25 cts. Tues., 66 Fri., 00 II 2,468 Fri., Fri., Sat., Mon., Tues., Wed., Th., 18,729 Wed., 20 21 Sat., Tues., Wed., Th., Fri., Wed., 130 29 Mon., Wed., STATEMENT OF DAILY ADMISSIONS TO THE DAILY ADMISSIONS FOR THE MONTH. CENTENNIAL INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION JULY. AT PHILADELPHIA, May 10 to Nov. 10, 1876. Cash Admissions. In the following tables will be found a complete Date. Free. Total. statement of the daily admissions to the Exhi 50 cts, bition, including the admissions to the stock-yard Sat., July 1 26,410 11,419 37,829 enclosure, which was separate from the Centen. Mon., 3 47,786 nial Exhibition grounds. 12,313 60,099 446,290 10,204 56,4941 MAY. Wed., 5 11,001 62,8265 Th., 6 11,522 57,610 Cash Admissions. 33,746 11,053 44,799 8 23,207 10,817 34,024 50 cts, 25 cts. Ιο 19,133 10,526 29,659 20,645 10,513 31,158 Wed., May 10 76,172 76,172 10,311 30,836 Th., 14,722 4,275 18,997 Th., 13 10,066 28,418 12 10,252 12,720 10,254 28,5874 15 16,057 10,027 26,084 15 10,8964 4,952 10,367 28,637 16 7,056 6,057 13,113 10,INI 29,295 19 10,019 28,748 18 JI,054 6,765 17,819 16,631 9,255 25,936 Fri., 19 17,714 9,678 27,392 20 18,1911 7,925 26,116. Sat., 22 16,941 9.795 26,736 Mon., 22 12,402 8,463 20,8705 Mon., 24 20,730 48 10,562 31,340 23 17,552 8,125 25,6771 Tues., 25 21,914 9,595 31,509 24 20,538 9,652 30,199 26 92,870 59 9,986 32,915 25 19,8214 7,335 27,1564 Th., 27 24,7164 9,979 34,8251 26 16,792 7,327 24,119 Fri., 10,057 28,981 Sat., 27 20,0914 7,619 27,710 Sat., 15,949 3 9,942 25,894 29 16,202 7,265 23,467 10,557 25,764 Tues, 301 41,1115 7,542 48,6531 Toral....... 636,278 240 269,929 906,447 8,914 35,163 The weather during July and a part of August was exTotal....... 378,980 124,015 502,995 cessively warm. May 30, Decoration Day. DAILY ADMISSIONS FOR THE MONTH. AUGUST Cash Admissions. Free. Total 50 cts. Cash Admissions. 25 cts. Date. Free. Total, Tues., Aug. 1 50 cts. 25 cts. 22,141 54 9,644 31,839 Wed., 24,246 9,604 33,850 Th., June 1 23,200 7,676 30,876 Th., 3 27,667 273 9,793 37,733 Fri., 26,637 9,167 35,804 4 25,015 9,776 34,791 30,741 32,300 5 Mon., 7 23,376 25 10,511 33,912 6 28,354 38,6251 8 33,519 Wed., 31,673 10,875 9 29,818 120 9,638 39,576 8 31,6346 9,446 44,0801 82 9,243 35,397 11 25,880 35,508 22,240 74 9,849 32,163 12 21,3791 14 9,550 30,929; Mon., 22,656 8 10,216 Tues., 13 24,223 15 9.337 33,560 25,283 63 9,471 34,817 14 29,812 Wed., 9,901 16 28,341 39,713 I10 9,499 37,959 15 31,937! 9,642 41,5791 17 27,031 166 9,269 36,466 Fri., 16 25.903 9,467 35,370 18 35,664 125 35,307 25,902 35,384 54,045 63,649 19 Mon., 28,981 10,418 39,399 27,204 36,535 Tues., 22 9,331 31,825 202 9,672 41,699 23 49,191 Th., 22 39,386, 9,995| 49,2916 Th., 24 55,930 395 10,727 67,052 23 27,693 9,612 37,305 25 32,298 9,813 42,111 26 9,648 97,172 10,458 107,630 45,225 27 20,343 10,223 29 41,310 Ιο 10,142 51,462 28 23,590 11,078 Wed., 30 43,424 183 10,130 53,737 29 27,034) 31 11,957 38,0911 Th., 44,777 1,023 10,342 56,142 Fri., 30 24,5414 11,623 36,164 Total....... 753,953 154,731|266,6301,175,314 Total. 695,666 256,511 952,177 Aug. 19 and 26, half-rate days; Aug. 24, New Jersey Day. DAILY ADMISSIONS FOR THE MONTH. SEPTEMBER. DAILY ADMISSIONS FOR THE MOSTU. NOVEMBER. So cts. 34,182 2 2 Fri., 97,868 20 21 22 Tues., 106,259 July Date. Date. Froc. Total 25 cts. 1,137 12,763 122,475 114,196 128 22 3 81,684 2,210 12,297 96,791 50,209 3,746 10,950 64.905 Sat., 4 3,012 12,91; 91.047 53,395 6,045 10,825 70,265 Mon., 76,632 1,304 12,331 59.336 4,703 10,985 75,044 Tues.) 74,357 1,690! 