The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1876-06-14

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Blaine ordering certain telegram personally
referring to himself to be placed in the rec.
ords: During the consideration of the mo-
ton the House was in an uproar. Mr. Blaine
demanding his rights and attacking his oppo-
nents, Cox, Randall and Knott. Neither the
Speakers gavel nor the combined efforts OF
the entire Democratic side accompanied BY
misses and cheers from the galleries could
seat him until he had concluded his remarks,
THE CENTENNIAL CITY.
Its ComfOrts-The Catalogue Department
Miscellany.
Many people speak of the intense heat OF
philadelphia, as is supposed to be the case in
al large cities; hence, feel deferred from WIS.,
ting the Exhibition during the heated
term The following is the average for the
iasttsn years; May, 50, July 10, October, Sc
degrees at Fahrenheit. There are few
warm days in all cities in our country, in July
andsAugust. The area of the city is immense.
s129 square miles. This added to a magnif-
cent water power that showers and coois the
fair of many squares, and is used freely in
lakes, pools and fountains on the exhibition
grounds and in the buildings. This power
tilissthe reservoirs, which hold AS, SIS, 078
gallons, machinery of turbines and two breast
wheels Then we have the largest park in
the world. Hyde Park, $50 acres Regent,
$50 acres; Windsor Great Park, 1900, Lon
don; Bats de Boulogne, Paris, 2,158; Prater.
Vienna. $500 acres; Richmond Hill, Eng.
land 9, 46S acres Phoenix Park, Dublin. 1882
acres; st. Louis, 276 acres; Shaw's Garden,
St; Louis 276 acres; Paramount Park, Phila-
delphla, ,740 acres, to which add the beau
ties OF the Exhibition, and it will pay man
from the most remote spot on the earth to
pick up his '1kit' and come
TIE CATALOGUE DEPARTMENT.
The Catalogue is now undergoing a thor
ough supervision, and when completed. will
be a splendid work Of reference This i'm
poftant branch Of the service is in charge of
the competent Assistant Secretary OF the
Commission, Professor Dorsey Gardner,
whose reputation as a scholar has eminently
fitted him for the position he holds His
two valued aids, Messrs. Lombard and Long,
with an efficient corps OF assistants, will soon
accomplish the difficult and arduous task of
placing each article on exhibition in it's ap-
propriate, place, arranged in seven depart
cupying five buildings, Main, Art, Machinery,
Agricultural and horticultural. The difficult
ty those gentlemen have to srrmount may be
conceived when we consider the technicali-
ties in the different languages, and the va
rlous changes each fabric has in foreign make
up. l am indebted to these gentlemen for
a thorough examination OF the their work,
and pronounce them the right men in the
right place!
MISCELLANY.
The most superior blanket in the Exhibi-
ton, astonishing as it may seem, is the Etoile
du NOrd, manufactured in Minnesota. This
speaks we'll fog the West. Massachusetts ex-
hibits flannel OF superior finish. The art de-
Partment is classified as follows: Sculpture,
Painting, Engraving and Ithography, Pho
Biography, Industrial and Architectural. De-
material, Mosaic and Inlaid Work. There are
1911 works of art on exhibition from the fol-
lowing countries Mexico, 65; Brazil, 49,;
United States, 252 Z: Canada, 80; France taking
the lead, with 587; Germany, 4S; Neither
lands, ~; Denmark, Is; Sweden, 95; Nor
way, ~; Italy, So Argetine Republic, a. !;
loan collection, ~ 1.-THE West exhibits the
best blankets, so she does the most beautiful
bedstead, being one from Grand Rapids,
Michigan. A very neat patent on exhibition
is all autmatic window shade Also an at
tractive exhibit is a working model of PENN
sylvania oil works. A model railroad ticket
office is shown. Rhode Island makes an ex-
tensive exhibit OF silver-plated goods. Phil
adelphia makes the finest Pharmaceutical dis
play in the world.
valuable article is al extension ladder
Egypt presents among other valuables all all
tique case, 5000 gold. Corn from Egypt
looks like a nubbin from a Western stalk
On the corn question the old world is behind
When say corn l A,nericanize this. Sereal
as corn i'm the old world, corresponds to our
small grain; and corn with them is accepted
in commercial parlance as maize. The home
OF the Pharaohs have sent us a large variety
Of seeds, beans, lentils, gum arabic, etc. The
Russians, who have been delayed, are OPEN
ing, and make a grand display Their COL
lection is divided into TAG exhibits, embrace
ing articles in the various fields OF art and in
dine re1o L. ~
lapis, Jasper, Rhodonite, Nephrite, and Lab
rador, with bronze fittings One malachite,
comfortable, $1,000; a Mexican onyx mantel,
spoken ofpreviously, worth s., 0OO In speak
ing of the art exhibition have only given
those in the art buildings. There are in the
Main Building, works from New South Wales,
Victoria. South Australia, New Zealand, Cape
Switzerland. The British department is not
officially catalogued. Russia exhibits Tel
ementre, an instrument tor measuring dis
lance without chain or rod.
The shipping interests are varied and very
attractive to those who are fond OF nautical
manners, from the tiny boat Of ones boyhood,
to the leviathans of the transatlantic lines.
And models can be seen in all shapes en-
bracing boats and sailing vessels, yachts and
pleasure boats, row and lite-boats, fishing
smacks, Sardinian Zebecs, and Genoese tel-
lucas, with Chinese junks in appearance,
blue noses, clippers, galiots, gondolas. flats,
pirogues, batteaux, and the celebrated ice
yacht, the Whit, that makes sixty miles per
hour. In connection is seen submarine ar
mour, diving bells, dredging machines, sal
wage apparatus, &c. A meeting OF the IS,
club, an organization Of women journalists
s have had tfunion and addresses T by Mrs.
burgh and Miss Maxwell, of Colorado This
lady who is in charge of the Colorado Zoolog-
ica1 Department., claims she has killed go
bears. More than fifty carloads of arrivals OF
exhibits this week. The Austrian legation
warn the public against an individual who
claims to be commissioner of the Hungarians
They say che is an escaped convict"
Three trains OF thirty cars containing 400
New York bank clerks, made an excursion to