The Hickman courier., 1876-08-25
DON Carlos. plain.looLinr

sionaI gentleman. His staff. i. e in,
10 saw are genteel, weILdressed anG
lr"od 49, Iookinp The Mexican gentIannaT
/ meet are pleasant, intelligent, and re-
feet credit upon the government they 81
creditably represent
eold for 5000. 90. gold, IS three feet lone
two feet wide. one and q half deem. COW
cred and lined with leather. II is fo,
travelling and camp use, and seemingly .
Trunk in n moment it can be transformed
readily to n dining-room outfit. When
opened il forms a fine Dfa, with room
for four persons; touch a spring in one
arm and writing-desk appears, the other
arms and an inclOsure IS deyeloped, filed
with the complement Tor billet; a spring
pressed in the back OF he sofa a ward
robe is seen which will e@tain sufficient
clothing to last several months, and a
table at which four pfsons may sit.
Again, in a minute, theltransformation
may be back to a not Yry heavy trav-
cling trunk. 1t is the 4ost ingenious
article Of utility ON the eound.
The variety of ambes goods in the
! Russian section is not soyaluable as in
! the German-but there re some very
haudzoIs.s sf'eeis.-ern,s. -.s.i'nsa ssrit-
! ically, on yesterday, uefufs in the Rus
sian section. They are the most elegant
ever shown in Ameica. To the ladies
who read this, and who are fond of furs,
| can say 1t the cnp "Pans out we'll
YOU can purchase fur Ofblack fox belly
for SlS0O.00, collar of Hack fox nape,
Sl200.00; Chinese goat, 5000 90; sable
Boa, 1880; sable skin, full fur, S2400.00;
Nictorine, S150.00-all gld-the value
of the little case, some fge and half
feet, is about $50, 900. The Chinese
show an enameled bronzesoup bowl four
thousand years old, and four hundred
pieces of chinaware, one thousand years
old; bedstead valued at 81, 500, the
carving requiring the lbOr of twenty
men, five years. Amber of which there
Is such fine display at the exhibition,
especially from Germany, bebngs to ear
lier strata of the Ignite formation, and
of old was obtained on the casts of the
Baltic, by fishing and diving 1t is now
obtained in large quantities rom the fiat
lands of Germany. The firt great Ger
man cologne establishment was estab
lished in Cologne, 1709. Tb same firm,
through their descendants, exhibit CO.
logne ut the exhibition. Tire are some
beautiful agate settings nd cuttings
from Idar, Oberstein, Genany. The |
stones were ori finally olRined from |
the mountains surroundir the town, |
but becoming exhausted, the supply |
was and is drawn from Brazil. At |
present there are employed this branch |
of industry alone; one huned and nine /
ty cutting mills, sixteen hndred grind |
ers. two hundred and seven bOrers, sew
4 Il II
ters, and one hundred and tirty traders,
all of whom find employmt upon an
original capital, invested importing
the rough stones OF but Sl500000. Here
Is an example, that shod stimulate
American manufacture. Tlee thousand
persons are furnished work md paid fair
wages, averaging 5000 eac per annum,
or Sc, 600. They produce f)m $1j0,O00
of the rawArticle; then ovr and above
this is tiy profis of at least frty per cent
to 'le proprietor. Sum urand we have
= RECITATION Of S., 400. 90. This per /
cent upon the original willinsure wealth !
TO any community. Let the reader study |
,hese flgures, and he will easily discover !
10" lt Is that manufacturing districts
uways amass bOundless wealth. There
--e hve thousand specimens of minerals
II tIit VI IiSoOurl exhibits.
Philadelphia shows a loom for the
lanulacture of hair ribbon. A Phila-
Iiflt4.e !. =, II. y s'lso has a patent farl
he grounds, through one Of J1f firms
hey are very hadsome. You can have
our name worked in them, or any
,tters. New York also sends a reversl-
lie sewing machine Ali Baba, Aleppo-
,ine seeds Joseph Haasof Philadelphia
xhibits an ancient knitting machine,
arriving ones mind back to those old
laws, for ! question whether the people
we're any better than now, when SIM
,licity of labor furnished employment
or the dullest intellect, hence laziness
vas not in order. Let US not, however,
overlook Ali Baba, who by the way is not
accompanied with his oil, but SEEDS OF
)ine.
Among the specimens of argetiterous
.alena shown in the Kansas building, is
me weighing forty-fve hundred pounds,
about $500 worth OF SILVER,
md one weighing thirty-one hundred
md forty pounds with $736 worth OF sll,
yer. A block of semi-anthraclte coal
rom Colorado Is shown, nine feet long,
i've feet wide, and five feet thick, ana
Weighing I1ISeU InOussolu %
hundred pounds. There canalso beseen
m the list of exhibits in this building,
-he richest gold and silver ores IN the
world They are the tellurides, contain
ng gold, silver, and tellurium. On pe-
ing heated the gold comes pure to the
surface of the ore. Other ores emit tuX
when heated. One specimen possesses an M
assay value of 100000 worth OF gotu'
and 81 $50 worth of silver per ton OF ore ore
A lump of pure gold worth SoO.o' Is
shown, taken from pound of ore. "A
section of peach tree only six years ola
six inches in diameter, and one OF an APP
pie tree eight years old eight inches In
diameter 4 section of walnut tree hVe
and a half feet in diameter. hedge plants
are exhibited, twelve to fourteen 1eet
high, one of which is the Usage orange ol
one years growth. Kansas displays also |
oats six and half feet high, rye seven |
feet, broom corn eighteen feet, plue grass
three feet four inches high, fourteen va
rieties of wild grass, clover, five feet higIn1,
ears of corn fifteen inches long, ana IN, stalk
Of pop corn, with thirteen ears. Inc c aus
pIay of cereals from Kansas Is very ine,
vet think Oregon snd California be bear
off the palm. D.