The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1876-06-14

The House tabled the motion of Mr.
Blaine ordering certain telegram personally
referring to himself to be placed in the rec.
ords. During the consideration of the mo.
ton the House was in an uproar Mr.. Blaine
demanding his rights and attacking his oppo.
nentss, Cox, Randall and Knott. Neither the
Speakers gavel nor the combined efforts OF
misses and cheers from the galleries could
seat him until he had concluded his remarks
THE CENTENNIAL CITY.
Its Comforts-The Catalogue Department.
Miscellany.
Many people speak of the intense heat OF
philadelphia, as is supposed to be the case in
al large cities; hence, feel deferred from Wis
itlng the Exhibition during the heated
term. The following is the average for the
degrees at Fahrenheit. There are Jew
warm days in all cities in our country, in july
and August. The area of the city is immense.
l29 square miles. This added to a magni6-
cent water power that showers and cools the
ar OF many squares, and is used freely in
lakes, pools and fountains on the exhibition
g 91s t%e ana III the buildings: This power
gallons, machinery ofturbnes and two breast
wheels. Then we have the largest park in
the world. Hyde Park, $50 acres: Regent.
45o acres; Windsor Great Park, 800, Lon
don; Bats Gle Boulogne, Paris, 9, 1853; Prater,
Vienna: 900 acres; Richmond Hill, Eng
land 4GS acres; Phoenix Park, Dublin, 1852
acres; st. Louis, 276 acres; Shaw's Garden,
st; Louis 276 acres; Fairmount Park, Phila-
delphla, 2,7iO acres, to which add the beau
ties OF the Exhibition, and it will pay man
from the most remote spot Oh tie earth to
pick up his exit" and come
THE CATALOGUE DEPARTMENT.
The Catalogue is now undergoing thor
ough supervision, and when completed, will
he a Splendid work Of reference This I'M
Portant branch OF the service is in charge of
the competent Assistant Secretary OF the
Commission, Professor Dorsey Gardner,
whose reputation as a scholar has eminently
fitted him for the position he holds His
two valued aids, Messrs. Lombard and Long,
with an efficient corps OF assistants, will soon
accomplish the difficult and arduous task of
placing each article OH exhibition III it's APP
propr1atc place, arranged in seven depart
ments, which are divided into 734 classes. &C.
cupying five buildings, Main, Art, Machinery,
Agricultural and Horticultural. The difficult
ty those gentlemen have to surmount may be
conceived when we consider the technicali-
ties III the different languages, and the va
rious changes each fabric has in foreign make
up. l am indebted to these gentlemen for
a thorough examination of the their work.
and pronounce them the right men in the
right placat
MISCELLANY.
The most superior blanket in the Exhibi-
ton, astonishing as it may seem, is the Etoile
du Nord, manufactured in Minnesota. This
hibits flannel Of superior finish The art de-
partment is classified as follows Sculpture,
Painting, Engraving and Ethography, Pho
Industrial and Architectural, De-
signs, Medals and Decorations, and Vitreous
material, Mosaic and Inlaid Work. There are
], 81 | works of art on exhibition from the fol-
lowing countries: Mexico, 65; Brazil, 80;
the lead, with 557; Germany, As; Neither
lands, III; Denmark, Is; Sweden, 50; Nor
way, ~: Italy, 50, Argetine Republic, a.
loan collection, y" 1.-the West exhibits the
best blankets, So she does the most beautiful
bedstead, being one from Strand Rapids,
is all autmatic window shade. Also an at
tractive exhibit is working model of Penn
sylvania oil works. y model railroad ticket
office is shown. Rhode Island makes an ex-
tensive exhibit OF silver-pates} goods Phil
adelphia makes the finest pharmaceutical dis
play in the world
A valuable article is AL extension ladder
Egypt presents among other vaiuables all all
tique case, $4,000 gold. Corn from Egypt
looks like 4 nubbin from Western stalk.
On the corn question the old world is behind
When say corn | Americanize this. Sereal
as corn in the old world, corresponds to our
small grain and corn with them is accepted
III commercial parance as maize. The home
Of the Pharaols have sent us Il large variety
Russians, who have been delayed, are OPEN
ing, and make u grand display. Their COL
lection is divided into 749 exhibits, embrace
ing articles III the various fields OF art and in
dustry. They show rare goods in ntealic
lapis, Jasper, Rhodonite, Ne phrite, and Lab
rador, with bronze fittings. One malachite,
comfortable, SIS 600; Mexican onyx mantel,
spoken OF previously Y, worth s., 900. In speak
ing of the art exhibition have only given
those in the art buildings. There are in the
Main Building, works from New South Wales,
Victoria, South Australia, New Zealand, Cape
OF Good Hope, Egypt, China, Japan, Hawaii,
Switzerland. The British department is not
catalogued. Russia exhibits Tel
an instrument Tor measuring dis
lance without chain or rod
The shipping interests are varied and very
attractive to those who are fond OF nautical
from the tiny boat Of ones boyhood,
to the leviathans OF the transatlantic lines
And models can be seen in all shapes en-
bracing boats and sailing vessels, yachts and
pleasure boats, row and life boats, fishing
Sandman Zebecs, and Genoese tel
lucas, with Chinese junks in appearance,
blue noses, clippers, gailiots, gondolas. flats,
pirogues, batteaux, and the celebrated ice
yacht, the Whit, that makes sixty miles per
hour. In connection is seen submarine ar
mour, diving bells, dredging machines, SAL
wage apparatus, &c. A meeting OF the IS,
club, an organization of women journalists
have had a reunion, and addresses by Mrs.
Susan B. Anthony, Mrs Heron Foster, of Pitts
burgh and Miss Maxwell, of Colorado This
lady who is in charge OF the Colorado Zoolog-
ical Department, claims she has killed 800
bears. More than fifty carloads of arrivals of
exhibits this week. The Austrian legation
warn the public against an individual who
claims to be commissioner of the Hungarians
They say she is an escaped convict"
Three trains OF thirty cars containing. 400