Paris Exhibition Notes.

Manawatu Herald, 23 March 1899, Page 2

Paris Exhibition Notes.

Work for the 1900 Exhibition ia progressing actively, greatly favoured by the comparative mildness pf the season thus far. In the Trocadero Park several hunderd men arfe now busily digging and transforming the grounds, the plan implying even the destruction of the popular aquarium, the finny inhabitants of which will sh irtly be sold at public auction. , At last ft is anmunced yi.t what the real and gMiJiioe "cloo" ofthe Exhibition will be A- M. Jodice has undertaken to set dp a " true volcano, crowned with' bonfr fide flames and vomiting Teal lava." Thn imposing nffiir is to l?e establish' d cUw to tha Effi Tower; ib will h? 100 m-'frpp high, 15Q mttret in diameter, and 471. metres in cir* cumfprencp. and is*" will- ."cost six,^,,

millions of fnmc*. Ita outside surface wilt b? planted witb trees and B>dd-d io th* mi*t ciref'il minnar, s•> as to become one of . th-p tn vat p ipu!ar prom nid-M* ofthe Exhibition, and in the volcano* interior will be pahoranuq sucb as Binte'd " Inferno " and thp " Paradisr\" <Ptc. Just now, whpn and with what »ff efc the " real lava " will come tumbling out*, of the ©rater, we :are 'not yet told . But the idea \b an ■.■ioganioua one, and with the aid of firework? at night a very realistic spectacle may b*-> produced.

Apparently athletics are to be also a greatly honoured feature of the Industrial Bhow. The Minister of Commerce his just signed a decree regulating tbe conditions of the competition';, which will take plaoe in the Boms da Vincannes. Competition 1 will be held io the following sport" ; — Field athletic!?, gymnastic*), fencing, shooting, riding, cycling, managing the automobile, swimming and je rotation. It' is~ltoped that the?e competitions will incite a« much interest as did tbe revival of the Olympian games in Athens two years and more ago', and no effort will be spared to in?ure the participation in tbem of all the oiviliaed na> tions. The rules and regulation?, and a thousand and one other details connected with accomplishing tbe scheme, are now receiving careful attention from a Committee organised especially for that purpose, and it is thought that before very long a oiroular will be issued giving all the necessary information and calling on the athletic* and sportsmen of Christendom to send notifications of thoir acceptance of the conditions laid down.

At the moment of writing we learn that the King of the Belgians, who did not visit the 1889 Exposition, has made np his mind to be the guest of the French nation for a period of two weeks during the forthcoming Exhibition. It is announced that M. de Bru.z, the Belgian Minister of Beaux Arts, Ms just ordered from the painter T^mpock a portrait of Leopold 11., which is to figure in th- 3 Art Section of the ExDosition >f 1900.

A soh 'tiiH is eing mooted by a N w Z a'and sy di a c o charter a l^gfl ateimr and use is for the ou'pose of Bn excu eiin fr m this ti ihe ; aris Exhibition. Th» exMison w 1 be on a large *ca'e, 2010 names b ing required to fill the ist, and a large passenger steamer in the 'apa ese trade .t-f) ntim^d as a lilely nnte t be put into commission. The fety will last fix

months, and every port en route for France will be visited or not, ai shall be determined by a preponderating vote of the passenger?, in whose hands the regulation of the ship's movements will lie. The cost of the trip is estimated to come to about £75 a head, and during the whole of the six months the passengers will be kept by the ship.

TO THE DEAF.— A rich lady, cared ot her Deafness and Noises in the Head by Dr Nicholson's Artificial Ear Drums, hes dint £1,000 to his Institute, so thas deaf people unable to procure the Ear D'ums any have them free. Apply to Department D.K., The Institute, "Longcott," Ounnersbury, London, W., England.