiter to follo\v,along the barriersbehind the construc- 
 îions which cover the I^splanad,the annex of the galleries of 
 a.uTiculture, which crosses it from one end to another and uffors 
 small and large agricultural machines, hen-houses, etc. 
 
 Galleries on the left 
 
 At the left, beeause we take them seen on the side of the 
 Champ-de-Mars ; but from hem it is on the right that avo liad 
 to say ; let us penetrate in thèse second galleries, parallel to the 
 first. Hère are at first : 
 
 England, with l)eautiful agricultural engines, of a great luxe 
 (ifornamention, liko those of the Unit(Hl-Stâtes. Then after ha- 
 vingcrosst'd t^ie foot-bridge, and remarked, on t lui left a Belgian 
 pastry cook's business, which isin the Iront oflhe section of the 
 same country,we enter in the 
 
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 RussiA, intcrustin^-, but little original, and Avliich brings us 
 verv little new. Romania, wliicli cornes tlien, is not of a consi- 
 dérable interest,and in continuing we find 
 
 HoLLAND, wluch exliibits many good and fine tliings 'among 
 otliers alimentarj conserves, sait and smoked méat, A\-liichmakes 
 you corne the water in tlie mouth. 
 
 Italy, wich cornes after, bas likewise tempting exbibitions, 
 among otbers one of cbocolat Moriano Cariglio, of Turino, of 
 which one Avould~eat a tablet. 
 
 In tbe United-States, wbicb cornes tlien, reniark tbe ciirious 
 collections of insects, minerais and grains, tbe gallery tinislies 
 tbere, and A^e corne in -svhat tbey call tbe carrefour Malar. On 
 tbe rigbt, constructed in prominence on tbe quay of tbe Seine is 
 a sui^erb annex of 
 
 SpAix,Avliere are exbibited tbe important abmentary products 
 and tbe agricultural engines of tbis country and its colonies. Of 
 a monumental aspect, decorated witb frescoes, of a semi-spanisb 
 semi-mauresque cbaracter, tbis pavillion is absolutel}' in tbe 
 rigbt to be called a palace. If 3'ou ^a isli to taste tbere good 
 wines of Andalusia it dépends only on 3011. Enter and drink. 
 
 French Section. — Tbe Frencb section continues tbencetill tbe 
 Cbamps-de-Mars.At iirst tbe class 74, not very artistic nor mon- 
 dain, for one sees tbere cribs and otber articles of tbe stable, but 
 tbe agreeable must give room bere to tbe usefullness,and ^\bat 
 interests tbe busbandman is at least as attracting as tbe class 
 of perfumerj^ ^vbicb goes alx)ve ail to tbe beartof tbenice ladies 
 and tbe fasbionables. To remark a System of covered dung- 
 bitl, very ingénions. 
 
 Otber gallery, after baving crossed tbe Ibot- bridge under tbe 
 fine triumpbal arcb erected b}' tbe bouse Moisanj: and C". It is 
 still in tbe class 74 tbat ^^•e are.IIere are iuteresting exbibitions, 
 figrjcultural products, corn.rye, bay, beans, etc, Tp reniark op 
 
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 the lel't, tlie Exhibition of tlie school of Nolhac (Haute- Loire). 
 ^vhicll exhibits products of tlie expérimentation field and of dé- 
 monstration subsided h\ ilie department (wheats and rjes). P'ar- 
 ther on ^ye liave the exhibition of the agricultural society of 
 Bonbourg (Nord), that of the syndicat of the hops of Burgundy; 
 that of the agricultural society ,trade and industry of the depart- 
 ment of llle-et-Allaine) sheafs, divers plants, witli comparative 
 tables : the class 71 is the next. Very interesting too but hère 
 Avc are at the Palace of the alimentaiy products, vast building in 
 ]»rominenceon the Seine, and whose name is suffîciently explica- 
 tive. It is composed of a ground-Hoor and under-ground and a 
 tirst tloor M'here are exhibited ail ^^■llat the glutton}' and the 
 belly mav imagine. 'We had to cite ail. In the entrance hall, is 
 the exhil.)ition of the house Mercier, celebrate for its Chami)a- 
 gnes. Besides its particular products, it puts under the e^es of 
 the public ail the material and the tools employed in the culture 
 (»f the wines and the so interesting préparation of the wines; for 
 1 his last part; not only one sees the tools, but they are put in 
 action by élever Avorkmen, executing the différent phases of the 
 \\ ork of manutention dï the sparkling A\ines, like the^' were in 
 the cellars of Champagne. 
 
 But te most curions, the success of the Palace of the alimen- 
 tary products is the gigantic cask, the greatest ©f Champagne, 
 and -which, besides, starts in the eyes from the entrance; nolxxly 
 ^vill think to carry it aAvay under his arm, in account of that 
 the circles of steel which surround it weigh 3.500 kilogrammes. 
 
 Its lx)ttoms are sculpted with profusion and not without talent. 
 Oi^the on(% one sees the four seasons,on the other, by jest Cham- 
 pagne oltei'ing a giupe to Kngland. 
 
 In this cask near M'hich that so fanions of 1 leitlellxM'g is but 
 a brittle thing, one could empty without filling it 800 barrels of 
 wii)e, for it coutains more than t^vo hundred thousand litres, 
 
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 Tlie next gallei'j, till tlie (:'liciini)-(le-Mars, is occupied hy 
 tlie class 75, wliere you remark tlie curioqs exhibition of the 
 étiquettes and Ijills of the house Michel-I.evy, of Epernay, very 
 instructive vinicolor cards, exhibition where you find jjretended 
 remédies ag^ainst the phylloxéra, the exhibition of the syndicat 
 ofthe îi^Tieulturers of the Ardennes, that of the agronomie sta- 
 tion of Seine-et-Marne, of the Centre and Pas-de-Calais. 
 
 SIXTH DAY 
 
 The Esplanad of the Invalids 
 
 Finally, impatient visiter for to see ail, we are at the last 
 great station of our voj-age which last sincea week. Surmount 
 3^our fatigue and prépare you to admire much, for you Avill soe 
 perhaps tlie most interesting part of the Ex]iil)iti«)n. wliere nrc 
 piled up ciiriosities after curiosities. 
 
 The Esplanad of the Invalids occupies a vast surface, whieh is 
 extends until the quay d'Orsay, and the Champ-de-Mars being 
 not large enough, the^^ decided to make an annex in Avhich the 
 ^linistries took large parts. 
 
 In going ont from the last gallery of the Agriculture, one finds 
 one's self at once in the middle of a swarming agglomération of 
 kiosques, pavillions, buildings small aiid lar'ge, ail more exotic 
 than the ()thers,and ever3avliere flags,masts where are floating 
 erillammes, with AA'hite minarets which transport you indi'eams 
 in the Oi'ient of the poets, pagodes and mostiuées ^^'hich remeni- 
 bor mystei'ioiis \\orshippings. If in ga.thering on this esplanad the 
 
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 arcliiteiitui'c and tliu inaiiiicrs <>1' tlie ihc pai'Ls oï tht; worlil, 
 one had for aini to make lixa imder the eyes of tlie visiter 
 thèse wonderful fairy-tales where golden palaces where 
 inhabited by tlio magnificent Khaliies, one lias certainly 
 succeoded. 
 
 But for to commence tliis sixtli daj-'s walk, let us enter 
 1)_\- tlie gâte facing tiie quaj-, at the corner of the rue de 
 Constantine and the Ministry of the Foreing Aftairs. 
 
 And wliat a pretty gâte! Two high and slender algerian mi- 
 narets, gilded and coquet, which from afar signal and charac- 
 terise typically the colonial exhil)ition. Let us cross it quickly, 
 and pass through the crowd which iîlls tlie entrances of the 
 Kailway station Dec^iu ville, miniscule like the Railway itself, 
 and hehind which a large kiosque in the shape of a tower ^ith 
 a domo shelters the exhibition of the Amer Picon. 
 
 At our right, on the qnay itself, let us remark the Pavillion 
 of the slate-quarries of Renazé. Renazé is in Maine-et-Loire, 
 the country by excellence of the fine slate, and a visit to this 
 pavillion would be not without interest. Farther on on the 
 bank of the quay, the South-African Republic exliibits, in a 
 pretty long pavillion, varnished wood, without a lloor, with a 
 gallery of a simplicity which fails notofa certain élégance, the 
 products of this intéressant part of Africa. 
 
 Then there is, aside, a Britain model Dairy, installed by a 
 houseot London. The cows placed in an annex adhèrent to the 
 pavillion, are of a fine english brood which our agricultors 
 research with so much reason. A bowl of niilk taken in passing 
 ^^ iM be al)le Ijesides to convince of it the visitor. 
 
 In the vicinity of the Dairy, is the pavillion Robinson and 
 son, of Roclideale, near Manchester. The whole édifice is occu- 
 pied, b}' a model flour mjll, nioved by the steam, and one can 
 enter there tosee grind the llour at, eyerv moment of tlje day. 
 
