St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-08-26
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ON The THIRD FLOOR.
Some Of the Things to Be
Seen in This Di-
vision.
Curios From the Orient and
Inventions From the
0eeident.
Wonders of the Photograph
and Revelations of Drug
Exhibits.
A Woman's Visit to the Expo
Sition Related in a Cos
sipy Way.

erS, or hear no more the tender voice o.
love, the swell of grand music and the
ripping of brooks? l thought of tina
the other day, as | often have done be
fore. when l had toiled up the last long
stair at the Exposition and stood look
ing upon the crowd and listening to the
band. lines band is, of course, the
main attraction of the third floor of the
Exposition, though there are others moi
to be despised. Former years the space
was filled clear to the chairs of the con.
cert hall, and it was difficult to meet
ones friends. A great improvement
this. is clearing the right hand side fol
a promenade, only to be taken up on
special days for transient exhibits.
If | were an artist | should invest in
one of these tiny cameras and
station myself for every concert
where / could catch the expressions OF
the listeners. From the negatives
l know l could paint a picture which
would at least attract attention. You
see at the theater classes are more apt
to be separated byrange of price; at the
Exposition concerts, all enjoy it to-
gether, from the open-mouthed clown
who shows his appreciation of the
quick movements by tapping his fingers
and feet upon the chair i'll front OF him,
to the delicate young girl who sits
drinking in some classic passage, like
a lily the dew.
Next to the band music, probably, in
interest, comes the photograph. This
is quite a novelty to most Minneapolis
tans. That at this Exposition is a dupli-
oofa nf thu M Edicnn hoe of +ha Dor;c
exposition. To it are attached a num-
Der of rubber tubes which parts end
in small glass bulbs to be placed in the
ears. In this way several people can
hear at once. Think of bottling human
and Instruments voices as II would
can cherries! Oh, we were born a hun
dred years too soon. Think how the
world rushes on. Soon time and space
shall be no more, let but Edison live
a little longer. Even now we can
store up the home voices which
are so dear and when they
have died out forever in this world their
memory shall be audible to us. What
will you have of the photograph? You
may order what you please in concerts
rendered last spring in New York. The
numbers will be perfectly rendered and
will be announced by a gentleman in
full dress, who bows politely as he says,
1.-The next on u programme will be a
cornet solo by the greatest of living cor
netists, Levy" One hardly notices that
he does not really see this gentleman.
This photograph room is crowded all
the time, and it's great fun to watch the
expressions of those who listen. A mo-
bile face will change almost as if it
were the manuscript of the music
heard. Some faces are perfectly blank.
Speaking of music, the Dyer COM
pany has a fine exhibit. Jubal would
be very much surprised if he could see
ments, me thinks, for instance, the
pianos, which are arranged in tiers at
/ the back. Rosewoods are as out of
date as saying Arkan-za. You must
have an upright in a case of curly
maple, like that lovely light
est one, or an English oak like
the cigar-brOWn one, OF a French
burl walnut like the darkest brown; or,
perhaps, a Spanish mahogany. If
you're a cOrnetist you'll probably envy
that solid silver II with gold trim
mings and pearl keys, valued at $500,
and so on.
Miss Gertie Cady is playing for Dyer
this year. Miss Gertie is a bright little
musician with a Psyche knot, blue eyes
and Gimples, in spite of her dignity.
She has decided talent for composing,
and at thirteen, three years ago, pub
lished her first music-the Exposition
Waltz" which her father, who is leader
of the celebrated New York Seventh
regiment band that was here last year,
arranged for a band of forty pieces and
played. Prof. Innes will play it soon,
too. Since then Gertie has studied har-
mony and composed more. She will 90
to Europe in less than a year, and
"means to succeed" she will tell you
with a decided air. She's at work on a
song now.
Whites organs. They are late ones: so
people still buy organs, more's the pity,
and village maidens perpetuate their
own bad playing in the pupils worse
for IS cents a lesson. One of these or
gans has a back which opens
by the swell and gives forth
volume enough for a church. This
week there will be placed Oil exhibition,
/ think on this floor, the new Minneap-
oils invention-and Minneapolis is
teeming with them-the continuance for
cooking by electricity, the first time it
has been so employed in the world.
One of the most interesting exhibits
is the fine II sent by Powers &
Weightman, the Philadelphia chemists.
Walk past with me. That bright yellow
| crystaIliZation is a form of Prussic acid,
a deadly poison, and is obtained from
suchthings as the old leather shoes
which, somehow, are knocking about in
the cutters. That pile of white Jumps
looking and tasting much like alum, is
citric acid, made from the juice Of
lines, lemons and SOU oranges, the
last of which had been wasted in great
numbers until this was discovered.
Citric acid is what is used in making
the lemo, the lemO, fashionable at
| %circuses. Those "Argols' are queer
things, deposits upon the insides of
wine casks long in use. Tartaric acid
is made from this material. That bis
muth is not common. Most of it is
found in SaXonY, some in Monroe,
Conn.,, and some in Australia. Think of
taking that for medicine. See those
| greyiSh-looking seeds like buttons,
marked Nux Vomica? Well, they're
found in a berry something like a small
orange which grows in the East Indies.
Strychine is made from them. There's
enough s%trychnine under that globe to
poison every man, woman and child in
the whole Northwest. There's at least
$500 worth of opium in that case in the
center. When tie poppy-heads-the
peoples are grown in Turkey by acres
for this purpose-are just ripe enough,
an incision is made and the white poppy
juice, the spirit of sleep, exudes and
dries for several hours in the sun, turn
ing yellow and then brown. This is
kneaded into loaves of about two
pounds, and many a man, aye, and
woman, too. has SOLD his soul for that
brown package. That white substance
above the opium is its active principle,
morphia. Persian opium is made from
zhite peoples.
See that beautiful white crystal there.
1t is the crystalliZed sugar of goats milk
on a stick. There is alum made from
common aluminium, clay. All of it is
interesting.
From drugs of the East is not far,
metaphoricaIly or actually, to Brad
street. Thurber & Co.'s artistic display.
Their Oriental room is beautiful. 1t is
hung with rich rugs. In the corner
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