The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1875-08-17

Agassiz, and is frequently employed by
the Smithsonian Institution, is In at
tend ance upon the National Educational
Convention in our city. He has added
to the interest of the meeting Of educa-
tors by bringing from his museum-in
Rochester some OF mis- celebrated fossil
| casts, which are upon exhibition In one
Of the stores of the Academy of Music.
Mr.. Ward persistently and unobtru-
sively has sought the world around to
obtain the finest types Of animal life
which waded in marshes, DIV elt in seas,
or roamed id prilnevai forests, 'long,
long ago." Approaching the truth con-
tcentrated in the proverD, "Seeing is be-
Meving," he has reproduced in plaster
from originals in his possession or In Eu-
fropean cabinets distinguishaDle IN mem
ler, Joint, and limb, r'G0rgons, and Hy-
dras. and Chimeras dire" belonging to
tue caves, lakes, tens and bogs of those
geo ogio ages which were In the begin
ming. before the Cosmos was prepared
| TOR the residence OF man.
The cabinets of fossils which he has
produced are recognized by colleges as
necessary TO the importation OF geo
| logical knowledge AZ. The clinical hospi-
| taI or anatomical museum in meulcal
science. or the model-room to the artist
| or engraver. i9
The rivalry which ten years agR exist
| ed between this place and St. Anth0ny
greatly retarded the growth 0f bOtn
| places. and it is only since they were
| united that Minneapolis began to I'M
prove very rapidly; and, in TACT, the
growth has been such that she now pre-
sumes to staad in front Of st. Paul. Ihe
| first thing which greets strangers ear
1 n q In ~
some criticism on the latter place. Tney
4 seem to think st. Paul is but second
1 rate place, but in this no greater mis-
take can be made, for Notwithstanding
all the interests OF M Minneapolis, the conn.,
merce and capital OF ST. Paul Will always
| entitle it to precedence, A great dea
| of credit. however, is due to, the people
| oil this place for what they nave done ~
| the eighteen years of its existence as
| city. gss vts -,
In 1874 there were erected 40 dwelling
houses, 81 stores, IL manufactures, IL
churches and z pubic halls, at a cost o.
s, 2,65O, 900.
Tnere are'at the Falls twenty-five flou'
| ing mills, one OF which Is said TO De TIT
4 largest in the United States, whose all
nual product is 1,6OO,0OO barrels.
| In addition to THESE are twenty lumber
i HILLS, NvotVVo,"Vv 'SSo " A~~A'"
tactured lumber per annum, besides nu
merous machine shops, foundries, Cal
shops, wooien mills, cotton mills, papel
mills, oil mills, harvester works, plow
works, agricultural works, iurnitnlt
factories, carriage factories, &C., ant
4 three large elevators. These, with twelve
banks anu tifty-two churches, the Stat'
University, and quite a number Of sem
llnaries and schools, both pubic and prl
l,yate, are some Of the, results Of Incl
enterprise. M t. AF
Many OF these buildings are very sub
stantial, being Lult OF the fine quality O.
stone winch is quarried i'll great quanll
ties in MinnesoIa.
4 There has been and still is project o
4 making at some time broad avenu'
connecting this place with ST. Paul ant
providing for new Capitol and StaC'
buildings midway between the two cit
les. Il this be done it will, with tht
railroad facilities which are graduail.
being extended in ali directions, mak'
St. Paul and Minneapolis two OF th'
most important cities in the West.
4 EXC lls4 w, b. r.