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[ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^i; | ^ " I lewis m. grist, Proprietor.! |^n Jitittficitkitf Jfamiln fletospapcr: Jfcrr f|it ^romoticrn of t|t political, Social, Agricultural anlr Coatmertial $nfmsts of % j&oafjt. | TERMS?$3.00 A YEAR, IN ADVANCE. VOL. 22. ' YOEKYILLE, 6. C., THUBSDAY, MAY 25, 1876. JSTO. 21. Jin Original jiforg. I THE IRON CHESX * ! . BY AN OLD CONTRIBUTOR. f CHAPTER XVIII. 1 Slowly, and in deep meditation, I retraced ; my steps. I shrank from meeting Olive; yet I knew that this meeting was inevitable, and that the longer the delay which preceded it, the more painful to me it would be. It was nightfall when I came in sight of the castle. The moon shone indistinctly! through the clouds, and the black shadows of j the mountain obscured my path, typical of the darkness and perils which encompassed the course I was destined in life to pursue. As I neared the portal, I saw what seemed to me the figure of a man gliding away through *1 i t 1 _ - l 1 !- Ti. tne trees, l stopped ana iooaea ug&iu. n had disappeared. I called, but received no answer; and concluding that my fancy had deceived me, and that what I had perceived was but a delusion of the changing light, I ^ proceeded on my way. I entered the ball of thecastle. All was dark and silent I ascended the winding flight of stone steps that led to the upper story. Here a glimmer of light pa.. from the sitting-room at the end of the passage greeted me. I went forward?opened the door?oh! Heavens, what a tableau met my horrified vision! My wife and my brother, with clasped hands,stood together near the fireplace. Her bead bowed, as if in mute distress, tears stealing down her face, while he, with everv aDDearance of tenderness and solicitude, rr seemed to be uttering words of consolation and support. The sight wrough me up to a kind of frenzy. My jealous and excited feelings, but partly and imperfectly subdued, sprang into play with tenfold force, rekindled by this apparent confirmation of all my suspicions and fears. Ever rash in action, and prompted now by a fierce impulse which I had no power to resist, I drew my revolver, which I carried habitually about me, levelled j it at my brother, and fired As the smoke m cleared away, I saw her?Olive, my wife? : - ' ' T --i- 9 ! OQ 1 UUW CttU X write LrUC nuiuol?ouivtviiw? in a pool of blood upon the floor. My bullet bad missed its aim. ' "Madman!" I heard Rudolph's voice exk claim; "what have you done?" 1 answered not. Stricken dumb with an awful despair, I cast myself down by the white and senseless form. Olive still breathed. A faint flutter of her heart beneath my hand assured me that life was not extinct. A surgeon was brought, after an intolerable delay? having to be fetched from the village, and was absent when the messenger arrived there. "How did the accidently happen ?" was his natural inquiry. Rudolph replied that in carelessly haudling my pistol it had gone off; and the agony and detraction of mind which I evinced, seemod to corroborate the asser^? - tiftn and disarm biaa of any Bnapioian a? foul play which might have entered his mind. There was no time now for reproach, for exnianation. Everv one's attention was concen I tf trated on the lovely, hapless sufferer?the innocent victim of my blind and cruel rage. Too late, I now began to suspect myself of 4 having taken groundless revenge. My brother betrayed no consciousness of guilt. He even pitied my anguish, and forbore to upbraid me for what I had done. But oh ! the torture I endured. No martyr on the rack was ever torn by keener pangs than I. I waited in horrible suspense for the fiat of the surgeon. It came at leugth, after all the restoratives had been tried in vain. My doom was sealed. I was a murderer! Olive, indeed, J still lingered, but her recovery was impossible. A few hours at most, her attendant said, would end her sufferings, which, on her return to consciousness, appeared to be inteuse. The surgeon, finding that his skill could avail nothing, left us, being forced to k return to a case of importance which he had on hand. On a couch in the chamber to x which she had been removed, lay my dying ?dvina bv mv hand?Dale as a breathing ""v O * w corpse, her struggling breath becoming fainter and fainter as the life-blood ebbed from her heart. I stood within the shadow of the curtain near her feet, my eyes riveted by an awful fascination upon her face, lovely even in her anguish, yet not daring to approach her. I felt myself unworthy to touch her hand, for was not mine polluted with her blood ? SudIdenly she espied me, and in a scarcely audible tone, murmured my name. "Phillip?come to me." I obeyed, trembling in every limb, and ' knelt at her side. She made an effort to hold out her hand, but was too feeble to accomplish it. I could not refuse her mute entreaty, . aud took her cold and nerveless fingers in mine. "Phillip, we are parting. It must not be in anger," she muttered, brokenly. "Let us * ?? forgive?as we hope for forgiveness?" "Forgiveness!" I groaned. "Alas, there can be Done for me 1" She raised her dying eyes. "Seek it there ! But one word I must say?you will trust me now. I have never wronged you, nor has he? Rudolph. I loved him once, unasked?but that is past?he never knew or returned it. He came, when you found him, in time to save me from insult. Selwyn had striven to induce me to abandon you and fly with him. He is base, base?I knew it always ! I answered him as he deserved?and in his anger I know not what he would have said or done?when Rudolph came. He had just arrived?came from home longing to see us both." She paused, exhausted. I wiped, with a shaking hand, the cold dew from her brow, and held a cordial to her lips. Oh! righteous Heaven, what was this she was telling me? J Everv word fell UDon mv tortured heart like J ?