Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-06-15
CENTENNIAL JOTTINGS.

last year.
THE Chairman of the Finance Commit
tee feels confident of the financial success
of the affair.
SIR CHARLES REED pronounces the
Centennial unparalleled in the history of
international displays.
VISITORS to the Centennial for twenty
days: Paying admissions, 401 ,903; free,
321, 148; total, 723, al. Receipts, $780,
996.50.
In the various manufactures of paper
the exhibits number 304; United States,
1876; British Empire, AZ; fifteen other
nations, 131
THE models, maps and diagrams of the
wonderful public works of Holland con-
stitute an interesting feature in the Meth
erlands exhibit.
AN unpatriotic person, disregarding the
proper mode of entrance to the Centennial
grounds, scaled the fence; he was taken
before magistrate for instructions.
THE Executive Committee has accepted
a report providing for the assignment of a
piece of ground near the Horticultural
Hall for an illustration of the methods Of
irrigation.
A NAUGHTY Eas 3rn paper says: GA
Western manufacturer sent pair Of
ladies' slippers to the Centennial without
designating their use, and they were at
once assigned prominent place among
boats and nautical affairs"
A NIETEoRIC stone, kissing hot and a
foot in circumference, lit in Northumber-
land, Pa, the other night 1t is supposed
by the natives to be Venus or some other
planets contribution to the Centennial
n. 7. Commercial AdUert6ser.
THE American Tract Society will put
on exhibition at the Centennial the pulpit
from which Whitefeld preached his open
air sermons. From this pulpit he is said
to have preached over 1900 sermons in
the fields of England, Wales and Amer
lea.
THE steam engine which works the
four looms and printing press in the
Woman's Pavilion, is run by Miss ALI
son, of St. GATHERINGS, Ont. The idea of
having a woman in the engine-rOom
originated with Mrs. Wright, of the La
dies Centennial Executive Committee
A SEMI OFFICIAL circular, under the
stamp OF the Centennial Commission, as
serts that good board can be had for Sc per
week; that within sight of the Exhibition
there are good accommodations for 81 per
day; that breakfast can be had outside
the grounds for fifty cents, and a good din
ner inside for 81. An estimate of ex-
penses for one person should not exceed
from So to $50 per week, including
daily visit to the Exhibition.
The exhibition of weapons, ordnance,
etc, aside from that in the Government
building, where many of our American
inventions are to be seen, is not very
large-122 exhibits in all United States,
48; British Empire, So; twelve other ma
tons, 80. For some reason France and
Germany have kept their own counsels
and so neither send US anything worth
mentioning, except few field pieces from
the Krupp works in Essen. There is a
good display of breech-loaders from
American makers and some from En-
gland-the latter mostly in the way of
sporting gGnnery. Canada also sends a
number Of breech-loaders.
WHILE the people in general of Great
Britain have shown an interest not ex-
celled by our own, in exhibiting their
products and manufactures at Philadel-
phia, cotton and cutlery are almost, well
nigh absolutely, unrepresented in the
competition! Canada comes pluckily to
the front, for the British Empire, in a good
display of edge tools, but the mother
country keeps to her own side of the At
lantic. France, Germany, Austria and
Sweden each makes a small showing in
cutlery, but the Eastern Hemisphere seems
willing to let the Western go unchallenged
in this very important field of industrial
rivalry. The small display made by Ger
many in general hardware, only thirteen
exhibits all told, is quite as significant as
the retreat OF Sheffield.
AMONG its wonders, the Centennial Ex-
position is not without its miniature Mag
ara Falls. The wing on the southern
side of Machinery Hall contains a tank
sunk in the ground, the top being on a
level with the floor, 100 by so feet in size,
and almost filled with water At one end
of this, and supported by iron pipes,
which also answer the purpose Of water
conductors, is a platform forty feet above
the floor, and over the edge of which and
down into the lake descends a sheet of
water forty feet wide at the rate Of $4,000
gallons a minute. To increase the inter
est of the scene the steam pumps in prac-
teal operation on each side of the lake
force water through pipes placed high
above the latter in such a way as to direct
the rushing streams horizontally, and test
the relative power of the competitive
pumps by the length of the many parabolic
currents shooting into the disturbed waters
below
A sHARP-NosED feminine. looking al