The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1876-08-17
CENTENNIAL JOTT

In the Main Building there are spec
linen pieces of every marine telegraph
cable now in use beneath the sea.
THE collection of land shells sent by
the Oahu Sandwich Islands, College
contains between 500 and 900 vari
cites.
The retail trade at the Centennial
grounds has largely increased by the
removal of certain restrictions which
formerly interfered with it,
EDWARD KING says September will
be the golden month of the Centennial.
The managers would be perfectly sat
lsiied with silver, or even stamps.
The bunker ministers condemn the
Centennial Exhibition as a secular en-
terprise, and exhOrt their followers rot
to desert their spiritual business for
the purpose of attending it.
THE ivory exhibit in the main build
ing contains two immense elephant
tusks, one weighing IT'S and the other
200 pounds; there is also sheet of
ivory ten inches in width and fifty-five
feet in length.
THE statue to Religious Liberty,
which it was intended should be erect
ed ON the Centennial Grounds on the
Fourth of July, will be put in its place
in September. The site selected by the
management is in front of Horticul-
tural Hall. The memorial will be set
up by the Hebrew order B'nai Berth.
THE establishment of a great mu-
scum is likely to be forced upon this
country by the generosity of foreign
ers in contributing to the Educational
Department of the Centennial Exhibi-
ton. Austria and Japan will proba-
bly, donate their exhibits for such a
purpose, and DR.. Da Motta, who has
charge of the Brazilian exhibit, init
mates that this will be the probable
disposal.
In the Chinese ivory carving exhibit
in the Main Building is shown an ele-
plants tusk, on which is carved a
Chinese city, situated on the side of a
mountain, in which Joss houses, pal
aces, military professions, pagodas and
all the details of a regular Chinese city
are depicted. 1t occupied the labor of
one man for three years, and yet its
value in China was only 1920. 1t has
been purchased by the Pennsylvania
Museum of Art.
THE fifth annual meeting of the
National Agricultural Congress is to be
held in the hall of the Society for the
Promotion Of Agriculture at Philadel-
phia, Sept. -, - and IA. Among adj
dresses, it is announced, will be one on a
Century of Agriculture, by President
w. c. Flagg, of Illinois; Our Stock, by
l.. F. Allen; Our Dairy Interest, by
Y. a. Willard; Agricultural Litera-
ture, by DR.. E. l.. Sturtevant, and the
Prospects of Agriculture, by Joseph
Harris.
a RECENT number of the W0men's
Centennial Journal says: "Out of the
many cases of sunstrOke treated at the
Medical Department, very few have
| been women. This fact proves that
either the dress of women is better
suited to the climate than that of men,
or else the system, less heated by in
toXlcating liquors, is in a purer con-
dition, or perhaps that they not only
have a greater power of endurance,
but know better how to take care
of themselves, and how to live dis
creetly.'
IT is hard to abandon that interest
ing story about Dom Pedro following
the reading of the Declaration at
Philadelphia with q well-wOrn copy
which he had carried thirty years
but, hard as it is. it must be done. An
Atlanta editor who sat near the En-
peror at the time AYERS that the paper
which he held in his hand was a copy
of the Brazilian hymn, which was per-
formed Immediately after the read
ing. 1t is gratifying to know, howev-
er, that we really may believe that the
Emperor applauded the reading.
A CORRESPONDENT makes the fol-
lowing statement in regard to the
financial success of the Centennial
| Exposition: The cost of the EXPOSE
ton was SIS, 100000. 1t will run 100
days. Up to July Is, inclusive, the
cash receipts for admission were
S742,416, or 512,S00 per day on an
average. The daily running expenses
are $4,000, leaving daily profit of
81, 800 on admittance account. Fifty
eight days is over one-third of the
whole time, but for our purpose we
will call it one-fourth. Then we will
estimate that the daily cash receipts
for the next three-fourths will be
double, or $4,000, making a grand
total of $3,O72,OO0. Add this to the
one-fourth and the amount is $3,S14,-
416. Deduct the running expenses for
159 days and the net is 80, 224, 416
Then the account will stand
Current expenses for 159 days. 1880 900
Expenses. .s1o,O99,O 900
Received from admission for l59 days. s3s14,4l6
Concession for privileges .............. 100000
Sold buildings for 10 per cent. of cost. $4,000
Total receipts .............. ...... S. 164, 416
Comment is unnecessary. | have
reckoned income on 100 days, when
the time is only $50 days. The Board
of Finance say they expect to sell the
buildings at fifty per cent. of cost.
But any man of any caliber knows
they cannot get over ten per cent. of
cost. They admit that the financial
success depends upon those figures.
The United States, $780, 900 will
never be paid, nor can it be, and the
prospects are the individual share
holders will have to take fifty per cent.
on their investment.
INDUSTRIAL, STATISTICAL
AND TECHNICAL.
Dom PEDRO left orders for S2,OO0,-
600 worth of American machinery.