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 That is for the small constructions along tlie (inay. Loi us 
 direct iis now towards larger ones. 
 
 At onr light (in turning tlie back to* ihe galleries of tlio Agri- 
 culture, at the entrance or rather at the sorty of which we are) 
 s erected a super! > building, wliich one could take for a palace of 
 a prince, and which is but the Gastronomical Palace. 
 T^^'o highfloors, lighted by glass bays, and a roof surniounted 
 at tlie four corners, by gracious campaniles, give to this pa vil- 
 lion, Avith ail kept proportions, the monumental aspect of the 
 Magasins of thePrintemps (rich décorations are running fcomtiie 
 bottom to the top, and large entra nces are opened on each front. 
 
 Javanese village 
 
 Dutchland as an annex at the Esplanadof the Invalids : this 
 annex is the .Javanese village, parted from the otln^rs by a 
 fence. 
 
 One ignores not that .Java is thé most important of the Dutch 
 colonies in Australia. In the middie of the month of April about 
 forty of .Javanese. and women \rà\e arrived and iiavc^ built 
 thèse cottages in whicli you will see very curions inlribitations 
 ma de with palmleaves and bamboo. 
 
 The .Javanese are short, hâve the legs arched and frail, the 
 posterior prominent. They are very strong, however, and carry 
 enormous burdens. The women are tolerably pretty in their 
 yontli butbecome uglyvery quickly.Tlieirlanguageisthe Malais, 
 their religion the christianism. They hâve a lazzy and indolent 
 nature easily to be led. A'ery jealous, they serve them of the 
 least pretext oftlieir dreadful Khrist (Malais), kindof dagger 
 ^vhich they bear habitually at the girdle. 
 
 In the gastronomical Pavillion, at this same timebars, re- 
 freshment rooms, brewerje^, eating-Uouses: tliere is t]|e Jijngdom 
 
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 of tlio belly, ot* messire n aster, and its naine is well deserved. 
 In stead to place tliero at random breweries and eating-liouses 
 on this esplanad, Avliicli would liave given place to a bad con- 
 trast, for tliesakeof tlie eminently exoctic character of tliis 
 colonial Exhibition, tliey had the good idea iô assemble them in 
 a spécial palace, and everylx)dy will agrée that thcN^ had wisely 
 done. 
 
 Pavillion of the Ministry of the Posts and 
 Telegraphs 
 
 Close bv, this low pavillion is that ofthe Ministry of the 
 Posts and Telegraphs. Three large Avindows with round arches 
 are on the principal fronts. At the four corners of the roof are 
 sitting two griffons. Curions exhibition to visit, and where are* 
 assembled in three rooms ail Mhat interests this knportant admi- 
 nistration. The services ofthe under seii cables, the divers tele- 
 graphical Systems, the post-stamps, and a more encumber- 
 ingthing, a wagon-post with ail the accessories and mechaniciil 
 apparelsdestined to accelerate the manipulations ; ail isexhibited 
 there in détails, and one can consecrate an agreeable quarter of 
 an hour to this exhibition. 
 
 Colonial exhibition 
 
 But we are entering in the exotic. Hère in a suite the succes- 
 sion of the Pavi liions of the French colonies, to commence by 
 Algeria. Tfie colonial Exhibition occupies not less than 25,000 
 mètres, in the rectangle whicli extends between the rue of the 
 University, la rue de Grenelle and la rue de Constantine. To 
 realise a nntionol figuration and an attractive at the samc lime 
 
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 oftlie industry, tlie manncrsand the extcrior aspect of each oiie 
 of the FrencL colonies, such was the programm which the 
 Administration of tlie colonies liad traced to itself. 
 
 This programm hasbeen done under the successive administra- 
 tion of MM, de la Porte, Etienne and Félix Faure, under-secre- 
 taries of State of the Colonies. Theyhad for collaboratorsinthis 
 complexe work an executive commission representing the com- 
 mission of organisation and presided by M. Jacques Hilljrord, 
 senator of theFrench India. The plans are own to M. des Tour- 
 nelles and to M. S<iuvestre, This last arcliitect of the Tower 
 Eirtel. 
 
 Algeria. 
 
 The palace in which are exhibited the so various products 
 of Algeria has as architect M. Ballu. Its chief front, Avhicli 
 faces the Seine, is composed ôt a monumental porch, behind 
 which isakoubba, and close by this koubbais a square mina- 
 ret of 22 mètres of height, copied on that of the mosquée of 
 Sidi-Ahder-Ralham, af Alger. 
 
 On the Street, is presented a Moorish gallery, with somi- 
 circled arches, of a light and élégant style, with agreeableand 
 simple décorations. Two ogive gâtes are opening there. At the 
 left, above this gallei'y, is a green little dôme. On the sides 
 are, at the shop Windows, at the right, a shut belvédère, at 
 the lett an opened galler}'. 
 
 To détail ail what is found in this pretty palace would be 
 too long. Ail what concerns the agriculture, the trade and 
 the algerian industry is exhibited there. Outside are several 
 kiosks where divers artisans and industrials of the country 
 areinstallod. 
 
 Tunisy. 
 
 Ynu liave passed Algeria, and it is iiow tlu^ tuni.^ian Palace 
 
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 ^vhicll is inouï' sifçlit. It is composed of a principal palace 
 and ol an important annox, tliis one side by side witli that 
 one. It is Mr. Saladin who is tlie architect of it The annex, 
 s mètres ot leng'th, 7 of lieight, witliout a tioor, présents a 
 \ery neat ornamentation, Windows simt witli wooden bars, 
 moveable shutters turned up in penthouscs. 
 
 What concerns the principal palace, its front, on the stroet 
 is composed of a bi^ pavillion of two lloors, witli a square 
 pyramidal rcTof, exact reproduction of the tomb of Sidi-Ken- 
 Arrous, one of the architectural curiosities of Tunisy. The 
 entrance, with three pretty black and wliite arches, remem- 
 b(3rs that of the bey which is called the Hardo. The three 
 other fronts are likowise interestinii; and copied on other 
 iriaster-pieces of the architecture of tlio country. On the lelt 
 is a gable-end with a pointed roof surmounted by a golden 
 crescent, at the right a square gal)le-end with a terrace. where 
 is represented the splendid arcade ot the Souk-el-Hey. of Tunis. 
 
 In shops called souks, are established Eating-houses and 
 native cofïees; and Tunisian artisans showe there their 
 industry. The visiter will see there goldsmiths. damaskee- 
 ners, armourers, embroiderers, turners who are working 
 under liis eyes and will ofîer liini the objects manufnctui'ed 
 by the m. 
 
 Giving access iji the exhibition said ot the Tunisian products, 
 is a pretty yard with a black and white décoration. Xothing 
 more captiving than a detailed visit of this place where are 
 assembled the riclies ci this colony which is called to a so 
 greaè prosperity in the future. 
 
 Hall of the military aerostation 
 
 !n front of Tunisy. this hirixci building, ami very high. is 
 
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 the Hall of the military aerostation, an amiex of the Minis- 
 try of war, and where will be made the numerous expe- 
 riments of aerostation. The employ ot the balloons in the 
 military strategy beconies more and more extended. One 
 may easily understand what great services they could render, 
 with some necessarj^ perfections, and the communication bv 
 balloons. by the means of the travelling pigeons, the recogni- 
 sing of the places from the top ot a balloon. thanks to 
 powerful electrical centres, and even the shooting from the 
 balloon, are as many questions to be resolved. This annex is 
 then very far to be without importance, and it will interest 
 ail those who occupy them with the improvements to bring in 
 the art of war. quite in wishing for an eternal peace. 
 
 The annamite théâtre 
 
 We bave passed the annamite palace, let us return on our 
 steps, and let us stop at this strange building of wood, 
 served by the galleries, and which is but a théâtre annamite! 
 Yes, a théâtre of which ail the pièces are manufactured 
 after those of the extrême-orient country, and where the 
 annamite performances will be presented to you, if you will 
 takethe trouble to enter therein. Thèse spectacles fînd place 
 three times a day (lo consult the chapter of the spectacles). 
 
 This people lias certainly not a refined literature, and the 
 anamite side-scenes are less complicated than those of the 
 opéra, but this tlieatre is certainly one of the attractions of 
 tlie colonial exliihition. 
 
 Madagascar 
 
 Pass beliind tiie annamite théâtre and you will be betbre 
 the paviilion of Madagascar. Tlie island of Madagascar, 
 
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 admirably situated in the Indian Océan, survevs tlie oriental 
 Goasts of Africa. It lias 350 leai^ues from the soutli to tlic 
 iiortli, 120 from ^east to west, that is to say 7 millions ot 
 acres more than France, and a population of 4 millions of 
 souis. Its climate is moisty, enough unhealthy. Its products 
 are yet little varions and it is especially at the military point 
 of view that it lias some importance. 
 
