The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1876-07-13
CENTENNIALITIES.

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acres.
Philadelphia can accommodate $780,
GOO visitors,
1t Is said the daily expenses will be
reduced to e, 900 in a few days.
The State of Nevada has quartz
mill in operation in Machinery Hall.
A drum used at the battle of German
town is among the Revolutionary relics.
Visitors from the Northwestern States
are becoming numerous on the grounds
every day.
An individual has been found who
boosted he had seen the whole exhibition
in one day.
The Brazilian exhibit Of precious
stones rcveuls the imhiense MINERAL wealth
Of that vast Empire.
Machinery Hall is the hottest building
on the grounds An hour spent there in
the middle of the day is good substitute
for Turkish bath.
There is press in Machinery Hall
that cuts, prints, counts and folds 90 900
copies Of the Philadelphia Times, from
stereotyped forms, in one hour.
The chair in which Washington sat at
the council of Trenton is carefully pre-
served, and can be seen in Independence
Hall, and also the table of William Penn.
The Government building contains an
exhibit of the products of the Indian
tribes of North America from the Allan.
tic to the Pacific, and from Mexico to the
Arctic Ocean.
-Russia's exhibit in Machinery Hall is
not yet complete, but it is rapidly approach
;,,<~ int - 1x-in no III oro1 fin
ished. 1t consists chiefly of army and
navy machinery.
Packages Of goods, designed for exhi-
bition, are still unopened in Agricultural
Hall, Machinery Hall and the Main
Building. Some of the exhibitors are ex-
tremely tardy about coming forward.
The Swiss exhibit in the Main Build
ing is highly characteristic of the sturdy
champions of liberty in Europe. 1t af-
fords ample facilities for the study of the
social and political conditions of the brave
little Republic.
-Spain's exhibit in Agricultural Hall is
slowly approaching completion. Those
having charge of it are determined to have
the display in good shape if it takes all
summer. 1t will look we'll if it is ever
really completed.
Switzerland displays a watch at the
Centennial with a circumference three
fourths that of IA gold dollar and just
equaling that piece in weight. Its price
is $500, yet it does not contain more than
seventy five cents worth of material.
The continuous additions made to
Horticultural Hall render it increasingly
attractive. The growth and development
~ <l,o Y,1on hot inci6o no
building and on the plateau for outdoor
plants daily increase and heighten its
beauty.
The little building occupied by fancy
goods and few specimens of the genus
homo from Morocco attracts a great many
visitors. But the inmates of the institu-
ton are not the least bit sociable to visitors
who cannot speak Morocco or some other
kind of leather.
AT the Centennial, the Philadelphia
ladies cry out, Isn't it cunning?" New
York ladies, elbow superbly lovelyp
Boston ladies, "Ah, how exquawsiter'
Louisville ladies, " Beautiful, TO- shuah!'
Chicago ladies, Oh, my; l wish l owned
thatr' while the genuine Yankee girls
from the rural districts exclaim, "Gee-
whimminy, but amt tibet ere sumner,
neow?"
The royal striped Ichthyophalmite, on
exhibition in the Agricultural building at
the Centennial was severely bitten by the
wild Psittacogiossom Of Borneo yesterday,
and in endeavoring to separate them the
keeper struck the gray-nOsed Angiomo-
nospermous on the head with an iron bar,
instantly killing it. The Acanthopterygi-
Gus has been sold, because it is so difficult
for the Commissioners to obtain the Hy-
potracheliums which constitute its only
food.-Burlington Hasok-Ey
The aged party with new sight, Sec
ond growth hair and supplemental teeth,
has been rather late putting in an appear
ance this year, but patient waiting is at
last rewarded The party is woman
this time, halls from the neighborhood of
Alexandria, Va, and answers, if she can
hear, to the name of Barber. Twenty
years ago, when she was seventy, Mrs.
Barber became blind, and her hair turned
silvery white. Within the past year her
sight has returned so that she wears no
glasses. She has a fine new growth of
hair and four hitherto unsupported teeth.
In all other respects the story is of the
regulation pattern. The lady goes to the
Hon<onnS01 Of