The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1876-07-06
The Exhibition.

Among the recent arrivals of exhibits
are number of valuable specimens OF
wash gold from Montana gulches, which
have been locked up with the collection
of silver deposits in the burglar-proof
safe in the Government building.
A jasper mantelpiece in the American
department was purchased for the
Emperor of Germany by the president
of the German Centennial Commission,
on whose recommendation the purchase
was made. 1t is intended to adorn one
of the Emperor's castles in Germany.
The Exhibition, so far from increasing
food prices in Philadelphia, has actually
had the effect, by attracting larger sup
plies, of reducing them. The CONNER
cidL List gives a comparison of wholesale
prices for some staple articles now, COM
pared with the quotations at the close of
May last year, which shows the market
decline.
Cloaks made from the bark of the
bread-fruit tree attract many visitors to
the Sandwich Islands section. The
cloaks have the appearance of tissue
paper and are said to be very strong and
durable. A case filled with materials
sent by Queen Emma contains, among
many curious and interesting articles, a
cloak made entirely of feathers of diff
ferent hues, crimson, yellow, and black,
requiring several years labor to COM
plete.
Louisville C0uier-Jonnal At the
Centennial you can get dinner just like
those of 1776, served by girls dressed in
the costumes of hundred years ago,
and although it consists of no less than
three courses-bread, beans and water
it costs you but the insuferable small
sum of 81. If that's the sort of dinner
and that's the sort of price for it they
had in 1776, no wonder it is said that
those were the times that tried mems
souls.
The colossal statue of Washington
is to be placed in front of the Judges
pavilion. The figure is twelve feet high
and modelled from Leutzs picture of
Washington Crossing the Delaware" /"
1t is the personal contribution of Mr..
Eyre, former Philadelphian, now resi-
dent in Florence, Italy.
The arrivals of interesting exhibits
include a peculiarly shaped canoe,
fashioned by the Indians of Vancouver S
Island, on the extreme northwestern
coast. 1t was placed in the United
States Government building. Although
measuring sixty feet in length and
eight in breadth not a joint is discerni-
BILE in theentire boat. The Government
officials promise that remarkable speci-
men of this peculiar class will soon be
exhibited in a totem post from Cape
Flattery. 1t is to measure forty-fve
feet in height, and contain various
forms, combining frogs, beavers and
bears, with human forms in such de-
lightful postures, as to rival the ugly
totem post already set up on the South
side of the Government building.
Dom Pedro challenges all the crowned
heads and Democrats at the Exhibition
to equal him in his display of insects, of
which he exhibits several thousand
species, and many times that number of
specimens speared fast in cases with
pins. On account of their rich colors
most of them resemble so many precious
stones, furnished with long legs and
antenn@. The majority of them are
injurious to crops, and if such a multi
tude of them were taken out of little
place like. Jersey that State would
probably subscribe another 100000 to
the Exhibition. Brazilian ladies have
such an admiration for these bright
colored beetles, grand-daddy-long-legs
and kindred crawlers that they wear
them as brooches, sleeve-buttons and
other jewelry, and whole cases of such
articles are exhibited.