OO TEA RUSSIA AT THE FARR. THE CZAR'S EMPIRE MAKES A GORGEOUS DISPLAY. Arts and Industries Shown in a Char- acteristic Pavilion-——The Russian Fur Exhibit Alone Insured for \ One Million Dollars — Beautiful Products of Siberian Mines. No foreign po%er makes a larger, more waluable or more interesting display in Jack- son Parl than the Empire of Russia. This was done at the particular request of the Czar, to express his gratitude to the entire republic "of America for its generous help during the late famine that earned for the snow-white country the name of ‘Starving Russia.” In that great and inexhaustible building the liberal arts, a large and imposing space Is occupied by the Russian exhibit. The pavilion in which this great display of Rus- slan arts and industries is housed, writes Catherine Cole in the New Orleans Picayune, Is made of dark, carved wood, wrought into those peculiar ornate arches and cornices that even the most casual observer recog- nizes directly as being characteristic of Rus- sian churches and Russian palaces. How- ever, only the initiated know that this gor- geous pavilion, with its richly stained glass windows in the vestibule, is a reproduction on a small scale of the facade of the palace tn which the august Peter the Great first opened his eyes to the light of the Russian sun. Entering this section through the cross- esorner opening under the high arched grand tower that surmountsthe pavilion, one pauses ja a moment to note two superb windows lustrating by figures of richly clad men and women, Russian life of the aristocratic circles. Beyond this small vestibule is a sort of ter- gace with a double flight of easy steps lead- Ing to the main floor, on which, in cases, stands and shelves and against the walls, the greasures of fur, enamel, bronze, papier mache and marbles and carvings are housed. This terrace itself is a fine display, for about it, here and there, are set enormous , vases and pedestals of lovely red porphyry. At the further end is a superb cabinet nicely decorated, of that papier mache work for which Russian artists are so famous. The Siberian mines yield malachite and jade, and lapis lazuli and rhedonite and por- phyry, each rare and precious, and quarried with infinite suffering by the exiles. were several vases, one of lapis lazuli, one of malachite, which came from the winter pal- ace of the Czar. These are valued at $4000 each, and are copies of two of finer fabric, also owned by the Czar, and worth $10,000 @®ach. The lapis lazuli is a very dark, rich blue stone mottled in blue. Here | The darker the" with gol. It has a ball cover of jade, very ¢hin, with a gold miter for a handle. A set of salt cellers were of thin lapis lazuli, mala- chite, rhodonite, a lovely pink, veined like agate with black moss, and also cne of por- phyry. These were cut into thin shells, and had sandles of twisted gold set on the edge with emeralds. Thus it is that luxury reigns supreme in the land of the Czar. A little shallow pin tray of jade hasdmandles of solid gold, and is worth £300. Among the church decorations is a virgin and child finely painted and set in a gold frame; the virgin is completely robed in pearls. This small ornament is worth sev- eral thousand dollars, and its duplicate is owned by Mrs. Potter Palmer. It is said the Russian fur exhibit is insured for £1,000,000. It includes the rarest furs known. and among the wonderful fur robes, the attendant displays with pride a cloak lining of silver fox that is marked $6000. Only one other like it has been made, and that was for the Empress. The fur rugs are trimmed with borders of eider duck breasts, and, in fact, some are made of the duck breasts entirely. There are several such in the Exposition ;a particularly fine one in the Norway fishing exhibit has had a great hole worn in it by the curious hands of visitors, who persist in touching it. The peasants take the scraps of fur of all sorts and colors, and make of it a curious ‘crazy quilt” sleigh robe. These are ex- tremely odd, very valuable and rather pretty. In the fur section is also a collection of chairs made of horns and seats of skins. These ugly things are greatly prized in Russia, and are to be found in almost every home. In the dark corners of this section are ar- ranged household goods, utensils and a set of dolls in all the National costumes. A little room is finished up with rugs, divans and low tables of Russian lacquer, of which we had so much at our own World's Fair. Moving about among these things were the black-bearded, white-faced native Cossacks, some