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

BY HOYT d w.
week of Great Britain, with slight diff
ference, of course-on whose pickles the
sun never sets, and whose preserved
meats are known around the world.
This is the case of Crosse and Blackwell,
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 toothsome 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 q very fine .ex-
hibit Of varied industries from Japan,
and here let me say, that two Nations
loom up'in this Exhibition in a 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 sstonishes 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 I 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 6shes-the
shark, inparticular, furnishing a material
which / imagine would be exceedingly
wholesome for bath-gloves. I refer to
those which bathers use to scrub them
selves with. I will promise any one who
will try the experiment very lively sem
sation. I 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 ripe strawberry. can
imagine bsther using 3 pair Of those
gloves in manner that might make
rocking-chair uncomfortable for two
weeks at least.
"Great people, these Japauesep I
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 bambool" 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 cremated,
undoubtedly bamboo would be the mate
rial in which he would invest his final
urnings. Delicate little baskets,-thngs
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. I 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
go 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, I confess I
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-
vein, obenfots and tobacco-all the
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 exhibitions man and a woman.
The man sits astride barrel of gin, and
the woman has a big mug of beer; in
fact it would seem as if drinking gin and
beer. was the exclusive business of Hol-
land.
A step further on, and we are within
the exhibits of Brazil. You will recollect