Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-05-25

tnere Will De OU,oUU arucleS on eXh1 D1-
ton
a CASE Of electric eels from the Senegal
and the Nile are in the Egyptian depart
ment.
THE Coast Survey Service exhibits
models of lighthouses with steady and
flash lights f a4
For the uniform price of fifty cents
passengers are carried in the Philadelphia
hacks to any part of the city. 1888
THE British department of the Exhibi-
tion is observed to be extremely rich in
the ceramic ware and art furniture. In
these classes of goods the department
excels. ..#s... 1855
1t was circulated very widely soon after
the opening of the great Exposition that
there were 100000 paying visitors on that
occasion. But the New York papers Of a
later date say that when the money was
counted it only footed up $3S, 066. so,
showing that the paying visitors num-
bered just rs, 1873. They say, also, that
there were over 10000 dead heads.
HORTICULTURAL HALL for beauty and
order is said to be the gem of the whole
fair. An organ played by electricity by
| little machine that reads notes stands in
the gallery and plays music which few of
| the promenaders among the palms and
orange trees below imagine is made with
out hands. If they knew how curiously
| ingenious is the note-rea9ing apparatus,
the young inventor would be beseiged
from morning to night by an inQuisitive
crowd.
To PUT it mildly the prices charged by
the Philadelphia restaurants are exorbi-
tant, A New York Tribune correspond
ent paid ninety eight cents for a few
swallows of weak soup, a mutton chop
and bit Of bread. If he had taken potatoes
his bill would lave been increased by
| fifty cents, and if roast beef, by eighty
| cents. This was at a French restaurant.
The prices at the American restaurants
were somewhat smaller, but still twice as
| great as at like establishments before the
| advent of the Exposition.
THE official catalogue of the Exposition
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says " cannot be commended. Paper and
type are good, but all the rest is bad
very bad. The coarse pasteboard covers
warp without the least provocation, and
the interviewing of advertising pages with
the text is an imposture upon the reader,
who has right in buying the catalogue
to an opportunity Of looking it over with
out being forced to read notices of Smiths
fertilizers and Browns ready made cloth
ing, while turning the pages for informa-
ton about exhibits"
On the 10th of June the Women's Inter
National 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 Women'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-
bic time for visiting the great Centennial
Exhibition.
THE names Of the American judges of
the various grout,s have been announced.
Group Animal and vegetable products
and the machinery for their preparation
is constituted as follows: E. A Horsford,
Of Massachusetts,; l.. B. Arnold, of New
York; Col. J. F. Tobias, of Pennsylvania;
Col. John Bradford, of Florida; Gen. H. |
nj. Nagle, Of California; Guido Marks, |
OF Ohio; r. I. Brown, of Indiana; Wal
ter j. Green, of Wisconsin; D. H. Mil
Ter, of Maryland; James NJ Shafer, of
Iowa. Group 23-Agricultural nipple
ments, and implements of horticulture
and gardening-has for Judges John P.
Reynolds, of Illinois; S. L. Grinnell, of
Washington; Geo. E. Woring, of Rhode
Island; Jas. Bince, of Oregon The for
eign judges will receive 81 900 and the
American judges 5000 each for their
services.
A NEW YORK Tribune reporter quotes
as descriptive of the Philadelphia Exhi-
bition the lines of a poet who wrote of the
first Crystal Palace in Hyde Park, just
quarter of century ago
There's staYm ingynes
That stands in lines,
Enormous and amazing,
That squeal and snort
Like whales in sport,
Or Elephants a grazing
There's carts and gigs,
And pins for pigs,
4 i .. There's dibblers and there's harrows,
Andplows like toys
For little boys,
And Elegant WheelbarrOws'
And world more of every sort of thing |
in every department of human industry |
and production. The display is so i'm |
mense that it is impossible to attempt a
description even Of its salient features. A |
serious task lies before the man who |
thinks of seeing the Exhibition The |
plain truth is that if you wish really to |
see the Fair, you must stay half the |
summer; If you only want to run through |
it, ysu must stay not less than week.