wearing their long, full-skirted coats and around their waists narrow chains of enameled gold. In the bronzes, that are finest in the world, except the Japanese, the sculptor ranking always among the great artists, are the same designs of gaunt, beaten, starving horses, of big bears, of peasants at their domestic avo- cations, that are familiar wherever Russian bronzes are. One of the best pieces repre- sents a woman going to market in a cart, carrying geese. The horses are crossing a marsh, and here and there are still pools of shining and muddy water. It is all of bronze and is particularly effective. These bronzes tell the peasant life of Russia. water man driving an ox cart and carrying water in the skin of a big ox that retains its original shape. Here are women at work in the fleld, but always there will be a half- starved dumb beast, the lash in use, poverty everywhere, To the lovers of Tolstoi the thing Russsian of cheapest value is a huge dome-decorated carved oak bookease, holding copies of his works, and decorated with paint panels il- lustrating the grand old crank at work at his desk in his garden, with children and among Fleeces Na RR GAG i | [Ceccecd iti i] Ceeccdleccecelecececl gg ANA ins 7 v a a £ ' 8 en | i PCC blles chee | PPE oh (GE INTERNATIONAL SUNDAY-SCHOOL BUILDING. e the finer the stone. The finest piece of is lazuli in the world is a globe surmount- ing the grand high altar in the Church of Paolo in Vincoli, in Rome. It rests on a estal of gold and was given by a Russian . Malachite is a bright green. It it mottled with green curiously so that it looks if one had taken a hammer and shattered it These two famous vases have handles of gold and each vase is a trifle more than four feet high. i In a tall glass case, so clearly cut and deftly made it looked like a block of crystal, are a £>w pieces of jade and other precious stones belonging to the Czar. The jade isin two pieces. One is a punch bowl of a very large size and so clearly and thinly cut as to be almost transparent. This is the largest fece of jade ever cut and is valued at £8000. Fre other jade bowl is cut in scroll edges and is more ornate, while less imposing. A Beaniiml little shell vase with gold handles out out of a single piece of white topaz. It #8 white as milk and yet clear as water. From she department of the ministry at St. Peters- burg eomes three cabinets made of vermillion mood, a lovely fabric, and covered with a mosaic of hard stones, forming pictures of the most delicate vines, flowers, birds and trees imaginable. Their long, graceful ten- drils of bloom, as fine as the finest ferns, that wander over an exquisite surface of turquoise blue it is difficult to believe can have been done in stones. The entire fronts of these cabinets are made of this famous mosaic, and one of them to make took 14,591 working days. Each cabinet has a value of $40,000, and they are chief features of this imperial exhibit of treasures belonging tothe Russian throne and which exhibit was se- lected by the ‘little father” himself. The wvermillion wood in which these cabinets are mounted is a sort of finer and harder and pinker mahogany wood. In a case against one wall of this pavilion is hung just in long ibreadths, lengths of those famous and most gorgeous brocades that are woven nowhere ‘else in the world as they are in Russia, and which are so exceedingly valuable that only the Empress can wear them. These are used for court trains, for religious vestments and sometimes for draperies. They are stiff enough to stand alone, and are woven the same on both sides. One piece is valued at $500 an inch! The value of these brocades lies in the fact that they are the same on both sides, and that very wide, heavy gold and silver threads are used. All over the Fair one may see vases, furni- ture, jewelry, in fact, articles of all sorts marked sold. Sometimes one piece will have a dozen cards on it, showing that it is to be reproduced that many times. The pitcher and teapot and cup und saucer collections are revelling in this opportunity to buy specimens from almost every country under the sun. There are lovely things in the Rus- sian exhibit—little chocolate-brown cups. covered with gold half-moons ; plates painted to imitate cardboard embroideries, in crude blues and reds ; in fact, nearly all the pot- tery decorations imitate the designs of Rus- sian embroideries and brocades. The silversmith is a great artist in Russia, and here are cases of the most gorgeous sil- ver and enamel work. Recently the Rus- gians revived the almost