Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-01-13

its cattle are fattened. In tne h5h ne
partment were halibut and salmon six
feet long and weighing over 200 pounds,
OF which nearly million cases are
shipped east annually.
Commissioner Glenn followed next DAY
with full lecture on Illinois, as illostSF.t-
ed by her display here. He poiulcu out
among the exhibits twenty-six di1erent
varieties OF Illinois soil, twenty varieties
OF It's clay suitable for brick making, etc.
and ten OF its sands. There were seven
ty-six kinds OF grasses displaYeGi 25o OF
field and garden seeds, samples OF oerc-
ais, including stalk of corn eighteen
feet high, kaviin, sets OF china, Jugs, etc.,
made therefrom. OF builoing stones
there we're exhibited fOrty-two varieties,
In square blocks, as well as brick-plaln,
pressed and terra Gotta. Tho great llli-
nois industry Of canning meats ana yege-
tables wac well illustrated by the packing
house al Phil Armour Of Chicago, every
variety OF fruit packed by 10 being dis
PLAYED. There were forty-six specimens
of food fishes, fifty five glass cases OF en-
tomological exhibits, including all the
noxious aud beneficial insects found In
the state. The woods comprised 100 va
ricties In triangular shape, showing the
bark. the plain aud the finished wood,
aud also slabs Of stained
and polished wood. Other exhibits were
models OF agricultural implements and
matches, glass, salt, coal and other min
eras; several cases OF ofnithOlCgical
specimens, representing the birds OF Hi
nois; honey; fruits, including l2Oyarieties
Of apples, aud II fine vegetable exhibit.
The educational department commenced
with the kindergarten and the rural and
public schools aud extended to the uni
versity of Illinois, the school OF art de-
sign and the college OF agriculture The
women's department included specimens
of almost everything that tho sex can &c
complish in the shape Of needlework,
paintings, drawings, inventions, etc.
The next exhibit visited was that of
Wyoming, which included fine display
illustrative of the resources of the terri
tory, largely mineral and fossil. The
Yellowstone park was thoroughly Illus
trated BY specimens OF all the formations
found In It, as well as by handsome pho
tographs OF its most striking scenery.
The next day Iowa and Arkansas were
visited Assistant Commissioner f. NJ.
Chase ex planned the exhibit of the former
state and lectured upon its resources. II
was first, he said, in the production Of
cereals, first in grasses, first in dairy
products first in the number OF hogs mar
keted aud first in the variety of cattle it
possessed He touched briefly on its vast
mines of COAL lead, gypsum, its quarries
Of marble, granite and limestone, its pure
ard delicious. -waterA the visitors were
shown the educational department and
taken through the rooms OF the realistic
Iowa home, decorated artistlcally with
the display of woman's work.
Gen McRea OF Arkansas explained the
exhibit of that state, which Includes spec
linens of all the minerals found in it,
manganese, iron, zinc and novumlete or
TOMBSTONE. Attention was called to the
display OF fertilizers-gypsum phosphate
AMI gray mari. He claimed that Arkan-
sas was one of the largest marble districts
in the United States, and exhibited in
support of this assertion twenty-seven va
ri, ties Of marhle,each OF n different color.
There we're line specimens of valuable
serpentiue, soapstone, slate, etc. Aikan
sas shows the greatest variety OF grains in
the Government building, seyenty-hve
specimens OF natural grasses, tobacco OF
several varieties and many vegetables.
The fruit, however, is the most striking
feature OF the Arkansas display, and here
~ ~ NiLhOut tiuul III llt SApOsitlpii.
There are no less than PIP varieties of
winter aud 100 varieties of summer APP
plies. Othvr iime exhibits were OF cotton,
Notwithstanding l45 varieties, seventy
five of them murGhantable--hay etc.
Large audiences have been present at
all these lectures and inspections, and II
l. difficult to give any idea of the interest
they arouse and the benefits that follow
them. They constitute course of lee
lures on the subjecl of the resources OF this
country, Containing information attainable
nowhere else. The lectures and eXplana-
lions OF the state and territorial displays
will he arranged for publication, and will
constitute one of the most complete and
thorough books on America ever eXhib-
tied
Louisiana has re- Civcd valuable nd.
ditlon TO its exhibit in the shape Of gi.
gantic map of the s'uta, 50X35 feet, SO
large as To show every farm aud planta-
ton In the state, and every acre OF GOV.
erument, state or private land for sale--a
valuable map for persons intending TO set.
Tie here
The Admission exhibit adds to the at
Effectiveness of the Alabama display, anC
conlalus a full showing of the mineral ~.
source and manufacturing industries OF
the iron district a the state. The chat.
tanooga city exhibit has also arrived and
ieen Installed with tnat OF lennt ssee, II
embraces iron manufactures, furniture
marble, railway apparatus and other i'm
pOrtant ARTICLES.
In the main building the exhibits from
Chill and Ecuador have becn unpsckcd
aud exhibited. phry Include all the
natural products OF these countries
among Others cocoa, coffee, vegetable
ivory, tobacco, rubber, paper toquiBa,
paper mocoro. wool OF the cotton tree
cotton, sarSaparllla, chocolate, miner.
als exc.
The horticultural han is still adding 20
it, already tue winter garden. A large
collection OF evergrecns has recently ar
rived from the san Jose, Cal, nurseries,
which Include tho dare palm, California
tan palm, the eucalyptus, redwood, Japan
cypress, and the celebrated big trees OF
California,
The compliments OF the seasun--coids,
coughs, catarrhs-may he effectlvely