East Saginaw courier. (East Saginaw, Mich.) 1859-18??, 1865-05-10
The Work Of Different Countries.
An English journal of late date has


The Work Of Different Countries.
An English journal Of late date ha,
the following:
Industry has many curious local at
tachnents, and clings with feline fond
ness 20 particular spots. Thus, watches
are made cheaply in Switzerland,
whore the men and women of fifty
villages together arc all busy ON tooth
ed wheels, mainsprings, and jeweled
holes. Soap and cheap perfumes,
nasty as well as cheap, are best oom-
pounded in central Germany. The
Tyrol and the Black Forest have three
resources for the long winter evenings,
when the soil is frozen stiff, and the
snow is heavy on the pine boughs-.
clocks, straw hats, and toys. All
over Middle Europe you see the Black
Forest clocks, made by peasants round
the cottage hearth, as plentiful as Mr..
Samuel Sticks lacquered time-pieces
in Canada. Baden oompetes with
Italy in straw plating; while for toys,
old Deutschland bears the bell.
at is curious thing that the toys
which English children love so dearly,
and which they break, maltreat, and
denolish so vivaciously, should all be
foreign. Here and there, perhaps, a
rocking-horse, or straight-legged
spotted steed with his harness nailed
to his body, may be the work of an
English artisan, but not often.
"The wooden boasts and birds in
the geological collections, the puzzles,
the bricks, the gaudily-dressed Turks
and hussars, squeaking lambs, and
creakiDg cards, come from Germany;
so do marbles, Dutch dolls, and baby
houses. Paris gives us the superb
waxen doll, in her satin and spangles.
America sends over the gutta-percha
uglinesses and clock-work mice.
"Quite two-thirds Of the oyershoes
that keep our feet from wet bear the
French or American eagle boastfully
embossed upon their soles. On the
other hand, England sells India-rubber
tubing, waterproof cloth, and gutta-
percha in fiftv fnrna tn Continental
BUR brandy than wo do of thoirs--an
exchange Of which we wish them Joy;
while our silks continue the cheapest,
and theirs the richest and most taste
full. In all that relates to calico they
own our merit; they perfer our broad
cloth to their own, but declare, and
Justly, the superiority of their scarlet
dyed woolens to ours. AS for boots,
they are cut out by millions of pairs
in France, sent TO England 10 be
closed, returned for the operation Of
clinching,' and re-exported as of pure
Paris make. l.h-'li.t-'7 ~
"The Americans have great apti-
tuds for the manufacture of small,
delicate, labor-saving machines. 1t
has always been an object with them
to get through their work with as few
hands as possible, and we owe to them
oil manner of dainty devices for econ
omizing manual power. London is
full Of elegant little complications of
steel rods no bigger than wine bot
tlo, devised for stitching all stitchable
for punching, drilling. and
cutting, for metallurgy, and agricul-
ture. Our own machinery Is COM
monty of grand and solid character
massive engines that are to
be found ut work all over the world
pumping water out of mines in the
Andes, lashing the waves of far-off
oceans into foam, crushing quartz in
Victoria, and dragging burdens in
Brazil.
awe cannot, perhaps, quito beat
Prague in turning out stained glass
and colored services glowing with tho
deep pure tints of enormous rubies,
emeralds, and topazes; nor are our
tubes and alembics so fit to 60 through
fire as the Bohemian. The old ware
of China, the old Japanese jars, the
finest French and German porcelain,
have a fragile beauty beyond our imi-
tations. But our potteries only need
the 'open sesame Of free trade to set
their good and cheap products-plates
that can bear heat, glass fairly cut
into sharp facets, and vases modelled
on choice shapes from Greece and
Etruria---on every middle class table
abroad. French housewives who store
away their preserves in jars coated
with poisonous white lead, and dare
not heat the plates lest they should
fly into fragments, and whose clumsy
cofIee-cups are an inch thick, are not
slow to appreciate the merits OF Mr.,
Gladstone's treaty of commerce"
gF- The sudden manner in which
the rebellion collapsed after the fall OF
Richmond was singular proof OF the