The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-08-24
CENTENNIAL CORRESPONDENCE.


CENTENNIAL CORRESPONDENCE.
Rife Presentation TO Mrs. Maxwell
speech Of Thanks Of the Colorado Hunt
ress-Mrs. Evarsi's New Cook stove The
Argentine Republic.
There was rifle presentation lately,
by the commissioners and friends of the
Kansas and Colorado Exposition, in the
spacious Colorado reception room to Mrs.
M. A. Maxwell, the Colorado huntress,
who has such magnificent exhibition
of stuffed animals and birds, of her own
killing, in the Colorado department.
DIR. K. w. Wright, the Kansas COM
missioner made the presentation, grace
fully acknowledging how much she had
done for the success of the Kansas and
Colorado exhibition, and in presenting
the lady with an elegant Exams
Magazine breech- loading rifle, capable of
being loaded with thirty-four cartridges
in forty-fve seconds, and discharged in
twenty seconds without removing the
hand from the lock, he said, owe trust
you will ever keep it as bright as the eye
that directs it, and that, in years to
come, you may be able to collect, from
the hills and dales of your mountain
home, many choice specimens in addition
to your already very large collection"
THE HUNTBEss's sPEECH OF THANKS.
To which Mrs. Maxwell replied
My KIND FRIENDSHIP express my
thanks for this valuable present, and for
your words ofkind appreciation, is quite
impossible. can only assure you that
both shall be treasured while life and
memory endure.
The use of this rare gift shall be d.
rected by love for science, and, in the
pursuit of objects for the study of
Natural History, it shall be my trusted
companion and assistant.
Please accept my warmest thanks, and
my best wishes, not only for this ex-
preston of esteem, but also for the
brotherly consideration, and the numer-
Gus words of encouragement and deeds
of kindness that have, at all times, re-
ceived from you.
A Mrs. Evard, of Virginia, has model
cook stove, of her own invention, in the
woman's department, which l will try
to describe for the benefit of my lady
readers. Its peculiariaties are:
The fire-box is divided vertically, SO
that wood can be burned on one side and
coal on the other, or a fire can be made
in one side only. The even is also
divided into two compartments, so that
dry, hot air can be used in one side fol
baking and cooking, and steam in the
other, and the flavor of different articles
of food cooking at the same time will moi
intermingle. But the partitions in the
fire-box, and also the oven, can be re
moved, and each two made one.
The bottom of the rear two-thirds o.
the fire-bOx is solid, to retain the Goals
especially of wood, and the front THIRD
of the bottom, and all the front part o.
the fire-box to the top is grating, which
gives q good draft and throws the heat
out in front of the stove.
To the front of this stove is attached
removable at pleasure, sheet-iron roast
ing and broiling oven-regulated by &
lever, so that meats can be adjusted neal
to or remote from the fire, and held in
any position desired-a decided improve
ment on any thing / have yet seen. BY
means of fues and hampers, the heat
can he sent over the top or under the
bottom of one or both compartments o.
the oven, or all around it, at pleasure.
The top is like any other stove, except
fifth cap, equidistant from the ordinary
four caps, with graduated heater in the
form of ali hOur-glass, for coflee-pOt and
various other uses. The chief merits
claimed for this stove are, economy OF
fuel, convenience, and ease and rapidity
of working, relieving to a great extent
the burden of labor in cooking. 1t is the
outcome of long years of effort, of an in.
geniOus, inventive, and practical house
keeper, and seems to be decided i'm.
provement upon stoves now in use
There is a fortune in it for some large
stove manufacturer.
THE ARGENTINE REPUBLIC
has fine display in the Main Building,
of ores, of tin, copper, silver and gold.
coal, building stones and building mate
rails, geological collections, artificial
stone, clays, kaolin, slick, photographic
stones, whetstones, precious metals, min
eral waters, chemicals, pharmaceutical
preparations, oils, soaps, candles, paints,
dyes, medical compounds, bricks, tiles,
fire-clay goods, glassware, furniture,
kitchen utensils, laundry appli-
ances, cotton yarns, linen and other vege-
table fabrics, wooden goods, robes, shawls,
hats, caps, boots and shoes, clothing,
laces, embroideries, trimmings, jewelry,
ornaments, artificial flowers, fancy
leather work, fancy articles Of various
kinds, blank books, and enough articles
of the materia medica to cure or kill a
nation of people. surgical and dental in
struments, carriage and horse furniture,
harness, saddles, leather and skins.
In the educational and scientific depart
ment, there are school and text books,
of general literature, telegraphic instru-
ments typographical and geological maps,
marine and coast charts, works on gov
eminent and law, military organization,
legislative forms, prisons, reform schools,
religious organizations and systems. In
the
ART DEPARTMENT
she has creditable exhibit of sculpture,
figures and groups in stone and metal,
carvings in wood, ivory and metal,
medals pressed and engraved, paintings
in oil and water colors, drawings, litho.
graphs, mosaic and inlaid work.
In Machinery Hall, are looms, type
setting machinery, boats and sailing yes
sells.
In Agricultural Hall, her collection of
woods is magni6cently large and beauti-
full, as is also her display of roots and
n
resins, lichens, moses, seeds, nuts,
cereals, grasses, roots and tubers, tobacco,
tea, coffee and spices, and especially
dressed skins, leather, hides and WOOL
A fleece of the finest wool, grown in
eleven months and eighteen days, weighs
thirty.one pounds. She has also good
show Of wild animals, reptiles, insects,
nets, hooks, sponges, furs, butter, eggs,
honey, preserved meats, fruits, cern,
starch, sugar, wines, bread, cotton, silk,
hair, fertilizers, etc. This display Of our
sister Republic Is very remarkable and
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