The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-08-31
PHILADELPHIA LETTER.
MEXICO.

Mexico has a better educational ex-
hibit than any of our Southern neigh
bors of the Gulf. The exhibition has a
from 26 preparatory
schools, Is colleges of jurisprudence, II
engineering, IL medicine, . pharmacy,
navigation, 2 agriculture, mining,
of art, 3 music, 10 ladies'
colleges. This does not include large
number of establishments conducted by
the clergy, benevolent societies, or
private teachers. This is no inconsder-
able showing of the educational resources
of the republic, and proves to our peO-
pie that Mexico only requires to be
placed under the leadership of President
Lerdo, who as the trusted friend of Ju-
arez, has learned honesty, which added
to his natural intelligence gives him a
prestige that Mexicans are proud of. 1t
is the policy of the United States to con-
ciliate our reighbor, not to incite aggres-
sion. From what l see of them, PlutarcO
Ornelas, and his co-workers in the conf
mission, they are men of nerve, brains.
and energy. To see the riches of Mexico
at the exhibition of minerals and other
values, and the competent gentlemen
representing them is an assurance that
utilization with Mexico will be more con-
ducive to the prosperity of each, than
the fostering of a system of brigandism
ON the border, that is not alone preju-
dicial to the tone of national morals, but
is disturbing element in international
policy.
The Mexicans are not all the ignorant
citizens that too many writers speak of.
There are twenty-nine States in Mexico
peopled by 1881 900 Europeans, $780,
900 Indians, and ,662, 900 mixed origin;
total S,743,00 This will bear favorable
parison with our own country, when
the difference in population is considered.
am for cultivating trade with Mexico,
not for warning with our genial neighbor.
She makes a fine exhibit, and her Com
mission deserves credit for the grand dis
play of the genuine article of silver and
her other valuable contributions.
We import sulphur from Italy. We
can obtain it in any quantity, at lower
rates from Mexico, and in much quicker
time. We use gums and resins from
Australia, while the same articles can be
secured from Mexico much cheaper, and
with greater facility. AS to marble, there
is no country on the earth that furnishes
such field for trade openingin marble
as Mexico. In connection with the
gentlemen Of whom l have spoken and
to whom am indebted for practical in
formation, who are doing ali they can
for their country, and who are intelli-
gent, pleasant gentlemen, / am pleased
TO mention nj. l.. Zamacona, and NJ
Bercener.
MISCELLANY.
An extensive display is made of
Kerite, a new substitute for rubber from
the Island of Java. There is displayed
in one coil one hundred and fifty feet of
seamless tubing. / examined this, and
it seems as good as rubber. If SO, it will
aid the general economy by antagonizing
the rubber monopoly. Among the start
ling exhibits in the Agricultural bull l.
ing is the socket of an eye of Masto-
don. The socket is eighteen inches in
diameter. What must have been the
size of this animal can be imagined.
Another one of the animal curiosities
is the Glytondon, or (Schisto, pleuram
typus, Nodot) with thirty.six inch tail,
ten feet from tip of noise to tip of tail.
Circular shell seven eighths of circle,
turtle like shell, height five feet. Under
Agricultural Hall is wine cellar, three
hundred feet long, having an apartment
for each wine-producing country. The
Sandwich Islands display cloaks made
from the bark of the bread fruit tree.
Andrew j. Aikens, of the American
Newspaper Union, passed through the
city with his wife and two daughters
They sail for Europe, and will remain
to educate her daughters, giving them
the full benefit of French and German
study. Mr.. Aikens will not leave America
for the present. / saw Don Carlos,
plain-loOking. / should take him for
lawyer or professional gentleman. His
staff, ! c. the two saw, are genteel, well.
dressed and good-looking. The Mexican
gentlemen l meet, are pleasant, intelli-
gent, and reflect credit upon the gov
eminent they so creditably represent.
The Argentine Trunk, which has been
sold for six hundred dollars gold, is three
feet long, two feet wide, and one and
half feet deep, covered and lined with
leather. 1t is for travelling and camp
use, and, seemingly trunk, in moment
it can be transformed readily to dining
room outfit. When opened, it forms
fine sofa, with room for four persons;
touch spring in one arm, and a writing
desk appears; the other arms, and an in
closure is developed filled with the COM
plement for toilet; a spring pressed in
the back of the sofa discloses wardrobe
which will contain sufficient clothing to
last several months, and table at which
four persons may sit. 1t is the most in
genious article of utility Oh the ground.
The variety of amber goods in the
Russian section is not 80 valuable as in
the German, but there are some very
handsome specimens. examined crit
ically on yesterday the furs in the Rus
sian section. They are the most elegant
ever shown in America. To the ladies
who read this, and who are fond of furs,
l can say if the crop "pans out well "
you can purchase a fur of black fox
belly for 81, 800, collar of black fox
nape $1,000, Chinese goat, 5000, sable
boa, $475, sable skin-full fur, $1,000,
Victorine 81 500, all gold--the value of
the little case, some five and half feet
long, is about $4,000.
Amber, of which there is such hand.
some display at the Exhibition, especially
from Germany, belongs to earlier strata
of the Ignite formation, and of old was
obtained on the coasts of. the Baltic by
fishing and diving. 1t is now obtained
in large quantities from the fiat lands of
Germany. The first great German
cologne establishment was established
in Cologne, 1900. The same firm through
their descendants exhibit cologne at the
exhibition. There are some beautiful
agate settings and cuttings from Idar,
Oberstein, Germany. The stones were
originally obtained from the mountains
surrounding the town, but becoming ex-
hausted, the supply was and is drawn
from Brazil. At present there are EN-