Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-09-21
Especial Telegram to the Globe.l

LAKE CITY, Sept. 2O.-A steady rain the after
half of the night and all the morning up to 8
clock, has put damper upon the fair pro-
gramme for to-day, and unless it clears up
| soon fear for tomorrow also. The prospects
to-day and tomorrow, buo veryily one cannot
tell what day may bring forth. Several races
are on the programme for tomorrow. equestri-
an contests foot races, and a grand tournament
between a dozen knights Of the lance. There
is free -for-all trot announced for purse of
800, for horses owned in the four counties
Dutchman barred. and several good horse. are
prepared to start if the weather permits.
A RARE COLLECTION.
DR.. D. G. Estes, Of Lake City, makes an in
teresting display of miscellaneous collection
of geological specimens, ta1idermy. archaeo-
logical, and other relics of antiquity, and of
more modern times, from his wonderful
museum in the city. Among the marvellous
curiosities may be mentioned the two
tusks of domestic hog, which had
grown out of the lower jaw
and curved around and reentered the jaw again,
forming complete arc and penetrating the
bone distance of more than an inch and a
half The tusks are as white as ivory. 1t is
such freak of nature as has parallel in the
catalogue of natural history. The Dr. shows a
to be two hundred and thirty yenrs old.
They human teeth set in base of
carved hippopotamus TOOTH and fsstened
with gold screws. 1t is claimed
to have been the work of a skillful artist of
Madrid, Spain, long before the wonderful sys-
tenn of modern dentistry was dreamed Of Then
thee is an Indian lance once the property of
that distinguished Sioux chief, ''Old Cut Nose, !"
who was of the thirty ght hung at Man.
kato in 1862, for his bravery in slaugh-
terlng infants on the frontiers of
Minnesota. Among other relics is a
sandstone pipe bearing unmistakable
evidences of having come down from the
mound builders, when the world younger
than it is now and peopled by the primitive
races. In another sacred niche hangs club
said to have been obtained from the tree under
when that august assemblage proclaimed the
declaration of Independence, l776- copy of
dated l75l, is to be seen in this unique display.
We might go on enumerating for week and
then we should only be degree removed from
the beginning
MISCELLANEOUS EXHIBITS.
A. j. Boardman, Minneapolis, makes fine
showing of thirty-two varities of preserved
fruits and vegetables. The collection repre-
sents the new process of preserving fruits and
other articles for household consumption,
Davenport system. By it apples can be pre-
served at an expense Of about ten cents a
barrel. No hermetical work is required, and
the articles retain their original form, fullness
and flavor indefinitely.
F. Stahl, of Pepin, Wis, exhibits specimens
of fine Bartlett pears raised by himself. They
are the only native pears in the fruit cata-
logue.
VIM. Duffus, West Albany, came in yester-
day with twenty-four varieties of apples six
standards and eighteen crabs.
G. 81. Nichols, Prescott, Wis, makes an ex-
hibit Of cabinet organs and one of Mathus-
hek's pianos. Mr.. T. V. Bingham, general
agent for the State, is the man who does the
musical part.
Thos. Matter, who resides in Trout Brook
valley, exhibits fine samples of wheat from his
crop of 1000 bushels.
Thele lisa large show of poultry on tn c
ground, and many Of the fowls are of the
best breeds; in fact about all the breeds are
represented, from the proud little bantam ur
to the great feather-legged Shanghai, and the
Dorking, and the Dominique, Silver-spangled
Hamburgs, game birds, Partridge Cochins, Buff
Cochins, Guinea hens pea fowls, Spanish fowls
ducks and geese tame and wild geese Leghorns
and Matterhorns, and Cape Horns, and fe"
horns too many.