The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1878-08-31


t,re-A Strike-One Thousand Dollars a
day Boardl
PlRls; Adg. 9th, 1873.
The growing on the part ofthe exhibitors
has diminished since the number of prizes
has been doubled by simply reducing the
gold and silver medals Que half in size. Only
two competitors thus exist for a champion
honor. International exhibition rewards
are thus condemned to be about as awe-re-
specting as French baron, German count,
or diploma obtained froin university
wheie the burSdr regulates the examinations.
Scandinavia has sent quite cloud of night
tingales to warble at the Frocadero which
they do well, and above all, cheaply. The
men wear white caps, and are to be found
sembling the male nightingale, whose
characteristic is, actordng to naturalists, to
rove. Tie Scandinvaians have this in COM
mon with the Saxon race-they take their
pleasure sadly. The Ethnographical Soci-
ety's meetings are much followed, and the
opening speech by Senator Carnot, son of
Napoleon's "organzer of Victories" treated
more of brains than of skulls. He thinks
moderns are behind Confucias in the art of
government Of peoples, whose maxim was,
Glove themj" but even in China they were
only the philosophers who saaamed this doc
trine; the Hebrews he said inculcated Glove
ySif heigllb6fs-provided they were not your
inferior nor impure" Christianity, said
Carnot, inculcates love for humanity with
out exception, and practises it. The French
were sorely tried, when studying the skulls
of Canuques and wax figures oftheir owners,
as fit and proper persons to be endowed with
Rousseau's rights of man, and Lamartines s
Universal suffrage vote; they are the alb
roiginal of New Caledonia, who have lust
massacted and eaten some soldiers and cori-
muniss in training to cease TO do evil and
learning to do we'll!
1t is impossible to do justice, even cursori-
ly, to the many specimens of sculpture ex-
hibted in the various sections of the EXhi-
bition, and it may be added to that it would
be entirely uninteresting to do so: To the
ma jority of people, statuary, at least, is q
sealed book. 1t creates no sensation when
taihly create less; if it were Possible, when
simply described by the feeble power of a
reporter. Nevertheless it is tile grandest,
fhost ancient, aud most durable of the arts.
| The works which delight the critic of to-day
and are believed to mark the golden age Of
statuary date their origin many centuries
| before the Christian era. The full beauty OF
| the human foftn has never been so accurate
| ly described as by the Greth sculpture. The
| mythology of the country gate to their eff
forts an elevation and ptrity of Thought
which in these days cannot be conveyed to
| similar Subjects however skillfully manipu-
lated. Hence the tendency of sculpture has
| been to moderate, the severity of the ancient
school and TO create alidther in which cothe!
should not be wholly disregarded. The to.
| ga improved itself on the thoughts and
consciences of artists. Were it booted war.
rior with a cooked hat that had to be depic.
ted he was found clad in the garb of a Ro-
man senator. An absurdty so conspicuou.
could not long continue. A new school
spraiig up. Its hiih was TO call a spade Q
spade. If top boot and a cooked hat were
wanted the disciples of that school were ready
to supply them. Nay, if Achilles, himself
in addition to his one natural defect, haC
also had a pimple on the top of his nose
they would have alighted on it with enthus
iasln. Excess of any kind naturally lead
to reaction, aud reaction took place. Bu
various theories still reriian. The pursuist
and realists contend for their separate ideas
and the able men on either side prove how
easy il is for both to be right.
The French statuary, by its numbers anC
variety Of its styles and subjects, is consider
ed the best.
The finest shawls are still made, as Of yore
] in, ha ..T 1.
Oriental Eden, which is shut by the precipi
tous mountains from all surrounding coun
tries. The 'ashmeran is industrious, in
telligent, and lively. 1t is only in Cash
mere that production is organized ON prnci
pies nedrly akin TO the economical plan o
Europe. The shawl is the glory aud prla
OF the country, nearly the entire population
being engaged in its production. The goat
Of Thibert, from which tremendous steep
separate it on the north, supply the slB,
wool which alone IS used in the tissue rolf
other can surpass-none has yet equalled i
in sOftness. The downy substance fount
next TO the skin, and below the Thick lair i
the part employed it is of exquisite finess
So jealous is the Maharajah of Cashmere +
maintain his reputation, that he has feteiit
ly taken steps 10 prevent any deterioration
in the quality Of the shawls manufactured
-
ingly fine, and of great value Almost ever,
civilized country in the world produces tn
article called lacE--tle most difficult AM
delicate result Of skilled labor There are
however, only two or three countries tina
have given atty ofighal impulse to the trade
The others here simply followed IN III
train of events, taking what THY have don
as model, and initiating it to the best ad
vantage. To the two nations-France am,
Belgium belong the credit Of prosecutin
this trade With vigor.
The laces of Alencon and Brussels are q
so complicated q nature that each process
assigned to a different lace maker, VIII
Works only at her special department Form
erly a piece of Aleucon lace would pGs
through eighteen hands before completion
that is now somewhat diminished. Valen
eennes lace is also Of ffiol elaborate worl,
manship; the pattern and ground are mad
together, with the same thread on the sam
pillow.
A few years since, Paris enjoyed the mon
opoly OF furniture dc Jilre, but although It
still the most important centre for tho man
uiacture Of French furniture, several larg
I firms haVe bRRu established at Ivaug naT