Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1876-07-26
CENTENNIAL ITEMS.

The ivory carving is one of the in
teresting features of the Chinese ex-
hibit.
The marine models contributed bv
Massachusetts III Machinery Hall at
tract great attention.
The " House of Public Comfort
is rapidly growing into favor with
visitors, as it contains III the title i'm
plies.
The beauty and mgn;fcence of
the Yosemite Valley, California, is dis
played by Photographic views seen
through an immense camera.
The lacquered work of Japan is
said to be almost indestllctihle, owing
to the superior care with which the
manufacture is accomplished
Miss Temperance Anderson, of
Baden, Penn, is showing her head of
hair, natural growth, six feet eight
inches long, at the Centennial.
Among the curiosities of the Wo-
mans Pavilion is an enormous "dish-
washer" 1t awakens bright hopes of
emancipation from this disagreeable
occupation.
"A mathematical genius has calcu-
lated that by giving five. minutes to
each contributor for five hours day
lie could survey the who'll Exhibition
in twenty-three years. By giving one
minute to each contributor the EXPOSE
ton might be viewed iniive years.
Miss Anna Auerback exhibits in the
Woman's Pavilion beautiful spread,
composed of white satin lined with
rose-colored silk. Seven thousand
skeins of embroidery silk were re-
quired to make the l,5op rose-colored
and white roses with which it is orna-
Imented, and each rose has TAB stitches
In Machinery Hall a Virginia to-
bacco manufacturer has several colored
men employed to illustrate the process
Of packing tobacco, who indulge in
singing old plantation songs for their
own amusement. This singing has
become one of the chief attractions in
that part of the building, especially to
foreigners and visitors from the North
ern States.
The magnificent gates which Miss
Harriet HoSmcr executed for the art
gallery of Lord BroNnlow, of England,
and which she expected to exhibit in
the Women's Department at the Cen
tennial, cannot be exhibited, as they
are too large to be placed in the hold of
ordinary ships, and consequently can
not be transported to this country UNI
less a ship can be found capable OF re-
ceiying them.
The lists of killed, wounded and
missing, fires, scorched thumbs, closed
up eyes, and general dilapidation for
the Centennial Fourth are coming in.
New York reports four killed, forty
one wounded, twentynine slightly in
iured. thirteen fingers blown off, nine
burns, two eyes out, three bruises, two
broken limbs. Ten patriots were shot
in the leg, seven in the arm or hand,
six in the head or neck. and three in
the body. There We're eighty fires, at
a loss of $24 500; but then centennials
don't come every day, and a little fun
is indispensable.
i don't know how many restau-
rants there are inside the gates, but
they are all crowded about lunch time
with foolish virgins who haven't
learned how difficult it is to catch the
eye of "A waiter. Catching weases is
a comparatively easy matter. These
gentry car be dea.f and blind on the
shortest notice, but tlere is one sound
which pierces the dullest ear. Shake
little hard money near the obdurate
individual, and you work a miracle
never performed at any regular eye
and ear infrmary. You are seen and
heard at once. Fortify yourselves,
dear friends, with good square break
fast; then if economy of time or
money be an object, put sandwich or
some biscuit in your pocket for future
reference, and calculate to eat your
chief meal oatSide the grounds. If
you 90 to any hotel down town you
must calculate Oh spending at least an
hour and a half of every day in the
street cars, for the Centennial grounds
are about four miles from 1ndepend-
ence Hall.-Philadelphia Letter.
DR.. A. Beecher Barnes, of South
ington, Conn, has presented President
Hawley with copy of the verltablc
"Blue Laws of the Wooden-Nutmeg
state. / saw the volume to-day at
press headquarters, as the old Doctor
came marching in with it, looking for
Gen. Hawley. 1t is book of nearly
600 pages, time-worn and weather.
beaten, printed in the type and style Of
I'VE olden time and containing laws
of Connecticut enacted as long ago as
1921. Some of these laws would set
with an i'll grace upon the free-and-
easy people of the present decade. The
reason they are called 'Blue Laws" is
simply because they We're printed ON
blue paper-and very poor paper at
that Living under such laws must