11,506 67,379 50,604 8,304 11,340 70,248 Wed.," 89,161 1,427 12,539 103,127 9 104,314 12,023 116,337 | Th., 9 170,167 6,757 16,154 193.075 II 40,838 671 11,410 52,919 Fri., 101,901 4,466 15,354 121.223 12 59,089 3.911 11,328 74,328 Total.. 13 72,302 895,794 23,111'118,935 1937,5€ 6,453 11,772 90,727 14 78,977 6,818 12,073 November 7: Presidential election day, November 15 63,813 528 11,506 75,907 Philadelphia Day; November ro, the closing day. * 16 92,080 11,865 103,945 stormy and cold. SUMMARY OF ADMISSIONS, 11,801 104,667 May 10 to Nov. 10, 1876 (inclusive). Cash Adimissions. Month. Free. Total 50 cts. 25 cts. 378,980 124,015 $02,95 26 78,216 2,728 11,812 92,736 June.. 695,666 256,511 Wed." 952,777 27 89,654 3,376 13,229 636,278 240 269,9291 906,447 Th., 28 217,526 39,643 17,750 274,919 August.. Fri., 753,953 154,731 206,6301 1.175,314 29 71,664 3,399 11,821 86,794 September.... 1,581 233 549,7581 308,038 2,439,050 Sat., 30 104,670 11,797 116,467 | October........ 2.308,716 25,814 329,381 2,663,711 Total 11,581,233'549,758 308,698 2,439,689 November.... 895,794 23,111 118,935 1,037.540 Sept. 7. Connecticut Day ; Sept. 14, Massachusetts Day: May 1o, Est. Sept. 21, New York Day ; Sept. 28, Pennsylvania Day; Free Adm.. 110,500 110.500 Sept. 2, 9, 16, 23 and 30, half-rate days. May, Work men, before DAILY ADMISSIONS FOR THE MONTH. 7 A. M........ 71,445 71,445 OCTOBER. June, Work- 50,648 Total.. 7,250,620 753,654 1,806,69219.919,966 Mon., Oct. 2 65,865 2,399 12,621 3 77,536 3,321 12,553 93,415 DAILY AVERAGES FOR EACH MONTH. 4 3,309 12,203 103,089 Th., Cash Admissions. 136 11,886 Free. Total. 50 cts. 25 cts. 72,576 318 12,261 85,155 Mon., 9 104 12,672 71,704 * 6,527 June, 26 days.. 26,756 91,979 9,865 36,622 Wed., 93.449 882 12,664 106,995 July, 26 days.. 24,472 9 10,361 34,863 100,603 12 938 13,881 Aug., 27 days 27,924 115,422 5,730 9,875 53.530 13 80,505 1,421 12,338 94,264 Sept., 26 days 60,816 21,144 11,873 93,834 14 77,321 957 12,593 992 12,068 102,458 16 73,871 786 12,871 87,528 Nov., 9 days.. 99,532 2,567 13,215 115.315 Daily averagel 45,6011 † 4,73) 17 1,526 12,146 105,084 91,412 11,991 Wed., 18 123,080 1,697 14,097 138,874 • Excluding estimated free admissions on May toth. 19 160,115 1,240 15,052 176,407 The above average is for 159 days. Average for 87 94,040 95 13,530 107,665 days when persons were admitted at hall rates . 21 821 12,113 83,042 YESTERDAY the Philadelphia Ledger entered 86,262 24 88,327 193 12,237 100,757 upon its 41st year, and Mr. Childs becomingly 25 106,338 648 12,303 119,289 commemorates the event by printing it in greatly 26 121,818 482 13,361 135,661 enlarged form, on clear white paper, from new 27 94,377 1,186 12,517 108,080 type, with various other improvements. The Sat., 28 Ledger is a great power for good, and a positive Mon., 30 79,683 moral force not only in Philadelphia, but wherever 356 12,540 92,579 31 80,673 else its widely extended influence is felt; this new 94,031 1,194 12,164 Total....... 2,308,7161 25,814 329,381/2,663,911 | ing to the friends of public morality and pure jour. proof of its prosperity, therefore, must be as gratify. nalism as it is to those who contemplate it simply shire pay October 19. Delaware and Maryland Day; tin, March 28, 1876. October 5, Rhode Island Day: October 12, New Hamp as a business success.