The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1876-12-07
Inside the Centennial Fence.
Written for the Journal
BY OUR GEORGE.

NAL Grounds was the turnste 1t struck me
III the stomach with a considerable familiar
lty. A fat party just behind me attempted to
take the pole" from me on the inside Of the
track, and if my coat collar had given way
when that gate keeper grabbed hold of it, |
should probably have been put in the bureau
of unclaimed articles. 1t looked queer to see
the doctors round there pulling the turnstiles
out Of the visitors, and trying to repair their
bodies so their friends would recognize them
again. | think the turnstile will supersede the
gaows rs an instrument of death.
Probably every visitor to the Centennial
thought he had an idea of it before he arrived
there. and it is still more probable that he
found how terribly mistaken he had been when
he did arrive. 1t would take the conceit out of
man quicker than to have girl refuse him,
when he had fully made up his mind that he
would own a mother-in-aW within a month.
There are some things that can't be described
tight boots, toothache, strong butter and no.
tel hash-and its safe enough to tie the Centen-
NAL up in this bouquet.
| str0led into the main building. had been
told that there was a vial in there valued at a
thousand dollars. Now if there was one thing
that was yearnlnP 10 see. it was thousand
dollar bottle. In less than Il minute | found
that had been sold, shamelully sold There
ii was right before my eyes, q violin there, val
| ued at a thousand dollars, / intended to say
| something strong, but as there We're ladies near
| / modified my remarks, and Sad-"th fiddle
| and departed.
| III the Persian, Turkish and Oriental depart
ments had good chance to see the citizens
OF those Tar -oii countries and observe their
manner aud customs, and learned with Il
good deal of surprise that many of them were
| born i'll ireland and New York. / partially
guessed this by their accent. The Chinese
were the pure article there is 10 tounerteitin@
| them. Their faces are as eXpressionlcss H. a
fish bail, and look very much like one, fried
not too brown, and stuck ON fork But when
| it comes to taking Jack knife and cutting
| lightning bugs and aii"at0rs ON Il piece of NO.
~ or wood, all the rest Of creation want TO
keep their seats till they get through. There
WA a heCl>tead Of ebony, that would be inyaItl-
able TO any person confined 10 his bed There
was carS ln& enough on tile head and foot
boards, Of everything in the earth, and ON the
erous creation Of the brain, to keep him look
ing nj long enough for him to get up from a
slow fever; but there was one disadvantage
about it, ii would take al least i've lively SER
wants to keep it clean.
The word ''anneX' seemed TO play an inpor-
tant part in the exhibition. At first msun-
derstood what every one seemed to be talking
about, and | enqured of one of the guards when
Ann could be seen. Ann who:' said he.
told him that | didn't know what her other
name WAS, but ever since | had been there
had heard the remark about going to "see Ann
next" and if she was on exhibition | wanted
to see her myself. And then the guard looked
like hen choking with dry dough, and he
@asped out-"lt amt she, its q building"
Then | learned that an annex was some more
of the same kind, another chapter of the same
story second volume of the same book. To
simplify, a calf is an annex to a cow
A person to see the most of things exhibited
ought to have had AS many eyes as an Old fash
ion, long, red potato. Every person you met
had Il note book and pencil in hand, and it took
them all the time to take notes, with no time
to see the curosities. 1000 boys wanted to
| sell me one of the little books. | asked one OF
take notes to carry home. Said |, "my Young
elector, DO | look like a pawn brokers' shop or
Il banking Institution: | came not here to lend
money, but to see the show"
| learned something every minute, and one
of the first things that learned was how to act
| where there is a big crowd. Never go Singly
ii the crowd is very thick. BE sure aud take a
lady on each arm, If YOU can get them; then
have each lady hold small boy by the hand.
This makes platoon OF five, and YOU have no
idea how easily YOU can slip through when peO-
pie are thick. Don't by any means let go OF
each other Remember that this is free Amer
lea, and stcl, up for your rights. The thicker
the crowd, the more you want to stretch out
Your line. Il by any means YOU must 90 alone,
| @rasp we'll with the left hand i large vaiFe.
Get one with "a many iron clad square corners
as possible, as it will take the skin from :,
mans legs quicker when it hits him, as you
| swing il along. III the other hand have a cane
OF an umbrella Grasp the cane firmly near
the middle, then Keep time with Your arm to
YOUR step, and every time the arm goes bach
one in the pit OF the stomach with the end az
the cane. When YOU stop, slip your hand up
to the top OF the cane and hold the handle,
which should be Of IVORY, and ut right angles
Yith the cane, loosely iii the hand, and COM
mence swinging ii, So that it will describe a
circle III the air, and you will seldom swing it
more than twice before il viii come down on
some persons head behind you. Don't neglect
The cane by amy means for when You are i'll
doubt AZ to what You can do With it, it il al
ways handy TO poke some picture or piece Of
| Statuary with. Occasionally stop and set down
Your valise. You will not more than let 90 Of
| ii before some one trying to pass by Won Will
stub his toe on the snlisc. and YOU will have
the pleasure of seeing him pile over it, and lie
| there while score OF more Of people step on
him. There is lots Of information to he got by
study" Il crowd, if one is not too bj9otel to
| learn.
All over the grounds We're BnZaal.. | don't
know what a Bazaar is, but there We're lots of
them there. There We're the Japanese, Chinese,
| Persian, and Turkish They sold all manner Of
articles at these BaZaalS, and | noticed that tile
article most frequently sold was the purchaser
| Talk about shrewnc>s Of !; Iankee! 4 \ ankec
| is not worthy to open and sweep out the ;;l-
| zaar Of one of these people. The Mount Of
Olives must have been heavily timberct. There
have been ornaments enough sold in Phiadel-
pha this summer, made of wood grown on the
Mount of Olives, to furnish railroad ties t. lay
a track from here to Jerusalem. At these Bt-
Zaars some of the statesmen We're women. Who
has not read of the beautiful women of the
harem and who amongst rs has not wanted to
have one or two harem5 of our own? ''Beauty
is only skin Deep and it is my opinion that
these women had been skinned before they
came over here. | have given up the harem
business and shall remain in America.
If there is one thing dote on, it is coffee.
Crossing the grounds one day | saw Turkish
restaurant. Here, thought |, is the place for
coffee, will go in and drink cup, and then as
there will be nothing else worth living for,