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PAEIS UNIYEESAL 
placing it out of our power to draw more than one prize on 
the whole, the fact that some of our most valuable and at¬ 
tractive specimens of mineral products never reached Paris, or 
could not be found, and the fact that such corltributions as did 
arrive reached there at so late a day that it was impossible to 
bring them to the notice of jurors until after they had conclu¬ 
ded their work and delivered their reports to the Imperial 
Commmission. For the prizes and notices actually awarded 
us, we are indebted, first of course, to the excellent charaeter 
of the products exhibited, but secondly and largely to the 
generous courtesy of the members of the International Jury, 
who, for the sake of doing our exhibits the justiee the State 
itself had failed to do, kindly consented, in a few instances, to 
proeure the amendment of their awards in our behalf. 
FINAL DISPOSITION OF WISCONSIN PKODUCTS. 
The date fixed by imperial decree for the final close of the 
Exposition was Kov. 1st. To remain until so late a day was 
neither in accordance with my own plans and expectations, 
nor, under the circumstances, was it practicable for me to do 
so. And, accordingly, after devoting much additional time 
and labor to the study of the exposition by countries and groups 
as well as to the collection of samples of the products of for¬ 
eign lands, and arranging with American gentlemen intending 
to remain until the close of the Exposition, for the sale of cer¬ 
tain articles as per order of eontributors, and for the packing 
of others, I returned to America, reaching Wisconsin in the 
month of August. 
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ARKIVAL HOME AND DISTRIBUTION OF ARTICLFS SENT TO 
PARIS. 
Late in the winter and during the spring and summer, and 
more reeent months, the articles sent to Paris returned. As 
the government of the United States was in no way responsi¬ 
ble for the return of contributions, and as the Wisconsin Com¬ 
mission had originally became responsible, not only for their 
return to Wisconsin, but for their safe delivery, without charges, 
to their respective owners, I directed the parties to whom the 
cases were consigned at new York to ship all such articles as 
