New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-08-06
rSpeciaI Correspondence OF the Republican.
CENTENNIAL NOTES.


EDITOR REPUBLICAN:
Notwithstanding the pleasant weather
the daily average of visitors to the exposi-
ton does not exceed - 600. Until the cash
admissions number 10000 per day the re.
turns will not be satisfactory. Soon the
resident population will come home, and
there is no doubt that the autumn months
have been selected By persons at q distance
as the NEST agreeable time FOR visiting the
exposition. The admissions on Wednesday
last were, full fee, $22, SO; half fee, $2259;
free, S99S6; total $32,9l6. The total ad-
missions up to that date were, s2,4s7 ,4S3,
and the total cash receipt, $s20,934 Is.
OF the many ingenious contrivances en-
ployed by the II inagers to aid in conduct
ing the affair honestly and to prevent any
possibility of fraud, none is more complete
than that in the office of the department of
admission, which serves as perfect check
upon the gatekeepers. The wall of the
Office is covered with shelving. containing
seventy-six cast iron boxes, each about four
cubic inches. These represent the seventy
| six selfregistaring turnsties through
! which visitors enter the grounds. A person
| in any part of this room need only look at
| one of these boxes to learn the number of
visitors who have entered the grounds by
| the the turnstile represented by that par
| ticular boz. Each box has slip in front
| about three and halt inches long and
| three-fourths of an inch wide. In this the
| number is shown on as many strips of stiff
paper as there are figures in the number.
If it indicates fifty mine another entrance
at that stile will Cause the strip bearing
the nine to move up. The nine pops up
and disappears and cipher leaps into it's
place and the tice hurries out of sight and
is succeeded By six. This is done by the
alternate attraction and expulsion OF the
armature of an electro magnet, there being
one of these under each box having tele-
graphic connection With the battery at the
turnstile.
The universally Of the use of tobacco by
all the nations vi the earth, civilized and
unciviliZed, was never more manifest
Every country seems to have conside red
an exhibition of its tobacco one of the III ost
important features. and it is curious to no
tice the varied appliances provided for its
use. The Turks have brought the art OF
smoking to perfection. The nargile and
the chebouk are brought into practical use
at their bazaar, and crowds of young III en-
are constantly engaged in experiment ting
with the different kinds Of pipes, and the
fragrant varieties Of tobacco they serve
their customers prove to be source Of
great profit to the obsequious statesmen
The Indian clay pipes in the governm emf
building and the wonderful display Of
merchants in the main hall are eq ally
curious and interesting. Both show orna
mentation of the most elaborate cha racter
From these expensive appliances down te
the ccmmonest clay pipes we have all sortt
of specimens, and all are interesting
to those who use the narcotic weed. This
being &c. it is no wonder that all national
bring their choicest specimens to the inter
national exhibition. Old Virginia, not dis
posed to take very prominent part, still
has shrewdness enough to appreciate the
fact that she would make one of the bes
exhibits Of tobacco to be found in thu
Union, and in Machinery Hall prominen
manufacturer has the article in every shape
and with force of colored men who sins
their peculiar songs and stem the leaves
and turn out cigars by the thousand ever.
day, and does a thriving business in thu
way of sales, as under the rules any articl
manufactured on the grounds may BE- sold
which is not allowable to manutac tured al
ticles brought for exhibition. Spain, Brazil
Turkey and Portugal are partic ularly 1icl
in their exhibits of this article. The vari
ETY. of colors in the natural leaf and in tn
pressed article gives ample scope for tn
formation Of unique designs. Some of tn
pavilions have the appearance of being in
laid with tiles or mosaics; complete pic
lures being formed by the aid Of variegate'
shades of the leaf. ANXIOUS.