The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-07-22
CENTENNIAL CORRESPOND
ENCE,
From Our Special Correspondent.


SPAIN.
PHILADELPHIA, July s.-This interesting
country, of whose exhibits we have incident
ally spoken, has entered with large degree
of sympathy into the enthusiasm and the prac-
teal idea of the exhibition. The exhibits
are not confined in their ownership to any
class, but every circle has sent its contribu-
ton. The president of the woman's Cath
Ole association, Madrid, church ornaments.
The asylum of Mendicity, Seville, embroid-
cries, shirts aud handkerchiets. His Mai,
the king of Spain, sends locks and ornamen-
tai iron work for dwellings. Count Pallares
sends Sabots, Count Nieulant of Valencia,
bayonet; director rgeneral of cavalry, COM
fste 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 play
than in the graceful hands of Castilian
maiden. Barcelona sends paper. Toledo is
to Spain what Liege is to Belgium, Birming-
ham to England and Springfield to the
United States. The blades of this old city
are famous the world over. | saw one that
is put in seIni-circular case, and after 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 n
week, who make 100000 watches yearly,
besides movements for the American market.
-Berthoud says, "To bect me good watch
maker, il is necessary to be arithmetician,
geometrician, mechanician and an artist,
to know how fluids resist bodies in motion,
the effect of heat and cold on metals, and q
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 watch finisher being
the only one who can work out of his de-
partment
Matchmaking was introduced Into Swift
zerland in 1863 by Daniel Jno. Richard La
LANCE. 1t is to this liberal Swiss that woman
is indebted for a recognition OF her valuable
services IN 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. Galleu sends mechanical en-
broideries; Hamburg, edging; Zurich, silks;
Geneva, jewelry; Neuchatel, wooden goods !;
Lucerne, braids; Berne, condensed milk !;
Schaffhausen, nails; Basic, naphthaline,
huorescine, cosine, Phathaline, sefraine, gal
luni, steam blue Derendingen, pottery and
porcelain, watch-glasses; Zurich, furniture,
b,
table-cloths and middling 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 assmilates to their
own.
CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.
The Cape is really promontory of south
Africa, is in lat. $40 90 s. long. lSo 29' E.,
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 vasco de CANA, who
was the first European who reached Indian
Ocean by this route. The Cape of Good
Hope is represented at the exhibition in
seeds. woods, diamonds, in their crude state,
which from their size would stand much cut
ting of from the hands of the lapidary and
then they would be of large size and of inn
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 oil her energy and genius.
GERMAN EXHIBITS.
Germany has an extensive line of exhibits
In 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 GEN.
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 1875
there were four thousand six hundred
and sixteen publishers and booksellers in
communication with the agency at Leipsic
At present there are published i'm the do.
main OF the German tongue twelve thousand
vols. of new works, combinations and new
editions year. This is against not more
han i've 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 elegent speci.
mems of German literature on exhibition
Jewelry is another of the specialties that the
German defes competition in. One town,
Hanau, has two hundred and eighty manu-
factories of gold and gilt jewelry; one hun
dred and fifty smaller shops, one hundred
and seventy-eight assistant shops, altogether
making eight thousand people. These ex-
hibits are generally of cheap grade.
xYLoGRAPHY.
Wood engravings have made German art
famous, for in no. country has this specially
reached SO high a 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.
are some hopping specimens in the exhibi
tion-so they say who skip round with a
score or of swell lager under their vest
yet the Teuton is not Indifferent to the
charming influence of the juice of the grape.
There 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
Alsace and LorraIn. No wonder Germany
fought so hard for this favored spot. Next
Bavaria, the Palatinate; then Prussia, Vert.
emberg, Baden, and Hesse, making together
53,OOO,OOO CALLS, specimens of which visitors
70 the exhibition pronounce good.
All! but it is beer that invites the world to
pay homage to King Gambrinus, more potent
than cider, not SO wiry as poteen, nor SO
deadly as cognac. 1t is the COM orter of the
German economy, the solace of the modified
American, and the social world bends the
knee In obedience to Gambrinus. Bavaria
devotes ferty-four thousand square acres 10
hops. In Nuremberg there are one hundred
and twenty hop houses, and this venerable
city is-the scientific centre for Germany.
Query-Is malt good for science? In Bava-
ria there are five thousand breweries, the
greatest part of the production being con-
sumed at home. The annual product of the
breweries amounts to 1886 ss7 900 gallons.
Looking at these figures and then taking
he population of Bavaria, which is 4, 700, 600
what a happy family Bavaria presents to the
world. Bavarian beer is famous at the ex.
hibitiou, and with Vienna beer bears off the
palm from less significant nationalities.
WOODEN CLOTHS.