The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1876-09-22
CENTENNIAL NOTES.

CENTENNIAL NOTES.
CHARGES are not very extravaganza.
Good board may be obtained at from
$15 to $40 per week in private honses,
and the hotels are very commodious and
well kept.
HE Exposition will not pay the
stockholders, but all embarrassing obi
CATIONS have been paid. The history of
the Exposition will not, therefore, be
clouded by financial disaster.
THERE is a Fourth of July appearance
in Philadelphia and the surrounding
country. The display OF flags from the
Brandywine to the Delaware is brilliant.
The banners brighten the streets of
Philadelphia.
In the streets and about the hotels of
Philadelphia there is an unusual blazing
OF gas and crowding of strangers. The
crowds in Chestnut street every night
resemble those on Fourth street, Cin-
cinnati, during the Republican National
Convention.
SEVERAL of the States have special dis
plays that do them credit. Notable
among them is Kansas ind Colorado.
Arkansas aud Kentucky have their
natural riches handsomely set forth.
The Government Building, in itself, is
a show of the most entertaining charac-
ter, and surprisingly complete and ex
tensive.
THERE are no great perils from. crowds
to encounter at Philadelphia. The city
is lively, and the Exposition is great
hive, but there is room, scope and verge,
and abundance to eat and drink. There
are m ountains of trunks coming and go
ing, and the system of checking baggage,
carried out to perfection at small cost,
is one of the wonders of the country
This is one of the things that would
astonish the representatives of effese
monarchies if they could be brought to
observe and understand it.
THERE are so many ways of going
from the city to the Exposition grounds,
that there need be no apprehension on
the question of cheap, safe and rapid
transit. Philadelphia is wonderfully
supplied with street railways, and many
of her streets are made lively by loco
motives, which are somewhat noisy, but
not regarded as enemies of the public
peace. The constant running of steam
crrs between depots in the heart of the
city and the Exposition accommodates
multitudes, and no one is harmed.
IT IS said that many of our manufac-
turers and mechanics are already feeling
the influence of the Exposition in Euro
pean orders, some of which are from
sources that are surprising; and the
foreign exhibits are extensive, and must
prove instructive in the largest sense.
1t may be, after all, that the Exposition,
while it will justly awaken American
pride, will not cultivate our national
vanity. Obviously there are some things
to learn, and the Exposition is just now
the most superb school in the word
ONE is liable to the question: What
in our Exposition sstonishes foreigners
most thoroughly Perhaps foreign visi-
tors are not as much astonished as rule
at what they see in this country as the
majority of Americans are in the habit
of supposing; and perhaps it may not
be important to astonish all the time all
who come to see up. Besides, we have
not the throng of foreign visitors that
some of us seem to have expected. The
foreigners present at the Exposition are
not mere sight-seers, but are on bust
ness. They are agents or representa-
tives of foreign countries, houses and
interests, and making close studies and
intelligent observations. Therefore,
while the foreign element is not numeri-
cally great, it is important. 1t is
safe to say that while our foreign
visitors may not have been utterly aston
ished in any particular, they have been
seriously disposed. They are impressed
first by the splendid evidence that the
Exposition affords of the marvellous
display of minerals, and of coal and
stone, timber and grain, is expressive
evidence of the wealth in our soils, and
mines and forests. Then the mechani-
cal display is extremely creditable. II
is the most extensive ever made In the
world. The products o: our manufac-
lures are so set forth as to testify the
presence of cultivated taste with skilled
labor; in other words, the worthy i'm
provement and realization of the riches
of the continent. Then foreign visitors
are impressed by the American people
themselves. They are reported to be
willing to have it understood that they
find the Americans at home more agree
able than the Americans abroad-and
they admit, or rather assert, surprise
that there are SO many people intelligent
and well-mannered, with the means to
make genteel appearance. The extent
of culture and the distribution of wealth
is surprise to those from abroad.
Hopeless Passion.