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EXHIBITION, CENTENNIAL. 



with Oriental designs, and other fine speci- 

 mens. 



The Netherlands exhibition was well selected 

 anl representative, having been organized by 

 the Government. The educational, agricult- 

 ural, and industrial methods of the kingdom 

 were well illustrated. There were a great 

 number of charts and drawings, illustrating 

 the system of public works in Holland, and 

 the plans for draining the Zuyder Zee. There 

 were plans also of Dutch dwellings and public 

 buildings, model working-men's homes, school- 

 houses, etc. The book and music publishers 

 made a good exhibit. In the small exhibition 

 of manufactures, woolens for male ware, fine 

 blankets, excellent imitations of Turkish car- 

 pets, handsome oil-cloths, clay-pipes, belting, 

 and handsome tiles, after the old Delft manner, 

 were noticeable ; and also some fine lacquered 

 work, particularly a screen, with illustrations 

 from Goethe and Schiller. The colonial dis- 

 play was fine, including the cereals, spices, 

 and woods of the Dutch East Indies, and the 

 weapons, embroideries, filigree, and rich webs 

 made by the natives. 



The Belgians made a good exhibition of their 

 excellent manufactures. Of special note were 

 the laces of Mechlin and Brussels, the cloths 

 of Verviers, the tapestries of Malines, the linens, 

 paper materials, fine glass, and wood-carvings, 

 notably an elaborate wooden pulpit, various 

 fancy articles, and a large display of fire-arms. 



The German exhibition was strong in cheap 

 and substantial textiles and articles of general 

 utility, besides containing the best book ex- 

 hibit and the best display of fine porcelain in 

 the Fair. The Saxon and other cloth-makers 

 filled large booths with their cloths for male 

 wear, more durable than fine, their calicoes 

 and mixed goods, velveteens ; and scattered 

 among these were some rich velvets and beau- 

 tifully-figured textures. Several piano-makers 

 exhibited excellent instruments. The peasant 

 clock-makers of the Black Forest, and their 

 rivals in Freiburg, the toy-makers of Nurem- 

 berg and Magdeburg, the looking-glass man- 

 ufacturers, the pencil-makers (Faber and his 

 principal competitor), the manufacturers of 

 cheap jewelry, the cutlers, and the dealers in 

 common bronzes, all set up displays more or 

 less extensive. Of the fine bronzes of Berlin 

 none were sent. Of chemical products there 

 was a considerable variety, including dyes, 

 gelatine, medicinal barks, essential oils, bronze 

 powders, soap, cologne- water, etc. One case 

 contained all the varieties of amber found in 

 the Baltic. A collection of surgical instruments 

 and appliances included models of hospital 

 wards and a hospital train, and photographic 

 illustrations of operations, and all kinds of in- 

 struments. The cheap gold and the imitation 

 jewelry were very fine of their kind, and for 

 the most part tastefully designed. Conspicuous 

 in the magnificent display of the Royal Porce- 

 lain Manufactory of Berlin were the Borussia 

 vase, a vase containing a copy of Guide's 



Aurora, one representing Otho in the tomb of 

 Charlemagne, after Kaulbach, a table-top, with 

 a copy of Raphael's Poetry, and a vase with a 

 finely-rendered design of Klober's, among a 

 great number of other finely-painted and rich- 

 ly-decorated pieces, in which the grounds and 

 flat colors were wonderfully even and brilliant. 

 A collection of gray and blue stone- ware wine- 

 jugs and beer-mugs in the old German style 

 was interesting. 



In the Austro-Hungarian exhibition the 

 most noticeable group was the brilliant col- 

 lection of Bohemian glass. The finest speci- 

 mens were in pure white glass, with flowers, 

 leaves, arabesques, etc., ground into their sur- 

 face with the emery-wheel. There were also 

 fine examples of ruby and emerald ware, with 

 gilded ornaments, and cheaper samples of dark- 

 green glass in the ancient Vienna style. The 

 Bohemian porcelain also is of very fine text- 

 ure, and the exhibited samples were tastefully 

 decorated ; and in the Hungarian exhibit of 

 china-ware there were some fine imitations of 

 Chinese and early European styles from the 

 town of Herend. From Innspruck were sent 

 some fine stained-glass windows. The display 

 of meerschaum carving from Vienna was very 

 large and fine. Other exhibits were Russia 

 leather from Vienna, the garnet jewelry of 

 Prague, Hungarian fire-opals, Viennese silks 

 and shawls, delicate laces from the Erzgebirge, 

 bent-wood and hollow-iron furniture from 

 Vienna, woolens and cottons, ready-made 

 clothing, buttons, chemicals, perfumes, musical 

 instruments, mirrors, with paintings on their 

 faces, and a fine collection of photographs. 



In the Swiss section all the principal exports 

 of the republic were shown. Forty-five watch^ 

 makers exhibited every imaginable variety of 

 watches and chronometers, some of them so 

 minute as to be inserted in a finger-ring or the 

 top of a pencil-holder. There were good ex- 

 hibits of scientific instruments, electrical clocks, 

 and music-boxes. Prominent exhibits also 

 were the handsome laces and embroideries of 

 Appenzell and St. Gallen, the carved-wood 

 trinkets from the Bernese Oberland, and the 

 public exhibits of education and engineering, 

 including some masterpieces of chartography. 

 Other Swiss specialties were the silk bolting- 

 cloths, braids for ladies' hats, red-cotton cloth 

 for the Eastern trade, condensed milk, choco- 

 late, dyes, and liquors. 



The Swedish exhibition was one of the 

 largest in the Fair, and was to most people an 

 unexpected revelation of the state of arts and 

 manufactures in that country. The iron ex- 

 hibit, embracing samples of pig-metal, rails, 

 railroad axles, nails, spikes, bars, and pipes, 

 and ingots of iron and steel, and maps of the 

 mining-regions, and drawings of furnaces and 

 machinery, was the largest one in the Fair. 

 The exhibit of furs was fine. There was also 

 a very attractive display of porcelain, showing 

 rare and beautiful colors and rich ornamenta- 

 tion : the Parian ware, with delicately-moulded 



