AT THE FAIR.
EXHIBITS MADE BY THE NATION.
AL GOVERNMENT.
Remarkable Displays Made by the
Various Departments - Big Trees ol
California ~Colonial Relies.
Certainly the Government hos done
what it could to make the World's Colum
bian Exposition a success. The »sppro-
priation of the souvenir coins wis ao
item of consideration mude to those who
munage the Fair. But the exhibit made
by each department of the General
Government 1s for the people. It isa
magnificent display, Money was no ob
ject in its preparation. A very large
building and a war ship model built in
Lake Michigan on the same measure-
ments as the war ship lilinois, a smaller
structure erected to display the hospital
service of the army, a system of electric
buoys just off shore, the presence of one
of the coast life-saving crews, giving
daily exhibitions of their work constitute
the general compass of the wonderful
exhibit. As soon as a person enters the
Government Building he is at once at
tracted to the Central Court. This court
is octagonal in shape. Its covering is a
magnificent dome 150 ft. high. The dee
orations of this court are beautiful. The
double columns at each side of each of
the four entrances to the court arein imi
tation of rare murbile. he « apitals fare
Corinthian and nre gilded. Fach
these eight f irt is orna
ol
of
sides the co
ment is readily obtained. Then this
depurtment presents a model of the
“Pony Express,” and by its side a later
day “‘special delivery” boy on a bicycle
and dressed in the regulation uniform.
Another life size model is near, an Es.
quimaux, with his sled and dog team,
carrying the mail in the snowy desert of
the distant north, ‘The Government has
secured mode's of the mail carriers;
methods of sorting the mails, ete., ete,
from nearly ali the nations of the World.
I presume there is not a similar exhibit
to be seen in any museum in the world.
But one case in the postal depart
ment inevitably catches and holds
the crowd. It Is a collec
tion of some of the curios that are an-
chored in the Dead Letter Office and
were never claimed. A person who
stands before this case has many strango
thoughts. It is a place where a poet
might muse and a wit be in paradise,
Think of a human ear being sent through
the mail, or a skull, doll babies, relics of
hair, mourning cards, whole cakes, axes,
cartridges, boxes of candv, ete. ete. A
shirt cuff that was left by some traveler
who failed to pay his bill has been writ-
ten on and rhymed on, and sent after the
absconder. But he never got it; I
wonder if some of the people who mailed
some of the objects in that case have as
vet seen and recognized what they have
inst and never knew whence it had gouef
There are sad things, too—obiects that
meant ever so much to some poor heart
Verily, it is a strange col.
i From here | went to the ex-
hibit made by the Coast Geodetic
or another.
sure
made
in
ave
that
Our ped
of some of the urts
special progress amoung
the centre this court or
stands a unique object
interest to mes
the Sequoia Natural Park and is a
ff Ca
mastodons of the
kingdom are among some
marvels, not yet mementoes
known period. The rude h
was fast destioyi them until the
ernment took them under its protectio
preferring to leave them the fat
kindly nature should decree,
found only in small un
tain. Their foliage closely resembles the |
cedar and the wood when green
heavy
the ground will, when first cut, sink in
water. But
ynle
ol rotunu:
proves 1
everyone,
of one of the big trees «
These
of
of
ind of
fo
roves on the mo
is quite!
:
once seasoned it
fine polish. The tree from which
cut the part standing in the Government |
building was about 26 feet in diameter, |
81 or 82 feet in circumference and ful
300 feet high. This was not
because it was a large
rather because of i ty.
near it were hig wider
Y onnaiad 4
t
was |
selected |
one, but!
