Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1876-12-08

atty. Also after taken from the
cross with the five bleeding wounds.
From Hawaii, 20 varieties of sugar,
wool, rice, and coffee. From Pof
tugal, representations of cattle, fish,
birds, and snakes in pottery and
earthenware, wax candles feet long,
a chair of deer horns 500, sccreta-
ny at 5000 from Germany.
In the drug department, 8 tons of
alum in a single piece, drugs in pro-
fusion and fantastic shapes, a pyra-
mid of pill cases piled up l6 feet
high all in glass. All sorts of sur
gical and dental instruments in
splendor, and machinery tor defor-
nifty and broken bones. A glass
chandelier large enough to fill a small
meeting house, another of bronze
with $50 lamps fully as large and
worth $4,000, column of coal 80 feet
high, showing the actual thickness
of the vein, copper ore from block
of IS tons, and piece of silver of
1902 pounds.
In the Government building, q
cannon 80 feet long, 4 feet thick,
throwing a ball of a thousand
pounds, its range Is miles. Speci-
mems OF the Calling cannon, com
posed Of several small barrels revoly-
ing, worked by machinery, throwing
ball from one to four OF, and firing
from $50 to 500 times per minute.
In the art gallery there are hundreds of
thousands of specimens of works of art,
both in statuary and painting from $1,000
up to $45 600 in gold, representing scenes
OF sea, battle scenes, feasts, etc, and one
loaned by Queen Victoria representing
the marriage ceremony of the Prince of
Wales, worth 100000 Many of these
pictures cover canvass 16x32 and are
splendid beyond conception. Some of
these canvass scenes are needle work and
very perfect, representing landscapes and
every variety of scenery ID perfection and
you can hardly believe it is not the ork
of the brush. A lady spent 10 years of
constant work on one of them.
The statuary is the best the world can
produce, specimens that were the life
work of the best artists the world has
ever produced. One of the paintings
represents Belshazzar's feast, others Sam
son and Delilah, Lending of the Pilgrims,
May Day in Queen Elizabeth's Time, etc.
In Agricultural Hall the products of
the world in that line are shown and az.
ricultural implements. You would be
interested in the cotton gin, the California
fruit dryer that dries any kind of fruit in
six hours. tulip tree feet in diameter, a
pine tree from Canada s feet inches in
diameter, and section of tree with an
actual deers horn projecting from each
side, an OK of 300 pounds weight and
two hogs Of over 400 pounds weigh,
each, and more perfect show of canned
fruit and vegetables than had ever seen
before. Splendid specimens of timber
from India, Mozambique and Angola the
best wheat | eyer saw from Portugal, 4
California grape vine Is inches thick and
Brazilian coffee by the ton
In the government building every
kind of war implements, cannon mount
ed on mules, the old weapons of the last
thousand years, and 10000 relics of the
Indians, their dress, their utensils, theil
idols, their ornaments and trinkets; rope.
10 inches thick, wire ropes, all kinds Of
ores, specimens of all the sea fish anG
sea animals.
In Machinery Hal the most attractiv,
thing is the great Coriiss Engine, capable
of running the thousand and one mach
ines on exhibition all ut once, its balance
wheel is 80 feet in circumference, 1t.
stroke is 10 feet, runs very lively and is s
perfect machine Two lines of iroI
shafts ruu the whole length of the build
ing overhead and from these are attached
by belts the machines on exhibition be
low AT one end of the hall is an artifi
cial lake, around which all the pumping
machines and fire engines are arranged
40 or so of them throwing water at once
streams from J in. to 10 in. thick, to
gether with the great cataract 30 feet higl
and 40 feet wide, plunging into the reser
voir below, deafening and giving one ar
idea of Pandemonlum; then add to thi
all the looms and trip hammers and other
machinery of this vast building, and you
will have music of its kind to your salts
faction. There are great many other
steam engines on exhibition, not for use
but to show their action and connected
with other machinery. There are looms
in operation, weaving all kinds of fabrics
from the finest and most delicate patterns
of silk and lace to the heaviest carpets
weaving the most intricate patterns OF
fancy work, ornamental designs, webbing
suspenders, notices and every concciva
Bile kind of woven fabric. In the saw
mill department the most noticeable ope
ration is the saving of stone, which il
done with circular saw with diamond.
inserted inst cad of saw teeth, requiring {
constant stream Of water to keep from
heating the diamonds in the saw, costing
$1,000, They sawed through block {