Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-08-17
CENTENNIAL JOTTINGS.


rioSity.
In the Main Building there are spec
linen pieces of every marine telegraph
cable now in use beneath the sea.
THE collection of land shells sent by
the Oahu Sandwich Islands) College
contains between 800 and 900 vari-
eties.
THE retail trade at the Centennial
grounds has largely increased by the
removal of certain restrictions which
formerly interfered with it.
EDWARD KING says September will
he the golden month of the Centennial
The managers would be perfectly sat
isfied with silver, or even stamps.
THE Bunker ministers condemn the
Centennial Exhibition as a secular en-
terprise, and eXhort their followers not
to desert their spiritual business for
the purpose Of attending it.
THE ivory exhibit in the main build
ing contains two immense elephant
tusks, one weighing 175 and the other
300 pounds; there is also sheet of
ivory ten inches in width and fifty-fiye
feet in length.
THE statue to Religious Liberty,
which it was intended should be erect
ed on the Centennial Grounds on the
Fourth Of July, will be put in its place
in September. The site selected by the
management is in front of Iorticul-
tural Hall. The memorial will be set
up by the Hebrew order B'nai Berth.
THE establishment Of great mu-
scum is likely to be forced upon this
country by the generosity of foreign
ers in contributing to the Educational
Department of the Centennial EXhibi-
ton. Austria and Japan will prOba-
bly, donate their exhibits for such a
purpose, and Dr. Da Motta, who has
charge of the Brazilian exhibit, init
mates that this will be the probable
disposal.
IN the Chinese ivory carving exhibit
III the Main Building is shown an ele-
plants tuSk, on which is carved "a
Chinese city, situated on the side of a
mountain, in which Joss houses, pal
aces, military professions, pagOdas and
all the details of a regular Chinese city
are depicted. 1t occupied the labor of
one man for three years, and yet its
value in China was only 1920. 1t has
been purchased by the Pennsylvania
Museum Of Art.
THE fifth annual meeting Of the
National Agricultural Congress is to be
held in the hall of the Society for the
Promotion Of Agriculture at Philadel-
phia, Sept. II, - and IA. Among adj
dresses, it is announced, will be one on a
Century of Agriculture, by President
w. G. Flagg, of Illinois; Our Stock, by
l.. +. Allen; Our Dairy Interest, by
y. 4. Willard; Agricultural Litera-
ture, by Dr.. Z. L. Stmtevant, and the
Prospects of Agriculture, by Joseph
Harris.
a RECENT number Of the W9men'S
Centennial Journal says: . Out of the
many cases of sJmStroke treated at the
Medical Department, very few have
been women. This fact proves that
either the dress of women is better
suited to the climate than that of men,
or else the system, less heated by in
tOXlcating liquors, is III a purer con-
'dition, or perhaps that they not only
have a greater power of endurance,
but know better how to take care
of themselves, and how to live dis
ereetly"
1T is hard to abandon that interest
ing story about Dom Pedro following
the reading of the Declaration" at
Philadelphia with a weu-worn copy
which he had carried thirty years
but, hard Us it is. it must be done. An
Atlanta editor who sat near the EN-
per0r ut the time AYERS that the paper
which he held in his hand was a copy
of the Brazilian hymn, which was per
formed Immediately after the read
ing. Itis gratifying to know, howey-
.er, that we really may believe that the
Emperor applauded the reading.
A CoRREsPoND DENT makes the fol-
lowing statement in regard to the
financial success of the Centennial
Exposition: The cost of the exposi-
ton was $500, 900. 1t will run 100
days. Up to July Is, inclusive, the
cash receipts for admission were
S742, 416, or So, 500 per day on an
average. The daily running expenses
are $4,000, leaving a daily profit of
81, SOC on admittance account. Fifty
eight days is over one-third of the
whole time, but for our purpose we
will call it one-fourth. Then we will
estimate that the daily cash receipts
for the next three-fourths will be
double, or S25, 900, making a grand
total of S3,o72, 600 Add this to the
,one-fourth and the amount is So, S14.-