Others
The |
fi separate
verv
section exhibited co ts of 4
pieces, It had
could be transpo
cars to bring it
hauled from 11s
before it
eleven
i ially Digit trucks by
each. It had to be
miles before
winding
section up which ¥
pass
Within the rotunda a dis
that would admit of many a letter. In
cases sel at ond h of the eight
court the Board of Lady Managers ma
an exhibition of Colonial relics
is p sitively fascinating to anvone
with the least bit of Kone
drawn some
Hollowed,
stair mounts to the
shipping
p of the
imitors are silowad to
i
SIMAY IS
SI @s ¢
wloen of
edge of
Ww
country's history (Ine case is devoted
to a of Washington relics
Such articles as his sword, |
sion from Congress signed by J«
collection
His commis
ho Han
cock, various diaries, ete. may be
last named artic es is
hand of Washington
traced the last words his pen ever wro
The second last item is dated Dee
It tells of **a circle around TO
and potes that it ‘started to snow at ten
Dec. 13th. Then tell
of the snow
morning—the
comes those
geen One of the
opened where ti
te
she mn
o'clock.”
contingance
during tae visit of a
friend. Then Inst words:
“Mercury 28 degrees at night.” Verily
it was growing colder.
ita stopping
In another case I happened upon a lnck
of his hair which liad been given by Mrs
Washington to Mrs. Asheton Bayard in
December, 1790
head of the dead man on the 14th day of
that eventful December. The scarf
had bound up his wound at the battle of
Brandywine; a white silk vest
Antoinette, assisted ty Madame Genet,
a Lady of the Bedchamber; a drum that
had been beaten at Bunker Hill; a gun,
the property of a8 negro named John
Salem, who carried itat Lexington, Con-
over in the Mayflower-these were a few
among huadreds of other objects equally
interesting. I had to hasten, Then
were a thousand other things to be scee
and | went to the Treasury Department
Its history may be read in the display
it makes of the various issues of coins
and paper money. The collection of
coins. however, is by far the most unique
rt of all it shows, Bome of these are
rom the dim long ago. One dainty bit
not quite as large as a grain of corn iss
counterpart of the little piece of money
that has become famous because Our
Lord commended the genuine charity of
her who gave it,
The Widow's Mite is prominently
placed and the sight-seer cannot
miss it. Some coins shown are from
the days of Seleveus I. He was
Byrin's first king and lived from 354 to
281 B. C. Iodeed, these coins are a
chronological history that reaches from
such an early period to the latest bright
bits the mints are turning out to-day.
A splendid and very interesting dis
lay is made by the Postal Department,
fe began with an old mail coach. This
particular conch hus a history. It once
carried the mail in Montana, from Helena
to Bozeman. This was in 1869. Then it
made the trip but once a week. Now,
in these times, that same mail route is
covered foar times a day: the coach had
the honor of carrying such distinguished
ple as President Garfield and Presi
dent Arthur in 1888, and General Sher.
man in 1877. In contrast to the old
mail coach is the model of a modern
railway postal ear. The model is open,
One of the
| here is a relief map of
Alaska made on a
It is conse q ently a
globe to view which the
d to mount a platform about 10 feet
In this relief the Rocky Moun
tains are no higher than the thickness of
moet interesting objects
visitor
the pencil with which I write
ction with the exhibit i
lustrating the distribut
When
» is shown
magnetism, Colin
the Atlantic
| puzzled at
sed
ie,
the odd variations of the
own that 8 mariner at sea may
just at what point his needle will be due
it varies eastward,
westward, This is n
display by a large globe
bands of buff and blue moving in
bya red
rth, where where
elucidated ir
the
urves and separated
These
are 2
shows those parts of the earth where the
acted to vary west
The blue parts indicate an east.
Where strange
these
nas unequal in si
on ns
w ard
variation the
powers pr wl ic ing effects meet,
and
The red
places and are knows
tne piace in eastern
ap it in which the need!
