The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-01-03

California shows raisins, grapes and citrcrs on
The ieaves OF this great, joyous book. Missis
sippi shoes amber, purple. ruby and golden
fruits, and much tobacco and cotton, and great
bowls of polished wood and rich fodder grasses
Tennessee is the delight of the quarryman. with
silk and wool Alaska, not to be despised
or n left out is all curi0s lard and
grass ten tons to the acre and four crops year,
and wheat that would make an ancient Egyptian
stare. Oregon has reminders OF its 15,O0O.0 CO
acres of woods and new hop yards; Vermont has
charming little miscellany of dried apples and
granite; Rhode Island q show of locomotives,
buttons. and things OF that sort; Kentucky por-
traits of live stock; Indiana shows its long, silky
woos. manufactures, agricultural riches and fine
school system; and when you get to Guatemala,
Honduras and Yucatan, there you see antique
pottery, Indian blankeJs, cocoanuts and cacti.
Most interesting are the group of the black
exhibit. There is something in their
smooth foreheads and straight noses
that makes you think of the old Yucatan images.
In fact, the people are fascinating sight all
about. Tall Texans, with lots of money, swag-
geringly proud Of their own exhibit; weighty
Iowa men, heavy best citizens of Oregon,
elegant, high-rank Southerners, a China
man speaking perfect English, a Russian who
looks like Chinamaa and endless others inter
est you. The Russian exhibit reminds you of
Tartar" it has Chinese look and air IL its en-
broideries. metal-work and woodwork The
immense exhibit of French china shows the new
style OF painting not grey, but green. The
china bowls. platters and vases have pictures OF
emerald spring woods, tufts of willow whips.
straight and strong and just greening, knowing
old hens and fluffy chickens in green grass, birds
drinking at fountains in green gardens-such are
the subjects.
The venetian glass exhibit is rainbow
1uof fI13O of
There are many models in the exposition, such
as one of coal mine, and complete model of
Pullman City. and q good model of a pioneer
farm. Almost everything manufactured on the
globe 10 represented at the New Orleans Worlds
Fair. There must be q big factory somewhere
making Holy Land relics, all scented with Ger
man cologne. The most beautiful thing at this
fair is Horticultural Hall. When you have been
in the usual dirty nastness and confusion
OF an ordinary greenhouse where the scent OF
the flowers is overpovered by bouquet de old
broom and barrel lying under the shelves, have
you ever thought of what a greenhous should
BET Well, this hall is the ideal greenhouse on
vast and delightful scale. Imagine high roof,
gothic in shape. with many skylights spring.
lightly above the walls of gigantic hall. The
floor of this hall is fine green grass, spreading
far and wide, with straight, broad gravel path
down its middle to a fountain in the center
Around the many jets of the fountain grow, not
in the water, but among moist rocks. all
sorts Of rare, thrifty, tropical water-plants,
and up and down. and round
about the noble hall grow all the strange plants
of old travellers tales, such as the travellers
plant" the dragon flower from Madagascar, and
wondrous plants that send their odors ''off
Mozambique" and stately palms, whispering in
odorous heights of even" and orchids with wax
en- lips, and flowers with petals like lances, and
six-inch white blooms that make you faint with
perfume. And these plants stand in great
spaces. with no crowding. Not leaf is fading,
not a flower whitening. 1t is a place of silence
and tranquil peace MARY DEAN.