Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1876-07-24


a constant draught, which humane course
proves to be also measure of economy,
the horses thus refreshed doing their
work much better and more easily than
others.
That imperial mOteor. Dom Pedro.
disappeared in the eastern horizon on
the 18th, which is to say that he sailed
for Europe on the Cunard steamer Rus
STA. The illustrious salamaIder hasn't
seemed to mind the weather, but scooted
around during the last two weeks with
undated energy, doing up the flag end
of his sightseeing.
PHILADELPHIA, July 10.
| have no desire to alarm anyone,
but must inform your readers that
Philadelphia is becoming japanese.
l am not prepared to assert that the
change well be radical and complete, that
our eyes will grow slantindicular, our
hair get braided and coiled, and our
apparel became semifeminine, but do
maintain that we have taken the first
step in that direction by adopting the
most distinctive national emblem, name
ly, the fan. So universal has been this
adoption that you can't find solitary
person of any age or condition who
doesn't present the appearance of a one
armed windmill. 1t is curious sight
to see the different styles of men 60 at
1.-THE fat man in his agony putting so
much muscle into the operation as to
generate more heat than he dispels /; the
subdued rough striving vainly to cool
his bullet head and big red neck, and the
apish newsboys highly delighted with
their new acquisition, Even the des-
pissed tramp manages to get hold of one
of the numerous advertising fans which
are freely distributed about the exhibit
ton grounds, and beguiles the tedium
of his slow and digni6ed march around
town by agitating the atmosphere about
his grimy and unshaven visage. | ex-
pect to see the whole lot practicing on
paper butterflies before long.
Well, if we had to change to the like.
ness of any foreign nation, l, for my part
don't know what people ] should prefer
to the japanese for model. Intelligent
progressive, quiet and polite in deport
ment, and wonderfully skilful as work
men, they have made most favorable
impression and constantly grow in favor
Their space in the Main Buildings is al
ways full of visitors, special interest be
ing given to it by the fact that nearl
: everything is for sale at a REASONABLE
price. All their articles are beautiful
q in texture and finish and many of ther
those in lacquered papier-mache, fin
wood, straw and silk, are beautiful i
design as well. There are few MOI
strOsities in pottery and bronze that Oh
can hardly forgive them. Such uglines
N one would think. must have frightene
lie the very workmen that fashioned j
IS Dragons with impossible horrors in pla'
ID Of claws and mouths. and scaly tails tn
e, curl all over creation, and gods hard
* more lively in aspect, may be all We
of we'll as curiosities, but, to me. they di
a figure the exhibit
he The domain of China, which Apr
Is priately adjoins Japan, is similar, bot
of in its beauties and defects. The fine
re. thing there, to my taste, is tower Ii
of pagoda, with sort of court at its ba
lp- filed with human figures. This VIII
ar. work is of ivory, carved as never i've
ties was carved before. Such minute del
,on acy of execution, believe. l never So
,ns The tower must be two feet and b
elf high and proportiOnately large, and
nd, l doubt if the whole weighs over t
of pounds
lite 1t would require columns of space
TIL do justice to these two countries alo
81, so won't attempt it, at least, mot
-ful present. 1t makes me hotter to e.
the think of staying so long time in
but place. Walking up and down tn
nee broad aisles is really less oppressive Il
sitting still, for they are kept sprink
ugh and the evaporation cools them off
avy ceptibly. Besides this the water Ike
the down the dust, of which, to the credi
J by the management, be it said, there
ons. very little.
'day To further guard against it, howe
and all the delicate articles shown, are enc
aces ed in tight show cases, many of wi
God. possess much intrinsic beauty and
the largely to the effect of the exhibits [
ter contain. The most elegant of t
who were designed and executed at the
J ad- furniture establishment of f. Krut
town SO and SO Houston street, New Y
,ings the Acknowledged head of this del
story ment of industry In American. v
rrow stone cutting is to sculpture such j;
and best of ordinary cabinet making to
en- to handiTork of this hOuse-literally h
ever iioork in this case, for in all his
uring establishment, employing hundred
isical men, no steam power In use. No
doors chine but the parcticed human hal
- perfect enough to execute the VI
a"u and intrieately beautiful design for v