material from which this famous wine is manufactured. Something 
in the character of the soil and modes of culture give especial delicacy 
of taste and peculiar bouquet to the juice, which qualities are preserved 
and intensified by careful and scientific manipulation. About one-fourth 
of the vineyards are planted with the white grape and three-fourths 
with the black grape, but both produce white wine, the juice of the 
black grapes being drawn from the press before the coloring-matter of 
the skins has mingled with it. In an unusually good year, when the 
black grapes are especially mature, the wine receives a slight pinkish 
or amber tinge, which is regarded as an evidence of extra good 
quality. The best growth of black grapes is found at Ay, Mareuil, 
Champillon, Hautevillers, Dizy, Epernay, Pierry, Camieres, and Aveney- 
on the Marne; and at Bouzy, Verzenay, Sillery, Mailly, and Rilly, on the 
mountain of Rheims. The best white grapes are grown at Cramant, 
Avize, Le Mesnil, Oger, Grauves, and Cuis, to the south of Epernay. 
Other celebrated wine-districts are also represented by numerous sam- 
ples—Bourdeaux, Burgundy, Jura, Saumur, &c. The most celebrated 
brands of brandy, eau-de-vie, and other preparations of alcoholic drinks, 
are also on exhibition. In some cases there are collective exhibits by 
municipal or other corporations. The catalogue, however, contains no 
mention of malt liquors from France. The Germanic taste for beer 
seems to have been eradicated from the Frenchman, whose tastes are 
rather those of the Peninsular-European races, with whose blood his 
own is so largely mixed. Germany presents a large array of local brands 
of wine, alcoholic and malt liquors. The last are especially noted in a 
collective exhibit from Bavaria, representing the leading brewers of that 
kingdom. The rich wine-production of Austro-Hungary has but few 
representatives at the Centennial, and the alcoholic and malt liquors 
fewer still. Switzerland concocts the diabolical green and white ab- 
sinthe. Belgium sends a few cordials and one or two brands of beer; 
Netherlands, gin of the Schiedam brand, and some elaborate alcoholic 
preparations; Sweden, whisky from reindeer-moss, ale, and prepared 
punch; Norway, alcoholic and malt liquors. Italy has a long list of 
wines and spirituous liquors, but none of malt. From Brazil comes 
aguardiente, from sugar-cane, and also spirits extracted from maté and 
quinces. A few wines are noted, but not of a generally-known charac- 
ter. The Argentine Republic sends chacoli wine, aguardiente, cherry- 
liquor, &c. 
Textile substances, animal or vegetable-—Our great southern staple, 
cotton, is presented mostly in collective exhibits, embracing all the local 
varieties of this country, with a large representation of the fibers grown 
in foreign lands. Hemp, flax, wool, shoddy, curled hair, bristles, horse- 
hair, hair-moss are also shown in great variety. England shows wools, In- 
dian rhea, and other fibers, including wool made from old rags, called in 
this country shoddy; Canada has wool, flax, and hair, and fabrics made 
from them; France has raw silk and cocoons; Germany, merino wool 
and horse-hair; Belgium, flax, wool, and white bristles; Sweden, flax 
rotted by chemicals; Italy, raw and combed hemp; Brazil had a hand- 
some display of cotton, which was consumed by accident, threatening a 
general conflagration; also hemp-flax, jute, wool; hair, animal and veg- 
etable; silk and silk-worms, tow, flax, &c.; Argentine Republic, cotton, 
chaguar thread and bark, yuchan-fiber, caraguata-fiber and fabrics made 
of it, silk and cocoons, flax, wool, angora fleece, alpaca wool, cow-hair, 
hair-ropes, &c. 
Machines, implements, and processes of manufacture.—In this depart- 
ment, which occupies almost half the building, American inventive genius 
