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single contributions. In five it had two ; in one it had three ; in one it had four ; in one, that of textile fabrics, it had seven ; in one other, that of machinery, it had seventeen. Our manufacturers of condensed food and preserved fruit and vegetables (Group IV.) exhibited two excellent examples, the one of canned articles, the other of cocoa and chocolate. Our engravers, book-printers, lithographers, photographers and decorators (Group XII.) were represented by Prang’s chromo-lithographs, which, with a solitary landscape-painting by Mr. C. Granville Way, of Boston, were the sole indications of progress in our artistic development. Our philosophical and surgical instruments (Group XIV.) were two models, the one of an " Hyperbolical Paraboloid,” the other of an "Hyperboloid” and a "Hygrodiek.” In the great field of chemical industries (Group III.), we were represented by some lubricating oil, some leather-dressing, and by the " Rising Sun Stove Polish.”
It does not, of course, need to be said that no discrimination whatever had been exercised as regards a selection of exhibits in the case of the State, any more than in that of the nation, and in six only of the fourteen groups in which she was represented, were the contributions such as to call for special commendation. Among the textiles (Group V.) were specimens ot cassimeres, and of carpets of excellent quality produced in Massachusetts by Blackinton & Sons, of North Adams, and by the Bigelow Carpet Co., of Clinton, though forwarded by New York selling agents. Gardner Brewer & Co. also exhibited some superior shirtings, though these again were manufactured in New Hampshire. In Group VII., the contribution of the Douglas Axe Co. was highly creditable. In Group VIII., A. S. Parks, of Winchendon, exhibited water-pails, manufactured on the spot, and B. F. Sturtevant, of Boston, some specimens of prepared wood for shoe-pegs, both of which exhibits received and deserved high commend- ation. In Group XV., our single contribution of musical instruments—for our great piano manufacturers were not represented—were some highly creditable organs, from the Mason & Hamlin Organ Co., of Boston ; and in Group XVI. the Smith & Wesson revolvers fairly represented our progress