Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1876-06-02

cOmed---HOw They Look and What
rs Expected of Them---The Ultra
Peace men---The Exhibition of Meer-
ehaum and a Few Facts of Interest TO
SmOkers---A Good One on Gen.
HawIey---The Michigan Fruit Dis
pIay---A Few Detached Items of In
terest, ETC., Etc.
PHILADELPHIA, May %, 1876.
DAY BEFORE YESTERDAY the Judges we're
formally welcomed by the centennial Com
mission with champagne, ices, Strawberries
and speeches, though the latter were not 80
abundant as to prove tiresome That will
come by and by, when the Commissioners
and the International Jury sit down to
formal banquet after their labors are we'll
nigh over. The foreign gentlemen who are
to pass upon the excellence or otherwise of
the articles on exhibition are loud in their
praises of the attention they are receiving,
so marked in contrast with the notice taken
Of them at Vienna.
The official list Of the gentlemen selected
to pass upon the merit Of the exhibits has
been published. They represent some thirty
nations and colonies. 1t is rare that so many
marked and strong faces can be seen in a
body Of equal size. There are score or so
OF nobodies who owe their positions solely
to personal influence, but the large majority
have qualifications that peculiarly ft them.
for the branches of investigation to which
they are assigned, and characters that guar
antee the fairness of their verdict.
The Pennsylvania State Building was
opened on the oath. tits an attractive Gothic
structure, with pretty dormer windows and
pinnacled cupolas, but after all 1t suggests
Longfellow's description of the Hidalgo's
dinner-very little meat and great deal of
table e.cloth. The interior is eomiortless, and
consists of barn-like central hail. and a lot
Of little holes which they dignity by high
sounding, euphemistic titles as Reception
Saloons" State Board Room" Governors
Suite" and so on. The Broadbrims paid
$4,000 for it, and it is not half as comforta-
BILE and cozy as the Illinois building, which
did not cost ope-third as much.
Among the queer notions is that Of the In
ternational Arbitration Convention, or Uni
versal Peace Union, which proposes to erect
upon the Exposition grounds a eOthmemo-
rative forge, where " swords will be turned
into plowshares and spears into pruning
hooks, according to the Scriptural prophecy"
In this country, where peace is just now
achieving her victories, this is all well
enough, but the amiable gentlemen would
probably be unappreciated in Herzegovina,
and should they cross the border into Mexico
would doubtless be hung to the first tree by
| the enterprising Greasers as incurable luna
tics.
A feature of the Exhibition of peculiar in
terest to smokers is the fine array of meer.
schaum pipes from Vienna, varying in price
all the way from $25 to 81, 200. One repre-
senting a dogs head, about four inches in
diameter, with tremendous mouth piece of
amber is valued at S400. There Ia also a small
mountain of meerschaum, desigue for use
as a hookah, the price of which is 500. The
forms into which they are carved are in
numerable-meu and women Of all races,
| brutes, wild and domestic, cattle with amber
| horns in fact, nearly all animate and inani-
| mate creation, Mythology, too, is largely
drawn upon for subjects. On one there is fair
young face with smiling mouth and expect
| ant ewes, while an abundance Of hair rolls OF
from the brow in gracefully curling masses;
| one arm beaIs basket of flowers in the hand
| is a bouquet; while upon the other hand,
which is lifted almost to level with the
eyes, is perched tiny bird. The whole
| forms a complete picture and costs 5000.
Another female head represents one of the
gay Niennese women, with her saucy cap
| tipped slightly over on one side, debon-
naire, yet not coarse expression upon the
| face, which seems like one of those faces
made to live only for love. Vienna, by the
way, is the headquarters of the meerschaum
pipe trade There are twenty-five meer-
| sehaum dealers there, and they control the
II arkets of the world. There are l25 factorie les
in the city, employing over 1000 people.
/ Women and children are employed for the
easier kinds of work, such as boiling and
polishing. The skilled carvers are highly
| paid, and as high as 500 are paid for a single
| piece of very elaborate work. OF course
many days and even weeks are required to
| finish these finer kinds.
They tell a good story of Gen. Hawley, the
President of the Centennial Commission. 1t
seems he had forgotten one part of his
ticket of admission to the grounds, the other
morning. He approached a gate-keeper, told
| him who he was, showed him the portion of
the ticket he had in his pocket and asked to
| be let in. The gate-keeper said that wouldn't
do Then the General lifted the lapel of his
coat and exhibited the beautiful gold decora-
| ton which he wears as President of the Com
mission, but the intelligent guard was not to
be persuaded in this way. The General then
began to think the affair interesting, and
" resolved to spend a dollar and halfs
worth of time," said he, ito see if the Presi-
dent of the United States Centennial Com
mission could get in without paying fifty
cents, s,'-but it was no go, and the General
had to come down with fifty cents of the pa
per of the Republic.
This is not the season of the year for the
display of Northern fruit, such as apples,
peaches, pears and plums. The only State
| showing natural fruit to any extent is Mich
! igan, which beats the country in the apple
line. In the pomoiogical department she has
| forty varieties, making most splendid dis,
play. Among these varieties are the North
ern Spy, Red Canada, Baldwin, Rhode ISL
and Greening, ESQ Spitzbergen, Swaar,
| Wine, Tewksbury Winter Blush, three varie-
ties of tine Pippin, and four Of the Russell On
every card is the State coat of arms and the
name of each exhibitor. Private parties eX-
hibit Steele's Red Winter and a few other
choice specimens of Michigan apples. Last
! autumn this State had twenty-five other
| States to compete with at the Chicago Expo
sition, and took the Wilder gold medal.
Surrounded on three sides by lakes, Michi-
| gan is very favorably situated for fruit-grow-
| ing. This STATE has a solid frame building,
of The Swiss style of architecture-one of the
finest State buildings on the grounds.
The register to be kept at the Illinois State
| building will be capable Of containing 5000
names. The merchants of Chicago gave
over $4,000 worth of furniture to this build
ing.
The College of Pharmacy, the College Of
| Physicians, the Bankers, and the Civil and
| Mining Engineers OF Philadelphia, are busily
making preparations for entertaining com
rades who may visit the city during the next
six months.
Germany contributes to the ornamentation
of Machinery Hall sparkling column com
posed entirely of iron ore. II is twenty eight
feet high and weighs about fifty tons.
One of the greatest curiosites exhibited in
the Horticultural Hall is gigantic sage
palm, which is said TO be more than 100 years
| old and TO have belonged, in l116 TO ROber
Morris, the fnancier OF the Revolution.
Great Britain and her Canadian province
make show of which both may well b'
proud. The machines for spinning, weav
ing, felting, and paper making, included II
their exhibits, attract great crowds from
morning TO night.
Not long ago a wager of $4,000 Z
$l5, 900 was made, in New York, that
Mexican mustang rider could ride 30O
miles in fifteen consecutive hours, on re
lays of mustangs. The trial came of {
few days ago. The rider failed on tn
226th mile.
"A want-a crying, beseeching want
is borne from Washington Territory upol
every breeze. 1t is D0nlea-they are ter
ribly, painfully short of that importan
article ont there.
To MAINTAIN their hold of Metz th
Germans maintain a garrison of 1900
men there, and provisions and war ma
terial sufficient for 10000 men for tire
years,