-New York Daily Bulle. October 26, Ohio Day: October 27. Vermont Day. my back. PROVERBS. Blessings are often not valued till they are IMPROVB opportunities. gone. 111 doers are ill thinkers. Charity begins at home, but should not end there. A crowd is not company. All men can't be masters. Friendship is the most sacred of all moral bonds, Fear is stronger than love. A sweet and innocent compliance is the cement Agree, for the law is costly. of love. Dying is as natural as living. A detractor is his own foe and the world's A long life hath long miseries. Care and diligence bring luck. enemy. Hatred is blind as well as love. He that gives his heart will not deny his Children are poor men's riches. money. Idleness always envies industry, Alms are the golden key that opens the gate of heaven. Heaven is worth the whole world. A great fortune is a great slavery. A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds. A danger foreseen is half avoided. Fore-cast is better than work-hard. He's my friend that speaks well of me behind A good example is the best sermon. An hour of pain is as long as a day of Idle men are dead all their life long. By doing nothing we learn to do ill. pleasure. A good friend is my nearest relation. He that does you a very ill turn will never for give you. A man is not so soon healed as hurt. Do good, if you expect to receive it. How many things hath he to repent of that lives long! A great reputation is a great charge. Emulation is lively and generous, envy base and He doth much that doth a thing well. malicious. Empty vessels give the greatest sound. Ignorance is the mother of impudence. Forget other people's faults by remembering A quiet conscience causes a quiet sleep. your own. A man in passion rides a horse that runs away Every man living hath something to do. with him. Ask thy purse what thou shouldest buy, Health is not valued till sickness comes. A covetous man does nothing that he should do till he dies. Affinity in hcarts is the nearest kindred. He hath a good judgment that relieth not wholly A man is not good or bad for one action. on his own. A gossip speaks ill of all, and all of her. Examples are the best lessons for youth, He that defends an injury is next to him that commits it. A civil denial is better than a rude grant. He that has no charity merits no mercy. A man may say too much even upon the best of subjects. A light purse often makes a heavy heart. He that has no shame has no conscience. Delays increase desires, and sometimes extinGood deeds remain; all things else perish. guish them. Envy and covetousness are never satisfied. He that after sinning mends recommends him self to God. He's a slave that cannot command himself. In the company of silence is safe. Courage, conduct and perseverance conquer all strangers, before them. Change of weather is the discourse of fools. He that is master of himself will soon be masA man's best fortune, or his worst, is a wife. ter of others. A little of everything is nothing in the main. He benefits hinself that doth good to others. If you have no enemies, it is a sign that fortune has forgot you. He teaches me to be good that does me good. If it were not for hopes, the heart would break, A father is a treasure, a brother a comfort, but a friend is both. He that grasps at too much holds nothing fast. He that falls to-day may be up again to-morrow. He that shows a passion tells his enemy where he may hit him. As love thinks no evil, so envy speaks no good. Honest men's words are as good as their bonds. Hunger scarce kills any, but gluttony and drunkenness multitudes. Choose a wife rather by your ear than your Drunkenness turns a man out of himself, and eye. leaves a beast in his place. He is unworthy to live who lives only for him He that thinks his business below him will self. always be above his business. A good cause makes a stout heart and a strong He that can read and meditate need not think All between the cradle and coffin is uncer. the evenings long, or life tcdious. Happiness generally depends more on the opintain. ion we have of things than