The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1876-07-13
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y Miss Hosmer being wanted to complete
". ort department. Hercopy, in gilt bronze
Wv I'D Prownlow's Golden Gates, with the
=. is daily expected. Here are very
G,n and creditable specimens Of the SCHOOLS
i.-i IN New York, Boston, Lowell and
~ in carving, painting, porcelain,
80. and carpets. Also laces, ribbons,
E rarls searfs, cloths, TYPOGRAPHY, electro
,.o medals and, of course, all kinds of
@lFp,,o.vorl. Tapestry weaving and various
Aeo55aI If teamwork, and matchmaking, etc,
AnG in dailv operation. There are some use
aIS ;;,yontions for practical housekeeping
Iui otbpr purpUses, but the great drift Of
anu l,on;s effort, as here displayed, is Orna-
W om%I and shows the strong tendency TO
mpiri, he common duties of every day life.
understand there are special days or sea
1ons set apart to show what women can do
=; SU" the culinary department. ! shall be too
Lad to chronicle their success in this role.
THE NEW CENTURY
e. vonen. a weekly paper printed in the
ibn;ldino and conducted by the women's cen
tonnial committee, has reached its fourth
nTmber and is as neat as new pin. 1t is de-
Uoted to the industrial interests OF women.
Tbe engine, which does the printing and the
work Of four looms, is run, even to the kind
l EOaH Of the fires in the morning and blowing
of the steam at night, by
MISS ALLISON,
II g. GATHERINGS, Ontario, and she could
nass from her work to the drawing-roOm,
and grace it.
THE MEDICAL DEPARTMENT
is most creditably represented by fine dis
nIav of pharmaceutical preparations by the
1Tonen's medical college OF this city, of
which I intend to make some notice here
after. ...
have united and erected a state building for
The display of their products which does
them great credit. In fact it Is the most SEN
sihle 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 corn eighteen and sorghum
twenty feet high. A huge liberty bell, eight
feet high, composed OF grain and grasses In
stalk. with huge gOurd for clapper, sus-
Dendedby a cucumber eight feet long, hangs
from the lofty ceiling. Samples of all kinds
of woods, stone, zinc, lead, iron, stuffed
birds bison heads, cotton silk, raw and man
ufactured, which Kansas produces are here
in admirable order. The show of grains is
large and wonderful.
Colorado exhibits, in OrOfusion, specimens
of her rich gold and silver ores. But her
great attraction is her ife-like display Of
stuffed wild native animals.
AUSTRALIA
One of the most interesting departments
nthe main building is that Of Australia, the
states represented being New South Wales,
Oueenlands, 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. 1t is nearly century since Eng
land, having Just then, by her own folly and
misgOvernment, had to part with her Ameri-
can dependencies, planted apenal settlement
on the eastern shores of New Holland and il
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
1S4O-50, and were disposed of summarily by
the miners code.
SYDNEY HARBOR.
And speaking about pictures no one
should lose the opportunity of seeing the meg
nifeent photograph of 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 y 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 25,000000 of sheep, or more than
lOrty 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 Goarser kinds we
produce. The biggest nuggets of gold found
IN Australia were got in Virtoria, and the
richest quartz names 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 ct driving and preserving fruit. Queens
land and New South Wales contain the rich
an heIds, whose enormous pr0d0cuan OF the
last two or three years has brought down
the price so much. New South Wales sends
the hnest collection of tin ores ever seen in
America, and very likely anywhere else ex-
eepting Australia, and our people are ex.
amiuing it very closely to see if they can't
ma tin in this country. The whole OF the
New South Wales collection of minerals,
coal copper, iron, tin, gold, ETC., is very in
sSfuctive, and shows pretty plainly that they
nave very rich country out there.
GOLD PRODUCE.
Queensland has column representing the
gold EXPORT from 1868 10 l975-siXty.tive