The Lake County star., 1876-07-13
The Exhibition.

Among the recent arrivals of exhibits
are q number of valuable specimens of
wash gold from Montana gulches, which
have been locked up with the collection
of silver deposits in the burglar-proof
safe in the Government building.
A jasper mantelpiece in the American
department was purchased for the
Emperor of Germany by the president
of the German Centennial Commission,
on whose recommendation the purchase
was made. 1t is intended to adorn one
of the Emperor's castles in Germany.
The Exhibition, so far from increasing
food prices in Philadelphia, has actually
had the effect, by attracting larger sup
plies, of reducing them. The CONNER
cial List gives comparison of wholesale
prices for some staple articles now, COM
pared with the quotations at the closesof
May last year, which shows the market
decline.
Cloaks made from the bark of the
bread-fruit tree attract many visitors to
the Sandwich Islands section. The
cloaks have the appearance of tissue
paper and are said to be very strong and
durable. A case filled with materials
sent by Queen Emma contains, among
many curious and interesting articles, a
cloak made entirely of feathers of diff
ferent hues, crimson, yellow, and black,
requiring several years labor to COM
plete.
Louisville COuier-Jour1,aI At the
Centennial you can get dinner just like
those of 1776, served by girls dressed in
the costumes of hundred years ago,
and although it consists of no less than
three courses-bread, beans and water.
it costs you but the insufierable small
sum of 81. If that's the sort of dinner
and that's the sort of price for it they
had in 1776, no wonder it is said that
those were the times that tried mems
souls.
The colossal statue of Washington
is to be placed in front of the Judges
pavilion. The figure is twelve feet high
and modelled from Leutz's picture o.
Washington Crossing the Delaware
1t is the personal contribution of Mr.
Eyre, a former Philadelphian, now resi-
dent in Florence, Italy.
The arrivals of interesting exhibits
include peculiarly shaped canoe
fashioned by the Indians of Vancouver
Island, on the extreme northwestern
coast. 1t was placed in the Unitet
States Government building. Although
, measurin 6 sixty feet in length an!
, eight in breadth not a joint is discern
, BILE in the entire boat. The Governmen
) officials promise that remarkable speci
men of this peculiar class will soon b
| exhibited in a totem post from Cap
Flattery. 1t Is to measure forty.hv
feet in height, and contain variou
q forms, combining frogs, beavers an'
t bears, with human forms in such dc
+ liphtful postures, as to rival the ugl
:. totem post already set up on the Sout
d side of the Government building.
Q Dom Pedro challenges all the crowne
Is heads and Democrats at the Exhibitio
n to equal him in his display of insects, 9
v which he exhibits several thousan
n species, and many times that number {
II specimens speared fast in cases wit
q pins. OnAccount Of their rich color
}. most OF them resemble 30 many preciou
II stones, furnished with long legs an
antenne. The majority of them Al
injurious to crops, and If such multi
Is tude of them were taken out of littl
n place like Jersey that State woul
n probably subscribe another $1,000
,f the Exhibition. Brazilian ladies ha'
is such an admiration for these brigh
m colored beetles, grand-daddy-long-lel
a and kindred crawlers that they wei
ri them MS brooches, sleeve-buttons an
other jewelry, and whole cases OF SUE
articles are exhibited.