The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1885-03-25
Our Exposition Letter.
From our regular correspondent ]

luzzle aud confound the correspondent IL
,is efforts TO portray it, Think Of tn,
lain building alone, covering over thirty
cres, (33 it is said,) and every nook anc
oruer, all the vast floor and the vust gal
cries filed with varieties Of Exhibits, from
III lands, from every cline and sea. Every
levice Of man, Of art, is here represented
,ud in competition.
Nearly half a million square feet Of space
this building is devoted to machinery
lone, aud is fully occupied There are
,early $50 different steam engines, and rep
esenting 1000 horse power many Of these
IRE used in operating machinery, and are
upplied with steam from main battery
{ 81 large boilers, and with miles Of shafts.
Dulleys aud myriads of wheelsin operation,
he scene simply battles description Il
his department is represensed all the latest
,ud best modern inventions in wood and
ron working, farm and factory implements
md devices, from the smallest pin papering
machine up to the heavy cotton compress,
whose pressure power is $500 tons aud
weight 4l0, 900 pounds, the largest machine
pu the ground. or cotton, corn, wheat,
sugar, and other farm and crop working
Implements and machinery, there is no eud.
The foreign exhibits in the main building
IRE of wonderful interest, though not so
extensive rs we're shown in the Cen tennial
exposition, several Nations there represeu-
tel, have no official exhibits here But the
,bsence Of theseis fully atoned for in splen-
lid private displays, and by Jamaicn, the
tepuJic of Honduras, British Honduras,
! iuatamala, Mexico China aud Japan, whose
respective governments, severally send
| magnificent representations Of their natural
resources, woods, ores, grains, medicinal
substances, manufactures aud arts, making
Z most gratifying exhibition Of their indus
rial aud social progress.
The most extensive of these foreign ex-
libits is that of Mexico, which covers ten
thousand feet space, and Rstonishes every
one with both excellence and magnitude
In all varieties of leather, cloth and of the
more delicate fabrics, the skill Of her artists
Ind mechanics is shown to be scarcely a
whit behind that of our own, or of any
jther people, aud at one bound Mexico has
Iere achieved the respect ana admiration
If the world. Her government, with rare
iberality, appropriated four hundred thou
sand dollars to defray the expense of this
display, and 1t will return to her twenty
told in capital, which will thereby be at
,raoted to her country Japan makes in ad-
tition to a general q most remarkable edu-
,atioual exhibit, scarcely second to that
uade 10y our own government and certain
~ superior to those made by some of our
own States. Her books, school apparatus
and furniture, are all of the best character,
aud her h CHER and common schools are
fully abreast of the age in methods and
ums.
Siam also has a small space in the foreign
section, which is occupied with avery small
,ud humble exhibit, calculated to attract
he attention Of the missionary, and to
awaken the sympathy Of every visitor. i,
IS composed of a few cases, filled with
samples Of the coarse cotton goods Of which
The garments of her poor people are modei
TN old-ume loom on which the cloth 1t
woven, aud the haud-tools with which heI
cotton is cultivated are also shown. tn,
spaces allotted to France Great Britain
Russia, Germany, Italy, and to the SoutL
American countries, are wholly occupied il
this building. with private exhibits, on sale
and comprising fine goods cloths, glasl
and bronze wares, with many curious spec
talties peculiar to those countries,
A wonderful exhibit in the furniture de
b partment is that of chairs, rattan and reet
furniture, Of a thousand different designs
shown by Haywood Bros, q Co., of Gardner
, (Mass.) establishediu 1927, giving now en-
b ploymeut to LOO men, aud represeute,
uera by Mr.. F. NJ. Richardson, who ha
o. been with the company for fifteen years
It is worth the entire expense Of a VISIT t
the Exposition to see their most beautiful
exhibit, which is also an honor to the tast
and skill of American workmen,
, Mardi Gras week brought great crowd
q to the city, who took the opportunity o
Z witnessing both the carnival aud Of visitin
f. the Exposition. The three carnival parade
l. occupied two uighlsand a day, during whio
D., Canal and other streets through which the
q passed. were densely packed with a hundre
D., thousand spectators, some say two to thre
hundred thousand, but that could not b
Ia possible The parade Of the "Mysti
90 Krewe," or knights Of Proteus," repre-
s sented in l8 pieces or "aoats, the Myth
and worship of China Rex, appeared a
Charles the 7yh of France, representing
his day parade various scenes aud character
n from Scotrs "Iyauhoe, aud the third an
q last parade, that Of the knights of Momua
ar represented various beautiful legends an
e., fairy tales, all being very fue aud attraotiv,
~ It is said that this carnival was prepared &
w an expenseof one hundred thousand dollar
he In concluding this letter, allow me {
'y say that, any reports to the contrary, visi
ors may come here in the full assuranC
ar that they win not be disappointed. Th
a. Exposition is great beyond any like Fa
ID ever held, and is worth double to any0n,
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