Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 August 1889 — THE FRENCH EXPOSITION. [ARTICLE]

THE FRENCH EXPOSITION.

■Where the Great Industrial Exhibition in Paris Is Lacking. A writer in Science thinks the great French exposition lacks novelties. He says people walk until they are fatigued through the almost endless buildings on the Champ de Mars, and yet fail to find any great or striking object by which they would especially remember the exhibition of 1889. The place is nlled with evidences of untiring industry and skill on every side, but there is a , strange absence of great novelties. We believe, however, that the exhibition will be famous for four distinctive features—in the first place, for its buildings, especially the Eiffel tower and the Machinery Hall; in the second place, for its Colonial Exhibition, which for the first time brings vividly to the appreciation of Frenchmen that they are masters of lands beyond the sea; third, it will be remembered for its great collection of war material, the most absorbing subject nowadays, unfortunately, to governments, If not to individuals; and fourth, it will be remembered, and with good cause by many, for the extraordinary manner in which South American countries are represented. Several of those nationalities are beginning to put themselves forward as appreciable factors in the polithw. of the world, and, what is of more interest to the manufacturer, they constitute the richest and largest customers in European and North American markets. Especially this is the case with regard to agricultural machinery of all kinds, and those exhibitors are fortunate who are well represented in this respect.