The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-06-16
CENTENNIAL CORRESPONDENCE.
The Work of the eCOmnIissiOn-TheS SWed-
ish SchOOI-hOuse-Educ
Ifems-MisceIIany.
From our Spccia, Correspondent.


PHILADELPHIA, June 1st: The work OF
clearing up is being prosecuted energetically
and az tdH dccOmpH will soon be the moral
inscription upon the frontlets of the centen-
NAL exhibition of 1876. The makeup of the
! exhibition exhibits task performed so her.
culean, that the cleansing of the augean
| stable pales in comparison, and the working
| commissioners with, as it seemed, the powers
of Atlas to carry world of design upon their
shoulders, have accomplished the feat. There
was period when appearances seemed as ii
| the management were rolling the stone of
! Sisyphus. So much rubbish collecting as
rapidly as immense quantities were re-
moved. But now l am pleased to say that
! the toll of the commissioners has met its re-
ward, and the debris is yielding to the ener-
gy of wcll-handled implements. Everything
wears an air of the manipulation of experts,
! and in short while, confusion will have
yielded to the demands of order. The labor
oftbe commissioners, the toll of the board of
finance, and the efforts of each working de-
partment will develop to an extent that will
put to blush all croakers, and the ravens,
whose Tapping wings, with mOnodiOus notes,
will, like others, find their occupation gone
The work of the master-spirits of the centen-
nial exhibition has been a grand and signif-
cant one. It's results will soon attain a full
fruition, and then we may hope to see that
full need of praise awarded them, so emil
nently their due.
THE SWEDISH sCHooLHOUSE.-EDUC
AL ITEMS
One of the most distinguishing features of
the instructive part of the exhibition, is the
educational department. Among which
valuable adjuncts to the cause, none stand
more prominent than our Scandinavian
friends. The Swedish school-house is a hand
some specimen of the architecture of the
Nordman. With only one apparent deficit
that l could discover, and / regret to say
the rule applies to America, of imperfect
ventilation; II there was any new idea, |
could not discover it. The desks seat one
pupil, an excellent arrangement, as scholars
win throw paper wads and stick pins when
collection of Swedish ores and rocks, fossils
MOSES. grasses and insects, all artistically
arranged in neat cabinets and cases. The
walls are decorated with maps, diagrams and
drawings, charts and views. A complete
laboratory, scientific instruments, and in
structive works make up complete a
school in its physical and moral bearings as
7 have ever inspected. Sweden is the ad-
vance guard in educational reform in Eu-
rope. The educational exhibit of Pennsly-
vania, under the supervision of an expert, is
very creditable. Massachusetts displays ex-
hibits from New Bedford, Cambridge, insti-
tute of technology from Boston, representa-
tions from the five Normal schools of the
state, Boston Art academy, Harvard, AM
herst, Williams and Tuft colleges. The
Clark institute for the deaf and dumb. The
scholasticiSm of the Bay state is of universal
renown. and Boston is well termed the
&" Athens of America" Other educational
ideas of the exhibition will be p esented
from time to time, as the reader is not sup
posed to submit to gorge of anyone special
ty, when there are thousands of matters of
vital Importance to be considered and di-
gested.
MISCELLANY.
The number of cash admissions on Satur-
day, ,29th, eighteen thousand one hundred and
eighty-two; Monday, 22d, twelve thousand
three hundred and ninety-six. The Judges
of award held their first meeting, Wednesday,
oath inst. There is a marine view, ship on a
flowing sea and other ideas in worsted work
with twenty-eight thousand stitches. The
commission on its re-assembling on July first
will remain in session one week and then ad-
iourn over until the first of October tits said.
The members their re-assemblng may
look for hot work on the Sunday question.
The Rev. Joseph May proposes acOmpromise
on the Sunday imbrogliO. "ThOu shalt be
bishop Joseph" that the exhibition opens
one half the day and reduce to twenty-five
cents. The British department has on its
holiday attire on Wednesday the 24th inst.
"It was the queens birthday you know"
Offenbach will perform in Philadelphia in
June, for ten nights. combination OF
amusement will be a troupe of seventy
horses, mustangs, buffaloes, trained dogs and
monkeys from California. The commission
have engaged, so tits said, etc. She is warb-
ling at present, a musical prodigy who dis
courses song in seven different languages. A
relic of the prehistoric, or antediluvian past
is shown from Haddenfell, New Jersey, dis
covered in the mari beds. 1t is the Hadrc-
saurus, measuring from tip of toe TO hip
Joint nine feet, length OF tail twelve feet, tip
of nose to tip OF tail twenty feet. Travellers
should cut the following paragraph out for
reference In palace ear, hotel and sleep |
ing combined it will cost in addition to the |
reS ular rates between New York and Chica- |
60 berths, SIS section $40, New York and st. |
Louis S6 and Sl2. New York and Cincinnati |
81 ana IS. Drawing groom cars between !
New York and Philadelphia fifty cents addi- |
tional charge, botween New York and Wash |
ington, Sl.50, limited express, SI.25; meals |
furnished on the through western trains on |
the European plan, at hotel rates. Meal |
hours, breakfast, s TO 10; dinner, = to 4