STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. Ill 



NOTEWORTHY EXHIBITIONS. 



Under this heading we make brief mention of such displays in the 

 Pavilion as from their nature or workmanship merit a careful scrutiny; 

 but we do not wish to have the inference drawn that a failure to specially 

 notice implies lack of merit in any particular exhibition. 



The Mission Woollen Mills, of San Francisco, Lazard Freres, agent, 

 had a fine display of blankets, from the rough but useful miners' blan- 

 ket, to the soft and silky covering that adorns the luxurious coach, and 

 a large variety of tweeds, cassimeres and beavers; besides ladies' cloak- 

 ings and flannels of the finest texture, and buggy robes and sluice 

 blanketings. These mills were represented in the Exposition Univer- 

 sale at Paris, where they were awarded a gold medal. We are told 

 that they now employ three hundred men, and have fifty looms, six 

 thousand spindles, and eleven sets of cards in operation. The goods 

 thej' manufacture are a credit to our State. 



Dr. A. Folleau, of San Francisco, anatomical machinist, exhibited a 

 case of artificial limbs and apparatus for human deformities, which 

 attracted considerable attention from surgeons and physicians. Among 

 the apparatus exhibited by him, are some for lateral curvature of the 

 spine, for hip joint diseases, for club feet, for contraction of the muscles 

 of the neck, and for deformities of the neck (torticoli). He also had a 

 collection of trusses for inguinal, femoral, scrotal and umbilical diseases. 

 The whole of the exhibition was manufactured in the City of San Fran- 

 cisco by the exhibitor, and many of the most meritorious particulars are 

 the production of his inventive faculties. His artificial legs can be man- 

 ufactured at the same price as those made in Philadelphia, and combine 

 lightness with all necessary solidity. 



Liddle&Kaeding, of San Francisco, exhibited a collection of revolvers, 

 guns, rifles, pistols, etc.. and what they claim to be the first breech- 

 loading gun ever made on the Pacific coast. They also exhibited a 

 double-barrelled shot-gun, with a California laurel stock, and mounted 

 with Washoe silver — the first time laurel was ever used for the purpose. 

 The} r also had a large variety of sporting goods and fishing tackle. 



Joseph Dunkerly, taxidermist, who has taken up his residence in Sac- 

 ramento, exhibited a fine collection of stuffed foreign and domestic birds. 



H. Liebes & Co., of San Francisco, made a magnificent display of furs, 

 comprising cloaks, capes, muffs, sacks and collars, made of Hudson Bay 

 and Russian sable, mink, ermine, fitch, gray and black Astrachan and 

 Siberian squirrel; fur-seal sacks, trimmed with ermine and fitch; 

 Queen's pigeon capes and muffs, and black and white Cashmere goat and 

 swan skins. A large snake coiling around a stuffed tiger attracted 

 attention to their stand. This collection of furs was really very fine, 

 and deserved careful examination. 



N. P. Cole & Co., of San Francisco, exhibited a splendid display of 

 furniture, including a laurel wood bedroom set of nine pieces, the bureau, 

 table, etc., of which is topped with Italian statuary marble; also, a 

 laurel parlor set of seven pieces, covered with blue silk reps. These are 



