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(Louisiana) Company furnish 800 arc lights in the Main Building. Collectively^ 

 this electric system is the largest ever in operation. 



Among the myriads of objects of interest, one which attracted my attention 

 and excited my interest, was a white bronze statue, about fifteen feet high, of a 

 private soldier on his post, musket in hand, intended for either street, park, or 

 cemetery purposes. It is admirably done, both in conception and execution, and 

 I should like to see it placed on one of our principal crossings — say at the junc- 

 tion of Main and Delaware streets, at Ninth. It would be an appropriate thing 

 for our citizens and the Grand Army to do, and it can be done for not exceeding 

 $2,000. 



Among the things for which Missouri may claim credit, is the time ball;, 

 constructed and put in operation by Professor H. S. Pritchett of Washington 

 University, St. Louis. Every day at 10 A. M. this ball is dropped from the 

 principal tower of the Main Building, the closing of the circuit being made by the 

 standard clock at the observatory of Washington University, 700 miles away, to 

 the exact fractian of a second in correctness. All the clocks in the building are 

 kept uniform by the same signal. 



Two of the States, viz., Florida and New Hampshire, present topographical 

 models of their surfaces and shapes on a very large scale — perhaps fifteen by 

 thirty feet — so that most of their physical features can be readily seen at a glance, 

 while all of the States have most complete collections of their peculiar natural 

 and artificial productions, artistically displayed. 



The ethnological displays made by the Geological Bureau are most interest- 

 ing, and include, as stated in the last issue of the Review, products of aboriginal 

 art, both ancient and modern, such as textile fabrics, pottery, implements of war, 

 and the chase, and other curious objects connected with their religious ceremo- 

 nies and festivities. The models of the Cliff-dwellings and of the pueblos of pre- 

 historic and existing tribes from New Mexico, Colorado, and Arizona, are 

 intensely interesting, and are constructed on a scale large enough to give a very 

 fair idea of their architecture and other details. The Mound-builders, also, are 

 fully represented by series of their implements, tools, ornaments, and other 

 works, as well as by models of some of the most noted mounds and earth-works 

 in the country. In fact, the $300,000 appropriated by Congress to enable the 

 various departments of the Government to make fitting and useful exhibits at this 

 Exposition, seem to have been most judiciously expended, and no one can fail to 

 be gratified and satisfied with them, no matter in what subject illustrated he may 

 be most interested. 



Next month (February) doubtless everything will be in perfect order, so that 

 then will be the most favorable time to come here, and the weather will probably 

 be more propitious, for at present overcoat and fan are alternately and equally 

 in demand. C. 



