Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-06-28
CENTENNIAL NOTES.

Fat men, and men with tight boots,
will be gratified to learn that there are
only 3S miles of walking required to
obtain full view of the Centennial.
Specimens of wooden nutmegs and
wooden hams, made of the 'Charter
Oak" are exultingly exhibited in the
Connecticut reception room, Centennial
grounds.
Twenty thousand husbandless Phil
adelphia women, says the Louisville
Courier Journal. glare upon the unpro-
tected bachelor patriot who goes to the
Centennial.
Ohio sends to the Centennial a re-
markable specimen of black band ore,
eight feet thick. Being composed of
layers of coal and iron ore, it roasts it.
self without the use of other fuel.
The West Point cadets. about 800 in
number, who are to visit Philadelphia,
will start on the 9th of June in gov
ernment steamer. They will be accom-
panied by the Academy band, and will
remain in Philadelphia ten days.
The silk banner presented by the
ladies of the State of New York to the
Women's Department of the Centennial
will be twelve feet by seventeen feet.
Fourteen young women have been en-
broidering it for the last two months.
1t is the largest piece of silk embroidery
ever done in this country.
In Machinery Hall, Valere-Mabille,
MorlanweZ, Belgium, exhibits ponder
Gus boring and tubing machinery that
put to shame our puny oil well derrIcks.
Think of boring mining shaft of fif-
teen feet diameter, through earth, and
hard rocks, by means of immense drills
of wrought iron and steel!
Among the beautiful curiosities at
the Centennial is a collection of sea-
weeds from deep sea sOundings and
from the surface. They are preserved
on card board and framed, and they
comprise some very rare and pretty
specimens colored in beautiful tints,
from the palest pink and green to the
richest purple.
The great-grandfathers of Thomas
Jefferson, who are now living in Flor
ida in comparative poverty, have on ex-
hibition at the Centennial show speci-
mems of fish scale jewelry. The ma
terial used is the large scales of certain
fish found in the southern waters. These
are bleached, and then fashioned into
brooches. earrings, and necklaces.
A large model of what Is claimed to
be the largest pumping machinery in
the world has been placed on exhibition
in Machinery Hall, and is attracting no
little attention. The exhibit is i'm the
British department, and is enclosed in a
glass case. As tn, re are in the model
3439 separate and distinct pieces, it is
needless to say that the machinery is
complicated. The original is at work
in Csdigro, near Ferrara, Italy, and is
said to have capacity of lifting 1000
tons of water from ten to twelve feet
high per minute. The machinery con-
sists of pair of compound. surface con-
densing engines, with centrifugal
pumps.
I'm order that the workmen and
their families throughout the mining
and manufacturing regions of the Phil
adelphia and Reading Railroad Compa-
Exhibition, the company proposes that
when five hundred passengers are guar
anteed, il will run special excursion
train, leaving any point in the mining
region early in the morning and return
ing late in the evening, allowing stay
of at least eight hours at the Exhibition.
The tickets for such passengers will he
furnished through its station agents at
the rate of 81 per passenger for the
round trip. This rate will be uniform
from all points, but the tickets will be
good on the special train only and on
the day named for the excursion.
Mexico astonishes visitors to her
section by exhibiting circular mass of
pure silver weighing 1000 lbs, and
valued at $72 900. The mineral cOntri-
button of this country is exceptionally
good. There are some fine camel coal
and a collection of beautiful opals and
precious gems imbedded in ore. In
textile manufactures, Mexico compares
favorably with other nations, and ex-
hibits cloth and cassimeres of the finest
workmanship. There is a large dis
play of medicinal plants, ceffee, and to-
bacco, and also valuable exhibit, show
ing the many uses of the agave. The
fiber of this plant is made into rope, pa
per, and cloth, and its flower yields an
intoxicating drink called pulQue.
arrangements for a Lacrosse"
tournament between n club of twelve
picked players from the Iroquois In
dams and rival clubs of like number,
composed of Canadian gentlemen, are
i'm contemplation by several prominent
Canadian visitors and exhibitors. The
tournament will take place IN the Park,
within convenient distance of the Ex-
hibition grounds. The game of ''La-
crosse" is of Indian origin, and the
first record of it dates back to the French
and English wars. When Fort Detroit
was captured by the Oneida Indians, the
game was used as blind to gain admit
tance to the gates, while two clubs of
young Indians were playing on the out
side of the fort, hundreds of warriors
creeping stealthily up and remaining g
concealed in the woods until the ball
was thrown over the wall. The juve-
nile red men asked and were granted
permission to 90 in and recover their
plaything, but hardly were the gates
Opciltu thC iOit cNd AuCu
the enemy. The principle of the game
is not unlike that of the old Irish game
of ''Hurley," though the ball is kept in
the air and caught upon and thrown by
an implement somewhat resembling a
huge battledOre.
--On the opening day, large number
of Turks, Japanese, Chinese, Spaniards,
and Germans appeared in the costumes
worn by their countrymen, and, as has
been already announced to the credit of
the somewhat mixed crowd that
thronged Fairmount Park on the 10th
of May. they were treated while ON the
grounds with the utmost respect and
courtesy. OF course the Turks and
Egyptians were stared at. but they were
not made to feel out of place or uncom-
Portable. On the streets, however, af-
ter the opening ceremonies, it appears
that their treatment was very different
They were followed by large crowds of
idle boys and men, who hooted and
shouted at them - if they had been an
imals of strange species, instead of
visitors who were entitled only to the
most courteous attention. 1t is known
that in at least one case the silken robes
of q Chipasa official wore nearly torn