lost art of enamel- ing on silver.and so great is the skill required that the smallest after-dinner coffee spoon and the simplest made is worth atleast $6. The process is to etch the spoon or article with the required design and then pour over it, so that it will run only in thelittle grooves made by the etcher’s knife, the melted enamel. If any runs over the edge, as it were, of the pattern, the piece is spoiled be- yond use. In these cases freighted with gold and sil- ver were tiny pieces of fabulous value, one a gold enameled card case, the enamel put on 80 transparent as to show the the gold be- low, was valued at $1000. A beautiful com- his peasants. These are painted by a woman of note, and the carving was the work of a great artist. The bookcase is to belong te Tolstoi when the Fair is over. We had looked at the Samoans, had en- vied the unknown owners of the enamel and silver, had priced a gold punch bowl, and found it was to be had for $5000, and just as ya were coming out we were drawn into the dainty Circassian nut wood pavilion con- taining the exhibit of the Imperial State Paper Manufactory. This exhibit was made at the request of the Czar. It shows all the various materials used in papermaking, such as hemp, ramie, cellucose, flax and cotton fibre. Here are cases of drawings by Rubens, colored photographs and copies in copper and iron electrotypes of busts. helmets and shields belonging to the Government. It is a large and curious exposition of the arts of printing, and the work will give one a little object lesson in all the phases of papermak- ing and decorating. THE KITCHEN GARDEN. “The kitchen garden” upstairs in cne cor- ner ot the Children’s Building is a place where forty little girls put on white pinafores and play at housekeeping every day to as many people as can look in. Only ideas grow in this garden. Low tables occupy the center of the room, and little beds, complete in all details, are put upon them. At the signal the little girls leave their chairs and go through the performance of bedmaking, two toa bed. They turn and punch the mat- tresses, They spread the sheets with the hem the right way. 'I'hey put on the blank- ets and the spreads. They ‘tuck in” the covers so that the lines are straight and not a wrinkle can be seen. Then they put on the pillow-slips and arrange the shams. Out of confusion these little maids create a bed that is restful to look upon. Sweeping and scrub- bing and even washing of doll clothes in small tubs tollow. The children think it is great fun, and so do the visitors who go to sec them. Yet it is educational in a direc- tion a good deal neglected these latter days. Down stairs in the Children’s Building is a gymnasium. More little girls from Turner societies swing Indian clubs, put up dumb- bells, climb poles and vault horses. When there isn't a dozen visitors in the acres of space devoted to the school and college of exhibits in Liberal Arts Building you will findgpeople standing on tip-toe, stretching their necks and worrying one another with their elbows in the efforts to see the daily periormances at the Children’s Building. I# is the life of the Fair that draws. THE UTAH GIRLS. _a the Art Hall of the Woman’s Building hangs a collection of photographs of remark- ably pretty Utah girls—all Mormons. It is much marveled at. But the interest the photographs excite is nothing to the rush to see the real live Mormon girls in another part of the same building. Utah, to the as- tonishment of some people who thought they were well informed, has been making silk for thirty years. And Mormon girls have come to the World’s Fair to show how it is done. One of them feeds mulberry leaves to hun- dreds of worms on a large tray. Another reels upon spools the silk from the cocoons. Two others manage a hand loom, and vis- itors see the silk woven while they wait. This Utah silk looks well. That it will wear is shown by the exhihit of shaws made by Mormon women twenty years ago. The first silk dress produced in Utah and worn by the favorite wife of Brigham Young, more than thirty years ago, is shown. People look once at the silk making and several times at the Mormon girls before they pass on. ——— ER —eeeeeen Tae Algerian village and theater are in the hands of the Sheriff. The seizure was made on a suit by the Exposition te collect $6130, said to be due as a percentage from munion cup is of jade. bound all around | the concession. LATE TELEGRAPHIC JOTTINGS ec 80TH FROM HOME AND ABROAD. Ser What is Going On the World Over. Important Events Briefly Chronicled. —-———— Cnpital. Labor