The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-08-03

PLAYED i'm saving the detachment when surrounded
by largely superior force Of the enemy. Mr.. Fin,
nerty, Mr.. Burrier, and Jim TraynOr accompanied
Lieutenant sibley as volunteers, and behaved WELL
GEORGE CROOK,
Brigadier General.
PHILADELPHIA LETTER.
llOpe-Gernsan Exhibits
SPAIN.
This interesting country, of whose ex-
hibits we have incidentally spoken, has
entered with large degree OF sympathy
into the enthusiasm and the practical
idea of the exhibition. The exhibitors |
are not confined in their ownership to |
any class, but every circle has sent its
contribution. The President of the W0-
mems Catholic Association, Madrid,
church ornaments. The Asylum of
Mendicity, Seville, embroideries, shirts,
and handkerchiefs. His Majesty the
King of Spain sends locks and Orna-
mental iron work for dwellings. Count
Pallares sends sabots. Count Nieulant,
of Valencia, bayonet. Director-Gen-
eral of Cavalry, complete mounting;
There are some beautiful embroidered
SnaWlS IIOm MduIiu. rauo olO oioo IL
great variety of style and finish. No
where does the fan come into greater
play than in the graceful hands of a
Castilian maiden. Barcelona sends pa
per. Toledo is to Spain what Liege is
to Belgium, Birmingham to England,
and Springfield to the. United States.
The blades of this old city are famous
the world over. l saw one that is put
in a semi-circular case, and after being
confined for long period will spring to
the full tension on release. The elias
ITCHY of these old Toledo blades is won
derful.
THE SWISS EXHIBITS.
Swiss patchwork. The Swiss lead
the column in this branch. In Neucha-
tel, twenty thousand women are engaged
at six dollars and seventy-five cents a
week, who make million and halt
watches yearly, besides movements for
the American market. Berthoud says
"To become a good matchmaker it is
necessary to be an arithmetician, geome-
trician, a mechanician, and an artist, to
know how fluids resist bodies in motion,
the effect of heat and cold on metals, and
happy genius to apply ALL" 1t is said
there are one hundred and two distinct
branches of this art, to each of which q
boz may be put apprentice. The watch
finisher is the only one that can work
out of his department.
Watch. making was introduced into
Switzerland in 176o by Daniel John
Richard La LANCE. 1t is to this liberal
Swiss that woman is indebted for recOg
milton of her valuable services in thi.
mechanical art. One factory, American
represented at the exhibition employ
seven hundred women, whose earnings
are ten dollars per week. The exhibition
of Swiss watches is handsome, and with
other novelties in delicate work enables
the Swiss to sustain their reputation fol
skill and enterprise. st. Gallen sends
mechanical embrOideries; Hamburg
edging; Zurich, silks; Geneva, jewelry
Neuchatel, wooden goods; Lucerne
braids; Berne, condensed milk; Schatf
hansen, nails; Basic, naphthaline
fuorescine, cosine, phathaline, sefrane
galluni, steam blue; Derendingen, pot
terry and porcelain, watch-glasses; Zurich
furniture, cotton, threads, cash threads
bed-covers, table-cloths, bolting-cleth
and middling purifiers. The Swiss ar
an industrious people, and have Away
been true to their principle. Living I'm
, der the effulgence of liberty for NOR
than five centuries, they are happil.
adapted to American citizenship, ant
rarely fail in proving their ability t
conform to a system of freedom that $
happily assimilates to their own.
CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.
The Cape is really promontory @
South Africa, is in lat. $40 22 S., long
! 1S0 2Y E., rising nearly one thousan
feet out of the sea. 1t was discovered il
1886, by the Portuguese nav gator, Bal
thOlOmew Diaz In 1447 it was double
by Vasco de CANA, who was the frs
European who reached Indian Ocean b
this route. The Cape of Good Hope
represented at the exhibition in seeds
: woods. diamonds, in their crude state
!. which from their size would stand muc
j. cutting of from the hands of the lapidar
0 and then they would be Of large siz
and of immense value. A large assor
! ment of wines are on exhibit from tn
. Cape, skins, etc. The collection is-vall
' able and very interesting, and is &C
I ditional proof of the interest, taken b
Q the people of the geographical extreme
= of the world in America and the creation
: of her energy and genius.
> GERMAN EXHIBITS.
). Germany has an extensive line of e,
I hibits in every department, horse hal
] spun by the German English and Frenc
J processes. Mathematical instruments
:, This is a marked speciality with the Ge
q mans, their work in these articles datin
!. back to the fifteenth century, unit
Il now. The annual production of sing
Y establishments may be said to aggregaI
8 to four thousand sets of instrument
< There are sixty shops for mathementic,
4 instruments at Nuremberg. Large quar-
!. titles are shipped to the United States.
;, GERMAN BOOK TRADE.
!. This was initiated by the invention
IS book-printing in 1440, and in 1875 thel
|. were 1915 publishers and booksellers
a communication with the agency ,
J, Leipsic. At present there are publishe
y in the domain of the German tongu
= twelve thousand volumes of new work
4 combinations and new editions yea
This is against not more than five thou
d and published in France or Englan,
y The sale of German books annual
T. amounts to seventeen and one-half mi
! lions of dollars. There are elegant spec
y mems of German literature on exhibition
g Jewelry is another of the specialties thu
d the German defies competition in. Or
o town, Hanau, has two hundred an
J. eighty manufactures of gold and 81
: jewelry; one hundred and fifty smallt
q shops, one hundred and sevent-eight a
/ sistant shops, altogether making SOC
!. people. The exhibits are generally of
: cheap grade.
n xYLOGRAPHY.
Wood engravings have mac
German art famous, for in i
country has this speciality reached
y b;ob a standard IA in Germany. In ia,