 Annamitian Eating-House 
 
 HeJiind the palace of Annam and Tonkin, you will fînd you 
 in the front of a pavillion of a typic !<tyle, with round 
 Windows, in wood curiou.sly sawn. Before the entrance are 
 miradors and graves. The gâte, decorated with china letters 
 with blue pièces of china incrusted in mosaïc, gùves access 
 into the Exliibition. The roofs formed by several others 
 wiiich foUow in graduation, according to the typic style of 
 Cochinchina, are covered with tiles in china, briglitening 
 under the sun. 
 
 There are two large exhibition rooms, the posterior for 
 Annam, the preceeding for Tonkin, connectedby two galleries, 
 in sucli way to form together a square yard in the middle 
 n{ which is erected a little temple slieltering an enormous 
 lîoudhain wood, reproduction of a celebrate idol of the country. 
 It is at Saigon even that hâve been made the plans of this 
 palace. 
 
 We could ask to the Annamites who are on the threshold, 
 wha^t mean the china inscriptions hieroglyphingthe entrance. 
 but we are in a hurry to bring the visiter in this annamitian 
 and Tonkin palace, in which ail the products of this far land 
 are gathered. 
 
 One knows thnt Annnm is a part of Cochinchina (Freneh\ 
 
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 submitted to tlie Freiicli protectorat. The cliiiiiite of tliis 
 country is liot, nioist}-, unwholesome for tlie Europeans, but 
 tlie l'auiia and tlie flora arev very curious there. The 
 natives Avhom thc visiter Avill fiiid iii tliis palace attire him 
 still more there tlian the gigaiitic spider, wliich measures 
 ten centimètres and nourislies itsclf with little birds. The 
 Annaniites belong to this great ycllow race which occupies 
 the two third parts of Asia. The colour is that of the clear 
 cinnamon. The}- are short, their strength is much inferior to 
 ours. Their chest is enormous. their hands are dry and broad, 
 their feet liât and their toes open, so well that with tlieir 
 flat leet they hold the stirrup. the rudder, pick up thc 
 smallest objects, 
 
 The Tonkins bave lilvewise a tiat figure, are Hat-nosed, squat 
 at the l)eginning, the eyebrows badly sliaped and little 
 tliick. An Annamite or a Tonkin of twenty years scems to bave 
 but fiftoen, and à young girl of eighteen years bas still the 
 appearance of a little child. They smokc much, choAv some 
 bétel, nourish them Avith rice, with rotted fish, ^vith dogs, 
 broodcn cggs or likcwise rotted. Their religion is the boud- 
 hism, a little changed . 
 
 Palace of the Ministry of War 
 
 Nothing more giandiose than the building erected by the 
 cares of the Ministry of War and before which \ve are jiow. 
 Extending itsef 1>etween the Hall of the military aerostation, 
 of the Exhibition of Hygiène, faciiig that of Tunisy , Annara and 
 Tonkin, the military exhibitioji occupies a ground of 200 mè- 
 tres in fronton 80 mètres ofdepth; this building entrancc 
 repiesents a military gâte of the middle âge ; betwcen U\o 
 fortitied towers, curtains at the following with sentry-boxes 
 
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 ut thc cxtremities. In front ot' tlio entranco porch, is a draw- 
 bridgc, protected mâchicoulis placed above the gâte. 
 
 Placed behind, after a yard where are disposed tonts ot 
 divers types and the material of artillery, thc principal 
 building proloni'es it in forming a great parallélogramme ot 
 150 mètres, and contains a ground and a tirst floor. The style 
 ofthis building is simple and imposing, three points of it are 
 very sallient : the motives of the extremities and the central 
 part. The architect has sought to render on this Iront the gran- 
 deur and the power ot tlic military idea, the motives ot the 
 oxtremities, strong of shape, are adorned Avith pyramids 
 upon which trophies and military allégories are scuJpted. 
 Hetween thèse pyramids an arch shuts a door giving access to 
 tbe roomsof the ground-lloor. The eentral motive represents 
 the most monumental part of the building. It is as to say so a 
 triomphal arch forming the lionour entrance ot thc palace. 
 
 Four columns each of 15 meters of height sustain an enta- 
 blature rich in ornamentation, sui'mounted by an acrotere 
 with trophies and military spoils. 
 
 Hetween the columns is opcning a great arch with archi- 
 vault. 
 
 The key represents a warrior with a spoil ot a lion, syni- 
 bolising the torce and the bravery . 
 
 At the circuit of the arch are disposed in regular divisions : 
 key stones adorned with warrior gallian ph^'sionomics, ot 
 Francs, of the middle âge, of the Rcvival and of the 
 epoch ot Louis W\. 
 
 In thc tympans, two Famés iiolding laurel crowns, It isM. 
 W^stein, who is the architect ot this magniticent con.struc- 
 tion, so worthy of admiration that one is grieved in thinking 
 that it is but provisory and that in some months there will 
 not remain aurthini:,- of it. 
 
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 Let us pass under the curious gâte at mâchicoulis, and let 
 us enter in the central palace, where are différent exhibitions : 
 the modem exhibition of the Ministrj' ot war, the rétrospec- 
 tive exhibition of the ancient arms, of bibliography and 
 geography, and the exhibiters of the class 66. 
 
 Let us give rapidiy a glance to the Avhole, for a spécial guide 
 would hardly sutfice to détail of it the thousands of curiosities. 
 
 It is in entering tliat one finds the modem exhibition of the 
 Ministry of ^var, material andproceedings of themilitary art. 
 There are gathered ail modèle of uniforms, of engines able to 
 be exhibited witliout a danger for the security of the land. 
 
 Then comes the very important metallurgical exhibition of 
 ail the products employed by the Frencli army. To cite the 
 superb exhibitions of the Society of the Forges and the Avork- 
 yards of the Mediterranean, the C** of the Forges of Châtillon- 
 Commentry, the Society of the ancient establishments 
 Hotchkiss 
 
 In the same gallery, one remarks tlie exhibitions of the con- 
 veying transports, tlie bake-houses, the biscuit-houses of the 
 battie-fields. 
 
 The rétrospective exhibition of the arms will certainly 
 interest, tliough one finds not another thing but what oflers 
 the Muséum of artillery of the Hôtel of the Invalids, and the 
 iriost part of the similar muséums. For that tliis exhibition 
 might be as complète as possible, the governors of Paris and 
 Lyon and the gênerais commanding the army corps hâve 
 been invited by the Minister to appeal the collaboration of the 
 ofhcers, who hâve lenttheir collections of ancient arms, of the 
 military pictures. The more the departmental muséums and 
 the collectionners hâve becn sollicited. 
 
 In this rétrospective exhibition figure the greek and roman, 
 gallian, frank. aims of the middle âge and of the Revival 
 
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 Jike the war-eiigines of the antiquity. The international 
 character of tins section doubles still the attraction oi it. Rel- 
 gium, for only to cite this, exhibits there costumes and armours 
 ot a real historical intorest. 
 
 Finally, tlio Exhibition ot biMiog-raphy and niilitary geogra- 
 phy is presented to us. There are gathered the documents 
 and objects relative to the military science, to the historié of 
 divers arms and troup corps, to the military carthography, to 
 the honoriiic signs, to the schools and flags. 
 
 A thing which cannot l'ail to interest lively ail those who 
 touch far and near at the militarism, and above ail the French 
 o/ficers and soldiers, is the historié of the corps of the actual 
 troups. figured under the lorm of pictures inclosed in the ricli 
 ali)ums which you see there, and which tollow step by step its 
 corps since its lormation, with mentioning the battle-fields. 
 battles, sièges to whicli it bas taken part, with the name ot 
 the chiefs of the corps. 
 
 Finally in another room. the visiter will find exhibited the 
 objects having connection with the armement, equipment 
 and the drcssing of the navy troups. 
 
 In leaving this immense palace, the visitor will grant a 
 glimpse to the numerous annexes, which fill the intervais of 
 this place and which inclose a pavillion of powder and salpetor. 
 a military pigeon-cot. where are made daily expériences of 
 communications l>y pigeons, betwecn différent distant towns. 
 
 And for the end, a certain number of tents employed by the 
 administrative and sanitary services, and cart-houses. where 
 i< exhibited the rolling material. 
 
 Palace of the Colonies 
 
 The palace of the colonies occupies a vast rectangle of 
 
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 250 mètres of len2:th. It is a building!;- ol a coiii[K)sit f^iyle. 
 where is entering somc ot Norway, of tlie Frencli Revival and 
 a little of China or ot annamite. The name of; the Palace ol' 
 the Protectorats is also given to it. 
 
 Nothing more gracions and at the same time more monu- 
 mental, as this building, at the four turrets and saillent pavil- 
 lions, whose coverings of enamelled bricks and red wood are 
 sparkling from afar ; at the centre rises a large quadrilatéral 
 cupola fianked with four smaller campaniles, and at the 
 extremities, four other cupolas, of middle sizc. achieve to give 
 to the building its so varions character . 
 
