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The Bulletin. HATES OF ADVERTISiyG. Oneinrli,on inrOnR... i-ach subsequent iiiHerliou.. SI on rrFLKHED E VERT ThI'MPAT. W. fi. ARttlSTKAl. . H. UtMIMhAI) : Editors. 1 Inch.... .. I 2 I 4 I.. I ; ' I ! M ''I 2 I nches.... 3 Inches '4 column.... h column.... 1 column.... s 1 2 17 mi ( f so (I '"I li' .VI 2ii fin 4 li 6 111 j S lu 12 IS I 2 2.1 mi i n .) ..I oil 2.S m X' mi m IO fll SUBSCRIPTION : One Year $1 60 SSIx Months 1 00 Three Months 7. Sui$crip(iont mutt be xaid in advnnct. Akkovncfwent. Annonnrinjtlir.nii or n pr koii lor County tifflre, .i ; State Oilier, flu ; Federal Office, !.". Invariably in ivncr. Rclicioii", Mrrise liirlh ami Peatli ti"ti r o licited. ami will be willingly inert'il tree of chars. Obituaries. Masonic nl other sooietc notices deaths, etc. will be diarized ten cents per Sma. VOLUME XI. BOLIVAR, TENNESSEE, THURSDAY, MAY 25, 1876. NUMBER 43. BOLIVAR miTTl flHftT17rc!(iTRTf A T mo umufiuuiaij. Tie Great Anniversary Exhibition Views of the Exhibition Build ings and Full Descriptions of the Various De partments. Arrangements for the Centennial. The act of congress which provides lor "celebrating the one hundredth anniver sary of American independence, by hold ing an international exhibition of arts, manufactures, and products of the soil and mine." authorized the creation of the United States centennial commission, and intrusted to it the management of the exhibition. This body is composed of two commissioners from each state and territory, nominated by the respective Eovernors, and commissioned by the president of the United States. The en terprise, therefore, is distinctly a nation al one, and not, as has sometimes leen stated, the work of a privata corpora tion. The exhibition will lie opened n May 10th, 187G, and remain open until No vernier 10th. There will be a fixed price of fifty cents for admission to all the buildings and grounds. The centennial grounds are situated on the western bank of the Schuylkill river, and within Fairmount Park, the largest public park in proximity to a great city in the world, and one of the most beau tiful in the country. The park contains three thousand one hundred and sixty acres, four hundred and fifty of which have been encloFed for the exhibition. Besides this tract, there are large yards near bv for the exhibition of Kt.ork nnd a farm of forty-two acres is already suit-; "oiy planted lor tne testa ot plows, mowers, reapers, and other agricultural machinery r u :-t- NEWS TAPE It The exhibition buildings are ap proached by eight lines of street cars which connect with all the other lines in the city, and by the Pennsylvania and Reading railroads, over the tracks of which trains also run from the North Pennsylvania ami Philadelphia, Wil mington, and Baltimore railroads. Thus the exhibition is in immediate connec tion with the entire railroad system of the country, and any one within ninety miles of Philadelphia can visit it at no greater cost than that of carriage hire at the Paris or Vienna exhibition. An important ftpcrlal exhibition is made by the United States government, and is prepared under the supervision of a board ot officers representing the sev eral executive departments of the gov ernment. A fine building of four and a half acres is provided for the purpose, space in -. -hicn is occupied by the war, treasury, navy, interior, post-oflice, and agricultural departments and the Smith sonian institution. The women's centennial executive committee have raised $30,000 for the. erection of a pavilion in which to exhibit every kintf of woman's work. To this collection, women of all nations have contributed. The list of special buildings is con stantly increasing, and the present indi cations are that their total number will bo from two hundred to two hundred and fifty. Most of the important foreign nations England, Germany, Austria, France, Sweden, Egypt, Japan and others are putting up one or more structures each, for exhibition purKses, or for the use of the commissioners, ex hibitors and visitors. Offices and head quarters of this kind, usually of consid erable architectural beauty, are provided by the state? of Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, New Jersey, " v V -r-r MACHINERY New York, Connecticut; Massacbusets, New Hampshire, Missouri, Kansas, Vir ginia, West Virginia, Nevada, Wiscon sin, Iowa and Delaware ; and it is likely that others will follow the example. A number of trade and industrial as sociations, which require largo amounts of space, are provided for in special build ings. Among these are the photo graphers, the carriage builders, the