Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-07-12

The Canadian Commission offer
gold, silver and bronze medals a
prizes.
"A $40, 900 OK, so big that it couldn'
breathe, died from want Of air on it
way to the Centennial.
"A collection of sun-dials has beer
placed near the Centennial Art Gallery
by which the mean time of the most re
mote parts of the world is given.
There Is q machine in Machinery
Hall which manufactures and p0lishe,
type and sets it in the composing stick
1t is operated by keys like piano.
The Is, 900 rhododendrons are faded
and gone. Their place in the Horti
cultural annex viii shortly be filled
with other flowers in full bloom.
7 One of the clowns in Barnum's new
show put this conundrum: "Why is the
Centennial like home? Because it's the
dearest spot on earth.-Boston Globe.
New Hampshire glories in the ex.
hibiti0n of the stuffed hides of two por.
kers which, before s'shuffiing off the
COLL" weighed about 1900 pounds
apiece.
The Emperor of Austria having
signified wish to make a purchase al
the exhibition, his commissioners have
selected mantelpiece of Mexican mar
BILE valued at 5000.
Venezuela exhibits forty varities OF
fruit preserved in their natural state,
in alcohol; also tree-sap possessing the
color, taste, and, 1t is said, all the nutri-
tive properties of cows milk.
The Argentine Republic exhibits a
circular piece of polished slate, five feet
in diameter, which had to be carried
mule-back several thousand miles be-
fore it was shipped for the Exhibition.
A Bureau of Charities Is being Or
ganized in the WOmen's Pavilion for the
purpose of giving information concern
ing the various forms of benevolence
by women in the United
States and Europe.
In reference to the Corliss engine
in Machinery Hall, we are informed
that the total weight of iron used in its
is $500 tons, or 5000, 900
pounds, which includes engine, boilers,
A 0'0'
Two solid silver bowls, valued at
800 each, will be given by the Phila-
delphia Sporting Club as prizes for the
best setter dog of any breed, over one
year old, and for the best pointer dog
of any weight, over one year old in the
dog bench show.
Two immense cheeses made in Buff
falO, n. Y, one of twelve and another
Of fourteen tons, weight, have been
built on platform cars, upon which
they will be kept during the entire Ex-
hibitiOn. They are ten or twelve feet
high, and are bound with iron hoops
one inch thick.
The bench show OF sporting and
otner dogs, 10 De heid from september L
20 september >, VIII consist OF fourteen
nameiy, nouhds, greynounds'
uordoh settlers, Irish setters, Engiish
setters, pointers, retrievers, spanieis,
terriers Dull dogs and Dull terriers, mas
'ins, shepherd dogs, 10Y dogs and mis-
ceiiaheous. Inese VIII De inspected Dy
nine sets OF JUDGES.
o,han has n"o oo,S, stU'.,ua. ,Lnn Ja,S ,s ss.p
% 80 thst h.,S Sd h.S,he,
% ;.; u Z pn;,nssi.I; La sJ n "a: ia ~ osnei
ros..isnna ~ nn;,a npar 30 - ,ha M Cso,au;a, aUoiM1
n ro,,Js pror s.a,S ha,,. haa,, 80,
- os.ahI;sh ,bp raIs,t~nst;, ana NJ
- S,;Irins has orJored o ,hraa ,p,, Snr Sa.a,n.
rmnSs annord;nn,w n ' ' y" '"' aug"
- ~ ~
iees advertlsea Ior girl mum,
|, sees ~ the paper, saIu reu-nalreu
lrish siri Ihe laoy ol a mouse at wnich
w. ' ) ra,nunad p,ha ,adv ..hm, rn,,
20 ,,o ista Ihara aireaav enr.rod @ od
,n. ,, .6t =. ha.,a ,, ra;o;n.d ,hs s;.l
..Wau mnn :, JoeSn,t MATER for i,m
They were agushing young couple,
and they were "doing' the Chinese de-
partment in the great exhibition. She
was gazing curiOusly at the almond
eyed natives and he was admiring their
exhibits, do you KNOW"
asked he, "that the Chinese are over
six thousand years old ~ "Why, no."
returned she with astonlshment; "they
don't look to be over thirty, do they"
The signal, which is used at the Gen.
.ennial grounds for the closing of the
gates, is truly a wonderful whistle, and
;an be heard distance of 50 miles. An
exchange states that it has a melodious
voice and is equal to the low of 4O, 900
cow power. When it raises its voice
any one near it does not wait upen the
order of going but starts on a dead run,
with his fingers stuck into his ears, in
order to put as much space as possible
between him and the whistle.
centennjal entbus;asm bursts forth
n, the most mneynected and nndes;rsbIe
occas;ons 1Yonno LADY,, school Girls
the r.; colors "a chsst nrotectors~
NJ thev Wear them On tbe outside of
,ha;r wrans and nice I;tt,e hovs threw
halls that are nainted red white and
bIue They hnrt ali the same as the
Common Kind and are yoteJ az great a
,n;sanca On the s;dew.lt as ;s tbe babv
a@on Nth Ire 4iv;ng tan cont hsnnar
Or the man sardined between two great
bulletin boards announcing
soap that will keep people
clean a hundred years-if used with
sufficient regularity and precision.
In the Chinese denartment a, the
Exnos;tion are manv Vases and articles
in ;vorv of wondarfni wortmansbin
several Of these snac;mens NJ naf;ence