mers
AT THE FAIR.
A TOUR OF THE AGRICULTURAL
BUILDING.
Most of the States Poorly Represented
in the Agricultural Department
What Foreign Nations Show.
South of the main branch of the lagoon
at the Fair stands the structure known as
the Agricultural Building, A low dome
graced with the gilded statue of Diana,
the Huntress, is its chief architectural
beauty. The statue is the already famous
one from New York. Standing on one
foot in the attitude of a runner, the
loose veil that she carries about her form
is blown by the wind in swelling folds
back of the fleet-footed Huntress. In
this position it proves a lever for the
breeze and the heroic figure is in conse-
quence a most artistic weather-vane, At
each of the four corners of the building
is a dome similar in design to the central
one but much smaller. These domes are
surmounted by a group of statuary sym
bolical of the four seasons, Four maid-
ens stand with their faces to the four
corners of the earth. On their shoulders
they support a small globe rounded by a
baud which bears the signs of the zodiac,
Frequent groups of statuary symbolie of
the building's purpose crown the coruice
in various places along its length. Com-
paratively speaking, no other building
has as large a gallery area as this one. A
man must have a wonderful stomach to
“do” the gallery after the fashion
occupants desire. This gallery is main-
ly occupied by the results for the table
and household produced {rom from the
yield of the farm,
its
Somebody said a man may visit the
gallery and feast sumptuously for noth
ing.
ing samples.
beef teas,
the breakfast table: cake flavored with
this and made from that; horseradish,
peptonized milk, new * in |
cheese, cook books, pancakes made with
cotton seed oil lubricator, root |
beers, canned fruits, preserves, jellies, |
chocolates, teas, coffees, wines, ete., etc. |
And wherever something to eat is offered |
for sampling how ladies old and |
young gather around that spot! It is so |
consummately womanly! |stood by and i
observed one of the crowds. The gusto
with which they sinacked their lips and |
licked their finger tips would have set a |
dyspeptic wild with envy. To
was positively appetizing. 1 might have |
felt like stepping forward to get a taste
myself, but
rush in a game Rugby
moved away feeling that
ion had been sadly neglected,
I must iin disappoint
ment in viewing the ag ultural display
made by the generality of the States.
While they are ali there and have
displays set out in : i
the absolute lack of an) hil )
pleteness is most pronounced I had ex-
pected that State would
enough home pride tomake a showing of
something that would
more than ao A B
with its own products
agricuitaral display that would bed
worthy of the name. [did od it
As | understand the terms, agri
the theory of farming and farming the
practice of agriculture,
when our States put out
Soups, pickles,
ie ry »
designs
as a
he
see them |
never haviog been
{
sO0%%
center. |
Of
44
confess 8 cert
thelr
wav,
each have
betloken
C noe |
I looked for an
ienuaint
not fH:
Hiture is
their hands to
* is shameful to find
pothing more than
bottles of corn, a fow sheaves of rye and
barley, ete. Actually some of them have
nothing but samples of the grain pro. |
duced in the State, Indeed some of them
limit themselves to a
important products
one redeeming feature is the fact that
the Agricultural Department of the
General Government is represented As
with all things done by the Government |
of the United States, thoroughuess is the
characteristic,
France has a grand showing
its detailed
seems to have been forgotten
her display is made with
taste. Does she show a wheat sheaf? |
Beneath it, sunken in the board to which
the sheaf is attached, may be seen, cov:
ered by a glass face, a handful of the]
wheat. There are colored plaster mod
els of many—may I not say all?—of her |
products. Then her agricultural colleges |
have a showing that is simply magnifi
cent,
them
the showing
of the State! The!
