American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1876-05-27
EXPOSITION NOTES.

EXPOSITION NOTES.
fHE monster krupp gun carries
1000 pound BALL and weighs GA tons.
The main circle of the grand chan
delier for the Main Building is IS fee
in diameter.
THE mammoth vases sent from the
celebrated Sevres establishment attrac
greet attention in the French depart
ment:
A sIGNAL-sERvICE office completely
fitted up and in operation is an inter
esting part of the United States Govern
ment display.
FIFTEEN States will send at different
times altogether about a battalion OF
troops each to the International Elk
hibitior.
THE figure of calf in wood, the
hide being indicated by nails of every
size and variety, is contributed by the
Gottenburg (Sweden) Nail Fabrik.
Two Boston wonien have expended
$500 in money, a year Of time, and
nearly all their eye-sight in embroider-
ing flag for the Centennial show.
A RUSSIAN Prince, who spent his for
tune in his early youth, is employed at
the Centennial Exhibition grounds as
stake-driver, receiving $1-75 per day.
REV. DIR. SroRRs, of Brooklyn, has
secured for the Centenniel some old
and very valuable manuscripts from the
great libraries of London and Milan.
A SOLDIER, 214 feet high and weigh
ing so tons, has been sent from Rhode
Island, where he was cut out of a gran
lite quarry by skillful sculptor.
The choicest works of the Royal Por-
celain Mandatory at Berlin are in an
elegant pavilion, which the Prussians
have erected in the Main Building.
RHODE ISLAND sends to the Centen-
NAL policeman who measures six feet
three inches. That comes from living
in small State-not having room to
spread, he ran up.
THE Argo, which is said to be the
largest steam pleasure yacht In the
world, has arrived at Philadelphia with
a party of English gentlemen. They
have been voyaging to the West Indies
and Mexico, and have now come to wit
ness the Exhibition.
THE Mexican Pavilion in the Exhibi-
ton affords visitors an excellent oppor-
tunity to study. Aztec architecture and
other Aztec remains. The collection of
plaster casts designed to illustrate Mex
ico's aboriginal civilization is very full
and singularly interesting.
AN Ohio Dairyman proposes making
a mammoth cheese for the Centennial
which will require one days
milk from 900 cows. The proposed
weight of this cheese is $4,000 pounds,
and car will be made for it and upon
which it will be put to press. This will
much surpass the great Canada cheese
which was made at the Ingersoll factory.
This cheese was feet 10 inches in d.
ameter, 3 feet high and Fl feet in cir
and weighed 1000 pounds.
It required So tons of milk to make it,
,r one milking from 1000 cows. 1t was
exhibited at the New York State Fair at
Saratoga, and was afterwards exported
% England, and caused sensation
when it passed through the streets of
london and other cities on its way to
he Mace of exhibition
strange Charge Against Opera
tors.
Be ral of our citizens have sent their |
'ailiiiie' to the Eastern States during
the past "ar. The usual custom has
oeen 10 iiis''lct their dear ones to, once
oay' ai'er wing Ogden, telegraph
their progress Not one of these dis
patches mas eve.reached Virginia City.
one gentleman whose wife went to
chicago year ag, sent dispatch after
dispatch, and final. telepraphed his
mother-in-law, asking how his baby
was, as he could get no rord from his
wife. And yet the thought wife had
telegraphed him every day ar leaving
Ogden. A gentleman who's family
started East twelve days ago old ne
yesterday that he had not heal one
word from them, though ,is
wife was to have telegraphed from d
prominent points on the road. The ex-
PLANTATION is that the operators along
the Union Pacific and Eastern roads
receive the dispatches and the money,
pocket the money and destroy the dis
patches. A wife telegraphs her hus-
band from Cheyenne or Laramie:
eve are safe and well so far" The
operator says: "That woman never
could remember me; what if she is safe
and well? I don't care if she lives a
thousand years. puts the dispatch in
the CRATE and plays billiards or drinks
frontier whisky with the money.-Nr-
GINA City (Nev.) Enterprise.
Fresh Married Love.
At table quite near our own was a
bride who would have been hopelessly
ugly but for her mouth. That was beau
tiful the lips were perfect in shape and
color, and the teeth cleaning between