The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-04-04

mysterious spots to the front of the picture, ana
there stood two tall trees in the foreground,
a trifie of grass, bush or so, aud the picture
was handed off the easel, and a fresh canvass put
in its place. If clouds, trees. bushes, rocks,
brook and moon do not constitute pretty
picture, what does! / have seen paintings that
people had labored weeks over, that were not
half so satisfactory. 1t is utterly out of the
question to attempt any cataloguing the things
to see' in the main building. Aside from the
sights, the sounds, the myriads of vendors, the
violet girls the scale girls, the silhouette girls,
the girl who wants to put cologne on your hand
kerchef the liberty-bell girls, the exposition
badge girl, the tower elevator boy, the peanut
boy, the sweet-cider boy, and outside the
electric railway man. the cane seller the
waffle man, the ''take-your picture man,
man. all help make things lively whether they
tempt the purse not Art hall is not far from
the main building, and its treasures not to be
sighted. Although there are enough pictures
here to tire your eyes almost out of you head,
you cannot but feel that it is not much OF
collection for worlds fair. Carl Bremen, of
Louisville has but two pictures here; wood
land Brook" and November Snow" still both
have the Bremen trademark, his beautiful
beech trees. Robert Burns Wilson, the poet
artist of Franfort KY, has two picture here,
also. One, THE Dawn of the Morning of
the Crucifixion' is wan, pathetic, but
beautifully spiritual head of Christ. The other,
sFame," is a very emaciated. dyspeptic, dis
agreeable -looking head. Whether man. woman
or ghost couldn't determine; but, If the artists
intention was to linn his conviction that by the
time man had won fame he would be too far
gone to enjoy it, his painting is eminent success.
The Mexican pictures interested me because they
were Mexican, not because l know any thing
about their merits. Their arrangement is said
to be in chronological order as they have pro-
crossed in art: observed that the more the
on their subjects, and concluded
that they must have advanced
very rapidly. owing to climatic influences,
doubtless. Horticultural hall deserves
the same comment that art hall does. 1t
is not creditable display for worlds fair
Only the Mexican exhibit of wonderful cacti,
and the orchid display preserve it from utter
failure. The Liberty Bell continues to hold its
court under stately group of liveoaks near the
main building, and is visited daily by hundreds
of people. In interestantithess to the Liberty
Bell may be mentioned a slave bell, which is to
be seen in the Louisiana exhibit government
building. 1t is an old bell that for many years
called to work $50 slaves on the Fontainebleau
sugar plantation, which had a frontage
of nine. miles on Lake Pontchartrain.
On this plantation Louis Philippe was enter
tanned royalty when he was in this country. The
bell was castin 1926 and Bernard de Marigny,
dropped 1000 Spanish silver dollars into the
molten metal to give it clear silvery tone.
Three French inscriptions are on the bell it is
almost as large as the Liberty Bell-and, like it,
mas d assure IN It's size. among Inc slaves the
legend runs that when President Lincoln Issued
the Emancipation Proclamation, the bell fell
from its tower, and gave up. in this wide crack,
the ghost OF all sound. The two bells might
appropriately stand side by side, mute but
equally significant of liberty. The Cleveland
GEN." and then will forbear. This diamond
is one of the attractions of the government
building, and the New York exhibit, having
bcen cut and polished in Maiden Lane. The
stone was found in the Kimberly mines, South
fnIn In <h1 - had
when finished. 42a carats. 1t is said to have
been purchased by some New York club men.
and offered to President Cleveland. He de.
clined to be made engine headlight of by &C
ceptine it. and it was then purchased by Minnie
Palmer the popular actress. The policeman
who jealousy guards it says Miss Palmer in
tends to have it set in mechanical brooch-a
passion flower which will open and close.
AS the stone is about seven-eighths of inch
squares 1t will doubtless present meat and not
gaudy' appearance, which will crafty the most
refined taste. 1t is called the Cleveland gen."
because the work of cutting twas begun on cleo
tion-day. If Blaine had been elected it would
have been the "Blaine GEM" AS it is what
diamond connosseur call ''off-color," being of
pronounced straw-tint, it is, perhaps, just as
we'll that Blaine not elected. When offered
to President Cleveland the stone was valued at
$780, 000 but is now marked down to $40 OO0
Massachusetts may boast of her Summer
School of Philosophy" but Louisiana outstrps
her in having entertained winter
school of all knowledge; nations educational
exchange, in which the North has learned of the
South, the East of the West, and vice versa all
around worlds kindergarten, in which in
struction is administered, so skilfully disguised
in pleasure that the most reluctant cannot but
learn. Our country may have other worlds fairs
in cities of which she may be proud, but there is
no city in the whole United States which can
offer to visiting public so many unique sights,
sounds and odors, such quaint highways and by
ways as this same dirty-faced. but fascinating
old New Orleans. How demented crowds could
jam and cram and step on each others toes to
get to Washington and see such humdrum every
four years sight presidential Inauguration
when the same money would have brought them
to New Orleans, and the worlds fair, is one of
those complex problems of which no average
mind can ever find the combination.
LAGNIAPPE.
In the Indiana colored peoples display is
tassel labeled From Abraham Lincoln's cof-
fin"
Although Southern people lead leisurely lives,
they do not look any better for it. The people
with clear compilations and perfect health are
almost invariably from the North l saw two
prominent indianapolis gentlemen, yesterday,
whose health and good looks made regret
that Indiana had not an exhibit of her attrac-
tions in that respect have not seen as many
pretty girls here in three weeks as have seen
in one afternoon on our own Washington street
Massachusetts has fine educational exhibit
but her grain, fruits and vegetables look very
small and much ashamed of themselves. Cali
fornia cannot give the Concord school any points
on the whereasness of the heretofore, but she
can grow seventeen-pound cabbages. which doubt
less benefits the world as much. To my great
establishment, the ears of corn grown around
Boston did not have on spectacles, as we have
been led to infer
trip to the jetties is one of the pleasures
which no visitor to New Orleans should omit.
The glide down the mighty Mississippi, under
sunny skies. past rice farms, sugar plantations,
stately old Southern mansions with their
retinues of negro cabins-past incoming vessels
from foreign parts--to the wonderful improve
mepts which made the shallow mouth of the
river navigabe, is wonderfully enjoyable.
The sJessie K. Belln is steamboat which
it is great pleasure to praise.
Neat state-rooms, immaculate table linen,
glass and silver. paatable cooking and