The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1876-08-16
AT THE CENTENNIAL.
Notes Taken by Our Correspondent ol
the Grounds.

AT THE CENTENNIAL.
Notes Taken by Our Correspondent OIL
the Grounds.
Quebec sends violincello of datt
Naples, Italy, sends / a cylindrica
piano.
There are twenty exhibitors of cham
pagne in the Agricultural building.
In Agricultural building is seen the
india rubber tree with the crude gum.
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, a rotary
polar map of the world, also universal
clock.
Hon. Francis A. Ward, of Yale COL
lege, has been appointed chief of the
bureau of awards, in place Of DIR.
Stille.
Italy sends specimens of 1872 different
varieties of red and white wines, also
Ratafa, and o superior article of vinegar
made from Muscot wine. - q I 5: 3
The specimens Of alder wood are
beautiful. Belgium exhibits in the
main building pulpit of carved wood
sixteen feet high, composed of eighty
pieces. It has five fronts all exquisitely
carved. ... ....
There is fine collection of sugar
Fleaves from beets in the same depart.
ment, from France. The writer has
seen the beet sugar in general use upon
the; continent Of Europe. Some Of
the; sugar-buts, grow to weight OF
eighty-four pounds in Belgium. The
sugar is lighter, and seems whittier and
more acid than ours.
Some of the most beautiful carpets
made in the world, and on exhibition,
are of Philadelphia manufacture. The
carpet factories of Philadelphia have 651
pow or looms, 3,4O9 hand looms, with q
capacity of production of 25,000, 600
yards of ingram and venetian carpeting,
being much greater than the rest of the
interest in the United States.
Italy has a necklace of twenty-four
rubies, forming twelve pair OF earrings,
"thing of beauty" Price, $40, 600,
gold. A set of diamond head orna-
ments, $40, gold. The celebrated
vases from Berlin are worth The Ger
man Model of Peace, $4,000. The Au-
rora, $4,000. Otho's Visit to the Vault
of Charlemange, 5000. They are su-
perb; no visitor should fail to see them.
The Japanese have fine cut tobacco;
its power of absorbing liquids makes it
popular weed in Europe. Tobacco
was introduced! into Japan in 1927 by
the Portuguese. The Japs have. q sea
weed used for.industrial purposes, called
fu-looks like carragheen moss. 1t is
used for sizing the warp of silk goods.
They also have "kanteen," or vege-
table isinglass. Their sea weed tengusa
makes good jelly.
+ Oregon exhibits the section of tree
the red cedar. The tree grew to the
height: of 325 feet, and measured at the
center of its height twenty-five feet in
diameter. Another section is from the
fir tree, which measured fifteenfeet nine
inches in diameter, at distance of 158
feet from the butt. Specimens of
shingles thirty inches wide, cut from a
spruce or white pine which yielded
100000 shingles and fifty-eight cords Of
Portugal sspds 4 wost ofl + anrs ID an
eagle made Of zig Tree pith. The town
of Coimbra sends tree made of tooth
picks. Ponta Delgade exhibits pin.
cushion made of silk and Alaes thread.
The same place show flowers made of
feathers and rags. The Portuguese
make a pretty exhibit of artificial flow
ers made from aloe fbers. The Osier
baskets are quite pretty. And Portugal
makes fine display in horse accoutre-
ments-the finish on the mountings of
brides and saddles are beautiful. Brass
nails are a speciality with the Portuguese:
A palm leaf fail from Portugal is a Gu
riosity:
In the Hawaiian department are COL
Iections of dried ferns, samples of cloth
like the mulberry paper of Japan. 1t
is made of strips of the inner bark of a
tree, moistened and laid side by side,
and then beaten by hand bats of differ
ent patterns. This is called wanke fiber;
it is made into bed clothing, and is of
different tints, red, white, and blue, all
handwork. :, A waterproof cloak is also
exhibited, made by fitting leaves of
grass-a broad kind called "tea leaf -
over each other, like feathers on this
paper cloth. They make rope from a
iber called olona. They also make a
hand braided cord, very flexible and
strong. It has strange appearance,
white and black specked, resembling a
snake at first glance. ~..'. &:....''.--' :
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