Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1885-01-09

| dence has its three or two stored rain
barrel. If it is fine residence. the barrel
is as handsomely ornamented architectur-
ally as the rest of the building.
THE ROSES WERE IN FULL BLOOM
though the thin Ice was there.
The horticultural Hall contains what
you will think one of the most wonderful
things in tie questionable orchid
house. It is here that the orchids grow
and mimic all the forms and hues of
winged life-beetles. butterflies and birds.
There is nothing in the world to compare
to it except, probably. the orchid house at
Kew, near London. Then you come to
the Pathological department where Kansas
alone has 500 apples of every variety on
exhibition. We in Augusta could have
made as large and good a display in apples
as Kansas, but our people did not think
proper to do it. There is 'cold storage"
room in this building, which is refrjge-
rator in which all fruits are kept and as
soon as an apple or any fruit in the Ex-
position room is specked or spoiled 1t IS
replaced with fresh one from the cold
storage.
| Now you come to the United States and
States Building. The middle of it has
space devoted to the National Govern
ment, and there it has it's post office, mail
carriers, frames of all the postage stamps
ever ADOPTED, samples of all mail bags, NC.
| There the State department of the Nation
| al Government has
LARGE GLASS GLOBE REPRt SENTING
THE WORLD
| which you can 60 up into the inside OF or
view from the exterior. Ga it is trans
parent map showing where all nations are,
what they use and buy and what they
grow and sell. 1t is for the education of
| the people of the world into knowing what
| to sell each other and where what they
| want to buy may be found. It shows
| them how differently 10 sde each article
must be made to be sold to different
nations. Every nation uses the jack knife.
The American boy uses the stub jack
knife, the Mexican boy who has to clean
the spines of cactus out of the way uses
jack knife too, but he has a longer one;
the South American uses one too, but his
jack knife is a macheta. Nations have
fancies as we'll as men. But one color of
certain goods can be sold to some one ma
ton. England understands all this and
makes her jack knives to suit the custom
er, as she dyes her cloth to the same end.
In the U. S. building also, the war depart
1 chnr
making arms. The Smithsonian Institute
has it's
| WONDERFUL FIGURES OF STILL LIFE
there. Around one-an EsquimauX about
to throw harpoon often stop to
see him throw it, so perfectly lifelike is
the figure. The National Museum has
there specimen of every fish found in
our waters. The Agricultural Department
has specimens of every plague worm or
| fly that attacks American crops.
Around this central space tie States are
ranged. Virginia has $50 feet of space, of
which so feet is devoted to minerals. The
minerals Of the five grand divisions are
arranged OH shelves representing these
divisions. There is space for manufac-
| tured articles, which it is to be regretted,
is vacant; but it is going to be filed.
There are portraits of Washington, Lee
and jackson. aud photographs of historic
pictures, the originals of which are in our
State Capitol.
On one side of the Virginia space is the
West Virginia space; most of her exhibit
| ,l>a..
iron. On the other side is New Jersey
with beautiful display of native woods,
minerals and wares.
NORTH CAROLINA
has the same amount of space as Virginia
but has filled it 'magnifcently''-no 9th
| er word will describe it-5he has build
ing made Of her native woods, thatched
with wheat, oats. corn, sugar cane and
barley, thirty feet high. She has gold,
precious stones and mica. At the head of
her department is Dr. Dabney, an Augusta
county boy and son of Rev. DR.. Dabney.
He has given the Virginia department
much assistance. The Baltimore & Ohio
R. K. has made the Maryland space
|
photographs the world ever saw. of its
roads, finely framed In green velvet. Ken
| lucky has wonderful display. she spent
| $40 900 in transparent views of her State.
cattle. farms, &c. She sends wheat, rye
and millet in profusion. The whole ex-
there to explain everything to visitors-all
the advantages CT the State for residence.
She'll reap large immigration. Califor-
| MIA has "painted red" her space with red
woods. She sends ten to fifteen tons of
silver and copper and specimens of all the
animals of her State stuffed. Kansas has a
building in her space made of corn ,beauti-
fully finished. and yet at the Augusta
county fair you can see every year larger
and better corn, but Augusta hasn't sent
even ear of corn-a county which raises
enough cereals to feed ten times her popu-
lation!
The Commissioners of the States have
arranged to have certain days on which
each Commissioner will set forth in an
address the advantages of his State. Vir-
slhI" VIII ioso oh0 fE III VI FIn vi ooi
airy. Tennessee takes the 8.h of January
the 18th day of "Old Hickory" The 22d
of February is fixed for all the States
joining in one celebra ton.
On the outskirts of the ground are great
ranges of cattle sheds. In these will lie
put the cattle for the great stock exhibit
tion which comes off in the Spring.
What Stauntun Lady Saw.