its  environs  turnout  "by  a  large  majority  ”  on 
these  occasions  and,  much  to  the  disgnst  of  the 
refreshment  purveyors,  take  the  precaution  to 
fetch  along,  in  baskets,  a  bountiful  lunch.  One 
of  the  most  amusing  sights  is  to  stroll  about  the 
grounds  and  see  these  al  fresco  parties  arguing 
with  sandwich  and  beer,  and  totally  oblivious  of 
everything  but  their  owii  present  enjoyment. 
On  the  border  of  the  lake  bes  a  model  In  bronze 
of  the  hand  that  is  to  adorn  the  stulueof  Liberty 
to  be  erected  in  New  York  harbor.  Home  idea  of 
its  size  may  be  derived  from  the  fact  that  I  saw 
t  wo  of  these  dieap  parties  taking  their  luncheon 
inside  the  wrist  and  fingers  of  this 
BSfev  stupendous  hand.  When  the  statue 
is  in  place,  it  will  be  no  longer  nec- 
Hjpk  ^  cssarj*  for  sea  captains,  when  in 
want  of  a  forcible  anathema,  to 
confine  themselves  to  the  beard  of 
old  Neptune,  as  they  can  with  equal 
telling  effect  swear  by  the  Land  of 
the  Statue  of  Lil>erty. 
The  trial  of  Uie  steam  fire-engines 
during  the  week  has  attracted  a 
'  great  many  who  are  interested  in 
the  subject,  as  well  as  hosts  of 
idlers.  Some  fire  comp-anies  came 
from  the  interior  to  sec  how  the 
machines  worked. 
There  was  a  quantity  of  water 
wasted  and  a  largo  amount  of  coal, 
smoko  and  nastiness  scattorod  about. 
The  trial  concluded,  the  owners  of 
the  engines  are  watching  each  other 
witli  sly,  mysterious  airs  and  waiting 
nervously  for  the  Jurors'  report. 
Now  that  the  reports  have  all  been 
sent  in  and  it  is  daily  expected  that 
the  Commission  will  publish  the 
awards,  Uiere  is  IntcnBO  excitement 
among  exhibitors.  In  some  groups 
feeling  nmsveiyhigh,  and  the  most 
serious  charges  are  bandied  about 
implicating  Jury,  CommisBion,  ex¬ 
hibitors,  correspondents,  and  any 
one  who  can  possibly  come  within 
the  circle  of  the  iufiuencc  of  the  op¬ 
posing  interests.  Thoi'o  will  bo  some  exciting 
reading  in  newspapers  as  soon  ns  these  little 
differences  are  adjusted  in  public. 
Foreigners,  as  a  inxle,  do  not  take  Idndly  to  the 
country,  and  not  a  few  amusing  jokes  have  been 
circulated  at  tbeir  expense.  It  is  said  that  one 
of  our  British  cousins  finds  the  trunk  check  sys¬ 
tem  very  hazardous  because,  as  be  said : 
"When  you  deliver  your  luggage,  y’  know, 
you  got  a  bit  tif  brass ;  but  if  you  lose  the  bit  of 
brass,  you  lose  yer  luggage,  y’  know.  Blarsted 
country!" 
Affaii’s  in  Agricultural  Hall  are  very  quiet  at 
present,  the  main  attraction  being  Iho  stock 
jTirds,  which  you  have  a  special  correspondent 
reporting,  and  I  will  not  encroach  on  space. 
YoUNO  llCRAI,. 
spaniel.  Some  of  the  Scotch  terriers  are  perfect 
beauties,  but  then  they  are  all  imjmrted,  except 
the  pups  of  one  little  lady,  whiob  were  dropped 
here  a  few  hours  after  her  amval.  In  grey¬ 
hounds  I  only  saw  one  worthy  of  uotioo.  Ho  is 
a  promising  pup,  ton  mouths  old,  of  the  admired 
blue  color,  and  with  a  head  and  nock  beautiful 
as  a  girl’s.  Amenca  exhibits  one  charming  canine, 
a  Chesapeake  Buy  ducker.  He  looks  to  be  water 
and  weatbiu"  jiroof,  and  is  both  ititolligent  and 
comely.  There  are  tliroc  English  bulldogs  here 
wliich,  in  charm  of  coimtenancc,  are  only  to  bo 
'  compared  to  the  famous  dog  of  Bill  Sykes.  They 
horse.  He  is  named  Emperor,  and  is  said  to 
have  been  bred,  or,  at  least,  owned  by  the  Em¬ 
peror  Napoleon  IH. 
