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Agkicultural Depaktment Building. 



needlework and embroidery, baskets, furniture and woodenware, and 

 oil paintings, and a copy of " Der Urwaldsbote," published in 

 Blumenan, shows that the language of the Fatherland is not forgotten 

 in the midst of the new surroundings of Brazil. 



Mere enumeration of the kinds of exhibits is tedious alike to writer 

 and to reader; it leaves a confused impression on the mind. In any 

 exposition, even a sm.all one such as this in Eio, the best that can be 

 done is to single out a few things for special mention. The exhibit 

 made by the director of the Botanical Garden is representative, so far as 

 it was possible to make it under the circumstances. In and around a 

 glass pavilion there are shown, in pots, 1,337 selected plants, all care- 



