The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1867-06-03

and the variety of her population
She has sent works of wonderful
richness and. beauty-grand mosaics
pictures, gold and silver work, fur
niture of ebony and malachite, IN
crusted with ornaments of stems
leaves and flowers In natural colors
all carved from precious stones. The
English are astonished to see such
things from what they imagined to DC
a semi barbarous country. Then the
glass of Poland is not far behind that
of Bohemia, and its porcelain rivals
that of Dresden. and is not far In
ferior to that of Sevres. There is the
fire place of Russian workmanship
the finest in the exhibition
made of two kinds of marble,
with large figures, wonderfully
bold and elegant. The effect of the
pure white marble figures and sculp-
lures over the body of blush tint is
very curious. In works of art and
elegance, of richness and rsplendor,
Russia is well represented, while
of all those things America has sent
nothing at all, or nothing abovegm
diocrity. except the piaho-fortes,
which are solid and good. There is a
neat cabinet organ, also.s There are
a few good landscapes. Then, to
send common, ugly wooden clocks !
Why, there is one room of carved
wood clocks, Of every size and va
riety, from Carlsruhe and Baden,
which made a Yankee long to pitch
his couhtry's collection into the
Seine; and the collection Of clocks
and watches In sthe French depart
ment is astonishing in its variety,
elegance, and wonderful combinations
of machinery You can buy a neat
and excellent and even pretty clock
for twenty-five cents, dnAGermany
and Switzerland, of course, they are
even cheaper. , 1iaAs'e.-
In France the manufacture and
colorings of, delicate porcelain has
been carried to its highest perfection.
Dresden alone can be considered a
rival. Two years ago, the prettiest
thing l saw in Paris was the porcelain
flowers, looking fresh plucked, with
the dew drops glittering upon them
single flowers, and so on up to bou@
quets. After admiring them two
Summers in Paris, 1 this Spring saw
a few of them in a shop window in
Regent Street, London. OF course,
they are to be seen with all the beau
tiful things in the Exhibition. Some
one has made a porcelain fiddle. 1t
is strung, but what kind of tone it
has, | had no chance to determine.
And when you want good and
cheap stove, which will give, with the
least fuel, the most and the softest'
heat, send to Paris, or Germany, or
Sweden, or Russia, if you like better.
for porcelain stove; or, better still,
go to.work and make them.
Emmanuel, the great London jew
eler. displays a diamond brooch, with
a large yellow diamond in the centre,
all the stones of which are so set as
to move with a perpetual tremulous
motion, and scintillate like the stars
of a glorious constellation.
Prussia has the largest cannon in
the Exhibition, and has impudently
placed it IN the principal building,
pointed at the centre in a way to
smash everything should it go off.
Prussia is very strong in iron and
but it is hard to tell which
has precedence in these works
France, Prussia or Belgium. The
latter has wonderful variety of
works in metal Of all kinds from
shafts to needles. There
is the prettiest Belgic case ofmachine-
made needles | ever saw, from the
largest size down to those so small
that you want microscope to see
them. These are. not roughly cut
brads nor tacks, but perfectlysformed
nails, madefrom wire.
The wonderful effect of genius
for organization, and the influence of
an elegant and symmetrical arrange !
ment, are seen and ought to Ebe !
everywhere in the French |
The toughest products
the woods of the forest, coal and |
turf, minerals, wool, grain, butter,
even soap and candles, when properly