glass makers, the cracker bakers, the boot and shoe manufacturers, lesides quite a num ber of individual exhibitors. The great demand for space renders this course ne cessary to a considerable extent, espec ially for exhibitors, who have been tardy in making their applications. In the main exhibition building, for example, three hundred and thirty-three thou sand three hundred square leet of space had been applied for by the leginninp; of October by American exhibitors only ; whereas, the aggregate space which it has been possible- to reserve for the United States department is only one hundred and sixty thousand square feet. About one-third is consumed by passage ways. The machinery building, like the uhers, is already fully covered by appli cations. There are about one thousand American exhibitors in this department, one hundred and fifty English, and one hundred and fifty from other European I - . . T countries which is about two hundred and fifty more than entered the Vien na machinery exhibition. Extra provision has been made for annexes to accommo date the hydraulic machinery, the steam hammers, forges, hoisting engines, boil ers, plumbers, carpenters, etc. Power in the machinery hall is chiefly supplied by a pair of monster Corliss en gines. Each cylinder is forty inches in diameter, with a stroke of ten feet ; the fly-wheel is thirty-one feet in diameter, and weighs fifty-five tons; the horse ower is fourteen; and the number of oilers is twenty. This engine drives about a mile of shafting. For the art exhibition, the most emi nent American artists have sent sieci mens, and it may be confidently stated that, especially in the department of landscape painting, the United States presents a finer display than the public has been led to expect. Quite aside from the contributions of American artists, applications from abroad call for more than four times the' exhibiting space afforded by the great Memorial Hall. Provision for the surplus has been made in temporary fire-proof buildings, though all exhibiting nations will be represented in the central art gallery. The secretary ol the navy has arranged that a United States vessel shall call at convenient European orts, to collect and transport hither to the exhibition the works of American artists resident in Europe. Among the ports thus far designated, are Southampton tor .Eng land, Havre for France, Bremen for Ger many, and Leghorn for Italy. The ar rival of this vessel is expected daily. Mr. Bell, the eminent English sculp tor, who designed the groups for the plinth for the great Albert memorial in Hyde Park, London, has reproduced in terra cotta, at the celebrated works in Lambeth, the one which symbolizes America. The figures in this group are colossal, covering a ground space of fif teen feet square. It is placed in the great central art gallery, opposite the principal entrance. The artexhibition includes, in addition to the works of contemporary artists, representative productions of the past century of American art those, for in stance, of Stuart, Copley, Trumbull, West, Alston, Sully, Neagle, Elliot, Kensett, Cole. These, as well as the 2 -- - s i - -, BUILDING. works offered by living artists, have been passed upon by the committee of selec tion, who visited, for the purjiose. New York, Boston, Chicago, and other leading cities, in order to prevent the needless transportation to Philadelphia of works of art not up to the standard of admis sion. A large numler of orders and frater nities have signified (heir intention to hold gatherings at Philadelphia during the period of theexhibition. Among thsc which may now lie enumerated, are the Grand Lodge ot Pennsylvania, Inde pendent Order of Odd Fellows; the Grand Encampment, Independent Order of Odd Fellows; Grand Lodge, United States, Indeendent Order of Odd Fel lows ; Grand Commandeiy Knights Templar; Grand Army of the Republic; Presbyterian Synod; Caledonian Club; Portland Mechanic Blues; Welsh Na tional Eistedfodd ; Patriotic Order Sons of America ; California Zouaves of San Francisco; an International Regatta; the Life Insurance Companies; National Board of Underwriters; State Agricul tural Society ; Second Infantry, N. G. of California; Philadelphia Conference, Methodist Episcopal Church; Cincinnati Society ; California Pioneer Society ; American Dental Convention; Catholic Total Abstinence Union of America; Independent Order of B'nai B'rith; National Alumni Association ; Sales men's Association ; Fifth Maryland Regiment ; Seventh New York Regi ment; American Pomological Society; Malster's Association of the United States; Army of the Cumberland; Humboldt Monument