Weekly Phoenix herald., 1885-04-02

showiest, but the Texas Pacific
 shows up best the resources of her country and causes one to think that
 every necessity and luxury of life
 can be fouud along her line. This
 company has truly magnificent
 display of fruits, grain, tobacco,
 tim Der, sugar canes, vegetables,
 wools, hides, saddles and manufac-
 tured articles, while a large zoologi-
 cal collection shows up the present
 forua,; and fossil cabinet, the past
 inhabi lants of the Lone Star State.
 You stand in the exhibit and marvel
 at the resources there displayed un-
 til you look at the table showing the
 comparative sizes of the States and
 countries. Then you perceive that
 Texas so far exceeds them all Tn ex-
 tent of territory that the mystery is
 in some measure explained. Texas,
 Maryland and Nevada have the best
 displays of fossils, and at each place
 the student of dead worlds can find
 much material for present living
 study. Maryland seems especially
 rich in railroad curiosities. Mir.
 Foote. of Pennsylvania has capit-
 ally arranged cabinets of minerals,
 and of course the Keystone State
 makes grand display of her varied resources. Vermont shows up her marble in the form of an arch of Titus, and all the New England States save Massachusetts make credltable displays of their products. Of the far western territories Idaho, Montana, Wyoming and Washington
 give good exhibits Of minerals and Washington seems tC compete with
 California in the lafgeness of her trees. She has \ plank from Puget Sound whose dimensions are "A feet long and 41s feet wide. The mid- dle States of Ohio, Michigan, IllI- nois, Indiana and Wisconsin make very fair exhibits, but are evidently not as ambitious for public notice as the newer western States and Terri- torres, and of course their resources are not so vast and varied. Texas has the largest space. and this is said to be the first display she has ever made in an exposition. She certainly makes up for lost time.
 Georgia, Tennessee, Kentucky, Missouri, the Carolinss and Virginias all show up well, the two latter giving good specimens of Their exhibits are most interesting. As space and | ,Ime forbids the drawing of newspa- per pictures of them all, I must in> ,ite Phoenicians to come hither and | zee for themselves. 1 have occupied l his letter with the Government or | State budding, az being the most in~ eresting and noteworthy. In a fu- ure letter we will speak of the main 1 and the international fea> ures of the show The patent office las a serles of pictures, showing the progress made in inventions from irst rude art 10 present perfection. .n the galleries Prof. Ward has q chronological and geological col- cotton. There you see the antede- . sIigZI 1l1I:;lIfsE1s p terodactyl and glyp> odon, and you stand in auaazement )y the side of the mammoth which III tend tu dwarf proud man into ,oor pigmy, and you feel very hum- ,le until you recollect that bigness ioes not necessarily mean greatness md that a small specimen of the enus homo is the perfection and paragon of animals and the lord of hIs vast creation. These specimens arc all grand and magnificent, but he-human mind that conceived this how and that develops the yaster esources of which these are but amples is greater and grander than hem all, and so you conclude your ontemplatious as l conclude my etter by parsphrasing Pope's well .nown line:
 The greatest study of mankind is man." SCRIBo.
 New Orleans, March 2s, 1885.