~grand in
Nothing |
All of |
utmost
completeness,
ae
text book
umes 1ssued by her agricultural depart
ments—nothing is forgotten, nothing |
omitted,
Russis and Mexico deserve a similar
meed of praise, 1 saw these exhibits
and felt as though I had learned some-
thing. Indeed, I made up my mind to
return and give them a more careful
scrutiny.
seem to have taken the
before the eyes of the world some par-
ticular product of their country. Con
sequently their coffees or their teas have
received all their attention and the rest
of the agricultural products of the coun-
try scarcely appear. Again a disap.
pointment to the visitor, British
Guinea makes a display that for its
completeness is very satistactory, She
shows no end of her sugar products—
from the finest whites to the heaviest and
darkest browns. The crystals of these
sugars are, a3 a rule, very
large. They are notably so io
the medium grades displayed. Then the
cassava's product may be seen. This
lant has several names. [It is known as
razilian arrowroot, but in the United
States it scarcely goes by any other name
save tapioca. Then comes almost end.
less varieties of her fibrous woods. In
one case alone some six or eight speci
mens of these woods are shown, The
long threads they give and the strength
thereof render them particularly useful
in the manufacture of cordage, ham-
mocks and similar objects. A class of
beautifully plumaged birds is on exhibi-
tion. They are simply wonderful in the
variety and the richness of their hues,
are of a species that the label calls
“Colinga.” But more beautiful than
these are the King Humming Birds. The
males are like fire opals. A play of
gleaming rod sod yellow flames makes
resemblance almost perfect. I wan
very much interested in the details of
this display, one object, by reason of its
curiosity, being especially attractive, It
is about the size of an ordinary tomato
and formed as the tomato is, except that
the sections are smaller and consequently
more numerous, It is the seed of the
sand box tree, Hot lead is sometimes
poured into it and ic is used as a psper
weight. During my various visits to the
Fair 1 had seen some of the workmen
using very odd looking capa. Similar
in shape to the affairs usually placed on
the head of a *‘Punch,” they seem to be
in texture nothing but common silk
paper. They are of a dull chocolate
shade, I had often wondered what they
were but did not find out until 1 came
upon this exhibit from British Guinea.
The early flower stalk of the Troolie-
Palm has been given by Mother Nature
such a covering. The natives transfer
these to their heads, Someone had sold
a number of them about the Fair and
this was the origin and nature of the
strange head-gear 1 had seen.
The Cape of Good Hope has a very
cieditable exhibit. Her showing of her
animal products very noteworthy,
Ostrich feathers, mats from the fur of
the springback, the long and silky hair
of the Angora goat, may be seen in
plenty. A number of objects more curi-
ous than anything else have also been
set up. For instance, the rude instru
ments of warfare used by the Zulus,
Those spears called assegnis that have be-
come histerical because they brought
death to one of France's princes of the
royal blood Poor Louis Napoleon!
Poor Eugenie, the mother that has re
mained to weep her darling’s oruel tak-
ing away. I hope she will never look
one of those awful weapons,
In the Annex the Agricultural
Building the inventors have a magnifi.
yer
15
on
¢
Of
COMPATR
tively easy task
to
How differ
Ruth
fined!
are jegion.
from the
in her
schines of this blessed age scarce
behind them. The
alone in history and
(ay days when
kinsman's
i
leave a straw
ners now jive
MOROCCO'S SULTAN.
He Clalms to Be Divine and His Peo-
ple Believe It,
Lord; I am
“I am the Caliph of the ;
ul, the chosen one of the prophet; I am
am a Prince in
- then obey me without murmur,
'
1
ie King of Kiogs: 1
:
!
)
as my camels do.’
1 his
the Sult
ally allowed.
ificent pretension of
it is gener
i to nad =»
the divine
it where as
is t nacat
is tae magrnal
aa of Morocco, and
It is refrest
as no ven een
und ther r to the throne
questioned,
renerous dire
prophet |
I'he 1
monarch partakes ol
Ww hen the
won, at d ¥
i are birov
in a circle
I the mysieno
ttle is fou
who have
it off the
tion
LRLien
field
idiers
SOreiy woul ie
% i
and plac ed ATO
us mon-
in
en
pavilion
i unapproachabie and
iis camp as in bis court, th
. the dread Sultan walks up and
smiling with silent
the
the valleys
ig them,
their
ignorant
pomad horseman from
out until their cries give place
rattle of death, “Allah ibark
Seedna” (“God prolong the days
of our Lord”. And this,
cry of the malefactor as he
death or mutilation, and
words of the disgrace ed wv
for purposes of political necessity he
1st disappear or be effaced, takes the
cup of poisoned tea from the hands of
und
f
of
RLODY | they,
Kabytes
the des.
