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the grateful Darmstadt women of the future,  The State Fair-Explanation of
Post-
and a generous enco tragement to all the ponement.-Tt was our intention to
give a
Fraurlob. who may come after him. If he full account in the August Number
of the
told the women of his fine old town that they circumstances which led to
the postponement
were as stout a, unicorns, plump, healthy, of the State Fair the present
year; but the
prolific of robust, sturdy children, industri- columns were running-over
full before we
ous without stint, aind fond of just praise, I were aware of it, and as full
notice and ex-
shall not quarrel with his verse; but if he | planation had been published
in most of the
worshipped them  as the representatives of newspapers, we id not think best
to delay
those glorious Homeric ideals which have for the press and put back the number
for the
ages been the admiration of the world, then purpose of reiterating what had
already been
I must beg to demur.                        so generally advertised.
   The old Electoral Palace, with the museum  We are glad to find that disappointment
is
 of Roman and other antiquities: the Town felt by a good many friends of
the Society
 Library ot' 100.000 volumes-among them the! and of agriculture in the different
portions of
 first Psalter ever printed: the grand ducal the State on account of the
decision made by
 Palace. originally the house of the Teutonic the Board. It shows that there
is some vital-
 ! Order. srid once wcupied by Napoleon I; the ity still left in the farming
community, and
 bridge of boats across the Rhine. and a great augurs well for the future.
It is to be re-
 many other objects challenge the travellers gretted that this positive sentiment
did not
 attention. lint the most interesting of them  make itself apparent on the
occasion of the
 all are the relics of Roman power which ear- meeting of the Executive Committee
on the
 ry one back through the long interval of Rev- 16th of .uly, when it might
have been of more
 enfeen hundred and ninety-five years, when avail.
 the Legion of Tittis, after the conquest of Je-  it swas our owt desire
that an attempt
I rusalem. came to this place and established a should be made to hold a
Fair, even at that
garrison which was tIn impose upon the Ger- late date, and we accordingly
looked with a
mans the government and institutions of the hopeful anxiety to the council
that should be
Great Empire. It was from the very Wiesba- held on that dey. Each of the
15 members of
den I see ill the distance, that. in times a lit- the Board was requested
to attend the meet-
  tle later. the hordes of native warriors poured ing and to come prepared
to represent the
i down upon the Roman Eagles and drove them  sentiment of his sectiou of
the State as to
  beyond this province of the Rhine, and thus whhether we should attempt
a Fair. But one
  began the war which, after many alternate reported favorably, and the minority
present,
  defeats and victories, resulted, at last, in giv- had they been of one
mind and for the exhi-
  ing these rich valleys of the Rhine and its bition, should hardly have
been' willing to
  tributaries to the Germans for an undisputed take the responsibility. But
even that small
  inheritance. Thus waneth the power and the- minority were not all clear
as to the possibil-
  glory of one empire that another, better fitted, ity of a successful exhibition
before the meet-
  for some reason, to fulfill the designs of Pro- ing was called, and after
the adverse reports
  vidence, may he built up on its ruins. Thus from  the majority who did
not attend, it
  it hath ever been, and thus will it ever con- seemed to them a settled
matter that, under
  tinue to be.                                the circumstances of general
indisposition-
    Our Thanks are hereby tendered to those of the lateness of the day, giving
but little
  County Ag Societies which have so liberally time to advertise and wake
up the people, to
  used the Farmfr for premiums. It's a good select and prepare grounds, and
none at all
  plan and helps three parties at one and the to prepare crops, stock and
machinery for the
  same time.                                  exhibition-of the general absorption
of the