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old military school building was largely torn down and then rebuilt, 

 and one of the other buildings, which before was standing half-done 

 and unused, has been completed and made into a fine permanent 

 structure of stone. The land has been graded and cleared. A new 

 sea-wall and boulevard have been built out to the exposition grounds. 

 This is all clearly for the permanent advantage of the city, although 

 the exposition itself, as a whole, will doubtless be a financial failure. 



Brazil is an immense country. From the northern states with 

 their vast forests — which most of us make the mistake of thinking 

 cover the larger part of the country- — to the southern states of Eio 

 Grande do Sul and Santa Catharina, it includes climates of many 

 kinds. The visitor to this exposition will see rubber and wheat ; sugar- 

 cane and corn; cotton, rice, manioc, coffee, mate, grapes, tobacco, 

 alfalfa, sorghum. He will see most of the familiar vegetables and 

 cereals of home, and next to them can examine the characteristic tropical 

 woods from the forests of the Amazon. Amazonas and Para on the 

 north have sent the products of the tropics; Minas Geraes has sent its 

 famous cheeses, made from the milk of cows pastured on its great 

 inland campos, as well as specimens of its gold and diamonds and 

 precious minerals, and a fine model of its well-known Morro Velho mine. 

 Santa Catharina on the south sends wheat and corn, wine, tobacco, 

 cotton, coffee, dried beef, cheese, tinned butter, and the like — products 

 of its temperate climate and of its cattle industry. It is probable that 

 most Brazilians, as well as most foreigners, will be surprised at the 

 variety of food-stuffs here exhibited, but it is certain that few visitors 

 to this exposition will expect to see such evidence as is here given 

 of the development of different industries in Brazil. Even the leading 

 newspapers of Rio express surprise at the exhibits of cotton and woolen 

 cloth; of footwear and of hats; of canned foods; of wines and beer; 

 of dairy products, furniture, glassware, pottery and iron-work. The 

 pride of Brazilians is especially appealed to by the exhibit of native 

 foundry-work, of agricultural implements an3 of machinery of various 

 kinds, for preparing rice, manioc, coffee and sugar-cane. By " special 

 concession " on the part of the government, Germany and the United 

 States have been permitted to exhibit maehiner}^, some of it in opera- 

 tion. The former country shows agricultural implements and ma- 

 chinery for preparing rice, manioc, etc. From the United States 

 there are exhibits by the United Shoe Machinery Co., the Continental 

 Gin Co., of Birmingham, Ala., the Oliver Chilled Plow Co., of Indiana, 

 and the Loomis Co., of Indiana. The Federal District (Rio de 

 Janeiro) makes an effective showing with furniture and cabinet work, 

 carriages and wagons, flour, glassware, laces, some excellent pottery 

 and tiles, drugs and chemicals, bricks, wooden-ware, wire work, and a 

 good collection of vegetables (fresh and dried) grown in the market 



