Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-06-07

liquors agricultural products s'' The
answer caiiie speedily, and to the point,
IN rich, mellifiuous brogue: "Shure,
and do, sur if's made Of grain, you
know, and, you know, grain grows on
farms. Have taste of pure Irish
Cork whisky" Thanks were returned
for the rendered treat, and ve passed
on, and were soon wandering in the
mazes of agricultural products o. every
cline and country There seems TO be-
enough liquor TO run good sized mill.
farming utensils enough to farm State.
and grain in every variety, enough tc
feed thousands OF people aud hundred,
of horses aud cattle wool enough, ol
the haest quality, to clothe all the
ragged and naked in the country. \,
adequate conception can be formed
without the aid of sight, of the world
of agricultural products within Ag,i-
cultural Hall, which is $40 feet long,
90 feet wide, and covers nearly IL
acres of ground. Near the north end
of the nave wind grist mill has been
put up Of course we know nothing
of the quality OF the hopper 1t contains
hut If may be ventured on, that if MIR
Robert Van Ormer had the chance to
get his improved apparatus for mill
hoppers adjusted it would never be
taken of. An attempt to detail the
collection in this building in portion
Of az article In newspaper, would be
as great failure and as great a folly
as to attempt to dam Lost Greek with
cabbage leaf. a week within it at
examination in detail would impart
more knowledge to man than can BE-
gained BY months, years of close agri-
cultural reading, or lifetime of an
hundred long years at practical farming
1t will prove itself to be great profit
able schooling to the man who spends
days of examination there of the pro-
duets upon which all industries rest.
On the way from this house full of use
ful products and inventions to the Gov
ernment Building glimpse of ex-Sen
ator Bruce Petrlken was had, as in
company with several other gentlemen
he was heading, seemingly, for W oman 5
Pavilion. No Philadelphia Democratic
roughs were about bim, importuning
that he appoint them or their friends to
the various Offices within the line OF
Senatorial patronage, and we almost
could hear him say to himself. q" The
devils are all gone the angels have
come, down here, down here
Government Building is built some
what after the fashion of cross, the
longest piece being 4s0 feet in length,
aud the shortest $40 feet in length
and the visitor doe, not wonder that be
would spend days there il be could,
when he realizes that he Smithsonian
Institute, the War, Treasury, Navy,
Post Office, and Interior Departments
of the Udited States Government are
all fully represented there. A week
in examination under Its roof will ac-
quaint one Z great deal with the six
great departments that are necessary
IN the government of the Republic.
More CEN be learned there ia a few
days than can be learned in many
months Of patient reading, and s;uiy.
Oh for the time necessary TO DO this
house satisfactorily, we sighed, as We
left it and strode in the direction OF
WoDau's Pavilion. The last named
building is also planned after the cross
fashion, the longest piece of which is
1872 feet and the shortest piece 81 feet.
And WI at good reason is there that
woman should not have fine pavilion
like this one, in which to display what
womaDkind can DO in the way of beau
tiful and useful manufacture, both BIZ
hand ana BY machinery \ man may
know great deal about woman and
w.man's wear, but when he gets into
tins beautiful falry-ike place he feels
as If be should have a woman at bis
side to tell him " this and that" and a
thousand other things As DO fair being
graced our side, TO describe the
faIry-li Ike decoration, aud as the very
great majority of beings on every side
were beautiful women, there was an infiu-
euce about the place that caused feel
ing of strangeness that induced US to
leave the building, with the promise tO
return at some future time.
Drifting away from the enchanting
influence of Woman's Pavilion, a steady y
current OF people vas encountered that
was running through the New England
Log House. The building Is primitive
enough looking to satisfy the plainesi
of people, being one-story log house
of three rooms. The curtains extend
ed half way up the windows, were OF
calico material and parted in the mid
die, on cotton string, on which they
could be moved to either side There
are plenty such window curtains 10 Ju-
county now. The front door of the
house was hung in two pieces, the one
above the other, after the manner OF
doors IN the lower story of good barns
in Pennsylvania. A guard stood at
the door, who allowed just people
enough at one time to ente, to keep the
house from becoming crowded. The
logs showed as plainly inside as on the
outside. Two young good looking
women, in the costume of one hundred
wears ago, sat in the FIRST room, the one
by a child's cradle without rockers.
The cradle was old two wax dolls lay
in it, IN limitations of real living babies.
The young woman who sat by the wax
babies was attractive looking, and
doubtless whenever she. wishes can
secure a good husband. But We hope
to be pardored for saying that the
whole scene did not strike us in any
degree as a motherly one, but remind
us of the dilemma of a hen over nest OF
ivory eggs. The other young lady sat
at window with a spinning wheel in
front of her. There were papers and
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