Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-08-09
CENTENNIAL NOTES.

The best Centennial notes repor
ter can pick up are hundred dolla
bills.
+ The vase presented to William Cul
len Bryant, on his eightieth birthday
is now on exhibition at the Music Pa
vilion.
There is a $4,000 bedstead in tht
Chinese court of the Centennial, whose
carving kept twenty celestials busy fol
five years.
"A trial of all the steam fire engine:
and fire extinguishiDg apparatus at the
Exhibition will be held on the Centen.
nial grounds on the 10th of September,
There is in the Italian section of the
Main Building a carved walnut fac ST.
mile Of crnmbling, half decayed drink.
ing fountain casing exhumed from the
ruins of Pompeii.
Nearly all the goods in the Egy pt-
ian Department at the Centennial have
been sold, and more than one-half of
those in the Chinese, Japanese, Tunis-
ian. and other Oriental exhibits.
One of the showcases in the Arkan-
sas building is, with its contents, the
exhibit of the st. Louis, Iron Mountain
and Southern Railroad Company. The
case is artistically constructed of many
varieties of Arkansas wood.
In the Russian section of the Main
Building is small lump of unpublished
malachite, marked 81 $50. The mala-
chite exhibit is the most attractive In
this section. 1t comprises a beautiful
mantel with agate settings, including
admirably executed clusters of berries
and grapes.
| I'm the Kansas and Colorado build
ing there is clock which indicates the
month, the day of the month, the day
of the week, the hour and the minute.
Its inventor says that one winding will
cause it to run for one hundred years,
although the spring-weight has from
ten to one hundred times less power
than is required to operate any other
escapement in the world.
The livestock display, which is to
begin on the 1st of September, will COM
prise 5000 head, exclusive of poultry.
The livestock judges will make gem
eral report on the origin, progress. de-
breed represented at the show. Among
the animals entered is steer weighing
6 Zoo pounds and a mule, 2l1% hands
high, and weighing 800 pounds. Both
these animals are Tennesseans.
The only life-size statue of the i'm
mortal Santa Claus at the Exhibition is
in the German Department, where he
groans beneath an enormous and heav-
ily-laden Christmas tree which he car
ried on his shoulder. The young folks,
seeing him standing in the midst OF in
Vulnerable and highly-tempting toys,
conclude that at last they know the
country containing the inexhaustible
reservoir of the genial old Kriss.
No farmer or mechanic should miss
seeing the Centennial exhibition. If he
cannot go, he should send one at least
of his sons. If he cannot afford to do
that, he should take what recreation he
can in in the most convenient manner.
Family parties, neighborly picnics to
interesting places, and social gather
ings, make us better acquainted with
each other, and show the best points of
people whom we might suppose had but
little good about them. In business no
oiiC IL etth at HIS bt,l, anu We WdtlI 10
think as well of our neighbors as we
possibly can.
Entries for the dog show are coming
in from all parts of the country and
promise that some of the best blooded
CANNES in North America will be ex-
hibited. The special prizes offered by
the Philadelphia SpOrtsman's Club for |
settlers and pointers are causing much !
excitement among the owners of crack |
dogs as to who shall be the lucky fel- |
lows. Ii is expected that one hundred !
and fifty settlers will compete for one |
prize alone, and that entries of some of |
the best dogs in Great Britain will be |
made. All entries are free of charge, |
but none will be received after the 10th |
of August.
The Franklin Institute of the State |
of Pennsylvania for the Promotion Of |
the Mechanic Arts, through the kind
ness of the Centennial commissioners, |
has opened a reception room at the
northwestern end of Machinery Hall, |
for the use of IT'S members and visitors |
from abroad, interested in the mechanic |
arts. The Institute cordially invites all |
who desire to do so, to visit their room,
in which will be found files of the Jour
nal of the Institute" and other periodi-
Gals devoted to industrial sciences. The |
room is in charge of a committee of |
thirty members of the Institute, one |
or more of whom is in attendance to re-
ceive visitors and give any information
they may desire i'm reference to the Ex-
hibition. The following objects, of
great historical interest, have been
placed In the room: /. Franklin's elec-
trical machine. This instrument is /
doubtless the one used by the great phi
losOpher in making his wonderful ex-
perinents i'm the science of electricity. |
Presented to the Institute by DR.. John
r. Coke. 2. Oliver Evans steam loco
motive engine. This interesting model
is among the earliest known, having
been built about 1901. 3 Oliver Evans
high pressure steam engine. This is
the model of an engine built BY o.
Evans, about 1904, and is described in
GallOway's work on the steam engine,
page 10l, London, 1927. 4. Working
model of a steam engine built by NJ. W.
Baldwin, and presented by him to the
Institute, about 1882.
The first cafe which really strikes
iiC as
eign is the Viennese Bakery, where
you can not only eat your cake but also
see it made. For any one accustomed
to foreign ways of life, can imagine
no pleasanter or more enlightened man
ner of beginning the day at Philadel-
phia than to 90 for his morning coffee
to this restaurant. There he will find
in the early morning an attentive ald
well trained Viennese waiter, who will
bring him, after he is seated at neat
table, not a simple Republican tumbler,
to be separately filled, more nostro, first
with ice and then with warm water,
but besides the tumbler delightful
carat, ldecanterl. the contents of which
have been frozen in the bottle, and
therefore Immediately suggests TO
minds question analogous
to that of the historic apple ard dump
lings. There is also to be had the vi
emma bread in the form of croissants
which II may not be unpa-
triotic to say compares favorably with
Graham or even rye, and delicious cof-
fee and chocolate. Ii is pity that this