The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1885-05-16
OH, AGENTS :
From New Orleans.


lucky will have his attention attracted by
number Of large Photographic transpar.
encies, embracing more than six hundred
subjects illustrative of scenery in the Blue
Grass State.
Nearly all of the exhibits Of Kentucky
are above the average in completeness and
practical value. Prominent are the i'm,
mense display Of tobacco and the exhibits
Of grain and coal with the most complete
collection in the exposition of native clays
and soils.
Near this exhibit is that of Alabama, the
most prominent feature of which Is very
neat octagonal structure made OF all the
varieties of Alabama woods and showing
in appropriate panels, the grains of the
state. This is surmounted by very rs.
thetic maiden named Ellen A" o.. II A..
Nearly every state has an exhibit, more
or less extensive, of the varieties OF wood
found in the state. In most cases these
consist of roughly sawed sections of the
tree trunks as they stood in the forest
Others are in the form of libraries, in which
the books consist of blocks of wood, the bark
of the tree forming the back of the volume,
On which is printed as a title the common
and scientific name of the tree. One side
of the block is polished and vanished,
while the other is simply split, showing
the natural grain of the wood, In other
exhibits the different woods are combined
in structures, many of them very ornamen-
tai, in which their varying capabilities as
cabinet woods are closely contrasted.
Few things more graphically instructive
can be found in the whole exposition than
the Mississippi exhibit of woods Here
are screens consisting OF sixty panels, each
Of distinct variety of wood, handsomely
finished and bearing beautiful and accur-
ate painting OF the flower leaf and fruit of
the tree. Here too, are samples of wood
that have been subjected to the ravages OF
that destructive boring worm, the teredo.
A fine scantling that had been in the Pas
cagoula river for only tifty.iiye days is so
completely riddled that it can be broken
10 pieces by the fingers.
A section of willow tree in the Yer.
mont exhibit bids defiance to the unkind
fate that has torn ii from its northern home
and endeavors to prove the vitality OF the
Green Mountain State by Il vigorous
Growth, sending forth green shoots at least
TWO feet long although 1t has been under
cover, standing on "A dry floor for months,
An exhibit of building stone is likewise
made by nearly every state While some
are content with simple cubes or other
forms, others employ them in more in,
terestng or artistic manner
The Vermont exhibit is entered through
a beautiful arch of Vermont marbles mod,
elled after the celebrated Arch of Titus,
and other structures less pretentious, may
be found in various places.
Minnesota has "a monument nearly forty
feet high, composed of numerous varieties
Of stone, and New York has another, valu.
able from a geological point of view, in
which the rocks are arranged in the strata
In which they naturally occur with the
proportiona,c thickness of each. fac
smile of the Washington monument, made
q the same material, may he seen in the
Maryland exhibit.
The Maryland exhibit has several very
interesting features, among which are d
nearly complete set of portraits of the pre-
idents from Washington up, bell more
than two hundred years Old and piano
imported by Charles Carol, of Carrolton
the last living signer of the Declaration OF
Independence, which is still in fair condi
ton, although Its tinkling, tin pan like
notes are strangely unlike those of the pi
ano OF today Here is the first telegram
ever sent, May q, 1874. twas from Mrs
Dolly Madison, widow of President Madi
son, TO a friend, and reads as follows: MES
sage from Mrs Madison. SIZE sends hel
love to Mrs. Nethered.' Close by Is al
exhibit Of still greater interest in the shape
Of number of models illustrating the pro
gress of railroading one Of them being
half size model Of the Cooper" the frs
road, and the first passenger engine in III,
world. OBSERVER