 A large verandah surrounds this palace, whose architect is 
 M Sauvaistre. In llie numerous rooms, at the -groud-floor, 
 and at the fioor, the visitor will find the collections of the 
 State, the Exhibitions of the public Hoards, the sendings of the 
 colonial schools and the penitentiary establishments, and 
 finally documents of geography, of statistic good to be con- 
 sulted especially and even to l^e studied by the tradesmen or 
 productors désirons to begin commercial connections with the 
 French colonies. 
 
 Hefore this palace is a small little lake, where the native 
 Americans and Oceanians make manœuver with the dexterity 
 which distinguishes them. pirogues of divers shapes. under 
 the eyes of the public. 
 
 Seiiegalian villag-e 
 
 Scattered behind the principal buildings of this colonial exhi- 
 bition iim pavillions and buts Avhich consutute typic villages. 
 inhabited by natives much more authentic than those whoni 
 they cxhibit regulnrly at the Jardin of Acclimatation, and 
 through whom tho visitor will walk Avith curiosity. Behind 
 
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 jiiid at tlie right of Madagascar, beliold by example the Seiiega- 
 liaii village, siiiall rectangular huts. without roots, built in 
 plaited rushes. The seiiegalian tribe belon^s to,the blaclc 
 tribes. The shapes of the natives of this part of Afriea arc 
 neat and élégant, and the proportions, of their b<^dy trnly 
 admirable. Their skin is of a jet-black, with brillant réflexes 
 which dénote the fineness of the epidermis. 
 
 They are divided in yolofs, scrères, sarakoUjs, inandingues 
 and peuls 
 
 Among the Senegalians who inhabit this village, there is 
 one who speaks verj^ well French and is decoratod of the 
 medalof rescue. 
 
 The Tower of Saldé 
 
 liehind this Senegalian village, at the right of Madagascar, 
 this singnlar pcntagonal building, pierced ^vith loop-holos. 
 whichyou sec there. is notliingelse but the redoute or tower of 
 Saldé, one of the flnest models of the numcrous blockhaus 
 which the gênerai Faidherbe build for the defence of Sénégal. 
 It is at Saldé, in the Fouta (Sénégal), that in 1857 the French 
 soldierssustainedthe siège against Omar, senegalian marabout 
 wlio, rèturning from a pilgrimage from Mecca and Médina, 
 whence lie brought back the vénérable title of Al-lladji (the 
 pilgrim), wished to play in his country the fructuous roll ot 
 suecessor of Maliomet. 
 
 Malgachian Village 
 
 Close by the Senegalian village, you will see some smallhuTS 
 which constituto the Malgachian village, very curioqs too. 
 
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 Tahitian Village 
 
 Very curious too the Taliitiaii village. AU those who bave 
 taken pleasure at tlie lecture of Rarahn, the delicious novel of 
 Pierre Loti, will stop witli pleasure before tbese Tahitian 
 inhabitations The Taliitian people, niuch attachée! to France, 
 is a sj'mpathic country. The island of Tahiti, which enjoys 
 of an almost eternal spring, is so picturesque, so poetic, that 
 its charms are found in its inhabitants. The Tahitians makc 
 party of the great Oceanian family, which is distinguished by a 
 copper tinge. by the beauty of the sliapes, by a stature above 
 the middle one, and an expression of the figure very meek. 
 The amabilit}' of thèse Polynesians is proverbial. The men 
 are girdling their lianks and legs Avith a cotton pièce called 
 pareu, and bear on their torso an European shirt whose sides 
 are floating in the air. They are vigorous and handsome 
 athlètes, but too much given up to the idleness and dreaming, 
 fruit of a rich and clément climate. What concerns the women, 
 pretty for the niost part, valued to the island, when Cook 
 visited it, the nanie of Ney-Cythere. The nianners hâve since 
 a little be transformed, but this nest of verdure and perf unie 
 conceals aiways seducing sirènes, at the cadenced and harnio- 
 niouslanguage. atthe enchanting manners, living but for the 
 pleasure. Tbey bear turned up dresses with lively colours, 
 similar to dressing-gowns which are floating freely around 
 them. Their black plaits are adorned with flowers, or 
 gi'acious papaches with which they liketu shade them. 
 
 Palace of the Cambodge 
 
 In continuing. wo find now theExbibition of the Cambodge, 
 represented by a splendid pagode, a true reproduction of the 
 
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 towii of Ang'kor. It is simply a wonder of architecture which is 
 reproduced there, at tlie admiration of the visiter. In the 
 torests of the Cambodge are marvellous ruins, attesting a past 
 time unheard of power and a prodigious development of 
 civilisation. And among thèse riiiiis, is tound the pagode of 
 Angkor, a wonder of the Cambodgian architecture, or Khmer, 
 which can rivalise witli the master-pieces of the Hindoue 
 arcliitecture . 
 
 The pagode of Angkor is the Saint-Pierre of the boudhism. 
 
 The Cambodge is one of the most important countries of the 
 Indo-China peninsuhi, suljmitted to the French protectorat. 
 < )iie finds there nearly the same products than in the pre- 
 ceeding palaces of Cochin-China. 
 
 Panorama of Whole Paris 
 
 We hâve finally arrived at the extremity of this vast 
 esplanad. It remains us but to bring you to the panorama of 
 Whole Paris,this vast circuit building which you see there and 
 which cannot fail to interest you. 
 
 It is M. Castellani, to whom we owe already one of the pa- 
 noramas of the Champs Elysees, who lias painted the immense 
 canvas this panorama Whole-Paris, that is to say the 
 several hundred of individualities more or less boulevardieres 
 who enjoy the parisian celebrity, outof which nothingisof 
 any value. Physicians, lawyers, journalists, political men, 
 comedians. painters,novel-writers, pretty womenjearned men 
 etc ,4t is whole Paris which will pass before your eyes if you 
 ^\ illgive you the trouble to visit this panorama. 
 
 For to succeod in it, they were forced to put thom as it is 
 said, in the hide of the historian. During longmonths they hâve 
 worl^ecl the modem annals. Tliey liave passed over thousands 
 
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 of engraviiigs, priuts, sketchos, to revive tlie ceiitury. 
 whose pliysioiioiiiy tliey haveto retrace; tlie licad-gear and tlie 
 crinoline sat beforetliem,the sameas tlie bine coat with revers 
 of Louis XVI or tlie small black cloak of the deputies of tlie 
 Tiers-Etat. It is by 1789 tliat the cenuiry opcns its mardi. 
 Hère are Hailly, Mirabeau, Necker, Harnave, la Fayette. 
 Fartlier on are tlie Girondins, Vergniaud ahead, the dantonists 
 with Danton, Camille Desnioulins; hère is Robespierre 
 powdered iike a little Mar(juis. A Charlotte Corday watches 
 with lier dagger Marat talking with the two preceeding. 
 Tlien the great military épopée of the Republic and the Empire 
 with the sparkling uniforms oftlie officers and soldiers. The 
 review of grenadiers passed by Napoléon I surrounded by his 
 marshals, with Marie-Louise assisting at the ceremony under 
 a red canopy sowed with bées, is remarkable under oll 
 points. 
 
 Then the long period of peace which lias follo\\'ed the Em- 
 pire, is in the Jardin ol the Tuileries, ^^ ith its ilhistrious 
 writers, the great writers of the roinantic period and the 
 celebrate women ; (teorges Sand sitting bare-headed under a 
 statue, Rachel in the péplum of Athalia. 
 
 We hâve passed the Restoration. Hère are Louis-Philippe, 
 Guizot, Lamennais, Beranger, <|uite dreaming, Lamartine, 
 Musset, Ledru-Rollin, Louis Rlanc, Cavaignac, Raspail, Blan-i 
 qui. Then the Empire, Napoléon 111, the empress Eugénie, the 
 gênerais and the writers : Théophile Gautier, Alexandep 
 Dumas. Then the siège of Paris, witli its balloons and pigeons, 
 Finally the third Republic, with a whole swarin of antithèses, 
 Mr. de Mun and Mr. Clemenceau. The duke of Broglie and Gam- 
 betta, Rochefort, the gênerai Saussier, and the gênerai Bou- 
 langer. Itis Mr. Carnot who sliuts the march otthe centui\y. 
 
 At the side ot him the illustrations actif^llv alive, ali stan- 
 
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 diiig, save M. Chevreuil, dead since, and who is reprcseiited 
 sittiiii^*. Finully tha}^ tbund good to close the delile by Victor 
 Hu^co, who boi'ii with the eentury, passes it eutirely. The 
 i^reat poet is represeiited l»elbre a moimnieiit representing 
 France, at both sides ot wliich air erected two statues repre- 
 senting the one the ^^'ork, and the other the Defence of the 
 counlry. 
 
 To recommend to the visiter to go and admire the panora- 
 ma vould be useless, not a stranger will leavo Paris without 
 l'.'oinffto seeit, and that with right. 
 
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 Palace of the Hygiène. 
 