Why or
the ns
wv »
’ Li a
ry Seem
neutralize
po nts directly north, ii
iicate these
lines
wd
westward
an tell?
i ni
in oval
wherelo
i thus produce flashing effects
are stendy and so large that at a
ffi t elevation may be
would
oh
which
ie can be intenmfied
or rather system
ting substance is 1 ed.
un by a
{thers
they
It
seen
seen
AWAY astonish
never an obiect
power to
is sar
prisms so arranged
parallel
ens, 1 us
he light, aston
vel 8 common
y the Hospital
the en tivation of d “4 r
m ng carried on. Quite a numl
ars labeled, des ribed and classified
at'andant 1s ready and
ili the necessary explanati Lu
Indeed. this is one of the
exhibit —the
snd their
Herein
reine 18 Hed
iz to
od
willis
ne one
| wish
| ures Government
its employees
lHingness explain all connected
| with whatever they have in charge.
| The exhibit made by the War Depart-
ment is particularly interesting. The
| process of the manufacture of firearms as
well as the making of cartridges are illus
of the
| even temper of
to
{ used in actual operation. Models of the
| various uniforms of the past and of to-
day are displayed on life-size figures,
| The methods pursued by the army en.
| gineering corps are beautifully illustrated
by means of the most perfect models,
In one cornerof this
| department a display of Greely's Exp.
The moment selected
{ relief mapa, ete
| dition is made
| that of Lieut.
| the farthest north, Greely is welcoming
about, Upon a hill the fort is seen, the
{ to those that have just returned,
very realistic representation,
But I could go on forever describing
the splendid showing made by the Gov.
ernment.
sonian Institute, and the National
museam. It is worthy of the nation,
The agricultural department makes a dis»
play worthy of the name,
exhibit on the battle ship Illinois has an
educational value that to be appreciated
must be seen, The Life Saving Station,
the United States Weather Bureau, can
only be mentioned. Indeed, it would be
a happy thing if this exhibit alone could
remain intact, It certainly is a museum
of instruction as to the care with which
all matters connected with the Govern
ment are regulated. Uncle Sam has
done himself proud at the World's
Columbian Exposition,
Will a Tree Live Forever?
What do you think of the idea ad-
vanced by some prominent botanist that
a tree, providing it meets with no accel.
dent, will live forever? De Candolle, an
eminent French authority, says: *“Trees
are not subject to death, and, darting
snocidents and ravages of insects, wil
continue to live on indefinitely.” Gray,
the noted botanist, also indorses the
theory that, inasmuch as trees an.
nually renew their youth, they are virtu-
ally immoral, His exact language is as
follows: “The old central part of the
trunk may decay, but this is of little
moment 80 long as new layers are regu.
larly formed at the circumference, he
tree survives, and it would be difficult
fot science to show that it is liable to
death from old age in fay Proper sense
public.
of the term, —{8¢, Louis
ARTEMUS WARD,
Some New Stories About the Genial
Humorist,
In the beautiful Little Elmvale Ceme-
tery which lies at the foot of Bear Moun-
tain, in Waterford, Me., is the grave of
Artemus Ward, and this inscription is
chiseled upon the plain marble slab
which covers his remains;
REST, LOVED ONE, REST.
Charles F. Browne,
Known to the world as
“Artemus Ward.”
DIED
in Southampton, Eng.,
March 6, 1867,
Aged 33 years,
His memory will live as n sweet
And unfailing affection.
The gentle humorist little
when he signed the quaint pen name,
Artemus Ward, to his show papers in the
Cleveland Plain
Still less did he anticipate that it would
be written in the hearts of a nation. Both
time recent enough for many of us to re-
member. A gentleman living
Detroit—Mr. P. R. Spencer—recalls
much pleasure his first meeting with the
humorist
“I was traveling,
slo ping car at
sixties, when sleeping cars
from end to end, | saw,
an old woman with wu night cap on sit
ting up in one bur’ his,
to be Artemus Ward with a handkes
I conld onl
RULING nose
pale red hair. He w
to the conductor in ntl
official
now in
and going into a
Pittsbure, carly
were
i supposed,
in the
open
nx
of the it nroved
chief tied round his head
wisps of
hin, wh
nud that was convul
ber as a
made everybods
Inughter Ward was ns s
himself,
TORY
ir
bul he
spencer then
** Artemus Ward and
{ leve
Jack Ryder, of
land —it was when Ward was writ
them having anv idea
and siapp
for dinner o
the wom
if
Sunday, neith roof
where they were going
Artemus asked
vers respectiully
chickens
* What's the
ens I have plenty of them,’
Woman
* But an old chicken isn g
We want old My fries
both like
Then
matter with young chi
with her. whil
s, but getting tired of
He found him in
on, helping
Apron
temus Ward, His Show,” ma
in the Plain Dealer, and
were people all through the country who
believed he
fe its
advent there
showman, and Lis a
He had it
peculiar to his genius
“3 moral a kangaroo ("twould
make you larf yourself to deth to see the
leetle jump up and squeel), wax
figgers of Genl. Washington, Capt. Kidd,
Genl. Taylor, Dr. Webster, and other
WAR wn
veritable show,
in this way,
entinerai ag
bares,
Css
The wit of Artemus Ward was never
caustic. It is said of him that he never
knowingly wounded a living soul. The
dry, sober way in which he gave utter.
