Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1878-06-27
PARIS LETTER.


OF THE AMERICAN AGRICULTURAL Ma
CHIMES. THE FRENCH JOURNALS DIS
| POSED TO BE sATIRIcAL ON THE SUBJECT
OF THEIR Decoration. STREET CARS
EXPORTED FROM THE UNITED STATES.
THE NFERIoRITY OF AMERICAN ART.
THE ENTIRE ABSENCE OF ALL wARLIKE
DISPLAY IN THIS EXHIBITION.
| From our regular correspondent
&c Rue CRUMARrIN, PARIS
The remarkable exhibit of the Commits
sioner of Agriculture in the Agricultural
section of the United States is now finish
ed. Its main feature is an ingenius pen
tagonal structure of wood and glass, in
which economy of space and effectiveness
of distribution of the objects exhibited
have been very successfully combined.
/ Unfortunately the agricultural building
is too low, and the topmOst pentagon al
most touches the roof. The building be-
| ing too small and low studded, the effect
of the structure is entirely marred. The
contents of the cases, however, are highly
satisfactory. A more complete and better
arranged collection of the natural pro-
ducts of our country could hardly have
been made. Woods, fruits, fibrous plants,
and their pulps, minerals, corn, tobacco,
flowers, in fact everything that the soil of
| the several States produces, is to be found
in the cases, fully and scientifically dis
scribed, each by is seperate label. There
is similar exhibit made by the Russian
agricultural department, but it is not
near so complete or so compact and con-
venient as that of the United States. The
display of agricultural machinery, in an
other part of the building, is also very
fine, and it is already evident that we will
be able to distance all competitors and to
sustain our reputation for cheapness,
| lightness, strength, and ingenuity. The
! French. however, l have observed from
their journals, are disposed to ridicule us,
in their polite way, for our excessive orna-
mentation of plOws, reapers, harrOws and
threshing machines. An article in
morning paper argued that it was evil
dent, from the gilt luxuriousness of our
machines, that our farmers went afie1d in
kid gloves and soft raiment; not like their
Iaborers in blue blouses and wooden shoes.
The writer was not aware that the ma
chimes on exhibition here, are in their
holiday attire, that they have come to
Europe, and are arrayed much more gor-
geously than the specimens that do SER
vice at home on the praries. There are
some excellent exhibits of plows, grain
drills, and other agricultural appliances.
Deere C Co., of Moline, Illinois, the larg-
est plow-makers in the world, and whose
|
steel plows made in the Western States,
show their celebrated "Gilpin sulky
plow," their "Highlander,'' ''Prarie
Queen, 4" and also 'Fwalking cultivator," :"
which is decorated with a gold medal,
won at a State trial in Indiana. A re-
markable machine is F'Fausts' hay load
er,'' exhibited by Stratten & Cullom, of
Meadville. This machine is attached to
the back of a wagon and will elevate a
ton of hay in five minutes. Dederick &
Co., of Albany, exhibit perpetual
baling press. Baugh & Son, of Philadel-
phia, show their mills and fertilizers
Wagons, carriages, and wheelwrights
work, are fairly represented in the agri-
cultural section. Studebaker Bros, of
South Bend, Ind, and Peter Schutter, of
Chicago, have each a good show of farm,
freight and plantation wagons. Their
wagons, however, are not of character
that it is worth while to advertise in this
market, where vehicles for use in towns
and cities must have very low wheels,
and be so constructed as to turn in the
narrowest street. All heavy portage is
effected by means of prodigious carts,
drawn by large Normandy horses, some
times as many as six harnessed tandem
In the way of carriages, buggies, etc., the
largest exhibit is that of Brewster & Co..
of New York, it is in the main American
section, and contains, besides five speci-
mems of buggies and spider trotting carts
of the American pattern, several brough'
hams, landaus, and phaetons, built aftel
the European'style. The American stree
cars are models of lightness and smooth
running, are exhibited by New York anC
Philadelphia firms. 1t may be remarked
here that street cars are exported from
the United States, number were on tn
steamer by which your correspondent
sailed, intended for the streets of Ham
burg.
One of the features of the U. S. Section
is the curious way in which exhibits ar
mixed, for instance Colts pistols are i
the machinery department, while Rem
ington's fire arms are in the industris
section. Almost the first object tha
, strikes one in the gallery of alimentar
~ products is the exhibit of a car wheel cC
of Wilmington, Del. It is upon agricu
tural machines and products, and upo
certain classes of manufactured article
that our side of the water will have to r.
ly for excellence. In some of these w
can certainly surpass all other exhibitor
OF but in every department of legitimate a
and decoration we are far behind.
paintings we are far surpassed by othe
countries, and am not sure that we exc
any but Prussia, who has about the poo
est lot of pictures ever collected. Th
must be little humiliating to that cou
= try, since it is only in the Beoux Ar
department that she has any display at a
The visitors here will miss the militia,
and naval warlike displays that were
conspicuous atPhiladelphia. No Kru1
guns, no dummy soldiers; what is t
reason? Can it be that these first-cla
military powers, with standing armies
a million of men, more or less, are sens
~ tive about showing each other their hanC
= or is it because they have been so long a
so recently engaged that there is nothi
new to learn? c. A. S
- The sensation Tom Young created
the Potter committee, the other day lie;
to the hope that he will get into Congr
before Ben Butler gets out. Butler !
met with misfortune at the hands of F
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