The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1873-09-03

they have lying around them coffee
house in which young Turkish girls,
in full Turkish costume, are acting as
walters, and Q fac simile Of the famous
fountain OF Ahmed III at Constants
nople.
The Egyptian represent Q mosque. sn
Egyptian farm, q Fellsh village, 9 fac
simile Of the Viceroy's Palace aud ot
other interesting Egyptian structures o!
the different periods Of oriental archi-
lecture. There is also Persian villa,
Russian dwelling house and restaurant,
an American school house, and many
others that might be mentioned, within
these grounds, set apart for the EIhibi-
ton person having the time, patience
and disposition may witness the world
in miniature. Here he finds every
country represented by its arts, manu-
factures, agriculture, commerce, ma
chinery, mineral, and in many depart
ments life siz. wax figures OF the peo-
pie in the costume OF their respective
countries.
AMERICAN INDUSTRIES,
We are sorry 10 say, are not well repre-.
sented. What we have here, however.
is OF the best, and presents 8 fine ap-
pssrauce. Our apartments in the ha.
chine and Agricultural Halls are well
filed with the finest OF machinery and
agricultural implements, all OF which
appear to be sold" from the cards 30
labelled upon them. We have learned
.ince we arrived that America will car
~ away more prizes in novelties in pro-
portion 10 the amount she had on eI-
hibition, than any other country. In
the American department in the Indus
trial Palace we noticed about fifty vol
umes OF patent Office reports, which. no
doubt, were very interesting to the Ea-
ropeans. While the Egyptians appear
to have sent over all their old clothes
and the skulls and Jaw bones OF sll
their dead camels and crocodiles, you
must not, however, conclude from this
that tie articles on exhibition
are OF little or no value.
An estimate of the value
OF all the articles on exhibition fixes
them at something over 4OO,OOO,OOO
dollars. II requires
ABOUT MIMI DAYS
to walk through the different gsllerie,
aud halls, and il person looks into
each case it would require about q
month. Each nation has its galleries
allotted to it in which to exhibit; its
several INDUSTRIES, witt its name and
national ensign over the entrance. The
United States leads in raw cotton,
grains, aod mineral specimens, Eug-
land in cotton and wooden fabrics,
hardware and fine cutlery; Belgium
and France in carpets and furniture
Switzerland and France in watches and
fine jewelry; Italy in sculpture and
statuary; Russia and Norway 10 iron
Austria in merschsums, while Turkey
and Japan rival each other for the
prize in trinkets and toys. In the ma
chine ball, France presents the finest
finished, while the United States pre-
sents the most useful and durable ma
chinery. In the agricultural hall the
United States leads the world in agri.
cultural implements. In the Austrian
department there is a case OF artificial
flowers that stands without rival.
They were made by q Vienna lady who
alone possesses the knowledge, tact and
and skill for reproducing flowers by
means OF common materials. Every
bunch OF these flowers initiates nature
80 closely that it ia only by the touch
we are enabled to distinguish the arts
fetal from the real. 1t has been by
long and arduous study that this lady
has discovered the means and the yari-
GUS compositions by which sbe imparts
to the finest paper the fe1ibility and
wrinkles OF the petal. the transparency
OF color and lustre OF the living, as well
as the natural droop and shriyelng OF
the WitheriDg flower.
THE CROWD.
In London and at nearly every point
on our journey between that place and
Vienna, we met a great number OF
persons returning from the exhibition.
all Of whom appeared 10 regard the
exposition as OF little or no consequence.
simply because there was not the
crowd Of people here they expected to
see. They had all come to Vienna 10
see big crowd, and because the
immense hall and extensive grounds
were not crowded TO suffocation with
people, they pronounce the exposition
failure. They are like the people |
who attend county agricultural fairs
and d,estimate the success or failure OF
the show by the number OF people in
attendance rather than the quantity and
quality OF articles exhibited. We would
suggest 10 those persons who have the
Pbiladelphia Exposition in chsrge for
1876, that they employ about 300, 900
persons 10 walk through the grounds
and buildings during the Exposition
season 10 order TO make il success in
the estimation OF these crowd hunters.
When these people reach heaven (ifI
they are ever 20 Fortunately and they
dort fnd as large q crowd there a.
they expected, they would not hesitate
to pronounce il 8 failure also, no matter
how grand and sublime the surround
iDg, might be- The number OF visitors
has probably not equsled public eIpec.
tatioDs, nevertheless the attendance has
been good. We learn, on inquiry, that
the average number OF admissions for
the pact three weeks was something
over 1900 persons daily, yet this large !
concourse OF people. scattered through |
these immense balls and extensive
grounds, looked more ike few hun.
dred people seeking recreation 10
large park, than 1900 persons attend
ing 8 Worlds Fair. The Exposition
instead Of being failure is
A COMPLETE sCccZss,