Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1876-07-21

some of these cases One dress of this Kind
would purchase good farm worth seven
thousand dollars. Monster mirrors of
plate glass, inches in thickness, to accom-
modate which we country people would
have to build new houses with enlarged
doors, and the carved pulpit already illus
trated by Harper, are among the many in
teresting features of this department
swITzERLAND's
tapestries, music boxes, singing birds-one
of which flies out of the heart of lily and
twiltcrs a song at you-and exquisite en-
broideries upon every species of fabric
from velvet to lace, fAscinale you. One
lavender silk dress has founces machine
embroidered one quarter Of a yard deep,
with a finger-broad edge of satin stitch the
remainder lace work. A few hundred dol
lars would buy it.
BRAZIL.
Its largest exhibit is of native woods;
the most Observation-Disclosures flowers, dixie
nothing you have ever seem bird AID bug
jewelry and uncut topazes the most use
ful-hides, saddles aud shoes.
NETHERLANDS
immense carpets in single piece, brilliant,
thick and heavy, hang from the walls.
Lower down are numerous specimens of
those indescribably lovely combination
pictures in painting and mother-of-pearl
upon papier lnache. The finest decorate a
large folding screen, representing scenes
from Faust each pictured panel is lit up
with the bewitching iridescence.
MEXICO
challenges the world with a circular plate
of solid silver six feet in diameter and four
or five inches thick; plenty of lilagree of
the same metal; and, attracting general at
tention, most beautiful specimens of what
the natives call Mexican marble or onyx
a translucent stone more like alabaster or
chalcedony. This is so handsome and new
and universally admired, that almost the
whole OF the large collection of table tops,
into which ii is generally shaped-as well
as The smaller samples which Tor some IN
scrutable reason are disposed of in sets
are marked "sold."
THG ARGENTINE REPUBLIC
has of course Jumps OF silver ore soft
shawls the natural color of the wool, dark
fawn; embroidered muslin mantillas-not
very fine l am compelled TO say; boots of
snake skin showing very plainly their ORR
gin and a most extraordinary travelling
tru nk not in size, for that is less than
"Sara toga," but il can be unfolded into a
sofa for four, bed for Two, and contains
be 81 des breakfast service for the same
ut IL nntbinox for
compared with a smaller piece of furniture
| like a washsland, which is dignified with
the sonurous name of ENCYCLOPEDIA del
II 10 de Ia Plata" 1t did truly seem TO be
| an encyclopedia, containinga whole dinner
and toilet apparatus. Among its furnish
ings is a large, egg-shaped, wooden cup,
mounted in silver, with an aperture at the
top inst large enough TO admit the bowl of
the spoon. This is a Tea. cup in which the
beve rage is made by pouring on boiling
wafer or milk. The inhabitants do not use
the japanese or Chinese article, but ma
tive product growing in the swamps and
| blainod, at great risk from snakes and
other dangerous animals, from the bark OF
a tree called the Yerba Mate.
CANADA
contributes lurs, furniture, musical instru-
m enls and pottery.
| PERU,
| besides glass jars containing kernels of
corn three times the size of the largest pro-
duced in this country, displays large and
rather unpleasant collection (tastes differ,
tn ougb, and some people might like them
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well preserved teeth and hair, which are
said 10 be three thousand years old As
| this fact is announced with considerable
JUNCTION you are quite naturally reminded,
mong other less cheerful associations, OF
Mark Twain's iHterpiep with "Cristofo
Colombo" and his maddening inquiry OF
the frantic commissioner, ais he dead ?"
still more interesting item of the ex-
hi bit is its show Of ancient pottery, glazed
and unglazed. Some of the specimens
ear strong resemblance TO those of the Di
Cesnola collection in the metropolitan
Museum OF Art" in New York, which are
Violently of Egyptian origin; or at least
indicate the influence of that country upon
Cyprian civilization and art. The wonder
is, how the Peruvians came TO have any
thing in common with Egyptian artists
Let archeologisls answer.
The Free State of Orange in
AFRICA
furnishes beautiful quality and large va
riety of feathers, some of them delicate and
hlmy enough 10 drive a Broadway belle
or milliner mad with envy. Also sections
of tree boles of amazing diameter, and
huge tusks of ivory.
AUSTRALIA
has no end of woods of different kinds
and, what is far prettier, two sheep in {
glass case, the taxidermists' work, and the
posing of them is so successful that they
seem quite alive with their mild eyes and
long, silky white covering.
Huge ingots Of gold and silver abound
and while you are looking, mayhap triAC
longingly at these, you catch a sight Of
some queer looking objects under glass
little beyond. These prove to he eggs of the
emu-a bird OF the cassowary speces-anC
are the size of those OF the ostrich. In col
or they are apparently black, really an in.
visible green, and are quite rough bu
how beautiful they are made TO appear il
the next case where they are combined ant
ornamented with silver in variety of in
genious waysl Some are set upright ant
provided with standards and tippings o
ailyar flauraa making Qrapafnl yasas IA