Association; Christopher Columbus Monument Asso ciation; Board of Trad Convention; International Typographical Congress; Rifle Association of the United States ; Centennial Legion ; Philadelphia Coun ty Medical Society; International Medi- HALL. cal Congress : Old Volunteer Fire De partment of Philadelphia ; German Rifle Club ; Army of the Potomac, etc. Main Building. This is a parallelogram, running east and west one thousand eight hundred and seventy-six feet long, and north and south four hundred and sixty-four feet wide. The larger portion is one story high, the interior height being seventy feet, and the cornice on the outside forty-eight feet from the ground. At the center of the longer sides are projections four hundred and 6ix feet in length, and on the ends of the building projections two hundred and sixteen feet in length. In these, which are in the center of the four sides, are located the main en trances, which are provided with arcades upon the ground floor, and cen tral facades ninety feet hisrh. The east entrance forms the rrincinal an. : proach for carriages, visitors aliirhtins at imc utji 01 me miuuing unoer cver ot the arcade. The south entrance is the principal approach from railway cars. The west entrance opens upon the main passage-way to two principal buildings, the machinery and agricultural halls, and the north entrance to memorial hall (art pallery). Towers seventy-five feet in j height rise at each corner of the building, i In order to obtain a central feature, the ; roof for one hundred and eighty-four feet square at the center has been raised above the surrounding portion, and four towers forty-eight feet square, rising to one hun dred and twenty feet high, are intro duced into the corners of this elevated roof. This gives ventilation as well as ornament. The main building has nine hundred and thirty-six thousand and eight square feet of surface, or nearly twenty-one and a half acres. Its ground plan shows a central avenue one hundred and twenty feet'in width, and one thou sand eight hundred and thirty-two feet in length, which is the longest avenue of that width ever introduced into an exhi bition building. On either side of this is another avenue of equal length, and one hundred feet wide. Between the central and side avenues are aisles forty eight feet wide, and on the outer sides of the building smaller aisles of twenty-four feet width. To break the great length of the roof-linea three transepts have been introduced, of the same widths and in the same relative positions to each other as the longitudinal avenues. These cross the building, and are four hundred and sixteen feet in length. The inter sections of these various avenues make at the center of the building nine spaces, free from supports, which are from one hundred to one hundred and twenty feet square, and which aggregate four hun dred and sixteen feet square. The gen eral elevation of the roofs of all these avenues varies from forty-five feet to seventy feet. The building rests upon the ground, the land having been thoroughly graded and prepared. The foundations consist of piers of masonry, the superstructure being composed of wrought iron columns placed twenty-four feet apart, which sup port wrought iron roof trusses. There are six hundred and teventy-two of these columns in the entire tructure, the shortest being twenty-three feet and the longest one hundred and twenty-five feet -Y ! ! :. - LIBERTY BELL.J long:. Their asreresrate weisht is two mil lions two hundred thousand pounds. The roof trusses and girders weierh five mil lions of pounds. The sides of the build ing, to seven feet above the ground, are finished with brickwork in panels be tween the columns. Alove this there are glazed sashes. The roof covering is of tin, that being the best roofing known in this climate to resist leakage. Ihe flooring is of plank, upon sills resting upon the ground, with no open space be neath, lurrets surmount the building at ail the corners and angles, and the na tional standard, with appropriate em blems, is placed over each of the main entrances. There are numerous side en trances, each being surmounted with a trophy, showing the national colors of the country occupying that portion of the building. In the vestibules variegated trick and tile are introduced. Louvre ventilators surmount all the avem-.os, and sky-lights the central aisles. Light, of which there is ample supply, comes from the north and south sides almost entirely. Theie underlie the building two miles of drainage pije, the water supply and drainage system being com plete. Offices for the foreign commis sions are placed along the sides of the building, in