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Show THE TRUCE IN FRANCE. By a sort of common consent warring factions in France seem ti have declared de-clared a truce, as it were, until the exposition ex-position is over. It is well that it is so, for if the spirit which France has manifested during the past year or two had continued up to the present, the exposition would have been but a sorry failure. But the fire is only smouldering smoulder-ing ,and all signs point to a conflagration conflagra-tion as soon as the world has emptied its pockets into the French treasury. There 13 really much method in the French madness at times. |