Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 August 1876 — CENTENNIALITIES. [ARTICLE]

CENTENNIALITIES.

—The number of awards to be made is now’ a topic of considerable interest. —The number of visitors from the country continues to increase largely. —The Independent Order of Odd Fellow’s contemplate having a grand procession on the 20th of September. —lt is estimated that the foreign goods in the Main Building are worth $60,000,000, the duties on which amount to $25,000,000. —The models of the cliff dwellings of the Colorado canyons in the Government Building are an interesting and curious exhibit of the prehistoric age of America. —Active preparations are being made for the Centennial encampment of the National Guards. The event promises to be an attractive feature of the Centennial. . —The Board of Finance and the Executive Committee will hold a meeting shortly to consider the propriety of extending the time for the closing of the Centennial. ’ —The agents appointed by the French Government to examine the educational exhibits of the various countries are paying great attention to the American system. At the name of George Washington, fellow citizens,” said a Centennial orator not a hundred miles from Boston, “ tyranny trembles like an Aspinwall leaf.” —ln the parlor of the Colorado Building is exhibited a plain old bureau which was made to order for Abraham Lincoln when he was married and began housekeeping. —Prof. D. E. Bartlett, of Hartford Conn., has charge of 120 Chinese boy who will go to the Centennial this month. Heepee Chinee bloys see bigee show alle same Melican mans. —The desk on which Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence lias been presented to the Philadelphia National Museum by Mr. Joseph Coolidge. It w'ill be placed in the National Museum extension at the Academy of Fine Arts. —The Algerian women who attend the bazar, clad in their national costume, attract much attention. A wide difference of opinion exists among ladies and gentlemen in regard to their beauty. —The Philadelphians have been carefully preparing for some time for the enormous rush of travel to the exhibition, expected and sure to come in August and September. They have succeeded in getting another steam line frem the center of the town to the fair. —The C&stcllani collection of antiques contains the only hpad of Euripides in which the nose is not broken. In this valuable collection can be seen a head of Tiberius found at Naples in 1437; also a head of Alexander the Great having the malformation of the neck in histoiy. —Centennialism has struck even the magistrates of Philadelphia to the opening of their hearts and pockets. One of them married a couple a few days ago, and finding that they were entirely without money, not only did the job for noth-

ing, but purchased a wedding ring from an adjacent dollar store. —The Philadelphia & Reading Railroad Company, controlling hundreds of miles of road, operating hundreds of coal mines and employing tens of thousands qf persons, is doing die handsome tiling by its employes in the way of a Centennial holiday. It gives every man in its employ, whether on the railroad or in the coal mines, and his family a free ride to Philadelphia, pays their admission to the Exhibition, furnishes them dinner and returns them home, all without a cent’s outlay to the employe and his pay uingattheaaineiiine.._Lastyearthecompany had a six months’ strike on its hands.