Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 April 1878 — America’s Place at the Paris Exposition. [ARTICLE]

America’s Place at the Paris Exposition.

The Exhibition promises to be so exceedingly beautiful and so thoroughly a success that one cannot help bitterly regretting the small part which the United States is to play in it. We are to occupy but 5,000 meters of space, while England will fill 22,000 and Aus-tria-Hungary 9,600. Some one has been guilty of rare oversight, and that some one is the people, never willing to let the Government take charge of things which it alone can manage. We l*se much more than can be adequately described by allowing ourselves to be distanced in this international festival, but it is too late to change now. No doubt our contributions will be extremely interesting, but there was a certain place for the United States to fill which she has allowed England to take. Much curiosity was excited a day or two since by <he arrival of some mysterious-look-ing cases containing the crown jewels of England; among others—so it is said, although it seems difficult to believe—the famous Kohinoor, which has several times been in imminent danger of passing into the hands of thieves. A special guard of English and French detectives will watch these royal treasures, for there are robbers on both sides of the channel smart enough to spirit away even the jewel eases if vigilance were for a moment relaxed.— New York Post.