The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1876-06-15
CENTENNIAL JOTTINGS.

THE Chairman of the Finance Commit
tee feels confident of the financial success
of the affair.
SIR CHARLES REED pronounces the
| Centennial unparalleled in the history of
international displays.
| VIsIToRs to the Centennial for twenty
days: Paying admissions, 401, 90S; free,
32l, 14S; total, 123, al. Receipts, $780,
99650.
| In the various manufactures of paper
| the exhibits number 304; United States,
1876; British Empire, Al; fifteen other
nations, 131.
THE models, maps and diagrams of the
wonderful public works of Holland con-
stitute an interesting feature in the Meth
erlands exhibit.
An unpatriotic person, disregarding the
proper mode of entrance 10 the Centennial
grounds, scaled the fence; he was taken
before a magistrate for instructions.
THE Executive Committee has accepted
a report providing for the assignment of a
| piece of ground near the Horticultural
Hall for an illustration of the methods of
/ irrigation.
A NAUGHTY Eastern paper says: "a
| Western manufacturer sent pair of
! laNG slippers TO tie Centennial without
dsE Eating their use, and they were at
ofsssassigned a prominent place among
boats and nautical affairs"
| A METEoRIc stone, kissing hot and a
! foot in circumfert nee, lit in Northumber-
land, Pa, the other night. Ii is supposed
/ by the natives be Venus or some other
planets contribution TO the Centennial
y. 7. Commercial AdrertiStr
THE American Tract Society viii put
on exhibition at the Centennial the pulpit
| from which Whitefielu preached his open
air sermons. From this pulpit he is said
to have preached over 1000 sermons in
the fields OF England, Wales and Amer
lea.
THE steam engine which works the
four looms and printing press in the
Woman's Pavilion, is run by Miss Ali
son, of st. GATHERINGS, Ont. The idea OF
having woman in the engine-room
originated with Mrs. Wright, o. the La
dies Centennial Executive Committee.
\ sEMI-oFFICIAL circular, under the
stamp OF the Centennial Commission, as
serts that good board can be had for ST per
-.
there are gooC accommodations for 81 per
/ day; that breakfast can be had outside
the grounds for fifty cents, and good din
ner inside for 81. An estimate of cX-
penSes for enc person should not exceed
from Sl5 10 $25 per week, including a
daily visit to the Exhibition.
The exhibition of weapons, ordnance,
etc. aside from that in the Government
building, where many of our American
inventions are to be seen, is not very
large-122 exhibits in all; United States,
Is; British Empire, So; twelve other ma
tons. IS. For some reason France and
Germany have kept their own counsels
and so neither send US anything worth
mentioning, except few field pieces from
the krupp works in Essen. There is a
good display of breech-Ioaders from
American makers and some from En-
gland-the latter mostly in the way of
sporting gLnnery. Canada also sends a
number Of hrceCh-loQderS.
WHILE the people IN general OF Great
Britain have shown an interest not ex-
celied by our own, in exhibiting their
products and manufactures at Philadel-
phia, cotton and cutlery are almost, well
nigh absolutely, unreprescnted in the
competition! Canada comes pluckily TO
the front, for the British Empire, in good
display OF edge-tools, but the mother
country keeps TO her own side Of the At
lantiC. France, Germany, Austria and
cutlery, but the Eastern Hemisphere seems
willing to let the Western go unchallenged
in this very important field of industrial
rivalry. The small display made by Ger
many in general hardware, only thirteen
exhibits all told, is quite as significant as
the retreat of Sheffield.
AMONG Its wonders, the Centennial Ex-
position is not without its miniature Mag
ara Falls. The wing on the southern
side of Machinery Hall contains a tank
sunk in the ground, the top being on
level with the floor, 100 by 50 feet in size,
and almost filled with water. At one end
of this, and supported by iron pipes,
which also answer the purpose of water
conductors, is a platform forty feet above
the floor, and over the edge of which and
down into the lake descendS a sheet of
water forty feet wide at the rate Of $4,000
gallons minute. To increase the inter
est of the scene the steam pumps in prac-
teal operation on each side of the lake
force water through pipes placed high
above the latter in such way as to direct
the rushing streams horizontally, and test
the relative power of the competitive
pumps by the length of the many parabolic
currents shooting into the disturbed waters
below.
y sHARP-NosED feminine, looking at
the papyrus and other ancient things in
the Egyptian Department, a few days
ago, asked bystander with great earnest
ness, BE them antiquities old:" Had
she gone into the annex devoted to geo.
logical exhibits, she would have seen
some antiquities that would have met her
views completely. There were several
cases filled with articles taken from the
structures attributed to that extinct race
known as the MoundBuilders. Who or
what they were we do not know. We
have no means of fixing the date at
which they lived with any degree of eX-
actneSs, but some Of the savans who have
studied the matter and explored the
mounds, say that ? 1000 years must have
passed since they declined and disap-
peared. The Indians know nothing
about them, and had no traditions con-
corning them; and the skeletons that
have been found do not show that they
belonged to the same race as our noble
savage. They had more knowledge of
architecture than was possessed by the
Indians when America was discov-
cred, and some of their mounds show
that they understood the points of com
pas :, and could lay out the lines of a
for with considerable engineering skill.
Who will lift the veil of mystery that
surrounds them?
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