American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1876-06-03

schools in Philadelphia and tn
surrounding towns, and while SOM
of the children would doubtless fin'
less immediate pleasure in the dis
plays, than in a monkey show, tn,
impressions that others would carry
away with them would be invalu
able in after life.
1t is encouraging to know that
some of the city restaurants, board.
ing houses, and hotels, have reduced
their rates so that living IN Phila>
deiphia is DOW but little more ex.
pensive than in other cities. There
ase places where pretty good rooms
and board can be obtained for $40
per week, but it requires time to
fluid them, many houses ask that
much for q room without board.
They are very sOcIable here in
Philadelphia, very much disposed
Their object is not to promote
''brotherly love-" but to get 81
apiece per night from them. The
charges of the restaurants on the
grounds, were, for the first few days,
enormously high, but the proprietOrs
were called to account by the Cen
tennial Managers and compelled to
scale their prices, which are now
within reasonable bounds. A major
ity of the visitors seem to be inde-
pendent OF the eating houses-:hey
bring their luncheons with them
and may be seen about noon imprO-
vising picnics in the numerous suit
able places about the buildings and
grounds,
On entering the enclosure the
visitor who follows the directions OF
the "VisitOl,s Gulde," will first get
INTO car OIL the narrow guage rail
road, and make tour of the entire
grounds in about twenty minutes,
at a cost of five cents. By this ride
an excellent general idea of the
grounds and location of the build
ings will be obtained, and the visi
tor will be prepared for more care
full and systematic inspection of the
exhibits in the various buildings.
There he must see for himself.
am daily impressed by all I see,
read. or attempt to write, of the in
and folly of the effort to
portray this stupendous show, or
any part of it, by mere word
1t is impossible to pre-
sent q picture worth reading or re-
tanning in this way. Most readers
have little patience with what Car
lyle calls literary Irritation with
Dame Nature, such as descriptions
of storms, sunsets, landscapes, ETC.,
but Irritation with Dame Nature is
more tolerable than Irritation with
Damsel Art. A description of
Mount Blanc or Niagara may not
fall utterly fiat, for almost every
reader is acquainted with noun
tains, and it is to be hoped, with
water also, he is therefore assisted
by q standard of comparison, and
when Bayard Taylor or Walter
Scott write about them, he obtains
as correct an impression as the
student obtained of Shakespeare,
when he read the sentence: 1.-THE
bard of Avon is a great spirit, and
he moves majestically a!ong.' But
to say nothing of the embarrassing
reading, it would be as tedious as
counting the sands of the sea, to at
tempt to write infinitely about the
metals, furs, filegree specimens. and
wax groups representing foix-'ife,
in the Swedish department the
curious mixture of the exquisite and
grotesque scene in the arrangement
OF the Japanese bronzes, cloths,
screens and coverings; the ;lntIqui-
ties In the Egyptian section, and
the imposing exhibit of the natural
products OF Australia. These can
not be treated infinitely and in de-
tail, short of the labor of a Humboldt
and the scope of Cosmos. He
will succeed best who attempts only
to present salient features this
your correspondent will try to do
when his Impressions are more
mature, in week or two, perhaps.
c. S. A.