Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1876-07-13
A BIG SHOW.

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A BIG SHOW.
A Minnesota Farmer at the Grand Expo.
sition.
The. Fourth of July was a great day
here, and had Philadelphia been pre-
pared to take census the showing
would undoubtedly have astonished the
world. But such an immense crowd is
an effectual bar to enjoyment. To see
the exhibition visitors want clear
field, and the smaller the attendance
the better the opportunities for seeing.
Crowds of people may be seen on a
thousand days in a lifetime, but an
exhibition such as that now in Fair
mont Park may not again be attempted
in America in half century. Among
the curiosities to be seen are the
REVOLUTIONARY RELICS.
The buildings are full of them, per.
sonal and general. Of individual arti-
cles there is an immense collection of
portraits, domestic utensils, garments
and valuable ornaments. In general,
there are public documents, and tropb.
les of the past, that are looked upon
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are prominently developed with feel.
ings. not of interest solely. but vene.
ration, ''That was Washington s sword,
or that Lafayette's watch" l tried on
Daniel Webster's hat in the room of
the historical society,-it fitted, and
was told, that but few men could wear
Webster's chapeau. Felt my head
swelling with conscious pride, but my
feathers fell at the remark of an in.
nocent companion who incidentally
said Zone of the biggest jackasses he
ever knew in human shape wore a
Sd hat.'' Where I am cultivating
the fear of .the gastric juices I can
write daily on table used by WASH
ington. Everybody is hunting relics,
and the streets are filled with relic
mongers of cane from this old struc.
ture; medals of this or that hero.
Philadelphia to-day is the Mecca, and
the shadows of the past, sure to at.
tract the votaries of by.gone times, to
their shrines who in homage pay their
offerings to valor, patriotism, honesty
and virtue. However, let us not for
get the present, an instructive teacher
for the future, land we may be happy
yet.'
But to me a Western farmer, moth
ing takes my eye so much as the coa-
tents of Agricultural and Machinery
Halls. I saw to-day
NEW PLow,
that was worth special attention. 1t
is q grand and successful deviation
from the old point share, mold.board
style, in use for the past two or three
oeute,ries. And ii is gratifying to I,
Western man to notice that the grand
and successful deviation from the an.
Gent ideas of plow.making comes from
his section of the country.
1t has two large circular discs, con.
cave in form, one placed behind and a
little to the side of the other,-the
distinguishing features of the inven-
ton. These great discs cut deep and
perfect burrows, pulverizing the soil
completely, and the pillow with two
horses attached does more and better
work than can be achieved with any
other kind of pillow having double the
number of horses to pull it. Practical
exhibitions and tests are given here
continually, and the manner in which
Wills 1up1OluoAO CuVS 1VS. way tuTOuxn
the toughest, toughest of soil, and the
rapidity with which it dispatches it's
work, satisfies all spectators that it is
the browning triumph of plow inven.
ton.
But this is not the only new princi-
pie in farm tools which is displayed
here; a new surprise meets the agri.
culturalist at every turn, and from
rakes and hoes to threshing machines
and reapers, ever tool and reachine is
represented by a novel sample.
HOTELS AND FARES.
Everybody, before starting for the
Centennial, inquiries about hotel &C.
commodations and prices. Now, to
tell my own sentiments, I don t believe
it possible for better Accommodations to
be found at more reasonable rates in
any city of considerable size in the
country. There are plenty of first
class hotels which always have room
to spare and at living rates. I can
speak good word for the Girard
House, which is kept by Western men,
and where Western visitors always re-
ceive especially kind attention. Mr..
McKibben, proprietor, is one of the
proprietors of the Nicollet House at
Minneapolis and has hosts of friends
in the Northwest. H.
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