The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1876-11-12
LAST DAY OF TIE BIG SHOW.
CLOSING THE CENTENNIAL ExHTBT-
TON IN A TORRENT or RIIN.

The Sad Experience of DinboIu--The Cafe
Leiand-Onc Ov-icr aud Lutte Red Crab
-tirant md the Tondics Pertinent Re
msrks-A Request that NAV not he Needed.
wanted to see the end of the Centennial
Exhibition, so, with small b &. wife. and cane,
went. Rising early, with n small cup Of hot
coffee aud IA hie Of steak In NV stomach,
Joined the noble army Of mar yrs IN the car.
Having lost the cork from tall tower aasK'
drank nothing ON the way, but reached the
grounds precisely at ten O'Clock Of the lnst
great day.
Grant came later.
! don't think he had lost the cork from his
nisk, aud he mad an umbrella. 80 That while
was wet outside an, Dry in. his condition ~ as
precisely the rev rise.
The chill Of the ar was Ike that Of the tomb,
and penetrated to my Vofy marrow. so that,
while naturally angelic. suon became fiigidly
daboc. and developed an amount Of tll.tomper
aud anthropoph1c most tant ilzlngto the
world In general and my com anton Ia pertcu-
lar. raw temp Ing sign which read:
Gaze de l.. land.
Everything IN season Soups, jonis, game. and wine.
! "Let IL eat drink. and he merry" said |, " for
tomorrow the place will be closed" a dirty
room, tw enty dirty darkeys, thirty dirty table =,
and two score of dirty bills Of fare-in French
met my travel-stained eve.
Diabolus-Brinz US "a good hot dinner. my boy.
You take care Of me and IN take Gre of you.
o Waiter-We don't nave nufiiiD hot, boss only
stews aud tea aud coffee.
ID bolus-Mell, bring us two hot stews, some
roast beef coffee, sweet potatoes, aud celery.
Oh he went.
In about three.quari era Of an hour h. return
ed with the stew, and, on my word OF honor,
In one Of them there was one solitary oyster nd
dear little ctaO ~ red as IA beta poor. tough
little thing, evidently neglected even by the
cOok-and IN tue other tueie were four.
Maiter-lt II, boss, you're exactly right. That's
lust what II Il.
ell, | tucRled the beef, and my good | DIV
nUled her crackers, aud we looked with
r.ivnt grief Mt the thinntst OF te for awhile. and
Then paid dOilsr aud a half for tue cntertain-
mem. We started ON the grand rounds. Oh, so
chilled ana pHie, wnen two sixty-yehr- old wo-
men. with no Dustles to speak OF, waved sprigs
OF iennel In thy faCe ana hskt d me, " here be
the munmiesT II the Oldest nag near the
pyramid. of Cheops were t. ask, 80 mere be the
INDY plainsf cCud not b. more astODished
qhey were mummies them. elves. anu wrinkled
like baked apples. 4 saw "A dsndy's eyegiass
ptring entanRled IN the berries OF country
girl's bonnet. saw Major Gen. Joe Hawley
Try to smile, out IN the chilly ram, with mud
before him ana defeat behind nun. Isaw Frank
Leslie. Jackson ;. schultz a. =. Cornell, ana a
host OF sleek Commissioners para Ing through
the BUILDING, stright US ramruds, aud
blow his norm I'll MS cheek STOOD out like APP
pie dumpllngs, aud the sweat beaded his Oald
pate Ike hlstones ON ro,k. ! saw Pap
benbeim open her "rundtrOus jaws" " enco
Issued melody ana song that nlled the bIiuinS
aud flowed ike torrents out upon surrOun iiug
spsc'. l saw the President Of the Bank Of Com.
nerce with gay aud festive party, who went
from New York ~ a special car. and c irue very
near giving a score or ~ OF death ads to HE
Run. Aud saw Tue footprints e the young eui-
tor. Not his own actual loot nuts that ~O aid
be too great JOY liut his So, O-s peak foot.
Prints. ~ the sh pc OF little cards all over tnS
place, like tuls;