The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1876-07-21
CEyTENNIAL CORRESPOND
From Our Special Correspondent.
SPAIN.

From, Our Special Correspondent.
SPAIN.
PHILADELPHIA, July S.-This interesting |
countrv. of whose exhibits we have incident |
aIiv spoken. has entered with a large degree |
If svmpathy into the enthusiasm and the prac-
tical idea of the exhibition The exhibits |
are not confined in their ownership to any
class. but every circle has sent its coDtriou-
ton. The president of the woman's Cath
ol;c association, Madrid, church ornaments
The ASYLUM of Mendicity, Seville, embroid-
cries. shirts aud handkerchiefs. His Maj,
the king. of Spain, sends locks and ornanen-
tai iron work for dwellings. Count Pallares
sends Sabots, Count Nieulant of Valencia,
bayonet; director rgeneral OF cavalry, COM
lete mounting There are some beautiful
embroidered shawls from Madrid. Fans are
also in great variety of style and finish. No
where does the fan come into greater pay
than in the graceful hands OF Sasiiiiah
maiden Barcelona sends paper. Toledo IS
TO Spain what Liege is to Belgium, BIrmlng-
ham 20 England and Springfield to the
limited States. The blades of this old city
are famous the world over. | saw one that
is put in seIui-circular case, and alter being
confined for a long period will spring to the
full tension on release. The elasticity OF
these old Toledo blades is wonderful
THE SWISS EXHIBITS.
Swiss watch-work- The Swiss lead the
column in this branch. In Neuchatel twenty
thousand women are engaged at 1915
week, who make 100000 watches yearly,
besides movements for the American market.
Berthoud says, "To becC me a good watch
maker, it is necessary to be an arithmeticiaD,
ceometrician a meehanician and an artist,
hos mid in
the effect OF heat and cold on metals, and
happy genius to apply ALL" 1t is said there
are one hundred and two distinct branches
of this art, to each of which a boy may be
put apprentice. The wateh-inisher being
the only one who can work out of his de-
partment.
Matchmaking was introduced into Swift
zerland in 1869 by Daniel Jno. Richard La
LANCE. tits to this liberal Swiss that woman
is indebted for recognition Of her valuable
services III this mechanical art. One factory,
American, represented at the exhibition
employ seven hundred women, whose earn
ings are $40 per week. The exhibition of
Swiss watches is handsome, and with other
novelties in delicate work enable the Swiss to
sustain their reputation for skill and enter
prise. st. Ga,llen sends mechanical EN-
broideries; Hambur@, edging; Zurich silks;
Geneva, jewelry; Neuchatel, wooden goods
Lucerne, braids; Berne, condensed milk
Schaffhausen, nails; Basic, naphthaline,
HuOTescfne, tOSlne, pnhInallne, SelTafne, gal
luni, steam blue; Derendingen, pottery and
porcelain, watch-glasses Zurich. furniture,
cotton threads, cash threads, bed-cOvers
table-cloths and middiing purifiers. The
Swiss are an industrious people, and have
always been true to their principle Living
under the effulgence of liberty for more than
hve centuries, they are happily adapted to
American citizenship, and rarely fail in prov
ing their ability to conform to a system OF
freedom that so happily assimilates TO their
own.
CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.
The Cape is really promontory of south
Africa, is in lat. 80 22' 5 long 1So 29' F.
rising nearly one thousand feet out of the
sea- 1t was discovered in 1856, by the Por
tugese navigator, Bartholomew Diaz. In
1447 it was doubled by Vaseo de CANA, who
was the first European who reached Indian
Ocean by this route. The Cape of Good
Hope is represented ut the exhibition in
seeds, woods, diamonds, in their crude state
which from their size would stand much cut
ting eff from the hands of the lapidary and
then they would be of large size and of i'm.
mense value. A large assortment of wines
are on exhibit from the Cape, skins, etc
The collection is valuable and very interest
ing, and is additional proof of the interest
taken by the people of the geographical ex-
tremes of the world in America, and the
creations OF her energy and genius.
GERMAN EXHIBITS.
Germany has an extensive line of exhibits
n every department, horse hair spun by the
German, English and French processes,
mathematical instruments. This is marked
speciality with the Germans, their work in
these articles dating back TO the 18th CEN
fury, until now. The annual production of
single establishments may be said to aggre-
gate four thousand sets of Instruments
There are sixty shops for mathematical in
struments at Nuremberg. LARGE quantities
are shipped to the United States.
GERMAN BOOK TRADE.
This was initiated by the invention
of book-printing in 1440, and in 1873
there were four thousand six hundred
With ssen l st I;ss;,
AT present there published in the do
main of the German tongue twelve thousand
vols. of new works, combinations and new
editions a year. This is against not more
han five thousand published in France or
England The sale of German books annu-
ally amounts to seventeen and a half mil
lions of dollars. There are eIegent speci.
mems of German literature on exhibition.
Jewelry IS another of the specialties that the
German defies competition in. One town.
Hanau, has two hundred and eighty manu-
factories of gold and gilt iewelry; one hun
dred and fifty smaller shops, one hundred
and seventy-elght assistant shops, altogether
making eight thousand people These ex-
hiOlts are generally OF cheap grade.
xYLeGRAPHY.
Wood engravings have made German art
famous, for in no country has this speciality
reached so high standard as in Germany
In fact IL has been the associate of the his
tory of book printing. Berlin. Leipsic. and
Stuttgart, have handsome representations of
geographic art.
IF heer ia a Garp,ar .,,oo;J. -,
are some hopping specimens in the exhibit
tIon-so they say who skip round with a
score or so of swell lager under their vest
yet the Teuton is not Indifferent to the
charming influence of the juice of the grape.
mere are three hundred and ten thousand
acres OF land in Germany devoted solely to the
culture OF the vine. There are eighty thousand
acres IN the newly acquired provinces of
Alsaee and LorraIn. No wonder Germany
fought so hard for this favored spot. Next
bavaria, the Palatinate; then Prussia, Vert
emoerg, Baden, and Hesse, making together
aS,UoO,OVO gals, specimens of which visitors
TO the exhibition pronounce good.
All but it is beer that invites the world 70
pay homage to hing Gambrinus, more potent
than cider, not SO wiry as poteen. nor Ga
deadly as cognac. 1t is the com Forter of the
German economy, the solace of the modified
American, and the social world bends the
knee IN obedience to Gambrinus Bavaria
deyotes forty-four thousand square acres to
hops In Nuremberg there are one hundred
and twenty hop houses, and this venerable
city IS the scientific centre for GERMANY
Query-ls malt good for science2 In Rava.
ria there are five thousand breweries. the |
greatest part of the production being con.
sumed at home. The annual product of the |
Drewerles amounts to $50, SS7, 600 gallons
Looking at these figures, aud then takinc |
ne population of Bavaria, which is 4, 7OI. 600
what happy family Bavaria presents To the |
world. Hawaiian beer is famous at the ex-
hipluon, and with Vienna beer bears off the |
PAIN from less significant nationalities.
WOODEN CLOTHS.
Germany is making n wonderful progress
IN cloths, the Biol and Simoni ranking with |
the best French in finish and texture in fact |
a large proportion ire sold as French manu-
facture. The manufacture Of wooden cloth
dates back AZ far a. the 18th century. The
spreading and crossing of merino sheen was
introduced into Saxony in 1850; IN 1873, |
Germany produced $4,000 cwt. of wool |
Germany employs 400, 900 spindles for cord |
ed yarns Saxony stands at the head of the |
list IN this industry. A beautiful article on |
exhibition is Italian cloth, and coatings man. |