and Induatrial. The United States Glass Company's fac tory at Toledo, O., has shut down. Four hundred chair-pushers at the World’s fair have struck for an increase in wages. The striking miners at Bedford, Mo.,have given up the fight after having lost some £16,000 besides their employment. Kansas labor agitators were responsible. A circular notice was received hy every officer and employe of the Carngeie Steel Company, Limited, at Pittsburg, Pa., ex- cepting those working under wage scales, that the following reductions in salaries has been ordered to go into effect September 1, Exceeding $500 per month, 3) per cent; $40) and less than $500 per month, 25 per cent.; $200 and less than $400 per month, 20 per cent.; $70 and less than $200 per month, 15 per cent.; less than $60 per month, 10 per cent.; This notice, which was signed by H. C. Frick, chairman, by order of the board of managers, goes on to state that this action has been deferred as long as pos- sible in the hope that some improvenient in the existing trade depression might oc- car, ‘‘but as the situation is daily becoming worse, this reduction is found absolutely necessary.” The effect of this order is very wide reaching, making as it does re- ductions in all salaries from that of the chairman himself down to the watchman and other low salaried men who are paid a stated sum per month, James M. Hill, President of the Great Northern Railway, said in an interview at New York, that the reductions in salaries and wages announced on the railroad went into effect on the 5th inst. They are pot the result, he said, of the present financial and business troubles, but had been arrang- ed long ago according to a long contemp’at- ed plan. The reductions would average about $175,000 a month in the summer, and from $60,000 to $70,000 a month in winter, making a total saving of about $1,250,000 a year. Tne miners’ strike in the Southeastern Kansas district has been declared cif. The men accepted a proposition by which it 1s agreed that the new schedule of wages shall exactly equal the old. This proposition was made to the strikers at .the outset but was declined. The Buckhannon River Lumber Com- pany, on the West Virginia and Pittsburg railroad, have cut wages 15 per cent. Other operators along thisroad are expected to take similar action. West Superior, Wis., street car employes wouldn't accept a 20 per cent cut and the lines are tied up. At Philadelphia nearly 300 men employed in the boiler shops of the Baldwin Locomo- tive Works went on a strike because of reduction of wages, Tr ig Fires Matchwood, a little town of 200 inhabi- tants on the Duluth, South Shore & Atlan- tic railway, twenty five miles south of Ontonagon, Mich., was almost entirely wiped out by fire. The people saved little, being compelled to fly for their lives. The Coatsworth grain elevator in Buffalo, N. Y,, capacity 1,20)000 bushels. was de- stroyed by fire at a loss of $790,000. Two firemen were injured. ———p Cholera Advices New York—The health of the passengers detained in quarantine continues to be good. There are no new cases, Roxe—Ten fresh cascs of cholera and six deaths were reported in Naples. In Sulmona, province of Aquila, there were two deaths from cholera, but no new cases. Several cases of cholera developed in Co n- pobasso, a small city 55 miles from Na- ples. Viexsa—Seven fresh cases of cholera and 11 deaths were r-ported today in Nadworna, a town of 6,000 inhabitants in Austrian Galicia St. PETERSBURG—Official returns indicate a further increase of cholera. The epidemic is especially severe in Moscow, where 166 new cases and 97 deaths from the disease were reported from August 8 to August 12. Financial and Commercinl. The Backbone of the currency famine in Eastern cities appears to be almost broken. The First National bank, of Rico, Col, which suspended payment in June, on Thursday reopened its doors for business, The First National Bank, of Dubuque, Ia., has suspended. At Leadville, Col,,'the American National Bank, which closed July 1, opened its doors for business. pal HLA Washington Newa, The Commissioner of Pensions has de- sided to accede to the request of newspapers correspondents to publish in the daily bulletin the postoffice addresses of those to whom pension certificates are issued. Sec- retary Hoke Smith has under consideratidn {he advisability of the publication of the names of applicants for pensions, ——— Disnsiers: Accidents and Fatalities Fhe boiler of the Wellington roller mills at Lexington, Mo., exploded, instantly kill- ing Engineer