The Russellville Democrat., 1883-09-27

Z
ern Exposition at Louisville. 1t is
possible that | ought to commence
with an apology, for may repeat
something in last weeks issue, and
not refer at all to thousand things
| saw, but it cant be helped now. /
rambled in the Exposition building,
half the time lost, and follow the
same style now, whether / will or
not. / will first invite you over to
the northwest part of the building.
and step inside the precincts Of the
grand state where you live. Grand9
Yes grand. Praised and applauded
by so many foreigners, and traduced
and run down by some, had liked
to have said so many Arkansians.
Grand in her resources and the pos
sibilities of the future. Ii develop
ments measure themselves accord
ing to resources, there's none so
bold as to imagine what awaits this
State in the next quarter of a centu-
~. As you enter the Arkansas de-
partment. you see the display of
aquatic plants, and rare flowers made
by the ladies of Arkansas. These
plants and flowers are watered by a
beautiful granite fountain, in the
center of the group Passing through
her department, you observe her
magnificent fruits, woods, grasses,
ropes. ect., referred to in last issue.
You also wonder at the enormous
samples of oats. rye, irish potatoes,
castor beans, and the finest sample
of cotton you ever saw You also
see cypress shingles. ash oars, hay,
axe handles, and samples of the
cracker company of Little Rock
Further on are mats. covers, bead
pockets, ETC., made by the students
of the blind asylum, and two silk
quilts, one of which was made by
Mrs. Maggie Walker of Hot Springs.
In passing, you also see models of
hay presses, cotton presses and other
useful inventions. Mr.. Jno. NJ.
Blake of Hot Springs, interests the
on locker with an attractive array of
his Hot Springs diamonds. He is
on the ground to cut and mount his
famous diamond jewelry to suit the
most fastidious. He is one of the
few, very few, lapidists in the L. S.
Now you look at marble from Mari
on, Saline, Garland and Pike coun-
ties, and the bet specimens are not
there; and gypd~n or lime from Car
roll; and then the ores, silver, iron,
copper, lead, zinc, manganese, and
the wonderful magnetic iron, anti
mony and fire clay, from the various
counties of the State, even from Wi
leys mine in Pope county. Then
pass TO the collection Of the Arkan-
sas University with all its vast ar
ray OF minerals and wild plants con-
sisting of Is orders, 445 genera, aud
900 species, and, in passing, stop and
look at the Wichita oil and whet
stones, for you won't see them any
where else, neither in the Exposi-
ton, nor in the United States, Great
Britain, Ireland, or France. You
look at it all, and pass out, and
enjoy the satisfaction of being adj
dressed by people from all quarters,
east, west, north and south, with the
compliment, your state has the
best exhibit here" You muse, is it
true that the flowers, plants, fruits,
grains, grasses, woods, minerals,
marbles, diamonds, ores, coal, water,
whetstOnes, sand stones, vegetables,
cotton, climate. soil and people all
unite in proclaiming Arkansas the
garden spot of this broad land; and
You think more of Arkansas than
Won ever did before
But pass from Arkansas now, and
let me show you some sights. Re
member se have been among ma
lures riches, now WEN 60 where we
can see mans ingenuity. We stop
and take in that music by the 7th
regiments band of y. Y. Prof. Cap
pa, leader, and the celebrated cornett
player, Libersti OF England, masher.
The people seemed to have gone
crazy over him, and appeared snx-
ions TO wear ont their shoe soles in
cheering him on All occasions, and
encoriDg him at every performance.
This band consists OF Any live men,
and were paid thirty-fve thousand