ton, i8 the
goes toward
these are
Zr who, when
he
ae
:
m
The mantle of the Prophet of Medina
that he wears must, indeed, be broad and
ample, for it is called upon to cover a
multitude of sins: that is, viewed from
cur standpoint, but the Moors believe
that, try as he may, the Sultan can do
no wrong, He is like the saint I saw in
One might
that this saint was drinking an
undue quantity of strong waters, but
the case: at least, it has
the moment the strong waters come in
rson, they lose all their
fiery qualitiesand become innocent mare's
Expert Persian Archers,
Tavernier gives a good account of
the Persian archer who shot from
horseback at full gallop, says James
Payne in the London Illustrated News,
The incident of one of the bowmen de-
clining to shoot before the Shah, upon
the ground that his mission was to trans.
fix the enemies of his country and not a
turf target, was obviously exceptional,
“He drew the arrows, and, taking one
in his mouth, shot it when at full speed
in the Parthian fashion—i. e., backwurd,
into the centre of the butt; then, turn-
ing about, he shot the second arrow ex-
actly into the same spot.” That was
pretty good, but nothing like the skill
of the Emperor Domitian, who placed
boys in the circus at various distances,
with their fingers separated, through
which he shot his arrows without doin;
them the slighest injury, This woul
make a great sensation if practised in
nublic by oven the junior members of
the royal family,
Most of our perfumes come from flowers
or are made in imitation of the scents of
flowers, so attar of roses, by a common
consent, ranks at the head of the list of
umes. Other pre fons from roses,
100, hold a high place sad have long been
esteemed, Iosewater is historic, When
Saladin entered Jerusalem in the twelfth
century, he had the walls of the Mosque
of Omar washed with it. But attar or oil
of roses is by far the most precious and
most prized of all. An Eastern p
NOTES AND COMMENTS,
Tarrr is a man in Shepherdstown, W.
Va., who could be a veritable Brutus, if
the occasion ever arose. He isthe Mayor
of the town, and the other dey ne fined
himself for allowing his cow t¢ run at
large, in violation oi the town's ordin-
ance.
Or every 1,000 clergymen between the
ages of 45 and 65 it is found that only
15.93 die annually. But of every 1,000
fewer than 28.02 die every year, That
alinost double that of clergymen, and
the rate is increasing.
A mint before the English Parlisment
aims, by a somewhat singular method, to
prevent drunkenness, According to its
suness twice within a year shall not be
allowed on the premises on which liquor
is licensed to be sold, A licensed ven
dor who breaks the restriction imposed
in such a case shall be liable to a pen
alty. The bill in question not to
apply to centers of with
more than 20.000 inhabitants,
is
population
Ravexsteis, the noted statistician,
has just published the result ¢f a series
interesting caloulations, which are
the earth cannot nourish
Lhe
At
that
the
peapie present
i y
and according to
will be resched
the day is not very far
no |
180 vears, so that
th can main-
children, un ess
Der
her by that time
made earth and water,
trom alr,
than 100.000
gland has thirty, {serma
France and Ru each
Austria Hn
five, igigm, the M
Op “cities th more
Aiinav:
. Roumania and the Balkan Islnn
Netherland
total
inner
ng
» Of Lhe |
i
KE al
the river to the mel:
and roars on the other bunk
He says that
reves in the
r whites
cents for
hall
slaves were Pp
and a dollar could be split
desired. &
Npamnisah
up in nea
an) wav
charged the higher price in order to,
restrict their patron
It was pearly as easy to get thirty
and one-half ns i
have been to get Lowe nly five con
came in dr
compan ed hy some member
i
AYES
seven Cents
#iAvVen Nes geNerany
a trusted
In the North twenty-five cents
was the usual price, but business was not
80 good as in Dixie.
