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GERMAN EMIGRATION.
The immense emigration from Ger
many to the United States is causing
considerable anxiety to the German
government, and specia' measures to
control and obstruct tl.<s tide of emi
gration are being taken by the authori
ties. The enormous drain upon the
resources of the empire, by this incess
ant course of depopulation, is making
itself felt, and if continued in the de
gree that now obtains, it must cripple
German political and industrial power
seriously and, eventually, fatally.
The German government is fullyalivs
to the importance of the question, and
will leave no means untried to coun
teract the feeling among the German
people that the United States is the
“Land of Promise” for them, and that,
in their case, emigration means re
lease from many ills which they have
now to bear, and the offer of prosperity
in the immediate future. The exodus
has its source in a very deep fountain,
which the artifices of diplomacy will
fail to rzach, and to whose outflow the
barriers of a government policy are as
a wall of shifting sand.
According to the recently published
report of the imperial Commissioner of
Emigration the cause of the present
unprecedented emigration is to be
found, primarily, in the prosperous
condition of affairs in the United States,
and the possibility which is offered to
an industrious craftsman or agricultur
ist to acquire property in a compara
tively short time; or, at any rate, to se
cure good wages, and thus better his
condition generally. In the opinion
of the Commissioner, the principal rea
son which determines the German em
igrant to try his fortune in the United
States is, that the majority of emi
grants have friends or relatives who
are comfortably settled across the wa
ter, and these urge others to come to
them. Representations which are
more or less true are made by those in
America to their countrymen in Ger
many as to the demand for skilled la
bor in the United States, and that cer
tain employment and good wages are
offering to all who are willing to work
at anything they can do. These rep
resentations are believed, and thus
masses of Germans are induced to emi
grate. As a general thing those who
make up their minds to go to
America endeavor to get a number of
others from the same place or neigh
borhood to join them. In a very large
number of cases the Germans who are
settled in America send on the passage
money to those whom they would like
to follow them; or, rather, a passage
ticket is bought in the United States
and forwarded to the friend or relative
in Germany. In this way, during the
past year, about 16 per centum of the
entire number of emigrants were sup
plied with passage tickets sent from
America.
Among the emigrants in 1880 were
a very large proportion of persons who
had been owners of land in Germany,
proprietors of small holdings, who had
succeeded iu disposing of their proper
ty with the view of emigrating. Ac
cording to the statements of this class,
there are numbers in the same cate
gory who only await a chance to sell
their small possessions at a fair price
before setting out for what they be
lieve to be the promised land. Rela
tively, in comparison to former years,
a great number of persons have emi
grated who seemed to be living at
home in by no means unfavorable pe
cuniary circumstances.
The report of the imperial Commis
sioner of Emigration, however, utterly
fails to mention the chief cause of the
extraordinary emigration to the
United States, a cause which is
no secret, as it is spoken about openly,
viz : The general discontent among
the working classes at their condition,
the shape which the internal affairs of
the country have assumed, and the
constantly-increasing burdens of taxa
tion for military and other purposes.
If it be taken into consideration that
these irksome causes are operating now
with such intense force, “in piping
times of peace,” we can readily imagine
that these causes are aggravated, and
their results consequently magnified,
by the fact, fully appreciated by the
masses, that the peace of Europe is
based upon extremely fragile founda
tions, and that the public edifice may
tumble about the heads of diplomatists
at any moment. Dangerous and pow
erful elements are at work undermin
ing and shaking the patched fabric of
peace, and a war involving Europe in
its disastrous consequences is not an
apparition of the fancy, but a readily
demonstrable fact of judgment and
reason.
—Messrs. Silman & Thompson, of
the Jefferson, (Jackson county,) bar,
will soon publish a “Handbook of Le
gal Forms,” prepared especially for the
benefit of Justices of the Peace, Ordi
naries, Clerks, Coroners, County Com
missioners, Road Commissioners, Sher
iffs and Constables. The volume will
be issued from the press of Jas. P.
Harrison & Co., of “The Franklin.”
See the advertisement in this issue of
The Index. _
A letter has been sent to the Gov
ernors of all the States and Territories
by the committee having in charge
the movement to secure funds for the
erection of a monument over the grave
of the late President Garfield, at Lake
View cemetery, Cleveland, asking the
co-operation and assistance of the citi
zens of the different States and Terri
tories.
Secular Editorials—Literature— ff''* ' Domestic and Foreign Intelligence.
