The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-07-22

Crefield sends the best specimens in silk and
velvet, Elberfeld, Nierser, Suchtein, and
from Freiburg. Saxony sends lace exhibits.
Berlin is only surpassed by Paris in her ex-
hibits of wearing apparel. l have enlarged
on Germany and her varied interests, as the
element in our midst from the iatherland,
thousands of whom are interested in the
workings of their home industries, and who
take deep interest in The exhibits of their
friends at the exhibition. And as a large
number read my correspondence, feel it
due this great nation not to magnify their
commercial or industrial proportions, hut
simply to put them in their appropriate
place in the nations centennial exhibition
that marvel of the nineteenth century.
India sends some rude specimens of sculp-
ture or stonebull from Nandi; carved
model of Buman Chuttree Nishu riding on
Garuda from Madras; ornamental tiles from
Hyderadad. And from some enthusiast at
Madras comes a brass spoon. Decca sends
muslin. Seind, Madras and Ferahan cash
mere and wooden carpets. Cashmere long
and square shawls, net shawls, chuddahs,
scarfs and burpouse; raw silk from Surdah
and Bengal: silk thread from Assam; floss
silk from UrmritsOr; pun-yab and cashmere;
piece silk from Benares; gamboge from
Bombay; indigo from South Arcot and Ma
dras gambler from Malacca; copper and
brass articles from Calcutta. Bengal, Nepal
and other cities; phulgat mat from Travan.
core; Amulet case from Thibet; fax from
Punyab; glue from Cawnpore arrow root
tapoco, and sage. from Madras; coffee from
Alden tea from Assam: seeds, coriander and
others, from central provinces. l have writ
ten incidentally of the exhibits of the East
Indies, but the collection is varied and at
tractive, as to bear al enlargement of their
specialtes. The East Indies is a collective
name, and applies to Hindostan, Farther In
dia, and the Malay Archipelago. British In
dia is between 50, s. and 80 N. L., and longi-
tlde Go, 81 and 81 f. 1t stretches in width
through % degrees of latitude, 1900 long,
100 wide.
MISCELLANY.
New York Schutzen corps visited the exhi-
bition last week. Total admission to Goth
| ult., ,555, 1884. The commission has changed
the date for beginning the bench-show of
| dogs, from September LIST To 4th. from thence
to the sth. Twenty-seven moving machines
contested for the championship of the world;
they made their fight on forty acres of
ground. Each machine cut about half
| acre of grass The statue OF Commodore
| Barry for theT. C. A. Fountain has reached
New York. This with the others will not be
| placed in position for some few days. The
fourth was immense. South of machinery
hall is a building containing an interesting
exhibit. 1t is called the Nevada quartz mill,
and was established with part of the SIC, 600
| appropriated by Nevada towards her centen-
NAL display. The remainder of the money
| WITS devoted to the state building. In this
quartz mill is performed the entire process
| of extracting gold and silver frcm quartz.
| The rock is finely pulverized in pounding
| machine. from which the powder runs into a
| tank of water and settles to the bottom. The
1 water is then allowed to run of, and the sed.
iment is put into a cylindrical vessel, called
an amalgamatiug pan or grinder; here more
| water is put on, and also mercury, in the pro-
portion of one hundred and seventy-tive
pounds to two tons of mixture. The mercury
| begins to collect the gold and silver as soon
as the grinder gives the mixture a circular
motion. While grinding, the mixture is also
| kept heated to the boiling point, the better
| TO infuse the mercury. The latter is then al
lowed to run into another cylindrical vessel,
called settler, where it is stirred and cooled
| the compound Ct mercury, gold and silver
meanwhile settling at the bottom. The me-
talIic compound flows out at the bottom
| through an inverted siphou, from the wild
ened mouth of which it is dipped and put in
a filter. Through the latter nearly all the
quicksilver escapes and is collected, and the
amalgam of gold, silver and mercury is left
behind ready for the mint. All the machin
| cry is operated by steam. The quartz came
| from The Consolidated Virginia mine in Ne
vada. Much OF the silver obtained from il
is converted into Nevada centennial medals
| IN the MINT.
The West Point cadets, 800 strong, are in
| camp, discipline rigid = iue-looking set, sol
dierly and orderly. Kin Kiang, China, ex
hibits some beautiful vases and flower pots
Canton, dinner service; Chefoo, plain woven
silks, raw silks; Ningpo, old bronzes, vases
etc., sea shells. The imperial maritime Gus
TOMS wood, oils, cuspidores, laquer, rattaus
and bamboo ware, and fish, fish glue, sea
blubber, sea weed, honey wax, dried fruit, SUI
gar, tallow, glue, wines, oil, leguminous
plants, tobacco, cereals, ginger, moss, fun
gus, nuts and seeds, hair, cotton: The Ar
gentine Republic sends domestic calf skins
for the cure of rheumatism, and COW tripes
for export; also lizard leather for CATERS,
mandioca starch for making chipa bread,
aud n great variety of skins, sea wolf, fox,
weasel, buck. otter, ferret, coat, wild boar,
otter lion, chinchilla, tiger, ostrich, swan,
rabbit, and llama. Savanna, Georgia, yellow
pine timber. Wagons are from Wisconsin,
Iowa, Indiana, Illinois, embracing ice wag-
ons lumber, farm, spring, freight and piano
truck wagon. Fourth of July in our next.
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