The  matched  pairs  of  carriage  horses  shown 
are  of  moderate  eicellenoe ;  as  on  the  specimens 
of  the  American  trotter,  none  of  the  cracks  of 
the  trotting  turf  ha^ung  been  sent  out  to  grace 
the  Centennial  show.  The  French  horses  are 
all  exhibited  by  American  owners,  and  do  not.  as 
a  class,  siieak  much  for  the  good  Judgment  of  the 
men  who  selected  them.  The  mare,  Rosa  Bon- 
heur  is  far  away — ^the  best  of  the  lot.  There  is 
one  thing  I  cannot  understand,  it  is  why  any 
CENTENNIAL  CORRESPONDENCE 
WE8TMIN8TBK  IIOTBi-,  Philadelphia,  Sept.  7. 
When  in  the  year  18C9  I  first  saw  American 
horses,  they  struck  me  as  being  coarse  and  weedy, 
since  then,  from  the  frequent  and  continued 
importation  of  cloan-brod  foreign  stock,  a  great 
improvement  has  been  effected,  still  there  is  a 
vast  field  open  for  further  enteriirise,  which,  if 
only  properly  ilircelod,  cannot  fail  to 
be  of  both  national  and  individual 
profit.  The  American  horse-breeder, 
in  the  aggregate,  is  wonderfully 
prone  to  commit  grievous  errors  in 
After  one  hundred  years  of  exist- 
cnee  Uiero  is  not,  as  yet,  such  an  aui- 
mal  as  a  pm'o-bred  American  horse. 
The  American  race-horse  is  the  An-  ^ 
glo-Ai'abiau — neither  more  nor  less.  x 
The  American  trotter  is  rajiidly  pro¬ 
gressing  to  bo  a  clean-bred  horse; 
but  his  nobility  of  blood  comes  from 
the  Anglo-Aiabian,  The  American 
cart  horse  is  a  mongiel  for  excel¬ 
lence  ;  he  Is  a  horse,  but  of  wbat 
family,  race  or  geneology,  no  one 
cares  to  keep  a  record.  To  keep 
breeds  pure  should  bo  the  aim  of 
oveiy  brooder.  Half-bred  animals, 
as  indiridualB,  are  frequently  of 
high  value  j  but  half-bred  or  cross¬ 
bred  stallious  are  a  di'awback  to  the 
race.  They  cannot  he  depended  upon 
to  reuroduee  their  own  good  quali¬ 
ties,  It  is  otlierw’iso  with  mares, 
lialf-brcd  and  cross-bred  dams  being 
frequently  of  great  value  and  pro¬ 
ducing  aulmals  of  rare  excelleuce 
when  the  sire  has  been  a  clean- 
bred  horse.  Colts  bx’ed  at  hap-baz- 
ard  are  a  bad  investment  of  time 
aud  money,  as  unrnbers  of  the  horses 
on  cxliibiUott  here  to-day  testify  in  inferiority 
of  action  aud  ap]xearancG. 
The  oliieial  catalogue  gives  the  entries  as  1520 
in  number,  all  of  which  ai'o  exhibited  by  Ameri¬ 
can  or  Ciniadlan  owners.  First  on  the  publishetl 
list  is  the  name  of  Princely  Loajniugion,  now’ 
twenty-three  years  old  and  the  sire  of  almost 
oountless  wmnei’s.  It  is  truly  pati’iotic  of  his 
owner,  Aristides  Welch,  Esq.,  of  Chestnut 
Hill,  to  exhibit  him,  ns  the  reputation  of  the 
horse  could  not  be  improved  by  any  reward  given 
by  any  Judge,  The  sire  of  Longfellow  and  of 
Miss  Alice,  of  Lyttleton  audLynohbm’g,  can  well 
afford  to  rest  on  his  fame. 