- - - ? ? heated iron on a gaping wound. "Selwyn rushed off, I know not where. I was half fainting from agitation and terror, aud Rudolph tried to soothe me. It was this you saw as you came in. In that one instant, as I read your face, I saw what you thought and felt. I would have spoken, but I had not time. Ob, Phillip, if I erred in marrying you, pardon me now. I have tried to be good?to do my duty?I had promised? promised?" Her voice failed her. Still her eyes looked imploringly in mine. I had heard her to ths j end without a word ; my tongue clove to my mouth. I was as one paralyzed?my faculties were powerless. I felt as though turned into stone. While I gazed, I saw a look come over her face that loosed me from my spell. With a wild cry I uttered her name and flung myself beside her on the couch, praying for ! oue more word, one parting kiss?in vain ! j * * * * Let a curtain fall over that scene. Let it \ fall over the torment I endured?the torment of the damned. For weeks, for months, I was a prey to the mercies of fiends. They made j sport of me, gibbering and pointing,with cruel,' mocking laughter, as I writhed and shrieked j in their clutches, striving vainly to escape. They tell me I was mad, and I believe it. Mv brother suffered no stranger to listen to my ravings, but nursed me patiently and faithfully through my disorder. He learned from my frantic self-accusations the motives which had prompted me to attempt his life, and the betrayal awoke the profoundest pity for me in his heart. Sorrowing for ray murdered wife j as for a beloved sister, he nevertheless could find some extenuation for my crime, committed, as he believed it to be, under the influence of insanity in one of its most frightful phases. So he thought, generously and mercifully, ready to palliate this heinous sin, as he had ever been to find excuses for the lesser offences of my earlier days. But I, alas! while gratefully blessing him in my heart for his goodness, can yield myself to no delusive self-exoneration. I was not mad when I fired that fatal shot, though I became so afterward. I knew what I was doing. Deliberately, and prompted by bitter and evil passions, I drew my weapon upon him. And it was the retribution of God that a consequence so awful followed the act. Let the world say what it will in extenuation of it?and it has been discussed. I know, as such things must be, far and wide, though the truth has never been revealed. I solemnly do aver that I know and confess myself to be one of the most atrocious criminals on the face of the earth, worthy of death, nay, of torture?even of torture worse, if possible, than I have endured, and still do endure I was recovering slowly from the frightful state into which I had first been thrown by my wife's death, aud was lying one night alone upon ray bed, in a state between waking and sleeping, when a vision appeared to me. I saw Olive, my murdered i Olive, open the door and enter my chamber. | She was robed in white, and had one hand pressed upon her heart, over the wound I had made there. Noiselessly she advanced and stood beside my pillow. There was no anger in her gaze, but her eyes fixed themselves upon my face with a weird solemnity, au awful immovability that curdled my blood. Long she stood thus looking upon me, while I lay in capable of motion or utterance, impelled oy a resistless fascination to return her unwavering gaze. At last she spoke, in a low and far-away tone, that seemed as if borne toward me from some remote spot, yet it fell upon my ear as clear and distinct as the chimes of the neighboring church-tower. "Phillip I I come to ask for pity at your hands. You will not now refuse my prayer. I cannot rest, and my soul is weary of waudpvings?To unj ?f?*o I go? and iwh i'?po? in vain. One thing alone can bring me peace? it is revealed to me, and it lies with you to bring it to pass. Take ray mortal remains from the vault where they have been deposited, and give them a resting place near you, that wherever you go they may go also. The reason for this I cannot explain. I only know that by this means alone can the quiet repose I crave be granted me." Thus speaking, she vanished. Mysterious and awful decree! I was powerless to resist it; but in yielding to it I felt that I was adding a fresh sting to the agony ' > l-l-J I 4 TV L? tnai aireauy niuKieu uiy imun. j.u uavc mc evidences of my crime thus forever kept in sight?to be condemned to bear them about with me?was a punishment unparalleled in its severity, and it was for this cause, doubtless, that it was entailed upon me. I submitted to my fate. The casket containing the corpse of Olive was taken from the vault, and by a proper mode of preparation, I had the bones collected and arranged, depositing them in a secure chest, of a size suitable to be conveyed from one place to another without inconvenience. Wherever I have gone, this terrible reminder of my sin has followed me. Day and night it has been my companion. It stands beside me as I write. And as it is decreed, by the most ancient of laws, that the guilt of the criraiual shajl be visited upon I those who come after him, I, since I leave no j direct descendant, shall will this chest and its ' I contents, on my death, to my nearest of kin, j my nephew, Charles Lyndon, the sole survi- j vingson of my brother Rudolph, who married, late in life, an estimable lady, who rendered his closing years happy, and consoled him for the grief I had made him endure. May this relic, descending from generation to generation in our unhappy fa lily, be a warning to each one into whose possession it shall fall, to impress upon them the danger of indulging in those fatal passions which have ruined and destroyed ray peace in this world aud the next. And now I shall close this dying confession, and place it in the chest which contaius the bones of her who died by my hand. My time for departure from this world draweth nigh. Woe is me. Whither must I go! Already the voice of doom seems sounding in my ears. Vile and polluted that I am, fain would I plunge into nothingness; and escape the dread judgment that awaits me! In vain ! , No grief, no repentance,can avail me now! j Before me I see that awful bar at which I | must stand. Overwhelmed, stricken down by j the hand of righteous retribution, I hear pronounced the sentence, louder than a trumpet call?Anama Maranatha ! Woe, woe, to the | lost soul, cast into the blackness of darkness, | and the anguish that knows no end ! I "That is all," said Mrs. Lyndon, as she j closed the manuscript and laid it on the table, j Mr. Lyndon brooded gloomily for a few ' minutes. "It's a hard case," he said at last, ' "that the sin and misery of my great-great- j uncle, so many years back, should be visited I upon me. And to think that I came near casting myself into perdition for the sake of a parcel of bones I" CONCLUSION. The rector found the conceuts of the chest ? ? ' i l J weigh so heavily on his mind, tnat ne resoivea to take respite from his parochial duties for a while, and make a short visit to England, that he might obtain an interview with the lawyers there who had transmitted the legacy to his brother, and learn from them something more of the curious family history to which it appertained. He assigned failing health and the need of a change of air and scene, as the ' reason for his decision ; and, indeed, his nerves I were so shaken as to affect his whole system, 1 and render the change necessary. Before he left home, however, the chest was privately ! buried iu the orchard ; his children being informed of as much of its history as it was expedient for them to know, in order that J their natural curiosity and wonderment might j be set at rest. Taking the manuscript with him, he jour-! neyed to Suffolk, and sought out the gentle-! men he desired to see. Mr. Sludge, the junior j partner of the firm was absent; but Mr. Grimsby was in his office, and received the visitor j with politeness. Jie was a quaint, kindly old j ?" " oliMmf) Knt nlouannt. fiinA and a LU(*Uy TT 11>(I u ouiwnu VMM ?.*?! ? ? | pair of keen gray eyes that twinkled with ! something like amusement as the clergyman j made known to him the nature of his er? i rand. "That box, sir, has given a world of trouble j in its time," he remarked. "People have early lost their wits over it; it's altogether such a remarkable affair." "I am sure I nearly lost mine," said Mr. Lyndon. "Pray, can you inform me why I? or rather my brother?should have been selected as the recipient of such an uncomfortable and entirely useless legacy ?" "Entirely useless, as you say?and very disappointing, it has always been found by the legatees," rejoined tbelawyar. "/should never have sent it over to America, tny dear sir, had I been allowed to take my own way ; but one's clients, you know, have to be humored. We have been the family solicitors for generations past?that is to say, our firm has?and we find it expedient, of course, to keep on good terms. But an eccentric race they have always been. This last baronet was a queer man, very morbid, and tainted with the hereditary superstition. He dared not depart from the established custom of the house, and put an end to the matter, by disposing at once in some summary way of the wretched old box, as it would have been sensible to do. He was, as you are probably aware, only a cousin oi uoi. Jttooeri ljynaon, who inherited it from Mr. Charles Lyndon, the first legatee." "I don't keep the run of the family connection very clearly," said the clergyman. "Can you explain to me why it was a proviso of Sir Henry's will that the box should not be opened for ten years?" "I cannot, iudeed. It was a proviso of the original will, and made a precedent for all succeeding ones. Merely a piece of eccentricity, I suppose, on a par with all the rest. But it does seem a striking illustration of the extent to which human weakness can be carried, to mark how first one and then another of a family, in sound, mind, have yielded themselves to so singular a vagary, all in consequence of the mere invention of a diseased mind !" "You don't mean to say," cried Mr. Lyn-1 <ibu, mawwig'' * Hiai1 iiife-'ifffjw wmg waa h hoax ?" The lawyer shrugged his shoulders. "Why no, not precisely a hoax, my dear sir; but it was a delusion?a mere melancholy delusion on Mr. Phillip Lyndon's part. He was long a monomaniac on the subject. He never committed murder, either by accident or design ; but he was firmly convinced that he had done so, and the conviction caused him to live and die in misery. He was a violent man, and once, I believe, did fire at his brother iu a jealous fit, without injuring him ; but he certainly did not kill his wife. His marriage was an unhappy one, and the disappointment it caused him unsettled his mind." "And whose bones are those in the chest?" "Well, they are supposed to be those of his wife. Nobody could swear to it. A nice companion that chest-full of bones must have made him, night and day ! Sir Henry kept 'em in an outhouse. He might as well, I think, have put'em underground, eh? I am truly sorry you have been put to so much inconvenience in regard to the matter. But now, I hope, the peregrinations of the chest n f nrifk tliom oil fkfl frAllMo if ttlC ai CilU) auu nii-u btiviu Mil Wiiv vtvuviw ?v has cost. You, I take it for granted, are too sensible a man to saddle it as an inheritance upon anybody else when you die." "God forbid that I should 1" ejaculated the clergyman, with fervor. "I have been too greatly disturbed myself by its presence to entail such discomfort upon any one I care for. It is covered with four feet of earth now, and underground it may stay until the day of judgment, as far as I am concerned. But I think it is a pity that the poor lady's remains could not have been permitted to rest at peace among those of her own household." In farther conversation with the lawyer, he | was told that the old family estate in Devon-1 shire, had loner aeo passed into the hands of strangers, the Suffolk property alone being retained. Its present owner, the widow of the late baronet, lived there now with her only child, a daughter, who was shortly to wed an Irish peer. On the death of Lady Lyndon, the family name, in the English branch, would become extinct, and its only remaining representatives be those on the other side of the Atlantic. Mr. Lyndon also learned now, for the first time, that there was a prospect of this Suffolk property eventually coming into his hauds. But the