trlose proximity to the pro ducts exhibited. Offices -for the admin istration are at the enus. The design of the building is such that all exhibitors will have an equally fair opportunity of exhibiting their goods to advantage. There is comparatively little choice of location, as the light is uniformly dis tributed, and each of the spaces devoted to products is located upon one of the main thoroughfares. Machinery Building. This structure is located about five hundred and fifty feet west of the main exhibition building, and as its north front stands upon the same line, it is practi cally a continuation of that edifice, the two presenting a frontage of three thou sand eight hundred and twenty-four feet from their eastern to their western euds, upon the principal avenue within the grounds. This building consits of a main hall, one thousand four hundred and two feet long and three hundred and sixty feet wide, with an annex on the southern side two hundred and eieht feet by two hundred and ten feet. The entire area covered is five hundred and fifty-eight thousand four hundred and forty square feet, or nearly thirteen acres, and the floor space afforded is about fourteen acres. Ihe chief portion .4. E - of the building i one story in height, the main cornice upon the outside being forty feet from the ground, and the in" terior height to the top of the ventilators in the avenues seventy feet, and in the aisles forty feet. To break the long lines of the exterior, projections have been in troduced upon the four sides, and the main entrances are furnished with racades extending to seventy-eight feet in height. The eastern entrance is the principal approach from railways and from the main exhibition building. Along the southern side are placed the boiler houses, and such other buildings for special kinds of machinery as may be required. The plan of the machinery building shows two main avenues ninety feet wide, with a central aisle between and an aisle on either side, these being sixty feet in width. These avenues and aisles together have three hundred and sixty feet width, and each of them is one thou sand three hundred and sixty feet long. At the center of the building there is a transept ninety feet in width, which at the south end is prolonged beyond-the building. This extended transept, be ginning at thirty feet from the building and extending to two hundred and eight feet, is flanked on either side by aisles sixty.feet wide, and forms an annex for hydraulic machines. The promenades are: In the avenue fifteen leet wide, in the aisles ten feet, and in the transept twenty-five feet. The walks extending across the building are all ten feet wide, and lead at either end to exit doors. The foundations of this building are piers of masonry, the superstructure consist ing of solid timber columns supporting roof trusses, constructed of straight wooden principal beams and wrought iron ties and struts. The columns are placed in longitudinal lines, and in these rows stand sixteen feet apart. The columns are forty feet high, and support, respectively the ninety-feet roof-spans over the avenues at a height of forty feet, and the sixty feet roof spans over the aisles at a height of twenty feet. The outer -walls are built of masonry to a height of five feet, and above that are composed of glazed sash between the columns. Portions of these sashes are moveable for ventilation, and Louvre ventilators are introduced in continuous lengths over both the ave nues and the aisles. The building is en tirely lighted by side light from the .... - , ?--irui. ART BUILDING- north and south. Space in machinery hall has been allotted as follows: Square fret. Great Britain 3o,72" Germany 1,008 Fmnce 11, 20 Belgium 0..S79 Brazil 4,000 Austria l,.r:5ii Sweden .',lfiS Cmiadii 4,:;oo Spain 2,44s Russia 1,500 Denmark 5s5 Chili 40S Norway... 3G0 The United States occupies three hun dred thousand square feet, This machinery building has very su perior facilities for shafting and double lines areintroduced into each avenue and aisle at a height of about twenty feet. A Corliss steam engine of one thousand four hundred horse-power drives the main shafting. There are also to be counter-lines of shafting in the aisles and special steam power furnished where necessary. Steam power is to be furnished free to exhibitors. In the an nex for hydraulic machines theie is a tank sixty feet by one hundred and sixty feet, with ten feet depth of water. It is intended to exibit all sorts of hydraulic machinery in full operation, and at the southern end of the tank there is a water-fall thirty-five feet high by forty feet wide, supplied from the