To  attempt  to  describe  this  noble  animal  would 
simply  be  to  portray  just  what  a  race -horse 
should  bo.  Leamington  is  a  well-pnt-together 
machine,  endowed  with  groat  beauty,  rare  intel¬ 
ligence  and  uufiinchiug  courage,  and  Hie  worthy 
progenitor  of  a  worthy  race.  His  sou,  Lyttleton. 
stands  near  him,  ns  game  a  little  horse  as  ever 
looked  through  a  bridle.  Mr,  Welch  also  exhib¬ 
its  Lida,  the  dam  of  Conqueror ;  Maiden,  the 
dam  of  Parole,  and  Maggie  B.  B.  These  throe 
mares  have  foals  at  foot  by  Leamington.  The 
entire  lot  speak  well  for  the  stable  economy  of 
Chestnut  Hill  farm. 
Col.  Jenifer,  of  Virginia,  exhibits  The  Jenifer 
Arabian,  a  lovely  typo  of  the  desert  horse.  He 
is  gray,  almost  white,  with  a  head  aud  neck  fit 
for  model — a  straight,  short  back,  and  clean 
sinewy  legs ,  like  steel.  This  horse  is  from  the 
Sahara,  and  has  all  of  the  elastioity  of  action  pe¬ 
culiar  to  his  race.  There  is  no  fear  that  he  will 
ever  need  any  of  those  hideous  ti-appings  worn 
by  low-bred  horses  to  shield  them  from  the  ill 
effects  of  natural  malformation.  Col.  Jenifer  is 
moat  sanguine  in  his  hopes  of  the  success  of  the 
dessert  blood  as  a  moss.  He  looks  back  to  the 
days  of  the  Godolphiu  Barb  or  Arab,  as  he  may 
have  been  of  his  ootemporaiy,  the  Dorley  Ara¬ 
bian,  and  more  reoeutly  to  the  success  as  sires  of 
the  Byerly  Turk  and  of  otlior  eastern  horses  im¬ 
ported  into  the  British  Isles.  It  is  not  too  much  to 
say  that  the  descendants  of  these  same  animals 
are  the  most  magnificent  horses  in  the  world  and 
will,  probably,  never  be  surpassed.  There  are 
already  throe  foals  of  the  Tenifer  Arabian  on  ex¬ 
hibition,  one  of  them  is  out  of  the  cleau-bred, 
imported  Peroheron  mare  Rosa  Bonheur.  His  is 
of  groat  proniise. 
Among  other  thorough-breds  is  Terror,  an  an¬ 
imal  whose  good  qualities  are  dual.  He  is  pretty 
and  fast.  Hharpcatcher,  an  Anglo-Arabian,  bred 
in  Canada,  is  a  useful  stallion  to  get  cai-riage 
or  saddle  hoi’ses.  Close  to  his  box  is  that  of 
Queen  of  the  Dominion,  a  bay  mare,  neat  and 
compact  and  full  of  fii’e.  Young  Peacock,  a 
Cleveland  bay  and  a  beauty,  is  certain  to  get 
stylish  carriage  horses,  if  bred  to  mares  of  his 
own  family ;  but  1  have  small  need  of  approval 
for  half-bred  Cleveland  bays.  Another  stallion, 
a  dapple  brown,  misoalled  a  Cleveland  bay,  is  a 
handsome  animal,  with  more  of  the  cut  of  a 
charger  or  hunter  about  him  than  of  a  carriage 
CENTURY  BLOSSOMS 
The  Jaquard  Loom  in  Machinery  Hall  is  a 
wonderful  piece  of  mechanism. 
Foreigners  marvel  at  our  ice-boats,  and  it  is 
said  that  Russians  think  of  trying  our  models. 
In  tlie  carriage  annex  Is  a  narrow  gauge  rail¬ 
road  ear  made  for  Dom  Pedro.  Its  fittings  are 
luxm-ious. 
The  Main  Building,  after  the  close  of  the  Ex¬ 
position,  it  is  reported.  otU  bo  moved  to  Chicago, 
to  be  used  thei’c  as  a  grand  union  railroad  depot. 
