The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1876-05-25
CENTENNIAL JOTTlNGS,

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A NEWSPAPER man figures up that
there will be $4,000 articles on exhibi-
ton.
A CASE of electric eels from the Senegal
and the Nile are in the Egyptian depart
ment.
THE Coast Survey Service exhibits
models of lighthouses with steady and
flash lights.
For the uniform price of fifty cents
passengers are carried in the Philadelphia
hacks to any part Of the city.
THE British department of the Exhibi
tion is observed to be extremely rich in
the ceramic ware and art furniture. In
these classes Of goods the department
eXCels.
| HORTICULTURAL HALL, for beauty and
fair. An organ played by electricity by
little machine that reads notes stands in
the gallery and plays music which few of
the promenaders among the palms and
orange trees below imagine is made with
out hands. If they knew how curiously
ingenious is the note-reaGing apparatus,
the young inventor would be beseiged
from morning to night by an inQuisitive
crowd.
10 PUT it mildly the prices charged by
the Philadelphia restaurants are exorbi-
tant. A New York 7r5aune correspond
ent paid ninety-eight cents for few
| swallows of weak soup, mutton chop
and bit of bread. If he had taken potatoes
his bill would have been increased by
fifty cents, and if roast beef, by eighty
cents. This was at a French restaurant.
| The prices at the American restaurants
were somewhat smaller, but still twice as
great as at like establishments before the
advent of the Exposition.
THE official catalogue of the Exposition
the correspondent Of the New York Times
says "cannot be commended. Paper and
type are good, but all the rest is bad
very bad. The coarse pasteboard covers
warp without the least provocation, and
the interviewing of advertising pages with
the text is an imposture upon the leader,
who has a right in buying the catalogue
to an opportunity of looking it over with
out being forced to read notices of Smiths
fertilizers and Browns ready made cloth
ing, while turning the pages for informa-
ton about exhibits"
On the 10th of June the Women's Inter
National Christian Temperance Union
will meet in Philadelphia, The session
will continue for two days, and delegates
interested in the cause will be present
from every part of the civilized globe.
The Worlds Temperance Congress, under
the auspices of the Women's Society, will
meet on the 18th, and on the same day Il
fair under tie auspices Of the Fomen's
National Union will open in Horticultu-
raj Hall Those who are interested in |
the Temperance cause will find the second |
and third weeks in June the most deSira- I
bic time for visiting the great Centennial
Exhibition.
The names of the American Judges of
the various groups have been announced.
Group 4-Animal and vegetable products
and the machinery for their preparation
is constituted as follows Z. A. HOrsiord,
nf Massachusetts,. 7. Y trnnId of Nnu-
York; Col. j. F. Tobias, of Pennsylvania:
Col. John Bradford, Of Florida; Gen. IL.
NJ. Nagle, of California; Guido Marks,
of Ohio; r. 7. Brown, of Indiana; Wal
ter J. Green, of Wisconsin,; ID. III. Mil
Ter, of Maryland; James NJ. Shaher, of
Iowa. Group 23-Agricultural imple-
ments, and implements of horticulture
and gardening-has for Judges: John p.
Reynolds, of Illinois; S. L. Grinnell, of
Washington; Geo. Z. Worng, of Rhode
Island; Jas. Bince, of Oregon. The for
eign judges will receive 81 900 and the
American judges 5000 each for their
services.
The absurdity of refusing dollar for
two persons, or two dollars for four,
is too evident and annoying to be
long continued. On the opening day
hundreds were turned ba * from
the gates, which they had gained by pa
tent waiting in line, and obliged to fall
in at the end of longer one al the office
for changing money, or submit to the eX-
tortion of the spectators in fifty-ctnt
notes. Everybody sees the reason why
the gatekeepers cannot make change; but
nobody understands why dollar bill can
not be put in the box in payment for two
admissions, as well as two halfdolars.
All that is requisite is that the gatekeeper
should have as much money in his box as
the register on his turnstile calls for. On
the third day stalwart countryman Of
fered one-dollar bill for himself and
wife, and was told, like thousands of other
visitors, that he must bring two lifty-cent
notes. He expostulated a little while,
with no effect but to irritate the gatekeep
er. Then he roared, in voice of thun
| der: "Take the money and let us in or I'll
knock you down" The affrighted official
broke the rule and allowed the couple to
pass in.
A New YORK Tribune reporter quotes
as descriptive of the Philadelphia Exhi-
bition the lines of poet who wrote of the
first Crystal Palace in Hyde Park, just
quarter of century ago:
! There's staym ingynes
That stands in lines,
! Enormous and amazing,
That squeal and snort
Like whales in sport,
Or Elephants grazing.
There's carts and gigs,
| And pins for pigs
There's dibblers and there's hafrows,
And plows like toys
| For little boys,
| And Elegant wheelbarrows."
And world more of every sort of thing
in every department of human industry
and production The display is so i'm
mense that it is impossible to attempt
description even of its salient features. A
serious task lies before the man who
thinks of seeing the Exhibition The
plain truth is that if you wish really to
see the Fair, you must stay half the
summer; if you only want to run through
it, you must stay not less than week"