Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-08-25
CENTENNIAL NOTES.


An Illinois firm show shingle.cutting ma
chimes. One Of them will turn out $4,000
a day, driven by an engine Of thirty horse
power. The same firm have machine
for cutting out fruit box stuff, and barrel
heading machine they are ingenious con-
trivances.
Among the weapons exhibited by the Jap
anese the most interesting are the broad two
handed swords, some Of which are used sim.
ply as ornament, others for defence, still 9TH
ers in executions. Swords, spears and hal
herds from the provinces Of Luaga, and
from Toxic, Kiyote and other cities, are here
in prolusiou. Some of these weapons are
very murderous and give one a cold shudder
as he looks at them.
1t is announced that there are already six
hundred aud fifty entries of neat cattle for
the live stock exhibition, aud more than one
thousand entries of sheep and swine. The
foreign exhibitors of horses are likely very
much to exceed in number those from the
United States. Canada West has already
entered seventy.sx horses and Quebec and
Nova Scotia promise about one hundred and
fifty.
Nearly every nation shows something OF
its lighthouse system. The French, English
Russian and japanese each make more elab-
crate displays than any other nation except
the United States. The actual articles,
not the models are shown. Aud tho most
curious are the harbor and channel lights Of
the western rivers. Statistics in connection
with the exhibit show that the United States
employs 1900 men in attendance upon SOB
lights an % light-ships.
The display of Kansas indicates its great
agricultural resources. The building is
unique, being in the form of Maltese cross,
three Of whose wings are occupied by Kan
sas, the fourth by Colorado. In the center,
suspended from the dome, is a fac-simile of
the Independence bell, eight feet in height,
made Of Kansas products. The rim is
formed Of wheat, millet, broom.corn aud
sorghum, the inscription of milet and fax,
and the tongue is gourd six feet in length
The exhibit is especially strong in cereals,
some Of the specimens ofwhch are ofremark-
able height. Forty-two varieties Of woods
are shown, the rings indicating very rapid
growth. The fruit display is expected to
surpass that of any other state. Indications
Of this have already arrived in the shape Of
apples Of large size and delicious quality
a case ofraw and manufactured silk attracts
particular attention, as no other state has a
similar one. 1t is from the works Of NJ
Broissiere, French capitalist, who erected
the first silk factory 10 Kansas in 1869.
The secret service is department Of adj
ministration with the operation Of which the
public are necessarialy but imperfectly &c.
quainted. Yet it is increasingly active, and
its eXertions are Of great benefit to the COM
munity in the detection and punishment Of
the shrewdest class of law breakers. Much
Of the activity of the service is due to the
energy infused into its operations by Elmer
Washburn, its present chief, who in eight.
cen months Of duty, has made 600 success
, ful arrests, two-thirds OF which resulted in
conviction and penitentiary service Ho Ia!
recovered nearly 100000 of counterfeit,
money. No other chief has ever succeeded
in attaining the same degree Of success, auC
5 he has become the dread of that peculiarly
dangerous class of evil-doers, counterleiters
, His policy is to let no guilty man escape
, to prosecute criminals to sentence, aud L
make no compromises with arrested parties
: Such an iron rule of action has produced it
e natural results in a decrease of counterfeit
ing, which is no longer the Furnishing bust
ness it was few years ago, when many o
the leaders in the black art now iucarcor
atcd in poDitentiaries on long sentences, wer
at large and carrying on their nCiariou
e labors.