The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1893-09-28

the next morning we entered the
fair grounds and took the cars for an
other ride around 1t. The cars are
made by Jackson & Sharp Co OF vii.
mington. Tho railway Is the Intra.
mural. Wo entered the Enithrapolocy
building after leaving the cars. In II
you can see everything pertaining Ia
an Indian, such ms clothes, buildings,
weapons and gods. We saw the lal 4
est Indian axe that Ia known to be III
existence. 1t WAS fifteen ana hall
inches long. six inches wide aud three
and II halt inches thick aud weighs
twenty pound. II Is called the Axe
of Celts, the king OF axes. Here too
you can ace the spades that they USED
in digging with; also their hoes OF va
rlous shapes and sizes, and those
things that 20 to The makeup OF uI
Indian are all found here.
Their Instruments OF warfare are
all made out OF stone; solnea are iu iron
while others are Of copper hardened
IA process. / think that we are all mas
ter of. These exhibits are from ever,
State In the Union. We notice thai
the California display, ana Delaware
(Which am sorry to say, IL not repre-
scented as DE Carde2a and Charles W
lOtlty COulu utdl IT, L LINK, ull u
pieces, ire nearly alike In shape ant
IIformation, though a great distance
apart. We can truthlully say that tn,
above young man of our little vitag,
OF ClAymont can beat them in In,
way of Indian quoits, ana sinkcrs, am
darts, rs he has now in his possession
hundreds OF darts, arrow heads, al
together amounting to thousands o
Indian relics. He has two specimens
q club ball and dough board, tina
take the starch out OF all that | saw
there; all of which lo has picked VI
lin various places. He Is oertainl!
great on Indian relics.
Tie finest mortar was displayed b.
California. but If any one shouId com,
Ito Claymont they can see them biz
enough for q man to wash his whol'
body in 1t. In this building you cal
see the winged bull, Min, or bull o
heaven" from ancient Assyrian Palac
lat Nineveh, SS5 3. c. There are two o
these, and are nearly alike. A ston
of Moab with such Inscriptions on /
that we are not prepared TO say. May
be Charlie Pl1ce, our enterprising mil
.ler can give the solution. Hero also is
black obelisk of Shalmanesser IL o
IAssyria, S25 b. G. On 1t are picture
or images of various kinds. II standi
eight feet high, three feet two inches
wide, and eighteen inches thick. The
largest pestle is found In the Con
necticut sections
We now left this building and saw
the different machines for making
butter in the butter and dairy depart
ment, and here you can find every.
thing belonging TO the dairy business
! his interests tho farmers and theil
wives and daughters, and you can tel
the western farmers by their big
trimmed hats. and even the women veal
broad rim hats, and some of them
are the big gest women that you ever
saw. / have seen several over slX
fleet high, and many OF them looks as
Though they could knock an OK down.
We left this building aud went 10 tho
Forestry building. ind the first thing
to attract our attention was circular
piece OF vermillion wood, from British
India, nicely polished, and it was onG
solid piece, about eight feet in diane
ter and Two ana half inches thick.
Close by this the most elaborated
piece OF carving in wood In the know
world. 1t is from Japan, and took tbirt,
years to finish it; II is u door way with
door and post all completed. 10 give
the exact IL would be impossible. HERE
We nuW ibliik pores MY Iebb loHB
OF cane and about live inches thick al
the bottom. That is the Kind of poll
that Henry Duncan wants when III
goes fishing to catch that big fish tina
generally gets away by the pole brenk
Ing. Here you Gun see the difIeren
kinds OF wood that grow in all coan
tries OF the world. We saw cut iron
a burr oak that grew In Mississippi. /
was SIX and a-half feet through. ant
another cut from q red wood tree
a half section, ten feet wide and tw,
feet thick. It. came from Humbold
I County. A walnut knot that hnl
!. grown ON limb which was about a
: big as good sized hogshead.
9 When at Waahington's tomb, a
9 Mount Vernon, two years ago, VS. say
' Knot on walnut Tree about twenty
tvs frtt from the tomb, that woal