Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1879-10-24
CINCINNATI EXPOSITION.
SOaP-HOW 90 set a Dinner Table-A
Practical Joke.

CINCINNATI EXPOSITION.
SOaP-HOw to set a Dinner TabIe-A
PTocticaI Joke.
Perhaps it is because Cincinnati has such
a reputation for dirt, that the soap manu-
facturers throughout the country have
made such an effort to make an attractive
display in their line. The space they oe-
cupy is in the main hall between the ex-
hibits of books on one side and silver ware
and jewelry on the other. The object, per-
haps, is to put the three,-literaiure, labor
and art, on level. There is need Of soap
in the main hall. In the great engine
which furnishes power for the whole build
ing, soft coal is burned. The SCOT comes
down at times in perfect shower and is
greatly diseoloring the bronz and gold used
in the adornment of the pillars and pen
dants, not to mention the effect upon the
light wood with which the ceilings and
sides are finished. There is soap enough
there, however, if rightly applied to coun-
teract the effect of q dozen engines run
ming for month. In all the larger facto-
ries soap and candle making are Joined.
This gives greater variety of articles to
arrange and enables the manufacturers to
make a better looking exhibit. At the
back of one is built up high pile of cakes
of soap, each of the modest weight Of
thousand pounds, and surmounted by
ststuary cut out Of the same material.
some Of these pieces are of alabaster white
ness and have polish resembling that of
marble. There are as many varieties of
soap as there are cakes, some with an in
termixture OF very bright colors. This
kind is made for the exclusive use Of our
eolOred friends in the south, whose eyes are
at once caught by the brilliant and gaudy
eoloring. Where that kind is once intro
duced, no other can be sold among the
negroes.
One would hardly think there were as
many as ninety kinds of soap, but that is
the number shown, each distinct in appear
ance. There is one kind now being made
which does away with the use of bluing.
The next thing is to supplant starch. Of
candles there are just as many kinds.
Sons Of those made for use in Roman
Catholic churches are long enough and
large enough to burn for a week. Up in
Pennsylvania they have law which re-
quires the use of candles instead of coal oil
in the hotels under certain circumstances.
For such use they make short ones, about
three or four inches long. When they
burn down the guests have to go to bed.
The largest of the factories represented
turns out $4,000 bars of washing soap a
day.
A hundred and seventy-fve dollars in
premiums is what it cost the commission
ers to show exactly the proper way to set a
dinner table and how to arrange the flow
ers. If the way shown was the proper one,
tEen the proper way is this: Each plate is
set right side up. The knife is on the
right side and the fork on the left, parallel
and at right angles to the edge Of the ta-
bic. On the left is teaspoon turned in
the opposite direction. On the left side
at the end Of the fork is napkin folded
in kind Of horn shape, with small piece
of bread ready buttered in it, almost who'll
ly hidden from view. This is the latest
English style, imported direct. On the
top of each napkin is a buttOn-hole boquet.
Beside the knife is row of three glasses;
the largest for water, the next FOR jelly,
and the third, a small one, for wine.
They must be similar in shape, but the
wine glass must be colored. Near the
wine glass but almost in front of the plate
is a butter dish with small Salt-eellar in
each. That means that the way to do it
now, is to pass the butter and let each one
help himself The flowers must not be
built up high nor need there be great
number. The edge of the table may be
bordered with smilax, and it too is to hang
in short festocns; one fest0on reaching
past two chairs, and a rose bud at.the place
they are fastened. At either corner of the
table, blooming pot plant is permissible.
In imitation of the Centennial plan, last
Thursday was selected as a day on which
to make special effort to secure the at
tendance Of the home people. 1t was Gin
cinnati's day. Special attractions we're
offered. A band of seventy-five musi-
clans occupied the stage, and fireworks
were shown in the evening. Cincinnati
did turn out. In the evening there were
twenty thousand people in the hall at one
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keeping the people in marching line.
A practical Joke was perpetrated on the
crowd which was appreciated by some. A
great effort had been made to secure a dis
play of Mexican products by that govern
ment. It was finally, after prospect Of
success, abandoned. For a week past
however, the papers have been full of an
nouneements about its arrival They told
how a special steamer had been sent to car
ry the goods to New York, and how, after
the train carrying them had arrived in Gin
cinnati, by the energy of the commission
ers, the goods had been all transported
and arrayed in the hall in q single night.
Placards were posted up over the build
ings directing to the Mexican Display.
The guards about the buildings busted
themselves in calling the attention of Wis
itors to it. Ones curiosity was aroused,
and after a diligent search, he found in a
remote corner, inside large and elabor
stely carved case. pair Of spurs, while a
printed card announced it as the special
exhibit of the Republic of Mexico.
JUvENIs.