LITERARY NOTES AND COM
MENTS.
—“ It is the vice of the age to under
value the mission of the poet, but it is
nevertheless true, that all that is re
fined, beneficent and ennobling in
human progress receives impulse from
the inspirations of the seers, prophets,
and poets, for the terms are synony
mous.”—“ Home and Society,” in Pot
ter’s American Monthly.
—Speaking of the prominent posi
tion occupied by periodicals, especially
the monthly magazine, in modern
literature, of which fact, by the way,
Thi Century ( Scribner’s) is an illustri
ous example, Dr. Holland, the editor of
that magazine, says:
“ At no period in the history of litera
ture has the monthly magazine been so
dominant as at the present, and in no
country is its power so great and ex
clusive as in the United States. The
time was when great novels, for exam
ple, first saw the light on the book
seller’s counter, and when the tastes or
whims of leading publishers was an
important agent in giving direction to
the efforts of authors. But not many
prominent American novels have of
late years reached the American reader
in the first instance between book
covers. Criticisms once sought the
sober leaves of the quarterlies, but the
old-fashioned quarterlies themselves
have almost disappeared, and the most
admirable works of literary judgment
and definition are now apt to find day
light first in the dailies, weeklies, and
monthly magazines. The leaders of
thought in letters and in art give their
verdict more especially to the great
audience of the monthly, and ‘popular
science’ seeks the same vehicle. The
reasons for this are obvious. The pros
perous magazine, with a guaranty in
its vast circulation, can furnish better
productions and more matter than can
be afforded at the same price in book
form, while its assured circulation and
established repute make it a medium
very tempting to the best minds. There
are, undoubtedly, some disadvantages
in this extensive jurisdiction of the
magazine,but the advantages are many.
The thoughts of the best writers in
every department are here presented
together. Prose fiction, poetry, des
cription, travel, history, biography, and
works of art contend in a common
arena for attention, and the contact and
competition are beneficial to all of
them. The monthly magazine is the
great modern intellectual amphithea
ter, and the publicity it is able to give
to works of excellence of widely differ
ing kinds is a perpetual stimulus to the
intellectual activity of a nation. No
body ordains, licenses, graduates, or
installs the conductors of a monthly
magazine; their work is undertaken
without formality or ceremony, but
there is no function in modern life
more difficult or responsible. The
literary and artistic judgment of the
editor who stands between the author
and his readers —the artist and his
public—must directly and strongly
affect the taste and culture of the peo
ple, while the energy, originality, and
enterprise of a magazine publisher be
come modifying forces in art, literature,
and life. But the conductors of a
magazine are not wholly free agents.
The public, in turn, imposes its authori
ty upon them. There is an inevitable
law of natural selection which gives
the popular voice a final control. That
which the public will not have,— that
which the intellectual conscience of
the reader does not sanction, —the con
ductor of a monthly must avoid. The
fittest survive, in magazines as else
where ; no amount of capital or pres
tige can give vitality to a periodical
which is not in accord with the thought
and sentiment of its age. The maga
zine whose ways are not the ways of
the present time cannot live on its old
reputation, but must stiffen and die
with the infirmitiesof age. Journalistic
alertness, an entire modernness, and
wide-awakeness in subject and manner,
are the indispensable conditions of life
and prosperity in the struggle for exis
tence in which periodical publications
are ever involved.”
—Brown & Derby, publishers, No. 21
Park Place, New York, desire the ser
vices of one thousand ladies and gen
tlemen, to act as agents for the sale of
“ History of Georgia,” and “ Poems and
Essays,” now in press. Large commis
sion will be paid.
—Mrs. G. N. Bordman, Melrose,
Mass., has published “ The Temperance
Clarion,” a new book of original chor
uses and part-songs, for juvenile clubs
and temperance organizations; price
per copy twelve cents. The book is a
good and suitable one. We advise our
Southern temperance associations to
adopt this excellent little work for use
in their song-services.
ATLANTA, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1881.
—Jefferson Davis intends to write a
History of the United States suitable
for schools. We think he lacks some
of the essential elements of a first-rate
historian. The greatest events in the
history of our country are too recent to
admit of impartial statement and
judicially impartial commentary by
any living writer, North or South. Two
or three generations hence the great
task will be accomplished.
