Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1876-05-27
AT THE CENTENNIAL.
A Hasty Glance Through the Main Exhlbi-
ton Building as it IL To-day.

IlOu DullulnB covers o ~, OZU So uftfe lt6tS
Or about twenty acres. The superstruc-
ture rests upon brick walls seven feet
high, and consists of 672 wrought iron
supporting roof trusses of the
same material, and weighing altogether
Z, 200, 900 pounds. Including the roof
trusses, the whole amount of iron used
is 100000 pounds. The building is
/ $50 feet long and AGA wide.
The following countries are now rep |
resented ON the Centennial grounds: |
Argentine Republic, Austria Hungary,
Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chill, China,
Denmark, Egypt, France with Algeria, |
Germany, Great Britain with her colo
MES, Hawaii, italy, Japan, Mexico,
Netherlands, Norway, Orange Free
State, Peru, Portugal, Russia, Sweden,
Spain, Switzerland, Tunis, Turkey and
Venezuela.
Entering the Main building by the
eastern gates, the visitor finds himself
in the division allotted to the United
States. Almost every domestic produc
ton OF mining, manufacture, and science
is found here. The government of the
Netherlands makes a striking and extern
sive display. was especially interested
in the exhibition of the engineering and
other public works which, to the trav-
eler, are undoubtedly the feature of
Holland. But the traveller by the usual
route from Amsterdam through the
Hague to Rotterdam, and thence to Ant
werp, does not get the slightest concep-
ton of the real nature and extent of the
wonderful dykes of which he has heard
and read since his childhood. Now,
however, he can come here and see and
learn all about them.
Brazil has erected an elegant and
beautiful partition around her treasures,
which, of itself, is sure to secure ones
attention. But when we enter, the
scene seems worthy of the surroundings;
particularly brilliant is the collection of
butterflies and tropical birds.
Belgium makes a show of Brussels
lace which some lady would go hun
dred miles to see and stay day to in
spect. L saw nothing equal to it in
Brussels itself. But I did see there the
poor, half-blind women who make the
fabric, every week becoming more near
ly wholly blind, and I almost resolved
never to buy or admire point lace again.
Switzerland furnishes specimens OF
minerals and of carved woods, and also
very interesting Typographical charts of
the approaches to the new st. Gothard
tunnel.
France seems as elastic and artistic as
ever, and, while drilling an army of q
million and a half of soldiers, has time
to manufacture glassware and bronzes
that are scarcely inferior to the produc
tions of the age of Louis Quatorze.
Great Britain is great here as almost
everywhere, and what her home depart
ment cannot produce her colonial de
partment, her India, her South Aus
tralia, her New South Wales, her New
Zealand, her Queensland, her Victoria
her Cape Colony, her Bermuda and he
Jamaica, most certainly can. One o
the post Office buildings in New Soutl
Wales would compare favorably in size
in material and in architecture with til,
New York post-ofice.
Sweden and Norway, which stretcl
beyond the Arctic circle, exhibit man,
samples of their famous iron ores, and
pretty collection of pottery.
Italy, always brilliant, sends stray
goods and mosaic work from Florence
corals, seals, pink shells, Venetian jewel
,, 1y and glass, and countless matches
: patterns of bijoutry. She is still tn
= peerless mistress of the fine arts.
! The Argentine Republic instructs u
that her resources comprise the product
of two zones; and the other Sout
American States, especially Chill an
t Peru, are rich in displays of ores, {
s wines and of birds of gorgeous plumage
0 The horned cattle, horses and sheep {
e this republic of the Rio de la Plata yiel
n annually an export produce of $4,000
i 600, and its total trade is estimated {
/ $100, 1000, 900 per annum.
f Far-off China, with its indefatigabl
o industrious population of 425, 900, 0O(
t. reminds the Occident that porcelain an
g spun silk first came from the Orien
. and that in the carving of ivory and ii
inlaying of mother-of-pearl it is sti
I facite orinceps. Japan, the marvelol
" land of mountains, of volcanoes,
! earthquakes, of typhoons and of waite
y spouts, and the true home of silk fabri
y and ceramic products, outstrips h
- neighbors in the extent and in the a
~ rangement of her products.
= - The Sandwich islands show us th
- they are fit for something better tbs
Il mere coaling stations; and althoue
~ their chemical manufactures, wovt
40 40 goods, travelling equipments, education
N means, engineering and architectur
- resources, mosaics and specimens
photography, are not in themselves pa
ticularly interesting, they are deeply
) as the record of the triumphs of Chr
e. tianity and constitutional governme
10 over barbarism and heathenism.
I'd Tunis does pretty we'll for a
n pendency of Constantinople, and
th one of the Barbary States, in view
o. the facts that its northern districts q
n rocky and precipitous, its eastern d
tn tricts dry and sandy, it's southern d
1e tricts desert steppe, and its strear
re unnavigable. But, although I do n
d. object to it's showing of felted goods al
b. hunting apparatus, its woven fabri
to and its horrific firearms, I should ce
IS, tainly prefer to have my mouth water
We the sight of some of it's luscious pom
ny granates, grapes, olives, oranges,
ne monds, spices and dates.
Ter Spain has outdone herself in decor,
lly ing the facade of her Enclosure, and
nj displaying her art work, carpets a
ID, marbles. Is it Amadee, CASTELAR, or
NO fonso whom we have to thank for Il
EAR magnifcence or is it before the CIV
be zation of the Moor, or of the metad,
or of the Bourbon, that we should ma