The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1878-10-23
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For THE HERALD.
BROADBRIM'S PARIS LET.
TER.
NO. %.
The United States Department,

The United States Department
In my last letter I spoke Of the
daring of American manufacturers,
and this clear grit and pluck is con-
fined to no particular branch. A
turbaned Turk, or an Israelite with
9 fez, which makes him look like q
second-rate Turk, drives a thriving
business selling olive wood orna-
ments from Jerusalem; his success
! excites the cupidity of the Yankee,
who forthwith gets upa compound q
great deal better than the original
olive wood. He invents machine
for the manufacture of the goods,
and the native of New Jerusalem is
either forced to commit suicide in
self defence or seek other and
eener.pastures. One would have
supposed that Brother Jonathan
would have let Jean Crapaud
alone on the article Of perfumes,
but here is q gentleman not
from New York, not from Bos-
ton, not from Chicago or San
Francisco, but from Toledo, Ohio,
who exhibits a case Of perfumes
which would do no. diacredit to
Paris or Cologne Not only are
the perfumes fine, but the style Of
putting them up is equal to any in
the Exposition, and this fact has
called forth a commentator not
accorded in many cases to much
more important articles we'll done,
Toledo, we'll done, Loreptz.
In a modest case, on one Of the
side aisles, is a beautiful display
Of sleighbells by the Beacon Man.
ufacturing Co., of East Hampton,
Conn. The sweet sleigh bells, the
merry. sleigh bells, the sight: of
them recalling the happy crowds
and the jolly rides, away in the
long, long ago! Who ever felt the
frost, who knew it was cold, as you
dashed along through the flying
snow to the music of those merry
sleigh bells! I saw one of our SOL
der boys looking mournfully into
the case; perhaps he, too, was
thinking Of the jolly rides, and the
girl he left behind him.
An admirable exhibit is that of
the Mortified Knife Co., of North
field, Connecticut. Connecticut has
long been celebrated for it's cutlery,
and I very much regret that many
more OF it's manufacturers have not
taken the trouble to exhibit, but
the Mortified Knife Company has
saved the reputation OF the nutmeg
State in. the cutlery exhibit, and
convinced our cousins on this side
of the water that a Yankee can
make a knife with which to do his
whiting. The Remingtons are
here with splendid display of
rifles and pistols, fully sustaining
the fame of that great concern.
The Remington rifles are: known
almost wherever shooting is known !;
they have that light ry.innocent
look about them as though they
were only made for ornamental
parades, but oh, what wicked
shooters ''Give me one of them
ERE" said q tall slabsided fellow
beside me, and 'tI'll bet you two and
a half that I pick off a grass
hopper's head every pop at hun
dred yards" It is very possible
that the gentleman from Maine
may have drawn a long bow on his
craftsmanship, and yet these Rem
ingtons look as though they could
do almost anything in the shooting
line. I don't exactly know how but
rumor got adoat that the. Wal
than Watch Co., were not going to
get a gold medal. This is not true !;
they have one of the finest exhibits,
not only in the American Depart
ment, but also in the Exposition
Universal, and one which has COM
manded as much attention as any
other in any department. In ad-
dition to the excellence of the ex-
hibition Of watches, the exhibit it.
self has been most carefully at
tended, and I do no6 believe that
there has been a moment during
the hours of public exhibition, since
the opening on the first Of May,