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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 3079, 13 December 1888, Page 3

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October, 19. Before the end of the month, the main buildings of the 1889 Exhibition will be covered in. Exhibitors of lii*vy plant tuny thus commence fix-

iriff.i as soon us they please, so may the smaller fry, tho skeletons of then stalls, The Trocadoro palace and grounds are reserved for horticulture; here the materials of the strictures have only to be pieced together, and that will bo done in February, Tho quay stretching from tho Ghamp-de-Mam up to the Chamber of Dejuities, cdmprising therein the esplanado of Invalides, is covered with annexes for the wants of the colonics and agriculture. Here will be " located" the historical human dwellings, commencing with the time when man lived in caverns, and had for contemporaries the reindeer, and tho shaggy elephant; when be LliilHiis resideuvo in trees, or in lakes, on piles orstilts—liheuuiatismfwvere Jfccn unknown,—down to prrsfltf day wigwams and snuggeries, It is hero too that will be fitted up, models of the workshops and laboratoriesoffamousdiscoyerersar.d inventors, Tho Eiffel tower is narrowing tip rapidly to the clouds; 340 more feet, and its Excelsior effort will be terminated; so far it has cost three and a-half million francs, and worked up 7,000 tons of iron; 2,000 tons more are required. The price of an pension will be one and a-half francs beibg the rate of half a francper stage, The summit will be wide euough to accommodate twenty persons; the campanilo will to fitted up with philosophical instruments, and will be in charge of General Nansautoy, tho Mbernator of tho Pic de Midi. A register will bo open for visitors' names, who will receive a numbered dated certificate, to have done tho Iron May-pole.

Fow will begrudgo President Oarnot the cnthusiaßtio reception that .ho has everywhere met with, in Ms official voyage to Lyons, Annecy, and Dijon, This is the mora remarkable, as failure was predicted. It iaa blunder l4fcpM, Carnots voyages against tflHibf Boulanger'Bj the president belongs to all parties, and to none at the same time. As ho passed through tbo streets of several towns, many royalist ladies paid him the honor to raise the window blinds and look at bitm Tli» clergy of the different denominations paid him every respect; a

once page to Chmles X, cillctl on him, At P>caume, the head centre "of some of tho choicest wines of France, there was improvised a vinl-cob exhibition; every visitor sent a (tan ot wine, each bottle of not Iran value thin twenty francs, The visit to the wine show ow, the exhibits wore divided into litres lots, for the hospital, (ho garrison, and lite journalists accompanying the President, Nay more, the town erected n triumphal arch to the press, that mado the products of tho country known. M. C'arnot visited the scenes of his infancy, and dropped in on his old nurse, and kissed her four times, She made him a present of a lew articles of his earliest clothing, His old teacher presented onootiL Carnot's first copy hooks, and which the President cuivfullly placed in his breast coat pocket. Tho registration of foreigners in accordance with tho Floquet decree proceeds without a hitch, am' lias nothing at all Draconian. The Homo Minister in the decree states, France only acts " like every other nation." He must know that England and the United States have other lish to fry than opening a registry office to tile tho nationality of foreign residents, Franco will find that there ate not 1,125,005 strangers in tho country. Thare are veritable swarms of Germans, Belgians, Italians, and Swiss; relatively few English mid Americans —who prefor their own lands of liberty —aud a great many KiiHsiaim.