The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1867-01-24

too, many eccentrlcltles In mechanism
and art, in which is shown the genius
of American invention. Yankee no
tions are, of course, given a place, but
long ago it was found necessary to
make this very limited in extent, in
asmuch as every man In the country
who devised an improved :" wooden
nutmeg" or gave birth to a Jumping
jack Of new and peculiar acrobatic
ability, at once proceeded to the
office of Mr.. J c. Derby, General
Agent for the United States, at No.
40 Park Row, to press his claims to a
conspicuous place for his invention at
the Exhibition. a.r
Every State, North and South, is
represented in the cargo, of the Mer-
curry. It would be almost an impossi-
biIity to give the readers of the 1ri-
bane full description of all the
articles which constitute that cargo.
Specialties only can be mentioned.
Illinois sends a school house--a real
Western fount of learning" es-
pecially designed and gotten up to
show the people of Paris, and through
Paris to show the whole world, In
what sort of building the pedagogue
plies his profession on the prairies
and in the forests of the western con-
tinent The school house was con-
structed in Chicago, whence it was
brought to this city in three large
freight cars. 1t is most carefully and
faithfully made, and when put up in
the American quarters of the Great
Exposition, will undoubtedly be
hailed as a curiosity.
A companion to this is another
school house This is a real Yankee
affair, and comes from Boston. 1t is
not as large as its brother from Chi
cago, but it presents true type of
those seats of nollidge" in which
such men as Hosea Bigelow and other
philosophers of the same class ac-
quired their . larnin."
There is a bakery, too, Boston
bakery, in which M. Blot's theory of
will be made to blush-if
theory can be made to blush at all
by the Yankee gingerbread and brown
cake bakers who will have charge of
this peculiar institution. The struc-
ture is complete, and it is the basis of
great expectations TO the Boston peo-
pie who conceived the idea Of sending
it to the Exhibition. ~.
Still there is another building.
This is farm house all the way from
Chicago. A more perfect model |
never. did justice to It's original 1t is
in every particular. Barns
and ut-houses surround it; vines run
up its front, and diffuse themselves
over its roof; a fence surrounds it,
and-well it is farm house to per-
lection, and no more can be said to
describe it. ISL
These constitute the houses that
will be on exhibition from this coun-
,ry. One progressive Yankee desired
20 construct church and send it
,ver, to give the Parisians an idea of.
The kind of buildings devoted in this
country to religious worship; but his
application was denied, owing to the
,reat length of the steeple he designed
o erect for his representative church.
lie said, he couldn't reduce the
teeple nohow, for he wanted a place
or the bell, and lots O. room for the
OuS uC u uO ILS WdSSIH
Among the works of art are paint
ngs by Bierstedt, Hicks, Wier, Crop
ey, Huntington, and other eminent
American artists Bierstedt sends his
Rocky Mountains, % and Wier fur
fishes his celebrated painting illus
rative Of casting guns at the Parrott
Foundry at Cold Spring, on the Hud-
on. 1t is expected that Mr.. Bier
tedt will superintend the hanging of
he pictures.
Many splendid books, specimens of
he publishers art, are in the cargo.
Yearly all Of the principal publishing
louses in the country have furnished
olumes to represent the literary and
typographical advancement of our
ountry. A superior copy of Web
ter's Unabridged, from the Merriams,
f Springfield, Mass, is among the
lumber. 1t is magnifcently bound
n Turkey morocco, and most elabo-
ately finished throughout.
Then there are grand pianos of the
nost costly description and most ar
lstic completeness; carriages fit for
he Emperor to ride in; a locomotive;
street car; tobacco cutting machines;
nowing machines; organs that would
ot be out Of place in the grand Ca
hedral of Milan; wine from domestic
rapes; raw and cured tobacco; raw
otton and sugar; pine from the Caro-
mas; all sorts Of domestic dry goods
nd goods of every description; crock
ry; Jersey porcelain and earthen
ware, and hundreds of other articles
which want of space will not permit
Is to mention here.
The mineral resources of the coun-
ny are largely represented. There is
5old IRON Colorado and other Terri
cries and from the States, while sill
'er, copper, iron and lead, in fact the
.ntlre American meteorological king
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