Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1893-08-04

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IN THE SWEDISH BUILDING.
women how to work them out. One mag.
nificent rug, thick and soft, rich in design
and color, measures 16x1s feet, and is
worth $3.50. Among the novelties are a
cow-milking machine and skates of alum.
inium.
Sweden's principal exhibit is in the Ma
tional building, which is so large and sc
we'll arranged that it may he said to be an
exposition of itself. There are few more
interesting buildings than this on the ex.
position grounds, and I advise my readers
to be sure to see it. At first glance one
can see that the Swedes excel in iron and
steel work. Swedish iron is famous the
world over, and much of it is used by
founders in this country and England.
The Swedes know how to work it as well
as any one, and they make the most of it.
They show fine cannons, shells, CONNER.
cial iron, saws, tools, cutlery. The Sand.
vik Steel works exhibit the largest band
saw in the world, being 220 feet long, a
foot wide and weighing CT pounds, all
rolled from one piece of steel. Novel are
the advertising cards which this firm gives
away. They are made of steel only two
one-thousandths of an inch in thickness.
tempered and polished. There are hunting
horns five feet long, made of steel brill.
iantly polished and handsomely decorated.
In their axes and other implements the
Swedes pay America a compliment by
claiming that certain wares are as good as
those made in Ohio and Pennsylvania.
The Swedes make excellent tile ware,
and one OF their prettiest pieces here is a
fountain constructed of tile, which you see
near the entrance. Their matches arc fa.
nous the world over. In cut glass they
produce ware which is almost equal to that
made in England and the United States.
Their leather work, particularly their
bookblndings and picture frames of leath.
er, are admirable. They are almost az
adept as the Russians, who are their near
neighbors to the east, in the manipulation
OF furs. They show many carvings of am.
bilious and effective workmanship, and
n inlaid cabinet with medallions in steel
tones that is q gem, and fully worth the
price asked for it, 500. In Sweden the
KATE is a great thing, and skates are
manufactured in endless variety, Here is
the model of a skater with a sail lifted on
bamboo poles, q favorite sport on the
frozen lakes of Sweden. There is q great
variety of skis, some of them eight or ten
feet long, and handsomely finished Law.
figures, placed in inches about the hall.
show how the ski is used in descending a
mountain side. Other lay figures are used
to illustrate the method of travelling with
reindeer and pulkas, and one room is fitted
up az the interior of a peasants house.
where a little domestic tragedy is being
enacted. 1t is the death of the baby. and
the little white coffin stands near by.
With this single exception the entire
Swedish exhibit is rather joyful. There
are everywhere suggestions of lightness
and gaiety, indicative that life in the
frozen north is not as arduous as some eo-
pie have thought it. Thereare pictures of
the skating rink of the Stockholm skating
club, and models of the yachts of the
yachting club Of the same city. There are
books which treat of the favorite games of
the Swedes, and some of their carniyals on
the snow are gay indeed.
The building and its contents are skill.
fully arranged. The Swedes are like the
French in one particular, at least; they un.
derstand the art of display, and know the
value OF marking their wares with signs
which tell the visitor what he wants to
know. TIT Swedes appear to have a love
Tor details, and a mastery of them, more
over; for I notice that they give on most of
their placards the exact dimensions. the
weights and other data concerning the
wares which they have to show, thus offer
ing invaluable assistance to the visitor
who is in search of accurate or technical
information. In view of this excellent
provision n has the less right to com
plain Of the lack Of intelligent attendants
who are able to speak English and who
are willing politely to explain features of
the exhibit about which one NAV wish tn
ask questions.
In furniture the Swedes are skilful and
aesthetic. l have seen nothing in the ex-
position that l more eagerly wanted to
carry away with me than a library book
case, made in two sections with carved
decorations, and an easy chair between.
the whole being one piece of furniture and
lndcscribably coy and attractive. Our
Scandinavian friends, both Norge and
svensk, have done right well at the expo-
slt'on Which commentaries the discovery
by an Italian smiling under the Spanish
flag Of a land which the Norsemen had
probably discovered some 500 wears beforc.
WALTER WELLMAN.
A.. Wermuth, German commissioner to
the Worlds fair, says he has word, unof-
dcially, that the emperor il considering a
visit to the exposition.