A queer story comes from Ashland,
lo common with the rest of the
but it has
it was de
one would suffice until
Ho a vote was taken
The town is not very large,
termined that
The poll showed a
for the Methodist
the other six
It is proposed that
other towns in Kansas, especially those
and therefore
same plan, and that the money thus
This
is a practical movement jo the direction
of Christian unity that will hardly be
leasing to the discharged clergymen,
Done strong may be their theoretical
belief in Christian unity.
Ix many ways the United States have
educated the world in politics, and 1, for
one, du not hesitate to say that their
scheme of government is the best that
says London Truth.
we owe more to Americans than for their
having afforded us the great object les
son of a State pursuing the even current
of its way, without that meddling in the
affairs of other States which have been
the bane of European powers. Here we
have a country, rich, powerful, indus.
trial and commercial, yet never troubling
itself with what happens outside its
frontiers, or annexing foreign lands on
the plea of philanthropy, or on the
ground that in some centuries its area
will be too small for ite population, or in
order to create markets for its a.
And what is the result? No one dreams
of attacking the United States or of
picking a quarrel with them. The les.
son to be learnt is that a Stage should
rest satisfied with meting the well.
beiog of her own citizens leave it to
other States to promote the well.
of theirs. Can Ahyone conceive
United States soncxing juagles in
center of Africa in the wild expectation
that the inhabitants of the jungles will
be civilized and then cover their naked-
ness with American cotton goods and
i
| pons?
Tune are, according to the recent
official reports, fiity dereliot
regarded as dangerous to navigation,
| The large number of these abandoned
{ hulks are in the sailing route of the
equator, and the record of their move
{ ments shows that they cross and recross
the track. of them have
| long journeys since they were
| by their crews, who took refuge in some
passing when their own craft
threntened to sink or had become hope.
| lessly unmanageable or waterlogged and
uninhabitable, Some of these travel so
{ near the regular ocean lanes that an al
most unbroken record their wunder
ings is reported and sketched
Atlantic pilot charts, One of
of these well. known ocean wanderers
heard of is the bark Ocean, which orig
inally appeared just north of the south.
ern track of the western bound steamers
tin September. It has been re
ported at periodical invervals and has
gradually drifted south, almost to the
eniling from the equator. The
last reports previous to its recent hailing
which it has
taken a northwesterly course tow ard the
8
Some
vessel
of
i
the
on
since
route
wns in March, since time
it longi
May 30,
have
coul i
Bermudas, and was seen in al
tude 60 and itude 30 on
Some of the ned
valuable ecurgoes of lumber,
ia
nband« vessels
and
they be towed to port would prove rich
booty. One the
fe relicts, whose jour ings
recorded, was the Maine sch
White, which, after being abandoned
off Delaware Bay in March, 1888, after
ten months and ten days, arrived off the
and went
traversed
ried
of most notable of the
ney wer Weil
W. L.
MONET
const of Seotiand
ashore at Stornoway, having
5.000 miles of ocean sud been regu
forty-five times by passing ships
AROUND THE HOUSE,
$
be remoy
of two parts ol
up with on« part
th
| soften them
yd make them clea
nis and borax,
tumblers
+ Intter Llackens
well washed
drying of the
Hing is vi ry eres
rT aamp « othe of any kind vi
kitchen, certainly
UIDs and roaches as ‘
ot her
oth after each
enc
ack
t abominati
well as
thisey
and clean and
first requisite for a whole
itchen sweet
» Wants New Arms
Theodore Lee, the armless newsdealer,
ho went East recently with a vague idea
that he could get arms grafted on to his
stumps has been heard He has
been inquiring among specialists regard
ing his case, and he finds that he may
First, the arms that are
to be grafted on to his stumps must be
taken from a healthful man or woman,
and the hope is held out to Mr. Lee that
he may find some person, condemned to
from.
vel secure arms
adver
£1,000, say, to be given to relatives or
charity, allow an arm to be amputated
for grafting purposes. Mr. Lee has, in
substanee, been informed that the splice
would have to made justabove the eibow
joint,
When Mr. Lee has found a. person who
will submit to the operation they will
which are to be operated upon being
they cannot be moved.
arms, alse cutting through the bone
stump and the part that is grafted on.
