The Lake County star., 1876-05-18
The Centennial.

Specimens of the handiwork of Queen
Victoria and her children will have q
place in the Centennial Exhibition.
Here's novel idea. .Torchlight
parades on Fourth of July Eve are to be
in order this Centennial year.
General Moultrie's gold watch, minus
crystal and hands, is to be exhibited at
the Centennial.
And talking of relics, here's an Ilion,
New York, man, who steps to the front
with a demijohn presented to his great.
great-grandfather in 1869.
Daniel Webster's plow, made on his
farm at Franklin, New Hampshire,
under his supervision, and partly by
himself, is to be sent to the Gen.
tennial.
Here's patriotism. A, man named
Gone Legged Dick" proposes to hobble
ON crutch and cane all the way from
Council Bluffs to the Centennial.
1t suggested that if some folks desire
to do something extraordinary to cele-
brate the Centennial year, they had bet
ter pay their debts.
We hear on every side, says con-
temporary, of parties being formed and
schooners being chartered, both as a
means of conveyance TO Philadelphia
and for homes while there. All along
the coast of New England, and even as
far as New Orleans, such parties are be-
ing formed, old schooners are being
fitted up with new cabins and hunks,
and dining saloons arranged in the holds,
until they are transformed into floating
hotels or club houses. 1t would remind
an old Californian of the daysof '49 when
crewless vessels were made to do duty as
lodging houses.
On the south side of Long Island
several vessels are being fitted up fer the
purpose of carrying Centennial parties,
and five to ten dollars each would cover
the entire expenses of a yachting party
and include the important item of trans
portation. And then the jollity and fun
of such party, when properly COM
posed, can scarcely be described.
A gun and set of colOrs are important
additions, and the expense of powder is
we'll repaid in the noise and smoke at
tained, as well as the similar acknOwl-
edgments received in return. The trip
to Philadelphia by water is amply
diversified with sea and river sailing, and
there is Just enough "Outside" work in
it to make it interesting. Long Branch
and Cape May can be visited en- route,
and perhaps school of bluefsh might
be sufficiently accommodating to put in
an appearance.
The clock for Memorial Hall, which
has been building at Thomast0n, Conn.,,
has one thousand one hundred pieces,
the estimated weight of all being six
tons. The main wheels are four feet in
diameter. The pendulum ball and rod
weigh respectively seven and eight hun
dred pounds, the rod being fourteen and
one-half feet long and connected with
the clock-work by what is known as
gravity escapement, and makes two
second beats. The rod is of steel, and to
compensate for contraction and expan-
sion is encased in two Of steel, which, by
their relative expansion upward, main
tain uniform center of oscillation.
The position of the nations in the main
building is as follows: Within the line
of railing which will extend across the
entrance, to the north of the nave, are
the pavilions of Italy; passing east, the
arrangement will be-, Norway; then
Sweden, with the English colonies as a
neighbor. Canada adjoins, and next to
her is the mother country, Great Britain,
which will occupy large space down
to the transept. Beyond England is
France. The next in line still on the
north of the nave is Switzerland, which
sends unique set of her famous watches.
Near the eastern end and covering as
much room as France, Switzerland, Bel
gitlm, Brazil, the Netherlands, and
Mexico combined, is the United States.
Opposite to Great Britain will be the
German Empire, alongside Austria, and
in the rear is Hungary. Coming still
towards the west but on the south side OF
the nave are Russia and Spain. Along
the nave follow Egypt, Turkey, Den.
mark, and Sweden, while in the rear OF
them are Tunis, Portugal, and the Sand
wich Islands. Japan is in the front
rank, facing Norway and Sweden. Next
to Sweden, and back of her, is China.
Chill has small pagoda-like structure
near the entrance from the west, and
alongside, on the avenue running north
and south, is the Argentine Republic
while in the southwest corner are Peru
and the Free State Of Orange. The
position of other nations remains to bt