New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1878-09-25
(From our regular correspondent
PARIS, Sept. 9Th, 1878.

The Canadian trophy, towering
up hundred feet under the north
western dome, is an immense struc-
ture, composed Of the timber Of the
country, and is surrounded by speci-
mems Of work done in it, and by al
grand collection Of ornamental
woods; and may state, once for all,
that nearly all of English Colonies
have sel.t specimens Of their timber
and ornamental woods, which have
been prepared and set up with much
care. And the same remark will ap-
ply to many Of the geological and ma
tural history collections, especially
of Canada, which has a seperate list
of the former class. All the colonies
exhibit stuffed birds and animals.
and, generally, they are well set up
in the usual manner. But in the Cana
dian Department a novel and remark
able plan has been adopted, the car
casses of deer and other animals
and birds are suspended by the feet
as in a market or shop, land present
admirable tahleaux of ''dead game, !"
while the fish lie on something re-
sembling heritage, and look as natu
raj as if they had come out Of the
sea, orriver, an hour or two since on
ly. The trophy contains examples
of nearly every class in the. collec-
ton, and visitors wind up and down
its staircase continually, neither de-
tered by the the black deer that
stands sentinel at one door, nor by
the white one which performes the
same duty at the other.
People who take in hand an in
spection of the Paris Exhibition in
the expectation that it will furnish
them with faithful reflex of the
present aspect Of the manufacture Of
iron and steel are not only likely to
be largely disappointed, but are Ger.
tain, if Influenced in their Judgment
only by what they see in the Champ
de Mars, to be led to altogether in
correct conclusions. England, the
leading country in all that relates to
the metalurgy Of iron, is very made.
quate]y represented; America, the
next in Importance, comes SO fa1
short of putting forth its real
strength that it had much better
have left itself altogether out of the
reckoning; Germany, the third
greatest representative of iron and
steel, is in the same position as
America; and Belgium has been con
tent to leave itself very largely in the
the hands Of one firm-which, how
ever, has worthily discharged thu
trust. On the other hand; it will b.
found that such countries as Russia
Austria, and Sweden, with natura
resources and degrees of development
that only entitle them to aplace il
the third rank of the European fami
ly, have done more in the way ofas
serting their claims to recognition a
industrial Powers than might hav
been expected from them, even i
they had been much more liberall
endowed by nature, and geographic
ally within easier reach Of the Cham
de Mars. But after these consider
ations have been duly discounted
the collection exhibits Of iron ar
steel present educational facilitie
and scientific memorabilia quite q
notable, and probably, on the whole
much more complete, than any al
tecedant Exhibition. England an
America have had numerous oppo
tunities, Of which they have take
full advantage, Of showing to tt
world their capabilities and resou
ces in this sphere Of industrial e
fort;and heretofore the race has bee
so far to the swift, that the right
England to -eminence has hard
been challenged. It is fact mut
too notorious to be gainsaid that Il
pride of place enjoyed by Great b
tain has made her disregard Il
treats of foreign competition, and
is perhaps, due more to their insul
prejudice and contempt of DANCE
than to aught else, that Engli
firms have come SO far short Of tht
best efforts in the present Exhil
ton. But.the extent and charact
of foreign competition have be
brought very near and made unco
fortably apparent to the English
dustrials, who have never until NJ
ceased to believe in their mantle
destiny as ''the workshop Of
world and must. unless they s