The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1876-06-01
CENTENNIALITIES.

CENTENNIALlTIES,
France occupies fourteen rooms with
paintings, numbering $50 in all.
"A business man advertlses his Zen.
tennial goods in sixty-four different Ian
guages.
In 1776 it took about three days to 20
from New York to Philadelphia. In 1875
it takes less than three hours.
The movement" to reduce the ad.
mission fee from fifty cents to a quarter
seems to have proved failure.
The Sunday opening question excites
lively discussion. Many clergymen are
in favor of it. Rev. DR.. Furness urges it
g for the sake of a due observance OF that
day." and Gen. Hawley says he will resign
the Presidency if Sunday is thus violated.
~. Y. Graphic.
The manufacturers and mechanics of
New Hampshire have creditable display
of goods on exhibition, and they are well
classified and arranged. Massachusetts is
distinguished by the completeness and ex-
tent of her exhibits in many departments
Of industry, art, and education.
-"1'm a Philadelphia Alderman"
said stout, pompous little man as he ap-
preached the turn-stile on the opening
day. ooh, that's no matter" answered
the gate.kceper, that don't exclude you
Pay your fifty cents and you can go in Just
the same as the rest" IN. Y. Commercial
Aduerttser.
Philadelphia is a proverbially tidy
city, and it means to maintain its reputa-
ton during the Exhibition. The Board
of Health will see to it that all the high.
ways are swept during the next six months
a stated number of times each day, while
the streets nearthe Centennial grounds are
to be kept in specially presentable con-
dition.
The Exhibition grounds have lost one
picturesque feature which the Philadelphia
papers have dila:ed on good deal. The
Turks, Arabs, and other Oriental people
present have been so followed and pes
tered by crowds of Philadelphia roughs
that they have been obliged to abandon
their national costume, and wear broad
cloth coats and plug-hats to escape no.
tice.
Horticultural Hall is so much more
attractive than its contents that until the
season of flowers comes it will be simply
delightful shelter from the rains. It is
the most beautiful building on the
grounds, and it is real pity that the
choicely selected colors which adorn its
outside are destined to fade this summer
under the hottest rays above Tophet. A
greater pity is that the ground surround
ing it, admirably laid out, are likely,
judging from its present indications, to be
spotted and made to resemble revolu-
tlonary quilt by patchwork of ill-or-
dered hoWer-gardens.-Cor. N. Y. Sun.
1t is odd that just now marble slab
should be unearthed in the Military Park
in Newark, N. j., containing the fellow
ing inscription: "The citizens of New
ark, in grateful commemoration OF the
tiftieth anniversary of American independ-
ence, have, on this 4th day of July, A. D.
1926; deposited this stone as foundation
of monumental memorial here to be
erected; and when the diplapidation of
time shall discover this inscription to fu-
turc generators, may the light of the Cos
pei illuminate tie whole world" The
memorial has never been built; and the
hope expressed has hardly been fulfilled.
On the 10th of June the Women's In
ternational Christian Temperance Union
will meet in Philadelphia. The session
will continue for two days, and delegates
interested in the cause will be present
from every part of the civilized globe.
The Worlds Temperance Congress, under
the auspices of the Women's Society, will
meet on the 18th, and on the same day a
fair under the auspices of the Womea's
National Union will open in Horticultu-
raj Hall. Those who are interested in the
Temperance cause will find the second
and third weeks in June the most desira-
Bile time for visiting the great Centennial
Exhibition.
The restaurant-k keepers within the
Centennial grounds have finally been
made to reduce their excessive charges
To-day several more Of them were brought
before the Centennial Commission and
compelled to produce their bills of fare.
The examination of those highly interest
ing documents furnished sufficient food for
an hours discussion On the part of the
Commission. One of the members was
particularly indignant at the keeper of
the Paris Restaurant, who had charged
him forty -eight cents for a plate of soup.
The result OF the conference was that the
restaurant men were firmly invited to re-
duce their tariffs or leave the grounds
Telegram to Chicago Tribune.
The japanese exhibit is extraordina-
rily large, occupying four times the space
that was required at the Vienna EXPOSE
ton. Although the native Japanese have
been constantly engaged for three weeks
opening their goods and putting them in
order, their labors are not even yet flu
ished, and it is now found that the space
assigned to item is totally inadequate to
their needs. As they are hemmed in
closely on every hand, it is question
how they are to obtain more room in the
main building. 1t is probable that pa
vilion will have to be erected outside the
building for their accommodation. This
will be an addition to the extensive
Japanese bazaar already erected.
In the Agricultural Building things
promise to be lively before the summers
close. This is department which will
increase interest as the months proceed,
and August and autumn must come before
rural pilgrims to the Centennial will de-
rive thence the fulness of Joy. Still,
mighty things are already going on there,
and American machines make noise
louder than the tails of thousand rattle
snakes. In antagonism TO the wines, ales
and the olives and chow-chow of the old
world, the United States are setting up
cases full of native wines of fearful strength,
and of pickles aud other indigestibles from
which the label, Warranted to Cramp in
Fifteen Minutes" has been treacherously
omitted.-Cor. N. Y. World.