Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1876-07-20
CENTENNIAL RAMBLINGs,
NO. III.

The question has been often asked
me whether / think trip to the Cen
tennial pays. Cuffee said that the hap
piness of the married state depends al
together on how you Joy yourself. Sc
the spay' in this matter depends on
what you go for, and how far yeu sue.
ceed in Carrying out your plan. AS an
opportunity for instructive sight-see.
ing, affOrding knowledge of our own,
and especially OF other nations which
one cannot get by reading; as a means
of opening ones eyes to what the
world is doing, and the richness of the
material earth itself, it surely pays.
This of course assumes that infOrma-
tiOn is your errand. If you wish fine
trip among some of natures grandest
scenes don't rush through by night on
the fast train. Stop over at some
pleasant place and sleep like a chris
tian, then start fresh in the morning.
To cross the mountains, or run down
the Hudson, or Potomac, or st. Law
renee, in the night is waste of the
raw material of pure pleasure.
But to ramble along through the
grounds. The magnificent display, in
the main building, of carpets and tap
estrieS would eXtOrt admiration from
DiOgenes himself. Some of the latter,
woven by hand had their price affixed
-$4700! | ordered a lot to hang on
the walls of the new n. g. depot.
The immense shafts of marbles and
GRANTEES and Goals and ores speak to
the eye of the mineral wealth of the
world. Our own country and Great
Britain furnished the greater part of
these specimens.
In the display of articles furnished
by Belgium is carved pulpit of ash
wood, beautiful indeed. Cost $1,000.
With what saddened tone of rever-
end respectability would sermon is-
sue from such an elegant standpoint
Hall. Its name intimates
what can be seen there. In my ram
dom walks L took no nOteS--preferred
seeing TO writing, and hence, L cannot
detail what saw in various quarters.
But it was amusing to see some young
travellers, note book in hand, rush upI
to an article, copy the inscription,
whatever it might have been, scarcely
spare look at the thing itself, then
buzz off to do likewise elsewhere. IfI
getting up catalogue, that's the way
to do it; ifnot, that's the way not to do |
it. The biggest bore in the show is a
Belgie gun, which carries ball weigh
ing 1850 pounds. Boom!
The State Buildings are a comforta-
BILE part of the affair. With some States
they are simply reception rooms, where
the Centennial Committee of the State
receive the wandering natives thereof,
.alk to them pleasantly, and let them
write their cOgnomens in register
made and provided. Other State
were designed, in the mate
.ials of which they were composed, and
,rticles on exhibition, to show the re-
ources of the State. For this purpose,
hose of West Virginia, and of Kansas
md Colorado, were best. In W. Va.
We met Mr.. o. G. Dewey, of Wheeling,
whose courtesy made our call there
,ery pleasant-to us. Their house was
Elegantly built of the native woods of
he State, and showed rare taste in the ,
ne who planned it.
Talking Of lumber, let us go over to
he Canadian Log House; and L am ,
Ot afraid to assert that you never saw
uch a building. A board pile with ]
Orticos and an observatory. The COL ,
mns are ash logs, turned and polish !
d like marble. 10 go up stairs you
imply walk up the offsets of the lum. j
er pile. And such lumber! II this q
a specimen, there isn't knot-hole :
! Canada. I sat awhile on a red CO.