—A suitable tomb to the memory of
Joseph Severn, the friend of Keats, is
to be erected. The proposed site is the
Protestant cemetery at Rome. A num
ber of prominent persons are interested
in the proposed monument, and it is
intended that the memorial tablet shall
commemorate both the painter and
poet.
—The edition of the New Revision by
the Baptist Publication Society simply
incorporates in the text the American
company’s preferences, remands to an
appendix the English company’s varia
tions, and changes the spelling of two
words, viz: “judgement” to “judg
ment,” and “ cloke ” to “ cloak.”
—Do not forget to invite your chil
dren to tak about what they read.
The habit stimulates thought and in
quiry, increases interest in subjects of
importance and the books that relate
to them, and fastens facts and reason
ing in the memory. A book that is
not worth talking about is not worth
reading.
—The Baptist Family Magazine has
been transferred to the American Bap
tist Publication Society. The intention
of the Board is, we understand, to issue
a monthly magazine, in which the
family Magazine is to be merged.
—They do things thoroughly in
Germany, where Dr. Ethe’s “ History
of Persia ” is in press, occupying four
teen volumes.
—A third volume of Rev. Dr. Cun
ningham Geikie’s “Hours With the
Bible ” is in press, and will shortly be
published. It covers the history from
Samson to Solomon.
—English critics call attention to
the fact that the best book on Carlyle’s
work as a thinker and writer is Mead’s
“ Philosophy of Carlyle,” an American
work.
—Mr. Sidney Lanier left two com
pleted works which are yet to be
printed. “ The Boy’s Mabinogion,”
which Charles Scribner’s Sons will pub
lish during the autumn, uniform with
Mr. Lanier’s “Boy’s King Arthur,”
contains the Welsh legends of King
Arthur, which are wilder and more
fanciful than the English tales. Mr.
Lanier followed the translation of the
legends made by Lady Charlotte Guest
for her children.
—Savannah News : “ The friends of
Major Charles W. Hubner, literary and
news editor of The Christian Index,
of this city, will be glad to know that
his new volume, “Poems and Essays,”
is nearly ready to be given to the pub
lic, and will be a most attractive and
readable book. Major Hubner is a
poet of rare genius, and as an essayist
has wOn an enviable reputation. The
book will be sold by the canvassing
agents of Messrs. Brown & Derby, New
York, who are the publishers.
One of the famous libraries of
Europe is to be sold under the hammer
—the Sunderland or Blenheim library.
It was collected by Charles Spencer,
third Earl of Sunderland, in the reigns
of George I. and George 11., and is
celebrated throughout Europe for its
rare books and manuscripts. The
library comprises a remarkable collec
tion of the Greek and Roman classic
writers, in early and late editions; a
large series of early-printed Bibles and
Testaments in various languages; a
few ancient and important MSS.; rare
editions of Dante, Boccaccio, Petrarch
and Ariosto; books, tracts and chroni
cles relating to America, England,
Spain and Portugal; English county
histories; tracts dealing with religious
events in England and France during
the 15th and 16th centuries, and first
editions of the works of French, Italian
and Spanish poets of the 16 th and 17 th
centuries. Lack of funds on the part
of the present Earl is the reason for
selling.
The Minutes of the Georgia Baptist
Association are now in the hands of
our publishers, and within ten days
from this date will be ready for distrib
tion to the following brethren :
For the Ist. District —H. J. Lang,
Washington, in care of T. W. Calla
way : For the 2nd, District to Dr. Pitta,
Thomson ; For the 3d, District to M.
M. Landrum, Union Point; For the
4th, District, to W. P. McWhorter,
Woodville; For the sth, District to M.
M. Sims, Washington.
NOTES.
—The always well-informed and re
liable Atlanta correspondent of the
Savannah News, in his letter of the
10th inst., says, relative to the Cotton
Exposition : “A dozen new buildings
besides those nearly completed are be
ing erected, some of which are quite
large, two being as commodious as the
wings of the main Exposition building.
Hundreds of additional exhibits have
arrived, and are awaiting the comple
tion of the unfinished buildings. In
fact, the whole Exposition has more
than doubled its original outlines,both
in size and variety of exhibits.
No department is yet in order, but
everything is being pushed ahead with
remarkable energy, and a portion of
the main building will be all right the
last of the week.
But few visitois as yet are on the
Exposition grounds or in the city, the
most of the strangers being exhibitors
and newspaper correspondents. None
of the hotels are full, and there is plen
ty of room for all who may come.
