Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-09-07
CENTENNIAL JOTTINGS.

that not single vacancy has occurred
to date in the Centennial Committee of
jurors on wines.
THE total value of the Centennial
buildings and their contents is esti-
mated at S104, OOO,O
THE attendance is constantly in
.creasing, and what is especially no
ticeable is the large number of visi-
tors from the West. There will be a
jam in the cool months.
A VIRGINIA farmer, while blowing
in his field, turned up what he sup
posed to be an old iron pot. He struck
it with rock and Immediately disap-
peared. His wife has not seen him
since, and she thinks maybe he has
gone to the Centennial Exhibition.
THE Corliss engine at the Centen-
NAL has been bought by European
firm.
LANDLORDS are still quite rapaciOus
at some of the Philadelphia hotels.
E'What is my bill 2" anxiously asked a
man who had staid over night at one
of them, lately. ''Yor bill? ?" was the
calm reply; chow much money have
you along?" "Twenty-nine dollars, :"
gasped the innocent ami retiring guest.
F'Well, that's it-that' S your BILL" re-
marked the considerate proprietor.
And as the Centennial visitor started
out on foot for his home in Indiana,
he muttered thoughtfully to himself
$50 this is the way that 'tramps' are
made. "-Chjcag0 Journal.
IN Germany there are 80, 900 acres
of land devoted exclusively to the cul-
ture Of the vine. The greatest pro-
ducti0n is attained in Alsace and Lor-
raine, where $4,000 acres are planted
with the vine. Bavaria comes next in
the list of grape-grOWing regions, then
Prussia, Wurtemberg, Baden and HeSse
each in the order named. The total
production in the German Empire, ex-
elusive of the new provinces Of Al
SAGE and Lorraine, in 1870, was 3d.
600, 200 gallons Of wine. About 954,-
900 gallons of German wines are used
every year in the manufacture OF
sparkling wine, and the value of this
kind Of wines sold amounted in one
year to nearly 81, 25O,O 900. Nearly all
the Wine-producing districts of Ger
many are represented at the Centen-
NAL Exhibition.
IT must not be supposed that there
IS nothing to be seen in the German
section but wine and beer. There is a
great variety Of goods and implements
appropriate to the place and ilIustra-
tive OF the progressive spirit of the
German Nation. There is a fine dis
play OF machine oils, patent oils, es-
sence of resin, bottling lac, machine
and carriage grease, pitch of various
kinds, cigars, smoking tobacco, cigar
cites that took the premium at the
Vienna Exposition in 1878; chocolate
In cakes, cocoa preparations, conserved
fruits, bonbOns, English and French
biscuits, tragacanth goods, black and
vanished calf leather, sole leather and
coW-hldeS, which also received premi-
umS at Vienna; the finest kind OF
leather, prepared Morocco leather fol
pocket-books, portfolios, boots and
boOk-binding etc. !; lamb and seal-skins,
which took premiums in Paris in 1861
and at Vienna in 1878; glue made OF
animal substances, canned fruits, veg
etableS and salads tine table muStardS,
conserved fish, alcoholic vinegar, fruit
juices, spices, extracts, salts, peeled
grain, table gritS, buckwheat, starch
and grape sugar, sirups of various
grades, molasseS, preserves, macaroni,
etc. There are also some fine Speci
mems Of washed tieeceS from the best
of German sheep; horse hair spun by
the German, English and French
processes; a machine for clearing out
weeds; perforated sheets of various
metals, acknowledgements scythes
choppers, straw blades, pans, mill
stones with yentilating, high-pressure
aspiration; gardening plans; models
of apparatus required in the cultiva-
ton of meadows; articles used il
building; and variety of other arti,
,cles useful and attractive. These and
other productions of German hands
and German ingenuity are displayed il
excellent shape, the whole making one
of the best exhibits in Agricultural
Hall. It's location is in the southern
portion of the building, near the maiT
entrance.-PhiladelphiG Cor. Chicdgt
Journal
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