ance to his epigrams was provocative of
amusement, but they never held a sting.
Of the Mormons, then in the plenitude
“Their religion is singular, but their
wives are plural.”
On Lis return from a lecturing tour:
“] eame back with my virtue unim
clothes
He said he had bought a farm. [It was
a long way to draw hay to the railroad
when a boy he could draw so well that
the old ladies.
His droll use of the classics convulsed
his hearers,
“1f Cicero were alive” then as if the
idea had just occurred to him—*'but he
is not: he has gone from ugee.”
In speaking of a western town that
was mostly composed of gin shops, he
sald :
“ People go there on account of the
ox y gin in the place.”
He never smiled himself. There was,
say those who remember him, a look of
gentle good humor, of genial surprise in
his face, as if he wondered at the ovations
he received,
His bill posters were objects of {ater
est then; they would be regarded with
veneration mow. They were always
rinted with a heading of letters such as
v4 used to cut with their knives on the
deslcs of a country sohool house,
“Artemus Ward, Traveling Showman
from Baldinsville,” then he made his
announcements. His lectures were illus.
trated with rade pictures which he
explained in his droll way to uproarious
audiences,
He was asked 80 frequently how he
pronounced the first name of his patro.
nymile, whether on the first two letters, or
with the socent on the “to. that he
the dispute, which he did in his own
ambiguous style:
“Don't bother me with your etas and
short es,
Nor ask me for more than you have op
my card,
O spare me from etymologieal sorties,
And simply accept me as Artemus
Ward.”
«| Detroit Free Press.
POPULAR sCIENCE NOTES,
Sey Reaisrenise Ray GAvoe, -—
The Weather Department is sending
out from Washington a self-registering
rain gauge. Itis acylinder of iron three
inches diameter and two feet high,
This eylinder is placed upon the roof of
a house. The top of the eylinder is open,
{ As the rain falls a float lying in the cyl
tinder is raised and the amount of the
{ rainfall is registered by an cogwheel, This
wheel by a wire witha
register in the weather observer's office
The observer merely has to look at his
register ut any time to determime the
amount of the rainfall
in
is connected
Hear,
ienses
COXCESTHATING THE Sun's
Evervbody knows that con of
glass have a wonderful power of concen
and vet few ©
mous amount o
vex
B
trating the sun's ravs,
LH ip te
heat that is being constantly
Hight g 8 $1)
arker, an English o
ve
y consid
emitted by
the great SOI8r system
P inn, once con
structed » ler
the powers of
id melt a
tiiree
in qiameler,
which were so great that it
wt solid cube of
“ECO y turned tig
it re {ra t
pint
« & basis wi
may
un few
nections Ly
1{ cast iron
8
, Ang even Lin
{for the earth
h wuich it
bein
t b a
MmbGed
t it } Clear
into space
pL) LH IH) worlds
1 ONd and y
insiiine 10 each
could be |
hr
Sol’ teach receive as
juare mile of
io GRY.
