Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-07-19
CENTENNIAL NOTES.
Mexico displays solid mass o.
silver worth So 600.

Mexico displays a solid mass Of
silver worth s72 900.
Chilli exhibits ore containing 95
per cent. Of pure silver.
Switzerland exhibits a perfect
watch no larger than silver half-dime,
and set in finger ring.
Memorial Hall contains a fine mar
BILE statue of VIM. NJ. Evarts. Also
Palmer's Livingstone" in bronze.
-Solidified cider is remarkable ex-
hibit. 1t can be seen in Agricultural
Hall, and was contributed by the State
of Oregon.
They must have careful kitchen
girls in China. That country sends to
the Centennial some plates and dishes
over thousand years old.
An Indian house-One of those used
by the natives of Washington Territory
-haa arrived in sections on the grounds
and is to be erected in the rear of the
Government Building.
Among the pottery exhibited in the
Chinese department is a shallow soup
bowl made of bronze metal and enam-
eled, which is 1000 years old. There
are 400 pieces of china ware dating
back 900 years.
"A very tired old lady was taken by
her two nephews into a refreshment
room at the Centennial because they
saw the command divided between the
panes of the front window Rest aur-
ant. ."-Graphic.
"A canoe of ash, from the Indians of
| Vancouver's Island, arrived at the Gen.
tennial recently. 1t is 60 feet in length
and 8 i'm breadth, with not chink nor
joint discernible. 1t is dug out with
stones and gouges.
A Providence girls description of
the Centennial in letter to her mo-
| ther:-
PHILADELPHIA, June, 1876.
Dear Mother: Oh Oh !! (! Oh!!! OH! !,
:! 90 o-o-O-o-o-o-h!!!!!! Your affec-
tionate daughter, MARY.
There is in Machinery Hall a ma
chine which seizes wood, makes slaves
of it, places them into position, puts
iron bands around them, inserts head
at each end, and a barrel or keg Is the
result. There is another machine
which turns out $50, 900 shingles in ten
hours.
The Professional prizes at the Gen.
tennial international regatta will be
four-Oared; first prize, $500; second
prize, $1,000. For pairs, first prize,
$1,000; second prize, $500. Single sculls,
first prize, $500; second prize, s4OO.
These amounts may, and probably will
boincreased.
One of the relics to be exhibited at
the Centennial is the pulpit used by
Whitfield in his open-air meetings. 1t
is made of pine wood and can be easily
taken to pieces. From this pulpit he is
said to have preached over 1900 ser
mons in the fields of England, Wales
and America. The exhibitor is the
American Tract society.
The attendance at the Philadelphia
Exposition for the first month was
l 200, 900 persons, which, at fifty cents
head, would yield receipts of $500, 900.
This is not up to the standard of what
ought to be seen, and what, probably,
will be seen. The yield for six months
at this rate, would be only $4,000, 900
which is $1,000, 600 short of what the
Exposition has cost.
The Cincinnati wood-carving de-
serves mention. A set of microscopic
engravings, by Mrs. DIR. Wormley, of
Columbus, Ohio, are exhibited, which
she first drew as illustrations for her
husbands book on the "Micro- -Chemis-
try of Poisons," and then engraved on
steel herself, because no engraver in
New York would undertake to copy
her microscopic drawings.
From Venice there are exhibited at
the Centennial samples of exquisitely
carved ivory-work, and the famous gold
and silver filagree of that city in the
sea. In the Japanese department there
are innumerable antique bronze vases:
a large number bear card stating that
they were made eighteen hundred years
ago. Some of these figures are very un-
couth and odd-looking, yet they bear
fabulous prices. A rich display of vel
vets is made by the Netherlands. The
Argentine Republic and Orange Free
States of South Africa are we'll repre-
sented. In the latter is curious col
lection of minerals and of preserved
snakes of all the deadly kinds.
of the magnitude Of the Centennial
Exposition the Springfield (Mass.) Union
says: "People are expressing surprise
that they are getting so little clear con-
ception of the Philadelphia Exposition
from the accounts of it which the news
paper correspondents are giving. This
is as it unavOidably must be. A clever
writer might cut up the entire two hun
dred and thirty-six acres inside the
three-mile fence into patches of half
dozen square rods and give an accurate
description of the contents of each, If
he had the whole summer at his COM
mand, and then he is as far from pic
turing adequately the immense assem-
blage of objects as when he began"
The woman's Pavilion is full of in
terest. In the way of pictures, Mrs.
Lily Spencer has a large allegorical
painting called "Truth Unyeiling False
hood" Mrs. Eliza Greatorex exhibits
three pictures painted on wooden panels
from the old pulpit of the North Dutch
Church, at Fulton and Ann streets,
New York, which are worthy not only
as souvenirs of old landmarks that are
rapidly passing away, but from excel
lence of execution. Mrs. Greatorex
has made etchings of countless old and
historic houses and scenes, which will
in a few years be of priceless value.
These oil paintings are Of "LOuis Phil
ippe's House." 'The Old Porch on Lex
ingtOn Avenue" and ''Thc Old Bloom
ingdale Church." Above these paint
ings by the mother hang two very long.
narrow panels in oil, by one of the
daughters. One is few stalks of corn
in their autumn russet cOloring, with
the golden ears shining out from among
them. The other is thistle, partly in
bloom and partly gone to seed; the
sharp pointed leaves, the fresh purple
blossoms and fluffy, snowy filaments of
those already faded, are exquisitely rem
dered.
The exhibit of the Gloucester fish
cries is the most interesting one Of its
kind in the Centennial Exhibition. 1t
is by far the most complete, inasmuch
as it gives an accurate idea of the growth
from very small proportions to their
present gigantic status of the fisheries
of the largest fishing port in the world.
In the vicinity Of the Aquarial Depart
ment in the Agricultural Hall the town
of Gloucester has erected a tank % by II
fee- filled with water. in which correct