The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1874-03-07

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NirSSA, November q,
rus LAsT nay.

There Ia always n sadnoss con.
neclcd with tho words "Tho last
The latt day Of the year tho last
hours of n friend the lust llrewel'
20 home, or loved ones and II was
with something Of this feeling that
wo turned our stops toward the
Ausstelung upon the last day oil us
existence. We had been present
when it, opened its eyes to tho
world; We had seen il growing ~
beauty and interest day by day, ana
now we were to hear its last sign
Nature had frownod upon it on ITS
birth day, May LIST, and had shed
cold tears OF welcome, but she
smiled upon its death, November
I'd, dressed hersolfin her brightest
autumn attire, and poured ont gold
en- sunshine 10 brighten its last
hours. The crowd upon the first
of May was by no means so large rs
that upon the second of November
In fact there was no day during the
whole six months when the number
of visitors was so large. Tho ia
of August was II. holiday, and the
number of persons admitted to the
Ausstollung OH that day was one
hundred and six thousand Upon
the LIST of November eighty thou,
sand persons were admitted, and
upon the ID of November II few
more than one hundred and thirty
nine thousand-nearly forty thou
sand. The amount of money taken
in for entrance tickets from the 2nd
of May to the I'd of November,
inclusive. was 1915, l05. The Auss-
telling was a miniturc world IN
itself, and yet world that l4O GOO
people filled to overlooking, leaving
in the buildings scarcely room to
turn around, and crowding all the
walks and thoroughirrcs with an
endless throng of eager people,
hurrying to see something yet I'M
seen, or to pay IL parting visit to
some favoritc work of art, or other
object of, to them. peculiar interest
l went to see the crowd, and found
enough to look at. In fact much OF
the time | could SEQ nothing but
the crowd, so I certainly could not
complain of being disappointed
However, l did not neglect many
old favorites in the different depart.
ments, to which l paid II hurried
farewell visit, and took some notes
of new articles, before unnoticed, or
rather unnoted. Wo have known
people who, coming to Europe with
the intention Of remaining year,
exhausted the exposition in three
days, and at the same rate Will Ger
tainly be obliged to return home in
three months for lack of something
new to pass by. But l confess l
have not such an enormous capacity
of taking in things at glance-of
taking such comprehensive" views
at one sweep OF the eye. l found six
months of frequent visiting not
sufficient to see all that l would
have liked to see, to say nothing OF
the thousand and one things in
which l had no special interest
and upon this last day | saw things
which | had passed many times be-
fore without seeing, and so must be
contented TO give them only u
passing glance, saying sadly and
regretfulIy, "and l shall never have
the opportunity to see them again,
for to-day is the last day"
As the rotunda had been the en-
tire center Of attraction upon the
first day, so to it / devoted large
share OF my time upon the last day.
But how different the scene. Then
the chief objects Of interest were
the persons of royalty, and the
waiting crowd of persons was more
or less select and aristocratic; now
the works of industry from differ
ent nations fill the grand and spa
cious room, and the world, the
common every day world, crowd
to behold them. The first scene
impressed the eye, the last scene
touched the heart; the first was
gorgeous, the last was grand; the
first illustrated the accident of birth,
the last illustrated the power of in
tellect. These and many similar
thoughts filed my mind as l
threaded my way through the
crowd, looking up once more to the
. genii who smiled down upon us
from the doilc and still up to the
upper gallery where human beings
who seemed only movable points,
so small did they appear, were look
ing down upon the crowd below.
The fountain in the center was
playing merrily, although singing
It's last song, and the barkeepers
and restaurant stands seemed to be
doing a more than usually thriving
business, because it was the last day.
We gave a parting glance of admir-
alton TO the graceful gothic editice
of spools of thread, exhibited by j.,
& E. Waters, of England, and an
other to the Corinthian temple, of
stearine. We wondered at the mas
sive mirrors, twenty feet high and
twelve feet broad, and stood some
time before the beautiful "mala-
chite" tables and cases from Russia
As precious stone, to be used as
jewelry, the malachIte Is not oil
remarkable beauty, but in large
masses, its bright green color mar
bled with black shows to good ad-
vantage, and it is impossible to pass
it by without paying it tho compli-
ment of exclaiming: 20, how beau
fnlr" Russia has sent many
exquisite vases of different material.
A column of granite upheld vase
of porphyry, beautiful in form and
in proportions. When the Russian
car was passing through the