ex
AOD BS WE fn ov lt
wis Hepublic
Muir .I8 Waren. ~The re
i cal experiments recently
in which a bar
parently meited by insert
of
ave isturaliy sti
Wd gins or
H
sheet lead
instance
acidalated
ery short time as hi
Fal t has
ka hich is proved DY using a care
nstead of
ments
gh an
venke een Ge
& mets ne, when in
anorpl carbon {rag
n Gropping off The
xis to hb attained with
the enormous high tem
14,000 degrees Fahrenhei?,
ve 1 hotter than molien
he Brat stion for the pra
utilization of the discove was for
welding purposes, to which it is evidently
mriiouinrly adapted. Another applica
in
nye
i
pos
SU
re
rs
+ tend toward 1s the tempering of one
«ge or one extremity only of steel cut.
ting tools
surface of large pieces of metal, such as
armor plates, offers another inviting
field. Krupp, it is stated, already
trying this new method of electric heat
ing for tempering the superficial surface
| of large guns, — [Boston Transcript.
is
The Lizard's Breakfast,
| Professor Herrmann, the
| “Whizzard."”
| renson why the young man was nervous,
{ Not at all. The young man was just
getting over an attack of the night be.
{ fore, and he was in a condition to be
easily startled. When the magician sat
| down he called out:
“Waiter, a fly."
“All right, sir,” said the waiter, as if
| requests for the common house fly were
the most natural thing in the world.
Then it was that the young man's eyes
bulged vervously. After considerable
exercise of both leg and fist agility the
waiter caught a fly and brought it very
{omefully to Professor Herrmann. The
optics of the nervous young man literally
glared with expectation, oR tor fly
on the table the Professor, in a most ten
der manner, lifted a delicate little green
lizard from the lapel of his coat, corraled
itin front of the fly with a tiny stake of
gold, and then you should have seen
that lizard jump, The fly disappeared
as quickly as a bit of Herrmann palm
istry and the eyes of the lizard blinked.
The young man’s face had in the interim
assumed an expression almost human,
Land Professor Herrmann ordered his own
breakfast. [New York Recorder,
WA SS SAR
Named After Presidents,
Every American President has had
from threo to thirty-two towns named for
him. There are thirty cities and towns
named after Alexander Hamilton, thirty
Clintons, twenty-four Websters, twenty
Benross, thirteen Calhouns, seven Clays,
nineteen Quincys, twenty-one Douglases,
snd twenty Biaines.
BS
Wash rusty giit frames with spints of
FOR THE YOUNG FOLKS,
BOBOLIXK.,
Bobolink
He is here!
Spink a-chink
Hark! how clear
Drops the note
From his throat
Where he sways
On the sprays
Of the wheat
In the heat!
Bobolink,
spink-a-chink!
Bobolink
Is a beau
See him priok!
Watch him go
Through the air
To his fair!
Hear him sing
On the wing
Bing his best
(er the nest
“Bobolink,
spink-a-chink”
Bobolink,
i er long!
There's a kink
In your song
Like the joy
Of a boy a
Left
grecn
telegraph mess
hat baseb
#®% ¥ 1
Nay go to scl
lav
wer
i resent an
EATNINgsS
1% 10 becom
size is between that of 8 commen
I'he
sen w fed ana
UCK and 8 Zoos r nests
of fine
ie nade
ossces. intetriaced
with twigs and matte
la
i: i
ae §
i logetaer
nr laid AT
¥ pa ks them about with
with her bil
Thus
1
these Desis Lhe eous
ird carefull
the down which 1 she placks
from her breast they retain their
warmth if
to leave them. The for which
these birds are famed is taken from their
breasts, It is soft, light and gray
Gown
of
each season from their nests
The eggs of the elder duck are of a
he easily tamed, and the
loon is
proached by man. —{Detrvit Free Press
FINN, THE GIANT.
In the days of old there dwelt near
Fion, who had his dwelling under.
ground. At that time St. Lawrence had
come to Lund from Saxony, and was
the neighborhood. Every hill on which
the sun of heaven shone was his pulpit,
for he had no churoh,
lnok of a church,
“Surely vour white Christ is worthy
of a holy temple,” said be. “I will
build Him one oan condition that when
it is done you will either tell me my
name, of get me for playthings for my
little daughter the two bright torches
that roam in the plains of the sky.”
