Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1876-08-01

/ ware, her Iron castings for buildings
and fences, her carvings and brass
/ mouldings, copies of art treasures in
the museum of South Kensington,
screens made Of porcelain, bronze
statuary, and a large and beautiful
collection of terra Gotta ware.
In France, passing by her large and
varied exhibit of her manufactures
both useful and ornamental, / was
struck with the impression that her
religion has made upon her people.
| In the department of "COmpagne
| De st. GObain" is to be seen a bronze
Altar, which was being opened and
| placed in position while we were in
| the building. about twelve feet high
| and ten feet long, surrounded with
life-sze figures of Christ, st. Peter,
the Virgin, Pope Plus and others /;
and at another place you will see a
| beautiful representation, very natural
and life-like, of the birth of our Sa-
viOur in a manger, with a sheaf Of
wheat resting over him, and worship
pers kneeling and Offering gifts, and
in several other places various figures
of Jesus showing his heart pierced
and bleeding, and the prints of the
| nails in his hands and feet, and of the
Virgin with the infant i'll her arms
| presume these figures are in wax :
they are very beautiful and life-like,
and indicate very clearly and distinct
ly the religious faith of the country
from whicht they come, SO distinct from
that of people believing i'm the doc
trines of the great reformers of the
10Th century. But as specimens OF
art and elaborate and finished work
manship we can not but admire them,
however rudely we may differ In re-
ligious sentiment. ....r r.....
Upon one Of the open circular spaces
I'm the main aisle and indeed forming
it, and | would suppose near the cen
tre of the building, the great nations
of France, Great Britain, Germany,
and the United States come together,
at the intersection of a cross aisle with
the main aisle, one each being in the
respective angles thus formed by the
intersection.
The United States being at home
and it being her own exhibition, and
at the One Hundredth Anniversary of
her independence, covers more space
and makes larger exhibit than any
other nation.
IL would require pages to speak of
all that the ingenuity, the energy and
Skill of her people have here grouped
together and | think it is highly
complimentary to her. The furniture
exhibited is princely, and in many
instances combining great convenience
and economy. l noted especially the
folding bedstead, convertible at pleas
ure to u wardrobe, and in one instance
complete chamber-set likewise con-
vertibie;a chair for child, very unique
tp ii OF i-,it, tp,h /.
simple motion, converted into low
seat and u table. Also centre-t table,
oval shape, perfect and complete, with
a sliding top, which on removal pre-
sented II complete writing-desk, Which
could be removed and a back CANNON
board or a chess-board made its APP
pearanCe, aud when these were being
used all the other parts were replaced
in the table itself out of the way
There were rooms that were complete
ly and most magniiicently furnished
with chairs, carpets, beds, bedsteads,
curtains, &c. Along here a portion of
our company were almost bewildered
with delight and enraptured with the
continual feast of the eye and would
have fingered longer had time permit
ted, In this neighborhOOd were plan
Os, most beautifully and elaborately
finished, organs, melOdions, &c | can
only note one-the "Orchestron,u - a
large musical instrument, a combiua-
ton of the organ and musical box,
with the addition at the proper points
of time of the roll of drums and the
shrill note of triangles. | have only
singled out these few things for note
from the vast field of exhibition of oar
country. In almost every department
is ii represeuted--in fine mirrors, iron
safes, carpets, cotton and wooden fab
RIGS, photographs, dc. in the gorgeous
silver and plated ware of the 1'ifla-
nys and the Graham manufacturing
company the rich perfumery, with
which the air was redolent, marble !
monuments and mantles, railroad !
iron, &c. And remember that this is
only in the "main building,n and that
many of the StatOs have separate build
ings of their own in which they eXhib-
it products of field earth and forest
peculiar to themselves.
This main building is well vOntla-
ted is well provided with water, with
retiring rooms for ladies and for gem
tlemen, with rolling chairs to relieve
you when you get tired, (Which would
be the easel with soda founts, and
with an elevator to take you to the
top of the building, from which you
have view of the city, the whole
grounds and the contiguous country,
and the beautiful Schuylkill. The
police are always at hand, and polite
and obliging, and though the number
of people is very great, there is no
jam" or confusion, and saw not
the least disorder, and universally
good feeling seemed to prevail.
Should leisure permit, aud dispOsi-
tion prompt, may take you into 9TH
er buildings of the exhibition.