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Show CENTENNIAL CLIPPINGS. A very popuUr device at the Centennial Cen-tennial grounds is tho rolling chair, iin which ladies are pushed about the I grounds by mcu lor the sum of 00 i cents an hour. j Of tho five restaurant on the 'ground the American is eaid to be the best. It i3 kept by a band of enteipnsmg Israelites, who give customers cus-tomers a fair equivalent for tho money spent. Tho beer glass in use in America is declared by the German visitors to the Centennial to bo a fraud. They j denounce the size of the upside down : hole in the beer glass, and the amount of froth bestowed. Two-thirds of the machines which are to be operated during tho cxhibi-bition cxhibi-bition are not fully sr-t up in the Machinery Ma-chinery hall. The aame hick of completeness com-pleteness is visible in mot of the buildings and departments. Tho fruit display in the Agricultural Agricultu-ral building is very large, and, when closely studied, very interesting. Thero are about 3,0U0 specimens of apples cast in plaster from the fruit itself, to insure accuracy in bizc and shape, and painted in oil. In tho grain section thero are about S00 sampled of American grain collected col-lected from every blale in the Union aud arranged in this order. Tno object of this collection is also lo show the difference between the same , varities in distinct part of the country. coun-try. There are ll2d samples 01 maize or Indian corn, amntn-ji. which ru specimen ears, only three inches long, grown by Indiana in Arizona, in comparison to which there is an f ear from New York measuring seventeen seven-teen inches in length. |