 Fi'om the palace ot* the Colonies junip into this of the hygiène 
 in Crossing the causeway. This palace, Avhose nrciiilect is Mr. 
 (iirauit, comprises three vast entrances, with arches, corres- 
 ponding to three cupolas which dominate the roof-The aspect is 
 noble and simple. At the right is another annex roscrved to the 
 minerai waters ; at the left another annex where the housc 
 (ieneste and Herchep exhibitsits hygienieal Systems ot heating 
 and ventilation, etc. 
 
 Palace of the social Economy. 
 
 In foilowing, you hâve the Palace of the Social Kconomy, 
 which comprises a hall of conlerenc^s, a library, a game hall 
 with ail its dependencies. This economical exhibition being oi 
 agréât importance, being given the actuality ot the more to 
 mol'e pressing of the .social questions, which preoccupy tho 
 thinkersot ail countries,they hâve not spared the ground to the 
 annexes which are numerous. At the left of the principal palace 
 and hard by, is a building in planks wherc the phiiantro[)ical 
 Society lias installed a motlel economical stove. Therein is a 
 
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 room of consommations whose priées very much reduded are 
 sticked at the door. 
 
 Behind the house Menier, the manufacturer of chocolaté has 
 true little spécial palace, with greek eolumns, and a work- 
 man's house, a type of thoseofthe manufacture of Noisy-sur- 
 Marne. Tliis house, composed of a small kitchen andone room 
 at the ground floor, and two rooms at te first floor, is reco- 
 vered in red hricks ; a small out-house adjacent and a small 
 garden around. 
 
 It is coquettish and (|uiet,and onewould like to inhabit there. 
 
 Hesides one has disseminated in the garden of this exhibition 
 of social economy, several of thèse Avorkmen's dwellings. 
 M. De Naeyer, ot lîelgium, of whom we hâve already spoken, 
 at the moment of our walk in the Palace of ihe engines, has 
 built two small houses forniing one building, and whose red 
 and black Ijricks are of a very gay eiiect. 
 
 Congolan village 
 
 Pass again behind the Palace of the Colonies, Avhere are 
 grouped several colonial villages. At first the Congolan vil- 
 lage, or apfourou, which will permit you to study closely the 
 maimers of thèse itihabitants of the mysterious Africa, 
 where Savorgnan de Brazza and Stanley penetrated the first. 
 Congo ; Avhich is shared ))y P'rance and Helgium, is destined to 
 become a \evy rich colony, and ail what passes therein, like 
 the fauna and the fiora which one finds there, is made to 
 interest. The buts of this village ofïer beautitul types of the 
 subjects of the king Makoko. At the side of this centre- African 
 exhibition, is installed an agricultural Bazaar, ^Yhere you can 
 buy with little expeoses plants and objects comin^ trom tbo 
 colonies, 
 
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 New Caledonia 
 
 After the Coniiolan viliag-e, you will cross the New-Caledo- 
 uian village, at the picturesque huts, whose largest is that of a 
 chief of a cast Tlie New-Caledonian archipelago is, it is 
 known, situated just at the antipodes of France, at the east of 
 Australîa. 
 
 The Neo-Caledonian or canaques, hâve a lamp-black: skin, 
 woolly and frizzled black hair, the beard very thick.thc nose 
 flat, profoundly depressed between the orbits. Tlie middlo 
 stature is nearly the same as ours. The trunk and tho linil^s 
 are well proportioned. 
 
 The canaques women, at the contrary, are really ugly,and 
 in such a disproportion whicli exisls under this report be- 
 ween both sexes, that one comprehends that the natives are 
 in sorne right to consider them as very inferior to them; 
 with tlieir shaved head and the ear laps dreadfuUy pierced 
 and bored, they are, evcn young, little seducing. 
 
 The most part of the canaques hâve preserved, in spite of 
 the efforts of the Frcnch administration, habits of canniba- 
 lism which are near to be extirped. They are carefully sur- 
 veyed, but from time to time, at the bottom of tlie forests, are 
 accomplished the hideous saturnals which they call pilou- 
 pilou, and where are eaten the dilformed childrcn and thoso 
 who overlood a too numerous faniily. 
 
 The brandy, which makes so many victims, unpeoples 
 thèse wild casts. The tobacco is likewise mortal for them, 
 and they like it with passion^. The child can hardly walk, 
 wlien it smokes a coarse tobacco in an enormous pipe, so, 
 many die before tliey bave reached the âge of puberty. 
 
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 Pavillion of the Colonial press 
 
 Let us pass agaiii on the lelt in retuniing stiil a little on 
 our steps. 
 
 Ai'ter having passed the Palace of tlie colonies, one will 
 remark a small pavillion, the most modest, before thestreet. 
 and Aviiere the journalists of the French colonial press are 
 gatherod to work at their daih' correspondences. The little 
 lake. decorated at the China manner, -winds its way at this 
 side and behind this pavillion, until the corner of thepnlace 
 of Cochinchina which we liave there. 
 
 The Gabon 
 
 Hère is now the village of Oahon, or of tlie Pahouins, enti- 
 relyj)uilt in bamboo, on tlie right and at the extremity of the 
 rigiit side of the Palace of the Colonies. Gabon is the only 
 French important establishment of the coast of Guinea, in 
 Africa. Its original name is M'pongo. It is a countr}' of 
 extrême beats and rains, tlioroughly bad and debilitating 
 climate, 
 
 One will find in this Pahouin village ail what produces the 
 country, the matetra, or golden gingember, the malaguette 
 or pepper of Guinea, muscad-trees or vanilla-trees and the 
 famous iboyé, excitin_^' Avithout rivalry, wliich replaces lor 
 the natives the cofîee and alcohol. Gabon is the countrj- of the 
 gorille, this monkey of a gigantic stature and of an extraor- 
 dinary strength, but the most dangerous animais are the cro- 
 codiles and the hippopotames ; ihe ivory is an object of a 
 great trade. 
 
 The collection of insects of Gabon is ono of the jnost 
 instructive. To cite tho dreadfn] red ant Avliich replaces 
 
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 Iherc tho crrîng dogs of Constantinople, cluirged to clean tlie 
 .streets ot ail uncleanness. When thèse little bcasts attack a 
 -mail village, in a fe\v days it bas disappearod. 
 
 The Gahonnais, of which the visiter caii sce some types, arc 
 vcry handsome men, tall and well proportioned . Their colour 
 is rather bronzed tlian black. Thcy shavc a part of their hair 
 in figurating varions paintings The womon at the contrary 
 are short, and thcy bave the extremcties fine and délicate. Tlioy 
 are those who give the fashion to the African clegancy, men 
 and women at the chest naked; the woraen cover it with glass 
 of collars, which colours are chosen with taste. At thèse col- 
 lars are hanged sinall foticlies less or more precious. But sincc 
 a Uttle time the Enropean lashions iiiake invasion. The gabon 
 women commence to take potticoats and y ou can sec circulate 
 women in silk bats. 
 
 The Pahouins are the handsomest race of tlie (Tabonais, and 
 their intelligence is very lively. 
 
 The Guadeloupe. 
 
 Ahvays in continuing on therii^ht, behind Cochinchina, wu 
 (ind tho pavillion of Guadeloupe, large créole and élégant 
 building. One ignores not that (Tuadeloupo is after Martini(iue 
 the most important of the French colonies in the Antilles. 
 Thi? pavillion gives a vory clear idea of the riciies of this 
 island, wbose climato, comparable to that of Ital}', is one'of 
 the wholesomest. Besides of the usoful trees which are prédo- 
 minant tbere,tlie bread-tree, clieese-tree, soap-trce, coca-tree, 
 ami sagou-tree wbose fruit is spread in gracions grapes, the 
 :raveller-tree so called because a simple incision produces an 
 abundant gush of fresh water, the iron-wood, tbc mahogany, 
 tbe santal, tlie bamboo, the cultures wiiich aliment there the 
 
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 trade arc above ail the cottee, thc indigo, the cacao and the 
 cotton . The sugar cane begins to diminish there, by the cause 
 of the concurrence of the turnip sugar. The trade's niovcment 
 ot Guadeloupe is about fitty millions per year and brings to 
 France from seven to eight millions. 
 
 Annex of Norway. 
 
 BetAveenthe pavillion of tlie Guadeloupe and that of Cochin- 
 china, you find an annex pavillion of Norway, wherein this 
 country exhibits the particular products which could Jiot find 
 room in tlie annex and the section of the Ciiamp-de-Mars 
 
 Cayenne. 
 
 in continuing, we shall find the Cayennais Palace whicli 
 represents Guyana atthe colonial Exhibition. Guyana is, as it 
 is known, a vast equinoxial country of America, of which 
 France occupies a part, comprised between the Maroni, the 
 Atlantic, and Oyapock, in luU torrid zone, nearly under the 
 Line. One remembers that it is but a few months that dreadful 
 fires desolatcd this country, causing numerous damages and 
 that ten ye^rs will not be sufRcientto repair them. 
 
