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EXHIBITION, CENTENNIAL. 



lemons, olives, figs, essential oils, and licorice 

 from Sicily, confections from Turin, etc. 



Spain made a fine and systematic exhibition 

 of her products, native and colonial. The col- 

 lection of wines, fine wools, oil, skins, and Cor- 

 dovan leather, and all the agricultural produc- 

 tions of the peninsula, varied with the products 

 of Spanish America and the Philippine Islands, 

 great logs of mahogany and rosewood, festoons 

 of tobacco and cases of cigars, chocolates, Ma- 

 nila hemp and cordage, and gums and resins, 

 formed a well-arranged and pleasing exhibit. 



The Portuguese exhibit was scarcely less 

 extensive and attractive, including her gen- 

 erous wines, olives, oils, silk-cocoons, fruits, 

 spices, and many other products. 



Belgium had a small exhibit of chiccory, 

 chocolate, cordials, fine leathers, flax, wool, 

 and millstones. 



The Netherlands exhibited seeds, grains, 

 plants, dye-woods, photographs of cattle, 

 Edam cheese, flax, tobacco, liquors, beet-su- 

 gar, a flour which does not spoil, chocolate, 

 fishing-implements, etc. 



Norway exhibited leather, spirits, tobacco, 

 essences, canned meats and fish, fishing-imple- 

 ments, and various sorts of preserved fish, 

 stuffed birds, etc. 



Sweden made a similar exhibit of her fisher- 

 ies, and interesting displays of leather, woods, 

 and grain, and one of dairy-utensils. 



Denmark had a small exhibit, embracing 

 pun ;h, spirits, grain, pickles, fish, etc. 



Russia sent fine specimens of grain and hemp, 

 liquors, arid food-preparations. 



Japan made an interesting and curious ex- 

 hibit of fishing and agricultural implements, 

 silk-cocoons, skins, tea, tobacco, sauces, and 

 all her native agricultural products and woods. 



Brazil had an extensive exhibit, in which 

 the principal classes were cotton, coffee, woods 

 of over one thousand varieties, sugar, tobacco, 

 rubber, beans, vegetable fibres, silk-cocoons, 

 gums and resins, cocoa, rice, and starch. 



Venezuela exhibited her coffees, oils, bal- 

 sams, rum and Angostura bitters, cochineal, 

 and other tropical products. 



The Argentine Confederation also made a 

 large and interesting exhibit of woods, grains, 

 tobacco, skins, leather, silk, gums, barks, sugar, 

 coffee, chocolate, honey, etc. 



Liberia took part in the agricultural exhibi- 

 tion, sending coffee of good quality, a newly- 

 introduced product in that country, with palm- 

 soap and palm-oil, arrow-root, indigo, ivory, 

 sugar, etc. 



A wagon annex to the Agricultural Build- 

 ing contained a collection of farm wagons and 

 carts, milk-carts, ice and bakers' wagons, etc., 

 of American make. 



Great Britain erected three buildings for the 

 use and entertainment of the commissioners ; 

 and Germany, Portugal, and Brazil, each had a 

 commissioners' pavilion. The British build- 

 ings were beautiful examples of the later Tu- 

 dor architecture. The Swedish Government 



exhibited a national school-house, with all the 

 educational appliances and furniture complete. 

 France had a Government building containing 

 charts, drawings, and models of public works. 

 Canada displayed her wood and lumber pro- 

 ductions in a log and timber house, constructed 

 from the products of her forests. Spain also 

 erected a Government exhibition building, a 

 soldiers' barracks, and a Cuban acclimation 

 garden. Turkey illustrated her sponge-fisher- 

 ies in a special building. Japan exhibited a 

 model dwelling. Morocco had a Moorish villa 

 for the display and sale of her productions. A 

 frame building erected by Chili contained mod- 

 els of amalgamating machines. England had 

 a boiler-house, and Sweden exhibited also a 

 meteorograph. Three private French exhibit- 

 ors erected special buildings. 



In a Turkish cafe, of true Oriental type, an 

 attractive Moresque pavilion, were dispensed 

 mocha, mastic, Samian wine, and Syrian tobac- 

 co. A Tunisian bazaar and Algerine pavilion 

 were less genuine speculative enterprises. Jap- 

 anese merchants had erected one of the most 

 tasteful structures on the grounds, much re- 

 marked as an example of Japanese architecture 

 and joinery, surrounded by a little garden 

 planted with curious specimens of their native 

 vegetation, amid which were scattered quaint 

 bronze figures of cranes and pigs : in this build- 

 ing a vast quantity of Japanese products and 

 manufactures were sold by the brisk native 

 salesmen among the crowds which thronged 

 the shop during the whole time of the Exhibi- 

 tion. A New England farmer's home and 

 kitchen, designed to present in contrast the 

 furniture, domestic appliances, and mode of 

 living in a Yankee dwelling a hundred years 

 ago and those of the present day, was fitted 

 out with many interesting relics in the ancient 

 part of the double structure, and was eagerly 

 and curiously visited. 



Twenty-six buildings were erected by the 

 States as State headquarters, two or three of 

 them containing large exhibitions of State prod- 

 ucts. The Ohio headquarters, constructed of 

 all the varieties of building-stone quarried in 

 the State, was solidly built after a neat design. 

 New Jersey's building exhibited her brick and 

 tiling products. The Mississippi headquar- 

 ters was in the rustic style of her early set- 

 tlers' cabins. The Connecticut building was 

 neatly designed in the English style of archi- 

 tecture used in colonial days. Pennsylvania 

 erected a building for her educational exhibit, 

 besides the State headquarters : it was perhaps 

 the most complete educational exhibit made by 

 any State. The other State buildings were those 

 of New York, Rhode Island, Vermont, New 

 Hampshire, Massachusetts, Virginia, West Vir- 

 ginia (whose building contained an exhibit of 

 the vegetable and mineral products of the 

 State, her woods, ores, coal, tobacco, marls, 

 mineral manufactures, etc.), Maryland, Dela- 

 ware, Michigan, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Missou- 

 ri, Tennessee, Wisconsin, andArkansas (whose 



