Year: 1876

"4'A 40 l"llIlSScu SnlpS ana OOats, It's Deau-
tltul sailing instruments of all Kinds, its
models of vessels, wharvcs, ry-docls and
lighthouses. If you are a farmer, look at
the models of harvesting and threshing
machines, of utensils and instruments of
every character. If you are soldier and
fond of military matters, inspect the artillery
department with its guns, mortars, mira
leurs, death engines in profusion, great
guns which use a thousand pounds of
powder and throw twenty inch ball, tho
revolving turret of Il sea-going monitor If
you are teacher, examine everything YOU
can find, all over, for You need, and here
you Will find, information on every subject
on the face Of the earth.


With due Difference to the artistic and
industrial skill of the ladies we gave half a
day to the women's pavilion, and the time is
not wasted. Here are great many Won
derfully beautiful productions of the needle
and loom, life-like portraits wrought in silk
by hand, also scenes and landscapes made
with the needle, as perfect and graceful as
II executed with the artists brush. AS an
incident we will here state that we had
heard much of the steam engine in this de-
partment with young lady engineer;-we
wanted to sec that engineeress, we have a
great respect for engineers as a class, and
particularly for those of the gentle sex.
We searched for her, but were disappointed.
| She was not to be found At last we were
informed that there was a lady in charge of
| the engine which runs the machinery of
| this building, and she conducted it finely
for while, but one day it got away from
her and buzzed Mt three hundred reyolu-
tions per minute. Well, the thing wanted
fixing, and wanted the engineer to do it.
just then the young lady had headache
and went homo to Canada,-not coming
back and more. Any body can turn on
steam, but can ladies run engines? In this
pavilion you will find ladies setting type
and running printing press, all the work
OF which is skillfully and thoroughly done.
The carpet weaving is very interesting
and the polite attendants will gladly ex.
| plain to you the operation Of the machinery
the process Of weaving in the flowers and
figures, and of forming the raised, plush
like surface on fine brussells carpets Here
also are pieces of sculpture executed by
| lady artists, and it can not be denied that
for grace of outline, for beauty of concep.
ton and finish, they will hold their own in
comparison with Tie works of any male
artists of the past or present. In this de
partment, as also in the Art Gallery, there
are many oil paintings from fair artists
which give evidence of taste, perception
genius, and love of beauty certainly not
surpassed by the other sex.


When you are ir Agricultural Hall, don't
neglect to visit cold Abe" the living wal
eagle of Wisconsin. He looks very patriotic
and war-like. He was the pet of the regi
ment to which he belonged, went through
twenty-five battles, and never lost fight


As he sits on his perch here he looks warm
and weary, but at the sound of martial
service or any unusual racket, his eve
flashes and his wings bristle, and he would
evidently enjoy battle for a change They
took him out in the grand parade on the
fourth of July, during which he expressed
his satisfaction by screams and tapping oil
wings.


If you are weary and want to rest, &C
down into the ravine at four o'clock and
hear the music of the United States Marine


Band, one of the finest if not the finest


band in the world. 1t consists of 81 men


selected from among the best musicians in


Europe and America. The leader was


leader of the band of Napoleon third in the


Franco Prussian war; The men are enlisted


and paid by the Government; and the banC


is engaged by the Centennial Commission


for the present month at seven thousant


dDllaJs. The music cannot be described


it is exquisite beyond imagination. Musi,


is quite plentyful on the grounds: the elec
trio oachestra in Horticultural Hall is wortl


a visit, the great organs in the Main Build


ing play at stated times, there are severa
bands in connection with the restaurants


pianos and cabinet organs very numerous


and the bell-chimes ring frequently during
the day. AS you passsthrough Machiner,
Hall, stopat Archer & Brownell's Richmont


tobacco works and hear the workmen sing
There are five colored men rolling tobacco
and as they work they sing, and the singin
is artistic and beautiful in the highest dc
degree. The soprano solo and the tcno
are almost perfect, and the whole chorus
extremely sweet and affecting. We hear
them sing "The Lord is in His Holy Ten
, ple," and this half-hour of pure music
equal TO high class operate concert.


The first day may be well spent in
general tour of the grounds and building.
| and in getting acquainted with localities


after which it will be well to take build
ing and finish it up if possible, and thu
/ consecutively through all. You will fin
e enough to see and hear, you can not ru
amiss of objects, and if you have only on
. day to spare you will find it the bigges
j fifty cents worth the world ever saw
!. More soon. HERMoNIcUs.