The Lake County star., 1876-06-29
CENTENNIAL CORRESPONDENCE.

CENTENNIAL CORRESPONDENCE.
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prOvements.
In the Woman's Pavilion are very full
and creditable specimens of the schools
of design in New York, Boston, Lowell
and Pittsburg,in carving, painting, porce-
lain, prints and carpets. Also laces, rib
bons, shawls, scarfs, cloths, lithography,
electrotype medals, and, of course, all
kinds of needle-work. Tapestry, weav-
ing and various kinds of loom-work, and
matchmaking, ETC., are in daily opera
tion. There are some useful inventions
for practical housekeeping, and other
purposes, but the great drift of woman's
effort, as here displayed, is ornamental,
and shows the strong tendency to shirk
the common duties of every day life. l
understand there are special days or sea-
sons, set apart to show what women can
do in the culinary department. / shall
be too glad to chronicle their success in
this role.
THE NEW CENTURY
for Woman, weekly paper printed in
the building, and conducted by the Wo-
mans Centennial Committee, has reached
its fourth number and is as neat as new
pin. 1t is devoted to the industrial in
terests of women. The engine which
does the printing and the work of four
looms, is run, even to the kindling of the
fires in the morning and blowing off the
steam at night, by
MISS ALISON,
of st. Catharines, Ontario, and she could
pass from her work to the drawing-room,
and grace it.
THE MEDICAL DEPARTMENT..
is most creditably represented by fine
display of pharmaceutical preparations,
by the Women's Medical College of
Philadelphia, of which intend to make
some notice hereafter.
KANSAS AND COLORADO
have united State building for the dis
play of their products, which does them
great credit. In fact it is the most sem
sible use which could be made of such a
building. The chief products of Kansas
are corn and wheat. Samples of corn
are seventeen feet high-eleven feet to
the ear broOm-corn eighteen, and sor-
ghum twenty feet high. A huge Liberty
bell eight feet high, composed of grain
and grasses in stock, with huge gourd
for clapper, suspended by cucumber
eight feet long, hangs from the lofty
ceiling. Samples of all kinds of woods,
stone, zink, lead, iron, stuffed birds, bison
heads, cotton, silk and manufac-
tured, which Kansas produces, are here
in admirable order. The show of grains
is large and wonderful.
COLORADO exhibits, in profusion,
specimens of her rich gold and silver
ores. But her great attraction is her life.
like display of stuffed wild animals. Here
are some two hundred specimens, all
prepared and most of them killed by
MRS. MARTHA A. MAXWELL,
of Boulder, Colorado formerly of Bara.
boo, Wisconsin,, who has a great many
not here exhibited, and three hundred
stuffed birds in cases not yet opened
Among the animals are the mountain
and the valley buffalo, mountain lion in
pusuit of deer, mountain sheep-male
and young, six varieties of deer, grizzly
black and cinnamon bears with cub
wolverine, large gray wolf, coyote, six
kinds of foxes, hedgehog, four species O
wildcats, mountain and common skunks
a variety of comics, muskrats, mink, bea
yer, mountain rats and squirrels in abun
dance. A cottonwood tree two feet ter
inches in diameter is shown eater
through by beavers.
The secret of the naturalness and life
like appearance of these animals, il
that Mrs. Maxwell takes the measure
ment of the animals after they are
skinned, then with an iron frame and
other firm material and a little plaster
she builds up an exact model, using only
the scull and leg bones, and when the
model is complete sewing firmly over il
the preserved skin. Mrs. Maxwell ha,
been engaged in this business ten years
but has not neglected her other duties il
the meantime. She is fine specimen
of modest, intelligent and cultivated
woman, and a wonderful relief to con
template in the midst of the great mul
titude of efeminates who are a parody
if not burlesque on womankind.
| AUSTRALIA.
One of the most interesting depart
ments in the Main Building is that o
Australia, the States represented beinl
New South Wales. Queensland, South
Australia, Victoria, Tasmania, and New
Zealand, which, though not strictly al
Australian settlement, is identified with
Australia in trade and other connections
1t is nearly a century since England
having just then, by her own folly an(
misgovernment, had to part with he
American dependencies, planted pena
settlement on the eastern shores of New
Holland; and if any of our people wer
still inclined to suppose that this pena
colony tainted the character of the Aus
tralian people, they have only to look a
their pictures of churches, schools, ant
public buildings of all sorts, to hav,
their minds disabused of that mistake
The rough criminal characters of thi
settlement emigrated to California dur
ing the gold mania of 1S49-50, and wer
disposed of summarily by the miners
code.
SYDNEY HARDoR.
And speaking about pictures no on
SuOuiu iooC Viz OpPoi euhioy vi ocCiuS I'll
magnificent photograph of a portion o
Sydney Harbor shown in the New Soutl
Wales department. 1t is thirty-six fee
long, and is one of the finest landscap
views ever beheld. The real history q
Australia dates from the gold discover
in 1851, which attracted q large Eu
ropean emigration. The population
about two millions, and each of tn
States makes its own laws, the Parlia
ment being elected by manhood suffrage
Most of the interior, which on our schoo
maps used to be described as ston
desert, is now stocked with sheep an
cattle, which feed on the natural grasses
and
NEW SOUTH WALES
alone has 25,000,000 of sheep, or NOR
than forty apiece for every man, woman
and child in the State. Her exhibit Q
fine merino wool is very superior, an
wool of this class would be most valua
hle IN oir manufactures Tn mix with th