Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1876-07-07
Hints to Centennial Visitors.

your mind as TO the quarter you wish t
live in, or have friends to choose for you
otherwise you may find yourself biilete
off in hot and unsavory by-streets at ;
long distance from the exhibition and from
all other points of attraction.
:. If you intend to stay only a. few days
the hotels near the exhibition will be OF
the whole the most desirable; butt it yol
mean to remain longer than week, go frs
to one of these establishments or to one O.
the hotels of the city proper, Ind then lool
up lodgings to suit you in a private house
Do not go with the idea that you are GO
| ing to see an enlarged State Fair, thai
can be done ina single day. Nothing
less than a week OF steady application will
suffice for a rapid survey of the great
show In the main building alone there
are eleven miles OF alsles and passage
ways between the lines Of show cases. If
you are absolutely limited to three or four
days, you had better devote the first day to
| taking general look at the interiors OF
the six principal buIldin gs-in six OF seven
| IOulo VI udIu UldulpluS OiIC tdA SCu
through them alI-then make up your
| mind what department you most want to
see, and devote the. rest of your time to
seeing it thoroughly, ST. as to be able to
take home some clear and lasting impress
sions. If you roam about aimlessly your
recollections of the fair will be wholly
chaotic. In case you are fond of art, two
days spent in the Art Hall will be to some
extent an education in the styles Of the
modern schools; whereas an hour or two
of hurrying from gallery to gallery will
| leave in the memory only tumble of col
ors and forms. If your special bent is for
machinery, or farm products and processes,
OF mineralogy, or chemistry, or ceramics,
or whatever it may be after a general
glance at the exhibition, stick to the de-
partment that interests and benefits you
most.
elbow long will it take to see everything
thoroughly ?" the reader may ask. AT
least a month; and the time will be well
familiar with the best arts and industries
of the entire globe. The cost of month S
stay in Philadelphia with daily visits to the
exhibition will be as follows, supposing the
visitor to practice such economy as is not
inconsistent with comfort and with the
objects of his visit:
Room in private house for one
month, $25 90
Breakfast and suppers at so cents
each, 80 90
Dinners on the grounds at IS cents
each, % so
Thirty admissions to exhibition, so -
centSeach, Is 90
Street-car fares, 90
Evening amusements, 10 90
Incidentals, Is 90
Total, $125 90
By taking regular board ina boarding
house OF small hotel, the cost of living can
be so reduced that the three first items can
be brought down from $3.50 to $40 or $50,
and perhaps even to $50. A weeks stay
at a first-class hotel and daily visits to the
grounds may be estimated to cost as fol
lows:
Board seven days at SIS, S35 90
Admission to exhibition, 3 90
Car fares, l 60
Incidentals, 90
Total, $45 90
The maximum price for hotel board is
So per day. There are plenty of excellent,
reputable houses where the charge is from
So. to 81, and in many good comfortable
hotels it is as low as So or So so. Board
lighthouses charge from Sc week and up,
for a room and meals. At the Changers
encampment, about seven miles out, on.
the line of the Pennsy lvania Railroad,
rooms in shed-like structures are furnished
for 60 cents a night, and meals at Am
equally moderate price. In short, there
are all kinds of prices for all kinds Of peo-
pie, just as in other cities where there is
no Worlds Fair.
TAKE THE PAPER.--Read what MI
Holmes says, ponder and-pay up. "Why
don't you take the papers +? They're the
delight of my life, except about election
time, and then read for spite. Subscribe !;
you can't lose a cent; why should you be
afraid ? Cash thus spent is money lent at
interest, four-fold paid. Go, then, and
take the paper, and pay to-day, nor pay
delay; and my word it is inferred, you'll
live until you're gray. An old neighbo1
of mine, while dying of cough, desired to
hear the latest news before going off. ]
took the paper and read of some new pills
in force he bought a box-and is he dead
No-hearty as a horse. 1 knew two men
as much alike as eer you saw two stumps
and 10 phrenologist could find a difference
in their bumps. One took the paper, and
his life is happier than a kings his chill
dren can all read and write, and talk of
men and things. The other took no paper,
and while strolling through the woods, a
tree fell down and killed him-very good.
Had he been reading the news at home,
like his neighbor Jim, I'll bet a cent that
accident would not have happened to him
for he who takes the paper, and pays his
bill when due, can live in peace with every
man and with the printer, too.
A.KIss on the forehead means reverence:
but there's no fun in it worth mentioning
SILVER is fiat in the London market. 1t
has just commenced to get round here.
THE bachelor has to look out for number
one, the married man for number two.
RHEUMATISM is always a joint affair
and yet there is only one party to it,.
REPENTANCE is the hearts sorrow, ana
clear life ensuing.