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4  THE PHILADELPHIA EVENING BULLETIN, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 17TH, 1874.

Institute Squibs.

-Immense.
-Overflowing.
-Ten tickets for $3.
-Opens at 10 A. M.
-Over 1500 gas lights.
-Single admission 50 cents.
-The gas is a great deal better.
-Novelties-Gas Bracket Match Safes.
-The "model parlor" is a drawing room.
-The display of stoves, etc., is "grate."
-The heaters, etc., in the stove department are well arranged.
-The "gongs" attract the "belles."
-The avenues have been lettered and numbered.
-The noise of the machinery "annoys" the old folks.
-All these puns are supposed to be "pungent," but they aren't.
-Pickpockets are about in numbers. Leave your valuables at home or with us.
-The letters from the main avenue letter box are collected five times daily.
-Do not to forget to visit the Bulletin Headquarters before you leave the building.
-Green's Ice Cream Soda with fruit syrups near the Market street entrance.
-The patent folding lounge is highly spoken of by an English Baron.
-We offer the name of J. B. Knight, Esq., for Centennial Superintendent.
-Nearly all of the pianos are going at once.  Each playing a different tune.
-Parkinson's Restaurant in the N. E. corner, is reached by the elevator.
-Look at this exhibition and then imagine what the Centennial will be. Whew.
-The U. S. Patent Folding Lounge is really excellent.
-The display of machinery in motion is one of the finest ever held in this country.
-Goodyear's display certainly takes the "rubber".
-The numerous Dyott's patent lamps around the newspaper headquarters, "dye it" in one blaze of light.
-Are the "Stearic" acid statuettes in Bower's display, models of "fat" girls, or ancient "grecian" women?
-Oliver Evan's and Watt's Steam Engines have been placed in Seller's quarters. They attract much attention.
-No wonder it is so warm here in the evenings. They have placed on exhibition a fifteen feet thermometer and it can now get as warm as it wants.
-A rural gentleman vainly tried yesterday for a half-hour to get water out of fire extinguisher.
-All these jokes are written in the "wag-on" department.
-The hands in the machinery department are very proud, on account of having so many "Governors" among them.
-The carpenter's tools do not by any means make a "plane" show.
-The photograph galleries are very "picturesque."
-The elevator is a grand success.
-Send word to all your relations to come to the show.
-Are the Centennial managers all Rip Van Winkles?
-More attention should be paid to ventilation.
-The "Steiner Gas Machine" would show better if it were allowed to light up.
-Mincemeat on a cracker has become a fashionable relish.
-The "Gallic" Acid in the drug department, attracts the attention of young chemists.
-The young ladies think Campbell's, the perfumers, clerks are scent-sible young men.
-The greatest attraction for teachers and directors-Pierce's Patent Folding School Desks.
-A large life boat belonging to the "Life Saving Service" has been placed in the tank.
-The young ladies should bring "clean" handkerchiefs.  There is a cologne fountain.
-Mr. Clarke, one of the door-keepers, is always at his post and is well "posted" in regard to his business.
-Young ladies should leave their "hoofs" at home, and there will be less "bustle" along the aisle.
-The machinists are well "drilled" in their department. They are cleaned shaved, as they have the lathe-r handy.
-A rural young gentleman has fallen in love with the beautiful wax figure. She "wax's" wrothy at his impudence.
-The two large reflectors on the main avenue were furnished by the American Reflector Company, 132 North Fifth St.
-All who have tried the patent coffin recommend it. We have their signatures to prove it. Let this be engraved on your memory.
-A thirsty gentleman gravely remarked the other night on seeing the coffin, near the Thirteenth Street entrance, "Oh, yes!  It is well enough to have the coffin, but where is the "beer."
-If two acres and a-half will not suffice for one-third of Philadelphia's exhibitors, how much will be required for the World in 1876?--An arithmetical conundrum for the Centennial Managers.

-A bashful youth, who takes his meal at one of the bon ton boarding houses "up-town," mistook a plate of cheese, which was passed to him by a young lady, for butter, and taking a slice of no mean proportions on to his plate, commenced a fruitless endeavor to spread a piece of bread.  When informed of his mistake by one of the "boys," who had watched for some time the amusing manoeuvers of his verdant neighbor, his face assumed the color of every other stripe in the American flag, and he stammeringly replied that he thought it "smeared kind o' hard."-Wash. Chron.

-There is one disadvantage in stockings supported by suspenders-they can't be pulled down and turned under at the toes when they get holes in them.

THE PHILADELPHIA EVENING BULLETIN is published every afternoon, and is served upon all Railroads and Steamboat routes running out of Philadelphia; to city subscribers in all sections, by prompt and careful carriers; and by mail to all parts of the country.
THE PHILADELPHIA EVENING BULLETIN is a large, eight-page paper, established in 1847, and devoted to 
THE FAMILY, THE MERCHANT,
THE MANUFACTURER,
and THE PUBLIC GENERALLY.
It presents a daily complete record of all the
IMPORTANT NEWS
of the world, surpassing in this department any other afternoon newspaper in Philadelphia.  Its Editorial Columns are devoted to
INDEPENDENT DISCUSSION,
and its pages are daily supplied with a great variety of the choicest current Literature in all departments of popular interest, so making it
THE BEST VARIETY PAPER,
By its large circulation amongst the most intelligent and substancial [[substantial]] classes of the community, it has long been recognized in business circles as unsurpassed in its advantages, in this city, as a desirable
ADVERTISING MEDIUM.
The newspaper which is read at the FIRESIDE as well as in the COUNTRY HOUSE is the one that serves the best purpose of business men as
AN ADVERTISER,
and it is the aim of the proprietorg of the
EVENING BULLETIN
to make it
Useful to the Public,
Attractive at the Fireside,
Valuable to Business Men
in every branch of industry.
The EVENING BULLETIN devotes large space and attention to careful and accurate
FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL
reports of the leading DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN MARKETS.
For particular information in regard to advertising, address the proprietors.
PEACOCK, FETHERSTON & CO.,
Philadelphia.

RATES FOR ADVERTISING.
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