knowledge of the fact, so far from gratifying him, actually gave him-a pang, so bitter a lesson had experience taught him, of the evil fruits of allowing the anticipation to dwell upon wealth to be gained by stepping into "dead men's shoes." After a pleasant visit, which was prolonged beyond his expectation, and during which much hospitality and kindness were shown him, Mr. .Lyndon returned norae, greauy im- i proved in health and spirits, to devote himself I with renewed ardor to his long-interrupted duties. Unbroken peace and harmony have since then reigned in his household. Let us linno that thev niRv never more he distnrh- i ed by any untoward occurrence, and that if the English property ever comes into his or his sons' possession, it may prove to them a more welcome and profitable inheritance than the ill-omened "Iron*Chest." [the end.] A Poor Subject.?He came in, bringing an atmosphere of his own along with him?an atmosphere that found is affinity in the fumes of the bar?and the barkeeper presented his bill. He took the document, scanned the writing carefully, and said, "Looks like copyplate, almost so neat and regular-like (hie). 'Mire the writing very much. But," straightening himself up and looking serious, "don't it strike you that it's a darned poor subject to write about?" Ipswllatwirois gteadiag. SIGHTS ISTHE GREAT SHOW. A BIRD'S-EYE VIEW OF THE WONDERS OF ALL NATIONS. All the accounts agree that? the Centennial Exposition is a grand success. The stupendous main building, with its floor space of twenty-one and one-half acres, is, of course, for the time, the leading attraction. A peronn fr? trovorap hoth sides of the errand nave """I "w o and of each transept, in order thereby to see . all the exhibits, must accomplish a distance of about eleven miles. The exhibits embrace the departments of mining and metallurgy, manufactures, and education and science, these being subdivided into as many branches as there are different industries related to each department. The exhibiting space is occupied by thirty-five different countries. It is filled with showcases of every description of architecture. Many of these are of great value, and all of them are arranged with a regularity possessed by few, if any, cities. The following are rapid sketches of the various national displays: TIIE UNITED STATES. Area, 189,231.1 square feet, or nearly onethird of all the floor space in the building. It has, in addition to this, 12,410 square feet in the mineral annex to the main building. Among the last to .begin the instalment and arrangement of their goods, the exhibitors in this section soon outstripped their punctual but slowly operating foreign friends, and have verified the prediction that, although tumbling in at the eleventh hour, they would be seasonably and becomingly dressed for their attendance at Uncle Sam's birthday party. The contrast between the showcases here and those of most of the other sections is about ? - --? -1-J- __J L the same as tnai oeiween me pium auu ouustantial food which nerves the arm of the blacksmvth or the farmer, and the delicacies sought for by the epicure. There are quite a number of cases, however, not excelled in strength, quality of material or elaborate execution, by any except those of Italy and Egypt. It is difficult to say what class of exhibits deserves special notice, as there is not an important branch of industry in the country which is without a full representation. Books, drugs and chemicals, iron and tinware, cotton and woolen goods, columns and statuary of granite, clothing of all kinds, from hat to boot, inclusive, ornamental goods for civil and military societies, and gas and steam fittings, are, however, among the most prominent. Every American visitor will discover two gratifying facts connected with his country's display, namely, its national character, embracing the land from Maine to California, and the skillful?it might be called poetical? arrangement of goods and decoration of casfis. GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND. Area, 51,776.3 square feet. This section is one of the four occupying the posts of honor in the building, the others being the United States, Germany and France. These four are located on the corners formed by the intersection of the nave and main transept, the United Shitou linivpppr hftv'ng addifinnal npnpp at the northeastern corner of the building. Were it not for the staid, chaste appearance of the dark-stained, gilt-edged showcases, the visitor would imagine that he was in China or in a fabled Arabian palace. Majolica and chinaware, from the vase large enough to boil a young elephant in, down to tiny toys charmingly colored, delicately finished with appendages of flowers and imaginary objects, and i ? _?:? ?u naVingU])OH UieiU puujllllga, eui;u uggcnco in the campaigns of the great Alfred or of Wellington, are exhibited in great quantities. In fact, it is in ceramics that Great Britain will make her mark here as she did at Vienna. Rich and gorgeous carpets, costly sets of silverware, pyramids of china plates, the paintings on some of which?ordinary dinner plates at that?cost 830 each; beautiful gold-embossed copper urns, hearths and small pavilions, constructed of fine earthen tiles covered with paintings of England's great men and of zoological specimens, granite sarcophagi and seamless sheets of oilcloth, each large enough to cover two or three fair-sized rooms, are among the principal attractions. So little nrpnn rut.inn remains unfinished as to be hardly t" ~r ;-f ? worth noticing. FRANCE AND HER COLONIES. Area 43,314.5 square feet. The exhibits will not be fully arranged before the end of two or three days. In accordance with the rule followed throughout the building, the French coat-ofarms is displayed on most of the show-cases. Beautiful, life-size plaster models of such scenes as that of the adoration of the infant Saviour by the shepherds in the cave at Bethlehem, and plaster-work of all kinds admirably executed, are pleasingly conspicuous. The country leads with a display of silks, satins and women's dress of these and other