The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1884-11-27
MINNESOTA NEWS NOTES.
MINNESOTA AT NEW ORLEANS.

M1NNLSOlA Al NJ w OIA1GANOs
The Practical Work the University VIII
show-Nativs Woods Of tho State Collected
by Prof. Winchell.
After months of effort, Prof Porter, to
whom has been intrusted the work of col
Letting the materials for the Minnesota edu-
cational exhibit at New Orleans, Is at the end
of that department. of his labors, and is ready
to ship the various articles collected to the
exposition The exhibit made by the Uni
versity of Minnesota Is particularly full In
those practical departments which seem to
distinguish many Of the Western institutions
of learning from those in the East The col
lege of mechanic arts will be represented in
the exposition by an elaborate and interest
the the school in ell Of It's methods
and results The various articles on
in readiness, and will be removed on Mon
day for shipment Conspicuous In the ex-
hibit are six large wooden frames contain
ing the tools for the respective departments
OF vice, forge and carpenter work, with
specimens of the various articles made In the
pursuit OF the three courses The carpen-
ter's and blacksmith's tools are not fancy
ones procured for this especial purpose, but
the real tools that the students have used
In their work. The specimens OF work done
were selected at random from great num-
Der of articles equally creditable. They are
chosen with reference to showing the princi-
blacksmithing. The departments OF me-
chanic art and civil engineering are Illus
trated by number of drawings number
of manuscript books showing tho stud
ent's actual work during the course
accompany the exhibit Plans Of the
grounds, the buildings, and OF apparatus and
an immense chart showing the course of
study in the college of mechanical arts are
included feature of this exhibit worthy
OF notice ia that il is entirely the work OF
Students Even the most elaborate OF the
descriptive charts in which some OF the let
tering and other ornamental work Is exceed
ngly fine. have been executed by students
OF the university. Altogether the exhibit
for this department of the university is one
In which the citizens OF the state may take
pride, inasnuch as it reflects the altogether
practical character of their highest institu-
ton OF learning. For the department OF
Greek, Prof. Brooks has prepared synchro-
nistic chart of Greek biography, literature
and art, with contelnporaneeus events
There is a similar chart some
English literature. 1t has been wrought out
with patient skill by one Of the students. In
each OF the departments manuscript books
OF questions and examination papers have
been made. DR.. Folwell has also written
history Of the university to accompany the
exhibit There are numerous photographs
Of buildings, class rooms, apparatus collec-
lions, etc. An immense banner, illustrating
the rise and progress OF the institution, will
hang over all
THE NATIVE WOODS.
One car is likely to be loaded almost en-
tirely with the specimens collected by Prof.
Winchell, showing the native woods OF Min
nesota. These specimens number more IMAM
forty, and are in great blocks taken from the
body of the trees, some OF them four feet In
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the bark undisturbed. The ends of all
these specimens have been merely
dressed and sand papered, and the col
lection will be the best and completest
ever gathered OF the pine family. it will
include specimens OF the common white pine
most used in the manufacture of lu;n p, the
Norway, and the banks or Jack pine. In
evergreens there are specimens OF the
spruce, of both the black and white variety,
the balsam fur, the tamrac, the white cedar
"a large block q foot and half in diane
ter-and the red cedar. Hemlock, although
it grows in abundance in Wisconsin, is not
found in Minnesota OF the hardwoods,
there are specimens of the white, black, burr
and one or two other specimens OF oak that
grow sparingiy, including red oak and
what is known as the swamp white oak The
elms are the rock the American and the
slippery The birch varieties are the white
Or paper, the grey or silver, and the river OF
red birch. Among the naples are the sugar
Or black, with several varities of this family,
modified more or less by their surroundings,
the soft or silver maple and the red or river
maple. A very large specimen OF the black
walnut was secured at Molristown,
from a tree fully nine feet in
circumference. Then there is the sag bark
hickory, the Kentucky coffee tree. which is
rare. but nevertheless grows in Minnesota,
the blackberry, bass wood, boxelder, butter
nut or pig hickory, from which the hoops for
barrels are principally made; the common
bu5ternut tree, very plenty in some sections
of Minnesota; the black cherry, two varieties
of cottonwood, the asker poplar and the
balsam poplar and iron wood A specimen
of the mountain ash, fifteen inches in
diameter, has been secured, and large
specimen which has been dressed to show its
peculiar beauty of grain, has been secured
Of the stag horn sunnac, and the whole ex-
hibit is supplemented by secti ons from such
small trees as plum, red cherry, thornap-
pie and water birch. This exhibit calcu-
lated to show the timber resources of the
state is supplemented by a collection OF
manufactured goods gathered by Col. E. W.
Durant of saltwater, which includes, among
other things combinations of the chief woods
brought to the highest possi ble polish