The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1876-06-22

the great picklers and preservers of Lon
don. I say great, using the term in the
sense that kings and queens are great,
for they are kings, queens, emperors,
autocrats in the universal empire OF
pickles and preserves. How dainty and
how toothsomc those bottles and packages
look, and now, as the attendant opens
the door to display some article Of goods,
catch the rich fragrance of the vinegar,
which is equal in perfume to the rose OF
Sharon or the lily of the valley. 1t
would be impossible to describe the num-
Der of articles exhibited in their ex-
quisite case, or to speak in too high COM
mendation of their excellent arrange
ment. 1t is splendid exhibit worthy OF
the great house it represents, and
especially fortunate in its representative,
Mr.. Bell, who ably sustains the credit
and honor of the firm of Crosse and
Blackwell. a little to the left, after run
ming the gauntlet of bottles, kegs and
demijohns, we come to very fine ex-
hibit of varied industries from Japan,
and here let me say, that two Nations
loom up in this Exhibition in manner
that will give them status before the
world which they never occupied before,
and of which the world never deemed
them capable.
The countries I particularly speak of
are Brazil and japan. Both of these
empires have covered themselves with
glory. What astonishes you most is the
magnitude and splendor of their contri-
buttons. Japan particular excels in the
ornamental arts, and in the ability of
turning the simplest things into articles
of utility and taste. The japanese have
never used leather for shoes, and yet
some of the finest tanning 1 have ever
seen is to be found in their exhibition in
Agricultural Hall. The leather is soft
as silk and tough as iron. All kinds of
skins are tanned; not only the skins of
animals, but the skins of fshes-the
shark, in particular, furnishing material
which I imagine would be exceedingly
wholesome for bath-gloves. refer to
those which bathers use to scrub them
selves with. will promise any one who
will try the experiment very lively SEN
sation. tried it, by way of experiment,
on the end of my nose, and removed
enough of the bark in half a second to
make it look like a ripe strawberry. can
imagine a bather using a pair of those
gloves in q manner that might make a
rocking-chair uncomfortable for two
weeks at least.
"Great people, these japanese" !" l
mentally exclaimed, as I thought Of it,
and then fell to admiring the dainty little
things made of bamboo, which is the all
in all to the japanese and Chinaman.
"Wonderful bamboo" 1 said to myself.
1t covers his head and his feet; it
furnishes his house, and itsupplies every
thing in it. He weaves the fibre into
cloths; it gives him the finest and silkiest
of paper; the chopsticks he eats with are
made of it; the coffin he finally reposes
in is composed of it, and his spirit is
waited off to glory by burning little
sticks of it; and if he was to be crematcd,
undoubtedly bamboo would be the mate
rial in which he would invest his final
urnings. Delicate little baskets, thing.
that look very much like plates,-chairs,
sofas, divans, hats, walking-sticks, and a
multitude Of useful things, are composed
of it. In the preservation of meats and
fish, Japan does not appear to be quite as
successful as the people of Cincinnati or
Cape Cod. They have some dried cod
fish there. l don't know whether Goldfish
thus preserved can be considered very
healthy food One thing is certain, it is
exceedingly strong food. Iwould quietly
remark to my country friends, when you
60 to examine the japanese dried fish
and meats, take along bottle of Cologne,
and if you are naturally inclined to in
temperance, I would suggest that little
whisky might not be out of place-of
course under medical advice. Next to
Japan comes Holland-square and solid
as a Dutch galliot. Now, l confess
like the Dutch, but if you examine their
exhibit here, a man would be inclined to
think that the descendants of William
the Silent and the great Won Tromp had
devoted the entire national energy to the
business of drinking and smoking
Drinks, drinks, drinks, schnapps,
schnapps, schnapps, kirshwasser, dingle-
WclIl, ODCllilOlS dllu lOutSNO-dll ViiS
figures represented on her labels are men
with bellies like bass drums, and all OF
them holding mugs of beer or bottles OF
gin. Two figures are at the entrance to
her exhibition man and a woman
The man sits astrdc = barrel Of gin, and
the woman has a big mug of beer; in
fact it would seem rs if drinking gin and
beer was the exclusive business Of Hol
land.
y step further on, and we are within
the exhibits of Brazil. You will recollcct
that in my last two letters l spoke of the
beauty of the Brazilian exhibits in the
Main Hall; but all she has thcrc-and
she has much-fadcs into insignificance
alongside of her agricultural exhibition
Nothing within the grounds will at all
compare with it, if we except Great
Britain and her colonies. Such stores of