rich materials that will magnetize the most careless observer. There is some furniture of the finest marble, and elegantly carved wood of great value. One piece?a hearth of variegated marble?ia said to be worth upward of $50,000. Fine gloves and leather and gentlemeu's notions, form another specialty. First-class wines of many brands are of course displayed in greater quantities, and to better advantage than elsewhere. Trinkets and fancy stationery, jewelry and fine groceries come next in order of attraction. GERMANY. Area, 27,705.5 square feet. The display is in a condition quite as far advanced as any in the building. The showcases are as massive as are the Germans in a bayonet charge. Like the sections of the United States, Great Britain, France, India and Japan, the German area is not enclosed by a pavilion or any other structure. The effect of the display is, however, heightened rather than diminished thereby, for it would not be well to shut in such striking architectural specimens as are these show-cases. The arraugement of a lot of elephants' tusks, so as to resemble a growth of crocuses, is a fair instance of the ingenuity and taste manifested throughout the section. The little folks will be tempted to dance from covetousness when they wander among the miniature palaces, groaning with their weight of tempting toys. AmoDg these "Berlin jewelry" is plentiful and conspicuous. The tiers laden with gaudily-labelled, long-necked bottles?not empty, either?will make the mouths of older folk water. The leading display is that of ornamental metallic work, statues, statuettes and busts of gods, goddesses, heroes, fairies and great men of the Teuton race. Jewelry and relics of centuries long gone by are prominent features. AUSTRIA AND HUNGARY. r? i. A Area, 24,UYU.d square ieet. Ausirm uui partially encloses her space, and that with a triple arch filled in with Tyrolean stained glas5, upon which are the coats-of-arras of the provinces and likenesses of Andreas Hofer, the patriot who led his Tyrolean countrymen against the first Napoleon, and Rudolph IV, of the House of Hapsburg, first Emperor of Austria. The display, which will be completed within a week, is noted chiefly for Bohemian fancy glassware, a gallery of paintings of the present and former Royal families of Austria, and of scenes relating to the life of Christ, jewelry and musical instruments, wooden pipes and canes, rich specimens of the furniture in the palaces of royalty and nobil ity, fine linen in every manufactured form, drugs and medicines, and wax candles arranged in great pyramids. CANADA. Area, 24,070.3 square feet In this section prominence is given to an educational display, mineralogical specimens, petroleum, hides and furs. A peerless work in the shape of a hearth of white Italian marble; a geological display, perhaps the most complete in the building, and polished slate hearths and mantels of great beauty and so cheap that in guessing their price one would be apt to name a sum four or five times their value. Stuffed hides of Canadian ponies will attract the boys. BRITISH COLONIES. Area 24,070.03 square feet. In addition to Canada there are six other British colonies 1 represented. All these have enclosed their 1 respective sections with plain but neat struc- ( tures. Jamaica makes specialties of rum < and polished woods; New Zealand of photo- 1 mnna natirroa nrnifVinlnorif??.l Hrftw. 1 Vi XUIIIVUOUUVi|VAi| V/* UlVIIVtwuiWM* ? ?* > ings, hides, furs and feathers; New South Wales of painting, representing the principal public building, and much of the romantic scenery of the country, ingots of gold and silver, and an immense gilded, rectangular solid, representing the bulk of all the gold mined in the colony since 1368, which quantity weighed 8,205,232,598 ounces, its value being 8152,681,230; South Australia, of minerals and landscapes in colored drawings, her display, however, being yet incomplete; Victoria, of furs, dressed skins and geological charts, her display also being incomplete ; Queensland, or the most extensive collection of colored drawings in the building, representing, together with charts, models and speci- i mens, the latest geological survey of the coun- < try, mineral and botanical specimens, and al- < so household, fishing and warlike articles ] used by the aborigines; and India, of rice, ] cotton, sugar cane, bamboo ware, silks, jew- i els manufactured'by the natives, and an ex- | tensive nnlleet.inn of t.ha hides of wild beasts, i stuffed and otherwise. < 8 w eden. 1 Area, 17,755.3 square feet. A grand wooden archway leading into this section is perhaps the most elaborately-finished piece of common carpenter work on the Centennial grounds, with the sole exception of the Swedish school-house. The exhibit comprises a display of ceramics, second in extent, workmanship and value to that of Great Britain only; also, monuments of polished granite, and a hearth of the finest white clay work, , relieved with gilding, being one of the most { striking objects in the section. The basis of , the exhibit is, however, in Bessemer iron, , bars and plates of which are astistically ar- , ranged in the form of pyramids, round towers ] and other striking objects. The Swedish ge- j ological survey is also represented after the , plan of Queensland. , japan. i Area, 17,080.8 square feet. This section is ] not enclosed by a pavilion, but is filled with 1 large structures of white pine, rounded, 1 grooved and stained in imitation of bamboo. 