The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1876-06-30

womens medical college of this city, o
which / intend to make some notice here
after.
KANSAS AND COLORADO
have united and erected state building TO
the display of their products which doe
them great credit. In fact it Is the most sen
sible use which could be made of such
building. The chief products of Kansas ar
corn and wheat Samples of corn in stall
are seventeen feet high-eleven feet to tn,
ear-broom ccrn eighteen and sorghum
twenty feet high. 4 huge liberty bell, eigh
feet high, composed of grain and grasses il
stalk, with huge gourd for a clapper, suS
pended by cucumber eight feet long, hang
from the lofty ceiling. Samples of all kind
of woods, stone, zinc, lead iron, stuffec
birds, bison heads, cotton silk, raw and man
ufactured, which Kansas produces are her,
large and wonderful.
Colorado exhibits, in DrOfusiOn, specimens
of her rich gold and silver ores. But hei
great attraction is her life-like display OF
stuffed wild native animals.
AUSTRALIA
One of the most interesting departments
in the main building is that Of Australia. the
states represented being New South Wales
Queenlands. South Australia, Victoria, Tas-
mania and New Zealand, which though not
strictly an Australian settlement, is identi-
fed with Australia in trade and other con-
nections. It is nearly century since Eng
land, having Just then, by her own folly and
miseovernment, had 10 part with her Ameri-
can dependencies, planted penal settlemen
on the eastern shores of New Holland and if
any of our people are inclined to suppose
that this penal colony tainted the character
of the Australian people, they have only to
look at their pictures of churches, schools
and public buildings of all sorts, TO have
their minds disabused of that mistake The
y. IL II
emigrated to California during the mania of
1S40-5O, and were disposed of summarily by
the miners code.
SYDNEY HARBoR.
And speaking about pictures no one
should lose the opportunity of seeing the MAJ g
nificent photograph of a portion OF Sydney
harbOr shown in the New South Wales de-
partment. 1t is thirty-six feet long, and is
one of the finest landscape views / ever be-
held. The real histO ' of Australia dates
from the gold discovery in 1857, which at
tracted a large European emigration The
population is about two million, and each of
the states makes its own laws, the parliament
being elected by manhood suffrage Most
of the interior which on cur school maps
used to be described as stony desert, is
now stocked with sheep and cattle. which
feed on the natural grasses. and
NEW SOUTH WALES
forty apiece to every man, woman and child
in the state. Her exhibits of fine rnerino
wool IS very superior, and wool of this class
would be most valuable to our manufacturers
to mix with the shorter and cOarser kinds we
produce. The biggest nuggets of gold found
IN Australia were got in VirtOris and the
richest quartz mines are in New South Wales
and Queensland. South Australia is the
great wheat growing state, because of the
large number OF German farmers who have
settled there, and they are now irving their
hand at driving and preserving fruit Queens
land and New South Wales contain the rich
tin fields, whose enormous production of the
last two or three years has brought down
the price so much. New South Wales sends
the finest collection of tin ores ever seen in
America, and very likely anywhere else ex-
cepting Australia, and our people are ex-
amlning 1t very closely to see if they can't
md tin in this country. The whole of tbp
New South Wales collection of minerals.
coal, copper, iron, tin, gold, etc, is very in
structive, and shows pretty plainly that they
have very rich country out there.
GOLD PRODUCT.
Queensland has column representing the
gold export from 1865 to 1S75-sixtv-fve
tons and twelve hundred and fOrfy-one
pounds; In value, S35, 0O0, 900. New Zealand
a cube four and half feet square and TWEEN
ty-three and twO-ihirds feet high. or four
ing two hundred and forty-six tons. the ex
port from 1862 TO 1875 and worth Sl5I .2TI-
293. New South Wales exported from 1851
TO 1874 gold to the amount of SI67 -. S55
They also show some heavy corn cobs.sugar /
! large lot OF oranges, fine samples of wine n I
large exhibit OF woolens and feathers. and /
some of the finest pieces of polished timber 4
a the exhibition. South Australia and New
south Wales will be the great wine-produc
ng countries of Australia, for the Crane
grows there to perfection, and they nave al
ready succeeded in making frst-elass vine
Tasmania has a climate more like England
while Queensland is more like Florida /
Queensland and New South Wales are The
lnly states that grow the sugar cane and
hey are by far the richest in minerals. Mr.
robinson, secretary of the commission and
'ctlng commissioner at the centennial. tells
ne that the object Of the different govern
nents in taking part in the exhibition is tn
how their good feelings toward America
md to make their productions better known
o our people. Australia is nearly as lar . as
he United States, and it is chiefly settled
tlong the southern and eastern coasts. Al.
hough it is between ten and eleven thou-
and miles from Philadelphia, it-'akes less
han tyenty-e ight days to 60 BIZ Ii 8 pacifc-ia
: - : = !.
ian rom San Francisco 70 Sytalesfss. 80 Il