Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 July 1876 — CENTENNIALITIES. [ARTICLE]

CENTENNIALITIES.

—The Centennial grousds comprise 460 acres. —Philadelphia can accommodate 150,000 visitors. —lt Is said the daily expenses will be reduced to $6,000 in a few days. —A drum used at the battle of Geraa,antown is among the Revolutionary relics. —The State of Nevada-has a quartz mill iu operation in. Machinery Hall. —Visitors from the Northwestern States are becoming numerous on the grounds everyday. —An individual has been found who boasted he had seen the whole exhibition in one day., —The Brazilian exhibit of precious stones reveals the immense mineral wealth of that vast Empire: —Machinery Hall is the hottest building on the grounds. An hour spent there in the middle of the day is a good substitute for a Turkish hath. —There is a press in Machinery Hall that cuts, prints, counts and folds 32,000 copies or the Philadelphia Timet, from stereotyped forms,, in one hour. —The chair in which Washington sat at the council of Trenton is carefully preserved, tod can be seen in Independence Hall, and also the table of William Penn. —Hie Government building contains an exhibit of the products of the Indian tribes of North America from the Atlantic to the Pacific,, and from Mexico to the Arctic Ocean. —Russia’s exhibit in Machinery Hall'is not yet complete, but it is rapidly approaching a point where it will he considered finished. It consists chiefly of army and navy machinery.

—Packages of goodsy designed for exhibition, are still unopened in Agricultural Hall, Machinery Hall and the Main Building. Some of the exhibitors are extremely tardy about Coming forward. —The Swiss exhibit 111 the Mata Build-' ing is highly characteristic of the sturdy champions of liberty in Europe. It affords ample facilities for the study of the social and political conditions of the brave little Republic. —Spain’s exhibit Hall is slowly approaching completion. Those having charge of it are determined to have the display in good shape if it takes all summer. It mitt look well if it is ever really completed. —Switzerland displays & watch at the Centennial with a circumference threefourths that of a gold dollar rad jjist equaling that piece in weight. Its price is SBOO, yet it does not contain more than seventy-five cents' worth of material. —The continuous additions made to Horticultural Hall render it increasingly attractive. The growth and development of the trees and plants both inside the building and on the plateau for outdoor plants daily increase and heighten its beauty. —The little building,occupied by fancy goods and a few specimens of the genus homo from Morocco attracts a great many visitors. But the inmates of the institution are not the least hit sociable to visitors who cannot speak Morocco or seme - other kind of leather. —At the Centennial, the Philadelphia ladies cry out, “ Isn’t it cunning?” New York ladies, “How superbly lovely!” Boston ladies, “Ah, how exquawrite!” Louisville ladies, “Be«tiful. fo’ sliuah!" Chicago ladies, “ Oh, my; I wish I owned that!” while the genuine Yankee girls from the rural districts exclaim, “ Geewhtauntay, bat ain’t tliet ’ere a stunner, neow?” ( —The royal striped Ichthyophalmite, on exhibition in the Agricultural building at the Centennial was severely bitten Tty the wild Psittacogidssom of Borneo yesterday,

and in endeavoring to separate them the keeper struck the gray-nosed Aagiomonoepennous on the nett) with tfi iron bar, instantly killing it. The Acantbopteiyglmw has bcemsold, because it is so difficult for the Commissioners to obtain the Hypotrachuliupui which constitute its only rboa. —Burlington Hawk-Eye. —Thq aged party with new sight, second growth ha& and supplemental teeth, has been rather late putting in an appearance this year, but patient waiting is at last rewarded. The party is a woman this time, hails from the neighborhood of Alexandria, Va., and answers, if she can hear, to the name of Barber. Twenty years ago, when she was seventy, Mrs. Barbor became blind, and her hair turned a silvery white. Within the past year her sight has returned so that she wean no glasses. She has a fine new growth of hair and four hitherto unsuspected teeth. In all other respects the story is of the regulation pattern. The lady goes to the Centennial, of course.