1 Hanging from the roof of the Main Building, 1 above the section, are festoons of white and < blue cloth, having stamped upon it red and < black fan-shaped patterns. The exhibit com- < prises vases, urns, Ac., with a ground-work ] of highly-polished fbonv. relieved bv raised figures or" gilt and steel, delicately executed; < fine specimens of pottery, decorated with del- < icate-raised work of the most grotesque description ; also other earthen specimens glittering with almoBt as many colors as the 1 Chinese are remarkable for. There are curi- < ous articles of all kinds, most of which, though ] decidedly antipodal in shape, can by no means be ridiculed for workmanship. THE NETHERLANDS. Area, 15,540 square feet. The display is among the most creditable in the building, and is enclosed by a graceful pavilion of the Moresque style. The pavilion of its next neighbor, Brazil, is also of this style, but while the former is modest and beautiful, the latter is bold and flashy. The leading exhibit is that of models and charts of the public works of the country. Other striking and peculiarly Dutch features are architectural columns made of soap; rich, heavy carpets, vieing with best Brussels; bedding of all, kinds; great pyramids of many-colored worsted ; dark marble mantels; scientific apparatus, and a series of scenes from Goethe and Schiller, painted on dark-colored glass and made brilliant by inlayings of mother-of-pearl. There are also models of the various styles of dwellings in Holland, from the yeoman's , thatched college, with its highly-pitched roof, j up to the palace of a prince. BELGIUM. Area, 15,358.8 square feet. The Belgian display will not be completed before June. Although no pavilion surrounds this section, yet it is almost entirely enclosed hy a series of great fames containing magnificent mirrors, which reflect the whole exhibit and cause the visitor to imagine that it extends a mile or more in every direction. A grand column, presenting scenes from the region of the celebrated Spa, and laden with bottles of its waters ; woodenware of the most delicate carving, including a pulpit, which is, perhaps, the most masterly specimen of carved wood within the Centennial grounds; chasubles, copes, mitres and other chujch ornaments exquisitely wrought with gold, silver and precious | stones; military paraphernalia; the richest ( of carpets and laces, hung in festoons or ex- j hibited in rolls, and musical instruments of , all kinds are among the attractions of this , department. SPAIN. ] Area, 13,253square feet. Spain's pavilion is of the Renaissance style, the neatest struc* ? M v 1 t-_ xt__ j.: ture in tne Dunaing, ana, uy me paiuuLig \ which it presents of the great navigators j whose daring enterprise found and founded a s new worfd, and of their admirable patroness, < Isabella, "the Catholic," it impresses Centen- ? nial visitors with the real importance of Spain's ( claim upon the remembrance of America. , The leading display is of gold, silver and \ bronze articles used for sacred purposes in the ( Catholic Church, paintings of the Apostles , and other saints, dress goods and clothing of , silk, woolen and linen, rural scenery, rich car- j pets, playing cards and cut glassware, and A fancy glass and earthenware, much of the , latter being of Moorish patterns, lavishly dec- j orated. The exhibitors are few, but the show- ^ cases are gigantic, the latter circumstance fa- ] cilitating the most romantic arrangement of valuable goods. A wax figure of Pius IX standing in front of his throne, which is of the same material, is a conspicuous and interest- T ing feature. Last, but not least, is Castile 1 p J _ii i _i j ( soap, iormeu iuio an lmugiuauie sua pea, uuu on the whole, representing so many specimens l. of rocks, mountains, valleys and botannical 1 specimens. RUSSIA. The area of this section is 11,002.3 square * feet, too much to remain unoccupied at the ( opening ceremonies. It contains nothing but 1 a few dozen unopened cases. It will be re- f membered that the steamer Goethe, which re- j cently set out with most of the exhibits of Russia, became injured in the propeller, and c was obliged to put back to Plymouth, EnglonA ronnipq Rhft has not vet resailed. j 1*1 jva| iui ? ? ^ , and to this circumstance is owing a portion of c the backwardness in this section. ^ ITALY. c Area, 8,167.5 square feet All is ready, i The chief attraction is the furniture?the 1 show-casesand articles for display alone. The i structure enclosing the section is unpreten-. tious but neat; cabinets of carved walnut or rosewood, inlaid with ebony, ivory, mother-ofpearl and even valuable stones; a model of the Cathedral at Milan; one side of it sparkling in the rays of the rising sun, the effect being caused by an inlaying of mother-ofpearl; statues and statuettes of marble, some 3f them the works of masters, others copied; bronze statuary and other works of art, and a striking display of Italian jewelry are among the principal other features. In cabinet ware Italy and Egypt excel all others in the building. A number of copies of chairs and other Furniture used in St. Peters, at Rome, are particularlv interesting. NORWAY. j Area, 6,897 square feet. The pavilion is as much in keeping with the romantic country md hardy people which it represents, as an egg shell is with its contents. The exhibit jomprises articles of cut glass, silverware, ornaments for females and musical instruments, i great variety of fancy articles, such as watchchains, charms and side-knives, (articles worn by all Norwegians,) all made by the farmers it rfight by the fireside; cod liver oil and perfumery ; hand-woven worsted cloths, for which medals have been drawn at all the previous great exhibitions; cotton yarns and stockings knitted by five-year old girls; eider down guilts, bear hides and furs of all kinds; fishermen's materials; weapons used by the ancient Norsemen; carved furniture, four hundred fears old ; ancieut drinking horns and jewelry, and a great display of carriages, sleighs, md iron in bars and sheets. JBKAttlJLf. Area, 6,897 square feet In a 890,000 pavilion of the most gaudy extreme of the Moresque style, and almost realizing the creations if fabulous Arabian lore, Brazil exhibits fairyike show-cases filled with artificial flowers made of feathers from the brilliantly-pluraiged birds inhabiting the country, a tiring entomological collection, pottery, beautifully nottled marble and palatial furniture, prenous stones in a rou~h state, ores of the most valuable metals, soap and candles that look like the mottled mar Die of Mexico, hats, caps, shoes and clothing, from the styles adopted by the nobility down to those of the most humDie ; skins and furs in great variety, and stuffed zoological