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things of little importance by D'Agoty and Janinet, and so on to the end of the list. It is aggravating to be compelled to appear before the assembled delegates of the civilized nations of the world with such a confession of poverty, more especially when it is universally known, that the insufficiency of the efforts put forth is due, not to the poverty of the nation, but to the neglect of the representatives of the people, into whose hands has been given the welfare, as well as the upholding of the reputation of the United States. 
A small technical exhibition of the etching process, which was intended merely to give an idea of the method adopted in the U.S. National Museum in the treatment of similar subjects, had to be abandoned entirely, owing to the fact that, as previously stated, nearly all the specimens were ruined in the transmission to Chicago.