Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 September 1876 — CENTENNIALITIES. [ARTICLE]

CENTENNIALITIES.

—The fellow who couldn’t get a julep on the Centennial grounds has made up his mind that Philadelphia is not the proper place for the mint. —lt ia authoritatively announced that the proposed trip to the Centennial Exhibition of a party of members of the British Parliament has been abandoned. —The first and only plow made by Daniel Webster is on exhibition at the Centennial. Daniel never held it but once, and you can see where his heels knocked ithe splinters off. —“ What kind of a picture would you prefer, Miss?” inquifeaa Newark photographer of a young lady customer. “Well,” was the reply, “take me with an expression as if I were writing a poem on the Centennial.” —At the request pf the Centennial Commission, President Hurlburt, of Middlebuiy College, Middlebury, Vt., will deliver in September one of the series of educational addresses which go to make up the Centennial course at Philadelphia. —The coolest of all the Exhibition buildings is the Main Building, and the hottest is Machinery Hall. But the latter department contains more that is worth seeing and learning than any on the grounds. At least such is the opinion of thousands who have seen all the prominent features of the show. —The California Fruit-Growers’ Association are so well pleased with the success of their recent fruit exhibition at the Exposition that they have decided to continue shipping fruit hither in liberal installments. They are determined the world shall know what a grand fruit-rais-ing country the Golden State" is.

—A movement has been started bv Mrs. Col. Forney anl other prominent ladies of Philadelphia, looking to the purchase of the Bartholdi Fountain for the sum of $5,000, to endure permanently as a memento of woman’s work in the Exposition. As the Pavilion is only a temporary structure, something else more enduring is required to perpetuate the honor due to womanly genius and enterprise, as exemplified at tj>e great Centennial Exhibition. —ln the Main Building there is on exhibition an instrument or apparatus which, when attached to a piano, an organ or any other instrument having keys, writes the notes, accidents and musical lines of the mnsic which is being played on the instrument. It is the invention of an Italian, and musical people pronounce it a suepess. ■ —A “distinguished foreigner,” captured on the Centennial grounds a few days ago, had a pocketful of love-letters which nad been written to him by young women who had been dazzled by his style and title. The investigation showed that neither his title nor his clothes belonged to him, and his feminine correspondents are by this time extremely unhappy. —A timid-looking little man, having a bare spot on the side of his head, came out on the stoop a few evenings ago, with a Centennial flag in his hand, to hurrah for his favorite candidate, but as his wife happened to thrust her head out of the window at that moment, he suddenly checked himself, and asked: “Jane, dear, who is my candidate?” —Burlington Iluvckeye. —The Centennial Commissioners hope to have an average daily attendance at the Exposition of 100,000 during the months of September and October. If their hope should be realized in this respect, the total receipts for the entire six months will probably reach nearly or quite $lO,000,000. Nothing less than these figures will satisfy the Commissioners.

—The Bavarian display of hops and beer is a notable feature of the German exhibit. Bavaria ranks high among the hop-prodneing countries of Europe. The culture of hops in Bavaria occupies an area of 44,500 acres, and the average production is about 250,000 cwt., each year. Nuremberg is the center of the German hop trade, and has over 120 hop bouses. Beer is manufactured in Bavaria in about 500 breweries, most of which goes to supply home demand. Hie annual prodacuon in thAl wmntiy mnnnnU to 835,887,000 gallons. The export to the United States at beer in 1878-4. amounted to $33,075. Very many packages of the finest fewer Germany can produce are on ediiUta.