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Show NEWSPAPERS AT THE CENTENNIAL. CEN-TENNIAL. The special correspondent of tins London fun's gny-H it would he difli-cnlt difli-cnlt to find an aptcr illustration ofthc big way in which tho Americans do thinxi than that furnished hy tl ir "Centennial Newspaper Building," in the exhibition grounds. Here you may soe any one, or, if you lilto, 'all of the 8,J2'J ncwflpipers publinhcd regnlrtrly in the United iMtalfcA, and n'-o them, one and all for n ttliing! You are not only permitted as 11 favnr to sen them, b.il uivip rl, nay, prp-nnd, to confer the fnvor ot entering tbo building and calling for what papor you like. It is about aa cool and agreoable a place quite apurt from its liUTry a'lniclion as a vtmlnr in the exhibition could wish to boollepd n chair in. Ho may at (but wnndor bnw, among 8.IJO0 papors, ninon 1 hem rtitnh mighty nhcoln us tho New Voik llrrnld, hriirt to gi;t at the nmiill, loved print of his home, tliOiHanils ot rnilen away it may he, over thu Uoclc) mountaini. Bui tho nniniig'-inent if ) nun pie that, by consulting Wt catalogue, or even without tho aid o: the catalogue, any ono can at oner find whatever paper ho wants. They ure pi neon hoi ud on shelves in the alphabetical order of their slate or territories and tbeir lowni. tbo nan ten of which are clmrly labeled on the Ahclvea. J hn proprietor of thrt Centennial Cen-tennial newnp:ijur building nro advertising adver-tising agents, tho lari;ct in all AiNOriea Mmim. CJ. I'. ltowe ,v Co., ol New York. Their nnlrDriHK will crnt altogether about ijSL'U.OOO, or J'l.OTO, iiicluiling the building and the expense of "running" it for lix months. The 8,0(J0 and odd American Ameri-can newspapers aro dccliire'l, by the name authority, to exceed "the combined com-bined ifliien of all tlo other nations of the. earth," |