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Show CENTENNIAL NOVELTIES. Australia will exhibit US varieties i-f apples at Philadelphia. Gilmore'rt band pluya nt 10 in the morning and o iu the aliernoon. England never had t,uch a di-pl.iy of primings ouUidt- of tiie British ialea as she lias at Philaiinlphia. Organized parti ot visitors to the CenUtmial ex'nibitinn will leave FuropLi shortly, one from Italy being , mentioned. Neviula'n exhibit of orc: is e-nnplet, flhowing her mineral wraith in a w-ij to excite wonder uud admiration. Tiie specimens aro neatly arranged in twelve handsome black-walnut caach in tlio United States government building. The procesn of making Centennial medaN from Nevada bnlhnn will be begun at once, and the supply will bp adequate to tho demand, ho it us largo as it will. Thou.vmdi aro already al-ready awaiting tho isuc, fur token pieces, to preserve. Alongside Nevada's splendid exhibit ex-hibit n r a, r California, not sent hy the nlule, hut mainly collected by 1'rofcf.tnr Uonakl-80n Uonakl-80n at tho oxpenBU of I he SniithMonian institute, and pat'-hul out from Pin-! Pin-! eisor Barnes' older cabinet, "I'm a Philadelphia alderman," said a stout, pompous little man, n.s ho approached Iho turnstile on (he oponmc day. "Oh, that's no matter," aiiHwered tho putu-keepcr, "llmtdou't exclude you. Pay your fifty rent, and you can go in jiml llieaniean tiie rest." Tim quartz mill erected by tho utate of Nevuda in now in operation. It display tlio complele proeesi o( converting the or into I ullion. The cliiof piuco of machinery in u five-stamp five-stamp with 7IO pound stamps, which laud about in tlio center of the apart-mont, apart-mont, and first commaudH lho ntteu tion of visitors. An amalgamating an holtla two tons at a charge, mid thoro is an eight-foot Kfttler, a Tullouh sotf-feeder and ft retort. A liiiecn-horse liiiecn-horse power engine furnishes tho power. L-enlennial stamped envelopes are made and furnished with a three cent f tamp in the government building. The stamp is good everywhere. It is lho form ol a grern shield with em Iwsscd figures and letters in while. At tbn lop are Seen the (igiiren "17Vti," on tlio left-hand corner the letler "U," and on the right-hand Jie letter "H," Underneath Ibis, on a scroll, is the word "Poalage," Belmv a bny mounted on boroehaek n-prti-senting tho old style of post hordes, tins design nhout dividing tlm shield into two purls. The top of the lower half contains telegraph win-n nml pules, and beuenth, iu tho broadst part, i a locomotive, tender and one oar, representing lho flint innil of tho present day. Under the train, on a Heroll, aro tho words, "Three rents" in Roman lcltern," tho whole deign boine finished with tho figures "1670." |