Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1885-03-14
-McMINNVILLE TENNESSEE SATURDAY, MAR "a, 1885,


hibit, is section of tree Is feet in
diameter cut 100 feet from heground.
The largest tree in the grove from
which this was taken measured 335
feet in diameter A; height $50 feet; age
3,70O years, and thickness Of bark 10
feet.
Colorado and New Mexico have an
enormous exhibit of valuable ores.
The ores of Colorado are SO arranged
as to construct very handsome build>
ing, and those of New Mexico are
beautifully shown up in cavern built
of stone.
wish | could conscientiously say as
much for Tennessee's exhibit as some
have said. registered as Tennes
sean after some hestiancy. | hesitated,
not because / felt ashamed of our
grand old State, but because of the
comparative meanness of her exhibit.
We well know that Tennessees exhibit
could have been made as varied and
interesting as that of any State in the
Union by prudent expenditure OF a
few thousand dollars. But our Legis-
lature made her appropriation so late
that it cannot accomplish the good
that would have resulted from an ear
lier appropriation. However, some of
the counties have good exhibits. But,
Warren county, out Of debt as she is,
with surplus in her treasury, with
her mineral, her timber, her manufac-
tories, her fruit, and her agricultural
products, has no separate exhibit there.
Tennessee's mineral exhibit is good.
In fact, her display of marble is the
best to be seen. Interesting among
Tennessee's relics are, an old arm chair
presented to Gen. Jackson by Wash.
ington, cup and saucer, cane, sword,
hat, pocket bible, masonic apron, used
while grand master of Tennessee, etc.
Also blue coat made by Andrew
: johnson ere he gave up his goose for
} the Presidency. David Crockets mar
riage bond and rife, bible printed in
Latin, A. D. 1898, and other books,
some of which date back to l541, lend
: further interest to this exhibit. AS a
general rule the Northern and Eastern
States surpass in manufactures, and
: the Southern and Western in agricul.
tural products and minerals.
Alabama exhibits a block of coal
weighing fourteen tons. Mississippi
, has an excellent exhibit, and among
the novelties is house built entirely
of cotton stalks and cotttn, and the
t occupants seen through an opening
t are, an old man and woman, q cat and
e a dog, all of which are made of cotton
e and as to form, appear very natural
S Notable is crib, built of twenty>siz
J. kinds of wood andsflled with the diff
o ferent kinds of grain raised in Missis
e sippl. Miss Ellen Shields contribute,
r county map of Mississippi to the gen
eral exhibit. 1t is made of silk of diff
l. ferent colors so that the counties arr
k easily distinguishable, and the waite
!. courses and railroads are neatly trsceC
g out. The most important relic in tn,
: exhibit of Mississippi is Gen. Wash
ington's sugar gourd. As it appears a
Is this time / think l would rather use
s silver sugar bowl.
IS In the Government building is founc
n a globe of the world. Said globe i
twenty-five feet in diameter, and al
rs the grand divisions together wit
1t oceans, CULTS, bays, straits, lakes ant
t. important rivers are correctly repre-
II sented upon its exterior surface. /
great deal of important geographic in
l. formation is recorded upon the globe
N The globe is transparency, and a
4 night when brilliantly illuminate
from within, is wonderfully beautiful
le as well as instructive,
ID The heart is filled with sadness j
g. viewing the relics of the Greedy ES
petition. We are want to believ
that death in its direst form has vac'
ted those fur.skin suits and sleeping
bags. The suits, Overshoes and sleeI