The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-07-01
PHILADELPHIA LETTER.

COLLEGE.-kANSAS AND COLORADO
AUSTRALIA. SIDNEY HARBoR. NEW
SOUTH WALEs.-GoLD PEopUcT.--INTER-
NAL IMPROVEMENT.
From Our Special Correspondent
PHILADELPHIA, June 1.-THE woman's
pavilion is nearly in order, some sculpture
of Miss Hosmer being wanted to complete
the art department. Her copy, in gilt bronze
of Lord Brownlow's Golden Gates, with the
sculptures, is daily expected. Here are very
full and creditable specimens Of the schools
of design in New York, Boston, Lowell ard
Pittsburg, in carving, painting, porcelain,
prints and carpets. Also laces, ribbons,
shawls, scarfs, cloths, photography, electro
type medals and, of course, all kinds of
aeedle-work. Tapestry weaving and various
Kinds of HOMEWORK, and basket-making, ETC.,
are in daily operation. There are some use
fsi inventions for practical housekeeping
and other purposes, but the great drift OF
woman's effort, as here displayed, is orna-
mental, and shows the strong tendency to
shirk the common duties of every day life.
l understand there are special days or sea-
sons set apart to show what women can do
in the culinary department l shall be too
glad to chronicle their success in this role
THE NEW CENTURY
u
building and conducted by the women's CEN
tenninl committee, has reached its fourth
number and is as neat as a new pin. It is de-
voted TO the industrial interests of women.
The engine, which does the printing and the
work Of four looms, is run, even to the kind
of the steam at night, by
MISS ALLISON,
of st. GATHERINGS, Ontario, and she could
bar M FL ha Al
and grace it.
THE MEDICAL DEPARTMENT
is most creditabIy represented by a fine dis
play of pharmaceutical preparations by the
women's medical college of this city, of
which i intend to make some notice here
after.
KANSAS AND COLORADO
have united and erected a state building for
the display of their products which does
sible use which could be made of such a
building. The chief products of Kansas are
corn and wheat Samples of corn in stalk
are seventeen feet high-eleven feet to the
ear-broom ccrn eighteen and sorghum
twenty feet high. A huge liberty bell, eight
feet high, composed of grain and grasses in
stalk, with huge gourd for a clapper, sus-
pended by cucumber eight feet long, hangs
from the lofty ceiling. Samples of all kinds
OF woods, stone, zinc, lead. iron, stuffed
birds, bison heads, cottons silk, raw and man.
ufactured, which Kansas produces are here
in admirable order. The show of grains is
large and wonderful.
Colorado exhibits, in profusion, specimens
Of her rich gold and silver ores. But her
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
cf n ties to- hair, yy.l.
Queenlands. South Australia, Victoria, Tas-
mania and New Zealand, which though not
strictly an Australian settlement, is identi-
fled with Australia in trade and other con-
nections. 1t is nearly a century since Eng
land, having Just then, by her own folly and
had to part with her Ameri-
can dependencies,planted penal settlement
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
rough criminal characters of this settlement
emigrated to California during the mania of
J $1,000 and were disposed of summarily by
the miners code.
SYDNEY HARBoR.
And speaking about pictures no one
should lose the opportunity of seeing the msg-
nihcent 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 v of Australia dates
from the gold discovery in 1857, which at
tracted 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 our school maps
used to be described as a stony desert, is
now stocked with sheep and cattle, which
feed on the natural grasses, and
NEW SOUTH WALES
alone has %, 100000 of sheep, or more than
forty apiece to every man, woman and child
IN the state. Her exhibits of fine merino
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 Virtoria 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 trying their
hand at drying 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.
ceIt,ng australia 1. and our. people are e1-
nnd tin In this country. The whole of the
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 a column representing the
gold export from 1868 to I875-sixty.iye
tons and twelve hundred and .forty-ene
pounds; in value, S35, 0OO, 900. New Zealand
a cube four and half feet square and TWEEN
ty-three and twoAhirds feet high, or four
hundred and ninety-seven cubic feet. weigh.
ing two hundred and forty-six tons, the ex.
port from 1862 to 1875 and worth S151,271,-
1913. New South Wales exported from 1881
TO 1874 gold TO the amount of $l67, 1855!
They also show some heavy corn cobs sugar,
q large lot of oranges, fine samples of wine.
large exhibit eff woolens snd. lenthe... and
some of the finest pieces of polished timber
in the exhibition. South Australia and New
South Wales will be the great wine-produc.
ing countries of Australia, for the Crane
grows there to perfection, and they nave al
ready succeeded in making first-class vine.
Tasmania has a climate more like England
while Queensland is more like Florida
Queensland and New South Wales are the
only states that grow the sugar cane and
tney are by lar the richest in minerals. Mr.
Robinson, secretary of the commission and
acting commissioner.at the centennial. tells
me that the object OF the different govern
ments in taking part in the exhibition is to
show their good feelings toward America,
and to make their productions better known
to our people. Australia is nearly as lar as
the United States, and it is chiefly settled
along the southern and eastern coasts. AL
though IT is between ten and eleven thou
sans miles from Philadelphia, it takes less
than twenty-eight days to 90 BY the Pacific
Nail from San Francisco to Sydney.
INTERNAL IMPROVEMENTS,
The Australians have built more than six