The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1876-06-01
CENTENNIAL JOTTINGS.

during June in Horticultural Hall in the
Centennial Exposition.
THE water-works by which the Exhibi-
ton grounds and buildings are supplied
will yield 10000 900 gallons a day
AMONG the recent receipts at the Cen
tennial is large silver bar from the
Bonanza mine of Flood & O'Brien, at
Virginia City. Its weight is 1T pounds
bullion, and its value in gold is 81 ,623 65,
and in silver, s2,09719.
A FINE exhibit in many respects is made
from the Free Industrial Schools OF
Massachusetts, the display including
many fine designs for carpets and dress
fabrics, which have been profitably ap-
piled to manufactures, painting on china,
panel painting, and other forms of useful
| decorative art.
PHILADELPHIA has been quitting up"
quite literally for municipal arrange
ments during the Centennial. Five hun
dred extra policemen, at $3.50 per day,
are among the new furniture; and the
Mayor is to have $50, 900 for entertaining
and incidental expenses. Fourth of July
fireworks have been provided for in the
sum of $4,000.
AGRICULTURAL HALL is rapidly assum-
ing shape, and, in a few days, will be in
full running order. The display in this
department will certainly prove as inter-
esting as any portion of the entire Expo
sitlon. The immense agricultural re-
sources, not only of the Unit ed States but
of all the prominent foreign countries,
have full representation in this depart
ment. In the implements of agriculture,
Ohio is found to be by far the largest eX-
hibitor, New York and Illinois being
second.
THE cottages erected by the various
States for their Commissioners are most of
them in moderately good taste; those built
by the japanese and English colonial Gov
ernments are architecturally artistic. The
Catholic Temperance Societies have erected
white marble fountain in honor of their
cause; and the glass-blowers a wooden
structure in honor of theirs. From the
center of an artificial lake hundred cir
cularly arranged jets are squirting, wash
ing from tie sunlight brilliant rainbow.
And of all the buildings on the grounds,
there is not one of which what was said
of the London Exhibition Building of
1862 can be said, that it is "a monstrous
outrage upon national forbearance."
THE denizen of Philadelphia is proud
and happy. He reflects that Centennial
is not likely-under ordinary circum-
stances-to come oftener than once in a
hundred years, and he does not expect to
see another. He is bound to make the
most of this one, and therefore his flag
may blow into tatters, but it shall hang,
and wave, and tlutter, till only a few
shreds are left and those shreds are gone.
He is exalted and full of songs of joy, and
if he had wings, he would fly around the
Centennial grounds, and possibly light
down inside, so as to cheat the gatekeeper
out of the fifty cents which should be paid
for admission. Most of the PHILADELPHIA
ans are so full of enthusiasm over the re-
cent events that they feel almost too good
for this earth. When Fourth of July
clock weights to their coat-tails and put
bricks in their hats in order to keep them
down.-Cor. Chicago Tribune.
THE provision made toT the accommo-
dation and qualification of visitors to the
International Exhibition is sufficiently
ample A narrow-guage deuble-track
steam railway, the grading for which cost
$4,000 per mile, so winds about the bor-
ders of the grounds as to take its passen-
gers to every one of the principal build
ings. 1t is three miles in length; the
rails are only three feet apart, and the
charge for conveyance is five cents. No
carriages are necessary; the entire EXhi-
bition can be seen from and by the cars.
There are also comfortably constructed
rolling chairs, in which invalids and tired
persons of either sex and every age may
loll in the most nonchalant manner and
be wheeled along at a cost of thirty cents
an hour and at a speed not exceeding 8
slow walk. The department of Public
Comfort" occupies house, near the Main
Hall, provided with parlors for ladies anC
gentlemen, retiring rooms and coat anc
baggage-rooms. Checks are given in ex
change for packages of all sorts. For thu
telegraph service there are central Office
and many sub-otlices.-N. Y. EUentns
Post.
The Centennial Commission doubles
does not greatly crave suggestions. 1t is
perhaps, even as averse to receiving then
as one of Samuel Lovers heroes was to re
ceiving hints upon maritime matters
"What the dickens do you know abou
sayfarin', farther nor fishln' for sprats il
bowl wild your grandmother l
might indeed feel toward its advisor.
friends as Sydney Smith felt towar'
Mrs. Partington, who was "excel
lent at slop or puddle, but should no
have meddled with the tempest" An
yet it has shown a willingness TO modif
its plans in accordance with the changin
requirements of the place. If ! coul
button-hole its President, would suggeS
to him that the present catalogues, vilel
as they have been received, are worthy
their reception; that the restaurant price
t are really too often exorbitant; that tn
: means of egress from the Main Hall al
obscure and hard to find; and that as tt
London Commissioners issued shillin
f tickets on certain days for the laborin
, classes, the American Commissioner
might issue twenty-five cent tickets als'
| Cor. N. Y. Euening Post.