Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-05-19
CENTENNIAL NOTES.

Australia will exhibit W varieties ofapples
at Philadelphia.
Arrests for all causes on the opening day
on the grounds were only 3S. Pickpockets, 8.
The lack Of drunkenness doesn't seem so
surprising after learning that the bill for the
drinks for party Of ten was So.
Dom Pedro has teegraphed to Carlos
Gomez, the Brazilian composer, TO compose
a suitable piece Of music for the centennial,
and send it along in time to be played at
Philadelphia on the Fourth Of July by Gil
mores band
The official figures Of Thursdays attend.
ance wefS $4,000, for Friday 10000.
The tickets sole indicated an attend.
ance of about $4,000 on Saturday.
The New York Tribune states that the
attendance the first day was exaggerated
the paying visitors appeared to have num-
bered only $4,000.
Correspondents who ought TO know say
that the inaugural ceremonies at Philadel-
pbia, Wednesday, excelled in brilliancy and
attractiveness those at Vienna and Paris.
Flag flying has been reduced to fne art
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painted, and surmounted by gilt ball or
liberty oaps"-material, silk.
The Knights Templar demonstration
takes place May 2Sth and continues four
days One hundred and twenty-five COM
manderies have accepted the invitation to be
present.
Cattle said to be the heaviest and best in
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exhibition--among them an OK weighing
1000 pounds aud heller weighing $500
pounds.
The Centennial Fire Department consists
Of 1863 men, divided into three companies,
one of which continually patrols the build.
ing, while the extinguishers and fre.plugs
are numerous enough TO meet any possible
demand for their use.
The Krupp cannon from Germany. the
heaviest siege guu in the world, still re-
mains in the Essen in the Schuylkill. No
derrick is strong enough to land it, and it is
to be lacked up and rolled overheard.
There is Centennial Medical Depart.
ment to which those suddenly taken i'll may
be carried Thirty or forty cases Of exhaus.
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others of laceratiou, fracture and bruise.
Complaint in Philadelphia has begun of
extortionate prices. An indignant break
faster AYERS that he was charged S205 for
one little beefsteak, bread and tea and an.
other asks the sympathy Of the public mas
much as he was bled to the tune Of 1925
for "a very plain lunch"
Michigan shipped her building to Phila-
delphia in pieces numbered. Several car
loads Of them are now missing, and Michi-
gan must remain houseless for several weeks.
The nOn.paying attendants are now an.
nounced as 10000 in number among the ex-
hibitors aud their assistants, l,5ll among
the general officials, 225 among the judges,
100 more TO state boards and over 500 "a
the press.
The colOred people of Philadelphia are
expressing some dissatisfaction because some
of the more noted of their class were not in
vited to seats on the platform on the open
ing day.
The Kansas building is to be decorated
with large seal Of the state, 8 feet in diam
eter, painted by Kansas artist, with a mar
of the state, 20 feet by II feet, suspended
beneath
People begin to doubt whether the Turk
are going to show anything beside theiI
coffee-house aud their Jerusalem bazaar,
At the Japan department young lady
examining quantity wrought vase askeC
| the japanese youth 10 attendance "Wha
is that vase made for 2" The polite LITTLE
fellow replied MADAME, that was mad
r expressly to secure the admiration or th
, American ladies"
The Exposition managers still adhere t
the senseless rule which oblige the Wis
!. itOrs to pay their admission fec in 81
0 cent currency. Bills of one dollar and up
r ward were not accepted at first.
l On Tuesday last week the centennial au
thorities were obliged TO turn away nun
Der of wagon loads of goods forwarded b
n procrastinating eleventh.hour men. TIT
last load crossed the lines at just one min
ute before IL N. on Monday, while up
\ Tuesday evening not less than 80 carload
: had accumulated outside the grounds.
WashingtOn's false teeth will be shown a
the centennial in company and contrast wit
the finest dental work Of New York. Th
= wonder is, they say, that any mau ever bel,
y them in his mouth five minutes. The teet
are bits Of bone, scarcely trying to look lik
i teeth, attached to gold plate, with strips riN
u eted across to strengthen the teeth in place
y while coiled wire at the end Of the jaw
s. makes spring, and assists in opening an
closing the machine.
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8 Kontentment IL the simple science Ov KIT
le ing when phellow il we'll of, aud keepiu