The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1886-10-20
BILL NYE'S UMBRELLA.
He Tries tn Identify Himself and Turns
Out to BE Somebody Else.

He Tries Identify Himself and Turns
Out to BE Somebody Else.
Last. week in company with my family
and about $1,000 other people, paid visit
to the great industrial exposition at Min
neapolis.
1t is great triumph of mind over matter
There, on the east bank of the great parent
of waters, by which term would imply the
Mississippi river, and near to and overlook
ing Col. st. Anthony's justly celebrated falls,
stands a building costing $3.50, 600, full of the
products of every cline, and all prepared in
eighty three days. 1t filled me with wonder,
as it must any one who views it thoughtfully
and from purely bipartisan point of view.
Less than three months ago, where the
morning sun rose Teluctantly over the elms of
the east side and Boxed down upon several
acres of unimproved real estate, and broad
sweep of wet saw logs, feclsed with cream
colored boys wearing nothing but an air of
defiance for the police, now a magnificent
building faces the turbulent tide, and people
from the four quarters of the globe jostle
each other to the weird music of the Mexican
band, while ever and anon a large and ex-
pensive fountain is drearnily squirting its
rhythmic squirt.
Everywhere science and art are visible
Here in the new west, where Minnie Haha
but few feeting years ago strained maple
strip through a pillow sham, the paleface
wanders through acres of beautiful and use
full articles, the offspring, may say, Of tire
less hands and throbbing brains all over the
universe
Here where the warrior wooed his nahog
any mate, and the papoose seemed indigenous
to the soil, people from Farther India and
Erin Prairie, Wis, come to listen TO the pas
sionate notes of the Mexican band and stab
their umbrellas into the old masters.
largo poiiceunnu nt the door of ort
gallery, in harsh tones, requested me to de-
post my umbrella with young woman. l
did it, for 1 respect a policeman wherever L
meet him. Some of them are strangers to
me, but they are generally men whose adj
vice it is well to heed. Had it not been for
these men do not know where would have
been to-day-thousands of miles from here,
perhaps.
He told me afterward that he lad to stop
people from carrying their canes and UNI
brellas into the art department because
thoughtless visitors now and then jabbed a
hole in an $4,000 painting, and it delayed
the exposition, when they had to wait for a
Minneapolis artist to paint another one. He
also stated that excited people poked the
statuary with their canes and knocked Off
the drapery.
So left my umbrella at the check room,
for did not wish to delay the exhibit while
new overcoats were being prepared for the
revised statues
When came back the young woman took
my check, and as my radiant smile burst
upon her and Lit up that end of the building,
she became embarrassed, dropped the check
on the floor, where it mingled with the re-
deemed checks, and when 1 asked for my
umbrella she looked at me with eyes like
startled Goldfish and murmured:
"What umbrellaEr
Time was plidiprr SuiftIv hv oud I vautaI
to see some other things beside the umbrella
exhibit, so got over the counter to show her
which one was mine. To jump over n counter
is but the work of a moment with me. am
tall, athletic and easy in my movements, SO 1
got over readily