Connecticut western news., 1876-06-09
THE EXHIBITION.
A Bird's-Eye View of the Main Buildinx.-.
 The Panoramu from the Mayo and Tran

The PanOramn from tho Mayo and Tran
 sept. The Exhibition spreads its leaves and blossoms like lilac, showing every day new under the sun. As pageant it becomes more and more at tractive. To day, says World letter, the interior of the Main building, ring ing with music and gay with trophies, presents from any point along the nave @ gorgeous and exhilarating sight. The colored archways and pavilions sur mounted by heraldic blazonry of the different nations, and the aisles on every side hemmed in by various products of beauty and of use, are animated by con- siderably more than the usual number of visitors. The floors, except where occupied by packing boxes and exhibits in course of preparation, are swept cleaner than ever heretofore, and all looks bright, bewildering and fair.
 The stroll through this immense building from end to end is, if one does not physically exhaust himself by un- profitable sideway excursions, still likely enough to fatigue his powers of observa- tion and memory, and irritate or dull the edges of his tastes. Happy the man whose knowledge or conceit or instinct enables him to pass by the vast mass of things which he perceives to be un- worthy, and to occupy himself only with those objects here which denote on the instant the fullest, ripest development of the industries of thirty nations. Otherwise the resources of his own country even will oppress him so that when he has passed them in review he will be as dszed as an owl at noon.
 The universal Yankee nation triumphs over every other in it's extent and versa tility. and in some respects in it's skill. Its display of silverware, of household furniture, of colored and tinted marbles, of arms, metals, musical instruments, minerals and cotton fabrics, is superior to that from any foreign country. Some American carpets, too, and imitation laces hold their own contrasted with their respective grades in England. Everywhere along the left for what seems quarter of mile until they reach the transept, the successes and failures, the gems and the oddities of the United States exhibition keep people staring with eyes mostly fish like, but occasion ally admiring or detective. In contrast to the perfumeries that vainly seek to rival the scents of Cologne and the tapestries which show their sharp hues and sheen in cases which none but the judges and few intending rurchasers are likely to compare with the magnif- cent modern tapestry work in the Span ish pavillion-besides these and many other showy but inferior American pro- ducts there are things of excellent merit in the form of iewelry, bijouterie, soaps, toys, ssmaglc lounges" mirrors, and & thousand or two articles else. The show of books and bindings is not what might have been expected. That of iron and granite is superb. While there is no iron in America like the Swedish (which can be twisted, cold, into ropes and cables), some of our processes render iron sufficiently malleable. And here, iu piles of rails and pyramids towering near to the ceiling, it's uses, and those of steel, brass and copper, are expressed to the admiration even of some of our British cousins. Of surgical instru- ments, and surgical appicances affixed to models and shining with silver, pol ished steel and fine embroidery, there is an exhibition which might reconcile a belle in the dancing season to broken limb, and which a surgeon who has gore through the building tells me outranks in merit anything of it's kind from the other countries.
 To the right the panorama of Mexico, the Netherlands, Brazil, Belgium, Switz- erland and France and her colonies ap- peas. Glimpses of the costumes, fab rlcs, minerals, vegetable products and models of the architecture of the turbu- Ior1k E,T1k n1,nI, IT. our Southern border; of the great maps of Holland and it's dykes, which conceal the further illustrations of it's industries of the Belgium exhibit in chaos, and of the unique Swiss woodwork and other ornamental work, constantly engage and occasionally enchant the eye. The French exhibition arrests it, and it is difficult for any one to pass through this comparatively ephermeral display with out yielding to the seductive demands it makes on the attention. Leaving out of view for the present those articles ot legitimate use and luxury in the manu- facture of which the French are without peers, some of the objects here set forth satlrlze most shockingly the taste of some of our leaders of fashion. There are dresses here that would make>a Fifth avenue matron stare with horror, hosiery which she would order off her daugh- ter's feet if she ever caught it on them, and gloves which she would fling into the grats or withal gratify her wash woman. Of the splepdor of the silks and laees: the rich carpets; the sets, vases and jewelry of silver and gold; the inim'table trinkets; and at last the costly bronzes of the French exhibition, some dazzling appearances are caught as you approach the grand circle under the central pavilion of the building,
 Round about at the four angles of the pavilion are the advance ornamental ex. hibitions of the United States, Ger many, Great Britain and France. The matchless silver array from Tiffany and the Gorham manufacturing com pany's, the Konigl Porzellan man1fac turer's highly creditable collection o German porcelain, and Ellington { Co. s exhibition of silver and gold, com plement the Paris bronzes which hanl the mantelpiece of Merchard.
 To the left again the glittering Aus trian and Hungarian spectacle appears Beyond that few Russian goods 9th
 Russian articles have not half arrived
 signify the beauties of the promise,
 Russian exhibition ill the combinatio,
 of marbles, jaspers, chalcedonies, lapi
 lazuli and other stones used in the fabri
 cation of vases for which the visito
 must seek some distance back. Tn
 gloomy and rather tawdry inclosure c
 the Spanish exhibition; the partially oc
 cupied space of Turkey; Egypt's sho,
 of heavy and vivid Oriental stuffs an
 objects of antiquity; the bright portal c
 the pavilion of Denmark; the exhibitio
 of Swedish arms and warlike effgies
 and the magnificent exhibition of tn
 empire of Japan, all pass in review sti
 to the left. China and Chili next, an
 opposite these Sweden and Norway. 4
 the thunder clouds shut out the ligh