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feet long.
Three hundred messenger boys
for the exclusive accommodation
of the visitors, are in attend
ance at the Centennial Grounds.
The pavilion of wood, glass and
iron, designed for the engineers
and surveyors of New York, is an
elaborate and tasteful structure.
Tho new Pennsylvania railroad
depot, near the Machinery Build
ing, though only a temporary
structure, is furnished with
every possible convenience for pas
sengers.
The Queen of England's paint
ings which are exhibited at
the Centennial will be guarded
constantly by a squad of police
men. The pictures have been
heavily Insured in eight different
English companies.
Colonel Thomas A. Scott, in re-
Spouse to an appeal by members of
Congress from Texas, has rendered
a free passage to veteran soldiers
uf the Mexican War residing in
Texas to and from the Centennial
Exhibition.
The pupils of the Providence
public schools are drawing maps,
which will be sent to the Conten-
NAL Exposition. One Of them the
son of an oysterman has drawn the
map of Rhode Island inside the
two halves of clamshell. But
then Rhode Island is not a large
State.
Davy Crockett's antique rifle is
on exhibition at Philadelphia
The coon that came down to Davy
made a profound bow, stepped in
to his game bag, shut his eyes and
murmured, "Got any chloroform
about you" is supposed to be
stuffed and preserved in the
Louisville Library.
Notwithstanding the Centennial
the Philadelphia papers contain
columns of advertisements for
boarders the price when stated be-
ing from five to ten dollars per
week. This includes lodging and
three meals per day. People of
moderate means will find no diff
ficulty in suiting themselves there
for the next four months by con-
sulting the advertisements.
The most remarkable ofthe con-
trihutions of Hawaii to the Gen.
tennial Exhibition are a couple
of volumes of Bowditch's
Navigator" in the Japa-
nese language, which are sent by
Rev. DIR. Damon, of this city. The
work is one o ftwenty copies which
were all made by hand, and with
increditabie neatness and skill, in
Japan, about 20 years ago.
The London publishers Of Punch
exhibit a magnificent book
case of gigantic dimensions at the
Centennial Exhibition. 1t is of
exquisite workmanship in wood,
about IL feet square and % feet
high, aud will contain the princi-
pal publications of the exhibitors,
who will invite inspection and
perusal by placing over the en-
trance Shakespeare's motto: Come
and take charge of all my library,
and so beguile thy sorrow"
The narrow guage railroad
is one of the conveniences of the
grounds, in fact a necessity. as un-
der the orders of the Commission
no vehicle will be allowed upon
the ground except on exhibition.
1t circles the entire grounds, pass
ing all the principal buildings, and
is about six miles in length. 1t
was equipped by the West End
Passenger Railway, the cars are
propelled by steam ,affording COM
Portable and rapid transit within
the Enclosure.
DIR. w. A. Washington, grand
nephew of General George WASH
ington, the nearest living relative
to the father Of his country, and a
resident of Denison, Texas, has
sent a box to the Centennial con-
tanning the following articles
General Washington's court suit of
brown silk, supposed to be the suit
in which he was inaugurated.
Ivory seal, set in gold, presented
to Washington by General Lafay-
ettee. Sword presented to Wash
ington by General Darks, the ia
nous Indian fighter, before the
Revolution. Knee and shoe buc-
kles, and most valuable of all a
dozen autograph letters from Gen.
Washington to his brother Sam
uel, dated between 1772 and 1888,
some from Mt. Vernon and some
from the field, and all giving