The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1876-02-18
CENTENNIAL NOTES.

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Ten thousand silk flags will decorate the
Main Building. @
Shall the exhibition be open Sundays is
now the question. 7sesz @ 'fs
A. T. Stewart will contribute largely to
the Art Gallery. r i.7s-.s.
The Agricultural Building will have
somewhat the appearance of an English
cathedral. 5i s
The display Of fireworks on the night Of
May 10th will be the finest ever seen in this
or any other country. @ s.ssTs=
Bull Run Russell win write up the open
ing ceremony for the London Times, and
will leave India in March, aas4
The London Graphic will send corps
Of ten artists to take illustrations for that
paper during the summer. u 7a
Goods to be exhibited are beginning to
arrive by every steamer, but unpaeking
will not commence before March.
There will be an official daily newspaper
published on the grounds, and number Of
minor Centennial publications. .ag.
The several Centennial hotels are rapidly
approaching completion, one lTrans. Con
tinentaD opening some time in April.
The point selected for the encampment
of the West Point cadets is very beautiful.
The encanpment will continue ten days.
The Director General is confident every
thing will be ready in time, provided Con-
gress will make the required appropria-
tien.
The city of Paris in miniature, made en-
tirely of cork, will be one of the objects of
interest. The model is said to be some for
ty feet square. .-.=.s...-...
The Pennsylvania and Erie Railroad
Companies are both building cars ON a large
scale, and otherwise preparing for the Gen.
tennial st.f,st 81 .5 s5
p. T.sBarnum promises to have a Centen-
NAL show, comprising museum, menage-
rie, aud circus, surprising anything ever
before attempted in this country.
The brewers and masters of the United
States will erect on the Centennial grounds
an iron building for the exhibition of beer,
malt, hops, and everything connected with
the brewing business, including a minia-
tl,re iee-house. The cost of the building
will be $4,000. aas tss
George P. Rowell, of New York, has
been authorized to construct building up
on the Centennial grounds for the exhibi-
tion Of flies of American newspapers. IL
carried out on the plan proposed it will be
an extensive building, sufficient not only to
exhibit files of eight thousand publications.
but arranged to serve as a Journalistic
headquarters $, with desks and the requisites
for a gigantic reading room. .5s.s3
The lion. j. @. Swan, Centennial Com
missioner of Indian curiosities. for the
Northwest coast, has had brought. down
from Alaska TO Portland, Oregon, carved
column 30 feet long and about 4x4 feet. It
Las carved on it immense heads of Indians
sftef$oAkS NOW Dc&AlG D0AEQ
mp for shipment TO Washington. Mr..
Swan il making valuable selections for tile
Centennial
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The chair occupied by George Washing
ton as WorshipfnI Master of tile Masonic
Lodge at Alexandria, n. il now in the
possession Of UaaniInity lodge Of Freeand
Accepted Masons at Edenton, N. o., With
er it was sent during the war Of 1912 for
safe keeping IT is of massive mahogany,
elaborateIy carved, and o fine specimen Of
antique furniture. An effort viii be made
10 induce ifs esiStvIians to allow this me
nsento Of tho illalstrious 4 man and Mason
10 be placed onHahihitinn at. philadelphia
i. s1s Gees, under Indictment iibr ss2l, go
l1llot accounted tor while Collector ol Inter-
a.sl RaVenues has, the .sfstteaaaaas SAYS, III
elefsslalt al $1,000 bail a,aen sent to tie pen
itcnfsaay, there 10 stay Until the March
term III court, when his trial will be had. -
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