tank by the pumps on exhibition. There will prob ably be a larger exhibition at Philadel phia of processes of manufacture than at any previous exhibition The applications for space have been so numerous as to require the addition of three annexes, covering two and one half acres, while numerous private ex hibitors have put up buildings for their own use. The machinery hall proper con tains above one thousand two hundred American exhibitors, having an average space of two hundred and seventy square feet each a more compact arrangement than has been accomplished previously, j since at Vienna there were nine hundred and fifty-nine exhibitors of machinery, with an average lioor space ot three nun dred and three square feet. The Art Gallery. The most imposing and ornate of all the structures is memorial hall, built at a cost of $1,500,000, by the state of Pennsylvaria and the city of Philadel phia. This is placed at the disposal of the centennial commission, to te used during the exhibition as an art gallery, after which it is designed to make it the receptacle of an industrial and art col lection similar to the famous south Ken sington museum, at London. It stands on a line parallel with, and a short dis tance northward of, the main building, and is in a commanding position, looking southward across the Schuylkill over Philadelphia. It stands upon a terrace one hundred and twenty-two feet above the level of the Schuylkill. Being de signed for an absolutely fireproof struc ture, nothing combustible has been used. The design is modern Renaissance. It covers an acre and a half, and is three hundred and sixty-five feet long, two hundred and ten feet wide, and fifty nine feet high, over a spacious basement twelve feet high. A dome, rising one hundred feet above the ground, sur mounts the center, capped by a colossal ball, from which rises the figure of Co lumbia. The main front of this build ing looks southward, displaying a main entrance in the center consisting of three enormous arched doorways a pavilion on each end, and two amides connecting the pavilions with the center. The en trance is seventy feet " wide, to which there is a rise ot thirteen steps. Each of the huge doorways is forty feet high and fifteen feet wide, opening into a hall. Between the arches of the door waysare clusters of columns, terminating in emblematic designs illustrative of science and art. The doors are of iron, relieved by bronze panels, displaying thej coats of arms of all the states and ter-l ritories. The United States coat ot arms is in the center of the main frieze. The dome is of glass and iron, of unique de sign. While Columbia rises at the top, a colossal figure stands at each corner of the base of the dome, typifying the four quarters of the globe. In each pavilion there is a large win dow, twelve and one-half feet by thirty. m - j four feet. There are altogether eight of these windows, used for the display of stained glass paintings, etc. Ihe arcades designed to screen the long walls of the galleries each consist ot five groined arches, and form promenades looking outward over the grounds and inward over gardens extending back to the main wall of the building. These garden plot. are each ninety feet by thirty six feet, or namented in the center with fountains, and intended to display statuary. The arcades are highly ornanented, and the balustrades of them and of the stairways are alo designed for statuary. The walls of the east and west sides of the structure display the pavilions and the walls of the picture galleries, and are relieved by niches designed for statues. The frieze is richly ornamented, and alxve it the central dome shows to great advantage. The rear or north front of the building is of the same general character as the main front, but, in place of the arcade, has a series of arched windows, twelve in number, with the entrance in the center. Between the pavilions is the grand balcony, a prom enade two hundred and seventy-five feet long and forty-five feet wide, elevated forty feet above the ground, and over looking to the northward the beautiful grounds of the park. On each front of the buildings the entrances open into halls eighty-two feet lone, sixty feet wide and fifty-three feet high, decorated in modern renaissance. These, in turn, open into the center hall, eighty-three feet square, the ceiling rising over eighty feet in height. From the east and west sides of this center hall extend the gal leries, each ninety-eight feet long, forty eight feet wide and thirty-five feet high. These galleries admit of temporary di visions for the better display of paint ings, and with the center hall