Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1876-05-24
CENTENNIAL ITEMS

All IOaOs lcau " the centennial now
Turkey exhibits none OF her repudx
ated bonds at the Centennial
% don't care red Cent.enni., i
the way Old Shruggs puts it now.
The regular hotels in Philadelnb;o
reckon that they can lodge "a 1856 persons
"A British iron clad Of the frst.class
will be on exhibition at Philadelphia dur
ing the summer.
The Philadelphia horse railways arc
capable Of delivering 10000 people an
hour at the Centennial grounds.
The Wcman's Executive COMMITTEE
propose to publish weekly devoted 10
the industrial interests of women.
The police force on the Exhibition
grounds number 1000, not including q
large corps of " fly cops"
A little less talk about the Esprit Of
'76" and good deal more repairing Of
sidewalks, is what this country seems 70
need just now, says the Detroit Free Press
In the Agricultural Department there
will be twenty five distinct displays dur.
ing the Centennial, beginning with the
genealogical products Of the previous
year.
- Why not open the Exhibition at six
o'clock in the morning? Why waste three
of the best hours of the day for sight see.
ing?" These are questions now asked in
Philadelphia, in connection with one 9th.
er: why not reduce the price of admis.
sion to twenty cents"
An Eastern paper has the great kind.
ness to inform its readers that the proper
sentiment for this centennial year is TAT
once jubilant and solemn, ngratulatorv
and sternly interpretive" Every GOOD
citizen will please make note of this,
| and shape his habits of thought accord.
ingly.
| 1t is generally believed that the
great rush at Philadelphia will continue
| for the first week or two, and that after that
| the novelty of the Centennial sensation
having worn away there will be mod
crate attendance of visitors during the re.
naming six months, and general reduc
| ton OF the present eXorbitant rates at no.
tells, boarding houses, etc. There will be
| chance for poor folks there by and by
| Chicago Journal.
The cost Of months stay in Phila-
delphia, with daily visits to the exhibit
ton, is estimated as follows, by a CORE
spondent:
Room in private house for one month &25 90
Breakfast and suppers at 50 cents each -. 80 90
Dinners on the grounds at IS cents each 80
Thirty admissions to Exhibition so cents. IS 90
Streetcar fares. Observation-Disclosures. 50
evening amusements. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 10 %
Aolal. $l2o W
One hundred and fifteen commander.
les OF Knights 1emplar have thus far sig
| nifled their intention to accept the hospi.
| tality OF the Philadelphia COMMANDERS
during the reunion, which is to take
place on the Both, and all the large halls
in the city have been engaged for the &C.
| casion. On the 3lst the grand officers
will be elected for the ensuing year, and
| on June there will be an installment and
| a grand reception and promenade concert
| at the Academy of Music and Horticul
tural Hall.
The Philadelphians are getting uneasy
about the attendance on the Exposition,
and begin to urge reduction in the charge
for admission from fifty cents to twenty.
five. 1t is insisted, with considerable
force, that while the former price is none
too high for many of those who will visit
the Exposition, it will shut out immense
numbers of workingmen and others who
ought to be encouraged to come. 1t will
be great misfortune if the Exhibition
snail lall OF doing the good 1t might on
account of short-sightedness in the mana
ayers or toe grasping spirit on the part
OF the railroad corporations throughout
the country.-Detrou Free Press.
For the first quarter of this year the re-
turns from twenty-seven railroad compa-
mics with 1860 miles of road, show an
increase of earnings over the correspond
| ing period last year of fourteen and one
third per cent, amounting to $2,346,3S3.
The earnings per mile of road have in
creased from 81 PA to $1,3S7, or eleven
and one-halt per cent. Only three OF
the twenty-seven roads report decrease
for the quarter, and eleven have an in
crease OF more than twenty per cent.
The Greeley Coli Tribune says that
millions OF grasshoppers are coming out
OF the ground in that locality, all with
their mouths wide Open The young
ones pounced upon half acre of early
wheat, the other day. and licked it up in
a short time
LAZINEss travels so slow that poverty
soon overtakes it.