The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-06-24
, THE WEST INDIES.

mucn smaller display, and Denmark still
BelhSdk sAows h.ssss .i.eA polsso.s, oniossas,
nanas, plantains, yams, 6pss, Icoccsnpts,
cocos and sweet potatoes.
shape and color o. Oranges, bat vey much
larger, pineaPples and mangoes. 3IiE
IT0SANADA, I -
Oh cur nsrtA holder, has good collection
of grains, seeds, fruits, salt, fax, conserved
meats, Tongues roast fowls, and all kinds eof
roast meat, fsfI, etc. Hlarge collection OF
butterflies and stuffed birds, also a full and
creditshle asscrtrent - sGEicultursl imple'
--reapers, threshers, cultivstors, etc.[includ-
ing potato diggers and plews Of enarmons
length of beam and handles, putting a Sab
Z bath days journey between the team and
the plow-hoider.
GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND
have large space assigned them in this de-
partment, but their agricultural exhit Is
small and. is not yet in shape. The promi-
nent articles displayed are bottled fruits, ia
Bile jellies, canned meats, wool and its isub-
stitutes from Liverpool, wire cloth and min
ing wire, sheep shears, edge tools, china
ware, plain and gilt, tiles, securing bricks,
mill stones, road locomotive and wagon, ales
and old Irish whiskey. ~ F'o1
HALY's
chief exhibit 81 presenS in this hall ia
wines. She makes amends for defects here
by decorated porcelain vases and rare jewels
in tlxUin bdildln <en6z6y 1nauifcszt
display Of Panunes and sculpture in memo
nal ball, and especially IN the annex tomenns
orial hal, which is the gem of the whole expo
delight all who see it. Unpretentious in ex-
terror, it dwarfs, by its excellence, its more
imposing aeighbor. rs1nsrF = - 1 -
81 THE UNITED STATES - y
surpass all other coantries in agricultural
machinery But must defer comment on
1t at present, md notice remarkable exhibit
from cenparativeiy new western state -
sis7i t17. IOWA,
which has three hundred varieties Of apples,
seventy-6ve varieties of com--sixty-four in
the ear Of SO laLgea .ize that nineteen ears fill q
bushel baskeIeighty varieties Of wheat, rye,
oats and barley; sixty varieties of grasses;
thirty of grass seed, two hunaFea of veeeta-
bles, and one hundred and sixty varieties of
wood, besids miRerpls, sand Ind ochressin
the ann4 - tie ain bun ing. She rs
issge ilazs i fnaess from ny ccsnifss
IN the four sections Of the state, which show,
at glance, its amazing fertility aud produc-
tiveness. Just south of this is
THE AQUARIUM, -
Consisting q a lsng eric q tanks In which
large Ash md sz1<G, eels crabs, tefrapiNs,
and horse shoes disport themselves to the
great amusement. Of gaping crowds. Scien.
@dhe0lyitis not near soinatxJeefSe All in
teresting "a similar exhibition Last fall in
Chicago. = g.
THE NUMBER OF vlMfoRs G-sA
to the exposition is steadily. increasing, and
sse 20 ass p Y;n ss
thousands here, who would Otherwise re-
main at home. But not till the railroad
comPauiea PIT down the price to AnesfaD1
for the round trip will the niillisRr salse dp
their minds to visit the centennial exposi.
ton. A great convenience by
some q great nuisance-is the r-ag
-47ra s-SRoLS1Ns CHAIRS, - .ls-s., q.
without which large numbers could not see,
or but partially see this exposition. Even
peTsoBs IN -erdiaasy health GET tired out
long before they have made the rounds OF
the principal bpildings. 4 II iswithin-bOunds
to say tkAt the pislss wAhin and the walks
without exceed fifty miles, and though it is
not necessary to traverse them all to see
the principal sights, and get good general
idea Of the exhibition, yet those who have
agreeable iShaAes, when stheir limbs IN
them, to drop into a chair and be wheeled
wherever they list. zzv-z ~
arc CatiuS anu p1decS III
0nndance on the grounds, where one can
get refreshments at a reasonable price, but
to show the indisposition of the centennial.
to shave the visitors, there is hut one barber
shop in the whole grounds, md as~ Mac
some trouble in finding it. will state that il
is~fu me >eelesraph buiidiHg. north th,
west end of the main building. We had ;
grand gathering and parade OF the 7
= KNIGHT rKMPLARs , IN
here last week, ten thousand strong, to tn
infinite delight of women and children, a
.weA - to crest Number of grown ups box
The ProcesHion wa handled With great SIKH
an hour and a half in passing a fixed pein
1t was the gayest, the most imposing and tn
hfgest Demonstration Of the.order ever sec
in this country, and .Philadelpbia opened I
then and welcomed them /
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