The Lake County star., 1876-07-27
CENTENNIAL CORRESPONDENCE.

Kfschen-2Srand Army or the Repubiic~
Torch.Lisni Proccssion-FOurih OF July,
CHINA
has large display of China ware, carved
very elaborate and costly, il
lustrating their mythology; twocanopied
bedsteads, respectively being valued at
81 600 and $4,000; silk, enamels,
screens, ivory and ivory work,
silk embroidery, embroidered screens,
medicines for the trade, tea, cotton from
sixteen ports, wine, rice in various forms,
grain, etc.
has a still larger display of similar
goods, more skill and enterprise being
in the manufacture of their
goods, if possible, than in those of China,
though there is great similarity of de-
sign. Considering the fact that the pol
icy of China and Japan, until within a
few years, has been one of exclusion,
and non-intercourse with the civilized
world, their magnificent display at this
Exposition is very significant. The
japanese have separate building near
the Main Building for the sale of their
fancy ware, which is most literally
patrOnized.
STATE BUILDINGS.
Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York,
Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, New
Hampshire, Wisconsin, Massachusetts,,
Connecticut, California, Arkansas, Della
ware, West Virginia, Kansas and Colo
RADIO, have special buildings for the ac-
commodation of their citizens. The
characteristics of the different sections
are nowhere more strikingly observed
than in the reception accorded to visitors
in these State buildings. In those of the
New England and Middle States, the
visitor is treated politely and formally,
but with an air that says, should like
an introduction from some prudent, re-
sponsible person, accustomed to good so
ciety, before i give you my confidence VI
In those of the Western and Southwest
ern States, the Introductory greeting is,
"Come in, and welcome. We are glad
to see you;" and the visitor straightway
feels at home.
SEPARATE INTERESTS,
too, have separate buildings for the dis
play of the wares peculiar to each. There
is one for the exhibition and illustration
of photography, and one for the Bible
Society. The
SHOE AND LEATHER MANUFACTURERS
have large building in which not onl,
their goods and the processes of thei
work are exhibited, but also the differen
kinds of machinery used in their busi
ness, with the latest Improvements
The show here is very large and in
structive
Then there is large building 70
wagons and carriages, in addition to thOs
in the main building; another for th
brewers, who show all the apparatus TO
mashing, cooling and brewing beer; il
fact, everything of interest to outsider
except the beer ITSELF Ibid not see an,
of the product there. The Milk Dair,
Association have a building, and ther
are buildings for the exhibition o
the various schools of this country ant
Sweden.
THE KINDERGARTEN,
close by the Women's Building and par
of their exhibition, shows the system o.
object teaching for children under 81,
or seven years of age. It's held atelevel
a. M, and attracts much attention.
There is another exhibit, which l in
tended, long ago, to notice, which j
thronged from morning to night. 1t i
the
NEW ENGLAND KITCHEN,
log structure, illustrating the early lif
and domestic economy of the Pilgrim
fathers and mothers, two centuries ago
The collection is chiefly from Massachu
sets. Here is a clock supposed to b.
about four hundred years old, as it wa
very old when it was first brought t,
this country-another one hundred ant
eighty years old and still ticking. AL
the old-fashioned or culinary tools, mos
of which have gone out of use, and ar
unknown to the present generation, ar
here in great abundance. The old fire
lock hangs above the open fireplace, a
do stringsof dried apples, pumpkins ant
red peppers. The crook.necked gour,
performs the Office of the tin dipper,
pewter service supplies the place o
china and queensware, the distaff, tn
spinning wheel and the hand loom pro
vide homespun garments for ever,
day use. The flint and tinder bo,
makes the housekeeper to dispens
with matches. Crust coffee and goot
maple sugar and molasses make one won
der if we have not made progres
backward. And the attendants, ar
dressed in the style of the Older
time, with visage and accent like the ver
liable psalm singing Yankee of Plymouth
Rock. And all the surroundings of OF
namental literature, or household use
not merely Likeness but the things them
selves, which were used two hundre,
years ago, preserved as mementoes, ar
here display ed in apartments such as the,
formerly occupied. All these thing
take us back to the life than once was
but never will be used again in Ney
England. 1t is question whether NOR
of human happiness is gotten out of tn
domestic life of 1876.
Adjoining this old log kitchen is tn
modern kitchen, with the modern i'm
provements for producing a "squar
meal" in full operation, and Inotice tina
good many visitors are in a mood 70
enjoying the new dispensation after the,
have got through with inspecting tn
old.
| THE GRAND ARMY OF THE REPUBLIC,
five thousand strong, paraded through
the streets of the city, Monday, the 3,
inst, and attracted great crowds. 4
torchlight procession of two thousan'
five hundred torches illuminated tn
evening. And now the
FOURTH OF JULY
has gone with its fre-crackers and can
mons, its bon-fires and illumination, it
bunting and buncombe, its parades ant
professions, its display of the militar!
with fife and drum, and of civic societie
innumerable with the inevitable bras
band. All this which the country towr
has on a small scale is here exhibited il
national proportions, augmented thi
year by the gathered patriotism of ,
century. The Grafton by Richard II
Dana, Jr., whom everybody but tn,
United States Senate, thought the fittes
man TO represent us. as Minister tt
England, was worthy of the name and
the occasion; and the poem by Bayard
Taylor gave general satisfaction. Phila
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