specimens representing the most raportant animal life in the wooded valleys of the great'rivers. SWITZERLAND. Area, 6,646.3 sauare feet. Clocks and watches, watches ana clocks. Clocks of silver ind brass ; watches of gold and silver; philosophical and chemical apparatus; great relief naps of sections and of the whole of the relowned country; anatomical charts and entomological, zoological, mineralogical, agricultural and botanical specimens; carved cabiaetware, relieved by gilt mountings and floral paintings; courtly costumes, heavy with embroidery of gold and silver; great seamless expanses of the most valuable lace; banners and regalia, and fine straw and delicately-tinted silks are the main features of the display. But Ihe most interesting and the leading exhibit in ;he section is that of clocks. You see groups )f fighting dogs and cats in carved wood; also jhalets, noblemen's villas and grand catheirals, all either of carved wood or of rough pieces artistically joined to give rusticity. A.nd yet, after all, none of these are dogs, cats, jamearals, cnaieta or palaces, dui simply ' jlocks. mexico. Area, 6,504.8 square feet. The pavilion is built of wood and plaster, and is of the florid Sothic style, being a representation of the leading architecture of the Citv of Mexico at the time of the conquest of the country by Cortez. The display, which will not be completed before next week, is of silk, cotton and wool, raw and manufactured ; collections from the world-renowned mines of Mexico, including a mass of silver weighing 4,000 pounds; 3offee-seeds, fine wood and fibres of the agave yr maguey, which is the most important plant in the country; educational and scientific works in model, map, book and specimen forms; mottled marble of great richness and beauty; large quantities of the finest cigars and cigarettes, alcoholic liquors, vanilla and substances ejected in the most recent volcanic eruptions, and representations of metallurgy by a collection showing all the transformations undergone by ores from their natural state until the extraction of the pure metal is effected. china. Area, 5,642 square feet. The pavilion, which was constructed in Canton in sections, is doubtless the most gaudy affair between Hudson's Bay and Cape Horn to-day. Evidently its Mongolian decorators first used up all the colors of a peacock's tan ana 01 tne rainbow, and then, as though sorry that they bad not ten or eleven more different styles of rainbow to imitate, bad recourse to their fertile invention for the other shades. The three entrances, and, within, the joss-house and towers, are all of the pagoda style familiar to svery one who has seen a tea-caddie painting. The cases are arranged in circles, and contain pottery, porcelain, bronzes, carved woodwork, chasings, inlaid work, silks, Ac., both oases and contents being in keeping with the ourious pavilion. The display is ready. TURKEY. Area, 5,022 square feet. This section, like the Russian, is unoccupied except by a few unopened cases. It is supposed that the state of ;he Sick Man's bowels has been so threatening is to prevent his giving attention to anything ixcept his health. About the fourth of July lis display, comprising coffee, opium and pipes, will doubtless be complete. EGYPT. Area, 5,022 square feet. In a pavilion which is a perfect model of an Egyptian terntbo ninth nr tpnfch nenturv. Ecvnt nre r"ww* *"v ??? ? ?o/i i tents, in perfect order, a display cf plaster lasts of her celebrated monuments, busts and itatues; Arabic ornamental plaster work; a lollection of household utensils, and implenents and weapons of war used by the na;ives of interior Soudan ; cabinetware of modirn make, exquisitely carved in the ancient irabic style and inlaid with ivory, ebony and jiother-of-pearl, brassware, almost microscolically engraved with religious sentences in Arabic, fancy articles -of ivory and ebony, nade by hand by wandering Arabs, and equalng in finish the best machine-make, and a jreat variety of curious old manuscripts in lieroglyphics, Coptic, Arabic and Hebrew. PORTUGAL. Area, 3,569.5 square feet. The exhibits, vhich are but half arranged, comprise a rep esentation of the flora of the country, a full lisplay cf the wines for which Portugal is loted, and a great variety of manuafactures, nnlnHinp- articles made of Lisbon marble. DENMARK. Ares, 2,510 square feet. A plain, neat, ortress-like structure, bearing the Danish :oat-of-arms, encloses this section. The dismay is mainly of terra-cotta ware, with a lark ground, relieved by raised figures of a ight color, or with a light ground relieved ! >y dark figures. There is also a fine display >f cordials, gloves, furs and skins. CHILI. 'J ' | Area, 2,823.8 square feet, a rectangular en- i slosure being formed by means of a series of -1 Inno otinmnoafl nntli o VuiAiitifiil nnniHn At j IttOO OUVnVHOV) IIAVM w wvwMwaaM* ? ?.? me end of the rectangle. All the exhibits vere displayed at the recent fair in Santiago, laving been selected therefrom for superior nerits. Minerals from the recesses of the : Andes, old pottery and other relics of the Anracanian and neighboring Indian tribes, stuffed llama and cougar hides and general manufactures constitute the notable portion of the exhibit THE ARGENTINE REPUBLIC. Area, 2,822.8 square feet. Here is another 4 blank, or nearly so, for the opening day, as most of the exhibits that have arrived still remaining unarranged. TUNIS AND SANDWICH ISLANDS. Tunisian area 2,015 square feet; exhibits not completely arranged. Sandwich Islands area, 1,574.5 square feet; condition like that of the Tunisian. PERU. ' Area, 1,462.5 square feet, enclosed by a pavilion of unpretentious, but neat design. The principal exhibits are card tables, checkerboards, Ac., made of rare wood, beautifully inlaid; filagreed silverware; charming artificial flowers made by the students of the college of St. Teresa de Lima, cigars, guano, an indispensable article in a Peruvian display; oil paintings by native artists, and a great variety of tasteful articles made by school children. ORANGE FREE STATE. Area, 1,057.5 square feet The carpeted