on the things themGratitude preserves old friendship and procures selves. He hath lived ill that knows not how to die well. Those who desire to see full reports of the Discreet wives have sometimes neither eyes nor doings and exhibits at the Centennial grounds can ears. find them in the Public Ledger, which is, without I know of nobody that has a wish to die this controversy, the best daily paper in the country. year. I say best, because it is conducted with ability, Children are certain cares, but uncertain com- its statements are perfectly reliable, it is neither forts. sectarian, partisan nor sectional, and its moral Anger begins with folly and ends with repent- tone is beyond question.--Correspondent Chris. ance. tian Leader, Ulica, New York. arm. new. GLEANINGS. I HAVE enjoyed the happiness of this world: I have lived and have loved. - Jean Paul F. Azért, The most laborious of all tasks is that of self. THERE IS no condition in the world so mean api examination.-kant. despicable but yields us opportunities of dxg Censure is the tax a man pays to the public good. There is neither old nor young, mad DT for being eminent.---Swift. woman, rich nor poor, high nor low, learned nc The place of charity, like that of God, is unlearned, but in their sphere, by a good used everywhere.--Professor Vinet. those talents God has entrusted to their care, they It would be puzzling to decide what will become may be very beneficial to others, and prose ia of any man if some woman does not take care of struments of much good in their generation. him. We should have fewer disorders of the minds COMMONPLACE minds usually condemn what is we could acquire more power of volition, and a beyond the reach of their understanding.–Roche- deavored by our own energy to disperse the foucauld. clouds which occasionally arise within our own An excellent and wise mother gave the follow. horizon-if we resolutely tore the first threads ing advice with her dying breath: My son, learn the net which gloom and ill-nature buy casi early how to say No! around us, and made an etfort to drive away is The “rough diamond" is to be preferred to the melancholy images of a morbid imagination by glittering paste; but a high polish adds as well incessant occupation. to its worth as to its beauty. If thou wishest to know what thou art, lock at To those who do good in the morning every the monuments of the dead as thou passest alors hour of the day brings pleasure, and for them the road; there thou wilt find the bones and ligit peace and joy spring from every object around. dust of kings, and tyrants, and wise men, a It is an incontrolled truth, says Dean Swift, of those who prided themselves on their blow that no man ever made an ill' figure who under: and riches, on their glorious deeds, and the beauty stood his own talents, nor a good one who mistook of their person; but none of these things couc them. resist the power of time. All men have a coa GREAT men never make a bad use of their mon grave. Looking at these things, thou mayes superiority; they see it, they feel it, and are not understand what thou art. less modest. The more they have, the more they We are made better, nobler, by the society of know their own deficiencies. the good and the noble. Perhaps of ourselves The envious man is like that rich man mentioned unable to think high thoughts, and without the by Quintilian who poisoned the flowers in his bold warmth that dares generously, we catch by garden, so that his neighbor's bees should get no degrees something of the mounting spirit and more honey from them. the ardor proper to the stronger souls with whom A STATISTICIAN has calculated that it would re. we live familiarly, and become the sharers and quire nearly four hundred years to read the titles imitators of virtues to which we could not have of all the books contained in the various libraries given birth. The devoted courage of a leader of Europe, allowing one ininute for each title. turns his followers into heroes; the patient death The desire of power in excess caused the of one martyr inflames in a thousand slumbering angels to fall; the desire of knowledge in excess bosoms a zeal answering to his own.