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NOTEWORTHY EXHIBITIONS. 



A large portion of space was devoted to the various sewing machine 

 companies, and they had each well filled their respective allotments of 

 room with samples of their machines and the work produced by them ; 

 and busy operatives kept up a constant clicking, as they elucidated to 

 the spectators the manner of operating, and expanded upon the superior 

 workmanship produced by the machine in which they were interested. 

 The Wheeler & Wilson, Singer, Florence, Grover & Baker, Elliptic, Howe 

 and Weed machines were all represented. 



The Pacific Plate Works, of San Francisco, exhibited a case containing 

 fine specimens of silver plating, such as castors, water pitchers, milk 

 pitchers, sugar bowls, etc. 



The Capital Woollen Mills, of Sacramento, had on exhibition numerous 

 grades of blankets, from the coarsest to the finest varieties, including a 

 pair, of which each is one hundred and thirty inches wide and one hun- 

 dred and seventy inches long, intended for the Salt Lake trade. Why 

 such large blankets are peculiarly needed for the Salt Lake trade we 

 know not. Probably the intention is to make them large enough to 

 cover a husband and wives ; but if this is the object, at what dimensions 

 will they stop ? These mills also exhibited fancy cassimeres and flan- 

 nels, and a roll of beaver cloth of their own manufacture. At the present 

 time they are onty running four sets of woollen machinery, this being 

 one-third of their capacity. They expect, however, to soon enlarge their 

 operations. 



Norton Bush, the gifted young California artist, contributed quite a 

 number of his beautiful pictures, including "Chagres River," "Glimpse 

 of Tropic Land," two " Tropical Sketches," " Lake Tahoe," " Donner 

 Lake," " American River, near the Summit," " Bay of Panama." " Castle 

 Rock," and " Sketch in the Straits of Carquinez." His tropical pictures 

 were especially meritorious, and received high encomiums from the 

 critical. The gorgeousness and indolence of tropic life are favorite sub- 

 jects with Bush, and in their delineation he excels. The two small oval 

 framed pictures, entitled " Tropical Sketches," were gems in their way. 



J. Wise, of San Francisco, exhibited several fine oil portraits of gen- 

 tlemen and ladies, as samples of his skill in that art. 



William Shew, of San Francisco, contributed a large collection of 

 photographs, including ivoiytypes, pearl pictures, etc., most of which, 

 through their constant presence at our State fairs, have become quite 

 familiar to our citizens. The pictures are very life-like, and bear very 

 favorable testimony to the quality of the work produced at this gentle- 

 men's galley. 



Mrs. Sarah M. Coggins, of Sacramento, exhibited some beautiful speci- 

 mens of her skill with the brush in coloring photographs. The samples 

 on exhibition were very delicately and truthfully tinted, and worthy of 

 close attention. 



Mrs. W. E. Brown, of Sacramento, had on exhibition sevei'al very fine 

 oil paintings, including "Donner Lake. Sunrise," "Donner Lake, Sun- 



