Although these tests (some half dozen
in number) have been upon a small
scale, consuming only about one barrel
of oil, all told, they certainly indicate
A1?. .V1! ii? ?
American.
Art at the Vienna Exhibition.
Garman art in the late Vienna Exhibi
tion, according to a writer in the Port
folio, presented so strong a front that,
of the twenty competing nations, i ranee
alone assailed her position. Belgium,
as usual, took a first rank, and yet stood
in the rear of Germany. Italy, though
only surpassed in the number of her
pictorial contributions by Germany,
France, and Austria, reached to nothing
higher than a good second class. Rus
sia, England, Scandinavia, Holland,
Switzerland, Spain, and Denmark,
standing pretty much in this order of
merit, occupied but subordinate places.
"German art does not surrender her
national characteristics ; contrasted
with French art on the west, and Italian
on the south, she shows both weakness
and strength. Compared with Italian,
she wants the sense of beauty; and,
measured with French, she lacks spon
taneity, lithesome play, eketchiucss,
and off-hand dash ; in ftort, she is
serions, solemn, and studious even to
a fault. But Germany has of late been
mending her ways ; and, after making
all fair allowance for her faults, she
remains noble in idea, fertile in con
ception, scientific in construction, pro
found in the reading of character,
accurate in drawing, and solid in
technique."
According to an analysis by Sprengle,
one thousand pounds of wheat will leave
11.77 lbs. of ash, and its corresponding
straw 60.. a lbs., which constitute all
the inorganic or soil elements of the
crop. The various constituents c f this
ash are
Potash
Soda
Lime
Miignesia.
Alumina
Silica
Sulphuric acid.
Grain. !!. Strw. lha.
