American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1876-06-24
CENTENNIAL NOTES.

, THE receipts for the first month ia
exceeded the expenditures.
/ A LARGE mosaic from the ruins o
Carthage has just been added to tn
Tunisian department.
The ladies of japan, Norway, Swe
den, Brazil, and Canada have exhibit
in the Woman's Pavilion.
AGRICULTURAL HALL contains tn,
models of the remains of many extinc
animals which attract great attention.
A LETTER in favor of closing the Cen
tennial on Sundays was received, com
posed entirely of scriptural quotations
A DIAMOND necklace valued at $780,,
900 is an attentive feature in the Main
Building. 1t is watched all day by a
guard.
The Centennial Congress of Religious
Liberals will meet in Philadelphia July
1 to to organize a National Liberal
League.
THE rule requiring 50-cent piece at
the gate is still in force. Visitors will
do well to bear this in mind; it will
save trouble.
THE complaint of the hour against
the Philadelphia Exhibition is that chill
dren are compelled to pay full price for
admission.
SEvENTY-NINE thousand seven hum
bred and forty-four letters and 81, $50
papers were delivered at the Centennial
Post-office during May.
The ale and beer brewers contributed
1877, 1894 toward their exhibition.
Their building is Sc feet wide and 272
feet long, and cost $4,000
THE Humboldt statue will be unveil-
ed on the Fourth of July at O'Clock
a. m. Over so singing and other soci-
cites will participate in the ceremonies.
THE Kindergarten School, near the
Woman's Pavilion, is now open and
will be in operation every Monday,
Tuesday, and Wednesday from 10
o'clock till noon.
In the Indiana Building the railroad
system is illustrated by large map,
showing the routes of nine trunk and
seven branch lines, all converging at
Indianapolis.
In the Liberian section in Agricul-
tural Hall is native African loom that
weaves ribbon-like strips Al inches
long, which are sewed together to form
piece of cloth.
A JASPER mantelpiece in the Ameri-
can department has been purchased for
the Emperor of Germany by the Presi-
dent of the German Centennial Com
mission, on whose recommendation the
purchase was made. 1t is intended to
adorn one of the Emperor's castles in
Germany.
A COLOSSAL figure in Rhode Island
granite, representing an American in
fantry soldier, has been erected in the
plateau between the Main Building and
Memorial Hall. 1t is the work of a
firm that has furnished large number
of war memorial monuments to differ
ent sections of the country.
A CURIOSITY rarely noticed by visit
ors, on account of its position in an out
of-the-way part of the grounds, is the
first locomotive and passenger train
run on the Pennsylvania Railroad. 1t
is still serviceable and made the run
from Altoona, where it has been laid
up for many years, to this city. The
cars are small and low, with windows
SO narrow that passengers were in no
danger of getting hurt by thrusting
their heads out. The engine has no
cab, but the projecting roof of the COM
bined tender and baggage car partly
shelters the engineer. The cow-catcher
of the machine appears to have been
literally to catch the intrusive |
animal and not to throw her from the
track.
In one of the least frequented parts
of the grounds, and so far removed
from the currents of travel that it is
probably not seen by one visitor in ten,
is the very novel and interesting exhib-
it made by the publishers of Forest and
Stream. 1t is called the " Hunters
Camp" and is a perfect representation
of the externals of the life of the forest
and trout-stream. The thick foliage of
the trees in the cool, deep valley where
The hunters hut of logs stands, the
noisy stream and waterfall in front,
The still pool in which float two Indian
the guns, fishing-rods, blank
cts, cooking utensils, traps, and trophies
IF the chase within the hut, all help to
make the illusion perfect, and it would
not be hard to imagine that one had
been suddenly transported from the
exciting scenes of the Exhibi-
ion to some nook in the heart of the
Adirondacks or the Alleghanies.
Presence of Mind.