The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-05-06
ENHIRIIION RUu NGS.

them, whole village or royal court OF
curious dwellings, lakes and monuments,
acres on acres in extent. An avenue
straight rs an arrow starts obliquely
across the prospect, forming cross with
second. Their place of meeting is the
center of all views and midway of all
attractions, and there stands the plain,
unostentatious edifce of the United
States, with pretty new lake and grav-
elled shores between it and the great
Machinery hall behind us. To balance
this lake, in front of the other or main
hall in the rear is the monumental
structure, which 1 presume to be the
future state capitol of Pennsylvania,
called Memorial hall. 1t is for its great
proportions the quaintest and most pleas
ing piece of architecture We possess, in
height, one colossal story of corner pavil-
ions connected by colonnades, and on
the main facade only carrying out a
center of three arches from a dome which
arises within it. Built of massive stone,
raised ON an eminence reached by flight
Of stairs, its ornaments few and strong,
its purposes expressive, and its open door
to the west, this hall is, no doubt, to sue
coed the old state capitol at Harrisburg,
alread Y antieuated and without reverence.
The state gave the money for Memorial
hall, and the century upon which We
have entered does not require legisla-
lures to take to the woods at the ap-
proach of the militia.
1 examined this hall, still unfinished
but soon to be ready, and now packed
with works of art not taken from their
cases, and / saw that in every feature it
was legislative capitol and the noblest
in the country. The central pavilion
opens into a palatial ante-chamber and
that into dome, from which lie off, to
right and left, two skylighted legislative
halls, perfect except for chairs. From
these are committee paTlors along the
shell of the edifce, ample Hobbies, and
governors and speakers rooms. In a
few weeks these fresh walls will be hung
with such a collection of paintings as
Europe probable has not seen, and deco.
rated with marbles whose limbs l saw
in the latticed packing boxes. Coming
down the steps of this building the rep
resentative shoes of all nations can
already be seen-the instepless Briton, the
French miss with heel like brass shoe
peg under her sole, the slippered Jap
anese, called in love "my Japonica :"
Two Fegasuses, if there were two, or
Pegasus twice reigning in twice Bellero-
phon, winged and ugly, hold the angels
of the stairs. Over the dome of the
hall, freedom, or peace, or Aunt Mary
is extending wreath with her feet on a
bell-the aerial bell-wether of the con-
Germ. Memorial hall, being costly, per
manent building, gives to the exhibition
look of reality and stability which no
foreign show has had. Out in the open
country, of granite walls, good for ages,
and perfectly new, elbow my heyes,''
says Bull, edo they mean to exhibit
ERE forever"
SCENERY.
Facing the Memorial hall, short hall
mile away, is the grand new Catholic
fountain, the largest in America, and
except that at Cincinnati, the most elab-
crate in sculpture. 1t is a moral victory
over the last century to see the Jews,
Catholics, and Presbyterians, all stiff relig-
ionists, celebrating freedom in the sight of
each other with monuments, hammer
clicking to hammer, stone rising to stone,
Witherspoon, Father Mathew, and Moses
poised in the same landscape, and there
to remain. These monuments, raised
in the squirt of few months, amount to
more than we have gathered in Central
Park in years. Indeed, the Philadelphia
show will leave them for the future time
the best ornamented park in this coun-
try.
The enclosure of the exhibition is a
triangle On each side, the base of the tri-
angle at the great entrance where the
main halls are; the other two sides con-
grounds inward in the hollow angle at
the apex is the vastgothic building called
Agricultural hall, and along the side by
the river is the fine Moorish palace called
Horticultural hall. Two ,rivulets cross
the grounds and enter within them deep
glens, down which lead paths to springs
and hooks and peanut men, while tkey
are crossed by viaducts for foot passen-
gers, which are fine specimens of Ameri-
can pile.work, aerial galleries of a mild
Alpine character. A bed of sunken
flowers between green banks, the like of
which Elizabeth nor Marie Antoinette
never saw excelled, leads from Horti-
cultural hall straight to the centre of the
whole. There was an earthquake, and
the flowers fell last and filled the gap
Now around the third side of the 'trian-
gle, behind the government building,
are the houses of the states and many ma
tions, all superb, all under way or fin
ished. The smallest has taste. The
japanese house has some wood-carving
that is remarkable. New Jersey has the
largest house of any.
Now | am tired and not done. In
brief, the exhibition at present is an as
semblage of palaces, grottoes, settlements,
hives, etc, in miniature landscape, near
ly perfected, energy, curiosity, and dust
competing to get ahead first
The GROWTH OF LANGUAGE-Let
us take familiar word, of which every
body knows the modern meaning, the
word I" bishop" 1t comes from the