Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1878-09-26

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mont are nneqnaled. England ex-
GELS in machinery, particularly that
! used in the manufacture Of cotton.
ELLINGTON 81 Co.'S art jewelry and
plate are the finest in this Exposi-
ton as.they were at Philadelphia,
and Minton's china is certainly but
little inferior to that Of Sevres. Ger
many is conspicuousIy absent. hav-
ing no representation at all, as cor
dial relation have never existed be-
tween France and Germany since
the last war. Belgium makes cred
liable display of heavy machinery
and rolling stock for railways, while
as a matter Of course the aces Of
Brussels are unequaled. Her schools
make a good exhibit, particularly in
drawing.
Since the Philadelphia Exposition
Switzerland has felt that her watch
business has been in critical con-
dition and she has this time made an
unusually fine display carrying off
the highest honors She has on ex.
hibition very complicated piece of
machinery for embroideriDg, which
admits roll of cloth fifteen feet
wide and works it into any desired
pattern. A steam road wagon which
came from Switzerland over tho or
binary roads, a distance of 800 miles
IN seven days attracts considerable
attention. The limitless display of
Swiss carved wood which has haunt
ed every exposition for the last
twenty years is on hand this time in
full force. Italy sends beautiful glass
ware from Salviati and Venice, mos
aies from Florence and Rome, coral
from Naples, and some fine cabinets
OF ebony inlaid with ivory. As u.s.
ual tho Italian department is one
vast bazaar for the sale of jewelry.
The Chinese and Japanese exhibit
about tho same things as at Vienna
and Philadelphia, ourios silks, ivory
and carved woodwork, vases and
lacquer work. The Chinese have
one or two of the same carved beds
with open work pillars and canopies
which they sent to Philadelphia. A
beautiful shawl made for the mar
riage of the emperor, and valued at
80, 900 is much admired. The body
is OF the finest and heaviest silk, with
large animal which looks like a
cross between donkey and a pea
cock, worked in the center in rich
colored silk and gold thread. The
Japanese dress like Europeans, but
the Chinese wear their own costume
which consists of wooden shoes
wide brooches, long, loose frock
reaching below the knees, cue
braided out with black ribbon so as
to reach nearly to the ground, while
the whole is topped out with wash
bowl straw hat with q small red
plume fastened to the crown. Rus
STA makes a good display of gold
cloth from the east, jewelry and art
plates from Moscow, iron, leather,
fur and velvet robes, and of course
of malachite. A single vase of this
material some eight feet high, is val
ned at $4,000. and a pair somewhat
smaller at $4,000. Denmark has
an ingenious type writer which does
not occupy more space than cube
Of nine inches, and which can be see
on ones writing desk. used and re-
moved. The Argentine Republic
sends leather, Siam, weapons and
gold cloth, and nearly all the small
countries of Europe and America
have something to represent them.
Even the little Republic of San Mar
inc, the smallest independent gov
ernmsnt in the world, with terri
tory of only 81 square mios is rep
resented by few pictures and min
| erals.
But how about the display of the
United States, my readers are prob
ably asking. While the quantity Of
our material is nothing to what we
had at Philadelphia, our part of the
Exposition is as whole creditable
to us. Our machinery is good, and
our reapers and mowers among the
best. La scales, locks, Gre arms,
pumps, chemicals, organs, books,
watches and many other things our
exhibit is good. Tiffany 4 Co. show
the Bryant vase, and fne artistic ia
BILE ware. They have made sales to
the Prince Of Wales and to parties
from Japan. But the most interest
ing thing they display is their repro
auctions. of the gold treasures and
ornaments found by Gen. Di Censno-
la in the island of Cyprus. Every
dent which unskilled workmanship.
time and neglect have impressed up.
on the originals is faithfully reprodu-
ced here. The Gen. has written a
letter stating that the work is so
well done that he can hardly tell the
copies from the original The COL
lection is sold to the Berlin Museum
for S. 900.
In the Art department the French
make the largest display and the
Italians the next, the French run
ming largely to paintings, the Ital-
ians to statuary. A TO tho respect
i've merits of the two, criticism is so
largely matter of opinion, that it is
difficult if not impossible to reach q
correct conclusion. Personally
have never been an admirer of the
French school of painting and do not
| love too well the modern Italian. but
do like the paintings of the English
artists and particularly LandsesI's
animals. Austria, Russia, Denmark,
Sweden and Norway are fairly rep
resented. None of the celebrated
pictures from the great galleries of
Europe have been brought to tho
Exposition and so those who expect
ed 70 see wonderful coIlection of
the best paintings in the world, are
sadly disappointed. American art,
which is but yet in its infancy, is
poorly represented. Not only is the
space allotted US scantiiy filed, but
our best artists are not represented,
and mono of our best known paint
ings are on exhibition. There are
half dozen collections in New York
city which are finer. Indeed sup
pose there is the smallest possible