Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-06-08

The Centennial year has brought old
people, especially women, into great pop
ularity, and there is not town in New
England that cannot show an ancient
dame who danced with Washington; re-
members reading the declaration of indie
pendence the week after it was issued {;
has cut and made her own dresses for
ninety years, and now jumps rope as
daily recreation, and reads diamond
print without the aid of glasses.-St.
Louis Republican,
AMONG the inventions in the Women's
Department of the Exposition. which is
exclusively feminine in all its exhibits,
are the following: A griddle- greaser, a
bath chair, life-saving Mattress, a COM
bination desk, dish drainer, patent
flower stand, various dress charts, dust
receiver. baby's exercising corset, a
fire. proof house of nolenum material, a
needle threader for sewing-machines a
mangling, washing and drying machine, a
broiler, an invalid's chair, smoothing
iron, meat-tenderer, models for teaching
children object drawing, window shut
ter and fastener, trunk-hinge, lunch
heater, traveling-bag, a pOstage-staEp
moistener, a bureau trunk, bedstead,
bureau and safe, sewing machine attach
ments, and besides these many others OF
minor Importance.
THE general arrangement of the works
in Memorial Hall is much criticized, tor
the pictures are crowded so and the upper
rank is so high that inspection induces
too much physical fatigue. From the left
Of the rOtunda long corridor hung with
American pictures leads to the gallery
filled with Spanish and some Scandina-
Wan works. To the left Of this corridor
is large room with selected American
pictures, and to the right the French and
English collections, occupying. two large
galleries and small adjoining rooms and
corridors. The American Sale d'Honneur.
has been, for reasons better known to the
Commission than to anybody else, es
pecially crowded. The cause of the jam
is Rothermel's great map Of the battle of
Gettysburg, which just covers the end of
the gallery with a grim, gray extent of
canvas.-N. Y. Graphic. g-t .s
EVERY day it becomes more and more
apparent that the railroad companies have
it in their power to make the Exposition
a financial success or otherwise, accord
ing to whether they adhere through the
entire season to their present rates of fare,
or adopt more liberal policy and reduce
the rates to one-half the usual figures. |
repeat what | have already stated, that
the Exposition is, or soon will be, all that
could reasonably be asked or anticipated.
And 1t is something that every American
citizen and his family Gf he has one)
should see There is room enough within
the spacious grounds and buildings for
100000 people to enjoy the show, every
Gay, without treading Oh each others
corns. But unless there is a further re-
duction of railroad fares, and also COM
ing down of prices generally in the city,
the average attendance will be slim. That
there will, ere long, be decided dropping
OF prices here, feel very confident; and
if the railroad managers will only do the
liberal thing by the public, the Centen-
NAL Exposition will prove what it was de-
signed to be-a blessing to the masses of
America.-C0r. Chicago EUening Journal.