The second operation will be the cutting
of the remainder of the inside portion of
| the nerve. This operation, it is propo-
until the surgeons are satisfied that the
circulation through the part of the arm
already grafted on is sufficient to nour.
ish and support the new forearm, —[St.
Paul Pioneer Press,
AA SLL A,
Pathos in a Hospital,
fe lay on a cot in the surgical ward of
the Pennsylvania Hospital, recovering
slowly from a attack of delirium
tremens. He was unconscions.
The sharp © of the ambulance
bell rang, but hedid not hear it. A little
patient was brought in and placed in an
adjoin She
her pit
co or,
on the cot. she
Two days later he could see and hear
AND YARNS IY FUNNY
MEN OF THE PRESS,
———
Avoiding Offense~ What She Could Do
Ready for Business —A Difference,
Ete, Kte
—
AVOIDING OFFENSE,
Jimson-—1 say, old boy, come in and
take pot-luck with me to-day
Billson (who has tried Jimson’s pot
luck before)—Um-—~really, I'd be delight
ed, but——er-—important matter to attend
to.
Jimson--Oh, nousense, Dusiness
duller than a country churchyard
ing going on at all,
Billson--Y es
can wait, of course, but this is
mestic matter, you know,
Jimson Your folks are out
of town, and | know jt
Billson (in desperation Yes,
but my-—er-—mother-in-law
leave until to-day, and 1 want to go to—
the railway station and kiss her
good-by.~ [New York Weekly.
in
-noth
er~-0f course
er a do
i
Let oul
BO
or
BREAKING IT GENTLY.
she said proudly
“ Don’t you think I coul
bread business?’
**My dear.” answered her
v. **if they sold bread
vou d make vour fortune,
Siar
gent by weight
or
READY POR BUS]
Please, mum,
ne wourncy
I ramp
ine on
pred
Huh! On s
np -— 1 6s, mum
¥
* \
NEW
\
Ouse keeper
York Weel iy.
FASTIDION
Wears
fer de by
Walker's
laversup More
i is
{ a 'ristocrat
A
NISNHEE = ¥% hil 8
Pi un
(Got so he won't sleep
a .
: : 5
edd, u
. ”
1 808 LWO falls,
“That's nothing.” pm
i heard
} sees LWo moons
Fil **1 v¢
(reading
” . . - .
ith Duxbury, Mass, has cou
a-cent piece he sw allowed some
Yes, I ve noti ed
that the hoarding of money,
an end,
NAL TS
{ Pittsburg Chroni-
THE BEST OF IT
k
an
Jawyer—When 1 as
iv do vou say eight :
of twenty-eight?
Lady Witness i
the best foot forward,
A COUP D'ETAT.
Walter!
try a
an’ ask de
Weary Walker—8ec
we're desperit, an’ you got
game. Go up to dst house
jady for a drink of ice-cold water,
perhaps you'll git a pie
nere,
ter new
an
wha-wha-whad if she offered me de wa
ter?
Weary Walker Why, den cut an’
run, an’ we'll tink up a new scheme. —
[Judge.
*HEPARTEE IN THE BARNYARD,
The chanticleer announced with joy:
“The day, my dear, doth dawn;"”
And the hen, engaged in hatching eggs,
{e joined in brief: “I'm on.”
dq Puck.
MAKING PREPARATION,
“Smith is very busy getting ready to
attend the fair.”
“What is he doing?”
“Learning to live on one meal a day.”
w= {Chicago later-Ocean
SHOES TO ¥IT.
