The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1876-06-16
CENTENNIAL CORRESPONDENCE.
The Work of the Commission The Swed-
ish SchOOI-hOuse-E Educational
ms-MisceIIany-


PHILADELPHIA, June 1st: The work of
clearing up is being prosecuted energetical1y,
and alt taH accoapH will soon be the moral
inscription upon the frontIets of the centen-
nal exhibition OF 1876. The makeup of the
exhibition exhibits task performed so her
culean, that the cleansing OF the augean
stable pales in comparison, and the working
commissioners with as it seemed, the powers
of Atlas to earrya world of design upon their
shoulders have accomplished the feat There
was a period when appearances seemed as if
the management were rolling the stone of
Sisyphus. So MUCK rubbish collecting as
rapidly as immense quantities were re-
moved But now | am pleased to say that
the toll of the commissioners has met its re-
ward, and the debris is yielding to the ener-
Cy of wcll-handled implements. Everything
wears an air OF the manipulation Of experts,
and in a short while. confusion will have
yielded to the demands of order. The labor
of the commissioners the toll of the board of
finance and the efforts Of each working de-
partment Will develop TO an extent that viii
put to blush all croakers and the ravens,
whose tapping wings, with monOdious notes,
viii, like others, find their occupation gone
The work of the master-spirits of the centeu-
nial exhibition has been grand and signif-
cant one. / Is results will soon attain full
fruition, and then we may hope to see that
full need of praise awarded them, so emf
nently their due.
THE SWEDISH sCHOoI-HoUsE.-EDU
AL ITEMS.
One of the most distinguishing features of
the instructive part of the exhibition, is the
educational department Among which
valuable adJuncts to the cause, none stand
more prominent than our Scandinavian
friends. The Swedish schOol-house Is a hand |
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Nordman. With only one apparent deficit
that l could discover, and | regret to say
the rule applies to America, of imperfect |
ventilation; if there was any new idea, |
could not discover it. The desks seat one
pupil, an excellent arrangement, as scholars |
viii throw paper wads and stick pins when !
in too close proximity. There is a very tasty
collection of Swedish ores and rocks fossils |
Inosses. grasses and insects, all artistically |
arranged in neat cabinets and cases. The |
walls are decorated with maps diagrams and
drawings, charts and views. a complete
laboratory, scientific instruments, and in
structive works make up as complete a
school in its physical and moral bearings as
have ever inspected. Sweden is the adj |
vance guard in educational reform in Eu-
rope. The educational exhibit of Pennsly-
vania under the supervision of an expert, is !
very credtable. Massachusetts, displays ex-
hibits from New Bedford, Cambridge, insti- |
tute of technology from Boston, representa- |
tions from the five Normal schools of the |
state, Boston Art academy, Harvard, Am |
herst, Williams and Tuft colleges. The |
Clark institute for the deaf and dumb. The |
scholasticism of the Bay state is of universal |
renown, and Boston Is well termed the |
+" Athens of America" Other educational |
ideas of the exhibition viii be esented |
from time to time, as the reader is not sup |
posed to submit to gorge of any one special |
ty, when there are thousands of matters of |
vital Importance to be considered and di-
gested.
MISCELLANY.
The number of cash admissions on Satur- |
day ,29th, eighteen thousand one hundred and |
Monday, 22d, twelve thousand |
three hundred and ninety-six. The Judges |
of award held their first meeting, Wednesday, |
24th inst. There is a marine view, ship on a |
flowing sea and other ideas in worSted work |
with twenty-elght thousand stitches. The |
commission on its re-assembling on July first,
will remain in session one week and then adj
journ over until the first of October It's said.
The members on their re-assembling NAV
look Tor hot work on the Sunday question. |
The Rev. Joseph May proposes "a compromise /
on the Sunday imbroglio. "Thou shalt be a |
bishop Joseph" that the exhibition opens /
one half the day and reduce to twenty-five |
cents. The British department has on its |
holiday attire on Wednesday the 24th inst. /
90 1t was the queens birthday YOU know" |
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June, for ten nights. \ combination OF |
amusement will be a troupe of seventy |
horses, mustangs, buffaloes, trained dogs and |
monkeys from California. The commission |
have engaged, so it's said, etc. She is warb- |
ling at present, a musical prodigy who dis
courses song in seven different languages- A |
relic of the prehistoric, or antediluvian past |
is shown from Haddenfel!, New Jersey, dis |
covered in the mari beds. 1t IS the Hadrc. /
saurus, measuring from tip OF toe. to hip |
Joint nine feet, length OF tail twelve feet, tip
of nose to tip OF tail twenty feet. Travellers |
should cut the following paragraph out for |
reference: In a palace ear, hotel and sleep |
ing combined it will cost in addition to the |
ree uIar rates between New York and Chica- |
90 berths, S5 section Sl0 New York and St. |
Louis Sc and $12 New York and Cincinnati |
81 ana IS. Drawing-room cars between |
New York and Philadelphia fifty cents addi- !
tional charge, between New York and Wash |
ington, SI50, limited express, Sis; meals |
furnished on the through western trains on
the European plan, at hotel rates. Meal |
hours, breakfast, to 10; dinner, e to 4