The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-01-12
NEW ORLEANS.
Letter From the Sunny South by Our
Correspondent.
Dakota's Display-Kansas-Iows
science-A Big Whale Skeleton, Etc.
Especial Sentinel Letter.

visitors, and the city is full of them. No
warm sunshine. nc delightful, refreshing
breezes-nothing but dark, dismal rainy
weather. But while all outdoors is 80 IN
inviting,
THE EXPOSITION
is daily and hourly growing more beautiful,
more attractive and nearing q complete dis
play of the products of the world. Every
day We find new and more inviting displays
of mans skill and industry.
The display made by the Territory of
DAKOTA
is enough OF itself to paw for . thousand
miles tour. II you would like to see forest
with green grass and beautiful shrubbery.
made into huntsman's paradise by the
stately elk. the mountain sheep, mountain
lion, lynx, antelope. deer of all kinds and
sizes, the cinnamon bear, whits buffalo.
beaver, otter, wild cat, panther. wolves,
badger, dogs pelicans, looms, turkeys quails,
ETC., come to the exposition and look at
Dakota's artificial forest. By the aid of
taxidermist these animals and birds are
made to appear as natural as life. Near
this park stands pyramid nfty-five feet
high with the great king of birds perched
upon It's top, surveying the animal and bird
show beneath,
KANSAS
has an exhibit that attracts much attention.
Sorghum sugar as pretty and sweet as the
best made from sugar cane is a new industry
that will doubtless exert very favorable
influence on the agricultural interests of
Western States, where that species of corn
grows luxurIently. The silk cocoons in the
Kansas exhibit are the largest saw, and an
enterprising gentleman in Silkville is MAX
thread, and other fabrics. The exhibit of
fruits and vegetables dried by the evsporat-
ing process which retains all the strength
and flavor of the original, is quite q success
in Kansas. There are new industries which
demand careful study from all farmers,
fruit growers and gardeners. IL our farmers
can have new and better methods of trans
forming the crude products of their farms
into articles that will become more valuable,
and can be preserved for a greater length of
tiIOe they have certainly gained an i'm
portant point in the direction of better
OF fits aid success.
FLORIDA
has an exhibit of spinners of jute raised
on her sandy soil, that shows possibility 70:
q new industry in that State that will add
greatly to her prosperity, as she needs some
thing besides oranges, bananas, pineapples
and other fruits. Jute is now being used
largely in making many of the finest fabrics.
The city of Dundee, in Scotland, uses $40
600, 0C0 worth of 1t annually. ton to the
acre is an average crop and it sells as high IS
$3.50 per ton.
in her educational exhibit, excels anything
l have seen so far In the way OF an educa-
tional display. The State exercises in the
primary department is strickingly meriteri-
Gus and worthy of imitation in other schools.
The inventive drawings by children OF six
sc -IoAr.
lated to advance their education in several
directions. The specimens of penmanship
and drawings combined from the Burning.
ton schools Of the third grade, are very credit.
able. Drawing seems to receive more than
ordinary attention in the Iowa schools. The
mary department up to the highest hrancees
in the University. Professor 7. II. Mcbride,
OF the State University, is in charge of the
exhibit.
WARDS NATURAL SCIENCE EXHIBIT.
This is the largest private exhibit in the
Werld's Exposition, and is intensely inter-
esting to all students Of zoology, paleont-
ology, anthropology, mineralogy, ethnology
and all the other ologies in natural science.
These specimens are from Wards great es-
tablishrnent in natural science of Rochester,
n. Y. He has many specimens that are new
which he has lately collectkd himself in his
travels through foreign countries. To Illus
trate the anthropoid type be has q family
of curang-outangs from Borneo, in their ns.
| tive forest, feeding on the fruit OF the
| duriOn tree, which is well represented.
| OF the extinct animals there is q splendid
| exhibit. The representation of the great
mammoth found imbedded In the ice in
Siberia which had no doubt lain there
thousands of years. preserved by the intense
cold, is eat curiosity. 1t is covered with
long black hair, and the tusks are i'm
mense. 1t is sixteen and a half feet high.
and twenty-six feet from tail topoint of
| tusks. Mr.. Ward went to st. Petersburg and
made an exact copy of the original spec
linen. TIE Japan crab is monster, having
q spread OF IL y feet.
The South African ostriches were found
| there by Mr.. Ward himself. The Irish elk
lie the largest known, having q spread of
horns I1% feet. The skeleton of his great
whale is So feet in length, and has in its
! mouth the baleen through which the water
| Is strain ed so that the animal can get the
animalcule upon which it feeds. The min
ersIoglcal cabinet is probably the most COM
| plete in America, showing specimens from
all parts of the known world. The btillite.
from the Tyrol; the Hamatome. from Scot
land, and the Natrobite. of New Jersey, may
Japan, is beauty. and Is the only one ever
brought to this country. Meteoric iron aud
stones are profusely represented. That
beautiful precious stone, the iapis lazuli,
from Chill, may be seen in this collection.
All the celebrated diamonds and their values
may be seen correctly represented.
Every known fossil from the lowest acicula
\ up the highest formations are in the collec-
ton. Mr.. Ward Ii a firm believer In evolu-
ton, still he does not deny the truth of the
Bible except on that point. Nsturslists are
very prone to doubt the truth of the Bible,
as biologists. ana tomIsts and Psychologists
used to be. But after these scientists learned
more of the laws which preside over the
earth's formations and the animal economy,
most OF them have abandoned infdelity
and become firm believers in the divine ORR
gin of the Bible. They now find beautiful
harmony between the laws OF nature and
revealed law, rs must OF necessity be a.
they are both divine. But the question OF
evolution is not settled yet by any means.
Books enough have been written for and
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