The  life-raft  afloat  on  the  lake  looks  like  two 
enormous  sausages  tied  together.  It  is  very 
buoyant,  and  is  a  useful  apparatus  for  saving 
life. 
The  north  third  of  the  Main  Building  is  occu¬ 
pied  mainly  by  domestic  paper  aud  musliu  ex¬ 
hibits.  It  will  be  a  saving  of  time  to  skip  that 
part  of  the  Fair. 
A  PATENT  roiving  contrivance  consists  in  hav¬ 
ing  the  oars  so  cut  and  braced  that  the  rower 
can  sit  with  his  face  in  the  direction  the  boat 
moves,  while  the  oai-s  make  the  usual  stroke.  It 
is  a  capital  thiug  for  duck  hunting. 
The  woods  of  Japan,  of  which  there  appeared 
to  be  about  a  hundred  sorts,  are  conveniently 
and  tastefully  arranged,  each  specimen  being  a 
short  plank,  a  portion  showing  the  natural  tex¬ 
ture,  and  another  part  varnished,  with  a  shorter 
slab  attached  \vith  the  bark,  aud  a  dried  aud 
pressed  specimen  of  the  leaves  and  growth 
added. 
Two  car-loads  of  fruit  from  the  State  Grange 
of  Oahfornia  have  arrived  at  the  Exhibition  and 
ai’e  now  being  unpacked  in  the  Pomological 
Building,  east  of  Agricultural  Hall.  A  quantity 
of  fruit  from  Nebraska  has  also  just  arrived. 
The  consignments  include  apples,  pears,  peaches, 
quinces,  apricots,  gauges,  plums,  nectarines  and 
grapes  They  are  in  excellent  condition,  and 
will  form  a  featrae  in  the  display  opening  this 
week,  which  will  be  the  finest  ever  made  in  the 
United  States. 
Everx  one  should  see  the  ueoklaoe  purchased 
Philadelphia,  Sept.  8,  1876. 
Now  is  the  time  to  go  to  the  Fair,  and  the 
traveling  community  are  fully  alive  to  the  fact. 
The  ti’ains  come  into  the  depot  with  the  fre¬ 
quency  of  street  cai’s,  and  the  crowds  that  flock 
into  tJie  groimds  remind  one  of  a  visitation 
of  grasshoppers.  This  is  delightful  from  the 
tradesman’s  aud  tavern-keeper’s  point  of  view. 
The  prospect  of  gather¬ 
ing  shekels  is  once  more 
^ _  bright,  and  the  india-rub- 
her  capacity  of  the  "ma- 
^  mouth"  hotels  is  being 
that  has  swept  the  entire 
row  of  edifices  facing  the 
main  building  leaves  a  hi- 
atus  that  is  more  pleasing 
to  the  sm’viviug  landlord 
(See  First  Page.)  than  words  can  express. 
I  regret  to  say  that  in  almost  every  instance  the 
lahmaels  who  conti’ol  the  boarding-houses  have 
raised  their  prices  with  their  prospects,  and  all 
the  high,  moral  talk  about  the  innocent  stranger 
being  cared  for  as  cheaply  aud  as  well  as  if  under 
his  own  vine  and  fig  tree  is  pni’e  delusion. 
The  cheapening  of  the  price  of  admission  one 
day  in  the  week  (Saturday)  has  had  a  stimulating 
effect  on  the  loc^  attendance.  Philadelphia  and 
Cocoon  of  Ceceopia  Silk- Worm  Moth.- 
head  erect  and  anifling  the  breezes  of  his  native 
island  home,  with  a  stiff  country  aud  game  fox 
before  him,  woe  to  men  and  horses  if  they  would 
follow  and  are  not  good  and  true— the  riders 
pledged  to  their  snaffles  to  never  alight,  the 
horses  able  for  flood  and  field.  The  show  of 
spaniels  is  very  large  and  contains  in  its  ranks 
one  good  brace  of  red,  Irish  setters.  Among 
the  retrievers  the  best  is  a  curly,  red,  Irish  water 
