Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1876-06-21
CENTENNIAL ITEMS.

The Michigan State building will be
formally opened on July 4.
The Delaware State building was
formally opened on the 9TH. Chief Justice
Comegys and the State Commission were
present
Among the visitors to the Exhibition
on The 3D., were Fred Douglass and the
members of the Massachusetts, Press AS
ISOLATION.
Specimens Of wooden nutmegs and
wooden hams, made from +" Charter Oak, :"
are exultingly exhibited in the Connecti
cut reception room.
The session of the National ArchBo-
logical Society in July will be held in the
Ohio building, the call for the convention
having originated in Ohio.
Mr.. Joseph Newman, of San Fran
cisco, has arrived at Philadelphia with a
collection of 5000 silkworms for exhibit
ton in Agricultural Hall.
One Of the best lessons of the Gen.
tennlal is the honor it cCniers upon all
kinds OF labOr-the labor OF finding ho-
tel accommodations Detroit free Press
Mr.. o. c. French, Centennial Com
missioner from Mississippi, started South
pu WV w W NOtShi VI SASui :
sion trains from that State to the Exhib;-
ton.
The Illinois State building is now
competei in all its furnishings, and open to
the puolic. 1t is model of convenience,
though not so imposing as those of some
Other States.
The statue and pedestal for the mon
ument to Columbus in Paramount Park
have been shipped from Italy, and will,
1t is hoped, arrive in time to have il com
pleted and unveiled on the Fourth of
July.
The National Photographers Asso-
citation will assemble IN August in the
Judges Pavilion, where their three days
session will be held, the use Of the build
ing having been specially assigned for the
purpose.
The latest contribution on the Sunday
opening question comes from Springfield,
Ill. 1t is signed by John l.. Beveridge,
Governor; Thomas E. Ridgway, State
Treasurer George N. Harlow, Secretary
OF State, and 100 Of the principal merchants
and lawyers of that city, and relates in
substance that "rhat the undersigned
approve the action of the Centennial Com
missioners in closing the buildings on the
Sabbath, and hope that, for the honor of our
National reputation as Christian Nation,
your position will be maintained"
"A Runaway horse entered the grounds
few days ago, and, after breaking away
from the partly demolished vehicle to
which he was attached, and being severe
ly injured in attempting to leap over the
protection bars of the narrow gauge rail
road opposite the Judges Hall, dashed
along the railroad toward the Vienna
Bakery, into which building he plunged
at full speed. The frightened attendants
scattered to the right and left and the
animal finally left the building by the en-
trance opposite to that from which he had
entered it, but, becoming weak from loss
OF blood, was captured by several work
men.
In front of the Maryland Building,
the Baltimore X Ohio Railway Company
has put two of its locomotives on exhibit
tion-one bearing the number So" and
the other that OF 5000" There is a differ
ence OF forty years in the ages of those
two machines; the first was built in 1885,
and the other in 1915; and the difference
in age is not greater than that of their
appearance. The tender of number 600
is greater than the entire engine bearing
the number 6. The old engine has an
upright boiler, and the cylinders are in
the same position. The power is con
veyed to the whole by a sort of walking.
beam with vertical rods; and there is a
bewildering lot of cranks and rods. in
strange contrast to the simplicity of the
locomotive of the present day.
"A Philadelphia correspondent writes
"The country cousin abounds here lust
now, and has been doing SO ever since the
LIST OF May. A gentleman said to me last
night; am going to shut my house to-
morrow, and send my wife and children
into tho country till October. We usually
go 10 the seaside about the 4th of July
but this year | am compelled to leave
earlier than usual and STAY longer
suggested that it would be rather cool for
the seaside al present, which he admitted
ana then went on To explain the reason of
ms action. The fact is said he, we
don't want to so now, but if wait until
July my wife will be so worn out with
anxiety and over.eNertion that she may
not be able to 20 at all Since the LIST OF
April we have not been alone with our
children and servants more than half-a-
dozen nights. Frequently | have given
up my bed, and slept or the floor or on a
sofa, and my two boys have done the
same Sometimes we have had six or
eight visitors on hand at once, and on one
occasion we had ten, including three chill
dren, who made noise enough To drive a
man wild, Relatives and acquaintances
turn up from all quarters, and hardly any
of them are people whom We care one
dime about