The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1869-10-01

ers Hall potato. S, fquasLes, tonions. beets
carrots. cabbage. caulifiowor gram, cheese
canned fruits bottled wines, jas Of jelly
fresh bread aud batter, melons, tomatoes
and ogg-planis challenged the spectators ad.
miration; in Domestic Hall, could be seen Z
great many household laboring-saviug con
/ Itrivances, sets of elegant furniture, stovessof
all patterns, fabrics knit, woven, pieced, spun
and embroidered ,elothes.liue fasteners, sheep
shears, vehicles of beautiful finish and su-
periOr utility, and a cargo of yellowish, wiry,
Notwithstanding ferrets, Just where
they were last year. think the most ap-
propriate place for them would be with the
fowls. Such an arrangement would make
lively times and keep the biddies from
staguating. In Power Hall all sorts of ma
chinery were buzzing, rattling pounding
grinding and creating a great deal of din
generally. Then there were sights Of agri-
cultural implements from straw-st@cking
threshing macbioe to hand clover reed
ad-caster; from legion of mowers and
respers, single and combined, SO little differ
ing apparently in excellence that the COM
mittee could not decide between them, 10
horse-fOrks and potatoes diggers, PlOws of
all patterns and sorgho-mills and hay-rslzes
and fauning-mills that will separate cookie
oats and chess and divide the clean wheat
into two grades, all without changing selves.
know too little of bovine, equine, swine,
muline and fowline nomenclature TO pre-
sumo to enumerate the different kinds of
those quadrupeds and bipeds on exhibition
Of the ten thousand different things Of in
terest 10 be seenI wish to particularizs the
collection of ten superb oil paintings brought
by W. W. Griffith, Esq, from Europe; the
ever-bearing strawberries and raspberies;
the raddish with a root or bulb like that OF
a mangel wurtzel; the Christmas crib, con-
tributed by the Sisters Of Charity; the $3.50
silver-mounted coffin; the combined lounge, |
sofa and bed; the shavings-remover; the
stand at which ice. cream candy was freshly |
manufactured; the fellow who got the dimes
from boys and men no wiser, by getting |
them to try to throw rings from stick upon |
a dozen or so mails; the anti-burglar door
lock attachment, the claret that tempted |
Passers by; the dining hall that seemed so
much like home that its long tables were
almost constantly filed with pleased patrons;
the sail-bOat designed and built by a lad |
sixteen years old; the bull-headed driver |
who went upon the race course to show the
speed of his nag, but was taken home in
greater pain if not With more caution; The
water that could be had free at almost any
point by turning faucet; the pipes convey
ing the water, laid so near the surface that
the water though pumped from artesian well
and Is cool as it IS pure, if drank near the /
well, is almost blood warm at any point on
the opposite side Of the inciosure; the time
made by Lady OrOwder, Of Adrian, in win
ming three heats out of five; the $4,000 visit
Ors who were present on one day, who SEEM
ed delighted with what they saw, who voted
the Toledoans princes Of good fellows and
expressed the wish that the Fair may be
held here next year; the premiums given to
Fremonters and the interest taken IN our
show by the citizens of our distant sister
States.
Wherever our next exposition shall be
held, may be there with my pgckets sup
piled with crackers and cheese and copPers
enough TO buy all the candy and things that
cannot beg. - = FoGY.