Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1886-07-29

his freight Frank England, blacksmith
and wagonmaker, is the maker.
If you have fears that you will not
pull through the next forty years, call
on j. r. and Edith Walker and get your
life insured. STONE CHIMNEY.
Wisconsin Enterprise.
Prominent among the special features
arranged for by the management of the
Milwaukee Industrial Exposition Asso-
citation. and to be presented in connec-
ton with the next fall exhibition, is
the famous japanese village This real
istic representation of Japanese village
life was first presented to the public in
New York early in the present year,
and has been accorded most fatterng
praise by the public and the press.
When it is considered that a good. sized
colony of japanese men, women and
children are required in providing for
the public this faithful representation
of japanese domestic arts, and that no
less than twenty shops and studios are
kept in operation, the tools, furnishings
and samples therefor amounting to over
fifty tons, faint idea can be had of the
expense incurred by offering so grand
an exhibit. Among the tens of thous-
ands of people who visited this village
when it was in New York was DIR. Oliver
Wendell Holmes. SO pleased was he
with what he had seen, that he immedi-
ately wrote his friend, Z. b. Haskell,
editor and proprietor of the Boston
Sunday Herald, the following. which
was by the latter published in the Sun
day Herald; Il have been more than
delighted with the japanese exhibition,
and do not like TO think that any of
my friends and fellow citizens should
miss seeing it. People who can spare
few months time and 81 900 to 81, 900
can visit Japan and study the remark
able people and their wonderful works
in that country. But here we have
Japan brought to our own doors One
is ashamed To speak of the cost of adj
mission without apologizing for its in
significance. The whole village, with
its score of neat and curious little shops,
and its colony of those wonderful little
brown people SO busy at work, will be
in readiness on the opening day of the
Exposition. Men, women and children
are attired in their native costume,
and conduct themselves exactly as they
would were they engaged in their
chosen profession In their mother coun-
try. There are cabine' makers, silk
weavers, painters, BARRIERS. rice orna-
ment makers, embroidery workers,
tailors, lady hair dressers, copper
smiths, porcelain decorators, sketch
artists, bronze workers, potters, wood
carvers and dozens of other art workers
of equal interest. AS the men and
women carry on the work of mauufact-
uro or decoration the younger children
play about the different shops, Keeping
the babies quiet and amusing them
selves in ways most pleasing to person
unaccuStomed to their habits,
The typical Mexican orchestra, com
prising sixty musiciaus of rare ability,
all attired in the attractive costume of
their native country, is another rare
feature procured by the Exposition man
agement. People who visited the
Worlds Fair at New Orleans, and there
heard the Mexican band, will surely not
fail to take advantage of the opportun-
ity now provided for partaking of the
musical feast TO be furnished by this
celebrated orchestra, rs il will be the
organizations last tour through the
United States,
Another musical feature. and novelty
rs well, will be the widely-known NJ
Gibeny Family, consisting of father,
mother and thirteen children, each a
musician of superior talent
The rapidly increasing interest of
Wisconsin people in raising iine-bred
dogs has prompted Manager Bechtner
to arrange for bench show, at no
small expense, which shall afford Ex-
position patrons the opportunity Of in
speeding the most interesting and largest
exhibit of fine-bred dogs (ncluding
several of worldwide fame) that it has
ever been their privilege to enjoy Wis
itors to the Milwaukee Exposition of
1886 will also find great many other
interesting and instructive specialties,
for which the management has closed
contracts. To provide these 1t has been
necessary to incur an expense of many
thousand dollars. but there is Il de-
termination to make the next EN-
position The grandest and most attract
i've of any ever held in the Northwest,
and it will be done.