The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1876-08-04
DUR CentennInI I.etler.

She has often seen a mother take
her breast and give il TO her babe,
and so she has barred her little chest
on one side, and with one hand is
squeezing up her flesh 20 form a
breast, while with the other she
holds up the bird to suck. Upon
the child's face is a merry mischiev-
ious smile that is perfectly irressist-
able, and causes one to laugh every
time they see il.
Another, in the American collec-
ton, is plaster cast of two cats,
and is entitled "PlayiDg Postum"
Miss Pussy is lying down, rolled
up in such q bali as only a cat ever
gets itself, and pretends to be
asleep, but is really watching Mr..
Thomas out of the corner of her
eyes. Tom, great, guant, rough
fellow, the hero of many a hard
stands quite near and looks as if he
was in the act of plaintively new
ing "Waken unto me, love"
The American Manufacturers of
Cloths and CassImeres assert most
positively that they not only can,
but do, make as good articles in
this line as any other country in the
world, and that the only reason
why they are compelled to mark
them and palm them off as foreign
goods is the love of the American
people to be humbugged. Taking
it for granted that each country has
on exhibition it's best goods, find
this statement to be untrue, and
| that not only England, France, and
Germany, but even little far away
Sweden, produce finer and better
articles from their looms than
America. The finest cloths are
made in certain districts in the west
of England, and are manufactured
from wool that is imported from
Germany. For certain kinds of
goods the best wool in the world
comes from Minnesota and Califor-
MIA, but this is not fit for the finest
cloths. The only manufacturers
who produce the finest cloths are
those where the business has de-
scended from father to son for gem
erations, and where every secret of
the whole art is known. In Eng
land, in making fine cloths, the
wool is died in the wool, and it
takes four full months before the
finished product leaves the factory.
Some of the English exhibits feel
as soft as satin to the touch, and are
so fine that they can be drawn
through Il ring without creasing or
rumpliDg them. Although Ameri-
ca has bought the finest English
machinery, and imported the very
best work men, the Americans cam
not compete against the English on
account of the immense difference
in wages. Were it not for the
American protective tariff, which
amounts to abont 20 per cent, En-
gland would soon silence every
loom in America. The prices mark
eel upon the finest cloths, as sold in
England, are such as to make one,
who is not posted, stare in astonish-
ment. The same goods for which
we have to pay Sc per yard can be
bought in England for So and So 80
per yard. America leads the
world in the manufacture of blank
cts, and not having to pay so much
freight. can produce as good and
cheap cottons, but in all that relates
TO cloths and cassimeres, America
cannot compete successfully against
foreign countries. A gentleman,
who said that he had spent 40 years
in the cloth business, and is still
learning, told me that America had
tuade the wonderful progress in
this art, within the last years of
any country in the world, but until
labor gets as cheap in America as il
is abroad, nothing but high duty
| 1. -. 4 l.
Crossing the ravine between the
Main Hall and the Agricultural
Building is an elevated railroad
that is intended Tor use in the
streets of crowded cities. Instead
of two rails there are three, placed
in the form of a triangle, and the
cars and locomotives have three
sets of wheels, the upper ones Of
which alone support them upon the
upper rail, while the other two sets
bear against the two lower rails
from the side so as to steady the
cars. On each side of the car there
is a narrow space for passengers to
stand in, while up stairs, or above
the upper rail, is the usual form Of
car. Accidents, except from coils
ion, appear TO be impossible, though
the motion of the car when moving
swiftly is very rough.
The suffering from the heat dur
ing the past week has been very
great, and the little Hospital on the
grounds has several times beer
more than filled by those who have
been stricken down by the heat.
Some days it was hard to fine
stretchers enough to carry the suf-
ferers away, SO rapidly were they
overcome. Those who have moi
vet visited the Centennial, can form
no idea of how completely worn
and tired out one becomes after
few hours. The immense number
and variety of things to be seer
causes sort of a dsZe to settle
down upon you, and the mind re
fuses to take in any more. You
may continue to move about aftel
that, but you cease to be benefited
The only way is TO go again and
again, and stay few hours eaci
time, and then it is always fresh
bright and wonderful to you, and
grows on you from day TO day
Some slight estimate may be made
of how much there is TO be seer
from the calculation, that if on,
were to devote just three second
to looking at each thing on cxhib
itiOn, it would tSks 50 years e
examine them all.
Last Friday the whole of III,
Clark Spool Cotton Co., numbering
400, and headed by band of 81
pieces, visited the Centennial In
body. After some time spent il
examining what is on exhibition
they were taken to one of the res
taursnts and furnished with dinner
The members of this firm acted in
very handsome manner and boil
they and their employees are sure
to be benefited by their generosity