Richard Johnson, aged 35 years, and a boy named Frank Albin. ein The Weather. A great drouth is prevailing inJNew Jer- sey, New York and Long Island. BEYOND OUR BORDERS. Queen Victoria is enjoying the best of nealth. She took a short cruise on the royal yacht Tuesday. French and Italian workmen fought in Aigues-Mortes, department of Card, France. The fight began in the street at noon and was carried on intermittently for nearly two hours. Ten men were Killed and 26 wounded severely, eee eerie mimi Quarantine Against Florida Raisea. At Montgomery, Ala., Governor Jones srdered the board of health to raise the guarantine against Florida, all danger being , vast, i LATER NEWS WAIFS, FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL. The People’s National Bank, of Winston, N, C., capital $100,0.0, has suspended. Lerzars, La., was surprised bv the sus- pension of all the banks in the city. were the First National and Lemars Nu- tional, with a capital of $100,000 each, and and the Lemars State and German Savings Banks. Notices were posted on the doors that the suspensions are due to inability to realize on assets, but that all depositors will be paid. The First National Bank of Anthony, Kan., which suspended payment in July was permitted to reopen its doors to busi- ness. The Waxahachie National bank of Waxa- hachie, Tex., which suspended payment August 11, was permitted to resume busi- ness. PursLo, CoL.—Bank Examiner J. Sam Bro wn has given permission to the Central National Bank, which suspended July 15. to resume business. The American and Western national banks, which suspended the same day, have received permission from Comptroller Eckels to resume and are rapidly complying with the conditions re- quired. i CAPITAL AND LABOR. The strike of the coal miners in Southern Kansas is over, the men agreeing to eccept 50 cents a ton for mine run and 5 , cents premium when there is more than 50 per cent lump in the ton. The men have re- sumed work. The Pittsburg and Lake Angeline mine, near Ishpeming, Mich., will work two-thirds time only, but will endeavor to retain allof the 600 employed. - * The rolling mills of the Springfield, Til, Iron Company, which have been idle several weeks on account of the depression of the iron trade have resumed work. President Thomas, of the Nashville, Chat- tanooga and St. Louis Railroad, announced that the first of September the road would be forced to make a cut in wages to the ex- tent of 10 per cent on all 1eceiving less than £300 per month and 20 per cent for those receiving over that amount. The secretary of Irondale rolling mill signed the scale of the Amalgamated Asso- ciation and 160 men resumed work. The American strawboard works, with 125 men and the American file works, with 225 men. have resumed. The Keystone Watch Case Manufacturing Company of Philadeiphia has shut down until September 1, throwing 1,750 employes out of work. le DISASTERS, ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES. A freight locomotive on the Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern Railroad exploded while drawing a train near Rockabil, O., Ingineer Basim, Fireman Roberts and Brakeman Quinn were instantly killed. A TRAIN FALLS THROUGH A Bridge, Killing Seven Persons. The Engincer Acis Too Late to Save Them, An accident occurred at the County Line trestle, just east of Milton, Va,, on Thurs- day morning, by which two passenger coaches and a s'eeper were precipitated 60 feetinto the creek below, killing seven per- outright and wounding a number of others. The killed are: H. Morris, conductor, Portsmouth, Va.; W.K. Eruisox, Alton, Va., J. G. Davis, a farmer of Baskerville, Va; W. R. EraM, Durham. N. GC; Jams 8S, LowE. a railroad conductor from the West, who was a passenger.; THoMAs LER, colored, Winston. N. C.: Francis JENKINS, colored, Salem, N. C. Tue wounded are: Mrs. Harvey Giersch, of Salem, N. C., J. L. Sizer. Richmond, Va; J. R. Townes, colored and Davis Frank- man. The little 13 vear old daughter of Mrs. Giersch, not realizing the danger through which she had passed, said to the rescuers: “Don’t mind me; I am not hurt, but please take mamma out.” The engineer, Peyton Tunstan, feit the trestle give under the engine and opened the throttle to run quickly. Only the en- gine and one car got across, the others breaking through. MANY PLANTS RESUMING. Iron and Steel Mills in Various Sections Start Up, and Hundrsds are No Longer Idle. At Philadelphia the Reading rolling mill company has gone on double turn, giving employment, to over 530 hands. Enough orders are on hands to