The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1876-07-20

teen $s50.O0s There are sixty thousand art
exhibitors. A pretty building near horti.
cultural hall exhibits the bible in one hum
dred languages, and in the main building
are exhibits Of two hundred volumes OF az.
ierent tongues. Boston has one Of the best
displays in twenty three coils OF cordage,
small and large strand. Canada has self
acting engine worth $4,000 gold, also a
model tank for storing refined oil. Nova
Scotia q spark arresteF. In nv last letter
! alluded in complimentary terms 70 the
market house, and am now confirmed in
my opinion, that IL is one Of the best in the
country, and has been known TO southern
travellers as frst-elass for years. Try and
you'll endorse all say.
The EphFata press, one hundFed and thirty
years old, Is on exhibition. The declaration
Of independence, rs well ~ the continental
money, was printed on it. Trenton, New
jersey, has the material for an "AnYiI
Chorus" having large and varied stock Of
anvils on hand, ranging from thirty to four
teen hundred pounds. Boston sends large
assortment of linen fire hose. England ex.
hibits nine-ineh plate fired at lat Portsmouth
by the English admiralty, using a seven-ineh
muzzie-lOading rife, the shOtpalisseF pointed
chilled iron; powder, fourteen pounds; dis
lance Of gun from objective point, thirty
feet; which penetrated to the back Of the
plate, bullying it out, showing tremendous
force of pr0iectile. The Countess Gabriel
BlandO sends from her estate, in Germany, a
specimen of gOOseberries and cuTFants, grow
ing on the same stem. An English firm send
a chrOndometer, or cOrn-Weighing apparatus,
that gives the exact weight of bushel of
corn or seeds Of any kind, from sample of
a quarter Of a pint-made with scales for all
nations.
The Alta Californian, that was chagrined
at the initial movement of California In show
| ing a pair of blankets. should be Modified
now at the prestige given that commonwealth
Of the Pacific, in her beautiful state building,
| formally opened on the 2ist instant. Italy
| makes fine exhibit Of raw and cOmbed
| hemp, the Bologna hemp comparing favor
ably with Russian and Manila Italy, as
strange as it may seem to the uninitiated,
| furnishes the dock-yards of Chatham, En-
| gland, and ToulOn, France, with hemp. Iron
men will be interested in an iron plate from
| Glasgow. Circular In shape, eighty-twO in.
ches in diameter, three and fve-eighths OF
an inch thick; C. H., No. 1, fangs quality
perrile strength sixty thousand pounds A
| plate parallelogFam, two hundred and forty
inches long, eighty inches wide, two inches
thick; G. 81. No. /, shell quality for cylinder
boilers.
Admissions constantly increasing. The ele-
VdCeu raw way aGLOSS ~ AA04 As1s1AtS A
operation. A Texan is coming from Austin
on steer to the centennial. The average Of
persons who travel daily over the narrow
| gauge railroad is twenty-five thousand. The
| bench-shOw of sporting and transporting
| dogs, to be held from September LIST to Sth
viii consist of fourteen classes, namely
hounds, greyhounds, Gordon settlers, Irish
settlers, English settlers, pointers, retrieyers
spaniels, terriers, bulldogs, toy-dOgs. They
viii be inspected by nine set Of judges. The
circular piece of polished slate, five feet II
diameter, frsm the Argentine Republic, wa
carried more than two thOuaand miles on
mules back. This is certainly an evidenc'
of the energy of our South American neigh
bors, and their sympathy with the exhibition
Venezuela exhibits forty varieties of fruit
preserved in their natural shape;
JOSEPH BARBIERE.