The Lake County star., 1876-06-01

Patent Olhcc-about one-sixth OF
the present building-was selected
as a safe place. This was about
1910, and now the Bureau and De-
partmcnt are rewarded by the proud
opportunity to display what they
have so long and so carefully kept
and so jealously guarded.
Next comes the Treasury Depart
mcnt with a profusc display of
money, not gold and silver altogcth-
CT, but printed money. The array
of specimens of Treasury notes of
every description and denomination
ever issued, is a study for the adj
mirer of beauty and fine art. In
no land under the sun is so much
skill shown in the manufacture of
paper money. The paper for the
continental money was made only
few miles hence, at the "Ivy
Mills" and the mill is running vet
and in the hands ola descendant of
its old proprietor, but when the
writer visited it some time age, it
was making nasty kind of thick
wrapping paper of straw and old
ropes. Franklin used to get his
paper there. Even if the old mill
has been burned down once or twice,
it is more certainly than the boys
old jack-knifc which had had five
new blades and four new handles
the same mill, and it ought to drop
the straw and junk and make some
more handmade, water-mark, lin
cnstock paper with some of old Ben
iamin's shrewd advice printed on it
in old-fashioned type.
And here is the Navy Depart
mcnt which shines-as it has right
to do-in bunting. One reads the
history of the American flag ,sus-
pended from the columns in the
various forms of the colonial and
convention periods; the pine tree,
the English "Union," with a red
and white "Ay," a white anchor Oh
a blue field, white stars on a blue
field, and eventually y tho flag of to-
day, showing largest Of all, rs if it
had grown in size as we'll Us tlcvcl-
opcd in design. The navy shows u
variety of guns for special services,
such as boat howitzers and gunwalc
guns; italso has piles ofnaval stores,
with smelling ropes, and things to
cat and to wear; the provisions to
go to the great cooks gallcys and
the furnishing of the mems kits;
the instruments of the Transit of
Venus expedition, as the War De-
partment has those of the Signal
Service. This Department has also
some boats Of the Polaris cxpcdi-
ton, one scOw made in an emcrgen-
cy from an abandoned vessel.
Around lie many piles of shot and
shell and of material suggestive of
long service, when "they that go
down to the sea in ships" have to
depend upon the forethought of the
providers, who must be ready to
supply everything from u mainyard
to sewing needle at moments
notice. We pass with great inter-
est the more scientific portion of
the collection, the compasscs, ba-
rometcrs, sounding Instruments,
ships logs, and vclocimctcrs. One
begins with the arts of peace, aud
wandcrs through the building to
the southeastern end. lie steps
out at the door with the big guns
OH each side, which arc pointed in
mimic hostility at the other build
ings, and stands upon the terrace to
listen to the music of the band which
plays in the pavilion near by.
Ono letter covers so small por-
ton of the whole exhibition that |
am obliged to stop after having just
begun. Probably Machinery fall
and the State buildings will be the
next most interesting feature to
your readers, and following these
We will journey through the main
building. This last is the place to
study human nature. l cannot
think of any place where one would
find such variety of specimens of
the genus homo, in, as the natural
lists say, "all stages ofprcscrvation."
Coming down from the government
building yesterday, Ipasscd through
the carriage manufacturers struct-
urc, and have never so fully realized
the force of that familiar simile
"prctty as red wagon" as 1 do
after glance at the fine display of
vehicles. 1t was statcd.last week
that showers of "thc queer were
working off counterfeit fifty cent
pieces through the outside spccula-
tors in change, but | cannot learn
that much was done at it, and of
course it has been wholly stopped
now.
1t is about settled that there will
be no further reduction in railway
fares, and so the committee appoint
cd by the Centennial Commission
to confer with the railway authori-
ties have reported. The Pcnnsyl-
vania Central people assert that
they would do passenger business
ut an actual loss if they accccdcd
to this demand, as the extra Cen
tcnnial travel ut the low rates would
not equal the falling off of regular
business.
When n Brooklyn woman wants
now dress and fclls u little delicate about
asking for il direct, she presents her