Show rxrosiriojts AM ritouittst The oftrepoatod assertion that slates and nations are ueuefltted Industrially by great falls or exhibitions seems 10 receive uinalderable strength In tho coke of Russia I us well as It did with New Orleans Philadelphia and other places which the friends of such cllt plays cite as evidence of their perms Steel t results for good The Riiielan < statistics are furnished by tho British consul at Moscow who note a marked Industrial progress In Russia since Ibo Moscow exhibition of 1503 and creillla that event with having been the t motive power which gave aUalrs there the start Ho points I out that while every ot ject on display was rurely I Jtuislan yet British anl German foremen were largely employed em-ployed 1 Now be says British and Uermun foremen are being gradually replaced by Russians end attempts are being mad to supplant British machinery by that mad In Kmjla In file textile Industries notable progress prog-ress has been made A low years ago Ituisla was a small producer In the Hue of spinning and weaving bui In 1695 there nere 6000010 spindles and SOOUUO looms at work Product log 161300 tons of yarns and giving employmoat to 400000 hands The development of Hit natural wealth of the country in arm and other minerals ha boo even greater than that of the lUinu 1 tacture And while agriculture ha grown steadily worse for several ye r past Irufctu give to other Industries tries by Ibo great exposition has more than md up for the loop and bud bu-d the country from an otherwise disastrous condition Whether ot not all tbo Improvement noted may be credited to the Motcow fair It Scroll reasonably certain that the exposition did agrrat deal to advance materially the general Indntrial Interests ol the Russian empire |