The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1876-08-11

them, Tor the time being, and devote
my column To ii lot of rambling notes
of general interest that won't keep SO
well. To begin with it is stated that
from present indications the ocean
travel for the Exhibition will have fair.
ly begun by the middle of August, re-
cent advices at the Tourist Office on
the ground having given information
OF four Centennial excursion parties
now organizing in England and upon
| the Continent, all of which are expect
| ed 10 start about the 1st of August.
| From tlle West, as also from the eX
| treme South, the indications are tia
| tl,e bulk OF the travel To Philadelphia
will be largely confined to the period
| between the 18th of August and the
first week of October. Tile opening of
| the autunnal season, the most delight
full of the year for American travellers,
is therefore anticipated as the most
crowded period of the Exhibition.
| Apropos of the hard times" and the
various theories concerning the num-
Der of visitors, past and prospective,
am constrained to copy the following
| lines 10y Mrs. A. NJ. Richards of New
Orleans:
| Painting with hunger and longing his eyes,
Vain Rcnard beautiful grapevine espieS,
| And OH how enchanting were each,
All covered with such delightful soft
skin,
And the fruit So refreshing and cooling
within:
Aut alas, quite too high for his rcachl
"Oh! they are too green, said the cunning
Old Sly,
'F'it only for fools. don't want such
Thus with the Centennial, where money
doth fail,
We hear not the truth, but silly made
tale,
That 'tisn't worth Sccing-"Ohl l wouldn't
To see such a crowd, 1t would trouble
me sOl'
Why not state the fact, and let il 90 by?
The journey and all, like the grapes, are
too hight
Preparations are being pushed for
ward for the Centennial Dog Show,
which it is confidently anticipated, will
excel any similar exhibition yet held
in the United States. Very gratifying
responses have been received from the
owners of fancy dogs il Great Britain
and Ireland, and should there be any
thing likC n fair representation of the
magnificent displays Of dogs annually
held at the Crystal Palace, in London,
it will make the Centennial Canine
Exhibition worthy of the occasion.
The greatest inducements are held out
by the committee TO secure animals for
exhibition. The prizes offered are of
a very handsome character and silver
cups from various sporting organiza-
tious in the Western States. Five
Judges -four American and one foreign)
viii be appointed, and nothing left un-
done to make the exhibition n great
success The entries will close on
August Il, and parties desirous of OBJ
tanning forms can obtain them from
the office of the Agricultural Depart
ment. Among the special prizes al
ready offered, the Philadelphia Sports
man Club offers silver cup, value
800, for the best setter dog over one
4 al. oil KIM
for the best pointer dog over one year
old. The Detroit Gun club offers a
500 silver cup for the best one year
old setter from Michigan. Several
other prizes are announced by private
parties and by the publishers of various
spo ting Papers.
The Kansas and Colorado State build
ing. which was not completed at the
time | gave a review of the different
State headquarter. has lately been
opered. 1t is Il good looking structure,
in the form of cross, and was erected
by these two States jointly. Unlike
many of The others. it is largely devoted
| to display of the agricultural and
mineral products of these States, and
some of the curiosities found on the
| plains and in thu mountains. Chief
among the attractions in that part of
| it reserved for Colorado. is a lady like
woman of less than the ordinary stat
ura, and comparatively slight physical
| development. known a. Mrs Maxwell,
the Rocky Mountain nuntress. This
lady is reputed to have killed with her
own hands five hundred wild animals,
and specimens of these stuffed by her
self. are on exhibition. Among these
are several large biSonS, n number of
deer. including the red deer; n pair of
puma, number of wild cats, two elk,
three bears grizzly, cinnamon and
black-a wolverine-said to be the
most dangerous animal in the West
many varieties of rabbits. including the
rare coney rabbit. found only on noun
tain-peaks, above the timber line. and
many specimens of marmot, squirrel.
mountain rats. black footed ferret.
etc. The aforementioned animal is a
rare specimen, the one owned by the
Smithsonian Institute being the only
other known to have been shot and pre-
h., ~,
family of prairie dogs. owls and snakes,
! which the Huntress has often seen in
the same burrow, and to these are
added cases of birds, wal erfowl, &c,
besides two exhibits of live prairie dogs
and rattlesnakes, the entire display of
over 800 animals being very artisticallv
arranged. Mrs. Maxwell is native of
PENNSYLVANIA, but was taken TO Wis
consin at ali early age, where, years
after. she married business man OF
that State, who subsequently ,mlgra-
ted to Colorado in hopes of protitIng
by purchasing and working claims in
the New Eldorado. This was in the
spring of 1860, when the mining fever
was at its height. The couple settled
at Mountain, now Central City, near
Denver. the settling" consisting SIM
plv in pitching a tent on the hillside
AT that time there were not dozen
white women in the whole territory, as
If was not until 1859 that a white wo-
man set foot on the soil, and as a con-
sequence, the lady was for a long time