Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1867-05-25
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. | % hOb ldbiS uCh Wy POioPSStANO HA''"hN
: es. 1t is the difference between
> squarely laid out city and crooke'
e one. One tires, and the other doe
g not; one is mOnotonous, and the othe
is full of surprise. In one a man MAJ
only walk two hours without firing, an6
! in the other four. So that people be
gin to like the circles and to cease call
ing the Exhibition naughty names. ..
The most prominent thought in ones
! mind, as he passes through this Exhibi
? tion, is that everybody should know sc
! much. Each nation must be astonisheo
at the knowledge of the other. But
the receptions are numerous AID
more terrible than the establishments
An inventor puts up a machine at great
cost, and when he walks into the divis-
Il ion of another nation across the aisle,
he finds better invention for the same
purpose. Certain nations at great ex-
/ pense have sent whole categories OF
| goods, not to show the progress they
| have made but to ompete for premiums,
aud their collections are miserable fail
ures. Thus, for example, the Germans
have had the courage and misfortune
to send to the Exhibition a cOusidera.
4 JIG nunlDGI Vi CtlIIldRCSs anu Mltn
one passes from the French into the
German collection. it is like passing
into a salon DIES refuses, such as the
French use to have at their annual Art
| Exhibition. OF course, in these strik
ing contrasts is the great value of the
Exhibition, for by them workmeA
learn to estimate each other, and to
measure the distance in perfection
which separates them. These striking
icoLtrasts are frequent in the Exhibi-
| ton.
A circumstance which has not been
remarked upon, because it happened
naturally and without Encouragement,
is the conformity in form, color and
costliness of the different temporary
constructions of the Exhibition to the
characteristics of the nation which put
them up. These include the cases for
exhibition, the decoration of sections
aud of the oHnere, and the isolated
structures in the Park. Thus the Eng
lish and American departments are
plain in form, with no surplus decora.
| tions, aud absolutely without method
as to color. Their departments cor
respond more nearly to the Exhibition
| Atobti tnAb OAAACAGs OGCthhSC
il is the nut and not the envelope they
look after. The French section is both
snowy and solid, and especially in good
taste. Their colors vary. Austria
shows gray and yellow-the national
colors apparently without thinking
about it. Egypt and Tunis are recog.
nized by their glaring cOlors and their
Moorish arcades, covered with hieIo-
| glyphics. Italy is remarked by its
quiet but very artistic decorations, and
by its fine paintings and statuary. -
Turkey is prominent by its arcades
plastered over with pottery, like so
much coarse mosaic. Holland shows
its fine colors in system of ornamen-
tation, quite unique in Its kind. Rus
STA is remarked by its strong raw ma
terial, and its curious but useless
sculpturing in poplar wood.
But the most remarkable differences
are to be seen in the constructions of
the Park. There the French construc-
tions are light, graceful and inviting;
the English heavy. solid and useful, and
not at all decorative, where decoration
was asked for. The African and ORR
entail natives here excel; the nations
which never invented anything useful,
which do not exhibit a single idea in
the way of human progress, excel in
their exhibition of mosques, and tenn
Piles. and gentlemen's country houses.
But they evidently mistook the Exhibi-
ton for museum, for their erectioDs
are only, to speak figuratively, but 50
many fossils, curious to look at, but of
no earthly use to mankind in general
The owners of the Exhibition are not
| sorry to see them there, however, for
they add to the general attraction.
| In the midst of all these elegant and
costly constructions, the American de-
partment has erected three mean, squat
id, beggarly-Iooking constructions,
which people gaze at with astonish-
ment after looking at their superb
neighbors. But these three houses
contain the most important ideas of all
the hundred constructions of the Park,
aud while they will take medals their
elegant neighbors win take none. These
are, common weather-boarded school
house, frame house from the west,
and q Boston cracker bakery. In an
| Exhibition like this merit will tell, and
| the fancy arrangements, which start out
| by being lions, finish by changing
place with their humble neighbors.
To carry out this illustration further
| should add that the american depart
ment, which is the poorest looking in
the Exhibition, because of all absence
of display, and because the articles ex-
hibited are all practical, this depart
ment, which me of our own country
| people have stigma,ized as failure and
| as disgraceful exhibition of national
inferiority, is just now the most FREE
/ quented and the most talked about, be-
cause we already kno9 what are to be
the verdicts of the juries, and
| these verdicts are in favor of
i American exhibitors. For example,
to the surprise and the shame
and the horror of all Paris, the
unartistio savages of the New World
| will take the Grand Medal for musical
Instruments in the person of Mr. Stein
way, of New YoTk-an event which has
astonisned the Parisians more than if
i the Prussians were TO march up the
Boalevar6s this afternoon, with Bis
marck at their head So, too the
American brass musical instruments,
on account of their revolving chair
trigger" valves will also take the prin-
cipal prize In their department.. And
yet the Americans show but half dog
en- pianos against several ship-loads
/ from other nationsl And so on of
many other things.
BY the first of May the Exhibition
will be completed; all the boxes