The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1876-07-20
CENTENNIAL JOTTINGS.


BETH" painted by the late Daniel Mac
lise, is daily surrounded with an adj
miring crowd of visitors.
THE entries for the dog show will
close on the LIST of August. The ex-
hibit is expected to be large and varied.
The entries are free to all.
STALLAERT's picture of 1.-The De-
struction of Pompeii, which took a
premium at Vienna, eXeites great adj
miration among visitors.
SIR JOHN GILBERT's picture of 1.-The
Battle of Naseby'' is said to form a
marked contrast with the Battle of
Gettysburg" in artistic skill and ami
nation.
THE Oldest piano on exhibition is
small five and three-fourths octave
made by Jonas Chickering in 1928. 1t
has still sweet tone and is much adj
mired by elderly people.
IN the American pottery exhibit a
dinner-set. illustrating the Darwinian
theory. attracts and amuses the visit
ors. The dishes have heads for knobs.
beginning with the monkey and ending
with man.
ONE of the most interesting objects
of the Wisconsin exhibit in Agricul-
tural Hall is "Old Abe" the eagle,
somewhat celebrated as having been
the companion of Wisconsin regiment
during the war, and the participant in
twenty-five battles. "Old Abe is
quite active and well trained.
A NEW Centennial game has been
introduced 1t is played at small par
ties. the chief feature being for every
man to kiss one of the girls hundred
times during the evening. 1t was very
popular at first, but the girls seem to
be dissatisfied with it now, and are
trying to get up a bi-centennial game.
THE Irish linens are very attractive
both in beauty and variety. A Cen
tenniar' table-cloth contains the enor-
nous number of 10000 threads i'll Il
breadth of two and half yards. and
threads. In design it is highly artistic,
having masks of the four seasons, sur
rounded with appropriate flowers in
the corners, and the center contains
Apollo in his chariot drawn by four
horses, representing Morning, Noon,
Evening, and Night, surrounded with
a serpent-cmblem of eternity. 1t
was made at Belfast, Ireland.
NICE-PREsIDENT FERRY suffered a
severe penance for some sin or other
in Philadelphia on the Fourth of July.
He sat near the orator of the day, Mr..
Evarts, who read his speech from a
manuscript superbly engrosscd by one
of his sons. AS fast as one sheet had
been delivered, Mr.. Evats turned it
over and laid it ON one side. Toward
the middle of the discourse a playful
breeze sprang up mot ordered by Gen.
Hawley). and began to toss the papers
to and fro. The Nice-President put
out his hand and stayed them. Mr.
Evarts recognized the friendly aid, anC
calmly appropriated it, so that during
the last hour of the ceremonies Mr..
Ferry acted, to the great amusement
of all who noted the scene, as an ami
mated paper-weight for the eminent
New York speaker.-Chicdg0 Erening
JOuTROl
y YOUNG man well known in this
city recently visited the great Centen-
NAL Exhibition at Philadelphia. As
might be expected, he enjoyed it i'm
mensely, and viewed with delight the
magnificent collection of the choicest
products of every quarter of the globe.
Not satisfied with six days in the week,
he became. as is shown by his sections
unanimously in favor of opening the
Exhibition on the seventh. Petitions
to the Commission to open on Sunday
being circulated for signatures, our en-
ty-Si:C different times, mailing from as
many different localities in the North
west. Not only thiS-he put down the
names of all his friends whom he
thought might or ought to favor Sun
day opening. One time, as the Madi-
sonian tells the story, he was about to
sign as from the great and good city of
Chicago, when the man who had
charge of the petition, and who had an
impeachment in his speech, stopped him
by remarking: mo, no, n-not from
C-Chicago. T-that w-won't have any
f-force with the C-CommiSSion. P-Put
y-your n-name down f-from some 9TH
er p-place in the Norm OrthweSt. Any
w-where but C-Chicagow Being an
accommodating fellow, and as he
wished his signature to have some
'f-force," he unheSitatinelya cquieSced
in the request. And after all this, the
Commission has utterly diSregardel
the prayers Of the petitioners, and, by
Il decided vote. refused to open the
Exhibition on the Sabbath Perhaps
there were too many names down from
C-Chicago -Madison (Wis.) JouTnai