Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1876-05-22
EpitOnlc OF the National Exhibition.

Agricultural Hall is large glass building
wi,h gothic roof The structure is complete,
although much Of the material for exhibition
i yet unopened. The work OF arranging, how
ever, is progressing. There is a vast collection
of farming Implements steam machinery for
every kind of farm work, machines for cutting
down forest trees and turning prairie lands up
side down; draining and dltchiug machines.
pows, harrow>, grubbing hoes, aud an immense
machine tor stacking hay. One section cou-
tains specimens OF every beast, reptile, bird aud
insect known to the continent Of America. "A
large exhibit brcadsutf=-hreadsiu its various
stages of production, from -four to the baked
loaf, steam. cooked food for cattle, crushed grain
and meals OF all varieties The hoest collection
of teas, cGffces, spices, sugars and other gro
cerics. The elastic gums OF Africa, great heapes
ofinda rubber and gutta percha, bird cages, ,hsh-
ing nets and pig-iron. Skeletons OF extinct aul.
mails, enormous sauraDs, mastodons, she'll hsh
and turtles. Louisiana displays tree beautifully
draped With Spanish moss, fungous growth
abounding along the entire guilt coast, along
the rivers and in the swamps OF the South. II
has become an important article tor beds aud
upholstery. California exhibits her grain, cacti
and gold quar'z; hams and packed pork from
Cincinnati. Veterinary surgery preseo's all
parts of the horse to illustrate diseases and the
hemp, wines, oils tobacco, leather, and every
variety of wood Liberia has here coffee AID
cocoa, with fine exhibit of palm soap. Bra
ziI and Portugal have alsoa collection OF wines,
fruits, grains, etc. There are thirty different
,hrcshing machines, one hundred rcapers and
mowers, many of them as finely finished as
pieces of iewclry. Also, machine showing a
great Improvement in the automatic binder, q
machine driven over the fields, leaving the
grain behind it, tied up 10 sheaves. There is
a fne set of plows from South Bend, Indiana,
god plated, costing 81 900 per plow Nothing
10 this line has been overlooked; there are al
endless variety Of prairie, sod and stubble par
ng plows, with double mold boards, gang and
suky plows, mole and ditch plows, rollers
aud cutivatoIs, slogle and double shovel
llows for row crops, potato planters, saed
drills, corn planters, potato diggers, ETC.; edge
tools, axes, grain and grass scythes,, slckles,
corn and hay kuives. We must not fail to mcn-
tun that Liberia. pre-eDts a specimen OF cloth
woven ip borrow breadths, and the loom on
which it Is woven. The loom, shuttle and all,
weighs ouly Que and. half pounds Hortcui-
lura Ilall is beautiful palace, in the Moorish
style of architecture, wit au elegant fountain ID
the center, from which the walks radlate IN
every direction and divide the intervening space
into beds containing rare ard beautiful shrubs,
|. ,wers and trees from tropical countries. It's
called the palm.h house Here are the broad
fan palm, the sago, date aud cocoa palms,
orange aud lemon trees. The eucalyptus or
malaria tree, the camphor tree, the gua7a ma
hogauy and india-rubber tree. The COLLECTION
Of palms owned iu South Amboy, n. D., Is
worth $4,000. There arc lour species OF
American palms in the palm house. There are
trembling acacias and banana tree, a few cacti,
4 o.bo nd ch hs Mt
There is large collection of tree ferns from
different parts of the earth. collection OF rare
plants from celebrated English green house,
also Japan maple with blood red Shadugs in
its leaves; the picher plant, with its greenlsh
cups from the South Sea Islands, Belgian aza-
las OF a pale cream color; also fiamlngo plant,
the blossoms of the deepest scarlet also Nor.
folk Island pine One ofthe treeS,a sago pam,
once belonging to Robert Morris, is ten feet
high, and is said to be one hundred and thnty
years od-NeO York. Nc,OS.
A CONSCIENTIOUS VOTER -" Bout dis hyar
lection tzness, zc douc laid down new Nat
iormI' said Pete to some other darkeyS.
"What sort of new fl stform is datY was
asked by another darkey.
well, dey amt gWlnc to fool me no more
bout who I've voting for dat's howl said
Pete.
What you gwine to kno' bout it? You
amt bin to skoo since the las 'ectiou,au can
read nohow!' returned third darkey.
"Nebber you mind 'bou, my read,u', mig
ger; dat don't spiain de pint. But I'm telin
OF yer dat when goes to Publican an gets
my ticket, IL. gwinc to make him read it strait
down from dc top to dc bottom
"WelI?" they said.
''Dcn l'zc gwine to Dimicrat and ax him
10 read it back ards from de bottom mp, an
ct dat ticket don't dove-tai! at bot ends like
hurow draw she don't 20 inter de box, dat's
all aIII'-Suruunnh (Ga.) NeaoS