The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1876-01-05
CENTENNIAL NOTES.

CENTENNIAL NOTES..
"A call Will be made upon the MARYLAND
Legislature Tor pecuniary aid by the Bal
timore Board Of Trade.
The Austrian Commissioner PROMISES
to secure for the lake west of Machinery
Hall several beautiful gondolas.
An exhibition was opened at Salam.
Mass, on Dec. 10th. Of antique articles,
in aid Of the State Commission.
At present it looks as if the immense
and beautiful.buildings will be Inadequate
to the demands Of space.
While Philadelphia is preparing to
lodge all the world, New Jersey is get
ting ready to supply the vegetables.
1t is believed that it will be necessary
to add 100000 men to the police force Of
Philadelphia during the Centennial sea.
son.
The department CT Pennsylvania G. 4.
K. expects to have an encampmcnt CT at
least 10000 old soldiers during June and
July next.
DR.. Loring, of the United States CON-
mission. is particularly anxious for dis
play of educational systems, apparatus
and facilities.
Thomas Allen, president of the Mis-
souri, State Board, has issued a letter
urging proper display Of the mechanical
industries of St. Louis.
Professor Thomas Archer, director Of
the Edinburgh Museum, who took part
in the Vienna Exposition, is member Of
the British Commission.
1t IS thought that there will be 10000
articles of French merchandise displayed,
and that of the 1900 French exhibitors,
two-thirds will be from Paris.
When a Detroiter was asked the other
day by traveller if he had ever been in
Brooklyn he FASTENED to reply: "Do I
look like one of that sort of men, sir -
The mayor of Haverhill, Mass, has
been urged to call a meeting of citizens
to effect an organization by which the
interests of the city may be displayed
properly.
Mr.. Peak, of West Troy, n. Y, has an
old arm char which was the first thing
taken off the first English ship captured
by the Americans during the Revolu.
tionary war.
One hundred and forty-two cases of
Egyptian articles were shipped from Al
exandria, November 18th, and the men,
bers of the Commission were to leave
Bremen December 18th.
The schooner Philadelphia bound from
Richmond, Va, to Philadelphia with
cargo of granite consigned to the Com
mission capsized and sank off Poole's
Island, Chesapeake Bay, on the 18th.
William J. Phillips, Superintendent Of
the Police and Fire Alarm Telegraph De-
partment of Philadelphia, has been APP
pointed General Manager and Director Of
the Exhibition telegraph system.
NJ. Caubert, besides his position on the
French Centennial Committee, has
Instruction to examine our public schools
and educational establishments.
Edmund About, the wcll-known novel;
list, and editor OF the XlXen,e Sitcle, has
completed arrangements to visit this
country next year and correspond with
several French journals.
An application has been made by the
poultry dealers of New York, Boston
and Buffalo for the erection OF build
ing covering at least five acres, to be de-
voted exclusively to an exhibition Of
poultry.
At Fort Wayne, Ind, there will be-
series Of entertainments presented by
the children of the public schools during
the winter, in aid Of the fund for the
illustration Of our educational system.
One of the cases at the Ladies' Centen-
NAL Exhibition at Plummer Hall, Salem,
had a special claim to notice, as Its con-
tents illustrated the domestic life Of the
royal family of France nearly century
ago.
All the excursions of commercial and
editorial parties to the Centennial grounds
have been paid for BY the citizens of Phil
adelphia, and not one cent of expendi.
ture has ever been charged against tho
Centennial fund.
Mr.. Lloyd Hoffsn, who made a nine
foot model of Windsor Castle for the
South Rensington Museum, has conn let
ed model of the famous Tower Of Lon
don on scale of one-sixteenth of an inch
to foot for the Centennial.
The Secretary of the Ontario Advisory
Board proposes that during the winter
an exhibition of lad; s. work be held at
Toronto, and that selection of the best
articles so displayed be made for the De-
partment of Canada at the Centennial.
A Boston manufacturer Of soda water
fountains is having prepared a three
story building of wood and glass on the
Centennial grounds. There will be a
square tower on each corner of the build
ing, and an octogonal one rising from the