platform, enclosed by a framework of dark wood, relieved by gilding and draped with orange and white (the State colors,) from which hang festoons of red, white and blue, supports j a rich and thoroughly completed display. Diamonds in rough state, minerals, specimens of curious wood, ostrich feathers, hand-made harness, equal to machine work, ivory, hides of wild beasts, and grains, compose the bulk of ?a a /vtrnof wrtAl./wAnrinnp nniin. buc uiopjay ib io a nwi ^tvniug wuutry, and that commodity is the main feature of the exhibit, there being large quantities of mohair, just as it was sheared from the Angora goat, and also less fine material in the unwashed and the white state. HINTS TO CENTENNIAL VISITORS. It will not be advisable to secure lodgings in advance through agencies, unless you are familiar with the city, and have made up your mind as to the quarter you wish to live in, or have friends to choose for you. Otherwise you may find yourself billeted offin a hot and unsavory by-street at a long distance from the exhibition and from all other points of attraction. If you intend to stay only a few days, the hotels near the exhibition will be, on the whole, the most desirable; but if you mean to remain longer than a week, go first to one of these establishments or to one of the hotels in the city proper, and then look up lodgings to suit you in a private house. Do not come with the idea that you are going to see an enlarged State fair, that can be "done" in a single day. Nothing less than a week of steady application will suffice for a rapid survey of the great show. In the main building alone there are eleven miles of aisles and pas- 1 sage-ways between the lines of show cases. If you are absolutely limited to three or four , days, you would better divide your time as follows: Devote the first day to taking a general look at the interiors of the six principal buildings?(in six or seven hours of bard { tramping he can get through them all)?then make up your mind what department you most want to see and devote the rest of your time to seeing thoroughly, so as to take home some clear and lasting impressions. If you roam atwui aimlessly your reooiiecuons oi tne ' fair will be wholly chaotic. In case you are fond of art, two days spent in the art hall will be to some extent an education in the styles of the modern schools, whereas an hour or two of hurrying from gallery to gallery will leave in the memory only a jumble of color and forms. If your special bent is for machinery, or farm products and processes, or mineralogy, or chemistry, or ceramics, or whatever it may be, after a general glance of the exhibition, stick to the department that interests and benefits you most. "How long will it take to see everything thoroughly ?" the reader may ask. At least a month, and the time will be - - * -ill t_. well spent, too. 3.1 its conclusion you wui ue 1 familiar with the best arts and industries of the entire globe. The cost of a month's stay I in Philadelphia, with* daily visits to the exhibition, will be as follows, supposing the visitor 1 to practice such economy as is not inconsistent with comfort and 'with the object of his visit: Room in a private house for one month $25 00 Breakfasts and suppers, at 60 cents each 30 00 Dinners on the grounds, at 75 cents each 22 50 Thirty admissions to exhibition, 50 cents 15 00 Street car fares 7 50 Evening amusements 10 00 Incidentals 15 00 Total $125 00 By taking regular board in a boarding house or small hotel, the cost of living can be so reduced that the first three items ean be brobght down from $72.50 to ?40 or $50, and perhaps even to $30. A week's stay at a first class hotel and daily visits to the fair may be estimated to cost as follows: Board seven days, at 95 1 f&> uu Admission to exhibition .. 3 50 Car fares . 1 50 Incidentals , ' 5 00 Total.. 945 00 , The maximum price for hotel board is $5 per day. There are plenty of excellent houses where the charge is from $3 to 84, and in many good, comfortable hotels it is as low as 82 or 32.50. Boarding houses charge from ( 86 a week and up for rooms and meals. At the granger's encampment, about seven miles out on the line of the Pennsylvania railroad, rooms in rough, shed-like structures, are furnished for 50 cents a night, and meals at an equally moderate price. In short, there are all kinds of prices for all kinds of people, just as in other cities where there is no world's fair. How Idaho got its Name.?The late Dr. George E. Willing was the first delegate to Congress from the'young mining community. At the time when the subject of thd organization of the new territory was under debate, he was, as a matter of course, on the floor of the House of Representatives. Various names had been proposed without any seeming approach to agreement, and the doctor, whose familiarity with the Indian dialects was pretty well known, was appealed to by some of bis legislative friends for a suggestion. One of them said: "Something round and smooth now." It happened that the littie daughter of oue of these gentlemen was on the floor that morning, and the doctor, who was fond of children, had just been calling her to him with, "Ida, ho, come and see me." Nothing could be better, and the veteran explorer promptly responded with the name "Idaho." "But what does it mean ?" "Gem of the mountains," replied the quickwitted doctor, with a glance at the fresh face behind him, and the interpretation, like the name, "stuck" to this day. Dr. Willing told about it at the time, or soon afterward, with a most gleeful appreciation of the humor of the thing, and I have often since heard him rehearse the story. I?* The only manufactory of gongs and cymbals in the country is in Boston. From ^ BOO to 400 gongs and 400 pairs of cymbals I per year are produced, the price depending I upon the size?cymbals of twelve and four- 1 teen inches diameter ranging from $24 to $36, and gongs selling at fifty cents per inch of J diameter. tST A bricklayer recently died in London, who was fonnd to have the heaviest brain on record; it weighed "Sixty-five ounces. The man conld neitner read nor write.