form a grand hall two hundred and eighty-seven feet Ion? and eightv-three feet wide, capable of comfortably iiecouimotlti!;' J eight thousand tm!1s. This is nean,. , twice the aimennions ot tne large. i in the United States. From the gal leries doorways open into two smaller galleries, eighty-nine feet long and twenty-eight feet wide. These open north and south into private apartments connecting with the pavilion-rooms, and forming two side galleries two hundred and ten feet long. Along the whole length of the north side of the main galleries and central hall extends a cor ridor fourteen feet high, opening on its north line into a series of private rooms twenty-three in number designed for studies and smaller exhibition rooms. All the galleries and the central hall are lighted from above ; the pavilion anil studios from the sides. The pavilions and central hall are designed especially for the exhibition of sculpture. This fine building gives seventy-five thousand square feet of wall space for paintings, and twenty thousand square feet of floor space for statues, etc. The skylights throughout are double, the upper being of clear glass and the under of ground glass. Great as is the space afloraea in tiie memorial hall, the applications from American and foreign artists have proved so greatly in excess of its capacity as to require tfrfe erection of a much more spacious building. This, only of brick, harmonizes architecturally with the me morial hall, and it is to Ik? permanent. It stands just in the rear of the original art gallery and communicates with it. It affords sixty thousand square leet ol wall space available for paintings, and contains twenty-four galleries, each forty feet square, besides two gallene-., ea ii one hundred feet long by forty feet wide, and two transverse central corridors, twenty feet wide. Independence Hall. The' ball of the independence, on Chest nut street, between Fifth and Sixth, was commenced in 1720, and completed in I7ol. having leen designed for the use of the provincial assemblies ; and the long hall formerly in the upper story was olten used for grand official banquets given to governors, distinguished stranger and generals, and to the mem bers of the first congress when they ar rived in 1774. It was originally de corated with a stately steeple, which was taken down in 1774 on account of decay ; only a small belfry was left to cover the bell until the year 1828, when the pres ent steeple was erected as nearly like the ancient one as circumstances would ier mit. The ancient lell, formerly used for the clock, is remarkable for its prophetic inscription. Originally imorted from England in 1752, but cracked in its first ringing, it was recast in Philadelphia, and the inscription "Proclaim liUrty throughout the land, and to all the pe ple thereof" was placed upon it. Thu was more than twenty years lefore the independence of the colonies was dreamed of; yet, when the declaration was signed, this very bell was the first, by its merry peal, to "proclaim liberty throughout the land." It now occupies a place in the south vetisbule of the building. The Declaration of Independence was signed in the chamber on the left of the prin cipal entrance. Some years since the antique architectural decorations and furnitnre of this room were re moved, and their places supplied with new furniture and tapestry in modern style. This error has since been repaired, as far as iossiUIe, by restoring the hall to its ancient apjear ance. The portraits of nearly every one of the signers now adorn the walls. Ojen daily. A Hundred Years Ago. A Hory is told of a family living in colonial times, whn-c extravagant habit. excited the alarm of the village. " For the eldest son got a pair of lioots, the second an overcoat, the third a watch, and the fourth a pair of shoe bn kles; and the neihlor.- all shook their head, and whispered to each other: 'That familyison thehigh road to insolvency.' " Legislation in New England tried to restrain extravagance in dress, and laws were passed against wearing laces, em broidery, needle-work caps and "im moderate great sleeves." A century later we find jeople making much the same complaints, and quoting "good old colony times." The shoes were of the same material sis the dress, often skillfully embroidered. Country girls sometimes carried the broadcloth shres with jeaked toes in their hands till they got to church ; but the pink satin and yellow brocade shoes of city maidens were supported on clot's and pattens. Mrs. John Adams asked her husband to send her from Philadel phia in 1775, "two yards of black cala manco for shoes," saying she could not wear leather if she went barefoot. By way of silently reproving the vanity of their wives and daughters, the sterner sex appeared in immen.