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  2. QUEENSLAND.

    We have already alluded to the useful collcetion of fibres shown by the Government Botanist, Mr. Walter Hill, but there is yet another exhibitor who is quite an enthusiast in fibres, and whose constant aim and purpose of life in to ...

    Article : 3,423 words
  3. BELGIUM.

    Speaking of the furniture amongst the Austrian exhibits brings us to some similar articles, but of different materials in the Belgian court. The finely appointed is from the factory of Leopold de Monter, of Brussels. The entire ...

    Article : 485 words
  4. GREAT BRITAIN.

    In the manufacture of edged tools, the manufacturers of the mother country have allowed the Americans to get a long way ahead of them. Any tradesman or workman now prefers American to English implements, and will give a ...

    Article : 837 words
  5. TASMANIA.

    In resuming our notice of the exhibits from the "little island," we desire to bear testimony to the very creditable specimen of work shown by the ladies of Tasmania. There is a strong desire shown by them to make their homes ...

    Article : 664 words
  6. FRANCE.

    The "History of a Pin" has been graphically written, Douglas Jerrold had his "Story of a Feather;" but it is reserved for some ingenious writer to sketch out the career of a thimble as exemplified in the French court by an ...

    Article : 763 words
  7. AUSTRIA.

    Amongst the collection of pipes of Arnold Trebitsch, of Vienna, are some curious specimens, the bowls being composed of dogs' heads with coloured ears, and the heads of beautiful women, to add, no doubt, their influence to ...

    Article : 727 words
  8. FIJI.

    The Fijian court, although a small one, presents objects of great interest to those who, looking to the future, remember that its islands, numbering nearly 100, contain some 400 square miles capable of growing everything ...

    Article : 582 words
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