The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1871-09-02
IndnetrInI exhibition.

Tuesday August Sth. has been fixed as the date
for opening the Eighth Annual Industrial Exhibi-
ton, which will undoubtedly far excel anything OF
the kind ever held in California. Very extensive
additions have been made to the Pavilion, and ev-
ery facility will be granted TO exhibitors, SO as TO
place their products in the most advantageous man
ner to be Judged and admired by multitudes OF IN
t~elligent and educated people. apart from tine
energy and vitality infused into all our productive
interests by these fairs. they constitute a means OF
imparting valuable instruction to thousands, and
nrove beyond all cavil the ascendancy OF brain
over matter, and the well-founded superiority OF
the producing over the unproducing classes. From
the mechanics workshop emanate the powers
which move the world-the real Archimedian lever /;
and from thence proceed the innumerable objects
which employ capital aud bring distant nations IN
10 close communion with one another. Such exhi-
billions present a subject of profound study for the
psychologist, as well as for the more superficial
thinker. The illimitable resources of the mind
the creative and organizing faculties of the brain,
are there revealed in the almost numberless arti-
Giles which man has produced to improve his con-
ditiOn and extend his dominion. From the most
delicate web of the silkworm to the irresistible
power of the ponderous engine from the exquisite
tracery which wells the charms of fair woman to
the Titanic machine which stamps out iron and
steel from the tiny tissues which wrap an. infant
to the massive t~rappings of an elephant, the re-
hecting mind will draw many lessons to improve,
ennoble, and strengthen it in well-doing.
A grand reunion of high mechanical abilities
with an interesting opportunity to compare notes
and interchange ideas, to view the progress that
has been made. and to suggest others of equal or
greater advancement. is an event of no ordinary
Importance. Not only will the products of our
own industries be there exhibited, but those of the
almost unknown and distant Orient will be seen in
all their native grace and unique beauty. Side by
side will repose the evidences of a new and Chris
tian civilization and those of nations whose chro-
nology dates back thousands of years. and who
boosted of enlightenment ages before our fathers
were little better than common savages. In near
lY every department of productive industry there |
will be a display of inventive talent. mechanical
ability. creative power, and indOmitable energy.
In every department there will be much to learn.
much to admire. and much to elevate our ideas of
the toiling. -hard-handed" men of the time.
Many IA bright lad can there learn by what means
he is transported across the continent in one week;
it is that he can converse, almost instantane-
ously. with people thousands of miles away by
strange devices all that he sees around him is
and utilized. 1t will be at once a valua-
able school and a grand entertainment for every
body with brains to think and hearts to feel, from
the unlettered boor to the most profound student
of mechanical Sciences. f. Commercial Herald.