Ten Days Of Delight

The ancients understood buman nature; reversing, on certaia occasions, the old proverb, they never neglected pleasure for business, ïbey undeistood that combinlng pleasure with business and making the multitudes believe that certain immense business was pleasure was the true war to draw vast crowds and make the business a success; henee the great uational fairs of Rome were also great festivals. When all the artisans, artists and inerehants of the world gathered at the capital annually to exhibit and sell their wares, fruits, produce, animáis and goods, the multitude were dra wn f rom all quarters by gladiatorial shows, games, races, religious and state processions, etc, Upon this fact Gen. Wallace, the famous author ot Ben Hur, bas f ounded the plot of his grand tragedy of "Commodus," the f.iir week in Rome giving the conspirators not only a chance to assemble unnoticed from remóte parts of the vast Roman empire, but also to upproach the emperor's palace when they reaehed Rome. Human nature is still the same. Every great assemblage of people needs and EXPECTS TO BE AMUSED and to hav. a good holiday time, no matter how serious, vast and important may be the business interests that cali them together. The managers of the great Dotroit International Exposition, to be held Sept. 17 to 27, inclusive, have fully recognized and provided for this general and just expectation. They have provided liberaUy, so that every man, woman and child of the thousands on thousands of expected visitors to the great fair shall go hand in hand every day and every hour of their stay. Prom the grand opening ceremonies and pageant on the morning of the 17th till the final closing of the gates on the evening of the 27th every hour will be occupied with some delight for the eve, the ear and the intellect. Art, music, spectacle, games, tournaments, processions, races, pageants and displays will follow each other in A CONTINUAL SUCCESSION OF PLEASURES. Opening day will be also governor's day, children's day and charity day. On the opening day the governor of Michigan, wíth the governors of such other states as are present, high officials of Canada, city and state dignitaries, etc, will open the exposition with due ceremonies. On that day all the charitable institutions of Detroit and vicinity w.ll be admitted free. On that day, also, all the school children will be admitted for the meraly nominal price of 10 cents, and the goveruor and dignitaries will receive the little ones. On the seeond and third days, Sept. 18 and 19, will occur the great international band tournament, in which about 100 of the best bands of Canada and the United States will compete for prizís, medals and championships, and give a remarkable monster concert each evening in which all the bands will join and play together, led by Cappa's famous New York Seventh Regiment Military band. These huge concerts will also constitute a spectacle to be remomb?red for a life time. Each band will be in full uniform. ONE HUNDRED BRASS BANDS in their splendid holiday uniforms, each with pnlished and glittering instrumenta, . many of them with drum majors and color beartrs, will comprise from 1,500 to 2,000 men, or a front sixty rods long and four or five ranks deep - or two full regiments of gorgeously uniformad and glittering musicians, with standards flying and a grand crash of national music, the national airs of the United States, Canada and other countries. After these two days will follow firemen'a day, with its great show of the brave fire laddies in uniform. And then each succeeding day will be made memorable by grand regattai on the river in front of the grounds, so that its course for the whole distance can be viewed trom the vast balconies of the buildings; reviews of over 1,000 boats, yachts and pleasure vessels, gaily decorated, forming a most novel and delightful spectacle; military reyiews, and drills by crack corps; horse races on the exposition track; grand concerts every afternoon and evening: athletic games and sports; daily parade of the splendid horses and cattle on exhibí tion; THE WONDERFUL PALACE OF ILLUSIONS, exeeeding in beauty and mystery anything of the kind ever bef ore shown; the strange and fascinating display of all sorts of livo fishes in immense aquariums, showing salmón leapiug up high waterfalls, etc. ; the constant display of wonderful machines of all kinds; the shows of rich goods of all varieties; the grandest art show of paintings, sculptures, engraving, etching, tapestry, silver and gold ware, the immense and beautiful floral exbibition; thousands of other things to please the eye, the ear and the taste, and the rare show of birds, pet animáis and pigeons, with the strange sbow of a great pigeon race. Surely all these attractions will FILi. EVERY DAY WITH UNUSUAL DELIOHT8, as well as instruction and profit. Besides there will be the ever varying busy scène of the beautiful, broad river, with iti hundreds of vessels plying to and fro, and boats conBtantly airiving and departing, so that visitors can make daily excursión to scores of interesting places of resort, anywhere within a radius of 100 miles of Detroit, whenever they choose to leave the exposition for a half or whole day elsewhere; and the city, with all iU theatres, opera houses and other attractions, and its grand Bella Isle park, is ever at hand. Comparcd with these attractions of the great modern exposition the popular delights of the ancient fairs of the old world, whieh drew visitón to Rome from all the tributary nations, palé 'their historie glories. And the immense masses of people that will attend will themselves be a sight to see and remember with long lingering pleasure. The modern attractions are all innocent and peaceful. The bloody gladiatorial corabats, the fights with wild beasts in the coliseum. the cbariot races, in which men and horses were killed, and all the brutal violence of beathen times, hare given placa to the higher pastimes of peace and Christianity, and the rivalries of industry, invention, art and commerce. The times are better, the tandard higher, the attractions nobler. The great modern fair elevates and blesses man kind, and promotes all that is good for I the growth of nations and the benefit of human kind