The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-07-28
OUR CENTENNIAL LETTER.
The FOIrth of July. Is76-Austria-1IIs-
eelIany.
From Our Special Correspondent.

PHILADELPHIA, July 15.-Patriotism has
boiled over. The seething cauldron has been
simmering long enough. "Make her boil,j
has been the slogan of millions of patriotic
voices. cred hot" says the responsive sym
Throw in the American hag-now, toss in
the American eagle-in with the constitlu-
ton; fire up with Yankee DOodle-otie
grahd cracking hame-and she boils over.
The tidal wave of white-headed anniversa-
rial centennial patriotism is sweeping in
in lava-like streams over the land, fructify-
lug with its irrigating streams the length and
breadth of this great and glorious country,
ESto perpctud.
The Fourth of July did all this.
THE HEAT.
"The weather is so confounded hot
| 1 wish was a real HottentOt,'
Is an old refrain, but is applicable. On
yesterday the thermometer was four degrees
hotter than any day last summer. The SUI
per,ative degree Is In gtdgt-showet-b
in demand and yet the gloriois fourth, with
its torrid blasts-its white-headed huzzas
was wrapped up in the swestcloths of the
occasion until perspiration-nO, sweat-the
! genuine article, OOzed from every pore; re-
spOnsive to the exbuberance in the obserYa-
ton of the centennial anniversary 6f the
natal day Of the tephbiic.
/: Is useless to detail the ceremonies of the
fourth of July. A grand procession on the
night of third, appropriate ceremonies on the
day of the fourth, the Orations, the singing,
the reading the declaration from the original
manuscript, ringing the bells, Ginning of the
| sahie; gorgeous fireworks at night, with the
whiz of the rosket-the pop-and the dazzling
| descending meteors, the snsp of the fire.
crackers, and the crack of tOrpedoes and
Z hnr rirl Of fhxaW WNfCfp
panied with the bang of guns and the roar of
artillery; huzzas, cheers, with now and then
the groan of falling victim to old SoPs
| glaring rays, or faint scream from a fair
one as she is nearly lifted from her feet
with toilet disarranged and smashed gener-
ally, she is borne half-fainting along with
! the surging, wild, frantically-enthused crowd
| that like some tidal wave, swept the streets
! from all points of the compass from the
night of the third to the close of that of the
! fourth. The assemblage was immense. You
| can imagine it when say that ut the depot
of our trunk road there we're one hundred
| thousand trunks or other pieces of baggage
! awaiting distribution. The city was a Jam,
and vet, the order was splendid no fight
| ing, no general drunkenness, but a grand
! joyous expression of eauItaton at the attain
I ment by brother Jonathan of his first centu-
| ry's experience in ffee ,6vernmeht. The
| foreigners in the procession seemed pleased
| at the ovation. The Chinese must have
| Deen, Wnen tnelr COmmerclal nearC realized
| the immense consumption of their celestial
| specially, the cOncussing cracker. Govern
| OrS, who hope to be fu ure presidents were
| out in all the glory of hope and the brilliant
| cOlOrings of eXpec alton. The military par
ade was a significant success. Dom Pedro
! had at least ten thousand new collars, hats,
and some infants named after him, in conse-
| quence of his again doing homage to repuD-
lican institutions. Oscar of Sweden, was in
the line, and the pageant was illustrated by
| notables from thirtv-eight free American
! states, and from nearly forty of the various
| systems of the old ttrld; and ffom S6Gth
| America and the CanaGas. When Xerxes
! reviewed his 100000 of human beings who
! accompanied him to Greece, he is said to
! have wept while rejecting, that of the i'm
mense mass, "not one would be alive in q
hundred years" So can but pause for a
moment to reflect, that OF the million and
half who aided in TIE grand ovation of the
nations centennial, i5 there bIie WHO will as
sist In another? The fourth OF July, 1879,
a success; the only strange feature l
have to relate is that on the fourth of July,
1870, the.heat was sixtt-seven degrees, and on
the fourth of July, 1876, about ninety-eight;
how is this2 1t Is simply that are cutting
down too many trees. Let each head of a
household who has the soil plant tree, and
the next generation will enjoy more pleasant
weather in July.