 The pavillion of Cayeinie is curious in ali points. The popu- 
 lation of this colony comprises the creoles,the employed and the 
 transported, thèse la^^t rescues among the sentenced to the 
 hard-labours, the galley-slaves of the ancient bagnios and the 
 colonial sentenced of Asiatic or African origin. This colony is 
 very far to answer to the idéal, and tillnow one could not draw 
 of it ail what it appearcd to promise, and nevertheless one 
 may judge by the présent exhibition the infinité variety of 
 its products, the sugar-cane, the cotton, cacao, spices, cottee, 
 
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 manioc, rice, abony, mahogany, quinquina. The animais are 
 still more various, but tlie most part are ot those which one 
 likes not to meot on his way, from the constrictor serpeni 
 which swallows an ox till the imperceptible serpent of coral, 
 whose beatinç bringsthe death in afew minutes. Let us men- 
 tion the omnivore fly, harmless in appearance, but more redou- 
 table in reality as the tooth of the jaguar ; the scorpion, which 
 cornes to the size af a crab, the scolopender, the spi'ler-crab, 
 the vampires . 
 
 Finally the quanti ty ot monkeys which it would be too long 
 to enumerate. To the Cayennais Pavillion corresponds a 
 greenhouse of the flora which uafolds its beauties which will 
 be appreciated by the visiter. 
 
 Palace of Cochinchina 
 
 Finally we bog the visiter te make the turn of the Palace ot 
 Cochinchina, which is on the right, in order to admire it in 
 beginning by the front. 
 
 French Cochinchina is after Algeria, the most important 
 French possession beyond the sea. It was then necessary 
 that the Palace which represented it made it honour, and 
 certainly one cannot imagine anything more exotically finer. 
 A gâte with braces in sculpted wood is openei in the middle ol 
 the entrance of the front and gives access to a yard beyond 
 which the true front isextended, decorated by fine sculptures, 
 flanked by a column surmounted by a griffon of China, the 
 whole of a dark blue, red and yellow gold which is in har- 
 mony with the remainder of the building. 
 
 At the cornices of the roof where are descending capri- 
 ciously china arabescs, magots of China are standing ; but the 
 most magnificent pièce of this building is the crest 
 
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 whicli rises at the top of the roof, and which is eiitirely in 
 china. The visitor can extasy himself before this rich 
 ornamentation in which hundred of china personages are 
 detached, for there is one of the finest pièces which came out 
 of the China-wares of Cholou, close by Saigon. Can one fancy 
 something of a more grandiose eflfect, at the extremities of 
 this crest of china are two large birds, holding jewels in their 
 beaks. But one may not enter in the palace without having 
 adniired the pavillions which, on each side, are adjacent to the 
 principal building. Still a singular ornamentation, on ciment 
 is extended on their fronts. They are true Cochinchinoises, 
 arrived at Paris in April and who hâve painted thèse original 
 f rescs,'at the violent colours, representing turn by turn tigers, 
 lions, china monsters, storks, scènes of Cochinchina ; a 
 child upon a donkey, ladies gathering fiowers ; a European 
 repast seen with Cochinchina eyes ; a battle, landscapes, etc. 
 Round Windows of two mètres of diameter, with rose-win- 
 dows eut in wood, are lightening this palace. 
 
 The interior of this palace unswers to the magnificence of 
 outside. Every where strange paintings, décorations to which 
 hav© used us the taies of the travellers in the extrême- 
 Orient. Ail the products of Cochinchina are exhibited, and 
 Annamites are coming and going achieving to give to this 
 palace its character of veracity. But we leave to the visitor 
 tlie care to examine ail "what is found there, the products 
 exhibited being besides little différent of those which we hâve 
 seen in the Palace of Annam and Tonkin. 
 
What is to be seen out of the Exhibition 
 
 There is finished our commoii walk, and in a liappy way, 
 after six days which, we daro believe it, did not seem to you 
 long, and tiresome, 3'our curio&ity fînding a constant aliment 
 ;it every stop which we mado you do, in this exliiUition without 
 rivalry, where the Ijeauties succeod to thé Ijeautios, where one 
 loaves not one pleasure but for a new one. As for us, our task of 
 cicérone is to agreeable to us, that we shall do our best to 
 retain you still noar us, in efforcing us to discover still other 
 s[)ectacles, and to présent you them after ail those you know 
 already. 
 
 Know then that the Exhibition of the Centenary reserves you 
 surprises and to cite but one, let you bring to the New Bastille, 
 curious restitution of thjs dark stronghold which 89 made fall. 
 The Bastille and the rue Saint-Antoine in 1789. 
 
 It is still the military school of the Champ-de-Mars, avenue 
 de lia Motte-Picquet, in front of the right wing of the Machines 
 (in turning the Ijack to the Tower Eiffel) that is erected this 
 reconstruction ot the Bastille and the neighbouring quarter. 
 
 At the lecture of thèse moving taies of which the Bastille 
 furnished the canvas, how many persons were wishing to see, 
 if it\jvere but a moment, the old stronghold ! This wish is very 
 compréhensible, and each one canconceive the satistaction which 
 one must feel in passing in his mind the phases of an interesting 
 action in the true middlc where it had passée! . It is to the col- 
 lalx)ration of M. Collibert, architect, author of the project, and 
 
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 M. Perrusson, mannfactuVer of Saône-et-Loire, that we owe this 
 historical reœnstitution of oiie of the most interesting parts of 
 this old Paris, nearly entirely disappeared in our days, recon- 
 stitution so much more curions that it has on the panoramas, the 
 advantage notto bea iiction, a simple déception. It is yeiy well 
 a reality, a complète quarter, in which one can walk, regard, 
 study in détail. 
 
 The name of bastilles or bastides was in gênerai applied to 
 certain works of defence garni^hing from place to place the con- 
 tinuai wall of a city. In that which Etienne Marcel made erect 
 around Paris towards the middle of the XIV century one distin- 
 guished two principal bastilles, that of the gâte Saint-Denis and 
 that of the gâte Saint-Antoine. 
 
 The bastille Saint- Antoine, at first simple gâte flanked as it 
 was then the use, of two large towers, remained in this state 
 untill370,epochat which Hugues Aubriot, prevot of Paris under 
 Charles VI, finding it insufficient, changed it and made of it the 
 celebrate stronghold of which achievement found place about 
 1380. 
 
 As this date the Bastille (to serve us of the name by which 
 the bastille of the gâte Saint-Antoine finished to be simply desi- 
 gned) comprised eight towers having each theirname, which the 
 history has preserved: let us remember only that of the Bazi- 
 nière and those of theBerthaudière, which hâve been popularised 
 by many authors, and especially by Alexander Dumas in his 
 marvellous novels of cape and sword. Thèse towers, of sixty- 
 three feet high and whose walls had until 10 feet thickness, in- 
 closed the cells in variable number and by one cell on a floor, 
 than the cachots which were on the ground nearly on the same 
 evelthan theditch surrounding the stronghold. 
 
 For to inter into Paris, coming from the direction of Vin- 
 cennes, one passed at first under a triumph-arch commenced 
 
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 under Henry III, continued in 1672, and demolished in 1788. 
 After ha\ing crossed tliis arch one penetrated into the town by 
 tlie true gâte Saint- Antoine in leaving on the left the prison 
 whose principal entrance with its little draw-bridge, of the 
 stronghold, one passed on the niasked banks of the ditches by a 
 wall on which were leaned a suite of little shops forming gallery . 
 
 In turning the back to the Bastil'e, one had before one 's self 
 the rue Saint-Antoine, where among the important buildings one 
 remarkedthe Hôtel de Lesdiguières, the Hôtel de la Reine, the 
 church Sainte-Marie, the Hôtel de Mayenne or d'Ormesson, the 
 church Saint-Paul, etc. Thèse three last buildings subsist still. 
 
 This bastille Saint- Antoine, where his founder, Etienne Mar- 
 cel, found the death in 1558, occupied the place where is to-day 
 the rue Saint -Antoine, and the Boulevard Henry IV, and ser- 
 yed to protect the quarter of the Hôtel Saint-Paul, then the 
 Royal Résidence; it was succossively a prison of state and com- 
 mon prison and served equally as deposit Ibr the arms and ar- 
 chives, thèse last were almost ail destroyedthe 14 of July 1789, 
 at the moment in which the stronghold was invadod. 
 
 Among the famous prisoners who, for divers motives, saw 
 tliem shut up, one can cite : Aubriot, his founder ; Fouquet, 
 surintendant of the finances, and his friend Pellison, who, to 
 deceive the annoyance of his captivity, tamed a spider. Vol- 
 taire, la Bourdonnais, Latude, celebrate by his long détention 
 and his evasions,and finally the mysterious prisoner with theiron 
 mask which lias given stufF to so many novels. 
 
 For to remcmber even briefly the history of the Bastille, a 
 simple note would absolutely be insufficient, it is why we limit 
 there our citations, the visiter having but the embarrassment 
 of the choice to find interesting documents among the nume- 
 rous Works which hâve been written about the quarter Saint- 
 Antoine. 
 
