The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-08-03

10 hard for this favored spot. Next
the Palatinate; then Prussia,
Wurtemberg, and Hesse, making to-
geiher $4,000 900 gallons, specimens of
which visitors to the exhibition pro-
nounce good.
wooLEN CLOTHS.
Germany is making wonderful progress
in cloths, the Biol and Simoni ranking
with the best French in finish and tex.
ture; in fact, large proportion are sold
as French manufacture. The manufac-
ture of wooden cloth dates back as far as
the twelfth century. The spreading and
crossing of merinO sheep was introduced
into Saxony in 1869; in 1878, Germany
produced 625, 900 cwt. of wool. Germany
employs one million four hundred thou
sand spindles for corded yarns. Sax0ny
stands at the head of the list in this in
dustry. A beautiful article on exhibit
ton is Italian cloth and cOatings, manu-
featured at Elberfeld; also, Zanella, an
article made of double cotton warp and
fine combed wool. This latter article is
an important article of labor. Five
thousand power-looms are occupied at
Elberfeld. Chemnitz sends upholstery
goods; Berlin sends shawls; and Ger
many sends specimens of her carpet
weaving. Their imitation of Smyrna
carpets are nearly as beautiful as the
Oriental. In cotton goods the Germans
are not far behind the French and En-
glish. Silesia sends plain calicoes. Alsace
and Bavaria, Suabia and Neuremberg,
with Ausburg, have four hundred thou
sand spindles, and eight thousand power.
looms. Linden sends cOtton-velvets, and
Bielfeld sends linens. At this beehive
of industry three thousand sewing.
women and two thousand sewing ma
chimes are employed in working uE
thirty-fve thousand pieces of linen
The Rhenish Provinces furnish the ex
hibitors with silk. Of this production
alone Germany has an involved interest
of $40, 100000 Crefeld sends the best
specimens in silk and velvet, Elberfeld
Vierser, Suchtein, and Mechlin-on-tht
Rhine. The sewing-silks are from Frei
burg. SaxOny sends lace exhibits. Der
lin is only surpassed by Paris in her ex
hibits of wearing apparel. l have en-
larged on Germany and her varied inter
ests, as the element in our midst from
the Fatherland, thousands of whom ar
interested in the workings of their hOm
industries, and who take deep interes
in the exhibits of their friends at tn
Exhibition. And as large number rea,
my correspondence, l feel it due thi
great nation not to magnify their CON
mercial or industrial proportions, blu
simply to put them in their apprOpriat
place in the Nations Centennial Exh
bitiOn-that marvel of the nineteent
century.
India sends some rude specimens (
sculpture, or stonebull from Nand
carved model of Buman Chuttree Vishn
riding on Garuda from Madras; Orn
mental tiles from Hyderabad. An
from some enthusiast at Madras comes
: brass spoon. Decca sends muslin; Scind
| Madras and Ferahan cashmere an
a wooden carpets; Cashmere long al
f square shawls, net shawls, chuddah
r scarfs and burnouse; raw silk fro
!: Surdah and Bengal; silk thread fro
8 Assam; floss silk from Urmritsor pu
: yah and cashmere; piece silk fro
O Benares gamboge from Bombay lndil
!, from South ArcOt and Madras; Gambi
d from Malacca; Copper and brass articl
d from Calcutta, Bengal, Nepal and 9th
It cities; Phulgat mat from Trevancor
a Amulet case from Thibet; flax fro
b Punyab; glue from Cawnpore; AFRO
k root tapioca and sage, from Madra
coffee from Alden; tea from Assam
O seeds, coriander and others, from Cent?
n Providence. l have written incidental
II of the exhibits of the East Indies, b
, the collection is so varied and attractiy
IS as to bear an enlargement of the
!. specialties. The East Indies is cole
y tive name, and applies to Hindosta
Is Farther India, and the Malay Arcl
n pelago. British India is between
h s and IS N. L., and longitude &C.,
"a and 81 L. 1t stretches in width thrOu
,r 81 degrees of latitude, 1900 K 1900 lor
Is 100 wide. r. b.