American Commissioner in Paris is a patriotic gentleman, without executive ability, and with little knowledge of the idiosyncrasies of his countrymen. Our goods are scattered, one half of them standing in a shed or annexe out. of the way, while the total of them could be made to fill the sector of the main building appropriated to us. This main sector is orna mented with the shields and seals of the States. A French engine of the size we see grinding chocolate, runs our ma chinery; but we are

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... w putting-up a fair Corliss engine, one out of five that we show. In the Americau annexe, where you can see the French committee of awards at work every day, looking learnedly, the most characteristic of our inven tions stand. Conspicuous in the midst is the beautiful Grant locomotive, Ameriea, the largest and finest ever seen in Europe, built at Paterson, N. J., standing high and colossal,