Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1876-07-28

| 10 go through the various structures and
note the articles exhibited is sufficiently
fatiguing when the weather is endurable,
and therefore it is not strange that, during
the present torrid period, the buildings are
comparatively deserted. There are a few
who make daily pilgrimage, and deem II a
matter of religious duty to note the novel.
ties that are continually offered. or such
are the newspaper correspondents.
The Kingdom of Sweden which is here
| represented In the department Of royalty by
Prince Oscar, whom somewhat irreverent
Yankee calls the 'os car Of Sweden, Is much
to be commended for her enterprise In the
educational line. She has a population
numbering scarcely 4,60000 souls, n hard
and sterile soil and an inhospitable climate,
but Ia the matter of education she has
shown that she Is long way in advance Of
| many countries Infinitely more favorably
situated in respect to locality, topography,
soil and climate. About a month ago she
completed school house at a cost OF $10,-
600, large enough to accommodate fifty
pupils, and modelled with strict reference to
the health and comfort of the little ones.
Here study Is made pleasant As an illus
tration of teaching arithmetic the children
have an instrument for performing calcula-
| tions by balls on sliding wires; white cubes
teach the elementary principles of geometry.
| Pictures showing the occupation of the
pcOple III ulHeTenI parts OF Ine country are
before the children's eye, and thus they are
taught how hay-makiDg, fax dressing, etc,
are done; how fish are speared, how the
wild boar Is hunted, and a hundred other
things. The grammar schools and high
schools OF Sweden have been greatly ele-
waited in character within few years, and
that country seems to be desirous of keep
ing pace with other nations in everything
that is commendable.
The Legislature of Virginia declined to
make any appropriations for the Centennial,
but it does not follow that she is unrepre-
sented here. MIR. Z. G. Booth, of Philadel-
phia, has put up modest edihce, with the
words "Old Virginia" over the main en-
trance. He is q native of that State, and has
undertaken singlehanded to represent at the
worlds show the hospitable spirit of the Old
Dominion. The house is open to all comers
and Mr.. Booth officiates every day as host,
dispensing free refreshments, and offering
the conveniences of the establishment, which
are ample, to all. Some idea Of the popular
ity of this hospitable house may be gath
cred from the fact that as many as $500 WIS.,
itors have registered there in single day.
The space occupied by Venezuela in the
Main Building is handsomely decorated
with bunting, and everything in and about
it is very artistically and elaborately ar.
ranged. In front is seen a finely executed
portrait of Gen. Blanco, President of that
Republic. Here is also splendid medallion
likeness Of our own Washington, composed
curiously Of human hair, set in q very
heavy gilt frame, Accurate likeness are
seen too of General Monagas and also Of
Bolivar himself. A large figure of Liberty
may be found here in the act of placing a
laurel wreath on the brow of Washing on
Unlike most other nations Venezuela shows
her entire exhibits collectively, instead of
classifying and scattering them around in
different buildings, which plan is, on many
accounts found very Objectionable. The
collections of stuffed birds, Of rare feathers,
bouquets of the same, and OF artificial flowers,
made entirely of feathers of strange and
tiny birds, are indeed wonderful
The Woman's Pavilion, the result of in
Vulnerable Centennial aparties, concerts,
fairs, etc, throughout the land, the build.
ing erected by the women of the United
States, and designed to illustrate woman's
productive ability, is in some sense dsap-
pointment While there are many exhibits
here which show the expenditure of rare
skill and taste, things beautiful in them
selves, and revealing to us the elements of
beauty in the arts Of common life; bearing
testimony to the faithful cultured labor that
ennobles and dignities all its works, there is
surfeit of trivial nonentities which justihes
ject: "The severest criticism That can be
made on the Woman's Pavilion is
that its contents show woman's amuse-
ments, not her work" From the
Royal School of Art Needle Work, of South
of embroidery. The English Princesses con-
tribute exquisite embroideries and needle
work of various kinds. Queen Victoria
sends napkin spun by her own hands, and
some pretty little etchings giving us glimpses
of home life in the royal family. There are
myriads of pretty little odds and ends which
ornament any, and sometimes redeem an
otherwise dreary apartment; delicate little
paintings on wood panels; fire and lamp
screens, exquisitely wrought with worsted
and silk floss, into blossoms, leaves and
graceful trailing vines; lambrequins for
windows, mantels and bracketsi Tides,
afghans and mats, in all varieties. Then
there are all manner of devices in leather
work; some novelties in the way of flowers,
and ornaments mado vi tiny, delicate-tint-
ed sea shells and tish-scsles; wreath COM
posed entirely of seeds, grains and nuts,
baskets and vases of wax flowers, and
dishes OF wax fruit, more deceptive than
Dead Sea apples, for they have not even
ashes inside of them. There are patch
work quilts of every conceivable pattern,
color and material-some, of course, pret-
ty-one really beautiful-others large and
bright,and nothing else very obvious,a 9TH
ers still having nothing TO boast of but their
eccentricitY with diamonds, stars, cubes and
squares, scattered over them with so little, IL
any, regard for symmetry, that they are like
the old gentleman's after-dinner description
of the architecture of quaint old Welsh
town: You see this decanter, that is the
church." Then pouring handful of nut
shells over the decanter, he continued, land
these are the houses" There are great
squares of canvass, covered with diverting
caricatures of some mongrel animals dogs,
cats or monkeys, and although some of them
might rank among either class, they are un-
like anything in "the heavens above, the
earth beneath, or the waters snder the