The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-09-22
THE EXPOSITION.
Great Attractions for This Week.
Cut Flowers, Fruit Displays, Pre-
midms, and Organ Concerts.

the Exposition Buildings.
The big organ from this day on will b
played daily from IL to clock. instead o
three times week, as heretofore. In ad
dition to this are the afternoon and even
ing concerts by Curriers' Military Ban,
with twenty-five performers.
There are, moreover, four days of grea
attractions succeeding each other. To-da.
is set apart for cut flowers, tomorrow
and Wednesday for fruit displays and pre-
niums, and Thursday again for cut flowers
The following are the premiums on Gu
flowers to-day: ...-..
Best display of cut flowers in wicker O.
wire shapes $75; second best display of Gu
flowers in wicker or wire shapes, $50; bes
display of dahlias, SIS; best twenty -foul
dahlias, $40; best twelve dahias, S.; bes
display of new varieties of dahlias, IS.
Up to date, owing to the large attendance
OF last Saturday, the number of visitors has
been swollen to over 10000.
DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL HISTORY.
Bugs and lizards and stuffed birds and
baked earthern pots and fossils of ante-as
well as post-diluvian ages.-Who wants to
grope among these uninteresting objects?
Softly, my friend. Here is small glass
case owned by our well-known fellow
tOwnsman, George Graham, which we find
over in corner among the despised earth
ern pots and other mound builders relics
OF an age prior to that Of the wild tribes of
American Indians, who inhabited the con-
tinent at the time of its discovery by Co.
lumbus. Let us see what friend Graham
has brought together here that is. interest
Ing or curious for our scnnt-
iny. First is a fac simile of the
account book kept by Gen. Washington
with the Colonial Congress from 1775 to
1783, covering the period of the American
struggle for Independence. This interest
ing book shows transactions amounting to
f16,31l Ill. and is model of beautiful
chirography as well as of neat and perspic.
nous bookkeeping A note appended states
that Gen. Washington received no actual
compensation for.his services as Command
er-in-Chefof the Army of Independence. but
that after the war Congress acknowledged
and liqudated the account presented bv
Gen. Washington. An interesting note ap-
pears in the book with reference to an
emount of $400-present moneyof the
ohItCOO1 lllCI was StNtn W w dSIllng-
ton for secret service use during the war
The General entered this on his book and
reported the same to the Colonial Treasurer
who finding no such sum charged against
Gen. Washington, refused to enter on the
books of his office General w. carried this
amount forward and insisted upon the
proper entry by the Treasurer. Here is a
belt worn by a South American Indian
Chief, made of the bones of monkeys legs
and ornamented with beads and fringed
Brazilian beetle wings monkeys teeth and
skulls of some kind of small bird. These
beetle wings, of brilliant metallic green,
some three hundred in number, are the
same so fashionable few years since for
1ewelry and hair ornaments. Next fac |
Bimile of the death warrant of Charles |
j, King of England. Here is a YER
table Chinese book with the we'll
known hieroglyphcs familiar on tea-chests |
and fire-crackers, beautifully printed Ii |
bretto columns of words up and down the |
pages of an old-fasllioned spelling-book. |
Next volume Of japanese odes, delight
fully sentimental doubtless, if only we
were able to discover what they mean. OF
greater interest perhaps is Japanese news
paper printed in English at Yokohama for
the benefit of the English and American
merchants and sailors. Yonder in the cor.
ner is piece some three or four inches
long and as large perhaps as ones finger
cut from the veritabe Atlantic cable first
laid across the ocean. Here is portrait of
General Washington woven upon
piece of ribbon at Lyons. France. The
curious Greek-looking book is the New
Testament printed in the Cherokee Ian
guage in characters invented by half
breed Cherokee Chief named George Guess.
The types composing this alphabet were
cast nearly fifty years ago in this city and
the books, newspapers, and everything
printed In the Cherokee nation are now in
their own language and with this peculiar
type. A couple of cones of the Sequoia.
the gigantic trees of California, occupy
modest p, corner Of this interesting case.
These were picked up by Mr.. Graham him
were borne upon trees between
The history of how these giants re-
ceived their names was told by Mr..
Graham. Travellers, after their discovery,
carved their own names and the names of
famous persons upon the trees until each I;
had q different, and many several different,
names. Finally Congress was assembled :
in the vicinity to select suitable name for :
the genus. Geo. Guess, the half-breed !.
Cherokee Chief, who invented the alphabet A
'f the Cherokee language spoken of above, Q
vas married to the daughter of a Sequoia q
indian Chief, and being present at this
gathering Of savants, the name Sequoia
vas given the genus in honor OF Guess and
lis Sequoia WIFE, We next stumble on the r
'oem of Tam OShanter, in Burns own =
Here are half a dozen large cases filled 4
With relics of the Mound BuiSiers of II
which the region about Cincinnati is filed.
Where Mound street is very interesting
elics were collected, and in several parts Q
# the city existed these singular mnnu- q
nents or remains nf population that all =
oncur in believing existed here on this
eminent prior to the period when the
forth American Indian over-ran the terri t.
ory. This particular naishhc.ho"d Is IS es- :;
ecially rich in their remains. This case g
efore us is filled with bones, potts. musi- e.
al instruments, charred corn, charred rt
of mats either used for carpets
clothing, articles of domestic use, arrow
eads, ETC., all of which were dug from local
lies not over five miles from this spot. Here =,
fragment of human bones with broken ~
rrow head imbedded in it; there piece of al
he yertebra of a deer with an arrow head 81