The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1876-08-12

by the Treasury departments VI ! az an" ''''
liable papers and documents, by me 9'a'G
Department: of all varieties OF arms, OLD ana
new. by the War and Navy Departments, IN
cIudin1r the heaviest field, marine and tortlh-
cation ordnance ready for action; OF count
loss arcbn0lOriclcal geological anu mineral.
Ioloqical curiosities by the Smithsonian lnstl.
tutc; Of modern field hospital, l32 by 81
E feet. with complete equipment, by the Army
Medical Bureau; Of an encampment snow,
ing, in detail, the habits, modes oil NE, anu
surroundings Of the Wild American Indians
: on the Western praiIies, by the Interior DG'
nartment. and OF the means used for record
Inc and predicting climatic changes, by Tie
world.renouned Weather bureau
3, The Womens Pavilion is very neat and
: tasteful edifcc. in the form Ofa Maltese cross,
DOS feet by POS feet. 1t is emphatically what
=. :ts name implics-a Women's Pavilion
ORIGINATED anL paid for by the women OF
America and devoted 10 the exclusive eXhi'
'bition of the products of woman's art, skill
and industry.
The buildings thus sketched embrace an
exhibition space of forty-eight and hall
acres while other public and private edlhces
} erected, directly for the purposes OF the Emil
bition, increase this space to seventy-hVe
acres This exceeds the area Of the London
Exhibition of 1862, fiity-Onc acres; OF the
Paris Exhibition of 1867, thiryfour and a
half acres; and OF the Vienna Exhibition ci
1873, twenty-five acres.
All agree that there is no spot on earth
more appropriate for the Centennial silo"
than Philadelphia; filled with so many histo'
rio "reminiscences and containing so many
landmarks of our early days when things
looked blue" No wonder we feel proud
when we see representatives from all nations
visiting our show" noting our institutions,
| Al. y.cg, NH
astonished at the progress we have made IN
the short space Of a hundred years. No won
der that we eXclaim with school boy elo-
quence: o.,
"Our country, IT'S glorious land, with
broad arms stretched from shore to shore,
and SO on
AS an educator the Exhibition is all that
could be wished for. The blank and desolate
fields of the world are shown to us as nature
made them, while the blooming hills ana
poisoning valleys" are presented IN all their
grandeur The Improvements In Inc arts
| and sciences are shown by comparing the
ancient with the modern, and 9oWheTe else
can it be seen to better advantage.
! No opportunity such as this exhibition at
! fords has ever been, or probably ever Will
again be presented to the American people
for observing the peculiarly OF dress ana
manners of the natiOnallties OF the word
Each department is attended by individuals
in the costume they represent; ana mus me
Egyptian, Turk, japanese, Chinese Moor,
Spaniard, Swiss, Swede, Russian, SCUM
American and all others are seen as IN MS
own land pursuing his home aVOcatlons. Inc
various races are blended on common
ground exempllylng the distinctions OF form
and feature which seperate the human lamliy
into dssimilar groups. Here the domestic
I,g, IF IL cDntraStpu. !
countless ways, the Kaleidoscope ofthe world,
as il exists in the ninetecth century, presents
itself to the centennial visitor. Here, too, we
can enjoy the famed CAFES OF the BoulevardS
Baden Baden If you will and the various
other places. the memory OF which no wan
derer from those regions ever lets die.
But that which most interests some Is a
stroll among the various buildings OF the dit.
ferept nauonalties For instance, at the
American Dairy one can cool OIL on mush
and milk, apple pie, bread and butter Tor the
sum of sixty five cents. The effect OF TINS Is
very rural, not at all wicked, ana NOT unlike
Ottawa Gingerbread. AT the Vienna bakery
for fifty-fiye cents, one gets cup OF coffee
with whipped milk-so called suppose, be.
cause one gets no butter in 1.-THE elect OF
this is refreshing and makes fellow teel as
though ne had been feastlng on baked Deans
and sour mash.
After this take a walk to the Turkish quar-
ters. imagine yourself Turk and for "A few
minutes squat and smoke from pipe hve or
six feet long. Then take the Chinese quac-
tiers and dip rat tail soup with stick. Ii
you wish to see the Centennial you must take
in all this kind of thing you know. But the
most sicke1ing thing of all is to see ana nole
the actions OF the couple that has
1.-TWO souls with but single thought, &c.
| believe that is what they are called. when
they feel like gushing they don't care where
they are, or who sees them. A correspon-
dent at the centennial writes occasionally
a couple of rolling chairs become the theatre
Of a spicy little episode, in which pretly
young lady and her lover are the CHIEF ACTORS
In machinery hail. the other day, Two cEalrs'
containing n lady ana gentleman, each nav
| ing an attendant, were moving down one OF
the broad avenues, lady on the right, with
her delicate little hand resting lovingly in
the arm OF her adorer, said limb being thrust
out akimbo for the purpose. The attraction
of gravitatIon naturally drew their heads to-
gether, and two pair OF pouting lips were
lust in the act OF responding 10 an irresisti.
bic impulse when n brawny guard stepped
| IN and whispered something in their ears
| that put an end to further proceedings IN
that direction. The last act in the drama re-
minded me OF the piece entilleu Love- Id
Dor Lost"
One of the most interesting things Is to no.
tlce the way some visitors "do the show,
and especially the Art Gallery. Some hurry
along at lightning speed, just skipping
around taking IN the most gorgeous displays
ard not noticing the smaller exhibits at all.
Others rush on observing only the novel, the
beautiful, and all that Is wonderful. Some
pause to gaze at everything, while others go
IT. for the fun of the thing. Those are the
kind that when they return home cannot tell
the first thing about the exhibition, and If
asked what they think of 1t will answer, by
gosh, it's big thing immense! Beats
anything ever saw VIZ Wen, tell US some.
thing about 1t, what did you see that you
thought grandest? 40, everything about IL"
Anything in particulars 40, yes" What's
40, eyery,hingw And so on. They know it
i NIL for they took the entire thing in AT a