Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-07-06
CENTENN .JOTTINGS.

LEMON trees in Horticultural hall
are bearing fruit.
IN the Delaware exhibit is a bank
bill which was made in 1868.
TOTAL number of visitors for thirty
three days, 1,240,6 42. Fees for admis-
sion, 1913, 516.50.
AN Indian dug-out, sixty feet long,
and made from one tree, is one of the
wonders of the show.
GREENLAND, among other curious
things, has contributed q meteOric
stone weighing several tons.
TIE Japanese understand the art of
making money, and are practicing it
successfully at the Centennial.
THE Saturday half-holiday of me-
chanics, clerks, and statesmen large
ly increases the attendance at the Cen
tennial
OREGON shows rye nine feet high.
eighty-seyen and half bushels to the
acre; oats ten feet high, eighty-seven
DuSilGlS per acre.
A MEMBER Of the Board of Finance
says that the daily expenses Of that
body in conducting the Exhibition are
about $512, 900, which is soon to be re-
duced
4 PILLAR Of coal is being erected in
the centre of the Government build
ing. 1t is already about forty feet in
height, and will be continued to the
apex OF the building.
OVER 30, 900 visitors from New Jer-
sey have visited the Centennial, and it
is estimated that the roll of visitors at
the close Of the exhibition will show
30O,O from that State.
In the Worcester Mass exhibit in
Machinery Hall can be seen the press
on which was printed the first copy Of
the Declaration of independence in
this country, and from which Isaiah
Thomas issued the Worcester Spy CEN
fury ago.
The Pacific Centennial Hall, the
headquarters Of the Pacific Coast
States, IN its interior is one of the most
beautiful and pleasing Of all the State
buildings. It's decorations consist
mainly OF native woods, which are very
attractive and suggestive.
AMONG the old landmarks in Ma
chinery Hall is knitting machine $50
years old. In the same hall is por-
ton Of the cylinder of the first steam |
engine boiler ever used on this cont
nent, 1t was imported from England
III los, and was Used for pumping
water for q copper shop near Newark,
n. J.
One o. the coolest pieces of cheek
known to modern or ancient times. is
found i'll the case of the Canadian
stoves on exhibition at the Centennial.
They are all made after American
models entirely stolen from American
stove manufacturers, against whom
these Canadians compete for the pre-
MUM. -lhjcago Times
NOSE YUTEN, of Canton, China.
came over with the Celestial Commits
siOncys and obtained from Uncle Sam
the appointment of Centennial mail
carrier. He looks we'll in his suit of
gray, and although he cannot wade
through an English sentence, he has a
trick worth two of that in delivering
letters to their owners. He puts them
all on 4 table, superscription side up,
and says: You pickee up lettels, ebly
one fol YOU.
CLOSE by the Women's Pavilion on
the Centennial Grounds is Il Kinder
garten school on the Froebel STYLE
Three times week twenty little chill
dren are sent from the Northern Home
for Soldiers Orphans and Destitute
Children, in Philadelphia, and at ten
O'Clock exercises commence in the neat
little school-house. The teacher has
two assistants, and as the children
have been III training for some months,
they are sufficiently advanced to illus
trate the advantage Of the system.