The Osceola times., 1876-07-22
OUR CENTENNIAL LETTER.
The Fourth Of July, Is78-Austria- mis-.
reliamy.
From Our Special Correspondent.

From Our Special Correspondent
PHILADELPHIA, July f5.-ratriotism has
boiled over. The seethinr, ,cauldron has been
simmering long enough. "Make her boil"
has been the slogan Of millions of patriotic
voices. "Red hot" says the responsive SYM
pathizers among the people Of other lands.
Throw in the American fiag-now, toss in
the American eagle-in with the consttu-
ton; fire up with Yankee Doodle-one
grand cracking aame-and she boils over.
The tidal wave Of white-headed anniversa-
rial centennial patriotism is sweeping in
ing with its irrigating streams the length and
breadth of this great and glorious country,
Esto perpetus.
The Fourth Of July did all this.
THE HEAT.
"The weather Is 80 confounded hot
wish was real Hottentot,"
Is an old refrain, but is applicable. On
yesterday the thermometer was four degrees
hotter than any day last summer. The su.
Per.ative degree is in order-shower.baths
in demand, and yet the glorious fourth, with
its torrid blasts-its white-headed huzzas,
was wrapped up in the sweatcloths of the
occasion until perspiration-no, sweat-the
genuine article, oozed from every pore, re-
sponsive to the exhubersnce in the observa.
| ton Of the centennial anniversary of the
natal day Of the republic.
II is useless to detail the ceremonies of the
fourth of July. A grand procession on the
night of third, appropriate ceremonies on the
day of the fourth, the orations, the singing,
the reading the declaration from the original
, manuscript, ringing the bells, Ginning OF the
same, gorgeous fireworks at night, with the
whiz OF the rocket-the pop-and the dazzling
| descending meteors, the snap of the fire.
crackers, and the crack of torpedoes, and
the more ringing crack of the pistol, accom-.
panied with the bang of guns and the roar of
artillery; huzzas, cheers, with now and then
the groan of a falling victim to old Soils
glaring rays, or faint scream from fair
one as she is nearly lifted from her feet
with toilet disarranged and smashed gener-
ally, she is borne halffaintipg along with
the surging, wild, frantically-enthused crowd
that, like some tidal wave, swept the streets
from all points of the compass, from the
night of the third to the close Of that of the
fourth. The assemblage was immense. You
can imagine il when say that at the depot
| of our trunk road there were one hundred
thousand trunks or other pieces of baggage
awaiting distribution. The city was JAM
and yet, the order was splendid; no fight
ing, no general drunkenness, but grand
Joyous expression of exultatien at the attain
ment by brother Jonathan of his first centu.
ry's experience in free government The
foreigners in the procession seemed pleased
| at the ovation. The Chinese must have
been, when their commercial heart realized
the immense consumption of their celestial
specially, the concussing cracker. Govern
ors, who hope 10 be future presidents, were
out in all the glory of hope and the brilliant
colorings Of expectation. The military par
ade was significant success. Dom Pedro
had at least ten thousand new collars, hats,
and some infants named after him, in conse.
quence OF his again doing homage to repub-
| lican institutions. Oscar of Sweden, was in
the line and the pageant was illustrated by
notables from thirty-eight free American
states, and from nearly forty of the various
systems Of the old world, and from South
| America and the Canadas. When Xerxes
reviewed his 1000 600 of human beings who
accompanied him to Greece, he is said TO
have wept while rejecting, that of the I'M.
mense mass, "not one would be alive in a
| hundred years" So ! can but pause for a
moment to reflect, that OF the million and a
half who aided in the grand ovation Of the
nations centennial, is there one who will as.
sist in another? The fourth Of July, 1876,
was a success; the only strange feature |
have to relate is that on the fourth Of July,
| 1776, the.heat was sixty-seven degrees, and on
the fourth Of July, 1876, about ninety.eight; !;
how is this2 II is Simply that we are cutting
down too many tres. ,SssittisxN sssv-* /,
household who has the soil plant tree, and
the next generation will enjoy more pleasant
weather in July.
AUSTRIA.
There are twenty.nine chambers of com.
merce and trade in the Austrian, and thir.
teen in the Hungarian dependencies, to
whose system our exhibition is greatly in.
debted for its support from Austria. Austria
exhibits albumer Of eggs and OF blood, egg
preserves, and egg powder. Nearly foul
hundred thousand pounds OF liquid conserved
yolk are shipped for the use of kid glove
manufacturers 10 Germany, Denmark, Sweden
Belgium and England. They warrant thes,
egg results To keep two years. They con
sumo from sixty TO ninety thousand eggs I
day. This is business that should b,
studied in the United States, where eggs ar,
so generally and so easily produced. Cere
sene wax, is an Austrian specially. employ
ing in one factory alone four hundred oeer
atives. The principal mandatory is b
Stackerau. The amount Of this wax WORKED
ur is nearly thre. million pounds year.
The, show candles made from ozokeri.e
glycerine, oleine. Candies, while not ac
ceptable to the American who cries "mor'
light" are yet in general use in Europe, fol
while they may employ the gas in saloons
they rarely use any agency but candles to
illuminate bed-chamers Wreaths Of glas,
pearls, and fire proof glass cylinders ol
crysial wire, attract attention. Bohemian
crystal hollow ware. Austria is not behind
the other countries in furniture. The pro
duction of household furniture from bent
wood, is an invention of Michael Thonet
senior, native of Boppard, on the Rhine
in 1895. The descent OF this inventor turns
out Of one factory two thousand pieces pei
diem Austria exhibits good kid gloves
One firm in Vienna, who produce annually
twenty. thousand dozen, consuming eighty
five thousand skins and giving employment
to seventy.hve cutters, and six hundred
sewers, the latter women.