“Thou heathen fool!” replied St. Law.
rence. ‘The sun and the moon have
been placed above to light the nh of
both the wise and the foolish, and there
they must remain,”
“Well answered,” rejoined the giant.
“It would be pretty dark here in Scania
without them, I suppose. I'll give up
the sun and the moon, and take in their
stead the sparkling balls of your eyes.”
“If the holy church be but built”
said St. Lawrence, you shall have them,
Gladly will I sacrifice my eyes in such a
cause, God's truth can be preached as
well by the blind as by those who
have the blessing of sight.”
So the giant went to work. He oar.
ried a mountsin to the spot, crushed it
to make building materials, ard bid the
walls rise. All the time he exuited over
the impossibility of his name being
known, and the certainty =f soon givin
his little daughter playthivgs that wou
ease her so well, .
: with its rows of
ed up grandly
tr” ma a URRY
on its foundation. Already Finn sat on
the roof singing a triumphant song when
Nt, Lawrence passed by in sorrowful
mood, to gaze for the last time at she
setting sun, He was engaged in earnest
prayer. when suddenly a wondrous voice,
coming he knew not whence, fell upon
iiis enr, These were the words it was
singing:
“sleep, little Silvy, daughter dear,
sleep!
Finn, thy own
thee Keep.
father, doth watch o'er
from the heights Finn will come
bome to thee,
And the present he'll bring thou wilt
like well to see.”
Jaawrence
NL, joyfully to the
ran
“Finn! Finn! Come down!
wanting to compiete
Fionn!
still
ir work, and the Lord has mercifully
eserved my eves,’
slone is
y my name, Finn,” quoth tae giant,
} not so
shall be a
shall
chiurch
all time, and shall
without or within
destroy this
slong
lofty pinna-
oted in the
the walls
¢ strength
tito stone.
diy em
rs (ot.
r off
g off
i hot air,
requireq
'
DIrOCesSses,
After
613 ected
St, Whi h
| with rock salt in which
is introd
iiphurized salt lick for st
ipped to the great
St. Louis Re-
of sqiphur
WOK,
2 x Ix 3
cpsively sh
ie TRLGCS
African Lungfish.
he
The African lungfish grows very rap-
great vitality, aad, although
fasting long, is exceedingly voracious,
devouring snails, earthworms, as well as
small fish, besides killing and eating each
other, so that it 1s difficult to keep many
together. They are most active at night,
keeping mostly in the shallow water,
when they move deliberately about in
the bottom, alternately uring the peculiar
limbs of either side, though their move.
ments are not regular. Gray has com-
pared these movements with those of a
Triton, and several other observers have
The powerful tail forms
sl
WIV, Las
idly throuzh the water, It is well known
that Protopteras come to the surface
breathe at short intervals, and
is evident that the lungs per.
form an important, if not the chief part
The air passes out again
movements of the opercajum itself indi-
cate the fact that the bronchial as well as
pilmonary respiration takes place,
[New York Independent.
A Famous Promontory’s Name.
a ———
The name of Gay Head, applied to
a famous promontory of the Massachu-
setts const, means exactly what it seems
to mean, and is peculiarly appropriate.
The headline, as seen from the sea, is
gay with many colors running in strata,
the result of chemical qualities in the
esrth of the cliff. A like variety of
color is presented by many rocky ¥
and headlands in the Sound opposite
Pelham Bay Park. [New York Sun.
AAA I SN A
Don’t Tease Children,
a
The positive delight which some other-
wise wy good people take in teasing
children is surprising. *‘l would sooner
disc © a nurse for this fanlt than for
sny other,” said a wise mother, “and
when 1 find a friend who thinks it an
amusing matter to tease tay child I re.
rove him as veadily as | would a child
or the same offense. have known
dispositions to be utterly ruined tirou
his silly practice.”—(New York
*