St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1867-04-26

Joints. There are steam engines at con
venient distances for furnishing power
the steam being generated outside tn
building and conveyed to the engines b,
pipes under ground. This immense nav
If it can be called such-extendine
around all the inner circles, is LITERAL,
packed with machinery. You see en-
gines of all kinds-steam, fire, water
hot air and cold air. The seventh ant
outer circle is devoted to food, or rather
teeding-the food being mainly ready fo
eating. Each country has its restau
rants, which on some other occasion W,
will look into, to see how and what tn,
different nations eat.
SPACE OCCUPIED BY THE DIFFEREN7
COUNTRIES.
France being the protector of the af-
fair, of course has the right to taxi
whatever space she may choose, and i
will be seen that she has appropriated
nearly one-half to herself England has
the next largest Prussia, Southern
Germany and Austria, have equal por
tions. Southern Germany is now Prus,
sia politically, but when the assignment
of space was made there had been nc
thunder OF cannon at Sadowa. The
treaties between Bismarck and the
South German states are not recognized
by any alteration in the space assigned
to the various countries. We find not
only machines of all kinds, but of per-
picking variety, in which inventive &C.
MUS has applied by different methods the
motive power.
1t is bewildering to walk along this
gallery and pass in review the innumer-
able contrivances for cutting, punching,
boring, driving, pounding, beating, ham
mering, twisting, turning, saving, rivet-
ing, pulverizing, grinding, crushing, mix
ing, Sitting, shearing, splitting, screw
lng, pressing, sottening and hardening.
There are pumps, plows, looms, lathes,
locomotives, planning machines, washing
machines, printing presses, steam ham
mcrs, and the whole range of hydraulics
and pneumatics-of steam, water. ar
and fire. The motive powers are dor
mant to-day, except here and there an
engine.
The building covers about 10000
square yards OF ground. In the division
France has 1000, or nearly one-half :;
England has % 900, or one-seventh the
| nited States $500; Prussia, South
Germany and Austria have each 5000
square yards the Western Continent
exclusive of Canada, but including Mex
leo and all South America, has 1000
square yards Russia has the same as
the United S,atcs-2S00-lcSs than Ia-
ly by 500 yards.
Beginning at The right hand cf the
grand entrance, and walking round the
machinery circle, We come upon the
countries in the following order Great
Britain-packed with machines of every
description, in general, Of superior work
manship. In walking round this circle
we might almost know the successive
sections 10y the difference in the construc-
ton of machinery. National traits re-
veal themselves in the handicraft of me-
chanics. England always puts a great
deal of useless lumber into her coaches
Here are her railway carriages.
heavy enough for freight cars. and her
thIrd-cla>s cars are not whit better
than the freight cars OF the railroads
leading out of Boston. Her engines are
scryIceable and strong, but there is weight
which does not give strength. There
are coaches for the road as clumsy.
heavy and numbering as the House of
Lords-as the big wigged judges OF Her
MaJcsty's court.
But | am not to particularize to-day.
We pass on TO the Sandwich Islands,
thin slice smIwctod between Great
Britain and the Unitcd StateS-without
any machinery, but her space is filled
with productions 10 be noticed at anoth-
er time.
Then the United States-ihe machines
not yet in place-tOo far behindhand to
permit note of what is to he seen.
Next in order-Meyico. South Amer
lea, Tunis, Persia, China, Japan, Egypt,
Rome and Italy-bare of machinery
All of those nations know comparatively
nothing of employing the forces of na-
turc to do the work of human hands &;
Of harnessing the truant waterfalls of the
Appenines and the Andes to mill wheels !;
Of capturing the winds ; of Transforming
cold water into giant by imprisoning it
in steam boiler, and making it strong
er than ten thousand Simpsons - to
hammer and grind-to climb mountains
Or to plow the Atlantic Italy goes to
England or comes to France for all her
steam engines and locomotives, and SO
does Switzerland.
We mark the characteristics of these
nations by the absence of machines. But
the space is not untitled there is a
Turkish house in the Byzantine style of
architecture, with laticed windows, gilt
tering with bright paint-green, crimson,
blue and white. You recognize Egypt
by its models of houses, and by the style
OF architecture, such as Moses and the
children of Israel looked upon when in
bondage ON the banks of the Nile. You
can see the characteristics of the Chinese,
the japanese, and the inhabitants OF
Grim Tartary in the architecture of the
dwellings raised along this lofty nave.
You may borrow ideas from civilization
or sem;-barbarism at single glance.
Whether Western civilization has any
thing to learn from Oriental life remains
to be seen. And here, in passing, it
may be remarked that the exhibition is
not altogether one Of art and industry,
but museum-a bringing together of
old things as well as new, of things SER
viceable and amusing.
Passing on we find Russia, Sweden,
Denmark, Norway-northern powers
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