-e powdered wigs, stifflv starched ruffles, glittering knee and shoe buckles, embroidered silk vest, white silk stockings, and coats of every hue but black, tiimmed with great gilt or silver buttons. With these elaU.rate wardrobes of the men to keep in order, what wonder the women had no time to cultivate their "squinels' brains?" to quote one of the gallant croakers of the time. After all, we fancy the most ardent lover of the past would hardly ! in favor of the early days of the republic With the nmbogony'fcidtboard rescued from oblivion, the pinning wheel set up in the parlor, and the quaint china tea set upon the closet shelves, we can all cry: "Oh! those pleasant times of old, with the'ir chivalry and state, I love to rfa'r their chronicles which such brave deeds relate. I love to sins their ancient rhymes, to hear their legends told But Heaven he thanked I live not in those blessed times of old '." The .Agricultural Building stands north of the horticultural building, beinar separated from it by a romantic ravine, and has a commanding view of the Schuylkill river ami the nortu western suburbs of Philadelphia beyond. This building illustrates a novel combination of materials, mainly wood and glass, and consists ef a long "nave crossed by three transepts, each being composed of truss arches of Gothic form. Hie nave is eight hundred and twenty feet long by one hundred and twenty-five feet in width, with a height of seventy-five feet from the floor to the point of the arch, the cen tral transept one hundred feet wide and seventy -five feet high, and the two end transepts eighty feet wide and seventy feet high. Its interior appearance re sembles that of a great cathedral, and in looking from transept to transept, the vista is extremely imposing. A portion of this building is supplied with steam power for the use of agricultural machin ery. The four courts inclosed by the nave and transepts, and also the four spaces at the corners of the building, having the nave and end transepts for two of their sides, are roofed, and form valuable space for exhibits. The ground plan of the building is parallelogram five hundred and forty feet by eight hundred and twenty feet, covering about ten and one-quarter acres. Sixteen foreign na tions have space in this building, and in the one hundred and forty-seven thou sands five hundred and seventy-two squre feet which remain, more than one thousand American exhibitors are ac commodated. This necessitates special - t ' ' ' -J"- . - -- ; - v?. ----- z - ' - 1 1 Ir ccjicur win pt 1- . -.'-j - - - ' - - - - - PIIOTOGRArillC BUILDING. buildings for the collective exhibits of their natural resources provided by the different states. Tn addition to the grounds within the inclosu re, an eligibly located stockyard, twentv two acres in extent, has lieen pro vided for the display of live stock, which will lie exhibited in a series of shows during the months of Septemlier, Octo ter, and Novemlier. Two farm-, more over, of about fifty acres each, have lieen .. . ... .t . e -.-i suitably planted lor tne tnais oi agricul tural machinery. Economic Visiting. A Boston woman writing to a friend says, " there is a large class of highly educated persons in New England and New York who would most thoroughly enjoy and appreciate the centennial ex hibition if some arrangement" like that A-hich she suggests could Ix; made. I he plan is, without doubt, jierfectly prac ticable, and might be taken up and crystal ized by parties of ladies (or gentlemen) in other sections of the country to their advantage. While the charges for board and lodging in Phila delphia and vicinity during the progress of the centennial exhibition will not lie so exorbitant as some papers insist, there is still an opportunity for persons of moderate means who may desire to visit the centennial, see everything worth the seeing and enjoy themselves accordingly, and that without the outlay of an ex travagant amount of money. Not only in New England and New York, but throughout the entire country, there are MAIN EXHIBITION BUILDING. thousands of highly educated and intel ligent ersons who will desire to give themselves the pleasure of a visit to the exhibition. This pleasure they can give themselves if they are inclined to bestow a little care and thought upon the prop er arrangements for a visit. We subjoin extracts from a private letter written by the wife of one of the Harvard college professors, in order that friends further away ir.av take from it such hints as will le of service to them in arranging a visit during the summer. The letter begins by speaking of the ' money outlay" contingent ujion a vis it to Philadelphia, and then goes on to say: " If they could go somewhat in the way -ople go in summer to the eanhore, on a sort ( if cam ping out principle, they cool I form parties and share exjiens;.