Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-09-13
CENTENNIAL NOTES.

The total value Of the Centennial
buildings and their contents is estima.
ted at the neat little sum of hundred
and four millions.
The fellow who couldn't get julep
on the Centennial grounds has made up
his mind that Philadelphia is not the
proper place for the mint.
The chocolate exhibit In the French
Agricultural Department is an attrac-
tive feature. 1t contains plan Of the
celebrated plantation of NJ. Menier at
Nicaragua, which contains 25O, 900 trees.
MIR. Geo. w. Childs and Mr.. A. j..
Drexel have accepted an appointment
as honorary members of the British
Centennial Commission. Mr.. Charles
E. X. Kortright, H. B. NJ. Consul for
Pennsylvania, has also been appointed
an honorary member of that body. The
appointments were made by the Duke Of
Richmond and Gordon, Lord President
of the Council.
"A Philadelphia correspondent of
the Baltimore American says that "much
fun has been made of the Washington
statue recently placed in position In
front of Judges Hall. The sculptor,
while partially successful in portraying
the general features of Washington's
face. has impaired to them q sternness
that is very different from the calm and
benevolent air that pervades all the ac-
credited likenesses of the Father of his
Country. The chapeau is very unlike
the Revolutionary hat, more resembling
that of the French Reign of Terror than
the style worn on this side Of the At
lantic.
Nearly every nation shows some
thing of its lighthouse system. The
French, English, Russian and Japanese
make more elaborate displays than any
other nation except the United States.
The actual articles, not the models, are
shown. And the most curious are the
har Dor and the channel lights of the
western rivers. In the small lights for
river service the houses are cast in a
solid cylinder, which is surrounded by
prismatic bands DETECTING the upper
and lower rays from the lamp and pro-
jecting them, with the rays from the
body of the flame, level with the plane
of the horizon. Statistics in connection
with the exhibit show that the United
States employs 1900 men in attendance
upon 953 lights and % lightships.
The display of Ohio is rich in min
erals and their manufactured results;
in agricultural staples, especially wool,
ana in agricultural machinery. The
mineral exhibit consists of salt, build
ing stones, bromine, coal and iron ore.
The Cleveland iron and coal company
exhibit Bessemer steel rail which has
Outlasted "a good iron rails. The show
ing of coal, iron, stone and clay is large
and varied. Here is seen block of coal
from Mahoning valley twelve feet in
diameter and weighing 5000 pounds.
The Mahoning valley coal is the best of
the variety known as "block coal" The
Masonic apron worn by Washington.
Another feature is the photographs of
the survivors of the battle of Lake Erie,
framed i'll wood from Perry's flagship
Lawrence. Ohio's archaeological speci-
mems are exceedingly interesting, espec-
tally the relics of the mOund-builders.
Solid cider is on exhibition at Phil
adelphia. The water of the cider is all
evaporated, leaving a substance looking
something like dried glue. The solid
residue of the cider is rolled around a
wooden roller, like cloth, and is ready
for transportation across the ocean or
elsewhere. If liquor cider is wanted, a
piece is cut off and water poured on,
when it is dissolved and is ready to
drink, and it is said TO be equal 10 the
cider just from the press. They also
have bricks made Of apple butter. The
apple butter is carefully prepared and
il is then made into bricks all the mOis-
ture is evaporated and they are ready
for transportation, packed in boxes and
sent TO Europe with safety. The apple
butter does not ferment as when left in
liquid state. By the application of
water to the bricks the article is ready
for the table.
I'm the Massachusetts, marine ex-
hibit in Machinery hall is a model of
the old propeller schooner Midas, made
by Mr.. X. B. Forbes of Milton, at the
age of II years. The craft was about
ISL tons, and had twin screws. She was
the first American vessel to ply Chinese
waters, sailing for China in 1874. She
was also the first vessel rugged with the
double topsail, now in such general use.
Near the midas" is model of the pro-
peller packet ship Massachusetts,"
She had a single screw which could
turn up completely out of water. She
was the first American propeller pac-
ket to run between New York and Liv- |
erpool, in 1915. She was successfully
operated, both in and out of the navy, |
until 1874. Near these models is one of
three-masted schooner, showing some |
new arrangement of sails between the |
masts, but the feature most noteworthy
is the fitting of the launch on pivots,
like gun, so that it can be "slewed
around" in various ways, for instance,
in transferring guns from one side to
another.
The display of Kansas indicates its
great agricultural resources. The build
ing is unique, being in the form of
Maltese cross, three of whose wings are
occupied by Kansas, the fourth by Col
orado. In the center, suspended from
the dome, is fac-simile of the Indepen- |
dence bell, eight feet in height, made of
Kansas products. The rim Is formed
of wheat, millet, broOm-corn and sOrg-
hum, the inscription of millet and flax,
and the tongue is gOurd six feet in
length. The exhibit is especially strong |
in cereals, some of the specimens of
which are of remarkable height. Forty
two varieties of woods are shown, the |
rings indicating very rapid growth.
The fruit display is expected to surpass
that of any other state. Indications of
this have already arrived in the shape
of apples of large size and delicious
quality. A case of raw and manufac-
tured silk attracts particular attention,
as no other state has a similar one. 1t
is from the works of NJ. Broissiere, a
French capitalist, who erected the first
silk factory in Kansas in 1863.
One of the largest buildings devo-
ted to a special interest is the shoe and |
leather annex to Machinery Hall. In
it are exhibited all the various descrip- |
tions of leather, including sole, harness,
calf and kip feathers, tanned by hem
lock and oak bark; by oak bark alone |
and by hemlock alone, as well as leather |
tanned by various patented processes. |
Also extra large hides, one with lis |
square feet of harness leather. The for |
mer was from a prize OK slaughtered |
last Christmas for barbecue in Indiana. |
The hide weighs 175 pounds. Also a |
huge elephant hide of sole leather, some |
portions of which are about an inch |
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