The Paris Exhibition.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume II, Issue 96, 16 January 1900, Page 3

The Paris Exhibition.

The inventive faculty of the French hns been stimulated to a mos>t extra ordiniry degree in daubing scheme* foi met facing the attractiveness, ot thei, a pproaching exhibition. Uufortunatoh out of more than seven hundred strange and daring prefects, a faw onh are practical, tho mijonty being ruin ously expense as well as fantastic One proposal is che build' ng of a new Colosseum in P.irib similar to the Uoman one, where lions and tigers, boats and panthera, could revive the hoirora of a Roman cueits fur the bane !it of the Parisian holiday- make r ! Th' E ffel tower, piob^bly suggested the plan to anoth(-r enthusiast of building three new Eiifel towers btside the pre seat one so as f o furnish four supports lo a platform built on thpse gigantic pillars. Then he would cap the whole by a fifth tower 600 feet in height. A fitting counterpart to this wild schom? u tne pnggestion to drhe a shaft into the ground to the depth of. about 3000 feet, the said shaft to be provided with restaurants and music hall? for the benefit of ihose who prefer taking Uioir meals iv the atmosphere of a coal mine, instead of above ground. A gentleman whoso proposal was promptly shelved, considered that a constant lepetitiou of the " Marseillaise " would be an elective diaw, provided it was performed by tut-ai^s of steam vvhiotles, j whose brain-piercing scrcwhea would instil an abiding affection for the ! French Kational into the soul-, of foreign visitors. Anjther genius counsels the French Government to erect in Paiis the Wall ot the New Jerusalem, as directed in the Book of Revdation, but fails to do vise a scheme for raising the moiiev and the necessary supply of jewels. After this it is not surpiUing tint the reproduction of tho Garden of Uden w.is one more project I i tha middle of it, possibly in place ot tae famous tree, was to bs a variety theatre to be used for the portrayal of scenes iv the early years of the world's history. Ballooning naturally played a large part in some of the schemes sent to M. Picard the Commissioner General. One fearless aeronaut proposed the manufacture of a gigantic balloon for the purpose of raising car loftfo o» viator? into th* sir, and then

'owering them by parachutes from a height of anything batween 800 and li) 00 y&i'Ja. v Doubtless, the ehra'-o* of d.uiger vts.3 eonisdercd by tbfci saoguioo idealist as consfituiiijjr iU exiiaordiuary attractiveness, trtt it I* needless to say thai rh^ project failed to Svcuro any fedtiuud cond^'-i'atiolj.