United States.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2372, 23 October 1880, Page 3 (Supplement)

United States.

The exhibits in this section are both numerous and interesting. The loss of the Eric the Red, the vessel in which large quantities of goods for exhibition had been sent, has, of course, operated against the complete success of this court; nevertheless, our Yankee friends, with characteristic pluck, have gone ahead. They show us all kinds of things: matters connected with primaryeducation, school-furniture, printing, books, Albert-type engravings and coloured label work (wonderfully good), stationery, bookbinding samples, painting and drawing materials, house decorations, musical instruments, surgical instruments and appliances, mathematical instruments, a splendid collection of furniture, upholstery, and decorators’ work, glass, crystal, and stained ceramis and pottery, cutlery, carpets and tapestry, perfumery, clocks and watches (a grand show), bronzes, leatherwork, basketwork, textile fabrics and clothing of very superior qualities, toys, raw and manufactured products, chemicals, leather, samples of laboursaving machinery of most surprising excellence, firearms, alimentary products, and so forth. Our readers will understand how impossible it is for us to do more than note these matters. It would take all the newspaper space of Victoria alone to do justice to each article exhibited by our American cousins. Dickey and Pease, Racine, Wis., U.S.— The “ Little Giant ’ and “ Big Giant” farm fanning mills, or winnowing machines, are of extreme simplicity, and light, for shifting about, while the quantity of work got through in a given time is very large. With a small machine, the riddles of which are but two feet in width, GO to 80 bushels of wheat can be thoroughly cleaned, while the larger ones will finish 200 to 300 bushels per hour, according to the sample operated on. The sale for these machines in Victoria is already very (extensive, though only recently introduced, the price being moderate, while the winnower is thoroughly efficient. Williams Bros., Ithaca, United States, exhibit a 6 horse-power vertical steam engine, with multitublar boiler, and mounted on wrought iron travelling wheels. This is a highly-finished engine, fitted with the patent water heater, and all recognised valuable additions. Pressure of steam is obtained in a very short space of time, and the engine is eminently adapted for driving threshers and fanners, and general work in the field, as chaff-cutting, light sawing, pumping for irrigation, etc. This firm also shows the “Ithaca” wheel horse'hay rake, both selfdelivering and those for hand dumping, which are attractive-looking implements, extremely light, and moderate in prices. Chas. Eneu Johnson and Co., Philadelphia.—On this stand will be found samples of printing inks, of all colours and shades of colours; also many fine specimens of work turned out, on which the same have been used. Inks are shown for all possible purpOSeS_from printing a plain hand-bill in common black to the most elaborate oleograph sho w cards; also for woodcuts, fast newspaper presses, etc., etc. Their patent gloss varnish gives a fine finish to illustrations, etc., when used therewith. Patterns of bookbinding, in which inks of this maker have been used, are plentifully represented, and though executed some considerable time, are still fixed, and now looking as though prepared yester-

day. A book, entitled the “ American Encyclopedia of Printing,” will be found among the exhibits, an interesting reference for practical printers and others.