The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-06-10
CENTENNIAL CORRESPOND
ENCE
BooweranD- Vapors from the Commission
ers-The Polar Regioms-Misceilany


From our Special Correspondent.
PHILADELPHIA, May %, 1s76.-Speaking
of the practical reminds me of the
boomerang. For more than twenty years
have searched for this extraordinary weap-
on. In my different trips to the old world,
sought it, but, not hearing of it, nor seeing
it, concluded it was myth, and was used as
an illustration by politicians. Such an one
was using boomrrang-as we would say,
"hosting one on his own petard.' 1t is said
of this formidable weapon, that when hurled
at an object by a native it moves along Just
above the ground with great raPidity, and
after reaching its objective point, leaps as IL
were into mid air, and thus poised for the
moment takes a retrogressive movement IN
an air line for the point from which 1t was
cast, thus making il as dangerous to the
thrower if inexperienced, as heavily
charged blunderbuss. 1t has been as great a
puzzle 10 the savans and scientists as the
calculating machine of Babbage. -Four of
these curious specimens of savage genius are
to be seen in the department of Australia
There are seventy-twO block and slab speci-
mems of timber from Sydney. They also ex-
hibit saddles, woods, tweeds and shawls,
none of which will compare with the Ameri-
can section, and coal seems twelve feet thick,
are shown as specimens from Hunter river
district northern coal fields of New South
Wales. There are sixty-six collieries. They
also exhibit preserved meats, candies, bis
cults condiments, ores of antimony and 9TH
err minerals.
vAPoRs FROM THE COMMISSIONERS.
The Hon. DanielJ Morrell thinks the des-
tiny of the exhibition is to open on Sunday.
how or when IS one Of the inscrutabilities.
Gen. Hawley had an ovation at meeting of
the bible society, they rising and remaining
standing while the introduction was going
on. The ex-governor is sound on the Sum
H.. of 81.
society. Hon. J. T. Barnard is emphatic in
his arguments for the pro. of the matter, and
says the doors should be thrown open on
Sunday in spite of those who favor the con-,
in which he is backed by the emphatic Don
aldson, who is live, progressive commission
the majority of the commissioners are in Ia
vor of Sunday openings. The enthusiastic
commissioner from Maine is stirring the pool
of temperance, and stands aghast at the dis
sipation of the times, and sees in each res
taurant the spirit of Banquo. The boys will
have swi lager, and its useless to de-nye
them. Mccormick, of Arizona, is in favor of
passing two persons for dollar, rather than
the cramping rule of forcing each visitor to
present that act-tion fifty cents. Professor,
of Tennessee, wants a committee appointed
to consider the propriety of reducing the en-
trance fee.
Observation-Disclosures POLAR REGIONS.
In glass snow case fourteen Ieet square,
are shown on one side, the prismatic COM
pass, transit, sextant and other instruments
us by that intrepid navigator near the
frigid wilds of Western Greenland; draw
ings and paintings of Arctic scenery and an
imal life, executed by himself, and the flag
of the Advance, the ship in which he made
his second voyage; the three other sides of
the case contain relics of the expeditions of
HAYES, Hall and Bradford the flag that
Wilkes took on his Antarctic expedition in
the ship Peacock, the same flag being taken
by Kane, Hayes and Hall, also, on their Arc
tic voyages; relics of Sir John Franklin'ss
expedition, including portions of his vessel
secured by captain Hall in his second expe-
dition and brought back by him then, to-
gether with relics of Parry's voyage: the
journals kept by Hall in his Polaris expedi-
ton, and fac-simile of the sledge made for
captain Hall by Esquimaux Joe"
Brazil has $3,OOO,OOO in diamonds to dis
play. but the United States, requiring a per-
sonal bond in amount double the invoice
from the commissioner, he declined, hence
we will not see the brilliants. The Bullock
printing press prints thirty-two thousand
copies per hour. The Portuguese have
handsome building one story high within,
and two without. In the British section
there are eighty-ive exhibitors of chemicals,
and fourteen exhibitors of watches and chro-
nometers. The latter timepieces were in
vented by John Arnold one hundred years
ago. The Georama of Paris is about twenty
five feet square, is exposed to the weather,
and unless taken out of the wet, will be as
the baseless fabric of a vision" The navy
department of the United States in the gov
eminent building, is arranged under nine
heads; ordnance, torpedOes, equipment,
navigation, construction, pards and docks,
medicines and surgery, provisions and cloth
ing, steam engineering and naval Observable
ry and arctic relics. Japan exhibits two
vases, six feet high and thirty inches in di-
ameter, price $1,000 gold, small vases ten
inches high, $50 in gold, white and blue Chi
ma goods far below the English standard at
fabulous prices, $50 in gold for table worth
about ten or fifteen dollars. thought these
figures of bonanza character, but when l
saw suit of buckskin, coat, vest and pants,
trimmed with few yards of silver lace from
Mexico, price 81, 900 in gold, l threw up the
sponge, Shades OF the Astecs and of Monte
yuma, where art ye. The bijOuterie of Japan,
their lacquered ware, and straw goods are
superior, and many articles are low enough,
but in their valuable articles they are in the
clouds. The prices they ask would impover-
eth the tycoon did he become purchaser.
In the Egyptian department 5000 gold is
asked for silver, antique set. worth possibly
a few hundred dollars; few pieces of SAN
dial wood 50 gold. If the Americans can
stand these extortions, they are specimens
of endurance TO be wondered at What do
the readers of this letter think of hack
CANNON board inlaid, 5000 gold The Egyp-
tians have a sacred crocodile with them to
paIliate their excuses. l an happy to state
he is stuffed. One watch factory American,
shows two thousand two hundred watches
representing six days of ten hours each of
the employees. A tack factory exhibits two
model of a draw-bridge, Raritan pivot bridge,
largest of the kind in the world, four hun.
dred and seventy-two feet. New York will
be represented by five hundred varieties of
winter apples and six hundred varieties of
potatoes. Strawberries will be displayed
June 9TH, raspberries July 3rd. Peaches
grapes, nuts, cereals, honey and wax, melons,
horses, cattle and poultry will follow at diff
ferent dates. In addition to Gi1mOre's con-
certs, other musical bands will perform in
different parts of the main building. The
French steamer brought the French, Belgian
and Russian judges of centennial awards,
and four hundred tons of French exhibits.
There will be five thousand free seats dis
tributed throughout the grounds. Tropical
fruits from Bermuda were shown on the 18th
inst. Michigan and New York are in the
front rank Of apple growers. The committee
on concessions have determined to enforce
contracts with restaurants, the leading fea-
ture of which was fair prices. Oregon ex-
hibits wheat reaped in ninety days after SOW
ing in ground neither ploughed nor narrowed.
1t is said Queen Victoria will "put in an APP
pearance" at the exhibition. But few chill
grounds. The Netherlands show carpets
from the royal factory, would fit room
eighteen feet square, $3.50. Harlem shows
a magnet eighty eight pounds, carries a
weight of five hundred pounds, price $1lO
Rotterdam displays an ext nsive assortment
of fishing tackle. Amsterdam pipes of the
quaintest Dutch style, Georamas Of canals,
maps. and a swing double-cranc bridge and
a georama of the surface of the Zuyderzee.
Bermuda has a piece of Xanthoxylon.
II was taken from a stump by a British SOL
der of H. NJ. SD. 1t is OF yellow wood per-
fectiy sound and dates back 1912, also from
the Island black mangrove, rubber, olive,
fiddle and other wnnds A rraw root Ia a