-Pref. Jans caused inan to fall; but in charity there is no Hilson. excess, neither can angels nor man come in danger It is one of the painful consequences of extreme by it. - Bacon. old age, said Chancellor Kent, that it ceases to ex: Prof. Henry Reed most truly observes : cite interest and is apt to be left solitary and We marvel ofien at finding how, under the neglected. The control which the law still gives light of wise criticism, new powers and new to a man over the disposal of his property is one beauties are made visible to our minds in books of the most efficient means which he has, in prv. the most familiar. tracted life, to command the attention due his inCOLERidge remarks that good sense is the firmities. The will of such an aged man ought to body of poetic genius, fancy its drapery, motion be regarded with great tenderness, when it apits life, and imagination the soul that is every: pears not to have been procured by fraudulent where and in each, and forms all into one graceful acts, but contains those very dispositions which and intelligent whole. the circumstances of his situation and the course Every one must see daily instances of people of natural affcctions dictated. who complain from a mere habit of complaining, and make their friends uneasy and strangers merry by murmuring at evils that do not exist, The enlarged and improved Ledger continues and repining at grievances which they do not to "win golden opinions from ail sorts of people." really feel. The New York Times this morning has a kindly FRIENDSHIP, love and piety should be treated word of recognition, and this evening the Illus. in private. We should only speak of them on trated Graphic says : “ The Ledger bas rare and confidential moments, have a silent un achieved deserved reputation in about every derstanding regarding them. There is much in department which makes a newspaper valuable, respect to them that is too tender to be thought and has shown, among other things, that an of, still more to be talked about.-Novalis. American journal can succeed without being In his fascinating story of Monaldi, Washington personal and sensational. Its enlargement in the Allston remarks: The gratuitous kindness of a Centennial year should encourage good New York stranger will often touch us more sensibly for the newspapers to hope that journalistic prosperity moment than the welcome even of a friend, it seems may spread to this city as well, as it certainly to give wider play to our good feelings—to gener. will come to all that deserve it as much as the alize, as it were, our affections, and make us Philadelphia Ledger."-New York Corr. ashamed of all narrow or exclusive likings. spondent. DIPLOMATIC INTERCOURSE, 1876–7. Countries. United States Ministers abroad. App. Foreign Ministers to the United States. App. 1875 Argentine Rep...... Thomas 0. Osborne, III.. 1874 Señor Don RAFAEL GARCIA.. 1869 Austria... E. F. Beale, D. C. ... 1876 COUNT LADISLAS Hoyos....... Belgium.... A. P. Merrill..... 1876 Maurice Delfosse... 