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Show The program (or the next French international exhibition, 1878, has been published in the Journal Oftciel. The regulations are substantially the same as governing former exhibitions. The building is to be a long parallelogram, parallelo-gram, and will ba divided into rectangular stripes, two of these stripes being allotted to special divisions, one for France and the other for foreign countries. Fine arts will occupy the central stripe; and on the right and left of it will be placed the two Btripes allotted to scientific industries, uuder the name "Education, Teaching, Methods and Materiel of Liberal ArU." Among the principal attractions of the exhi-tiou exhi-tiou will rank a gigantic Giflard steam captive balloon, which will measure 21,000 cubic metres. The rope will weigh 20 pounds per yards. The steam-engine will have two hundred horse power; thirty persona will at all limes ascend at once, and in calm weather one hundred. The new captive balloon will require no circus for protection, and will stand in t be midst of a large square, fronting a bridge in the central alley of the gardens. Meteorological observations with special instruments will be made during the ascensions for the instruction instruc-tion of excursionists, and recorded for the benefit of science. |