The Osceola times., 1876-06-17
CENTENNIAL CORRESPONDENCE.
The CoasGsrts or the CentenaiRi city
Catalogue Depart asens MISCELLANY.


PHILApELPuIA, June 10:-Many people
speak of the intense heat of Philadelphia, as
is supposed TO be the case in all large cities
hence, feel deferred from visiting the exhi'
bition during the heated term. The follow
ing is the average for the last ten years
May sixty-three, July seventy-eight, October
6fty.six degrees Fahrenheit. There are a
few warm days in all cities in our country in
July and August. The area Of the city is
immense, one hundred and twenty-nine
square miles. This added to magnificent
water power that showers and cools the air
Of many squares, aud is used freely in lakes,
pools and fountains on the exhibition
grounds and in the buildings. This power
fills the reservoirs, which hold li5,612,O's
gallons. machinery of turbines and two
breast wheels. Then we have the largest
park in the world. Hyde park, 3s9 acres
Regent, $50 acres; Windsor Great park,
l,sO0. acres, London; Bias de Boulogue,
Paris, 2,l5S; Prater, Vienna, $500 acres
Richmond Hill, England, 2,i5s acres
Phoenix park, Dublin, LISP acres; ST. Louis,
275 acres Shaw's Garden, 81. Louis, 276
Fairmount park, Philadelphia, 2,74O acres,
to which add the beauties of the exhibition,
and il will pay man from the most remote
spot ON earth to pick up his "kit' and come.
TIE CATALOGUE DEPARTMENT.
The catalogue is now undergoing a thor
ough supervision, and when completed, will
be a splendid work Of reference. This i'm
portant branch of the service is in charge OF
the competent assistant secretary Of the com
mission, Professor Dorsey Gardner, whose
reputation az scholar has eminently fitted
him for the position he holds. His two
valuable aids, Messrs. Lombard and Long,
with an efficient corps OF assistants, will soon
accomplish the difficult and aiauous task
of placing each article on exhibition in its
appropriate place, arranged in seven depart
ments, which are divided into seven hundred
and thirty-four classes, occupying five build
ings main, art, machinery, agricultural and
horticultural. The difficulty those gentle
men have to surmount may be conceived
when one considers the technicalities in the
different languages, and the various changes
each fabric has in foreign make up. am
indebted to these gentlemen for a thorough
examination Of their work, and pronounce
them the right men in the right place!
MISCELLANY.
The most superior blanket in the exhibi-
tion, astonishing as IL may seem, is the Etoile
du Nord, manufactured in Minnesota. This
speaks well for the west. Massachusetts, ex-
hibits flannel Of superior finish. The art de-
partment is classified as follows: Sculpture,
painting, engraving, and lithography, photo
graphy industrial and architectural designs,
medals and decorations, and vitreous mate
rial, Mosaic and inlaid work. There are
fifteen hundred and eleven works of art on
exhibition from the following countries !:
Mexico, sixty-six; Brazil, nineteen; United
States, two hundred and ffty-two; Canada,
eighty; France taking the lead with five hun
dred and seventy-eight; Germany, ,forty-eight;
Netherlands, one hundred and seventeen
Denmark, fifteen; Sweden, ninety-fve
Norway, forty-seven, Italy, eighty; Argen
tine Republic, forty-four Joan collection
seventy. II the west exhibits the best
blanket, so she does the most beautiful bed
stead, being one from Grand Rapids, Michi
gan. A very neat patent on exhibition is an
automatic window shade. Also an attrac
tive exhibit is a working model Of Pennsyl
vania oil works. A model railroad ticket
Office is shown. Rhode Island makes an ex
tensive exhibit of silver-plated goods Phil
adelphia makes the finest pharmaceutica
an extension ladder. Egypt presents among
other vauables an antique case, $1,000 gold
Corn from Egypt looks like the nubbin from
western stalk. On the corn question, the
old world is behind. When ] say corn
Amerieanizc this. Cereal as corn in the oil
world, corresponds to our small grain, and
corn with them is accepted in commercial
parlance as maize. The home of the Pha
raohs have sent us n large variety OF seeds
beans. lentils, gum arabic, etc. The Rus
SLAMS, who have been delayed, are opening
and make grand display. Their collection
is di vided into seven hundred and forty
nine exhibits, embracing articles in the va
rious fields of art and industry. They show
rare goods in malachite lapis, Jasper, Rhod
onite Nephrite and Labrador, with bronz'
fittings. One malachite center-table, $4,000
a Mexican onyx mantel, spoken of previous
ly, worth $1,000. In speaking Of the ar
exhibition have only given those IN the ar
buildings. There are in the main buildin.
works from New South Wales, Victoria
South Australia, New Zealand, Cape o
Good Hope, Egypt, China Japan, Hawaii
Switzerland. The British department is no
officially catalogued. Russia exhibits tel
ementre, an instrument for measuring dis
tance without chain or rod.
| The shipping interests are varied and yer.
attractive to those who are fond OF nautica
manners, from the tiny boat of ones boy
hood, to the leviathans Of transatlantic
| lines And models can he seen in all shape
embracing boats and sailing vessels, yacht
and pleasure-boats, row and life-boats, ,iishlni
smacks, Sandman Zebecs, and Genoese fel
lucas, with Chinese iunks in appearance
blue noses, clippers, galliots gondolas, flats
pirogues, batteaux, and the celebrated ic
yacht, the Whit, that makes sixty miles pc
| hour. In connection is seen submarine al
| 7. Ill a .lst,p .aph estl
wage apparatus, et:. A meeting OF the n
club, an organization Of women journalists
had reunion, and addresses by Miss SusaI
! Il. Anthony, Mrs. Heron Foster, Of Pitts
burg, and Miss Maxwell, Of Colorado. Thi
lady, who is in charge Of Colorado geological
department, claims that she has killed tw
hundred bears. More than fifty carloads q
arrivals Of exhibits this week. The Austria
legation warn the public against an iudivId
ual who claims to he a commissioner OF th
| Huncarians. They say "he is an escape
convict" Three trains Of thirty ears, cor
tanning fourteen hundred New York BAN
clerks, made an excursion TO the centennia
| This was succeeded by an excursion oi pre-
idents, managers and directors. On WedDe
day the bankers opened their building wit
dedicatory serviccs--orator, Hon. Elbridg
Gerry Spauldng, of Buffalo, N. Y. There
pig Of iron exhibited made in i770. A gla'
OF pure milk can be had on the centenni;
grounds for five cents, pies ten cents; oa e
grts, with bowl of milk, fifteen cents; goo
saudwichcs,ten cents; agood roast dinner ia
fifty cents yet people grow at extortior
The jewelry Of the French department
valued at S200,000. One Italian exhibito
has n collection Of gems, onyx, sapphire
carved ana antique, valued at s250Go.
chandelier made of amber and meerscha uI
in the German department, is valued a
$4,000. The National Agricultural congrcs
which meets September 18th, 18th and iitl
will be addressed by Lewis Fallen, of Buff
10, n. Y. on live stock, and Joseph Harrl