The funny man's wife was reading an
English almanac and he was smoking
and resting his gigantic intellect on the
back of his chair.
«+f notice bere,” she said, “‘that in the
matter of shoes, temperance people
should wear pumps. Now what sort of
shoes would you say drinking people
should wear?
The gigantic intellect began to roll
over and exert itself,
“Well,” he said, thoughtfully, *I
think they should wear tight ones ™--
[Detroit Free Press,
A DEFENDER OF PURR LANGUAGE.
“Did you enjoy seeing the foreign
tribes at the Fair?"
“Naw. tried to ohin wid t'ree or
four of dem an’ dey can't speak a word
of decent English." [Chicago Record.
RELATIVE IMPORTANCE,
Mr. Skidds—It may seem to Rou an
odd time to ask the question, but before
we start to the theatre I want to know if
you will marry me, Delia.
Delia=1, too, have a question to ask.
_— 0 straight!”
“Is my hat on t
“Yes. Will you mel"
“Yes. |New York .
WE SAVED HINSELY,
She tinctured with
ol woman's
of woman
do not.
She (drawing away from him)--Whaty
He—1 believe woman to be eminently
superior to man. —| New York Press.
DISTANTLY RELATED.
Livingston—-1 didn't know you and
Miss Featherspray were so well se-
quainted.
Nina--Oh, yes; we are distantly re-
lated.
Livingston-
Nina-~
How?
-We are both sisters to the same
young man,~~| Vogue,
ROMARCE ON TRE BOAD,
Tramp—Please, mum, | am told that
most women save a piece of their wed
din’ cake for years,
Mrs, Suburb, I presame that is true,
I have mine.
Tramp— Yes, mum, be
60 Kind as to lend it to nu
hit.
to
vo
put under
m of th’
York
to
'i dre
Murry {=
Would
i
my pillow to-niz
I'm goin’
wes
ew
READING HIE MIND,
that
mind
-1t can hardly be questioned
of
She
ey frp
every
WOImALG Is Ore Or less is
reader
He
minef
Do you think 1 could read
YO
I'd rather not. le
r as to the character of my
Mamma isa litt
rend
Boston
t (xine
THANKS
aid the regular
2 direct i
restaura
pas
riieswade—My,
ia you ever «
slatterniy
that new servar
chose me
My
head i
at Lis
son. is wour
rir] of thoughtfulness and fore
; Son--Foresioght? Well, 1 should
say so! She keeps a piece of chewing -gum
uuder every chair in the house. —{ Puck.
The Barro as a Ploneer.
It is difficult to see what the people of
the Rockies would do without the burre
(Spanish for donkey), “the sad-eyed phil-
vsopher of the West.” He is a great pet
with children, snd seems 10 grow very
3ut he is used prioci-
He boards
that grows
On his patient back the lonely pros.
and f{rying-
behind with
The miner, far up in the
to the smelter, and bring back in return
sugar, coffee, and even water,
lumber and furniture for the mines’s
house,
And finally he brings the rails that are
to connect the mine with civilization by
This is the last. Slowly
and sadly the burro turns his back upon
the work in whose completion he has
been such an important helper, and picks
bis cautious way over the rugged trail
that leads to fresh woods, if not to pas
tures new, — St. Nicholas,
Two Strange Friends,
Not long ago I was passing a barnyard
in this place, snd stood to look over the
gate at a pretty half-grown lamb stand.
ing alone outside the barn. But the
sight of me so enraged a fierce, shaggy
hairy dog tied up to his kennel between
the lamb and me that he barked himself
nearly into fits, showing all his tceth,
aad straining wo furiously at his chain as
to make me quite nervous lest it should
give way. In the meantime 1 struck
such terror into the heart of the lamb
that it fled across the yard to place itsell
under the protection of the sod
stood close by his side, while he
and danced with fury. As I drew a
little nearer, the lamb ed right into
the kennel, and when, after 1 had made
a cirouit in order to watch the further
r of friends