445    THE WISCONSIN FARMER.



French eagle, while Naiads and Tritons ar,
playing about the ship. The figures compos



ing the group are all golden, and the sea it
which they sport and are borne along is beau
tifully represented by an immense mirrot
plate of French glass  The entire ornan eia
occupies a space abiut 10 by 20 feet, and is tht
admiration of every beholder.  From  thit
centre. avenues or nisles radiate in every
direction alter the manner of the Boulevardi
from  the grand Are de Triomphe in Paris
splendid glass show-casee of uniform height
and filled with articles of every kind and ot
incomparable beauty and elegance, being nr-
ranged on either side; while in the ample gal-
leries are immense and unequalled displays of
textile fabrics of wool, cotton, flax and silk,
hosiery of every description, laces, embeoid-
eries, gloves, ribbons, trimmings, and ten
thousand fancy articles, such as no people on
the earth but the French can design and man-
facture.
  The silks are not more remarkable for their
richness and costliness, than for the great
variety of the new patterns by which they
were woven, and the Gobelin and Beauvais
tapistries are of course superior to everything
of the kind in the world
  Case after case filled with brilliant collec-
tions of jewelry and precious stones-pearls
in profusion, (one exhibitor has six strings of
pearls worth $1W,OOO each,) diamonds, rubies,
emeralds, opals and sapphires. Other cases
displaying most beautiful imitations of all
these and others, made of paste, and yet so
perfect in appearance that ninety-nine out of
a hundred purchasers would not know the
difference. Tables and elevated platforms
covered with porcelains, ornamental glass,
bronzes, China, clocks of every pattern and
price. Then cases of wearing apparrel of
every sort and for every possible use a la
mode; toilet articles, fans, parasols, and every
other thing in demand by a refined and en-
lightened people.
  In the more solid branches of the French
exhibition, and in the department of ma.



dence that the French genius is not confined
to articles of luxury and works of art. Gate"



of cast iron, implements of various kinds,
manufactures of iron and steel, copper, brass,
aluminium and other metals. Fine specimens
of fire-arms and military equipments, hollow
ware, some machinery, millstones, &c., &c.
  In the department of Machinery in Motion
there are looms, spinning machinery, ma-
chinery for working in wood and in the met-
als, and most, conspicuous of all, magnificent
railway locomotives, passenger cars, &c.
  But there is one other department of the
magnificent French court that we must not
neglect, especially since it is not only promi-
nent in itself as a part of the French Exhibi-
tion, but also the most prominent of its kind
in the whole Exhibition. We refer to the de-
partment of Agricultural Products.   This
magnificent display of wools, grains, grasses,
seeds, fibres, fruits, wines, nuts, and whatever
else is produced by the agriculture of the
Empire, occupies the whole of the space under
two of the galleries, the space being divided
off into alcoves and the articles put up in
uniform and handsome glass jars, closely
arranged on innumerable shelves.
  It is certainly remarkable that a country in
which agriculture has always lagged in the
rear of every thing else, at least until quite
lately, should have borne off the palm in this
department of the Great Exhibition.   No
other nation approaches it.
It was said of the Great Napoleon that he
always scorned to do things at the halves. In
this element he is well represented by his
nephew, the present Emperor, whose ambition
is scarcely less universal or less intense Pin
every special direction.
However selfish his aims, nothing is surer
than that Napoleon III. understands what is
he true basis of the material prosperity and
glory of a nation, and he displays unusal wis-
lom in the application of his principles to
practice. Scarcely any ruler in the nations
of the world has done so much within so short
a space of time to develope the resources of



s.r Vn.. mouLlon, we snall tind convincing evi- his Empire. Agriculture,
mining, metallurgy,



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