The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1876-03-24

are.small, and all have been packed with
a care that indicates the value oftheir con-
tents.
An order just made by the Centennial
managers is important. 1t prescribes the
date between which will be time for the
exhibition of various products of the farm,
garden and dairy, thus
Pathological products and vegetables,
May 10.
Strawberries, June to Is.
Early summer vegetables, June 90 to "a.
Spring butter and cheese, June 20 to "a.
Raspberries, July to 8.
Honey, July to 8.
Southern Pathological, July IS to 90.
Melons, August 20 to 20.
Peaches, September to 0.
Northern Pathological, September II to
16.
Autumn vegetables, September 10 to go.
Cereals, September 20 to 80.
Potatoes and feeding roots, October 2
to 7.
Autumn butter and cheese, October II
to 81.
Nuts, October 25 to November 10.
Honey, November to 10.
These will be exhibited in building
erected for that purpose. This list COM
prises only the most important products.
squad of japanese mechanics from the
flowery kingdom have commenced work
putting up houses of bamboo on the slope
of Georges Hill to be used as dwellings
by the japanese Commissioners and ex-
hibitors at the exhibition. The most curl
Gus part of their work is their building
houses on piles much resembling corn
cribs. The structure they are at work on
will be 81 feet by 40 feet and in its gene
raj outlines and appearance something
similar to the pictures seen in q child's
primer. The way the pile driving was
managed was study, and afforded much
amusement to the bystanders, and which
the Japs did not seem to relish. They had
a portable tripod, about twenty feet high,
with two fixed pulleys under the apex,
from which was suspended by grass rope
a cylindrical iron hammer, weighing three
hundred pounds.
Six Japs on each side of the machine
seize grass rope which passes over one of
the pulleys, the foreman stands on one
side, holds up his forefnger, closes one
eye, and then, apparently not satisfied with
this, picks up short stick, holds it in a
vertical position between his two fore
fingers, sights the pile with it, and at last
winks with both eyes as signal to the
workmen that the ceremony Of Japanese
plumb-bobbing is concluded, whereupon
the hammer moves up and down very rap
idly, driving the pile an inch into the earth
at every descent, until it is time for the
foreman to do q little more plumb-bob-
bling.
One pile struck rock, and while eveIy-
body was wondering how things were 90
ing to be managed, one of the gang ran off
and brought back something that mad
teeth like saw, but which was shaped
like a butchers cleaver, but the painting
Jap had severed the stick in about half
the time required for saw of American
make TO do the same work.
We noticed one thing, however, and that
was that while doing every other thing
the reverse ofan American mechanic, when
ever one of the Japs Smashed his finger"
he chucked it around in the air for awhile
and then poked it in his mouth with
mutter which we were satisfied answered
every purpose for a few irst-class cuss
words to give relief, just as any American
gentleman of the artistic persuasion would
do under similar circumstances.