Brown’s Grand Exposition Hotel is
open, also the Camp Hotel. Excursion
ists will not commence arriving before
the middle or last of the month. It
will be nearly a month before every
thing will be in order. Then the Ex
position will be, indeed and in fact, a
grand affair.”
—The recent strong speech of Glad
stone wherein, in plain words, he made
the statement that the laws passed by
Parliament for the melioration of the
condition of the Irish tenants and
land owners would be enforced regard
less of consequences, has stirred up the
ire of the Land Leaguers, the rebel
lious followers of Mr. Parnell. The
latter replied to Mr. Gladstone in a bit
ter and violent speech, full of his char
acteristically virulent denunciations.
A Dublin correspondent of the Times
says Mr. Gladstone’sspeech has brought
light and hope to the loyal people who
felt that the government had aban
doned them. The midland counties
are still, .yery lawless. Boycotting is
proceeding with untiring vigor, and in
cendiarism is frequent.
—The story of the assassination of
President Garfield, and of all the cir
cumstances which preceded the terri
ble fact itself, has been minutely writ
ten out by Guiteau himself, and pub
lished. It is a startling narrative of
misery and villainy. If it has been
published with the idea that its peru
sal by the people will help Guiteau’s
defense on the “insanity” plea, it fails
to accomplish its object. It proves
him to be very eccentric, as well as
a very accomplished and pertinacious,
wretch in all the details and minutiae
of pre-determined crime. His consis
tency and dogged perseverance in car
rying out his horrible purpose are as
remarkable as his nerve and coolness
during and after the commission of a
deed which has committed his name
to an immortality of infamy.
—Most of the chiefs of the Irish
Land League have been arrested, and
are now studying their “obstructive”
tactics behind jail bars.
As might have been expected, their
followers in the old country and their
assistants in the United States, are
frantic with rage, and the air and the
papers are filled with threats of bloody
revenge.
—Dr. J. G. Holland. —In the sud
den death of Dr. J. G. Holland, editor
of Scribner’s Magazine, (now the Cen
tury), American literature suffers a
grievous loss. As the editor of the most
popular magazine, he occupied a com
manding position in the literary realm,
and was recognized as a leader among,
the writers to whose manly efforts and
brilliant successes the present high po
sition which our country holds in lit
erature is mainly due. His versatility
of genius was remarkable, and equally
so his industry. Above all, his honest
directness of purpose, his hatred of
sham, his vigorous championing of
truth and wholesomeness in the work
of authorship, and the high standard
of morality in literature and society
which was set up by him in theory, and
so conspicuously illustrated by his own
manly practice, made him not only
one of the most successful but one of
the most useful and beneficial writers
and authors of our age.
We honor his memory, and sincerel
regret the removal of one who was so
integrally identified with our intellect
ual prosperity and the glory of Ameri
can belle lettres.
—Perhaps the most interesting item
of news from Europe, of a political char
acter, is the dispatch announcing the
arrest of Parnell, the Irish “Tribune,”
as his followers are fond of calling him.
He was at rested while on his way to a
Land League convention, on two war-
rants, signed by Mr. Foster, Chief Sec
retary for Ireland, charging him with
inciting the people to intimidate oth
ers from paying their just rents, and
with intimidating tenants from taking
the benefit of the Land Act.
He is now in jail at Kilmainham.
Parnell’s arrest has excited intense in
dignation among the Land Leaguers in
Ireland, and their associates in the
United States. Gladstone, in the course
of a speech in London, alluding to
Parnell’s arrest, said: “I have been in
formed that the first step has been ta
ken towards the vindication of law and
order, the rights of property and of a
first element of civilization, by the ar
rest of the man who from motives which
I do not challenge or examine, has
made himself prominent in an attempt
to destroy the authority of law. We
are not at issue with the people of Ire
land. I firmly believe that the major
ity of the tenants earnestly desire a
fair trial of the Land Act. The power
with which we are struggling is that
which endeavors to say how far the
people shall obey the law. We have
no fear of the people of Ireland, but do
fear lest many should become demor
alized or intimidated.” He said he
would rejoice at the adoption of any
form of local government in Ireland,
provided it did not impair the suprem
acy of the Imperial Government. He
renewed the claim for the support of
all, without distinction of party, in the
great national crisis.
Mr. Gladstone was enthusiastically
cheered throughout the delivery of his
speech.