1873 Bolivia.. No Representative.. No Representative. Brazil JAMES R. PARTRIDGE, Md. 1872 Councillor A.P.DE CARVALHO BORGES 1871 Central America ... George Williamson, La.... 1873 Vacant. Chili Cornelius A. Logan, Kan.. 1873 Señor Don Ignacio Zenteno. 1876 China GEORGE F. SEWARD... 1876 No Representative. 1876 Costa Rica (See Central America)... SEÑOR DON VICENTE DARDON. 1876 Denmark.. M. J. Cramer.... Mr. J. H. de Hegermann-Lindencrone... 1875 Ecuador..... No Representative. No Representative. 1874 Germany.... J.C. BANCROFT Davis, N.Y. 1874 Mr. Kurd VON SCHOLZER. 1871 Great Britain..... EDWARDS PIERREPONT, N.Y. 1876 SIR EDWARD THORNTON, K. C. B... 1868 Greece.... 7. Meredith Read, N. Y ...... 1873 No Representative. Guatemala. (See Central America)......... SEÑOR DON VICENTE DARDON.... 1872 Hawaiian Islands.. Henry A. Peirce, Mass.. 1869 Mr. E. H. ALLEN................ 1870 Hayti Ebenezer D. Bassett, Pa ...... 1869 MR. STEPHEN PRESTON.......... 1873 Italy George P. Marsh, Vt.. 1861 BARON ALBERT BLANC... 1874 Liberia.. J. Milton Turner, Mo. 1871 No Representative. Mexico.. John W. Foster, Ind. 1873 SEÑOR DON IGNACIO MARISCAL. 1869 Netherlands James Birney 1876 Mr. de Pestel..... 1874 Paraguay (See Uruguay)... Señor Don Jose MACHAIN... 1876 Peru..... RICHARD Gibbs, N. Y 1875 COL. Don MANUEL Freyre.. 1876 Portugal. Benjamin Moran, Pa.. 1874 BARON DE SANT ANNA.... 1874 Russia..... George H. BOKER, Pa.. 1875 MR. NICHOLAS SHISHKIN. 1875 Spain CALEB CUSHING 1874 Sweden..... C. C. Andrews, Minn 1869 Count Carl Lewenhaupt.... |1876 Switzerland. Horace Rublee, Wis, 1869 No Representative. Turkey... Horace Maynard, Tenn 1875 GREGOIRE Aristarchi Bey.. 1873 Uruguay. John C. Caldwell, La.... 1874 No Representative. Venezuela Thomas Russell, Mass.......... 1874 Don Juan B. Dalla Costa.... 1874 Envoys Extraordinary and Ministers Plenipotentiary in SMALL CAPS ; Ministers Resident in Roman; Chargés d'Affaires in Italics. 1875 1874 { Seiros Rios ANTONIO MANTILLA DE CONTENTS. Page! Page American Events for 1876...... 39 Departments of the City Gov. Planets................................... 10 Astronomical Information, etc. 2 ernment 45 Proverbs. 55 Bishops of the Various Chris. Diplomatic Intercourse, 1876- State Governments in 1877..... 49 tian Denominations in the 1877...... 57 Statement of Daily Admissions United States.................. 36, 37 Easter Day.... 12. to the Centennial Interna. Calendar for 1876.... 1 Eclipses in 1877. 6 tional Exhibition at PhilaCalendar for January... 2 Elections in 1877 9 delphia..... ..53, 54 Calendar for February. 4 Fixed and Movable Feasts, Supreme Court of PennsylvaCalendar for March..... 6 Fasts, etc., 1877...... 4 nia.. 43 Calendar for April................. 8 Foreign Consuls at Philadel. Supreme Court of the United Calendar for May......... ... JO phia States ... 40 Calendar for June.................. 12 Gleanings. 56 Territories 49 Calendar for July...... 14 Gov't of Pennsylvania, 1877.... 43 The Centennial International Calendar for August............... 16 Hebrew Calendar for 1877...... 8 Exhibition of 1876...........50-54 Calendar for September.......... 18 Pennsylvania Legislature, 1877 The City of Homes .......3, 5, 7, 9 Calendar for October..... 1878 14 Calendar for November.......... 22 Philadelphia Chronology for United States Officers in Phil. Calendar for December.... 24 1875-76, 11, 13, 15, 17, 19, 21, 23 adelphia.. Churches and Religious Ser- Philadelphia City Govern- United States Government..... 40 vices in Philadelphia........25-36 ment... 44-48 United States House of RepCourt of Commissioners of the Philadelphia Necrology for resentatives..... 41 Alabama Claims 56 1875-76..... 38 United States Senate............ 41 48 20 48 |