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 It is this corner of tlie old Paris, so full of reoollections of ail 
 kinds, that MM. Perrusson and Colibert hâve made revive under 
 the form of durable constructions, of a real grandeur, in the 
 middle of whicli it is possible to revive the life of a past century, 
 without that not any détail in this whole, by an annoying ana- 
 chronism, to break the illusion which brings the visiter in the 
 full XVIII century, leaving him under the charm of things and 
 people dating froni the last centur3^ The want of place, it is 
 true, has not permitted to reedify faithfully the approaches of 
 the Bastille, which comprised a large dltch to-day Canal Saint- 
 Martin, a garden and bastions. The restituted Bastille has 
 62 ni. 50 in length, when the true one had 66 of it. 
 
 About fifty shops represent the life of 1789. Hosiers, lacers, 
 tailors, opticians, public writer, tin ix)tter, second hand clothes 
 seller, roj^e-maker, gloves-maker,weaver, hosteliers, antiquary, 
 etc., ail the little and large professions of this epoch are restitu- 
 ted, and not in a incomplète manner, for each one of thèse shops 
 is inhabited by workmen in costums of the epoch, and which 
 work actively. In the streets , arepassing known gentlemen, the 
 duke de Gossé, the count de Pontecalec and the ladies, la Souri.s, 
 Thérèse Badin, in portable chairs, and strolling singers give 
 their boniment from the top of a trestle. 
 
 Iii the streets are passing the agents of the watch and the mu- 
 sic of the French guards. One assistsat the évasion ofLatude, 
 saluted by a cannon shot and where one follows thèse différent 
 scènes quite in drinking in an inn in tin goblets where serve 3'OU 
 waiters in red waistcoats. 
 
 The princi[)al i»arts of the reconstitution are : at first the 
 Bastille with its towers, its draw-bridges and its dungeons 
 where one can see the prisoners ; then the church Ste-Marie, 
 to-day a protestant church ; finally the hôtel Mayenne. There 
 are still the three great gâtes, that of Henry II, aiready men- 
 
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 tioried, that of the Arsenal and that of the Conférence, which 
 serves to shut the rue St- Antoine ; thîs last did not occupy really 
 this spot, but the constructors hâve chosen it as a remarkable 
 type of the architecture of that epoch. 
 
 The night feasts of the New-Bastille, very wordly, are 
 well frequented and very original. 
 
 Fairy Palace 
 
 Still an attraction for the children and, wedare add, for the 
 grown up persons ! Nothing more astonishing than this fairy 
 Palace fenchanted garden) as it is called. Ail what the childish 
 imaginations are dreaming, worked by the taies of the good 
 grand-mothers and the lectures of the taies of Perrault, is 
 assembled there, like by the virtue of a good fairy, a friond of 
 the littleones. 
 
 It is avenue Rapp that is situated the Palace of thèse divini- 
 ties with their light feet, which charmed our first youth, to 
 ail as much as we are. It occupies a vast empiacement, in front 
 of the avenue, and certainly, for a strange front, thatisone. 
 At the entrance, the ogres, in the exercise of their functions, 
 thenthe saloonsof the donkey's hide. Cendrillon, the Belle in 
 thedorming wood.the cavern of Ali-Baba,twelveunder ground 
 rooms where are dwelling the forty thieves, — lighted by the 
 electrical light. Then still the mill of thebooted cat, where one 
 sells cakes, the turning tree of the witches, the farm of the 
 little Poucet, the house of the Ogre, the cottage of the Petit 
 ChajJferon Rouge (little Red-Riding Hood) and the tower of the 
 Barbe Bleue (blue beard) whereby the Russian mountains and 
 a little théâtre where are played the taies of Perrault. 
 
 Finally the blue Eléphant, which measures not less than 
 twenty mètres of height, and is built ail in shcet-iron. 
 
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 AU this fantastic évocation was made after the inspirations 
 of M. Ch. Bonnet, and nnder the direction of M. Morin Gous- 
 tiaux, architect.This création makesthem certainly an honour 
 to both. 
 
 Panorama of the Century 
 
 In the garden of the Tuileries is erected the most curions of 
 the panoramas ofParis,createdat theoccasion of theCentonary 
 by the demand of the State, the Panorama of the Century. 
 
 It belongs to two artists of great value, MM. Alfred Stevens 
 and Henry Gervex, that hasbeen trusted this colossal task; to 
 assemble on a same canvas ail men of the Century .artists, wri- 
 ters, comedians, political men, wordly men, inventors, lear- 
 ned men, to constitute in one word a panorama of the XIX 
 Century. It is in fact this whole century which défiles on the 
 canvas of this panorama without précèdent, and not by con- 
 tused masses like in the battle panoramas, but porsonified by 
 portraits ail ressembling. One sees from hère to what enormous 
 difficulty hâve hurt them courageously the two painters. 
 
 Muséum of the Révolution 
 
 The Society of history of the Révolution hadthe excellent idea 
 to openat the Louvre ,saloonof the states.an historical Muséum, 
 where would be assembled ail the remembrances of the Révo- 
 lution which possess the levers and the collectioners. 
 
 A visit to this Muséum will be the most agreeable,at the same 
 time the most instructive, for the organisators, who counted 
 at their head specialists like MM.Dide,Colfauru,Aulard, Etienne 
 
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 Charavay, made such that after having passed the différent 
 rooms, the most ignorant comprehends and embraces the di- 
 vers phases of the great revolutionary movement frorh 1789 to 
 1798. 
 
 This room represents an epoch. In entering one finds at first 
 that of the national AssembJy, before and since the taking of 
 the Bastille. The glass-cases are filled witli manuscripts.medals, 
 emblems, toilett objects. In a corner we see the authentic 
 ladder fabricated by Latude to serve to his legendary éva- 
 sion; farther on, it is Marat who occupies a large place. Severai 
 pictures, engravings, stampilles represent the famous scène ot 
 the assassination of the Frien I of the people. 
 
 Hère are portraits of Danton, with his tornicnted figure, 
 and Robespierre, with his sharp eye Hère we are in the full 
 Ter r or. 
 
 The engraving and estamp make pass before us the most 
 terrible and amusing scènes of this lugubre epoch, Avhere the 
 commic coasts so easily the tragic. 
 
 From the room 5, the militarism is preponderous, there are 
 the rembrancesof the great warè of the Directory. 
 
 At the bottom central bay of gallery is installed an hôtel of 
 the fatherland, reconstituted after authentical documents, sur- 
 rounded by attributes, the order of the epoch printed, wliich 
 prescribed the édification of an altar similar in each common, 
 But it would be without end to enumerate the thousand curio- 
 sitiesofthis provisory Muséum, for which one has made appeal 
 to the obligingness of the richest collectioners. Let us add that 
 avisit,to this Muséum — visit which costs but one franc — will 
 be"'also a good work,for the society of the history of the Revo- 
 lution,which has organised it, isnot rich and renders so great 
 service to the history in publishing, at its expenses.too spécial 
 Works to be accepted by the editors 
 
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 The History of the Century 
 
 At the higher part of the Rue Secretan, quite aside of the 
 Buttes-Chaumont,is situated the Greathistorical Muséum of the 
 Century, work of M. Emile Bin. 
 
 Twenty large canvas oflO mètres each,representing twenty 
 scènes since 1789 until our days, constitute this Museum,which 
 ail the strangers are in a haste to go and Yisit, for one could 
 not imagine anything greater and more striking,and the his- 
 tory ol the century is remembered there like by magie, with 
 an art always in the situation of such a vaste task. 
 
 In entering you hâve at first an allegcrical picture of the 
 moral and material state of France at the eve of the Révolu- 
 tion. 
 
 An unfortunate family of country men, by want to be able to 
 pay the rents, was treated according to the cruel use, the 
 doors and Windows of the cottage are taken away, whilst the 
 landlord passes in a coach, followed by a crowd of outriders 
 and lakeys in embroidered dress-coats entirely trimmed out 
 with gold and silver. 
 
 The second picture shows you the popular revenge, commen- 
 cing by the taking of the Bastille, which is painted with a 
 simplicity in the action, a finish in the truth, which are of a 
 powerful efïect . 
 
 Then you assist at the scène of the enroling ofthevoluntoers 
 on the terrace of the Pont-Neuf, in the moment in which the 
 country was declared in danger, and that the assembly made 
 appeal to the patriotism of the people. 
 
 Then cornes thejudgment of Louis XVI, of Capet, like they 
 called hiiii with disdain. In the large hall of the Convention 
 the decayed monarch is sitting at the bar on the sideofMa- 
 
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 lesherbes, his advocate, who pleads with his émotion of old 
 man. 
 
 Down you perceive the conveiitione's ranged on the benches, 
 in front the président ; farther on, the tribunes crowded 
 with people. 
 
 You arrive then at tlie 18 brumaire. You assist, with the 
 interview of Tilsitt, at the apogée of Napoléon the P"^ . The 
 picture of Waterloo comes after, mournful and terrible, and 
 puts an end to impérial épopée. 
 
