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Show THE CENTENNIAL. I'rofessur loynor at tho (li on iihow. Pini.AhKU-iiu, Juno 10ih, 1S70. FdHors Herald: Wc have been to "tho greut thon" and aru prepared to make a partial report on such topics as would likely interest your muleru. A ticket from Omaha to the Centennial Cen-tennial and return, vU New York, Philadelphia, Washington, etc., was and I suppose ia yet $f7. Thu passenger pas-senger can return on a difloiont route if ho prelers. Tho charges hero are moderate. Good accommodations can bo had at $1.50 per day. The city ia not crowded and will not be, lor tho latch string h out every place at moderate rates. Kvery-hody Kvery-hody seems to feel that the rvputalion of the city is at stake, and therefore strangers are cared tor as though they were old friends. We are pleasantly pleas-antly located with a private family at 713 North Twenty-aixth street, one 'mile ttom the Centennial grounds. For loo. we can buy a round trip ticket bystreet cars, steam cars or steamboat on tho Schuylkill river. The Admission is 50c. each day. The press is deadheaded hut nut our wives, though tho bible does say wo are no longer twain. On the grounds tho charges are moderate: a three-mil ride on card around th grounds for fivo cents, a cup of colkiu or a glass of soda water for tiMi cenlti, a good meal tor Boventy-five runts. Tho fool cau part with his money it lie wishes, but the wise man neiU not do it' without a full equivalent. EXTENT OF THE EXHIBITION. It is simply beyond comprehension. No one mind can grasp it. While there are fivo grand ceutrat poims of interest, there are scores of other places where the interest is equal in quality though not in quantity. There is enough in the main building build-ing alone, which covers twenty acres and has an aisle extension of eighty miles to employ nearly a month of the visitor's time, for at every stp he 1 naked, whether in tho home or foreign departments, ho will see the wonderful. wonder-ful. While Japan seems to eclipse everything in the elaborate mechanism mechan-ism and skill displayed, the adjoining department of China seems to have no superior, and thus as we paps through the departments of Eo pt. Cape of Good Hope, Sandwich Islauds, New Zealand, Turkey. Italy, Canada, Spain, Liberia, etc., we eon-elude eon-elude that the skill of the world h:is at least for once met in one building. Of course the fullest, and grandest display is in our own department. But no description can do justice to the exposition. Tho wonder is how such a gigantic enterprise) can be carried on so smoothly. With but few exceptions the foreigners foreign-ers all adopt our style of dress. Now and then an Egyptian, a Turk or a Chinaman can be seen iu his national na-tional costume. The effect of thu Centennial exhibition on the world's civilization will be immense. What of the next ? It hath not yet entered into the heart of man to conceive of its greatness. J. M. Coyner. |