Connecticut western news., 1876-07-21
CENTENNIAL NOTES.
Taken by Our Correspondent on tn,
 Grounds.

Taken by Our Correspondent on the | Grounds.
 A building is specially devoted to a | sawmill. A handsomely constructed
 truck is placed upon the floor, upon
 which frame is placed upon wheels,
 six pair of some six inches in diameter.
 Upon the frame is placed the log. A
 brake is used on tho side of the slide.
 The log faces circular saw. The brake
 is moved, the truck starts, aud counted sixteen while a log of sixteen feet was cut through; another move of the brake, back movement, and the log runs
 back, clear of the saw. All this leg saving was performed by one man. A Chinese giant named Chinki Tse is on his way to the Centennial ill charge of an Italian snowman. He is nearly seven feet four inches high, weighs 297 pounds, is thirty seven years old, and eats at each meal fourteen bowls of rice and vegetables.
 Ontario, Canada, sends leveling rife. This rife is remarkable for having only the minimum of motions, cock, load, and fire. The maximum of rapid firing is consequently attained. It has the side hinge black-breach.
 Halifax sends the best specimen of skates, not looked at to-day-the ther- mometer some ninety-six or moro. They sell largely to tho United States, Russia, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, France, and England.
 Quebec has philodonte fountain. 2
 South Australia sends beautiful, may say perfect, wax representations of the different varieties of fruit produced in that portion of Australia.
 Trinidad sends samples of fiber ex- tracted from the husks of the cocoanut, adapted for making brooms, brushes, etc. value $s250 per ton. The govern ment botanist sends twenty samples of fiber. There are more than 190 speci- mems of different woods from Trinidad. This island is east of Venezuela, be- tween north latitude ten deg. three min. and ton deg, fifty min., west longitude sixty-one and sixty-two deg. four min. of Greenwich; length, sixty-fve miles on the south, fifty three on the north side, and respectively forty-eight and forty-nine miles wide. It is separated from the continent of America by the gulf of Paria. It was discovered by Columbus, July 31, 149S; colonized in 1888.
 The commission has changed the date for beginning the bench show of dogs from September 1st to 4th, from thence to the 9th.
 Twenty-seven moving machines con- tested for tho championship of the world; they made their fight on forty acres of ground. Each machine cut about half acre of grass.
 South of Machinery hall is building containing an interesting exhibit. It is called the Nevada quartz mill, and was appropriated by Nevada toward her Gen. tennial display. The remainder of the money was devoted to the State build ing. In this quartz mill is performed the entire process of extracting gold and silver from quartz. The rock is finely pulverized in apounding machine, from which the powder runs into tank of water and settles in the bottom. The water is then allowed to run off, and the sediment is put into cylindrical vessel, called an amalgamating pan or grinder; here more water is put on, and also mer cury, in the proportion of ono hundred and seventy-tive pounds to two tons of mixture. The mercury begins to collect the gold and silver as soon as the grinder gives the mixture circular motion. While grinding, the mixture is also kept heated to the boiling point, the better to infuse the mercury. The latter is then allowed to run into another cyEn- drical vessel, called settler, where it is stirred and cooled, tho compound of mercury, gold and silver meanwhile settling at the bottom. The metallic compound flows out at the bottom through an inverted siphon, from the widened mouth of which it is dipped and put in filter. Through the latter ne,rly all the quicksilver escapes and is collected, and the amalgam of gold, silver and mercury is left behind ready for the mint. All the machinery is operated by steam. The quartz came from the Consolidated Virginia mine in Nevada. Much of the silver obtained from it is converted into Nevada Gen tennial medals in the mint.
 West Point Cadets, 290 strong, are in camp, discipline rigid-fne looking set, soldierly and orderly.
 Kiu Kiang, China, exhibits some beautiful vases and flower pots Can ton, dinner service Chefoo, plain woven silks, raw silks; Ningpo, old bronzes, vases. etc., sea shells. The imperial customs. wood, oils, cuspidores, laquer, rattans and bamboo ware, and fish, fish glue, sea blubber, sea weed, honey wax, dried fruit, sugar, tallow, glue, wines, oil, leguminous plants, to- bacco, cereals, ginger, moss, fungus, nuts and seeds, hair, cotton.
 The Argentine republic sends domes- tic calfskins for the cure of rheumatism, and COW tripes for export; also lizard leather for gaiters, mandioca starch for making chipa bread, and a great variety of skins, sea wolf, fox, weasel, buck, otter, ferret, coati, wild boar, otter lion, tiger, ostrich, swan, rabbit and llama.
 Savannah, Georgia, yellow pine tim Der.
 Wagons are from Wisconsin, Iowa, Indiana, Illinois, embracing ice, lum- F,,, Srh nina