ces of
chains, pearls and gems; stomachers and tablets of gold studded with gems
or strung by chains of pearls and turquoises with solitaire or enamelled
pendants; armlets, bracelets, rings; bangles, anklets and toe-rings of
gold and all the jewels of the East. A Jeypore hair-comb shown in one of
the cases has a setting of emerald and ruby enamel on gold, surmounted by
a curved row of large pearls, all on a level and each tipped with a green
bead. Below is a row of small diamonds set among the green and red
enamelled gold leaves which support the pearls. Below these again is a row
of small pearls with an enamelled scroll-work set with diamonds between it
and a third row of pearls; below which is a continuous row of small
diamonds, forming the lower edge of the comb just above the gold teeth.

England's colonies make a great show at the Exposition. The Canadian
pagoda, which occupies one of the domed apartments at the corners of the
Palais, rises from a base of forty feet square, and consists of a series
of stories of gradually-decreasing area, surrounded by balconies from
which extended views of the Salle d'Iena and the foreign machinery gallery
are obtained. The pagoda itself is occupied by Canadian exhibits, but
around it are grouped specimens of the mineral and vegetable wealth and
manufacturing enterprise of Australia and the Cape of Good Hope.
Australia, which is a continent in itself, has become of so much
importance that it is no longer content with a single or with a collective
exhibit, and the various colonies make separate displays in another part
of the building. That around the Canadian trophy is but a contribution to
a general colonial collection near the focus of the British group, where
the union jack waves above the united family.

In the Australian exhibits it is only fair to begin with New South Wales,
which is the oldest British colony on the island, and may be said to be
the mother of the others, as Victoria, Tasmania and Queensland have been
subdivided from time to time. It had a precarious political existence and
slow progress up to 1851, and the obloquy attaching to it as the penal
settlement of Botany Bay was not encouraging to a good class of settlers.
In 1851 the whole island of 3,000,000 square miles had but 300,000
inhabitants, but the discovery of gold and the utilization of the land,
for sheep and wheat especially, have so far changed the aspect of affairs
that the aggregate of land under c