By this act of the British Govern
ment Parnell, from a common political
agitator and demagogue, has been sud
denly elevated to the position of a mar
tyr-patriot, and his influence over the
inflammable material at his command
increased a hundred fold. But no other
course seems to have been open to the
English Government in this vexatious
matter.
The three young men who recently
robbed the passenger train on the Iron
Mountain railroad were captured, tried
by a special court and sentenced to
seventy years each in the penitentiary.
A correspondent, writing from Little
Rock, Arkansas, where they were in
carcerated says: All of them appear
like ordinary country boys. Delany
said, on entering the prison : “We are
poor boys, and have lived at St. Augus
tine, Florida. We have good relatives
there, and hope they will never hear of
our disgrace. All of us were in love,
and the girls loved us. We had no
money, and did not see how we could
support them if we got married. We
were determined to get married, and so
laid our plans to get money. We read
about the James boys in the papers,
and saw how easy it was to rob
trains and get away, and we decided
to rob a train. We left home three
weeks ago yesterday, and came direct
to Arkansas. After robbing the train
we intended to go back home and set
tle down.”
Dr. James G. Holland, editor of
Scribner's Magazine, died suddenly of
heart disease on the 12 th inst., at his
residence in New York. He was appar
ently in perfect health the day before
his death, and was at the office of
Scribner’s, on Union square, preparing
his “Topics of the Times” for the De
cember number. He awoke at about
5 o’clock in the morning and spoke to
his wife about rising. A moment
afterward he began to breathe heavily,
and Mrs. Holland noticed that he was
very ill. Before she could summon
medical assistance, or even call the
members of the family together, he
died. He was born July 24,1819, and
leaves a widow, two young daughters,
and a son who is at Yale college.
The St. Petersburg official organ,
commenting on the' reports relative to
an international convention for the
extradition of political criminals, says:
“The Russian Government has no in
tention of exercising pressure in any
quarter. It regards the action’of such
criminals against society as threaten
ing all States alike, and therefore
thinks that defensive measures against
the scourge should be collective. Rus
sia has invited all other Governments
interested to come to an arrangement.
As a matter of course, each power is
at liberty to act as the circumstances
of its legislative institutions require.”
The Secretary of the Oldham Eng
land Cotton Spinners’ Association has
written a letter to Colonel A. D. Shaw,
United States consul at Manchester,
declaring that thousands tons of sand
are paid fur by Oldham spinners as
cotton in consequence of fraudulent
packing. The letter suggests that the
names of the planter and packer be
placed inside of each bale of cotton.
GEORGIA NEWS.
—Columbus will have water works by
June Ist, 1882.
—The rice planters in Mclntosh are busy
getting in tbeir crops.
—Lowndes county voted the whisky ticket
last week by 383 majority.
—Hancock county has begun to erect a
new court-house in Sparta.
—Georgia railway stock sold at $165 per
share at Lexington last sale day.
—Land was sold in Coweta county recently
at an average of nearly ten dollars an acre.
—There is more ground sown in turnips
in Johnson county this year than ever
before.
—The display of Georgia ores at the Atlanta
Exposition is astonishing in its fullness and
variety.
—Hon. H. W. Hilliard and family will
make Augusta their permanent place of
residence.
—Everything bids fair that the new Macon
and Atlanta road will be finished by the first
of April.
—Miss SudieSimms, of Atlanta, was given
a dose of arsenic for quinine, from the effects
of which she died.
Bowman, on the Elberton railroad, is
shipping double the quantity of cotton this
season than it did last.
—January 30th, 1883, will be the one hun
dred and fiftieth anniversary of the founding
of the colony of Georgia.
—The Dublin Post says the tax payers of
that county have increased from L3OO of
seven years ago to 2,300 this year.
—The Sandersville Mercury says there has
been more sickness and deaths in that
county this year than at any time since 1868.
—The new opera house at Americus is
sixty feet in height and fifty-four feet wide,
and will be formally opened next January.
—Farmers in Oglethorpe county say they
never had as good a stand of oats as this fall,
and a great many more were sown than last
year.
—No intoxicating diink can be sold within
two miles of the corporation of Forsyth, ex
cept as a bona fide prescription by a physi
cian.
—Forsyth is the liveliest and best cotton
market between Atlanta and Macon. Ship
ments for the past month, 2,058 bales, and
five or six hundred in store.