 Then at the war succeeds the peace . M. Bin shows you the 
 inauguration of the first Railway. It is a very lucky idea which 
 he had there, and of which we must congratulate him . 
 
 Comes nextthe 2''^ ofDecemberof Napoléon the IIl^,thereturn 
 of the Italian war, the invading of the législative corps the 
 4'-h of september 1870. 
 
 Next,Gambetta, who starts in a balloon, in the raiddlcof the 
 siège. 
 
 Finally, anew sery of canvasses whic'ileads youto the last 
 partyof the history ofthe century to the Exhibition of 1889, 
 to the célébration of the Centenary. 
 
 M. Bin has composed for that a picture realist and allégorie 
 at the same time, where he makes assist at the inauguration 
 of a fantasist monument of the Révolution, on the emplace- 
 inent ofthe Tuileries. 
 
THEATRES OF PARIS 
 
 Opéra. — National Academy of Music (place de TOpéra) boul. des 
 Capucines. Représentations on the Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays, 
 and often Saturdays and Sundays (in winter). Thèse days the ladies 
 are admitted at the Orchestria : 2,200 places. 
 
 Théâtre-Français or French Comédie, pi. du Théâtre- Français, rue 
 Richelieu, 2, 4, 6. Représentations every evening. 
 
 Odeon (place de l'Odeon, near I.uxemburg). Représentations every 
 evening. Tragédies, comédies, drames. 
 
 Gymnase (boul. Bonne-Nouvelle, 38). Every evening. 
 
 Variétés (boul. Montmartre, 7). Every evening. 
 
 Vaudeville (at the corner of the rue de la Chaussée d'Antin and the 
 boulevard). Every evening. 
 
 Théâtre du Palais Royal (at the Palais-Royal). Every evening, 
 comédies, vaudevilles. 
 
 Bouffes-Parisiens (passage Choiseul and rue Montigny). Every eve- 
 ning, operas-bouffes, opérettes. 
 
 Théâtre des Noiweautês (boul. des Italiens. 28). Every evening, 
 comédies, vaudevilles, opérettes. 
 
 Théâtre de la Gaitè (square des Arts et Métiers, boul. Sébastopol). 
 Every evening. 
 
 Théâtre de Paris (place du Châtelet). 
 
 Théâtre du Châtelet (place du Châtelet). Every evening, drames, 
 mélodrames, fairies. 
 
 Théâtre de la Porte Saint-Martin (boul. Saint-Martin, 16 et 18). 
 Every evening, drames, fairies. 
 
 Théâtre de la Renaissance (at the corner of the rue Bondy and the 
 boul. St-Martin, 20). Every evening, opérettes, opéras. 
 
 Ambigu-Comi(7ue (honl . St-Martin). Every evening, drames, mélo- 
 drames. 
 
 Théâtre of the Folies Dramatiques (rue de Bondy, 40, boulevard 
 St-Martin). Every evening, opérettes, operas-bouffes, vaudevilles. 
 
 Théâtre du Château d'Eau (rue de Malte, 50). Drames, fairies. 
 
 Bouffes du Nord (at the corner of the rue of faub. Saint-Denis and the 
 boul. de la Chapelle). Every evening, drames and comédies. 
 
 Eden-Théâtre (salle de 1'), rue Boudreau, 7, close by the Opéra. 
 
 Folies Bergères (rue Richer, 32), Every evening. 
 
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 Menus-Plaisirs {boni, de Strasbourg, 14). Fvery evening. 
 Théâtre de Clitny (boni, de St-Germain, 71). Every evening. 
 Théâtre Dejazet (boul. du Temple, 41). Every evening. 
 Théâtre Beawnarchai^ (boul. Beaumarchais, 25). Every evening. 
 Institut polyglotte (16, Paie de la Grange-Batelière, and 13, Rue de 
 l'Ancienne-Comédie). Courses and conférences in ail languages. 
 
 EQUESTRIAN SPECTACLES 
 
 Cirque d'Eté (summer Champs Elysés). Every evening. 
 
 Cirque d'Hiver (winter boul. des Filles du Calvaire). 
 
 Nouveau Cirque (rue St-llonoré, 251). Exercises equestrian and 
 nautical. Every evening at 8 1/2. 
 
 Cirque Fernando (boul. Rochechouart, 6, rue des Martyrs). Every 
 nionth, equestrion and varions spectacle. 
 
 Hij^podrome (avenue de l'Aima, 3). 
 
 SPECTACLES OF CURIOSITY 
 
 Théâtre Dicksonn (passage of the Opéra). Prestidigitation. The 
 most curious spectacle. 
 
 Théâtre of h'obert Houdin (boul. des -Italiens, 8). Fantastica 
 séances, etc. 
 
 Muséum Grevin{\Çi,'h<i\i\. Montmartre). Galkry of the Cclebritics 
 modem) and of historical Dioramas. 
 
 10 
 
INDEX 
 
 Adviseof the Editor . . 
 
 Aerostation 
 
 Algeria 
 
 Amer Picon 
 
 Aunam 
 
 Annamite (Eating-house) 
 
 Aquarium 
 
 Arboriculture .... 
 Austria-Hungaria . . . 
 
 Belgiau commissariat . . 
 Belgiau Indust. divers Libé- 
 ral arts 
 
 Boats 
 
 Bolivia. , 
 
 Brazii 
 
 Cairo (a street of) 
 Canaque village 
 Ca venue . . 
 ^ Chili . . . 
 China . . . 
 Coaches . 
 Cochinchina . 
 Colonial exhibition 
 Coniiolan villa.ç^e 
 
 
 
 127 
 126 
 123 
 129 
 129 
 113 
 113 
 57 
 
 69 
 
 70 
 12 
 35 
 34 
 
 95 
 
 141 
 
 114 
 
 36 
 
 98 
 
 18 
 
 145 
 
 125 
 
 140 
 
 E 
 
 Deumark 51 
 
 Diamonds ot the Cape ... 68 
 
 Donkeys of Egypt .... 97 
 
 Dutchland 57 
 
 England, divers Industries . 48 
 
 Equator 35 
 
 Esplanadofthelnvalids . . 122 
 
 Exhibition at a flight of eye . 19 
 
 F 
 
 Finland 
 
 Fouutain under the tower, 
 •1 central . . . 
 Forges de l'Horme . . 
 France, divers iudustries . 
 
 41 
 27 
 28 
 68 
 61 
 
 Gabon 142 
 
 Galleries of the industrial 
 
 prodiicts 45 
 
 Gallery of agriculture. . . 114 
 
 Gas Comfiany 40-68 
 
 Gastronomical pavillion . . 124 
 
 Gieece. 92 
 
 Guadeloupe 143 
 
 H 
 
 History of the human dwel- 
 
 îiug 31 
 
 History of the Century. . . 154 
 
 Horticulture 113 
 
 I 
 
 Indiau pavillion 98 
 
 Italy 84 
 
159 — 
 
 Japan .... 
 
 Javaiiese village 
 
 94 
 124 
 
 Laiterie (model Dairy) . . 123 
 Libéral arts (Palace of divers 
 
 Industries 70 
 
 Luxemburg- 82 
 
 M 
 
 Machines (Palace oftlie) . . 100 
 
 Madagascar ' 128 
 
 Malgache village . . . . l'.^Tt 
 
 Morocco 97 
 
 Military Aerostation . . . 127 
 Ministry of Posts and Tele- 
 
 graphs 125 
 
 Muséum (historical) of the 
 
 Century) ...... 154 
 
 Muséum of the Révolution . 152 
 Muséums (days and hours of 
 
 entrance 1(5-17 
 
 Muséum of the Trocadero . 111 
 
 Ministry o! war 130 
 
 IN 
 
 Norway . . 
 New-Bastille. 
 New-Coledouia 
 
 82-144 
 
 . 147 
 . 141 
 
 O 
 
 Omnibus 
 Orient. 
 
 Pahouin (village) . 
 
 Palace of the Children. 
 » » Colonies . 
 )) I Cambodge 
 » » Fairies . 
 
 U2 
 3() 
 133 
 13(5 
 151 
 
 Palace oftlie Fine arts . . 43 
 
 » » Hygiène . . , 139 
 
 3 » social Economy 139 
 
 Panorama ofWhole Paris . 137 
 
 .) of the Century. . 152 
 
 Pavillion Eiffel 39 
 
 Pavillions 41-99 
 
 Pavillion (gastronomie) . . 124 
 
 Persia . 95 
 
 Portugal 81 
 
 Post and Telegraph (offices 
 
 ofthe) 14 
 
 Préface 7 
 
 Press (Pav. of the Colonial f)9-142 
 
 Public Works 112 
 
 ri 
 
 Railways 13 
 
 Republic Argentine ... 34 
 
 )) Mexico .... 35 
 
 » South Africa . . 123 
 Rétrospective exhibition of 
 
 the work 74 
 
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