AUSTRIA.
There are twenty-nine chambers of cem-
merce and trade in the Austrian, and thir-
teen in the Hungarian dependencies, to
whose system our exhibition is greatly in
debted for its support from Austria. Austria
exhibits albumer of eggs and of blood egg
preserves, and egg powder. Nearly four
hundred Thousand pounds of liquid conserved
yOlk are shipped for the of kid glove
manufacturers to Germany, Denmark, Sweden
Belgium and England. They warrant these
egg results to keep two years. They con-
e,rNr- - ~,
day. This is a business that should be
studied in the United States, where eggs are
so generally and so easily produced. Cere- !
sene wax, is an Austrian specially, employ |
ing in one factory alone four hundred oDer- |
atives. The principal mandatory is at |
Stackerau. The amount of this wax worked |
up is nearly three million pounds year.
They show candles made from ozokerite, |
glycerlne, oleine. Candles, while not ac- |
ceptable to the American vino cries "more |
light" are yet in general use in Europe, for |
while they may employ the gas in saloons, |
they rarely use any agency but candles to |
illuminate bed-chamers. WreathS of glass |
pearls, and fire proof glass cylinders of |
crystal wire, attract attention. Bohemian, |
crystal hollow ware. Austria is not bshind |
the other countries in furniture. The pro- |
duction of household furniture from bent |
wood, is an invention of Michael ThOnet, |
senior, a native of BOppard, on the Rhine, |
in 1885. The descent of this inventor turns |
out of one factory two thousand pieces per |
diem Austria exhibits good kid gloves.
One firm in Vienna, who produce annually |
twenty. thousand dozen, consuming eighty |
five thousand skins and giving employment |
to seventv-tive cutters, and six hundred |
sewers, the latter women.
Another firm in Sprague manufacture ten |
thousand dozen annually from the ShdIROy /
dead born lambs) Prague was the first |
CITY in Europe to introduce machinery in /
glove cutting. Vienna is famous for shawls. |
One mandatory exhibiting at the exhibi- /
ton has averaged for the last five years |
nineteen shawl annually. Vienna also ex-
hibits wOrsted yarns, engrained zephyr, |
yarns of various tiuts and samples of quail |
ity of double, quadruple, octuple dyed |
zephyr and course knitting yarns. The ex- |
hibits of the firm whose yarns are famous, |
produce week, twenty-five thousand pounds. |
Austria exhibits plums, dried, of which |
fruit she exports three hundred thousand |
pounds of Bosnian, and two hundred thous.
and Servian, also large quantities of red and |
white Tartar.
MISCELLANY.
Portugal sends work of art in an eagle |
made of hg tree pith. The town of COimbra
sends a tree made of toothpicks. Ponta
Delgado exhibits pin cushion made of silk |
and Alaes thread. The same place shows
flowers made of feathers and rags-which
exhibit led me to moralize-early in life
feathers-later rags. Champagne in youth
water in old age vice versa. The Portu-
gese from the tail of bird, point a moral,
and from the moral of the "rag from the
bush" adorn a tale. A pretty exhibit is ar
tifcial flowers ma 'e from Stearim and Gui-
nea aloe ibres The osier baskets are quite
pretty. And Portugal makes a fine display
in horse accoutrements-the finish on the
mOuntings of brides and saddles are beauti-
ful. Brass nails are speciality with Portu-
ese. A palm leaf fail from Portugal is a
curiosity Italv sends speeimens of one
hundred and thirty-two different varieties of
red and white wines, also Ratafia and a su-
perior aaticle OF vinegar made from Muscot
] wine.