The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-07-07

and from henceforth you can enter the Tupi
sian pavilion and go out without the com
pulsory process of You no buye coffee, you
no stage here"
JNo. WELSH.
Since writing relative to the trouble be-
| tween the commissioners and the board OF
finance, John Welsh, the president of the
board, has written a satisfactory letter which
assures the country that all difficulties shall
| be made subservient to the interests of the
centennial. He closes by saying:
1.-The centennial celebration must be glOri-
| Gus in all its features. Not one of them
will be marred by the action of its man.
ayers"
Mr.. Welsh is one of the master spirits of
the movement, and is as patriotic as he is
conc-liatory and honest
MISCELLANY.
The formal dedication of the site of the
monument to the memory of Bishop Allen,
tho first colored bishop of America, occurred
last week. 1t is located north of the west
end of machinery hall. The base has been
laid for the monument. The monument
itself will be placed in position this week.
1t was carved in Italy. The colossal statue
of Washington will be placed in front of the
judges pavilion. 1t is supposed that there
will be two hundred eminent authors in at
tendance at a meeting on the second of July
to take steps to write the history of each of
that Jne. Adams said was the most remark
able epoch in the historyof America. The
committee will celebrate the anniversary of
the presentation of the resolutions of
Richard Henry Lee, June 9TH, l776. One of
the most attractive engines on the floor of
the machinery building is a nickel-plated
nOiseless engine from Connecticut. 1t can
be placed in a hOgshead, and is worth one
thousand dollars.
Texas has sent a water wheel, car starter,
sharpening file, glass cutter, road engine. A
pair of wheels is shown from Boston, that
ran between Boston and New York, making
a mileage of four hundred and sixty thou
sand miles, and is yet good for seventy-five
thousand miles additional. They have been
reduced by trimming, three quarters of an
inch have worn out two pair of axles, and
are now on a third. Brazil has twenty-four
cases containing five hundred bugs and in
sects, each aggregating twelve thousand,
neatly pinned in their mausoleums to its
floors, among her specialties. Some of the
Byron strawberries exhibited measure four
and half inches in circumference. The
students of the Massachusetts institute of
technology, camped on the grounds of the
university occupying enc hundred and
New York, weigh, the one twelve the other
fourteen tons. They are twelve feet high,
and bound with iron hoops.
The largest propeller wheel is from Phila-
delphia. This city also displays valuable
machinery in turbine water wheels. The
hose carriages of the Quaker city are beauti-
full. New York sends section of the Gro
ton aqueduct pipe; it is seventy-Uwo inches
in diameter, and should be examined by all
municipal heads, who confine themselves to
pipes of ten or twenty inches. The thirty
eight varieties of grindstones on exhibition
vary in price from one dollar and twenty-five
cents to one hundred and twenty-five dol
lars. Massachusetts, shows among her saws,
the best collection on the ground; a sPeci-
men circular one hundred inches in diane
ter. There is an extensive Jisplay of bloom
ing engines and blast furnaces in machinery
hall. The lat boy has arrived; he is fifteen
years of age, five feet four inches high, and
weighs four hundred and seventy-fve
pound. JOSEPH BARBIERE.