Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1876-03-16
this time. lam looking patiently for
letters from home, and hope they will
be long ones.
Remembef Ime to all and look for
me in heaven.
Your Son,
FRANKLIN G. DAVIS.
The Centennial.

The Centennial.
One of the most striking objects at
the Centennial Exhibition will be
column of coal one hundred feet in
height, to be transported to Phila-
delphia in sections from Tennessee.
The Watervliet arsenal ct West
Troy, New York, will send, for ex-
hibition at the Centennial, gun-car-
riage that was captured from Bur
goyne at Saratoga. 1t is a most un-
wieldy affair, and the Albany Argus
says there is almost wood enough in
the hubs alone to construct a modern
carriage entire.
The Swedish wood carver, Oesa
tergren, favorably known in Eng
land, is said to be preparing chess
board for exhibition at the Worlds
Fair in Philadelphia, the pieces of
which are symbolical of the strug
gle between Ultramontanism and the
modern spirit in Germany. On one
side of the board appears the Empe-
ror William and the Empress Angus
ia as King and Queen, Prince Bis
marck and the Minister Falk as
Bishops; the Knights are Prussian
Uhlans, and the Pawns are soldiers
and recruits. On the other side
stands Pits TX as King, while his
Queen is an abbess holding waxen
taper well-nigh burned oat. The
Bishops are cardinals, the Knights
are monks riding on asses, and the
Pawns are monks on foot.
We are surrounded OH every side,
says the Boston Journal. by evil
dences that this is the Centennial
year. We put on our Centennial
boots and wear our Centennial neck
tie, eat from dishes of Centennial
ware, and read the Centennial Ga
zette. We smoke Centennial cigars
lighted with Centennial matches.
We look at our Centennial calendar
for the day OF the month, and find
out when the sun rises by consulting
our Centennial almanac. We receive
Centennial communications written
on Centennial note paper with Cen
tennial pens dipped in Centennial
ink. We attend Centennial tea-par-
ties, purchase Centennial relics, and
admire ladies dressed in Centennial
robes. How long human nature can
stand up under this loatl is doubtful,
for we live daily in expectation of be-
ing assured by the poultryman that
he has Centennial turkey, which
he will send home in Centennial
basket for Centennial dinner. Be-
fore this Centennial year is departed
we shall learn how noble a thing it is
| to suffer and be strong.
What may prove striking and in
teresting feature of the Centennial
celebration is an immense album,
containing the autographs of several
thousands of the leading men of the
country, beginning with the Presi-
dent, Cabinet, Supreme Court, Sen
ate, House of Representatives, which
is to be covered with glass bell and
inclosed in a safe, with front panel
of thick glass, through which the
volume may be plainly seen from the
outside. 1t is proposed to put the
safe in the rotunda or other conspicu-
Gus place in the Capitol, there to
stand until the year 1876, an object
of curiosity and attraction and
souvenir to everybody for the next
hundred years. The autograph al
bum will be accompanied by the ink
stand and pens with which the names
were written, and, if possible, by an
other containing, as far as they can
be obtained, photographs of the
-signers. The President, Cabinet, and
Supreme Court have already written
their names and the work Is progress
ing quite satisfactorily.
While one of the employees of the
paving department, says the Boston
Globe, was engaged in breaking cob
BILE stones for macadamizing pur-
poses, a day or two since, he split
one of the cObbles in halves, and IN
the heart of the stone was found, in
delibly grown in black figures, the
number 40" The figures were on
each half of the stone, and were so
deeply imbedded as to dispel the sus-
picion that they were placed there by
the hands of man. The stone is on
exhibition at the office of the super
intendent of the streets. 1t was re-
GREETED that another cipher had not
grown in the stone, so that it might
be preserved as a Centennial relic;
and the only way it was thought the
difficulty could be overcome was by
multiplying the figures on each half
of the divided cobble stone.