The Cleveland leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1865-1865, 1865-09-19
300 Varieties OF European
Wheat Exhibited.
FINE ART HALL.
Sewing and Knitting Machines.
Banners Universal Washing
Machine.
The Universal COg-Rheel
Clothes Wringer.
Reapers and MOWerS, Pitch
eTS and staekeFS, Lever
Beaten Hay Press, Sc,
,pondence Of tue Cleveland LrADra

2,464-msking it s difficult task to inspec.
everything in four days. The number Of
visitors was $1,000. About 10000 entered
the Fair Grounds on Thursday. a.
a point of great attraction at the Fair
was the exhibition Of some 300 varieties of
wheat heads which Secretary KHppart
gathered from the harvest fields in Europe
during his late trip of agricultural inspec-
ton to the Old World. The specimens
were neatly arranged in glass cases, plainly
labelled, and excited the admiration Of
visitors by the s'zs Of heads and kernels.
Mr.. K. also exhibited many varieties of
rye, oats and barley selected in Europe, and
twenty-four large foe engravings of the
premium cattle of England. He brought
to this country 194 varieties of gar
den seeds from the different countries in
Europe, and has a collection of engravings
of all the nstiVe grapes of France and
those raised on the Rhine, showing the
natural color of the crepe and leaves. The
choice foreign collections of Mr.. K. will
Il duu HuCA W bAO AuhoAOce 0h0 NnAhO u u
museum of the State Agricultural Board.
Fine Art Hall was constantly thronged
with visitors, and was worthy of a State
Fair. Conspicuously arranged along both
walls were q number of fine busts Of dis
tinguished Ohio statesmen from the studio
Of Artist Walcutt. Among them were
Ewing, Chase, and Corwin. Good por-
traits of Alfred Kelly, Samuel Medsry,
Gov. Brough, Gov. Anderson, and others
of note, also decorated the Hall. The
portrait of Gov. Brough, by Miss Ransom,
of Cleveland, was appropriately drsped in
mourning.
In these days of laOor-saving machinery
the needs of working women have strong
claims on the skill of inventors. Nor sre
they overlooked-though it is a little Is-
mArksble that SO few improvements of the
kind are due to the inventive genius of the
gentler sex. Who has heard of Miss or
Mrs. So.And- Sos knitting machine, sewing
machine, stove, washing machine, clothes.
wringer, loom, churn or cheese press2 To
man is woman indebted for nearly every
Invention that lightens her domestic lsbors,
and all should rejoice that SO much has
been accomplished in her behalf. Much
interest in State and County Fairs is now
conferred in household implements, and we
purpose to devote 8 few paragraphs tosome
improved articles exhibited here which
seem worthy of general use.
A most cheering picture of progress is
seen in the sewing machine department q
Fairs. They are trained to do everything
even 10 Jne ueHcscles OF embroldering,
while their power is sufficient for coarse
cloth and leather. No modern invention
has done more to increase the sum of Lu.
man happiness. A large number OF sew
ing machines were exhibited at the Stste
Fair. All had merits, and either would
prove q blessing in families where the
needle is used. The Florence has become
famous for all kinds of work, as it
makes four different stitches, each being
the ssms on both sides the fabrics. The
Wheeler & Wilson was not in the eorp-
peting list, and the first premium was
awarded to the Grover & Baker machine.
Two knitting machines were shown
the Dalton and the LAmb-snd attracted
much attention. The first premium wss
awarded to Dalton's, which does a crest
variety of good work, with dispatch that
throws old-fashioned knitting needles into
the shade. The Lamb Knitting Machine
is of much simpler construction, and is
certainly 8 complete knitter, for it kuits
the heel into the stocking and narrows off
the toe complete. It knits q yard of plain
work in two minutes; q pair of socks CON-
plete in half an hour. Any kind CT yarn
Is knit by it, and all varieties of fancy
fabrics and knit goods in use. The farmer
who owns or uaes q reaper and NOV or
should not fail to furnish his wife with a
sewing and q knitting machine, that bar
ways may also be ways of p~leasantness and
her days be long in the land.
The drudgery Of washing days should
also be lightened as far as possible. True,
patent Washing Machines have in the
main proved failures, but it will rnever do
to give it up 30" The brain must be
racked for 'just the thing" and the
Universal Washing Machine, exhibited by
Mr.. John D4nner, Of Canton, Stark coun-
ty, appears to be the long sought desidera.
tum. It took the first premium at the
Illinois State Fair this fall, and at the Ohio
State Fair The washing is done with
boiling water and steam, on the steam
laundry principle. The machine is simple,
efficient and cheap, and warranted to give
entire satisfaction, if used according to di.
recIions. A steam tight tub; weighing but
thirty pounds easily operated without
noise, and washing clothes clean and quick
nc machine heretofore introduced has
met with so much favor and success
in so short q time. banners
Washing Machine must ere long
become as popular with the people as the
Universal Cog-Wheel Clothes Wringer, of
which two hundred thousand have been
sold within the past five years, and are
now in use in the United States
The Universal Cog W Wringer is
self-adjusting and adjustable, saves labor
and time, saves the clothes, and has the
great merit Of durability. 1t took the frat
premium ct the Ohio State Fair without a |
dissent, bore of the palm at the Worlds
Fair in London in 1862, received the
Bronzs Medal at the Great Fair of the
American Institute in New York city, and
has been awarded first premiums st State
and other Fairs all over the North and
West Any kind of a modern Clothes
WriEger is worth more than its cost for
family use. The Universal WriaRer,
however, is beyond question the best and
most durable, and therefore the cheapest
These wringers are manufactured at the
rate of four hundred 8 day by the Metro
Washing Machine Company, Mid
Conn, and every machine is war
Another invention exhibited, which
working women very much and
took the first premium, was Henderson's
Hand Power Loom, patented last March
By an Iowa inventor. This loom will do
III kinds of hsnd-weaving, and is worked
70 easily that q good housewife remarked
her companion after observing its oper-
Ition-H When tired, 1 could sit down and
weave q while to rest" They will be for
ale in Ohio during the year. /
Labor-saving implements in agricultural
pursuits have become almost numberless,
nd constitute n Of the greatest blessings !
{ lineage. Visitors at our state Fairs are Z
1nAzsd as well as gratiled st h etriumphs :
BY American genius in the practi- :