—The Elberton and Petersburg Railroad
Company have begun to procure the right
ot way for their road. They will endeavor
to extend their charter to Charleston, South
Carolina.
- Savannah News: “Bartow county is to
have a new cotton factory, to be located at
Adairsville, on the Western and Atlantic
railroad, where it will have ample facilities
for a successful business.”
—The City Council of Thomasville has
reduced the taxes iu that town to thirty cents
ih the hundred dollars. The assessed value
of the property in the city has increased
about a quarter of a million of dollars.
• -The Sheriff of Fulton county advertises
for sale at public outcry, before the court
house door in Atlanta, all the machinery,
office furniture, and other property of the
Georgia Gold Mining and Metallurgic Com
pany, to satisfy a judgment of the court,
—The Western and Atlantic Railroad
Company has expended about $60,000 to
prepare for and assist the Cotton Exposition.
This includes SIO,OOO subscribed to the stock,
cost of exhibit of minerals, etc., from the
line of the road and depots and two trains
for Exposition travel.
—Secretary Harris, of the State Senate,
says there are now forty-eight counties in
the State in which the sale of liquor is pro
hibited, and prohibition was asked for by
many other counties, but was killed or post
poned by amendments allowing the people
of various districts to vote on the sale.
—Macon Telegraph and Messenger: “A
careful comparison of our State exchanges
with those of others leads us to remark that,
in journalism, Georgia is as far in advance of
the remaining Southern States as she is in
everything else. Her dailies and weeklies
teem with news and fine editorials.”
—Houston county voted against the sale
of liquor, after January Ist, by nineteen
majority. The Perry Journal says a large
majority of negroes voted in favor of whisky.
At Fort Valley there were one hundred and
forty -nine votes against, and not one in favor
of the sale.
—An Alabama traveling agent for a New
York bouse, who is getting up sac‘s and
figures in the cotton crop South, says that
Alabama will make as much cotton this year
as last, an increased acreage making up for
the shortage. He thinks that Mississippi
and Georgia will not fall far short of last
year’s figures.
—A few days ago the Constitution con
tained over two solid pages, in fine type, of
City Marshal’s tax sales for Atlanta, proba
bly the largest advertisement of the kind
ever seen in a Georgia newspaper. It cer
tainly shows that a very large number of
our citizens are careless or reckless in regard
to their taxes.
—The large cotton factory being erected by
Messrs. Elsas, May & Co., the well-known
bag manufacturers, is nearing completion,
and has caused a small village of neat little
houses for operatives to spring up all around
it. Thus an extensive barren tract of land
near Oakland Cemetery has suddenly become
a lively manufacturing centre.
—The Americus Recorder notices the fact
that many farmers in that section sre plow
ing and turning under tbe heavy growth of
weeds and sod. The Recorder speaks of one
man who is running eight sulky plows.
That is all as it should be, and if good crops
are not grown in that section next year, we
will not undertake to make any more pre
dictions.
—Columbus Times: “ From planters in
this section we learn that seven-eighths of
the remaining crop of cotton Is now open in
the fields and pickers are very scarce. Many
of them say that they will have their entire
crop gathered by the first of November. We
have nad no frost yet, but the worms have
done what a September frost would have
accomplished. In many fields not a leaf is
left, and any one at all familiar with cotton
culture knows the result.”
—Americus Republican: “From parties
living in Marion, Dooly and Lee counties,
we have the unwelcome news to impart that
cotton has all been picked, and most of it
sold. They report the crop as short by one
half, in all counties but Marion, where it was
good. The top crop, which promised so
much, and from which they expected to
make enough to pay their debts, has all been
gathered by caterpillars, and they won’t
make half as much as from the bottom crop.”
—Some idea of the vastand comprehensive
character of the International Cotton Expo
sition may be had when we state that the
actual floor space covered by exhibitors
amounts to twenty acres of ground, and that
every foot of this is covered, and that more
could be covered if it were possible to get it.
That the circumference of all the buildings
is eleven miles. That is, if a person were to
walk around each one of the buildings, he
would have to walk eleven miles before he
was through. That there are six miles of
steam pipes that are used to heat the various
buildings, etc That there are five miles of
sewerage pipes used to drain the buildings
and grounds. That there are eight million
feet of lumber used in the erection of all the
buildings on tbe grounds.
Political affairs in France are, as
u-mal, unsatisfactory. Another resig
nation of the ministers is imminent.