-, and so lie able to g., when a regular boarding house or lodgings would seem too expensive to 1 thought of. The plan proposed was to take a houe in some tow nor country village on some railroad near enough for the fares to lie cheap. A small, plain house, say parlor, dining rfxim, and kitchen on the grotid fWir, and lerhap-fone more room ax 1---1 Lam ber tour lied-room aliove. Furnished very sintolv with t.ible, chairs, and co"!r irig r.i.ive, w ex-ki.ig utensi.-- : I--. 1 1 ! .in,.i-i . K' ttle. i:slinan. etc. : a little very plain crockery - - J ' The bed-rooms 1 with bedsteads and mattresses and pil lows ; washstands, crockery, etc. ; tables, chairs, and looking-glasses. Fuel and gas or lamps supplied. Then the house extensively advertised as to let by the week, parties wishing to engage the house have a list sent them of the weeks free that so far they may choose their own time. The parties to bring their own bed and table linen and towels, forks and spoons and knives, and their own provi sions as far as they choose. Their din ners they can get in the grounds. In short, to live as people do in some of our seashore places, where a party of twenty will take a house for a week or fortnight, living in a picnic fashion, and at very small expense. "1 suppose such a house could be rented for twenty dollars a week, that for six months would be five hundred and twenty dollars. Devide the twenty dollars among eight people, the smallest number I should propose for a party, and that is only two dollars and a half a week for lodging", and a larger party, of course, diminishes the expense. Fuel and lights should be charged as a party uses them. It would need some responsible person to certify that the house was respectable and fairly comfortable, and to see that between the different parties it was put in neat and decent order. And it should be advertised in papers with a good country circulation." A plan very similar to that suggested above could be arranged with most satis factory results. Programme of Events. THE CENTENNIAL EXHIBITION. Reception of articles commenced Jan uary 5. Unoccupied space was forfeited April 2G. Main exhibition ojened May 10. Grand ceremonies on exhibition grounds, July 4. Trials of harvesting machines, June and Jul'. Trials of steam plows and tillage im plements, Septemlier and Octolier. Exhibit of horses, mules and asses, Septemlier 1 to Septemlier 15. Exhibit of homed cattle, Septemlier 20 to Octolier 5. Exhibit of sheep, swine, goats and dogs, Octolier 10 to October 2"i. Exhibit of jioultry, Octolier 28 loNov ember 10. Main exhibition closes Novemlier 10. Exhibits must be removed by Decem ber 31. SOCIETY MF.ETINt;.", PA RA PKS', RKOAT TAH, ETC. Knights Templar (Masons), grand pa rade, June 1. Order of Good Templars, sjiecial gath ering. June 13. International regatta (New York Har bor), June 22. Yacht regatta, Delaware river, in June. Sons of Temperance, tqiecial gather ing, June. International series of cricket matches, June and September. Congress of authors in Indeiendence hall, July 2. Parade of Irish societies (dedication of fountain), July 4. Paradeof military organizations, July 4. United American Mechanics, parade. July 8. Knightsof Pythias, parade, August 22. International rowing regatta, August 20 to September 15. International rifle matches, in Septem lier. International medical congress, Sep temlier 4. Independent Order of Odu Fellows, parade, September 20. A Tender Bequest. He had gone up to her house with her from a shopping excursion the other afternoon. While he wa- there such a flood of tenderness came over him that he impulsively dropjied on his knees lie fore her, and giving her a glance that spoke volumes, huskily said. "I can no longer keep mv feelings back. I love you'. Oh, will' vou. Oh, will you lie " " Shad'! Ten cents!" rang out the clarion voice of a street vender liefore the house. Sh made a clutch for her handkerchief to cover her emo tion, but hhe whs too late. The Judi crousness of the combined sentiments was too much for her intellect, and sho melted into a prolonged giggle. Her face flushed scarlet , and for an instant he was too profoundly impressed to realize his jHisition. Then he shot upon his feet, and with a bowl of rage de tiar'cd. Beally, ought : ' Ii 'tiit and more discrinu be cniploved on h.-h wt" Stun.